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THE AMERICA^ BEE JOURNAL. 



Scpteviber I, 



Sweet i Glover 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



We have made arrangements po that we can 

 furnish seed of several of the Clovers by 

 freight or express, at the following prices, 

 cash with order- 



5Ib lOIb 251b 50ft 



Sweet Clover 60 11.00 12.25 Jl.OO 



Alsike Clover 70 1.25 3.00 5.75 



White Clover 80 1.40 3.00 5.00 



AlfalfaClover 60 1.00 2.25 4.00 



Crimson Clover 55 .90 2.00 3.50 



Prices subject to market changes. 



Add 25 cents to your order, for cartage, 

 wanted by freight. 



Tour orders are solicited. 



QEOBOB W. YORK & CO , 



118 Michigan Street, - CHICAGO. ILL. 



Qneens, Bees and Bee-Keepers' Supplies 



Tested Queens in April and May. $1.00. Un- 

 tested, 75c. Choice Breeders, either three or 

 flve-banded Italians, at J2 00. Choice Im- 

 ported Breeders. $5. on. Satisfaction guaran- 

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8Att GRANGER, MINN. 



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Ten years' experience with the best of metb- 

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 83 75. Leather Colored same price. Safe arri- 

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My 40-page Catalog of my Specialties, and 

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ltlllf1/(! HONEY-EXTRACTOR 

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Bee-Keepers' Supplies in general, etc etc. 



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Meeting: of Sovereign Grand 



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Mass., Sept. 19 to 24, 



Inclusive. 



For this occasion the Nickel Plate 

 Road will sell tickets at rate of one fare 

 for the round-trip. Tickets on sale Sept, 

 16 to 18, Inclusive, good returning until 

 Sept. 30, inclusive. For particulars, ad- 

 dress J. Y. Calahan, General Agent, 111 

 Adams Street, Chicago, III. Telephone 

 Main 3389. (59-32-6) 



250 colonies are too many for my 

 locality in one apiary ; I don't know 

 how they would succeed. 



E. France (Wis.) — 1. About 50 pounds 

 of extracted. 2. I never tried so many 

 in one apiary. 



Eugene Secor (Iowa) — 1. 50 pounds, 

 if properly managed. 2. If kept In one 

 apiary, 10 pounds. 



Mrs. L. Harrison (III.)— 2. In this 

 locality there should never be more than 

 100 colonies in one place. 



Prof. A. J. Cook (Calif.)— I think it is 

 put, for the time bees have been kept 

 here, at about 75 pounds. 



Dr. C. C. Miller (III.)— 1. At a guess 

 somewhere from 25 to 30 pounds. 2. 

 Considerably less than nothing. 



R. L. Tayl()r(Mich)— 1. 40 pounds of 

 comb honey for good colonies. 2. 40 

 pounds a colony if they were good colo- 

 nies. 



Mrs. J. M. Null (Mo.)— 1. Extracted, 

 60 to 100 pounds ; comb, 35 to 60 

 pounds. 2. A distance of a few miles 

 sometimes doubles the crop, 



Chas. Dadant & Son (III.)— 1. 50 

 pounds per colony, or thereabout, of ex- 

 tracted honey. 2. We would not think 

 of keeping 250 colonies in one apiary. 



J. E. Pond (Mass.) — 1 and 2. I have 

 given no attention to the matter, and 

 don't know; but not enough bees are 

 kept within miles of myself to make an 

 answer of any value. 



J. A. Green (III.)— 1. At a guess I 

 should say 25 pounds. 2. In an apiary 

 of that size I should not expect the aver- 

 age to go any higher than the general 

 average of the locality, perhaps less. 



G. M. Doollttle (N. Y.)— 1. -75 to 90 

 pounds. My average has been not far 

 from SO pounds for the past 80 years. 

 2. 250 colonies would be likely to over- 

 stock any locality, if placed all together. 



J. M. Hambaugh (Calif.) — 1. In accord 

 with best information I can obtain, 100 

 pounds per colony where bees are in the 

 hands of practical beekeepers. 2. 250 

 colonies would be 25,000 pounds an- 

 nually. 



S. T. Pettit (Ont.)— 1. Where the bees 

 are properly handled, 75 poundsof comb, 

 or 125 pounds of extracted. But the 

 number who attain to those figures, on 

 an average, are exceedingly few. 2. I 

 don't know, but it would usually made a 

 big difference. 



O. O. Poppleton (Fla.)— 1. I cannot 

 answer, as my locality has not been set- 

 tled by white men anywhere near 25 

 years — not long enough to make an esti- 

 mate, but not to exceed 100 pounds. 2. 

 I do not know. No such size of apiaries 

 has ever been kept in this section. 



Rev. M. Mahin (Ind.)— 1. That is a 

 poser. Taking bee-keepers as they are, 

 with the methods that have been fol- 

 lowed, I think that the average has not 

 been more than 25 pounds. Yet I have 

 sometimes gotten more than 100 

 pounds. 2. I think an apiary of 250 

 colonies would starve. 



C. H. Dibbern (III.) — My average has 

 been about 40 pounds of comb honey ; 

 some seasons a good deal more, but some 

 seasons none at all. 2. 250 colonies 

 would overstock my locality, as I have 

 found by experience, and that would 

 likely bring the average down to 10 

 pounds. 



D. W. Heise (Ont.)— 1. The average 

 with me for the past five years Is 69 



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The Monette Queen-Clip- 

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 Li^^^ sending us ONE NEW sub- 

 S^^^s' scriber to the Bee Journal 

 for a year at .$1.00; or for $1.10 we 

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are worth looking: 

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