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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



April 13, 1899. 



Doolittle's 



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Every Bee-Keeper ><IiouI«l liave 



SCIENTIFIC 

 QUEEN-REARING. 



YOUlCERTAINLY will have it if you desire to 

 know how to have queens fertilized iu upper 

 stories while the old queen is still layinjj below; 

 how you may safel.v introduce any queen at any 

 time'of the year when bees can fly; all about 

 Ihe different races of bees; all about shipping- 



queens, queen-cages, cand.v for queen-cages, 

 etc.; all about forming nuclei, multiplying or 

 uniting bees, or weak colonies, etc.; or, in fact, 

 everything about the queen-business which you 

 may want to know. The price of the book is 

 Sl.OO, being bound in cloth, gold-lettered. 



We want i,ooo 

 New Subscribers 



Between Now aud June 1, 



And we would like to hiive our rej^ular 

 subscribers help us in this work. In 

 order that all who may want a copy of 

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 ing" may earn it very easily, and at 

 the same time aid in swelling the Bee 

 Journal's list of subscribers, we wish 

 to make the following- Liberal Offers — 

 only to our present subscriRers : 



flffnn Vn 1 We mail the book for Sl.OO, or 

 unci WUi 1. club it with the Bee Journal for 

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flffon Mn Send us Three New Subscribers 

 unci 111). L to the Bee Journal for the bal- 

 ance of the year, at 6o cents each, and we 

 will mail you a copy of the book free as a 

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flffpn TJn Q Or, send us two new subscribers 

 unci nU 0. to the Bee Journal for the bal- 

 ance of this year at 60 cents each, .and 40 

 cents additional (mak-in<j Sl.OO in allj and we 

 will mail you the bonk. 



flffoP Un li *-*'"' ^end us one new subscriber 

 unci 111). 4. for the Bee Journal for the bal- 

 ance oi this year at 60 cents, and 65 cents ad- 

 ditional (makin!;r 51.25 in all', ami we win 

 mail you the book. 



Now, the sooner the new names are 

 sent in the more copies of the Bee Jour- 

 nal they will get for their 60 cents, and 

 if sent before April 1, each will be cer- 

 tain of fretting' the Bee Journal for nine 

 months, or about 40 copies. 



Remember, that only our present 

 subscribers can take advantage of the 

 last three offers above. 



Now, let everybody go to work, and 

 help roll up the 1,000 new subscriber.s. 



Address, 



CBORGE "W. VORK & CO. 



■ i8 Mich.St., Chicago, III. 



direct from Carniola. Frank Benton, who 

 spent many years in Carniola, says he 

 never saw an apiary of all steel-gray bees 

 in that country. In all apiaries there are 

 more or less yellow banded bees. The na- 

 tive bee-keepers consider the yellow-banded 

 superior to the gray bees, and call them 

 " Adels." Adel signifies siijx riur. 



Bees are wintering well, tho March has 

 been the worst month of the year; no 

 warm weather, but plenty of small snow- 

 storms. Hesrt Alley. 



Essex Co.. Mass. 



[If Adel simply means " superior." then 

 of cour.se Dr. Miller was right if he said 

 that " any strain of Italians can be called 

 Adel." provided tbey are excellent bees. 

 No one has the sole right to the words 

 " Adel" or "superior." any more than to 

 the words "simplicity" or "perfection," 

 as we understand it. 



Several of our readers, during the past 

 few years, have acquired as to the meaning 

 of "Adel bees." It seems to us if wo were 

 to designate any particular variety of bees, 

 we would call them by some name that 

 would be self-explanatory— some word that 

 could be found in any common dictionary. 

 — Editor.] • 



Wintered Well in a Bee-Cellap. 



I have 112 colonies in a bee cellar 15x33 

 feet. They are wintering nicely. Last 

 season I got one-fourth crop of honey. I 

 hope this year they will do better. Success 

 to the American Bee Journal. 



E. R. Weight. 



Scott Co., Iowa, April 4. 



Wintered All Right. 



My bees came thru the winter all right, 

 tho a little short of stores, but with plenty 

 of bees. 



I find lots of bints in the " Old Reliable " 

 that come in handy. I wish you success. 

 J. Bkimmage. 



British Columbia, March 24. 



An Old Bee-Keeper's Experience. 



I have been reading the " Old Reliable" 

 for two years, and I could hardly keep bees 

 without it now. I have kept bees 2.") years, 

 but am a farmer, and. until late years. I 

 was at the head of a dairy and stock farm, 

 but as age came on I had to turn the care 

 of the farm into younger hands, which is 

 run under the name of F. Hall & Son. But 

 I cling to the bees and the garden. I never 

 wintered more than 21 colonies. I used to 

 keep them in box-hives and wintered them 

 buried in the ground, sometimes fairly well 

 and other times not so well. But the soft 

 winter of 1877-78 cleaned out my bees. The 

 last l.T or 20 years I have just put them into 

 the cellar, which I will describe. 



All of it has a well-mortared wall, and 

 the exposed sides have a double wall, all 

 cemented on the bottom. The bee-cellar is 

 8x14 feet, partitioned off by a single brick 

 wall. A window on one side has a wire screen 

 on the outside and a hanging glass wintlow 

 on the inside. In the winter I just bank up 

 that window with straw, and in mild 

 weather I open the inside window and the 

 straw will let in enough air. This cellar 

 just nicely holds 21 hives without tiering 

 up. 



Usually about Nov. 10 I put in the bees, 

 and see that they have plenty of air from 

 the bottom, and I aim to put in none but 

 good colonies, but I can't always stick to 

 that rule. I put them on planks on old bee- 

 hives. I don't have any trouble with mice. 

 I just fix the door so they can't gnaw, and 

 keep it shut. 



1 usually take the bees out about April 1. 

 I never have any mould in the hives, and if 

 they were all in good shape in the fall I 

 don't expect to lose a single colony. There 



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