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THE AMERICA^ BEE JOURNAL, 



November 17, 



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COOK'S "BEE-KEEPERS' GUIDE" 

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You ought to have a good bee-book, if you haven't oue already. Prof. A. J. 

 Cook's Manual, or " Bee-Keepers' Guide," is one of the very best publishl to-day. 

 It is bound substantially and neatly in cloth, contains over 450 pages, and retails at 

 $1.25 a copy, postpaid. But we are going to make you an offer, for ttie next 

 ttaree -weelts (positively ending Dec. 10), tliat 'will open your eyes. 

 Here it is : 



To every subscriber who before Dec. 10 will pay his subscription to the Anaeri- 

 can Bee Journal to the end of next year (1899) we will mall a copy of Prof. Cook's 

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 and-a-quarter bee-book for only 50 cents. Can you afford to miss such a chance 

 as that ? Address, 



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Ho, for Omaha ! 



As we have many customers In the Northwest, and believing 

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 we have establieht a branch house at 1730 South 13th St.. Omaha. 

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 the same as we do at Higginsviile, Mo. With the quality of our 

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On these bases, we solicit an order, feeling sure that if we sell you one bill of goods you will be 



our cust omer in the future. 



^"Progressive Bee-Keeper. 50c per year. "Amateur Bee-Keeper." 25c. Both for 65c. 



postpaid. Sample copy of the Progressive free, and a beautiful Catalog for the asking. 



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26c Gash Paid for Beeswax. 



This is a good time to send in your Beeswax. We are payinp; 26 cents a 

 pound — CASH — upon Its receipt. Now, if you want the money 

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 Address as follows, very plaiuiy, 



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Page & Lyon Mfg. Co. 



New London, 



Wisconsin, 



Operates two sawmills that cut, annually, eight million feet of lumber, thus 

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Bee-KecDcrs' SupDlies. 



They have also one One of the Largfest Factories and the latest 

 and most-improved machinery for the manufacture of 



Bee-Hives, Sections, Etc., 



that there is in the State. The material Is cut from "patterns, by machinery, 

 and is absolutely accurate. For Sections, the clearest and 'wliitest 

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See Honey Offer on page 733. 



length as the Langstroth, and 4 Ji inches 

 between top and bottom bar. When 

 populous enough, I use the full size 

 Laugstroth frame. 



O. O. Poppleton (Fla.)— I use and pre- 

 fer my regular brood-frames. Dimen- 

 sions are: Top-bar, 14 inches; end- 

 bars, 12; bottom-bar, 13M; these lat- 

 ter projecting H inch outside of the end- 

 bars. 



S. T. Pfittit (Ont., Can.)— The super 

 frames to be put on in early spring 

 should be about 5 inches deep. The 

 super comb I use for extracting contains 

 about ISO square inches. It would take 

 an article to explain why I use so large 

 a frame. 



Chas. Dadant & Son (111.)— For the 

 Langstroth hive we would use regular 

 frame top and bottom bars aud a 6-inch 

 end-bar. In our hives we use a frame 

 l^s inches longer than the above, and 

 of the same depth. 



E. S. Lovesy (Utah)— I prefer the lU- 

 frame standard short Langstroth hive, 

 about lbxl6 inches square frame, 9Ji 

 deep over all. It is easy to manipulate, 

 and if run three stories with a good 

 honey-flow it is always a success with 

 strong colonies. 



J. A. Green (III.)— The frame which I 

 use for extracting is ll%xb%^ 7 in a 

 space 11 inches wide — about 1% inches 

 from center to center. Eight brood- 

 frames go in the same space. The end- 

 bars are close fitting, held together by a 

 wooden screw in the side of the hive; 7 

 of them prest together measure just 11 

 inches. Tops are %%!% ; bottoms, 

 KxlJi. 



G. W. Demaree (Ky.)— For general use 

 I prefer and use the standard Lang- 

 stroth frame, 17?s inches in length, and 

 9V in depth. As "helpers" in the 

 honey storing season, I use shallow 

 supers, frames 11% inches In length, 

 and 5 Inches In depth. These shallow 

 supers are sometimes given to weak col- 

 onies at the beginning of the honey sea- 

 son ; but generally they are employed to 

 give the bees storing-room for the 

 freshly-gathered nectar, while the honey 

 in the regular supers is being ripened 

 and sealed by the hive workers. 



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Report — Facing Honey — ftueens. 



In 1897 I had no swarms and every queen 

 in tbe spring of ISyS was two years old or 

 more. I started with 27 colonies, wintered 

 on the summer stands, which consists of a 

 bee-shed 80 feet long, 8 feet high, and 8 feet 

 wide, covered with iron roofing, in one end 

 of which I have an extracting and honey- 

 room, 13 feet long. I bad 23 prime natural 

 swarms, and three of the parent colonies 

 petered out. My honey crop consists of 658 

 flnisht sections, and 1,313 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey, making an average of 73 

 pounds to the colony, spring count, and 30 

 pounds of wax. With the experience 

 gained the past season, [ believe I can 

 double this, next year, under similar con- 

 ditions, but there are hardly ever two sea- 

 sons alike. 



I notice a great amount of controversy 

 over the propriety of facing cases of comb 

 honey. I nearly always find all colonies of 

 bees that I work for comb honey and use 

 division-boards will make every section of 

 the same grade or quality of honey, either 



