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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 24, 



Im's loiir Chance to Get Some ot the 



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-Given to Our Present Subscribers- 



For Getting New Subscribers 



TO THE "AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL." 



Just Read This Advt, 



'Twill Help You and Us. 



We have published another New Edition of our paper-bound Premium Book- 



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(By Newman), containing 160 pages, and over ISO illustrations. We expect to 

 give away the whole edition, and want you to help us scatter them, by getting New 

 Subscribers to the " Bee Journal." We will give a copy of the book free to the 

 New Subscriber who sends us $1.00 for the " Bee Journal " from Jan. 1, 1895, to 

 Jan. 1, 1896. 



Now if you will get the one new name and his or her $1.00, and send it to us 

 we will also mail you your choice of one of the following list for your Premium : 



Bees and Honey (paper cover)— by Newman. 

 Poultry for Market— by Fannie Field. 

 Turkeys for Market— " "' 



Capons and Caponizlng— " " 



Foul Brood Treatment— by Cheshire. 

 12 copies Honey as food and Medicine. 

 Amateur Bee-Keeper— by House. 

 Convention Hand-Book. 



If you will send us Two New Subscribers at the rate given above ($1.00 

 each), we will send you your choice of one of the following list, as your premium 

 and also mail to each of the two new names a copy of the 160-page bee-book : 



Doollttle's -Seientlflc Queen- Rearing " (paper) Dzlerzon's" Rational Bee-Keeping '• (paper) 



Dr. Miller's - Vear Among the Bees." Alley's •; 30 Years Among the Bees. 



Hutchinson's " Advanced Bee-Culture." "People s Atlas ot the World. 



Pierce's ■• Wintering Problem." Ropp's "Commercial Calculator No- 2^ , 



Binder for " Bee .Tournal." 30 copies - Honey as Food and Medicine. 



Now start out at once and see what you can do. You should be able to get 

 many new subscribers on the above ofifer, without very much trouble. 

 Sample Copies of the " Bee Journal " mailed free. 



Green's How to Propagate and Grow Fruit 

 How We Made the Old Farm Pay. 

 *' Garden and Orchard- 

 '• Six books on Fruit Culture. 



Foul Brood— by Ur. Howard. 



Bee-Keeplng for Proflt— by Tinker. 



Ropp's Commercial Calculator No. 1, 



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Qej;)eral Itet^s. 



"Nothing" Makes a Difference. 



On page 807 (1.S94) I am made to tell 

 a very good size story ; that ij, that some 

 Rhode Island bee-keepers obtained 800 

 pounds of honey from 4 colonies. This is 

 more than the bee-pasturage ot Rhode 

 Island will produce, and would rank 

 equally with some of those large yields in 

 the South that we read about; besides it is 

 a greater story than any one would credit 

 as the truth. It should read: "Keep from 

 2 to 40 colonies;" of course the reader will 

 notice that nothing (0) has been left out, 

 and in this case nothing makes a difference, 

 for it brings the average down considerably 

 per colony. W. A. Greene, who has an 



apiary ot about 2.5 colonies near the center 

 of the city of Providence, obtained over 700 

 pounds ; while Samuel Lewis, from 43 colo- 

 nies, in the suburbs, had over 800 pounds. 

 Providence, R. I. W. G. Gautside. 



When to Move to the South. 



On page 71.5 (1S94) Mr. Eastman asks 

 when is the best time to go to Texas from 

 the Northern climate (Illinois). In reply 

 Mrs. Atchley says: " I am at a loss to tell 

 you when is the best time to come, but if I 

 were coming I would start whenever I got 

 ready — it will not make any difference that 

 I know ot." 



