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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 1, 1899. 



Page 8 Lyon Mfg. Co. 



NEW LONDON, WIS., 



operates two Sawmills that cut, annually, eig'ht million feet of lumber, thus se- 

 curing the best lumber at the lowest 13^^ f ^^^>^^^' Q^^^^ii^^ 

 price for the manufacture of iiQC^]\.CepCTS OUpipilCS,,,, 



They have also one of the LARGEST FACTORIES and the latest and most 

 improved machinery for the manufacture of Bee=Hives, Sections, &c., that there 

 is in the State. The material is cut from patterns, by machinery, and is abso- 

 lutely accurate. For Sections, the clearest and whitest Basswood is used, and 

 they are polisht on both sides. Nearness to Pine and Basswood forests, and pos- 

 session of mills and factory equipt with best machinery, all combine to enable 

 this firm to furnish the BEST GOODS AT THE LOWEST PRICES. 



Send for Circular and see the prices on a full line of Supplies. 

 Please raention Bee Journal "when "writing. 



■FK-ICBS OF 



Biiigliaui Perfect Bee-Smokers 



Smoke Engine (largeal smoker made) 4-in. stove. Doz. $13.00; each, by mall, $1.50 



Doctor 3H in. stove. Doz. 



Conqueror ; 3-in. slove. Doz. 



l^arse 2j^-in. stove. Doz. 



Plain 2-in. stove. Doz. 



Little Wonder (weight 10 ounces) ... 2-in. stove. Doz. 



Honey-Knife Doz. 



Bingham Smokers have all the new improvements, 

 or Knile. look up its record and pedigree. 



FIFTEEN TKAK8 FOR A DOLLAR; ONE-HALF CENT FOR A MONTH. 



Dear Sir:— Have used the Conqueror l^y years. I was always pleased with its 

 workings, hut thinking 1 would need a new one this summer, 1 write for a circu- 

 lar. 1 do not think the 4-inch Smoke Engine too large. 



January :.'7, 1897. Truly. W. H. Eagerty, Cuba. Kansas. 



T. F. BIXGHAITI, Farwell, inirlilgan. 



OUR MOTTO: WELL MANU FACTURED ST OCK -QUICK SHIPMENTS. 



Seciions. StiiDDinfl-Gases and 



B6e-K66D6rS' S»PPll6S 



We make a specialty of making- the very bestJSections on the market. 



The BASSWOOD in this part of Wisconsin is acknowledged bv all to be 

 the best for making the ONE-PIECE HONEY-SECTIONS— selected, young and 

 thrifty timber is used. 



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Marshfield flanufacturing Company, 



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MARSHFIELD. WISCONSIN. 



Carloads ' 

 of Bee- 

 Bives 



Sections, 

 Shipping-Cases, 

 Comb Foundation 



and EVERYTHING used in the bee-industrj \\ e w iiitthc iiamt^ uui addit-sb i 1 c\li y bcc-koeper 

 in America. We supply dealers as well as consumers. We have Dry Kiln, Improved Machin- 

 erj',40,000 feet of floor space, and all modern appliances. We make prompt shipment. W^rite 

 for Catalog^s, Quotations, etc. INTER-STATE MFQ. CO.. Hu<^on, St. Croix Co., Wis. 



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M Cases of S econd-Hand UO-ponud Cans 



We have found another lot of 300 cases (two cans in a case) of second-hand 

 60-pound Cans— practically as good as new. We offer them at 45 cents per case 

 in lots of five, f.o.b. Chicago ; or in lots of 10 cases or over, 40 cents per case. 

 Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



118 Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



and then tied a cloth over them, and set 

 them in the back end of my ice-box. At 

 the end of a month I sampled them, and one 

 taste was enough. They were bitter, pun- 

 gent, and tasted bad generally. I left them 

 in the ice-box until November, and then 

 took them out and set them in a cool place 

 until Christmas, when I sampled them 

 again, and found they had undergone a 

 complete change for the better. I only had 

 to offer them for sale, and got $3.00 per gal- 

 lon for them, and calls for more. 



I think that using double the amount of 

 honey with many of our fruits will prove 

 very successful. J. H. Hekmance. 



Garland Co., Ark. 



Thirteen-Year-Old Josie. 



On page 393, Cogitator asks if that 13- 

 year-old Josie is a boy Josie or a girl Josie. 

 Well it mis a 13-year-old girl Josie, but now 

 I am 14 years old, and I think I ought to eat 

 more honey than before. 



Miss Josie M. Tichenor. 



Crawford Co., Wis. 



Sevepal Apiarian Paragpaplis. 



Years ago a bee-keeping friend went to 

 one of the most successful apiarists we have 

 here, to find out how to prepare his bees for 

 winter, and the satisfaction he got was that 

 he would have to learn it. The questioner 

 had been losing his bees quite heavily dur- 

 ing winters, and wanted a remedy for the 

 evil. Here is the remedy as I have found it: 



Buy a text-book, subscribe for one or 

 more bee-papers, and thus get valuable in- 

 formation from those who let their light 

 shine. 



Do bees ever carry eggs from one cell or 

 comb and place it in another ? For myself, 

 I believe it is such a delicate piece of work 

 that bees have never done it. 



Honey-dew was gathered quite plentifully 

 in IS'JS, judging from the amount found on 

 the market last December. It is a pity, for 

 it hurts the sale of honey from fall flowers, 

 such as touch-me-not, which is our main 

 source here. 



The honey-dew I found on the market 

 was of a somewhat dark color or reddish 

 cast, and did not granulate, while fine 

 honey from fall flowers granulated as soon 

 as cool weather came. The amount of dam- 

 age done by honey-dew is hard to estimate, 

 as the market was well supplied with the 

 vile stuff put up in glass tumblers with the 

 producer's name on it. I should think that 

 one glass of such honey would satisfy one's 

 appetite for a long time. I am disgusted 

 with that kind of business. 



We have a basswood shade tree that 

 comes in bloom a week later than other 

 trees here, and goes out of bloom about a 

 week later than other basswoods. It has 

 bloomed this way for years — ever since it 

 began to bloom. C. A. Bcnch. 



Marshall Co., Ind. 



About Wintering Bees, Etc. 



In reading Miss Fannie C. Damon's fail- 

 ure iu wintering her bees, I thought per- 

 haps the way I had mine protected at the 

 entrance might be of use to her, or some 

 one else that did not do the same way. 



I did not know how the winter might be, 

 so at the commencement of the snow, I had 

 a lot of bottom-boards made. I set one on 

 its side at the entrance of each hive, a little 

 way out at the bottom, then leaned it close 

 against the hive at the top, so that it made 

 a space under it. When it snowed I would 

 get thru the snow to each hive, and draw 

 the top out enough to get the snow from 

 the entrance and put the board back. I 

 would leave it bankt on the north side to 

 keep the cold out, but clear it away on the 

 south side, so no ice formed at the entrance. 

 I had Hill's device on each brood-frame, 

 then canvas over that, the top on, and a 

 cushion on that. Some of the cushions 

 had cork, and some dry grass in them ; 

 that was all the protection they had except 

 what I told in my previous letter. I don't 

 see any difference between the ones I used 



