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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Mar. 16, 1899. 



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HEADQUARTERS 

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For Bee-Keepers' Supplies. We are ready now 

 for the season of 1899 with an immense slock of 

 the latest and best in our line. Send for our 

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 Address, 



JOSEPH NYSEWANDER, 



10A8t DES MOINES. IOWA. 



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LADIES. IC you have superdnouD 



HAIR ON THE FACE 



send for new information how to remove it f;isjl\ ami 

 elTei'tually wittinut chemicals or instruments r<ir- 

 respondence conridential in plain sealed envelope. 



Mrs. M. N. PERRY. C> 1 . Box 93. Oak Park. Ills- 

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TWO WAGONS AT ONE PRICE. 



It is a matter of g:reat convenience and a sav- 

 ing- of labor for a farmer to have a low, handy 

 wagon. They save more than half the labor of 

 loading in hauling manure, hay, grain, corn- 

 fodder, wood, stones, etc. The man who al- 

 ready' has a wagon may have one of these low 

 handy wagons at the small 

 additional cost for a set of 

 wheels. These Electric Steel 

 Wheels, with either direct or 

 stagger spokes, with broad- 

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 axle. Yon can convert your 

 old wagon to a low, handy 

 wagon in a few moments. You 

 thus virtually have two wag- 

 ons at one price. Write to 

 the Electric Wheel Co., Box 

 16, Quincy, Illiuois, for their 

 catalogue, which fully explains about these and 

 their Electric Handy Wagons. Electric Feed 

 Cookers, etc. 



It won't pay you to 

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if you live in China, but if you live in Minnesota 

 or Iowa, or even the Dakotas, you had better get 

 our Catalog before buying. We keep a 



Full stock oT 



SUPPLIES 



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Drop a postal card and we will send the catalosr 

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SOLD ON TRIAL! 



Buy no incubator and pny for tt 

 before glvliiff It n triul. 



Many rieople have lost faith iu incubaUirs be- 

 i-,iuHO tney bougbtotjii that was LevenntLMid- 

 i'>] to haU'h cfeickeiis— iimde mert'ly to tifll. 



The Von Culin Incubators 



arc sold on triiil siiliject tuyoiir ii|t|iru\* 

 al. Simplest machine niaiie. A chilfl cao operate it. TIip !>ii;L-.-st 

 catulo^nc and '•poiillry poinler^'* book published, si-nlf.'r r»i-. 

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Crossmau Manufacturing Co., 



10') Commerce St., DALLAS, TEX. 

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been south tell me that things " are done 

 for " there this year. 'Tis too bad. Hay is 

 §18 a ton here; I am told that south it is 

 430. That makes it very hard on those 

 who have stock, especially stock-raisers. 

 Meat has about doubled; butter is higher 

 than usual at this time of the year. Eggs 

 are cheap enough ; I learn that this State is 

 shipping large quantities to the East. I 

 suppose the warm weather here has caused 

 hens to lay abundantly, while the very cold 

 weather in the East has prevented the egg- 

 crop from "maturing." W. A. Pryal. 

 Alameda Co.. Calif., March 1. 



A Rathep Severe Winter. 



Our 13 colonies gave us about 17.5 pounds 

 of salable second-grade honey in 1898. We 

 have had a rather severe winter thus far, 

 and not having given them any better 

 honey I expect some loss, but discourage- 

 ment has not entered my mind. 



D. H. HORST. 



Holmes Co., Ohio. Feb. 28. 



Bees in the Best Condition, 



I started iu the winter with 43 colonies, 

 and haven't lost one to date. I find them 

 in the best condition with plenty of bees 

 and honey. I have kept bees for 20 years. 

 and never had such " luck," as some people 

 call it. I think plenty of young bees and 

 good sealed honey, with dry hives, is the 

 secret, tho the thermometer has registered 

 17 degrees below zero — the coldest winter I 

 ever saw in this country. Success to the 

 Bee Journal. Geo. W. Knight. 



Oldham Co., Ky., Feb. 22. 



Expect Heavy Winter Losses. 



Bees did the next thing to nothing here 

 last year. There was no surplus to speak 

 of, and bees gathered but little to winter 

 on. We have had three weeks of bitter 

 cold weather, which will finish at least 90 

 percent of the bees that were out-doors. It 

 would be impossible for them to get to their 

 feed in such weather. Well, they might as 

 well starve now as later on. That is what 

 will happen to all the bees in this part be- 

 fore fruit blooms unless they are fed. Bees 

 that are under ground will be all right un- 

 til taken out, then they must be fed. I have 

 now 20 colonies in the cellar, which are 

 wintering nicely so far, but I will have to 

 feed them in the spring. L. C. Watts. 



Jasper Co., Iowa, Feb. 20. 



Quite a Number of Dead Bees. 



I hear of quite a number of dead bees 

 through this county. Most of the new 

 swarms have died, and some old ones, 

 which were run for extracted, there being 

 no fall flow, and nothing after basswood. 



Linn Co., Iowa, Feb. 21. G. H. Fret. 



Good Report from Central California 



All the bee-keepers in California are not 

 quite so blue as Mr. Mclntyre. of Ventura 

 county, makes them out in the American 

 Bee Journal of Jan. 5. The bee-keepers in 

 Southern California may feel blue, but I 

 assure you they don't in Central Califor- 

 nia, where they get a crop of honey every 

 year. It is not here like it is in the south- 

 ern part of the State, where they only get 

 a crop every fourth or fifth year. 



I also saw that Mr. J. H. Martin (Ram- 

 bler) says the absence of moisture another 

 season would about use up the in- 

 dustry in this State. It would be well for 

 those gentlemen to state their location, and 

 not compare their locations with the whole 

 State. The counties of Kern, Kings, Tulare 

 and Fresno are not to be compared 

 with those barren rocks of Southern Cali- 

 fornia. The counties above mentioned 

 have thousands of acres of alfalfa for bees 

 to work on, to say nothing about the thou- 

 sands of acres of fruit-bloom, raisin vine- 

 yards and wild flowers in which the waste- 

 lands abound. 



My crop for 1S9S was 93^ tons of ex- 



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