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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



:Mav 4, 1899. 



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BARNES' FOOT POWER MACHIHERY 



Read « hat J. I. Parent, of 

 ' Charlton, N, Y., says: ^ We 

 ^ cut witli one of your Com- 

 'bined Machines, last winter, 

 50 cliaff hives with 7-in. cap, 

 100 honey racks, 500 brood- 

 frames, 2,000 honey boxes, and 

 a ereat deal of other work. 

 This winter we have double 

 the amount of bee-hives, etc., 

 to make, and we expect to do 

 it with this Saw. It will do all 

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Address, W. F. & Johx Barnes. 

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The American Poultry Jourual 



32S Dearborn Street, Chicago, III. 



Almifnfll ^^"^^ '^ over a quarter of a 

 ^UUI Ilctl century old and is still g-row- 

 ing- must possess intrinsic merit of its own, and 

 its field must be a valuable one. Such is the 



Ameriean Poultry Journal. 



50 cents a Year. 



Mention the Hi 



tically closing by June 20, and the bees 

 were idle until sorghum-making com- 

 menced, which was Aug. 29. 



The second day they began to come in 

 swarms, and seemed to be perfectly wild 

 after the sweet; they were into everything 

 where there was Juice or syrup unless 

 tightly covered, smoke having no effect 

 unless so dense that the hands could not 

 work in it. They would fly into the steam, 

 causing them to drop into the boiling 

 juice. The juice-tanks would be covered 

 with drowned bees. 



At the mill they were the worst; some 

 days they came in such swarms that 1 was 

 compelled to saturate cobs with coal-oil. set 

 fire and burn the bees. I confess it made 

 my heart ache to destroy them when they 

 were trying so hard to supply themselves 

 with food. 



Now as to the effect on the colony at the 

 hive: I believe it is quite a benefit, as it 

 stimulates the queen to laying and brood- 

 rearing, thereby having a good supply of 

 young bees to winter, for those that are 

 destroyed are old workers, and would die 

 before spring, and the sweet they store is 

 all used before winter by the young brood, 

 as I have found none in the cells when I 

 prepare them for the winter, which is the 

 last of November. 



The loss of bees this winter from starving 

 and freezing is heavy — from )„ to }:,■ Very 

 few use chaff-hives, and none winter in 

 cellars. Orion Conger. 



Shelby Co., Ind.. March 2!). 



The Rural Calif orn fan 



Tells all about Bees in California. The yields 

 and Price of Honey: the Pasturage and Nectar- 

 Producing Plants: the Bee-Ranches and how 

 they are conducted. In fact the entire field is 

 fully covered by an expert bee-man. Besides 

 this the paper also tells you all about Califoraia 

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THE RURAL CALIFORNIAN, 



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 scroll - bawing, 

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THE A. I, ROOT CO'S GOODS %^trr 



Including- their discounts for f,'oods wanted for 

 use another season. It will pay .vtm U) send me 

 list of goods wanted. Cash U)r Keesw.ax. 



M. n. HUNT, Bell Bkanch, Mich. 

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Hard Winter for Bees. 



I have my bees— about 100 colonies — in 

 the cellar yet. having lost a few during the 

 winter. This has been a hard winter for 

 the bees, in this location, on account of cold 

 weather. A great many have lost all their 

 bees. Sam Sevekson. 



Clark Co., Wis., April 7. 



Bees Building Up Well. 



Bees that pulled thru the past winter are 

 building up finely. Fruit is just; blooming, 

 and alfalfa is growing well. Otero County 

 did not lose as large a percentage of bees as 

 most places report. F. W. Cuak. 



Otero Co., Colo., April 3.5. 



Visit to Louisiana- Lost None. 



Last January I ran down to Louisiana on 

 a visit to my old home, 4S miles north of 

 New Orleans. I spent two days with my 

 nephew, Edwin R. Wells, who has a very 

 pretty home just a half mile west of town. 

 The "queen " of this home, an intelligent 

 and womanly little woman, and four or 

 five children, raabe Mr. Wells one of the 

 happiest of men. He is engaged in straw- 

 berry and vegetable growing, and bee- 

 keeping. His vegetables and berries are 

 shipt to Chicago, and net him quite hand- 

 somely. The product of bis apiary, he told 

 me. be could not so easily dispot-e of. His 

 bees did very well the past season, storing 

 a good surplus. There was served on his 

 table, while I was there, some finely- 

 flavored extracted honey of a light straw 

 color. It was quite thick, but it never 

 granulates. I was unable to ascertain 

 whence the nectar was taken by the bees. 

 He had Italianized his apiary about three 

 years ago. but there being so many black 

 bees in the forest and in neighboring colo- 

 nies he was unable to keep his stock pure. 

 One of the greatest depredators on his api- 

 ary is an immense dragon fly that comes 

 during the spring and summer, just before 

 sunset, and waylays the homeward-botind. 

 heavily-laden little bees, and devours them 

 with ravenous appetite. 



Mr. Wells has promist to write me a list 

 of the nectar-pi'oducing plants of that re- 

 gion, together with some of his experiences 

 in a Louisiana apiary, which 1 may give to 

 the readers of the Bee Journal, it consid- 

 ered worthy of interest. 



Our bees here are in good condition, and 

 out of 11 colonies, packt last autumn, we 

 have lost none. I happened to be busy 



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I wish to announce to niv friends and patrons 

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

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

 plv business, known for the past 38 years as 

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

 tinue to push the Langstroth hive and every- 

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

 the old house, to whom I wish to extend my 

 thanks, to continue their patronage with Mr. 

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Cincinnati, Ohio, April 7, IS^n. 15Atf 



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