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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Nov. 23, 1899 





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BEST WHITE 



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In 6o=pound Tin Cans. 



wrE have been able to secure a quantity of WHITE ALFALFA EXTRACTED HONEY which we offer 

 ''' for the present at these prices, on board cars here in Chicago : Sample by mail. 10 cents ; 2 60-pound 

 cans, in a box, 9^4 cents a pound ; 4 or more cans, 9 cents a pound. Cash with order in all cases. 



Owing to our limited supply of this fine honey, those desiring it should order promptly. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



ii8 Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



PATENT WIRED COMB FOUNDATION 



Has no Sap i" Brood-Frames. 



Thin Flat-Bottom Foundation 



Has no Fishbone in the Surplus 



Honey. 

 Being the cleanest is usually workt 

 the quickest of any foundation made. 



J. A. VAN DEUSEN, 



Sole Manufacturer, 

 Sprout Brook, Montgomery Co., N.Y. 



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The Novelty Pocket-Knif e 



;A heaviiT and stronger knile than the one we offered heretofore. 



HOWARD M. MELBEE, 



HONEYVILLE, O. 



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Your Name on the Knife.— When ordering, be sure to say just what name and address you 

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The Novelty Knife is indeed a novelty. The novelty lies in the handle. It is made beautifully 

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The Material entering- into this celebrated knife is of the very best quality; the blades are 

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quilt— using some smolse: then I lay a wet 

 or damp sheet over the super to be re- 

 moved ; next I grasp the sheet near the cen- 

 ter on one side of the hive lift it up slightly, 

 poke the nozzle of the smoker under it and 

 give smoke plentifully, at the same time 

 flapping the sheet. This procedure forces 

 the smoke into all the spaces between the 

 sections and drives the bees down quicker 

 than any other method I have ever tried. 

 I learned this of Mr. Coggshall of lightning 

 fame. As soon as I think the bees are 

 nearly all out. I snati h the super off and 

 give it two or three vigorous shakes which 

 will dislodge the few bees that may have 

 remained. It is a simple method and does 

 not take nearly as long as it takes to tell. 

 The escape-board is now brought into use. 

 The bee-freed supers are stackt up in piles 

 with one escape under it and one on top of 

 each. At dusk the supers are wheeled to 

 the honey-house. The Porter escape is not 

 well suited for use on a stack ; any cone es- 

 cape, letting in direct light, works very 

 much better." 



Xlic l.,on;; -Ideal Hive has some at- 

 tention in Australian Bee-Bulletin. "Loyal- 

 stone" says: 



" Just a word regarding this my favorite 

 hive. I don't ask bee-keepers to adopt it; I 

 gave my experience with it and will have 

 no other hive. 1 find that 2U frames are 

 quite sufficient for a bee-keeper who knows 

 his business, and only suggested putting 

 another box on top. for bee-keepers who 

 cannot devote proper time in the honey 

 season to attend to their bees. It requires 

 a good deal of experience to work this hive 

 properly," 



On the other band, says " Australian Yan- 

 kee:" '■ Let me give a little experience that 

 I had with them last season: The bees 

 built up splendidly in them, the queens oc- 

 cupying 2U frames, and the hives packt with 

 bees (a novice with them would have been 

 jubilant, but I bad seen the same thing be- 

 fore), but not a move towards storing sur- 

 plus honey, only a little along the top-bars 

 of the frames. I extracted this out; the 

 bees slowly tilled them to about the same 

 amount. At the same time the bees in 8- 

 frame hives were filling their extracting- 

 supers about every 10 days, thus more than 

 doubling the ones in the long ideals. Well, 

 1 stood It as long as I could, and then I put 

 the bees that were in the long-ideals into S- 

 frame hives, using a queen excluder, when, 

 ' presto.' they went to work storing surplus 

 as quii'kly as the others. This was not one 

 hive only, but all the long-ideals I have. 

 I have now cut them all down to 8 frames." 



The conclusions of the editor are : "The 

 long-ideal bive is a non-swarming hive, es- 



