AufT. 10, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



507 



Root's Column 



GLEANINGS 

 AT REDUCED 



We do not need to tell you about our 

 journal, for it will speak for itself ; but 

 as an extra inducement \ve make the 

 following- low offers : 



Offer No. A. 



For 25 cents we will send Glbanings 

 IN Bke-Culturk from the time your 

 subscription is received until January-, 

 1900. If you send in your order promptly 

 you will g-et 6 months for only 2.=; cents. 



Offer No. B. 



For $1.00 we will send an untested 

 Italian Queen worth 75 cts. and Glean- 

 ings IN Bkk-Cultuke one year. 



Offer No. C. 



For $1.00 we will send Gi.e.-^nings in 

 BbK-CulTure the rest of this year and 

 all of next year, that is, from the time 

 your subscription is received until Jan- 

 uary, 1901. The sooner you take ad- 

 vantage of this offer, the more numbers 

 you will receive. 



Offer No. D. 



For 50 cents we will send Gleanings 

 in BeE-Cui.TURE 6 months beginning 

 July 1 and Vol. I of Gleanings. This 

 is for the year 1873. There are many 

 interesting things. There are 12 arti- 

 cles on " Starting an Apiary," and 

 while some of these may not be practi- 

 cal now, there is much valuable in- 

 formation and it gives a good idea of 

 bee-keeping at that time. Our supply 

 is limited and of course we cannot con- 

 tinue this offer long. 



Old as well as new subscribers may 

 take advantage of these offers, but all 

 arrearages on back subscriptions must 

 first be paid at $1.00 per year. 



ADDRESS 



THE A. L ROOT CO. 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



Some time ago meanings in Bee-Culture 

 publisbt what it was pleased to call its 

 "Roll of Honor." being subscribers who 

 bad taken that paper ever since its begin- 

 ning, or 2n years. We also made a call for 

 those who had taken the American Bee 

 Journal 25 or more years, and among those 

 who responded are the following: 



Friend YoKK —We have read your call 

 for readers of American Bee Journal for 

 over 2.5 years, and we respond at once. We 

 have taken the American Bee Journal from 

 the beginning, and my father began con- 

 tributing to its pages in November, ISHT. or 

 over :il years ago. We have also advertised 

 in its pages for about 30 years. 



Hancock Co., 111. C. P. Daiiant, 



Friend York —I have been a reader of 

 the American Bee Journal for 30 years. 

 Lake Co., 111. F. Grabbe. 



Editor York— I have taken every num- 

 ber of the old "American Bee Journal" 

 from its first editor up to its present one. 

 How many years it would make in all this 

 time I cannot tell. 



The Bee Journal is my old, old friend, and 

 as long as the beehive can be seen in my 

 yard the old Bee Journal can be seen in my 

 house. 



Our family came to this territory of Wis- 

 consin in 1S40. Our home was near the 

 shore of that beauty of all lakes in the 

 northwest, "(ireeu Lake." We were 30 

 miles from a white man for a number of 

 years. The Wiunebago Indians told us the 

 first swarm of bees was seen flying over to 

 the west only a year or two before we came ; 

 then they knew the white man was coming 

 close by. 



My first bees came from the bee-tree; 

 then came in use the log hive ; then the old 

 box, and next the drawer in the back of the 

 new box-hive. I have lived thru all of these 

 changes with my old friend, the honey-bee, 

 to the present time. ZS^ R- Dart. 



Fond du Lac Co., Wis. 



Editor York:— In answer to your call 

 for old subscribers to the Bee Journal, I 

 will say that I have paid for and received 

 all the numbers publisht since December, 

 1863, and had gotten quite a start on the 

 road as a bee-keeper before I ever saw a 

 bee paper, as I had at that time over 100 

 colonies all in box-hives. 



I began bee-keeping in 18.52 with tour col- 

 onies, and increast that number so that at 

 the close of the season of 1857, I had 120 col- 

 onies, with two-thirds of them in a starving 

 condition, on account of a hard frost on the 

 morning of July 4 of that year. I did not 

 know they could lie fed, and all were lost 

 that did not have enough honey to live on. 

 but that was the last time that I let a col- 

 ony starve, if I knew they needed help. 



In 1859 I had gotten well started again, 

 when foul brood made its appearance, and 

 for two years it cost me quite a number of 

 colonies, and had it not been for "Mysteries 

 of Bee-Keeping Explained," by the noble 

 and gifted Quinby, I have no doubt that I 

 would have quit the business; but. as it 

 happened, Quinby's book fell into my hands 

 just in time to save all not too badly ofT, as 

 he gave the cure for it that has never been 

 improved on : and in all these years since I 

 have had but one case, and for over 20 years 

 I have not seen a case, and no foul brood is 

 known in all this locality where thousands 

 of colonies are kept. 



For 4t; yaars I have spent my time with 

 the honey-bee, but now the rheumatism 

 claims all my time, and in the spring of 



SWEET CLOVER 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



We have made arrangements so that we can 

 furnish Seed of several of the Clovers by freight 

 or express, at the foUowiuf^ prices, cash with 

 the order: 



Stfe lOtb 251b soft 



Sweet Clever (melilot) 60c $1.00 $2.25 $4,00 



AlsikeClover 70c 1.25 3.00 5.75 



White Clover 80c 1.40 3.00 5.00 



Alfalfa Clover 60c 1.20 2.7S 5.00 



Crimson Clover S5c .90 2.00 3,50 



Prices subject to market changes. 



Add 25 cents to your order, for cartage, if 

 wanted by freight. 



Your orders are solicited. 



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118 Michigan Street, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



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Are not Italians; 

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 CARNIOLANS— 

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mil BEES 



^\% di Jiiiiif^, iiuu-Niiiig^mg^ strain or oees; 

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 ;ns, each, $1.00; o Queens, f5.50; 12 Oueens, 



non-s\vai iniufj 



great 1 



Queens, .c.^.., *....^., v, v-H^^.i.,, . . _ 



$9.00. Everything- guaranteed. IJook gi"i'ing 37 



years' experience in ijueen-rearing mailed free. 



HENRY ALLEY, 



24Atf Wknham, Esskx Co.. Mass. 



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llEE-HivES, Sections. Shipping- 

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 Send for Catalog. Minnesota Bee- 

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Italian Queens 



Reared from the best 3-band honey-gatherers 

 by Doolittle's method. Prices — 45 cents each; 

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ALBINO QUEENS l\ 



[1 you want the most 

 prolific Queens — If you 

 want the gelitlest Bees— If you want the best 

 honey-gatherers you ever saw — try my Albinos. 

 Warranted Queens. $1.00; Untested, 75 cents. 

 9A26t J. D. GIVENS, LlSBON.TEX. 



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Comb Foundation 



Wholesale and Retail. 



W^opking Wax 



I^TO FOUNDATION FOR CASH A SPECIALTY. 



DO NOT FAIL 



Before placing your order, to send me a list o'i 

 what you need in 



Foundation, Sections, 



And other Supplies, and get my prices. You 

 will get the best goods and save money. Illus- 

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