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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 28, 1899. 



Yellow Sweet Clover Seed ! 



We have it at Last ! 



We have finally succeeded in getting a SMALL quantity of the seed of the YELLOW variety of sweet 

 clover. This kind blooms from two to four weeks earlier than the common or white variety of sweet clover. 

 It also grows much shorter, only about two feet in hight. It is as much visited by the bees as the white, 

 and usually comes into bloom ahead of white clover and basswood. We offer the seed as a premium — 



A Quarter Poiiiid for Sending One New Subscription. 



So long as it lasts, we will mail a quarter pound of the seed to a regular paid-up subscriber who sends 

 us ONE NEW subscriber for the American Bee Journal for 1900, with SI. 00. We will also " throw in '" the 

 balance of 1899 to such new subscriber. Surely, this is a great offer. We have been trying for years to 

 secure this seed, and finallj' succeeded in getting it. It is new seed, gathered this season by an old personal 

 friend of ours, so we know it is all right. But we have only a small supply. When nearly out we will 



mention it. 



GEORGE W. YORK «fe CO., 



1 18 Michigan street, CHICAaO, ILL. 



Notice! Friends! 



This is your last chance for this 

 season to g'el 



^ GOLDEN ^ 

 ITALIAN : QUEENS 



Of'H. G. Quirin 



as it is getting- late in the season, and soon will 

 be time to unite nuclei, so order QUICK. All 

 Queens warranted purely mated, and b.v return 

 mail, safe delivery and satisfaction gruaranteed. 

 Price of Queens, 50 cents; six for 52.75; $5.00 per 

 dozen. Selected Queens. 75 cents each; six for 

 $4.00. Selected tested, $1.50 each. My Queens 

 are prolific and their bees excellent workers. 



Address all orders to 



H. G. QUIRIN, 



Parkertown, Erie Co., Ohio. 



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in a field snironnden \>v (>;ir Kahbit l-'fiiL'e. They 



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on I concluded I could not get along with- 

 out some bees, and fed up what I had left, 

 and have not lost a colony since. I had 

 but two swarms out of 40 colonies, but 

 most of them are now in good condition, 

 and by dividing up the honey I think they 

 will have stores enough for winter. Since 

 the early forage dried up tbey have been 

 getting their daily "bread and honey" 

 from the eucalyptus (red gum), and some 

 colonies are still storing a little surplus 

 from that source. P. C. Wiggins. 



San Diego Co., Calif., Sept. U. 



Bees Did Nothing. 



Bees did not do anything this season. It 

 rained almost all of last month. The fire- 

 weed was in bloom then, and the bees did 

 not have a chance to gather much of it. 

 M, Galloway, 



Skagit Co., Wash. Sept. 13. 



"Just Simply Stop Breathing." 



On page 294 Is a quotation with the above 

 title, given by A. P. Raymond. Some of 

 the readers will perhaps be surprised to 

 know that the very same thing, word for 

 word, was publi^ht in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture in the number for August 15, 1888. 

 To the quotation Prof. Cook added this; 



FiiiEND Root:— I heard years ago of the 

 absurdity that holding one's breath would 

 exempt him from stings. I thought at once 

 it was nonsense, but, nevertheless, I put it 

 to the test. It was one of the most con- 

 clusive experiments I ever tried. I think 

 the bee appreciated the joke, for I got one 

 of the most painful stings I ever bad. — A, 

 J. Cook. Adrian Getaz. 



Knox Co. Tenn, 



Bees and Honey in Utah. 



As far as Utah is concerned, this is cer- 

 tainly an off year, not only as regards the 

 bee industry but in many other respects. 

 In Salt Lake and several other counties, 

 while the winter loss was not very severe 

 (possibly about 10 percent), the month of 

 May was a terror — it was wet and cold 

 nearly the entire month. Considerable 

 fruit was destroyed, and while possibly not 

 over 2.5 percent of the number of colonies 

 died, if we take into consideration the weak 

 condition of those that were left, a few of 

 which dwindled and died off in June and 



TWO Mm 



One=Hundred=Dollar Breeding=Queens. all as 



^ood as I sent the A. I. Rout Co., ready Sei^t. 20. 

 One Queen, $1-00; or tliree Queens, $2.75. 



HENRY ALLEY, 



37A3t Wexiia.m, Essex Co., Mass. 



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