April 27, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



269 



THE NEW 



RUMELY 



THRESHER. 



It possesses SO many points of snperi'^rity that every 

 farmer shouM <k'Miaod its ure vlien he lia- lu^ ciai'' 

 tliifbhed. Comoines all the pointsof tlie opruii mid 

 ■\lbrntor principles. It threshes fast enough to gult 

 Ihethre^herDian. It threshes olcan enough to *»iilt 

 the rarmer. Catalogue of liumt-lfy Threshlnc: !\ln- 

 ehluL'ry, LuKliies^Horae I'owers.Sawilills.etc., FKEE. 



M. RUMELY CO., La Porte, Ind. 



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Untested Italian, $1.00 each; 

 after Julv 1, 70 cents each; 

 3 for 52.00^ Tested. Sl.25 

 each. CitaloiT free. Address 



Queens 



Theodore Bender, CautoUyOhio. 



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Better than Ever 



Am I prepared to furnish everytliing" needed by 

 the up-to-date bee-keeper, all sroods manufac- 

 tured by The; A. I. Root Co., shipt to me in car 

 lots, and sold at their prices. Send for illus- 

 trated, 3t)-pag-e Catah:)ir FREE. 



Address, GEO. E. HILTON, 



IVAlTt FREMONT, Xewayso Co., -MICH. 



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GOOD LANGSTROTH 

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' For Sale at 7 cents each. Address 

 ARTHUR "STANLEY, Box 4o0, DIXON, ILL. 



500. 



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WE 



are kept very busy— the result of the satisfac- 

 tion we always yive our customers. 



HAVE 



you had our Catalog- yet ? If not. you had bet- 

 ter g-et it. Sendinitr out CataloLfs never 



TROUBLES 



us, as we are anxious to place our prices and 

 g^oods before the bee-keepers of the Northwest. 

 Most of our stock is 



OF OUR OWN 



make, and always trives satisfaction. Write us 

 a card, antl we will send the Cataht>r at nuce. 



Standard Lumber Co. 



lOAtf MANKATO, MINN. 



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out of 9 colonies, and those 4 that are left 

 aren't of much account. I prefer cellar- 

 wintering, every time. 



We have had some awfully cold weather 

 this winter, and no snow. It is quite likely 

 the clover is frozen. I have examined sev- 

 eral stalks of Alsike clover, and it looks as 

 if it were frozen. Bees have done nothing 

 so far here (March 28). I saw them work 

 on soft maple March 14 three or four years 

 ago. but we generally get good weather for 

 bees about April 1st. So far we have had 

 no sign of spring. We had about three 

 inches of snow yesterday, and the ground 

 looks as bare as it was in January. 



Eight years ago. when I started in bee- 

 keeping, the farmers around here always 

 sowed red clover on lowland, and then they 

 would claim that they could not raise 

 clover. This set me to thinking how I 

 could help my neighbors, and at the same 

 time help myself. So I bought a lot of 

 Alsike clover seed, and got some of my 

 neighbors to try it. and I tried some of it 

 myself on some of the wettest land that we 

 had. This land was too wet for timothy, 

 and this clover has not failed to produce a 

 crop. Some years ago we had such a wet 

 season that some of the land was under 

 water six weeks, and this was in the sum- 

 mer (May and June), and this clover was 

 all right when the water was gone, and we 

 made hay from that land in July. 



There is another point that I find that 

 farmers don't seem to understand very 

 well, and that is. the fertilization of plants. 

 There are not enough bumble-bees to ferti- 

 lize the red clover, while the honey- bee 

 works on the Alsike clover. It is this work- 

 ing by the bees that makes it yield seed the 

 first and second crops, and it is those two 

 crops of seed every year that keeps up a 

 good stand when we have cold and wet 

 weather, when apple, plum, raspberry, and 

 all other fruits are in bloom so the bees 

 cannot work on the bloom. We generally 

 don't get much fruit, still there are some 

 people that think bees are a nuisance, but 

 they don't think that nice fruit which the 

 bees have helpt them to get is a nuisance. 



My last year's honey crop was about 400 

 gallons, which I sold long before the new 

 year arrived. I have over GO colonies that 

 I am going to run for extracted honey, be- 

 cause I can sell that the best. I am going 

 into the bees a little heavier in the future, 

 because I have found some one that is will- 

 ing to help me — a loving wife. (There 

 ought always to be two to keep bees 

 rightly I) 



The American Bee Journal ought to be 

 taken by every man and woman that keeps 

 bees. 



lam of the opinion that honey dew is pro- 

 duced by insects in this part of the coun- 

 try. I haveseen Justasclear stufl' as water 

 on the leaves of common hedge, and on ex- 

 amination I could find the insects. Last 

 spring our plum trees were just alive with 

 insects, and I found my bees working on 

 the leaves of those trees. The stuff was 

 dark in color. Later in the summer I found 

 the bees working on acorns, and on exami- 

 nation I found a grub in each one of them. 

 This stuff lookt' like pine tar. and was not 

 fit to eat. Jacob Wirth. 



Henry Co., 111.. March 31. 



That Tired Feeling! 



These are our stretching days. We yawn 

 and groan and twist our.»elves with threat- 

 ening danger to our backbone and the gen- 

 eral anatomy! Why' Because spring has 

 come, and Nature is making startling ef- 

 forts to loosen our joints into greater 

 activity, as the buds are pusht out for their 

 fruitful mission. 



The winter's cold has. in a manner, shriv- 

 eled us. as all thiugs else with life, and now 

 the warm sun and balmy air have come to 

 loosen our joints, to clear the brain, to stir 

 the blood for the greater activities that 

 await us from now until the mercury shall 

 again contract into its little round recepta- 

 cle at the lower eud of the thermometer, 

 which has patiently stood outside, thru the 

 vicissitude of all weather, to remind us of 

 the frequent and varied changes, from tor- 



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EDWARD W. WALKER CARRAQE CO. 

 r,« Elchi h St. OOSHEN, INDIANA, 



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pertaining' to same. 

 Muth Jars.Muth Honey Extractor 

 — in fact everything used by bee- 

 keepers. Send for our Catalog'. 



C. H. WZ. WZEBER, 



:;i4t, Ceiur.-il ,\vt.., CINCINNATI, OHIO, 



Successor to 



CH.iS F. Muth & Son and A. Muth. 



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CHAS. F. MUTH & SON. 



I wi<li to aiiu.iuiice to mv friends and patron!> 

 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 Sl Son. Mr. Weber will con- 

 tinue to push the Lang-stroth hive and every- 

 thintr pertaininy to same; besides, he has se- 

 cured the ayency for Mr. Root's g-oods, and will 

 sell them at his prices. I beg" the customers of 

 the old house, to whom I wish to extend my 

 thanks, to continue their patrouag"e with Mr. 

 Weber, by whom I am sure they will be accorded 

 fair and honest treatment. 



Mks. Annie Muth (Widow.) 



Cincinnati. Ohio. April 7, IS't'i. 15Alf 



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