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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Nov. 30, 1899. 



BEST WHITE 





ALFALFA HONEY 



In 6o=pound Tin Cans. 



WE 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'/i cents a pound ; 4 or more cans, 9 cents a pound. Cash with order iu all cases. 



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



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



iiS Michigan Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



greasy looking sections, and thinks there 

 are other points that might well be lookt 

 after. Dr. Whiting found a colony that built 

 but little brace-comb. Requeening his api- 

 ary from the queen of this colony, he was 

 practically rid of the brace-comb nuisance. 

 Mr. H. thinks this the right kind of work for 

 those with few colonies: those with large 

 numbers having more profitable work to 

 do. 



I'acking' for 4>iil-l>ooi* Winter- 

 ioST- — A good many questions are askt by 

 our subscribers as to what kind of packing 

 is best for out-door wintering. We for- 

 merly thought there was nothing equal to 

 good dry wheat chaff. While this is tierbaps 

 the best.it is not always available. We have 

 used with equally good results common 

 shavings, such as one can get at the planing 

 mill. Dry forest leaves, if enough of them 

 are used, are also. good. Sawdust and clo- 

 ver chaff make a packing material a little 

 heavy, and is liable to become pretty damp 

 in the spring, and too moist for the cluster. 

 The best packing material is that which is 

 loose enough so the air can pass thru it, 

 carrying with it the moisture.— Gleanings. 



IIoney-I*a<'l<ase!< are again discust 

 in Gleanmgs. "Ttie American Tramp" 

 pleads the cause of kegs. The boney-gates 

 that may be had with tin cans he considers 

 practically useless, for the honey, if of 

 proper thickness, will be too slow in run- 

 ning out. An objection to the tin can is 

 that unless thoroly cleaned and dried as 

 soon as empty, the little honey left in it 

 will turn black and leave a peculiar scent 

 that cannot be removed. What he thinks 

 would make the best package is a wood- 

 fiber or paper package, with no staves or 

 hoops, but all in one piece. The editor re- 

 plies that while kegs may be more conveni- 

 ent for the seller, tin cans are better tor the 

 buyer. He approves of the wood-fiber or 

 paper package if it could be found at a suf- 

 ficiently low price. 



Doulitllc 4'ell-ltiiil<liiig'. — A pic- 

 ture appears in Gleanings showing queen- 

 cells from which the queens had emerged. 

 They were the product of W. H. Pridgen. 

 In one case the whole IS cells were com- 

 pleted by black bees over a young queen; 

 in the other case li) of the 18 were com- 

 pleted over an old three-banded queen 

 mated with a golden drone. June 21 be 

 gave to bees without unsealed brood a 

 comb of eggs with not more than half a 

 dozen larvse with food around them to be 

 seen. The next day many larva" were 

 abundantly supplied with milk. At 10 a.m. 



SUFFERERS 



FROM 



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troubles can obtaiu valuable advice, FREE, by 

 addressing- DR. PEIRO. 



34 Central Music Hall. CHICAGO. 



'K;rWrite at once, stating ag-e, sex, occupation, 

 how troubled, post-office address, and enclose 

 return stamp for immediate reply. 



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then try ours. Contfaction and expaneioa are 



scientifically provided for in I'siue Fences. 



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Queen-Clipping 

 Device Free.... 



The MoNETTE Queen-Clippinff 

 Device is a fine thing for use in 

 catching and clipping Queens' 

 wings. We mail it for 25 cents; 

 or will send it FREE as a pre- 

 mium for sending us ONE NEW 

 subscriber to the Bee Journal for 

 a year at $1.00; or for $1.10 we will 

 mail the Bee Journal one year 

 and the Clipping Device. Address, 



QEORQE W. YORK & COMPANY, 



118 Michigan St., Chicago, IlL 



that day, from combs over an excluder 

 having brood in all stages, he shook the 

 bees into a hive with combs of pollen and 

 unsealed honey, confining them with a 

 screen. About 3 p.m. the prepared cups 

 were given, and the next morning they 

 were put in upper stories over laying 

 queens (over excluders), and the queenless 

 bees allowed to return to their home. He 

 cannot get fine cells with larva; much over 

 one day old. His best queens emerge in 

 11'. 2 to 12 days. For the first day, queen- 

 less bees will do as much at feeding and 

 cell-building as will be done over an exclu- 

 der in two days, but in the home stretch 

 the bees over the excluder are ahead. 



Foul Iti-oo«I Cui-etl tVitlioiit. 

 I>eslr«j'ins' C'oii>l>!«. — In Bee-Ubat, 

 Editor Simmius reports the case of a col- 

 ony with a native queen which was badly 

 diseased with foul brood, and says: 



"At the tuiddle of a warm day the hive 

 was lightly smoked and the queen removed, 

 so that she might be left in a clean hive on 

 the old stand, with foundation in the 

 frames, to collect the flying bees. They 

 were given one frame of healthy capt 

 brood as well, while the original hive of 

 combs was removed to some distance. The 

 young bees in the latter were without a 

 fertile queen for some three weeks, iiy 

 which time they had a Carniolan laying, 

 from a queen-cell given them. In the in- 

 terval, honey coming in rapidly, the whole 

 of the diseased matter was cleaned out by 

 the young bees ; and after the young queen 

 started laying everything continued so sat- 

 isfactory and perfectly clean that another 

 division of the colony was made in July. 

 The first swarm continued to build up 

 nicely, and no sign of disease was at any 

 time evident. Turning a diseased colony 

 into three strong and healthy colonies was 

 certainly better than destruction. 



•* This is only one example of others that 

 were treated in precisely the same way, 

 making healthy increase instead of destroy- 

 ing the original; but it must be borne in 

 mind that no bees were shaken from the 

 combs, the whole hive was removed with 

 as little disturbance as possible, the opera- 

 tions were carried out with the colonies be- 

 fore they were allowed to become seriou.sly 

 depopulated ; the time was favorable for 

 swarming and rapid honey-gathering; last- 

 ly, but almost more important than all, 

 there remains the fact that the diseased 

 combs were covered with none but young 

 bees, and these, being queenless for a 

 period, cleaned out every vestige of the 

 disease before the young queen again made 

 up a brood-nest. 



" Make a note of this last fact in big cap- 



