April 13, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



237 



DITTMER'S 



Comb Foundation 



Wholesale and Retail. 



WZorkincj V\Zax 



INTO FOUNDATION FOR CASH A SPECIALTY. 



Hi\/e;&y Sections, 



and a full line of SUPPLIES. 



I sell the VERY BEST at lowest prices aud 

 ship promptly. 



Send me rour name for 1S99 catalogr aud prices, 



whether you are a larg-e or small 



consumer or dealer. 



Beeswax always wanted for cash or trade at the 

 highest price. Address, 



GUS DITTMER, Augusta, Wis. 



BEE^SUPPLIES, 



root's goods at root's 

 a; a; prices, a a; 



Everything- used bj' Bee- Keepers. 

 Send for Catalog. 



C. H. W. WEBER, 



Successor to Chas F. Mt th A: Son, 

 2169 Central Ave., CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



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PATENT WIRED COMB FOUNDATION 



Has no Sj.^ in IJroLnl-Frames. 



Thin Flat- Bottom Foundation 



Has no Fishbone iu the Surplus 



Honey. 

 Being- the cleanest is usually workt 

 the quickest of an^' foundation made. 



J. A. VAN OEUSEN, 



Sole Manufacturer, 

 Sprout Brook, Montgomery Co., N.Y. 



DEC IfCCDCDQ f Let me send vou mv 64- 

 DLL~^LL^LnO l page Catalog for 1899. 

 tj. A/, yJertUinSt ^l^ef ump7ca, ^ia. 



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 1899 with an immense stock of 

 the latest and best in our line. Send for our 

 1899 catalog aud discounts for early orders. 

 Address, 



JOSEPH NYSEWANDER, 



lOASt DES MOINES. IOWA. 



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SILVER CRAY "o?,Ss*!! 



ALSO THE 



Golden and 3-batided Italian. 



Untested, 50c each; tested, 75c. Purity uf slock 

 and safe arrival guaranteed. 



C. B. BANKSTON, - RocMale, Texas, 



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has not been a day this winter that I, being 

 a little deaf, could hear them at all. 



In September, 1ST7, I took away all the 

 queens, which were black, and two days 

 after I had an expert bee-man introduce 

 fertile Italians, without a single failure in 

 21 colonies. 



I have been greatly helpt by my acquain- 

 tance with good bee-keepers, particularly 

 the late B. Taylor and D. H. Wbitmore, of 

 Minnesota, and S. T. Petitt, of Canada: 

 and by reading the articles written by the 

 great bee-men iu the American Bee Jour- 

 nal. 



I read much of robbing of bees, and of 

 wax-moths, but I never have any trouble 

 with a colony that is worth having. Often 

 there are moths iu the honey after it is 

 taken off, and I always put out in the api- 

 ary anything that I want cleaned otf. 

 When I " take up" hives in the fall I ex- 

 tract the honey from the frames and put 

 them among the hees. and when they are 

 well cleaned off I put the frames back into 

 the hives, and leave them there till needed 

 again, and I find that by that time the old 

 pollen will have shrunk so that the bees can 

 pull it out. Francis Hall. 



Fillmore Co.. Minn., March 11. 



Very Late Spping. 



I have 34 colonies of bees now. The 

 spring is very late here, with 1.5 inches of 

 snow on the ground, and below zero last 

 jiight. C. F. Greening. 



Mower Co., Minn., March 37. 



An Experience with Bees. 



About 1.") years ago I purchast three colo- 

 nies of bees for !}W. At that time I knew 

 little about bees. 



My bees are situated to the south and 

 west of my residence. The hives all face 

 east, and are in rows six feet apart and 

 three feet apart in the row. They are all, 

 or nearly all, in chaff hives. The chaff hive, 

 like all hives, has some good points, and 

 some people seem to think a great many 

 poor ones. I talkt with a man who said he 

 didn't like the chaff hives because the bees 

 wouldn't start in the morning until the sun 

 warmed them up. It he had been at my 

 place last summer, some mornings, before 

 sunrise, he would have thought that my 

 bees didn't wait for the sun. Perhaps his 

 bees don't work before sunrise, but mine 

 do. 



The spring of 1^*07 found me with 23 colo- 

 nies, which I increast to 41, and harvested 

 about 1..500 well-filled sections. My best 

 colony gave me 100 complete sections. 

