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THE AMERICAiH BEE JOURNAL. 



December 15, 



Save Half Your Feed 



by cookintr the other half. Experienced feeders know 

 that this problem works out to a surety. This is not 

 the only gain in cooking feed however. AU cooked 

 feed is digested by the animal economy, and none 

 of it passes through whole. Young things grow more 

 rapidly and mature stock fatten more quickly on 

 cooked feed. 



m ELECTRIC FEED COOKERS 



are undniihtedly the best for preparintr the feed. .Made from the l>e«t irrny iron eautlniji*. 

 lined with wteei plute**, with »ipectul galvanized stet-l boilers. Tlirt-e st\ Itrs, live sizes. 25 to 

 100 Kals. capacity. We publish a FREE BOOK ON FEED COOKING which tellsali 

 about these and deals extensively with the sTihject ct stock t-edirm. Sendlorit. 



ELECTRIC WHEEL CO., BOX , QUINCY, ILLINOIS. 





We want 



Please mention Bee Journal w-hen ■writing. 



EVERY BEE-KEEPER 



.To bave a copy of.. 



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Our 1898 Catalog 



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Send us your name and address and we will take pleasure in mailing you a copy! 



G. B. LEWIS CO., WATERTOWN, WIS. 



Special Agent for llie Soutliwest — 



E. T. ABBOTT, St. Joseph, Mo. 



Mr. Abbott sells our Hives and Sections at factory prices. 



Please mention Bee Journal when -writing. 



HONEY * FOR * SALE. 



Best White Alfalfa Extracted... 



IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. 



This is the famous white extracted honey gathered in the 

 great Alfalfa regions of the Central West. It is a splendid 

 honey, and nearly everybody who cares to eat honey at all 

 can hardly get enough of the Alfalfa extracted. 



Prices are as Follows: 



A sample by mail, 8 cents In stamps, to pay for package and postage. By 

 freight— One 60-pouud can, 8 cents per pound; 2 cans, 7?i cents per pound; 

 4 or more cans, 7X cents per pound. Cash must accompany each order. 



Best Basswood Honey in Barrels. 



We have a quantity of finest basswood honey in barrels, 

 weighing 350 pounds and upward, which we will ship f . o. b. 

 Chicago, at 7)-2 cents a pound. Sample mailed for 8 cents. 

 If desiring to purchase, let us know, and we will write you the 

 exact number of pounds in the barrel or barrels, and hold same 

 tin you can send the cash for it by return mail. 



Our honey is ABSOLUTELY PURE BEES' HONEY, the finest of the kinds 

 produced in this country. 



We would suggest that those bee-keepers who did not produce any honey 

 for their home demand the past season, just order some of the above, and sell it. 

 And others, who want to earn some money, can get this honey and work up a de- 

 mand for it almost anywhere. Address, 



or ORG E W. YORK & CO., H8 Micliigan St., Chicago, III. 



Please mention the Bee Journal y^^^^^i^i^g 



Advertisers. 



the entrance; that was a large one of pure 

 golden Italians, having about 80 pounds of 

 liquid honey. In felling the tree it all 

 smasbt tcgetber — bees, comb and honey. 

 That honey bad no bad taste, or sickisb, 

 but was the best I ever tasted. 



I put three small swarms into one hive, 

 which were taken from the woods simply by 

 smoking all together. Now they are a nice, 

 strong colony, with stores enough for 

 winter. 



My bees are wintered on the summer 

 stands, with a chaff cushion on top of the 

 hives and set in a large box with fine hay 

 or straw packt all around, excepting the 

 front. 



I will sell my honey at the stores, and 

 what I can at the houses, for 30 cents a sec- 

 tion. I have taken the premiums for the 

 last three years at both town fairs here. 

 J. M. Harding. 



Knox Co., Maine, Nov. 30. 



No Swarms and No Honey. 



I started last spring with 31 colonies, got 

 no swa'rms and no honey, but have bought 

 iJOO pounds of comb honey and two 60- 

 pound cans of extracted, and have sold it 

 all, and will sell a good deal more if I can 

 get fancy comb at a fair price. 



I like the American Bee Journal very 

 much— can't do without it. If I don't get 

 any honey, and have to feed my bees, I can 

 sell honey all the same, even if I have to 

 buy it. George W. Sheareb. 



Stark Co., Ohio, Nov. 31. 



Only About Half a Crop. 



I cannot keep bees without the American 

 Bee Journal. I am wintering 130 colonies 

 this winter — 100 in chaff hives well packt 

 with clover chaff, and 30 in the cellar. The 

 bees did not store a pound of honey after 

 the basswood stopt blooming. I got 6,000 

 pounds of basswood honey — only about half 

 a crop. A total failure is something we 

 have never had in this locality. 



This part of the country is well stockt 

 with bees now. I dare say there are at 

 least 1,000 colonies within 10 miles of me. 

 By the first of next June there will be about 

 halt that number, on account of the bees 

 not breeding up this fall. 



F. B. Farrington. • 



Page Co., Iowa, Nov. 36. 



Bees as Big as Turkeys. 



The following story if nothing more is a 

 true one, and 1 have seen worse ones pub- 

 lisht in bee-papers: 



THE BEES OF EUROPE. 



Mr. O'Flarety (viewing a modern apiary) 



— " Yes. but the bees in the ould country 



are as big as — as — turkeys." 

 Bee-keeper — " As large as turkeys ?" 

 Mr. O'Flarety — " Yes, as large as — as — 



turkeys." 

 Bee-keeper — '• How large are the hives?" 

 Mr. O'Flarety — "Just the sameasyours." 

 Bee-keeper — "But how do they get in ?" 

 Mr. O'Flarety — "That is— is— the bees' 



business!" A.L.Thompson. 



Winnebago Co., 111. 



Taken a Ne'w Hold. 



The " Old Reliable " is still coming, not 

 once a month, but every week. Wbat a 

 volume for only .^l.OO! 



Now, as my bees are " put to bed " after 

 a hard and busy season of work is over, 

 and the " bed-quilts " have been drawn 

 snuglj' around their ears, I will tell what 

 the bee paper has done for me. Altho we 

 do not hear anything from this part of the 

 Sunflower State, don't imagine for a min- 

 ute there are no bees here. 



A year ago I concluded to make my sec- 

 ond start with bees (as I had kept bees in 

 Iowa and Nebraska when I was young). I 

 purchast a colony of blacks in an old box; 

 after transferring they swarmed, and the 

 two gave me 100 pounds of comb honey. 

 During the winter I found I had taken off 



