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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Nov. 23, 1899. 



A Feed Cooker for $5.00 



Many farmers and pmilti'vii 



m have iii>t usfd feed cickers In tn-' p.i>t lnM-.ui-f iht-y 

 > tiiL'h. To meet this case we have desi^ne<i the 



RELIABLE FEED COOKER AND WATER HEATER. 



It is an ideal means for cooUiiiff food for stock or poultry and for heating water jj 



for scalding hogs. Wade of best cast iron, with No. "2 cah'anized steel l)niler. 2U tral. 



6170 So.— burns wood onlv. 5U fjah size $12. and 10(1 gal. size $1(1. burn either wonc r coal. x-j.. . -j -^^ 



buy until you get our free circulars. RELIABLE INCB. & BROODER CO. Box 2 QUINCV. ILL-L 



Please mention Bee Journal -when -writing. 



Best.... 

 Basswood 



Extracted Honey... 



I3Sr B.A.I^K.E3XjS. 



WE have some very fine WISCONSIN BASSWOOD EXTRACTED HONEY 

 in barrels, each holdiny 360 pounds of honey, which we offer at Q cent^ a 

 pound, f.o.b. Chicag"o, cash with order. Sample by mail, 10 cents. We can ship 

 promptly. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Mich. St., Ghicaoo, 111. 



OUR MOTTO : WELL MAN UFACTURED S TOCK-QUICK SHIPMENTS. 



seGiioiis, SiiiDDiifGases and 



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



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

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

 thrifty timber is used. 



Write for Illustrated Catalog and Price-Eist FREE. 



Marshfield Manufacturing Company, 



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MARSHFIELD. WISCONSIN. 



Q. B. LEWIS COMPANY, 



WATERTOWN, WIS., 



CAN FURNISH YOU WITH THE VERY FINEST 



Bee= Keepers' Supplies 



Iisr TKCE -W-OR,ILiP. 



Parties wanting goods before new catalog is issued will please write for 

 quotations. We want every BEE-KEEPER on our list. 



If you did not receive our catalog last year send us your name and address 

 and we will mail j'ou our new catalog as soon as it is ready. 



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NEW LONDON, WIS., 



operates two Sawmills that cut, annually, eight million feet of lumber, thus se- 

 curing the best lumber at the lowest 'D_-. If^.-.....— .^^^' Q^^.^^i^r> 

 price for the manufacture of DCe^KeeperS OUpplieS«#, 



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 enuipt 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. 



24 cents Cash ^ t^s is a good time 



^r '*'i.jJi. to send in your Bees- 



paid for Beeswax, ^i-' afcenlTpS"^ 



r'***** *v^« «.^^^4^ TT «^^^. CASH— for best yel- 



low, upon its receipt. Now, if you want the money promptly, send us your bees- 

 wax. Impure wax not taken at any price. Address as follows, very plainly, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 MICHIGAN Street. CHICAGO, ILL. 



tbem to travel as fast as the emigrants 

 wisht to, so they whispered a fond farewell 

 about a half mile from the apiary. They 

 neglected to let me know where they set- 

 tled, hut I understand they staked out a 

 claim near Chicago, in order to be near a 

 central market, thus saving transportation 

 charges. They may be able to compete 

 with those glucose fellows. 



O. B Gkiffin. 

 Aroostook Co., Maine, Nov. 10. 



Season Almost an Utter Failure. 



I have a small apiary consisting of 23 

 colonies which gave me about 27.5 pounds of 

 comb and extracted honey the past season, 

 with no swarms. Special pains were taken 

 in nursing them continually ; I fed them up 

 this fall with 'd7n pounds of granulated 

 sugar, reducing it to a thick syrup, and 

 added about 30 pounds of extracted honey 

 to the whole; adding this to the more or 

 less storage the colonies already bad, they 

 must be in good condition for winter. 



For almost utter failures of honey crops, 

 the seasons of ISPS and IS'J!) surpast any- 

 thing of the kind known in the history of 

 northwestern Ohio. No one thinks of fall- 

 feeding their colonies here. Having failed 

 two seasons in succession, I am still in- 

 tensely interested in bee-culture. We hope 

 for better things next year. 



M. N. Simon. 



Wood Co., Ohio. Nov. 1.5. 



Origin of Honey-Dew. 



In the American Bee Journal of August 

 31 appeared an article on honeydew. by C. 

 C. Parsons, which ought to be publisht in 

 all the bee-papers of the United States. It 

 is the first time that I have noticed or read 

 anything on honey-dew from what I con- 

 sider a right standpoint. 



It is true, as Mr. Parsons says, that the 

 consumption of honey has been lessened by 

 the publication of papers in which honey- 

 dew was called " bug-juice." or the secre- 

 tion of insects. Is it not strange that the 

 human mind will cling so strongly to error, 

 especially in the case of honey-dew, when 

 the truth would be more pleasing and prof- 

 itable ? This is a field in which the "great 

 lights " of the bee-keeping fraternity are 

 invited to enter and investigate. The 

 animal secretion of honey-dew is not the 

 only erroneous idea that has found its way 

 into good company. The sap of all plants 

 contains sugar; starch is also perhaps al- 

 ways present in growing plants, and as 

 starch is convertible into sugar the forma- 

 tion of sugar is probably more rapid at cer- 

 tain times than can be utilized or absorbed 

 into wood fibre, and fiows out thru the 

 pores of the plant in the shape of honey- 

 dew. This, however, is a subject of scien- 

 tific investigation, which has nothing to do 

 with the flow of sugar-water or honey-dew 

 out of the leaves of plants — a fact which is 

 well authenticated, and which almost any 

 one can observe if he wishes to. 



Nemaha Co., Nebr. E. H. Gabcs. 



Honey-Yield in S. E. Minnesota. 



In line with the big honey-yields tabu- 

 lated on page 1393. I give the following; 



In about 20 years' bee-keeping experience 

 in Fillmore Co.. Minn., my average per 

 colony, spring count, has been about 100 

 pounds of extracted honey. My largest 

 yield was in ISSG. with a bunch of 1,5 colo- 

 nies; condition in spring, average; yield 

 per colony. 400 pounds of extracted honey. 

 The yield of honey was not phenomenal at 

 any time, but continuous during the entire 

 summer. The first extracting was towards 

 the latter part of May; last extracting 

 Aug. 'I'.K after which they filled up for win- 

 ter. Inereast the 1.5 to -iO colonies. The 

 yield of the same bees for the next year 

 was 200 pounds per colony for the lot. 



My next best yield was a lot of 16 colo- 

 nies, in average coudition. in the spring of 

 1890, placed on a farm about nine miles 

 from the place of the first and best yield. 

 The yield per colony for the summer of 



