1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



763 



BEES, HONEY, MONEY 



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BY STEAWI-«itii tt,o 

 siiuiiU'. pi;>iIi'iM. sell regulating 



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Tliousaods in successful operotiou. 

 owt't priced Ist-cla^s batcLer made. 

 UKO. 11. SiTAill., 

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 ^i- lne\ bought one ihal w:is never inlfinl- 

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The Von Culin Incubators 



are sold on trial subject to jour approv- 

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animal is the one that has heen dehorned. 

 It means uiilinul comfort and that means 

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 leastpain. Ktr.m^r and lasting:. Fully war- 

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PATENT WIRED COMB FODNDATIOB 



Haa No Sag In Brood-Frame* 



Thio Flat-Kuttum FouDdatiuD 



Bas So FisbboDt* in tbe SQrplQS Hoaey . 



BetnK the oleuneBt is nsaally workeo 

 the qalokest of any Foundation made 



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ET MORE EGGS. How? 



teed the hens on grccii cut bone. 1 h^^ , 



will lay double ili^- .^m- 

 right in the middle of th,' wu.i.r, 

 ■wheneg:^are wurlh iiinsl rimui'v. 



DANDY ^^St?tl?s"^ 



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The A. 1. Rdot Co.'s Woods ^^rellu."" 



Including their discounts for Goods wanted 

 for use another season. It will nay you to 

 send mo list of Goods wanted. Ifl. H. HI/NT 

 Cash for Ueeswai. Bell Branch. Mich. 

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Shallow Extracting-Frames, Etc. 



In Mr. Deacon's article on extracting- 

 frames, on page ntlli, he states that the Root 

 shallow extracting-frames are 4i.j inches 

 deep. IE he will examine their catalogs 

 of IsilT and 1S9S he will find that the vnlij 

 shallow extracting-frames listed by tbe 

 Roots are of the " sensible depth " of 5\ 

 inches: in fact, just the same depth as the 

 Heddon frames. 



My bees did fairly well this year. I win- 

 tered four colonies, lost none, and increast 

 to nine, besides selling a number of queens 

 and a few frames of bees. They averaged 

 75 pounds each of comb honey. There are 

 about 100 colonies in all near here, and 

 several bee-keepers report a poor crop, due, 

 I think, to the '■ let them alone " policy. 

 E. F. Atwateb. 



Yankton Co., S. D., Nov. IS. 



Fair Season. 



I got the bee-fever four years ago, and 

 have at present 3 strong colonies of hybrids 

 and one Italian. The past season was fair. 

 Last ytar was extra good, which started 

 many new beekeepers this year. My bees 

 are all in Uary-Simplicity hives, which 

 seem to be the standard in this section. 

 There were very few swarms this year. 



Albekt Hedler. 



New Haven Co., Conn., Nov. 18. 



A Lady Bee-Keeper's Report. 



I commenced the season of 1S98 with 31 

 colonies in good condition, wintered on the 

 summer stands. I kept them from swarm- 

 ing as much as I could, but they increast to 

 45 colonies. I have doubled some, and have 

 now 36 good colonies. My honey crop this 

 season, as nearly as I can estimate it, is 

 about a ton. The early honey was very 

 dark. The rain spoilt the early white 

 clover, but when the basswood commenced 

 it came very rapidly, and my sympathy 

 was not with the busy bee, but with the 

 busy bee-keeper. I had 1,000 pounds of 

 basswood mixt with a little white clover, 

 but the last that I took off was yellowed a 

 little with the early corn-blossoms. 



The late honey crop was very light, owing 

 to the drouth in this part of the State. 



I like the Bee Journal's i eform in spell- 

 ing ever so much ; and I shall watch the 

 Journal this winter very closely to learn all 

 I can about managing the plain section and 

 fence separator. So let all the lights shine 

 on that subject, for I, for one, want my 

 hooey to look as well as any one's when it 

 goes to market. Mrs. Paul Barrette. 



Crawford Co., Wis., Nov. IB. 



Bees in Fair Condition. 



Bees in this vicinity (Marion Co., Ind.) 

 are in fair condition to go through the win- 

 ter, altho the quality of the stores is not A 

 No. 1. My bees in Vanderburgh county are 

 in winter quarters, with an average of 40 

 pounds of stores per colony. The regiment 

 of which I have been a member (1.59th Ind. 

 Vol.) is to be mustered out Nov. 33, and we 

 will all get home for a turkey on Thanks- 

 giving. Pennsylvania seems to be about 

 the best honey State I was in in the East. 



Nov. IS. J. C. VTlLLENMEYER. 



Best Crop in Six Tears. 



Mr. Holtermann has not said too much of 

 the honey-flow in this part of our country, 

 if we can judge by our own locality. In- 

 deed, it is the first crop I have had in six 

 years, since I began, and we are near the 

 TOth latitude north. 



Last year I had 21 colonies in the spring, 

 increast them to 2U in buckwheat time 



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