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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL- 



Mar. 30, 1899. 



DITTMER'S 



Comb Foundation 



Wholesale and Retail. 



Working Wax. 



INTO FOUNDATION FOR CASH A SPECIALTY. 



Hives, Sections, 



and a full line of SUPPLIES. 



1 sell the VERY BEST at lowest prices and 

 ship promptlj-. 



Send me your name for 1899 catalog- and prices, 



whether .vou are a large or small 



consumer or dealer. 



Beeswa.\ always wanted for cash or trade at the 

 highest price. Address, 



GUS DITTMER, Augusta, Wis. 



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PATENT WIRED COMB FOUNDATION 



Has no Sag in Brood-Frames. 



Thin Flat-Bottom Foundation 



Has no Fishbone in the Surplus 



Honev. 

 Being the cleanest is usually workt 

 the quickest of any foundation made. 



J. A. VAN DEUSEN, 



Sole Manufacturer, 

 Sprout Brook, Montgomery Co., N.Y. 

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ALBINO QUEENS U^l^J^r:^ 



-want the gentlest Bees— If you want the best 

 honey-gatherers vou ever saw— trv mv Albinos. 

 Untested Queens' in April, $1.00; Tested. il.50. 



9A26t J. D. GIVENS. Lisbon, Tex. 



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MAKE HENS PAY! 



H yoii want to ktiow hew others lio this, send 

 fr.r our Cntalopup and FouUry tJiilde. It leMs 

 all about the poultry busineas and about the 



CYPHERS INCUBATOR 



whiih rmt".idn.-sall the pond p<iitits ot other 



machiDt-sand thffaulls.it m.ue. Si'nt frelelit 



paid loevery buyer. Catalugn-' lOi-. ("'ircuiarsfree. 



Thp ''vnH"-'* Infh.Co. Box SO. Wavland. N.V. 



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Y^dli-fi-kf-ri Jo ? If vou care to know of its 

 ^i^cllllUriU<l i Fruits. Flowers, Climate 

 or Resources. ;>eiiii for a sample cop.v. of Cali- 

 Tfornia's Favorite Paper— 



The Pacific Rural Press, 



The leading Horticultural and Agricultural 

 paper of the Pacific Coast. Publisht weekly, 

 handsomely illustrated, $2.00 per annum. Sam- 

 iple copy free. 



PACIFIC RURAL PRESS, 



330 Market Street, - San Francisco, Cal. 

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TRIST THE PUBLIC 



uiid Hend them our liiciitiutor on 

 1 trial. No man should buy an incubatur 

 and pay for it before giving it H liial. You 

 Vpay liotaci'lit for ours until yon iiave 

 J ^iven il a thorough trial. It's made so 

 I that nobody can fall with It. Achihl 

 ■•liin run it with 5 minutes attention daily. It 

 bent all otheisat World's Fair, Nash- 

 Tlllf and Omaha KxposltlonH. The best eatalocue and 

 treatise on Incubation published, sent for & ets. Flans for 

 Bro«dcrs. Poultry Houses, etc., sent upon receipt of 3& ft". 



VonCuliD Incubator Co. 5 AdaiDS St. Delaware City, Del- 

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When Mr. Golden gets past the first 

 flush of enthusiasm to where he can 

 see clearly, he will modify some. I 

 catinot here tell why. 



J. E. Pond— 1 and 2. Mr. Golden's 

 method is not mine. To my mind it 

 presents no features that are of espe- 

 cial value. Tests may prove it of g-reat 

 vaUie ; let those who have time and 

 faith make the tests. 



G. W. Demaree — 1. Without express- 

 ing- an opinion as to the practicability 

 of any new or so-called new arrang-e- 

 ment iti honey-producing-, I would be 

 mig-htj' slow to upset a well-tried sys- 

 tem for something- new. 2. While I 

 have lost time and some monej' in 

 making trials, I am still liberal along 

 that line. 



The "IVIedder Lot' 



will Bonn he needed to "tiirn liitii." How jire lh<- 

 fences; Weniiiliea Iruslni-ss cf kcoplML' "Ihe c.ld 

 mure" and other jstock wlwri' tln-y IuMoiil,'. 

 PAOE nOVK.N WIRE FENC'K CO., ADItlAN, .1II< II. 

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Please mention Bee Journal 

 when writing Advertisers. 



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Carbolic Acid Instead of Smoke. 



I notice some mention of using carbohc 

 acid in place of smoke. Now it seems to me 

 that beekeepers have enough to contend 

 with without adding carbohc acid to the 

 list, as everybody knows it is very poison- 

 ous. Suppose in handling the acid some of 

 it is spilt on the face of section honey. 

 Would it be safe to eat ? And if it becomes 

 generally known, will it not be a hindrance 

 to the sale of honey '. I think it will in this 

 market. 



There are a good many bees kept in this 

 county, but very few in frame hives. I 

 have 18 colonies in S-frame dovetail hives, 

 part Italians and part blacks. 



I ordered one dozen queens last spring. 

 and introduced seven in one apiary without 

 a single loss; five in another apiary with 

 the loss of two. 