But I would say it makes a big difference 

 it a man from this Northern State moves to 

 Texas in June or July. It would be death 

 or sickness as a result ot the change in the 

 climate. I speak from experience. In V&M 



my regiment (6th Minn. Vol. Inf.) was here 

 in Minnesota, when we received orders to 

 go South, and on June 3 we left Fort Snell- 

 ing, Minn., with 1,000 men. all strong and 

 healthy, and arrived at Helena, Ark., on 

 June 2B. After two months they said only 

 SO had not been on the sick list ; and in 

 November only 300 men were left for guard 

 duty, and the balance of 700 were either 

 dead or in the hospital boat at Jefferson 

 barracks, Missouri. or;had;returned to Wis- 

 consin. A good many of the soldiers died 

 before they reached so far north, that they 

 could breathe the fresh and healthy air. 



The 300 men left were sent to St. Louis on 

 guard duty, and in January, 1865, we were 

 sent to New Orleans and across the Gulf of 

 Mexico to Mobile and to Montgomery, Ala., 

 the first of April. Then we were all healthy. 

 The last part of July we left Montgomery 

 for home, and only a few of the boys were 

 sick with the climate fever. More than 

 halt of the soldiers that died in the South 

 died with the climate fever. From this 

 you will see that if a man goes from this 

 Northern country to the Gulf of Mexico, he 

 must go in January or February, and then 

 when the sun comes up higher each day, 

 he would be used to the climate. If people 

 from the North go down to the Gulf in 

 June or July— if they don't die they have 

 to stand the climate fever. It a man were 

 to leave Texas in January or February, and 

 come up here, do you think he could stand 

 30 or 40 degrees below zero ? I say no. 



I am the only bee-keeper in Swift county, 

 Minn. ; out on the prairie, six miles from 

 any woods, except 10 acres of young timber 

 on my land, consisting of oak. poplar, ash, 

 box-elder and bassvvood. Fifteen years 

 ago the timber was all cut down so it is all 

 young timber. The basswood blooms very 

 freely every year. There is no bee-keeper 

 west of me, and none nearer than about 25 

 miles east of me, in Kandiyohi county. The 

 clover doesn't grow here, except the mam- 

 moth red clover and sweet clover. The 

 only honey-flow I have is in the fall, from 

 golden-rod and asters. The best honey-flow 

 used to be cut off by frost in October. 



I had 10 colonies, spring count, and in- 

 creased to IS, I have 7 hives full ot comb 

 and honey that I left out-doors, and will 

 keep them so until spring, and see what I 

 can do with them then. A. P. Carlson. 



Carlson, Minn., Dec. 17. 



Very Cold 'Weather. 



We have had very cold weather here since 

 Christmas. There is six inches of snow on 

 the ground. This keeps the bees close at 

 home. Joseph E. Shaver. 



Friedens, Va., Jan. 3. 



Gets a Iiittle Surplus. 



There is nothing much for the bees here, 

 although I manage to get a little surplus. 

 Our main trees here for pollen are elm, 

 Cottonwood, willow, pepperwood and fruit 

 trees. Outside of this we have no special 

 trees. The basswood. which I read so much 

 about, I would like very much to get. 



I think the American Bee Journal is one 

 of the greatest papers I ever read. I would 

 rather miss my dinner than a single copy 

 of it. J- M. Jeffcoat. 



Pike, Tex., Jan. 3. 



The Eastern Iowa Convention. 



The 6th annual convention of the Eastern 

 Iowa Bee-Keepers Association met at Ana- 

 mosa, Iowa, Dec. '36 and 37, 1S94. Secretary 

 Frank Coverdale being absent, H. F. 

 Keeler was elected Secretary pro Urn. 



Membership was solicited without fee, 

 and 24 persons became members by sub- 

 scribing to the constitution and by-laws. 



A number of interesting questions were 

 discussed. 



Officers were elected as follows : Presi- 

 dent— F. M. Merritt, of Jackson Co. Vice- 

 Presidents— T. O. Hines, of Jones Co. ; Chas. 

 Hammons, of Clinton Co. ; D. C. Wilson, of 

 Linn Co. ; J. C. Merritt, of Jackson Co. ; 

 A. Y. Hanna, of Dubuque Co. Secretary — 



