94 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Tlie Home Remedy Case 



Feb. 7, 



ThiscboioeBelectioa consists of 15 Reme- 

 dies, especially chosen wiih a view to tlie 

 most probalile rfqi/iremi-ms of the fami y; 

 put up In a niceLeatheieite Case with a Book- 

 let ot Directions so clear v hat no one can tro 

 wrong-. 



The supply of Medicines i<: quite enough for 

 months, perhaps years. anH will save you 

 many times what It cost, liesides much trou- 

 ble and an.xiety during sickness in the family, 

 ihese ar'i no ) atent medicines! 



When any of the Remedies are used up, wo 

 will promptly mall a duplicate bottle of the 

 same Remedy on receiptor 25 cents for each 

 bottle. 



If you valu" life and health, this Case i.s 

 wortli Its weight in gold to any family ! 

 Price, prepaid. $3.00. 



4 Liberal Oflfer.- We otfer the "Home 

 Remedy Case" aurt the American Bee Jour- 

 nal for one year— both for only $3. 00— making 

 the Bhs Journal free. 



t-oiid pos-tal card for free Circular. Address, 

 G W. YOKK & CO., 56 5th Ave., Chicago, III. 



— Beeswax is Going Up— 



With prospects of a famine. You'd better 



BUY YOUR COMB FOUNDATION 



N01V, before it follows suit, and melt up 

 your Old Combs for April delivery. 



Samples of the Best Foundalloii at the 

 Iiowest Prices are to be obtained free, of 



W.J. Finch, Jr., Springfield, 111 



Mention the A.merlcan Bee Journal. 



Wanted 



— IVICE COMB HONEY— 



in lib. Sections. 

 WITTEinaTEB & CO. 



110-117 West Main St.. DANVILLE, ILL. 



Mention the American Bee Journal. 



ORDER SPRING QUEENS. 



I will send a Guaranteed .5-Banded Yellow 

 Queen, bred from a Breeder selected from 

 1000 Queens (some producing over 400 lbs. of 

 honey to the colony); or a 3-Banded llalian 

 Leather-Colored Queen direct from a Breeder 

 imported from Italy. Oct. '94— at 75c., and 

 a special low price for a quantity. 



My secret is to sell an extra-large amount, 

 which enables me to sell at low prices. Will 

 run this spr ug 3.50 Nuclei— have 1 home and 

 4 out apiaries. Booklus Orders Notr- 

 will begin shipping March Ist. No Queens su- 

 perior to my Strain. 



t^" Send for Descriptive Catalogue and 

 Testimonials, to 



Wm. a. Selser, WyNCOTE. Pa. 



Mention tlie American liee Joitmai- 



The liee-Keepers' Guide : 



— Olt — 



Manual of the Apiary. 



By Prof A. J. Cook— for over 20 years a pro- 

 fes.sor in the Michigan Agricultural College. 

 This book in not only instructive and helpfu' 

 as a oniDE in bee-keeping, but is also interest 

 log and thoroughly practical and scientific. It 

 contains a full description of the Anatomy 

 and Physiology of Bees. 400 pages, bound In 

 cloth. 



Price, postpaid. $1.25; or clubbed with the 

 Bee Journal for one year-boih for only $1.73: 

 or given free as a premium for sending us n 

 New Subscribers to the Bee Journal at$l eacb 



G W. YORK Sc CO., 56 5th Ave , Chicago, 111 



There, There ! 



Now, boys, stop that quarreling at once. 

 The idea, that the names of a few weeds 

 should make either of you so spunky! 

 When you can't settle things, call on your 

 old dad to decide matters. 



You are perfectly correct in your state- 

 ment, Charles, that Eupatorium perforliatnm 

 is boneset ; while you, Emerson, are equally 

 justified in the matter of hoarhound ; Mar- 

 rubium imlrjare is right. 



But I do hope I won't again have to re- 

 mind either of you that another display of 

 your young tempers will be the occasion 

 for inviting you both out into the wood- 

 shed, to beat a tattoo with the well-sea- 

 soned shingle ! M. Dea 



Nice 'Winter for Bees, Etc. 



We have had a very nice winter so far. 

 The weather was so warm that some of my 

 bees were out flying around to-day. 



I am very much pleased with Editor 

 York's taste, and style of the " new suit of 

 clothes " he donned the Bee Journal with, 

 and I hope that it will continue to be a 

 weekly visitor to my house as long as I or 

 it lives, because I intend to keep bees all 

 the rest of my life, unless, as the Irishman 

 would say, " They sting me to death." 



J. C. Knoll. 



Ulenwood Park, Neb., Jan. 6. 



Commendable Stick-to-it-iveness. 



