Mav 4, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



285 



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Bees and Honey, orManag-ement of an Apiary 

 fnr Pleasure and Profit, by Thomas G. New- 

 man.— Ii is nicely i I In sirated, contains 160 pages, 

 beautifully printed in the highest style of the 

 art, and bound in cloth, yold-lettered. Price, in 

 cloth, 75 cents; iu paper, 50 cents. 



Langslroth on the Honey-Bee, revised by 

 Dadaiii.— This classic in bee-culture has been 

 entirely re-written, and is fully illustrated. It 

 treats of everythiutr ielatiii<r to bees and bee- 

 keepintj. Xo apiarian library i-> complete with- 

 out this siaiidard work by Kev. L,. L. Lang-- 

 strolh— the Father of American Bee-Culture. It 

 has 520 pAiTL-s, bound in cloth. Price, ^1.25. 



Bee=Keepers* Guide, or IManual of the Apiary, 

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 and helpful as a guide iu bee-keeping, but is 

 interesting and thuruly practical and scien- 

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 in cloth and fully illustrated. Price, ?1. 25. 



Scientific Oueen='Rearing, as Practically Ap- 

 plied, by G. M. Uoolittle.— A method by which 

 ■ the very best of queen-bees are reared in per- 

 fect accord with Nature's way. Bound in cloth, 

 and illustrated. Price, $1.00. 



A B C of Bee-Culture, by A. I. Root.— A cyclo- 

 paedia of 400 pages, describing everything per- 

 . taining to the care of the honey-bees. Contains 

 300 engravings. It Was written especially for 

 beginners. Bound in cloth. Price, $1.20. 



Advanced Bee-Culture, Its Methods and Man- 

 agement, by \V. 7.. Hutchinson.— The author of 

 this work is a practical and entertaining writer. 

 You should read his book; 90 pages, bound in 

 paper, and illustrated. Price, 50 cents. 



Rational Bee=Keeping, bj' Dr. John Uzierzon. 

 — This is a translation of his latest German 

 book on bee-culture. It has 350 pages, bound in 

 paper co\lts, $1j'i», 



Bienen^KuItnr, by Thos. G Newman.— This 



is a German translation of the principal portion 

 of the book called " Bees and Honey." lL>0-page 

 pamphlet. Price, 25 cents. 



Bienenzucht und Honiggewinnung, nach der 

 neuesten nu-thode (German) by J. K. Eggers. — 

 This book u"ives the latest and most approved 

 methods of bee-keeping in an easy, comprehen- 

 sive style, with illustrations to suit the subject. 

 50 pagtis, board cover. Price, 50 cents. 



Bee=Kecping for Beginners, by Dr. J. P. H. 



Brown, of Georgia.— A practical and condenst 

 treatise on the huney-bee, giving the best modes 

 of management in order to secure the most 

 profit. 110 pages, bound in paper. Price, 50 cts. 



Bee-Keeping for Profit, by Dr. G. L. Tinker. 

 — Revised and enlarged. It details the author's 

 ** new system, or how to get the largest yields of 

 comb of extracted hone3'." SO pages, illustrated. 

 Price, 25 cents. 



Apiary Register, by Thomas G. Newman.— 

 Devotes two pages to a colony. Leather bind- 

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 nies, Si. 25. 



Dr. Howard's Book on Foul Brood.— Gives the 



McEvoy Treatment and reviews the experi- 

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.Winter Problem in Bee-Keeping, by G. R. 

 Pierce. — Result of 25 years' experience. 30 cts. 



Foul Brood Treatment, by Prof. F. R. Che- 

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Foul Brood, by A. R. Kohnke.— Origin, De- 

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Capons and Caponizing, by Dr. Sawyer, Fanny 

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Our Poultry Doctor, or Health in the Poultry 

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Poultry for Market and Poultry for Profit, by 

 Fanny Field.— Tells everything about Poultry 

 Business. o4 pages. Price, 2o cents. 