My IS colonies are wintering well on the 

 summer stands, with the exception of some 

 of them being Hght in stores; but I have 

 frames of sealed honey to give them the 

 first warm day. J. R. Adex. 



Henry Co.. Tenn., Feb. 18. 



All Right, Let Young America Invent 



Mr. Editor-. — It seems to me that you 

 are very wrong in what you say in your 

 editorial headed "Inventive Beginners," 

 on page 24. You credit the trash in the 

 way of poor hives which have been tried 

 and cast aside to litr-keepera, and especially 

 to young bee-keepers, when the real fact is 

 that the hives of the Patent Office can 

 mostly be traced to men who never handled 

 bees but were good carpenters and cabinet- 

 makers — men well used to handling tools 

 but not conversant as to the wants of bees. 

 As witness, the hives were mostly built 

 with drawers like a bureau, or were like a 

 kitchen-safe. These hives workt very well 

 for one or two seasons, but the bees glued 

 up the drawers and the hives became worth- 

 less to the apiarist. 



But there is plenty of room for improve- 

 ment in the hives now in use in this coun- 

 try, tho our supply dealers are making a 

 very fair hive. You see there is a lot of 

 new bee keepers coming on every year, and 

 there will always be a good demand for the 

 factory-made hive. But don't you try to 

 stop the inventive genius of Young Amer- 

 ica in the making of hives, to please any 

 gentleman of the Old World. If our Lang- 

 stroth had confined himself to the systems 

 of our masters we should have been very 

 far behind today in the matter of hives, as 

 well as in every other branch of apicultural 

 knowledge. Our Millers, Dadants. Doo- 

 lictles. Aikins. Aspinwalls. Taylors, and an 

 array of others, ouaht to have sat down 

 and waited for the masters cf the Old 



The Best Bargain 



IS THE 



BEST GOODS AT FAIR PRICES. 



And that's the secret of our immense trade that 

 has made us 



HEADQUARTERS 

 IN THE WEST 



For Bee-Keepers' Supplies. We are ready now 



for the season of 1S'J'> with an immense stock of 

 the latest and best in our line. Send for our 

 1S99 catalog' and discounts for early orders. 

 Address, 



JOSEPH NYSEWANDER, 



lOASt DES MOINES. IOWA. 



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HATCH CHICKENS 



( BY STEAM-*!"' ibe 



eimple, perk-ct. 9ell-rft;iilatiag 



EXCELSIOR INci'SilOB 



Til 

 Low 



jusands id successful i,[-<r8iuni 

 ■St priced Isl-cla^'s batcier njude 

 Ot:0. II. 8TAH1., 

 114 to 1:^2 K. «th St,.Oiilnry. Ill 



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EGGS FOR SITTING ^^er" 



Plymouth Rock, l,^ Egffs for Sl.fiO. 

 Superior Rose Comb Black Bantum Eggs, IS for 



S2.00. No other varieties kept. 

 Italian-bee keepers bein^ men of good taste 

 and sound judgment should beep the best and 

 most profitable kinds of Poultry. Only fresU 

 e^ffs used. .carefully paclct and sent by express. 

 Safe doliverv g-uaranteed. D. S. HeFFRON, 



Washington Heights. III. i3--^tf 



with our new patent 



KEROSENE SPRAYERS 



le simple Indeed. Keroseue Emal- 

 alon made while pnmping. V2 var- 

 ieties sprayers. Bordeaux and Ver» 

 morel Nozzles, the World''* Rest, 



THE DEMINQ CO. Salem, 0. 



Western Agents, lleoDiouA Hub- ., 

 , Chicago. Catalog, formulas free ** 



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TWO WAGONS AT ONE PRICE. 



It is a matter of great convenience and a sav- 

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

 wacrou. They save more than half the labor of 

 loading- in haulin<;r manure, hay, g-rain, corn- 

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

 ready has a wagon may have one of these low 

 handy wag-ons at the small 

 additional cost for a set of 

 wheels. These Electric Steel 

 Wheels, with either direct or 

 slag-g-er spokes, with broad- 

 faced tire, are made to fit any 

 axle. Yon can convert your 

 t>ld wag-on to a low, handy 

 wag-on in a few moments. You 

 thus virtually have two wagg- 

 ons at one price. Write to 

 the Electric Wheel Co., Box 

 16, Quincy, Illinois, for their 

 catalofTue, which fuUv explains about these and 

 their Electric Handy Wagons, Electric Feed 

 Cookers, etc. 



THE A. I, ROOT GO'S GOODS %^tr- 



Including- their discounts for goods wanted for 

 use another season. It will pay you to send me 

 St of "'■oods wanted. Cash for Beeswax. 



M. H. HUNT, Bell Bkanch, Mich. 



Queen-Clipping 

 Device Free.... 



The MoNETTE Queen-Clippiog- 

 Device is a fine thing for use in 

 catching- and clipping Queens' 

 wings. We mail it for 25 cents; 

 or will send it FREE as a pre- 

 mium for sending us ONE NEW 

 subscriber to the Bee Journal for 

 a year at Sl.tX); or forSl.lOwe will 

 mail the Bee Journal one year 

 and the Clipping Device. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, . 



118 Michigan St., Chicago, IIU 



