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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 1, 1899. 



Mr. Kipling Cured 



\iy the inhalation of Oxyg^eu, the 

 specific cure for all lung- troubles. 

 For special information reyard- 

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 Address, DR. PEIRO. 



Central Music Hall, Chicai^o. 



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Northern Queens. 



IF YOU want the best houey-g-atherers, the 

 long-est-Iived and hardiest Queens, try a few 

 ■of my Northern-bred Italians—*' daughters of 

 imported Queens." Tested Queens, $1.5*); un- 

 tested, 51.00; 2-frame Nuclei with tested Queen, 

 ^.Oi_^ each: the same-with untested Queen, 52.25. 

 Ready to fill orders bv June 1. Correspoudence 

 solicited. MATE WILLIAMS, 



20A4t NiMKOD, Wadena Co., Minn. 



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WtlEN you WANT ^^^^S^^i^b^ 



C\\ IFFN^ MAIL, with the best of 



• • VotULLi lO •• Italians, large yellow 

 Queens, healthy and prolific, workers gentle and 

 the best of honev-gratherers. Tested Queens, 

 $1.01.1 each; Untested. ~5c; $S.(M1 per dozen. Send 

 for our price-list, and see what others say. 



J. W, IC SHAW £ CO,, 



LOREAUVILLE (Iberia Parish) LOUISIANA 

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Two Wagons at One Price. 



It is a matter of great convenience and a sav- 

 ing- of labor for a farmer to have a low, handy 

 wagon. They save more than half the labor of 

 loading in hauling manure, hay, grain, corn- 

 fodder, wood, stones, etc. The 

 man who already has a wagon 

 may have one of these low, 

 handy wagons at the small 

 additional cost for a set of 

 wheels. These Electric Steel 

 Wheels, with either direct or 

 stagger spokes, with broad- 

 faced tire, are made to fit any 

 axle. You can convert your 

 old wagon to a low, handy 

 wagon in a few moments' 

 time. Y'ou thus virtually have 

 two wagims at one price. Write to the Electric 

 Wheel Co., box 16, Quincy,Ill., for their catalog, 

 which luUy explains about these and their 

 Electric Handy Wagons, Electric Feed Cookers, 

 etc. 



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Smokers, Sections. 

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Ani] all Apinrlan Supplies 

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2-TYame Nucleus with Untested 

 Queen, $2,25, 



Untested Italian Queens, 65 cents each. Ready 



May 1, 1819. ~Have orders bookt now, 



and get bees when wanted. 



F. J. GUNZE.L, Obear, Craighead Co., f\rk. 



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wife had everything in good style, while 

 they had provided enough for a full-sized 

 camp-meeting. I hope they may live many 

 years and have their share of honey. 



We mist many faces that we have met at 

 our conventions, and saw some new ones 

 which we hope to see at future meetings. 

 Jonathan Stewart. 



Stephenson Co.. 111., May 16. 



Moving Bees to an Orchard. 



The loss of bees here the past winter has 

 been heavy, especially among farmers, at 

 least 7.5 percent. I lost 5 out of 46 colonies. 

 The weather for the past month has been 

 very favorable, and they are breeding up 

 fast. The prospect for clover and linden 

 is good. 



A man living IJo miles from me came 

 yesterday to get me to put 20 colonies or 

 more in his SOacre apple-orchard for 10 

 days, to fertilize the bloom. He offered 15 

 cents a colony. I took 10 colonies, but do 

 not like to risk moving many now while 

 they are gaining so fast here. 



Wayne Co., Iowa, May 11. J.C.Davis. 



Very Dpy Weather. 



The weather here is very dry and bees 

 have done nothing up to date. As is usu- 

 ally the case, as soon as the trees blossomed 

 cloudy weather set in. There will be no 

 clover honey unless raip soon comes along. 

 Henry Alley. 



Essex Co., Mass., May 19. 



Heavy Winter Losses. 



Nearly all the bees wintered out-otdoors 

 were lost. One bee-keeper has only 15 left 

 out of 56 colonies; another has one left out 

 of 36. Those who cellared their bees are 

 much better off— loss very light. 



The weather now is very unfavorable for 

 the bees — cold and rainy nearly all of the 

 spring — in fact, very few good days for 

 them. From all accounts the "golden's'' 

 have wintered best. Geo. Randall. 



Cherokee Co., Iowa, May 20. 



One of the Hustling Bpown(ie)s. 



I have three honey flows here and it 

 doesn't seem likely that all of them will 

 fail. I am trying hard to gel my dishes 

 right side up to catch all the flows. I do 

 believe I am in a good location for bees. I 

 have just extracted over a barrel of honey 

 that was in the way of the queens. (You 

 see I put them into winter quarters with a 

 plenty.) I have put extracting supers on 

 some of the strong colonies so they can re- 

 move the honey from the brood-nests and 

 make room for the queens, and the bees are 

 rushing the honey up-stairs just as I told 

 them to. They have been getting consider- 

 able from fruit-bloom. What they are 

 working on just now I do not know, but 

 they are getting their •' daily bread." 



I am almost as busy as the blessed bees 

 are; I get up every morning at 4 o'clock, 

 and I work at not a thing but bee-keeping. 



Erie Co., N. Y.. May 23. E. W. Bkown. 



King-Birds Destroying Bees. 



I bad a little experience to-day that was 

 quite unusual, in fact I never heard any 

 thing like it in beeexferience. It has been 

 cold, cloudy and windy for three or four 

 days, finally ending in a cold, driving rain, 

 and I suppose the birds have become very 

 hungry. To-day the bee-birds gathered in 

 my apiary to the number of two or three 

 dozen, sometimes two or three sitting on 

 one hive. It was cold aud windy so there 

 were but few bees flying, otherwise I be- 

 lieve they would have done considerable 

 damage. I tell you, seeing is believiug. and 

 it will be useless to try to convince me that 

 the king-bird is anything but an enemy to 

 the bee-keeper. Why, they would actually 

 sit on the corner of a hive and watch down 

 at the entrance, and if a bee showed herself 

 or took wing she was gobbled up in short 

 order. 



The past severe winter seems to have 



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