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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Mar. 2, 1899. 



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wilb Hl<)e 1 

 and shafts 



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, FaDcy Body Top Rui;gT ; is complirte 

 lamps, fenders, sni-- curtains, storniapmn 

 , IVRe^; .0. aaiTOo.l iwdeakrsstll for^hO. 



once (or Illustrated Catalogue— FREE. 



Kverv time vou buy an ai tule from an apent 

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iiiispinn in addition tn tlie actual value of the article. In many cases 



this' places an article bcyoiidyour rt-aeh. 



WE HA VE MO AGENTS 



tiut sell y<u] vehitles :ind hut nepsdireot. fmm ^ 



our factory at wholes-ale pHcs. 



We are the largest manufartu re rsofnarriapes 

 and harness in the world seUlnu: to the consu- 

 mer exclut^ively. V>'e make 170 styles of ve- 

 hicles, surreys, as low as $50, and 'eft styles of 

 harness Iteniemher that we ship oiir poods 

 anywhere for exaniiuati.in and jniarantee safe delivery. 



Elkhart Carriage A Harness Mfg, Co» 



\\\ B. Pratt, ^ecy, Elkhart, Indiana. 



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"VVe have the best equipt factory in the West. "^ Capacity, 

 one carload a day; and carry the larg-est stock and great- 

 est variety of everything needed in the apiary, assuring- 

 BEST goods at the lowest prices, and prompt shipment. 

 Illustrated Cataiog-, 71? pa^es, F'ree. 



We also manufacture Tanks uf either wood or galvanized 

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.\d dress, 



E. KRETCHMER, RED OAK, IOWA. 



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OUR MOTTO: WELL MANO FACTURED ST OCK -QUICK SHIPMENTS. 



Sections. sniDDino-cases and 

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We make a'specialty of making- the very best Sections on'the market. 



The BASSWOOD in this part of Wisconsin is acknowledged by all to be 

 the best for making the ONE-PIECE HONEY-SECTIONS— selected, young and 

 thrifty timber is used. 



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T PAT-IY IVrPrr r~!0 i7'foS.*i^3th'st.°'omaha, Neb. 

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Page b Lyon Mfg. Co. 



NEW LONDON, WIS., 



operates two Sawmills that cut, annually, eight million feet of lumber, thus'se- 



curing the best lumber at the lowest TJ^ _ "L^ ^^^^^^^ C .— .— .li-.^ 

 price for the manufacture of OQC^'tS.CCpQtS OUppUCS***, 



They have also one of the LARGEST FACTORIES and the latest and most 

 improved machinery for the manufacture of Bee-Hives, Sections, &c., that there 

 is in the State. The material is cut from patterns, by machinery, and is abso- 

 lutely accurate. For Sections, the clearest and whitest Basswood is used, and 

 they are polisht on both sides. Nearness to Pine and Basswood forests, and pos- 

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of 20 acres of sapling or peavine clover for 

 my bees to gather from, and they made 

 good use of It, too. I got a little over 1.000 

 pounds of nice honey, but the sections were 

 not filled very heavy. I shipt 600 pounds 

 (nearly TOO sections) to Washington, D. C, 

 and it netted me little over 12 cents per sec- 

 tion ; and the other 400 pounds we will eat. 

 We have seven in the family and all big 

 honey-eaters. 



I purchast a few colonies Jan. 21, for from 

 2.5 to 50 cents each. Some were in old nail 

 kegs almost falling to pieces, and some in 

 the old Stoddard hive, patented in 184S. I 

 purchast them along the mountain near 

 McClean's Lookout, during the battle of 

 South Mountain and Antietam. 



L. A. Hammokd. 



Washington Co., Md., Jan. 23. 



Bees Did Well Last Year. 



I have some 20 colonies run for extract- 

 ing. We did well last year, getting more 

 honey than we ever got before. I can sell 

 all we get. I have been a bee-keeper all my 

 life, but only knew bees sting and gather 

 honey until three years ago, since when I 

 have read the American Bee Journal and 

 other bee-literature. I am 60 years old, 

 and am an invalid, yet able to attend to a 

 limited number of colonies of bees. 



W. A. Thompson, Sr. 



Franklin Co., Va. 



Wintering on the Summer Stands. 



My bees are wintering well on the sum- 

 mer stands. 1 have some in chaff hives. 

 All are doing well so far. They have had 

 three good flights, but I never saw so many 

 dead bees in wintering as this year. 



Henbt Lohaus. 



Platte Co., Nebr., Jan. 28. 



Improvements in Wax-Extractors. 



I have been giving the solar wax-ex- 

 tractor some study, and anything that ap- 

 pears in the bee-papers upon that subject 

 immediately commands my attention. 



Mr. W, L. Porter's paper and the discus- 

 sion that followed at the recent meeting of 

 the Colorado State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, was of interest, and among other 

 things I note what is said about the mate- 

 rial that is put into the extractor, sliding on 

 the pan and damming in a mass at the lower 

 end. fersons who have access to Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culture for Jan. 15, will note 

 an illustration and the efforts I have been 

 making to overcome some of the objections 

 in the ordinary solar wax-extractor. 



Instead of making the delivery at the end 

 I make it at the side. The pan is made of 

 tin, and can be adjusted in various posi- 

 tions from nearly horizontal to quite an 

 incline. Upon the delivery edge I have a 

 dam or strainer of coarse-mesh wire-cloth ; 

 there is no damming of refuse in this ex- 

 tractor, and the wax is rendered quite rap- 

 idly. I think a can four feet in length and 

 20 inches in width is sufficiently large to 

 render all the cappings and scraps from a 

 large apiary. 



My primary idea for a side delivery was 

 to allow the quick exit of the honey usually 

 mixt with the cappings, and to save the 

 honey from becoming darkened by heat; 

 this is greatly promoted by shading the ex- 

 tractor while the honey is being rendered, 

 and then giving the residue the full rays of 

 the sun. 



This extractor was made in the back- 

 woods of Siskiyou Co.. Calif. I have plans 

 now for another for this southern country, 

 which will be a little more finisht in appear- 

 ance, and with a wax-caking attachment. 



I hope the Colorado friends will have 

 their extractor illustrated, for it is only by 

 comparing notes that we can improve and 

 approach perfection. J. H. Martin. 



Los Angeles Co., Calif. 



[We should be pleased to give an illustra- 

 tion of both Mr. Martin's and the Colorado 

 extractor, if they will please send us either 

 drawings or photographs of them.— Ed.] 



