1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



813 



26c Cash Paid for Beeswax. 



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

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

 PROMPTLY, send us your Beeswax. Impure wax not taken at any price. 

 Address as follows, very plainly, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



11§ IMicliigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Ho, for Omaha ! 



A S we have many customers In the Northwest, and believing 



. they will appreciate the low frelgrht rates obtained by purchas- 

 tngr goods from a railroad center nearer to them than we are, get- 

 ting a direct througii-freight rate, thus cutting the freight in half, 

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

 Neb., where we will Ijeep a complete line of all Apiarian SupplleB, 

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

 goods, we believe most bee-keepers in the West are already 

 acquainted, but to those who are not, we will say that our goods 

 are par excellent. Poiisht, snowy-white Sections, beautiful, straw- 

 colored transparent Foundation, improved Smokers and Honey Extractors, and all other flrst- 

 olas sgoods, are what we sell. Kind and courteous treatment and honorable dealing our motto. 

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

 our customer in the future. 



^F"Progbessive Bee-Keeper, 50c per year. "Amateur Bee-Keeper," 25c. Both for 65c. 

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



Leahy Manufacturing Company, f7l5'"oJ,'"'i'3?i?"it., «>maba. Neb. 



Please mention Bee Journal -when -writing. 



We want 



Address, 



EVERY BEE-KEEPER 



• To liave a copy of.. 



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Our 1898 Catalog 



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m^ Send us your name and address and we will take pleasure in mailing you ai copyj 



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



Special Agent for the South^vest — 



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



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



Buy Your Sections Now 



■while we offer them at a IjARGG 

 DISCOlf^T, haviny: added to our 

 plant one of the most complete one- 

 piece section machines, enabling- us 

 to turn out the most beautiful sec- 

 tions on the Diarltet. By sending- us 

 a list of SuupUes wanted we can 

 save you $$$. K. H. SCHMIBT 

 A: CO., Box 187. Sheboygan, Wis. 



TO SELL OR LEASE FOR CASH. 



An up-to-date Apiary consisting of 300 

 good colonies or over, with Fixtures com- 

 plete. Privilege to remove to some other 

 location it desired. Correspondence solic- 

 ited. Address, 



THE GILA FARM CO. 



51A0t 



Cli>>'. Grant Co , A" M. 



Page & Lyon Mfg. Co. 



New London, 



"Wisconsin, 



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

 securing the best lumber at the lowest price for the manufacture of 



Bee-KeeDers' SuddHcs. 



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

 and most-improved machinery tor 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 

 BasSMTOOd is used, and they are pollsht on both sides. Nearness to Pine 

 and Basswood forests, and possession of mills and factory equipt with best 

 machinery, all combine to enable this firm to furnish the 



Best Goods at the Lowest Prices. 



Send for Circular and see the Prices on a Full Line of Supplies, 

 lease mention the American Bee .Tournal. 7Atf 



Please mention the Bee Journal IfcSr?^ 



for it gives the dishonest commission man 

 a chance to adulterate and ihrow a great 

 lot of spurious stuff on the market, and cut 

 the prices. Let each one be his own sales- 

 man, and sell direct to the jobber and con- 

 sumer, and when he has disposed of his 

 honey crop he will find his purse will not be 

 nearly so light. Let him see that bis honey 

 is strictly pure, and when his customers 

 find that the honey tbey get from him is al- 

 ways pure, he will have control of the 

 market where he sells his honey. 



L. Watman. 

 Labette Co., Kans., Dec. 4. 



Suffering From Foul Brood, 



I have at present about 65 colonies of 

 bees. They did well here the past season, 

 but foul brood is in our midst and is likely 

 to remain, as many do not know what it is, 

 and others conceal the fact that their bees 

 have it. An inspector is certainly needed 

 in Illinois. I lost, in two years, nearly SO 

 colonies with foul ijrood. and have been a 

 subscriber to the American Bee Journal for 

 12 or 14 years. My mistake was in trying 

 to cure with drugs, as formerly recom- 

 mended. The McEvoy remedy is the only 

 remedy, but many persons who keep bees 

 read no bee-papers and know nothing of 

 the disease or its treatment. 



The American Bee Journal seems to be- 

 come more interesting as we grow older, 

 and if I did not keep bees I would still 

 want it. C. A. Haines. 



St. Clair Co., III., Dec. 16. 



Beginner's Report — Hiving Swarms. 



Last spring I started with 20 colonies in 

 S-frame dovetail hives. Most of these bad 

 young queens, reared during the previous 

 season, from Italian queens purchast from 

 different breeders. The colonies were not 

 all strong, as the honey-flow the fall before 

 failed. By taking some of the combs of 

 honey from the stronger and giving them 

 to the weaker, all were soon strong and 

 ready for the flow, which came about 

 May 10. 



Before this I dipt the wings of all the 

 queens, as I did not care to run and climb 

 after swarms. As soon as the flow began I 

 put on supers, with starters in the sections. 

 At the same time I put wedges, IxJi inch at 

 the entrance, tapered to a feather-edge at 

 the other end, under the hives. It was just 

 fun to watch the bees come home loaded 

 and alight nearly half way back on the 

 cluster or bottom-board. 



With this arrangement the first swarm 

 issued May IT, followed by others until 

 about June 15. in all 15 prime swarms. It 

 was a pleasure to hive them. The first 

 thing was to cage the queen, then remove 

 the old hive just back and to one side of the 

 old stand. Place a new hive with starters 

 in the frames on the old stand. Put a zinc- 

 excluder over the frames, and take the 

 super, bees and all. from the old hive and 

 place it on the zinc-excluder. By this time 

 the bees will be coming back, and as ihey 

 rush into the new hive, let the queen run 

 in with them. You dare not be very slow 

 or they will be coming back before you are 

 ready, or they may not return for 10 or 15 

 minutes. 



In three or four days I place the old hive 

 on a new stand. In chis way the field-bees 

 are thrown into the new hive, which gave 

 me what I wanted to get— comb honey. 



At the beginning of July I had 250 pounds 

 of nicely-capt white clover comb honey, 

 and 35 colonies. 



The fall flow began about Aug. 15, and 

 during the flow, which was short, the bees 

 gave me a surplus of .500 pounds of nicely 

 capt buckwheat comb honey; also about; 

 2.50 pounds more of partly-capt, which I ex- 

 tracted and let the bees clean them out tor 

 next season's use. The partly-filled sections 

 were due to the flow stopping suddenly. I 

 sell my honey near home for 15 and 20 cents 

 per section. 



As I was the only one in this community 

 who got any surplus honey to speak of. I 

 attribute my success to equalizing in the 

 spring, using wedges, and hiving on the old 



