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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



July 6, 1899. 



...Italian Queens 



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GoiiitrFoundalion. 



1 have been reariiip nueeus 

 for 2(j seasous on the best 

 known plans, and have some 

 choice ones as fonows:51_ 



'-U'hv4 ^ 1 untested Queen S .75 



tr untested Queens 3.50 



1^ untested Queens o.OO 



1 tested Queen 1.00 



() tested Queens 5.00 



1 selected tested Queen 1.50 



COMB FOUNDATION-made from pureIwax, 

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36A4t Clarinda. Pag-e County, Iowa. 



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ITALIAN QUEENS, 



Untested. (j5 cents each; Tested, ?1. 00. Have 

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 SOO Nuclei, and rearing- only S-banders. 1 have 

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gooseberries, currants, cherries, apple, rasp- 

 berries, lilac, and a great many other 

 plants, but I have never seen one bee work- 

 ing: on stravpberries. i ' ^: 



The basswood is in bud here : I am watch- 

 ing to see when it opens. I shall put my 

 supers on just before it opens, if I can. 

 There is plenty of basswood within a range 

 of a mile or so of me. Lewis Lamkin. 



Woodbury Co., Iowa, June 3. -^ 



Rather Severe Winter Losses. 



Winter losses of bees in this vicinity were 

 rather severe, some losing nearly all. We 

 wintered flvecolonies on the summer stands, 

 four in box-hives, and one in a dovetailed 

 bive. All came out strong this spring, and 

 built up nicely on box-elder, maple and 

 fruit-bloom. We transferred one colony 

 during fruit-bloom, but will wait until 

 three weeljs after swarming to transfer the 

 remainder. We have now nine nice colo- 

 nies, but they are hardly making a living 

 at present, as clover is a failure in this sec- 

 tion, and. should basswood be also, the sur- 

 plus honey will be rather scarce, I am 

 afraid. 



My wife attends to the bees with what 

 help I can give her at odd times, as I am 

 busy on the farm. She has I.t dovetailed 

 hives painted, and filled with full sheets of 

 foundation, and supers painted and some 

 filled with sections and starters. Better to 

 be ready a little too soon than a little late. 

 We use the Ideal sections with fences. 



We intend having some winter-cases 

 made to order that can be taken apart to 

 pack away in summer. The past spring we 

 put up a building in which to store apiary 

 fixtures, and do the work pertaining there- 

 to. It is 12x'20 feet and &}.< feet high. 



Do any of the readers of the American 

 Bee Journal know by experience whether 

 or not alfalfa would be a success in this 

 (Jefferson) county as bee-pasturage ? If so, 

 what kind of land does it require ? 



We get many valuable hints from the 

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The kingbirds are very plentiful around 

 the apiary and vicinity, and destroy many 

 bees. My father-in-law and myself treat 

 them to powder and shot very frequently, 

 and my wife also brings down a few. 



A. E. Maklow. 



Jefferson Co., N. Y., June 13. 



Iced Water Preferable to lee Water. 



Iced water is preferable to ice water — iced 

 water being cooled by the ice without being 

 brought in direct contact with it. The less 

 ice water one drinks the better. Ice water 

 increases one's thirst — that is, there is a 

 greater tendency to desire drink inasmuch 

 as ice water slakes the thirst for a moment 

 hut does not quench it. — July Ladies' Home 

 Journal. 



Bee-Keeping in Mississippi. 



Not seeing anything in the American Bee 

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 conclude that an occasional item might not 

 be anything out of the way. One would 

 think from not noticing anything from our 

 part of the country that there were no bees 

 here at all, but a greater mistake was never 

 made than to draw that conclusion. A 

 great many farmers own a small number of 

 colonies all over our broad country, and 

 consider they pay them very well. There 

 are not a few apiaries on the small order 

 all about, but some quite extensive in some 

 localities, especially in the Mississippi Delta 

 country. 



Here in north Mississippi our honey-flows 

 begin in April, usually, and last alternately 

 till frost, tho with intervals sometimes of 

 nearly a month. Our finest flow comes 

 usually 'from May 3 to the 8th, on time 

 promptly every year, with the blooming of 

 the holly-trees, which lasts only a very few 

 days, say 3 to 10 days at best, but during 

 which time you never saw the like, I think. 

 Such a roaring and busy state of aft'airs in 

 the bee-yard is not witnest, except in this 

 very particular time. Honey can be ex- 



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