 Passing the winter of 1S97-9S without loss, 

 I increast the Hi colonies the following 

 summer to .58, and secured 1,300 pounds ot 

 honey, working exclusively for comb, 

 which sold in my home market at 10 and 12 

 cents per pound. My honey is all gone, 

 and I could have sold more it I had had it. 



I have tried a great many times to get 

 subscribers fqr the American Bee Journal, 

 but of no avail, as the people had all sorts 

 of excuses, some thinking they know more 

 (about bees) than all the bee-editors and 

 their correspondents put together. One 

 young man, in particular, bought a number 

 of colonies last summer. I tried to have 

 him take the Bee Journal but he did not, 

 and now he has .iust one colony alive; but 

 he has the bee-fever for sure, for he bought 

 six more at .*:j 20 per colony, and a lot of 

 old hives at .50 or 60 cents apiece, that were 

 just fit for kindling. My bees were out the 

 7th, and seemed strong and all right. I 

 have always been successful in wintering 

 bees in chaff hives on the summer stands, 

 but I never could succeed in the preven- 

 tion of swarming. 



My inside hive is the regular 8-frame 

 dovetail, while the outside is made of ship- 

 lap siding, the greatest objection being tlje 

 cost. Cltde Cady. 



Jackson Co., Mich., March 20. 



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 when writing Advertisers. 



FOR SALE. 



Fifty (50) colonies of ITALIAN BEES in 

 standard Lan^jstroth hives in good condition. 

 Will sell five (5) colonies, or the lot, at S3.(K-) per 

 colony. Also one Given Foundation Press, and 

 one Cowan Honey-Extractor. For further par- 

 ticulars inquire of 



i4A4t MRS. J. W, LeFOY, Rio, Wis, 



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QUEENS 



Smokers, Sections, 



Coiub Foundaton 

 Ani] nil Apiarlfin Supplip» 



r-hpap. Send for 



' FUtt: <:atalogue. £. T. FLA.NaOaN, Kelledlle. UL 

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CHAS, F, MUTH L SON. 



I wish to announce to mv friends and patrons 

 that I have this day sold to C. H. W. WEBER, 

 of Cincinnati, my Honey and Bee-Keepers' Sup- 

 ply business, known for the past 38 years as 

 Chas. F. Muth & Son. Mr. Weber will con- 

 tinue to keep on hand at the old stand a full, up- 

 to-date supply of all g"oods pertaining to said 

 business. I beg^ the customers of the old house, 

 to whom I wish to extend my thanks, to con- 

 tinue iheir patronag^e with Mr. Weber, bv whom 

 I am sure they will be accorded fair and honest 

 treatment. Mrs. Annie Muth. Widow. 



Al DlUn nilPEM^ If yo^ ^^"'^ ^^^^ "i"st 



MLDIIlU yUULllO prolific Queens-If you 

 want the gentlest Bees— If you want the best 

 honey-g-atherers vou ever saw— trv mv Albinos. 

 Untested Queens" in April, Si. 00: "Tested. 31.50. 

 9A26t J. D. GIVENS. LlSBON.TEX. 



EGGS FOR SITTING ^:^'' 



Plymouth Rock. 15 Egtrg for Sl.m. 



Superior Rose Comb Black Bantum Eggs, 15 for 



5Z0t>. No other varieties kept. 

 Italian-bee keepers being: men of good taste 

 and sound judgment should beep the best and 

 most profitable kinds of Poultry. Only fresh 

 eggs used, carefully packt and sent by express. 

 Safe delivery L''uaranteed. D. S. HeFFRON, 



Washington Heights, III. i3Atf 



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WflNT&D 



TO BUY A 



CARLOAD 



OF- 



BEES 



lU-Irame Hivt.-^ and iloffrnan Frames prct'-rrcd. 



iSAtf B. WALKER, Evapt, Mich. 



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2-frame Nucleus with Untested 

 Queen, $2.25. 



Untested Italian Queens, 65 cents each. Ready 



May 1, 1S09. Have orders bookt now, 



and get bees when wanted. 



F. J. GUNZEL, Obear, Craighead Co., flrk. 



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BEES 



Wanted tor Gasli 



By pound or colony, in any 

 hive, box or t.dlierwise. 

 BEES I WANT — NOT 



HIVES. Write at once, and give price, 3"our 



location, etc. Address, 



CA.HUFF.Clayton, Lenawee Co,,Micli, 



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