York's Honey Almanac is a neat little 24-page 

 pamphlet especially gotten up with a view to 

 creating a demand for honey. A very effective 

 helper iu working up a home market for honey. 

 Prices: A sample for a stamp; 25 copies for 4<:tc; 

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cribbing a large crop of corn at the time 

 the bees needed fixing for winter, so Mrs. 

 Durbin gave them her attention, and with- 

 out assistance from any one arranged them 

 so comfortably that they past safely thru 

 our unnsunliy severe winter, with the mer- 

 cury rnnning down to 28 degrees below 

 zero. They are on the summer stands. It 

 is too early to prognosticate for the coming 

 season. ' Wm. J. Dukbin. 



Fayette Co., Ind., April 12. 



Substitutes for Pollen. 



We would like to exchange some rain for 

 sunshine .just now. Our bees are not get- 

 ting any pollen, and have not been for 

 about three weeks, consequently they are 

 not rearing any bees. So we fear they will 

 not be in condition to make the best of the 

 honey-flow which we usually have in May, 

 from poplar, willow, black locust, blackber- 

 ries anil dewberries. 



Dr. Miller recommends giving bees a mix- 

 ture of oats and cornmeal. and from read- 

 ing bee-books and papers I have been led to 

 believe that flour, meal, and such mixtures 

 could and would be used as a substitute for 

 pollen. So with the idea untested. 1 have 

 been giving my bees corn and oatmeal 

 mixt. I also put flour where they could 

 get it. They seem to like flour the best. I 

 will add that this is the first time I ever 

 noticed that bees could not get all the pol- 

 len they needed. 



I would like to ask Dr. Miller or any of 

 thope who have been telling beginners to 

 feed corn and oatmeal, flour, etc., what 

 good does such stuff do the bees ? It cer- 

 tainly is no good as a substitute for pollen, 

 or larva food, for I have several colonies at 

 thisdate in which there are from oneto three 

 Langstroth frames filled with eggs, and 

 have been for the last 1.5 days, and yet there 

 are no young itees in any of the combs. 

 This rather puzzled me. and I took some of 

 the combs of eggs out and gave empty 

 combs, and the queen would at once fill 

 them with eggs. 



One might think it would not be taken by 

 them unless it could be valuable in some 

 way, but such proof is not worth much, for 

 they will take fruit-juice, sorghum or al- 

 most anything thnt is the least bit sweet, 

 in times of scarcity, yet almost any bee- 

 keeper of experience can tell you that bees 

 will not thrive on them. I do not know of 

 any good it can be to them, unless the old 

 bees use it as food, and I am not sure they 

 would not be better off without it. 



My bees have carried several pounds of 

 meal and flour into their hives without any 

 apparent benefit. So if there is any good 

 in feeding corn and oatmeal, flour, etc., 

 let's know what it is. C. Presswood. 



Bradley Co.. Tenn.. April 11. 



Albino Bees— Loss of Bees. 



Editor YoiiK:~I see several are asking 

 for a description of the albino bees. By 

 this mail I send you a cage of my albinos. 

 You rather intiaiate they are lacking in 

 vigor, or color-matter, which would convey 

 the impression that they are an inferior 

 race or strain. I have had this strain of 

 bees for the last six years, and in the past 

 12 years I have had queens of every and all 

 the different strains and races now in the 

 United States, except the Funics; I have 

 had (]ueens from nearly all the prominent 

 breeders iu the Union and Canada ; and I 

 consider, taking all points, the albinos the 

 superiors of the whole lot. Because their 

 hair is white I can't see why that should 

 lessen their vitality. 



I now have an old white mule which my 

 father bought when I was a boy. He (the 

 mule) is now 20 years old, and the past 

 winter he helpt to plow 80 acres of land for 

 corn, and is far better than many black, 

 sorrel, and bay mules I know. Surely, his 

 white hair has not lessened his vitality. 



Because the albinos have white hairs on 

 their abdomen, and rather a bluish hair 

 around their shoulders and head, I can't 

 see why that should weaken their constitu- 

 tion ; and as the regular Italians have a 



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