We have had two very poor years for 

 honey in this part of the country. One 

 year ago last summer I had one swarm 

 from 7 colonies, spring count, and about .50 

 pounds of comb honey. Last summer I did 

 not have a single swarm, and obtained less 

 than 50 pounds of comb honey. Most of 

 ray neighbor bee-keepers are very much 

 discouraged. I hope for a better season 

 the coming summer. I have not sold honey 

 enough in the last two years to pay for the 

 American Bee Journal, but I hardly know 

 how to get along without it. 



^ John Kerr. 



Cedar Falls, Iowa, Jan. 9. 



Preventing Brace and Burr Combs. 



The trouble of brace and burr combs be- 

 tween top-bars and supers can be effectually 

 and easily prevented thus: 



Take 3 or 4 strips of tin about 3 inches 

 and width of the hive, and lay them 1 to !>.,' 

 inches apart across the frames, and the 

 thing IS done. This will reduce the linear 

 space between any two frames by about 2,; . 

 The remaining },.,, divided into 3, 4 or 5 equi- 

 distant openings of 1 inch, more or less, is 

 abundant. Success by this method has 

 fully convinced me that those 10 or more 

 long passageways are the real cause of the 

 trouble. Jay Hawk. 



Holton, Kans. 



Another 'Wisconsin Boy Bee-Keeper. 



I am so glad to see in the Bee Journal 

 that the editor does not believe in the old 

 saying, " Boys should be seen and not 

 heard." and therefore I venture to give my 

 experience in the bee-business. 



I commenced two years ago with one col- 

 ony, which gave me 100 pounds of fine 

 honey. I now have 3 colonies in the cellar 

 in good condition. I sold 3 swarms last 

 summer, also some honey, besides I have a 

 milk-can full, of just as nice white granu- 

 lated honey as you can wish for. I whit- 

 tled a little paddle which I lay on the top of 

 It, and whenever I feel like taking "a 

 chew," lam at liberty to do .so. It is bee- 

 keeping for pleasure at present. 



I should think if the boys and girls only 

 knew how sweet and nice honey-candy is, 

 they would keep bees. 



Pa has taken the American Bee Journal 



for years. I like to read it, and expect 

 pleasure will turn into business some day. 



Pa likes the bee-business very much. By 

 helping him, and reading the Bee Journal, 

 I can learn how to take care of them my- 

 self. 1 hope the Wisconsin boys wUl try 

 the paddle, and see how nice it works. 



Long live the editor that gives the boys 

 and girls a chance '. Ben F. Smith 



Plum City, Wis. 



Lots of Bain in the Mountains. 



We had lots of rain in the mountains 

 here, and expect a good honey-flow this 

 year. Most of the bees died from starva- 

 tion- C. SCHLIESMATBR. 



Neenach, Calif,, Jan. 4. 



Splendid for a Poor Tear. 



How is this for a poor year? We htid 70 

 colonies, spring count, in 1894, and increas- 

 ed to 106. We run 76 colonies for extracted 

 honey, and took 9.880 pounds from them. 

 From the other 30 colonies we took 1,440 

 pounds of comb honey. 



Fresno, Calif. Jackson & Raiks. 



Bothered -with 'Warping Covers. 



As I have heard so much said about flat 

 covers warping in the hot sun, and I have 

 been bothered so for several years, last 

 year I went to the blacksmith shop and got 

 some old wagon tire, which I cut into 



lengths 14 inches long, bent this shape, .. 



I punched holes in them, 4 in number, and 

 dressed the edges down to }.< inch, so as to 

 turn the water off. I put one on each end, 

 with four screws in each. None have 

 warped any yet. L. B. Whitney. 



Covington, Pa. 



Wax Spots — Wax Evaporating. 



If not too late, I will give my way to re- 

 move wax from clothing. 



Hold the garment with the wax spots on, 

 near a steam Jet— the spout of a teakettle 

 will do— and the "spots " will disappear as 

 if by magic. 



Has it ever occurred to any of the readers 

 of the American Bee Journal, that when 

 you render wax in an open vessel a large 

 per cent, evaporates— a very large per cfntj 



Tacoma, Wash. Chas. Swindells. 



Report for 1894— Honey-Thieves. 



From 75 colonies, spring count, in 1894, I 

 got 4,000 pounds of nice extracted honey. 

 At the end of the season I had 107 colonies 

 in good condition, and all were wintering 

 nicely until Jan. 5, when thieves entered 

 my apiary and ransacked 8 colonies, and 

 took out 39 combs of honey. The heaviest 

 combs were taken, bees shaken off, and the 

 hives covered again. The thieves under- 

 stood their business well. I patched up 3 

 colonies, but 5 are gone entirely. No clew 

 to the thieves as yet. B. W. Hayck. 



Quincy, 111., Jan. Vi. 



The Prospects in California. 



The old year has passed away, even in 

 California, and with it many expectations 

 and disappointments; and now the new 

 year has put in its appearance, and with it 

 new hopes and anticipations have sprung 

 up; even the " Old Reliable " has taken on 

 a new form, and changed so much in ap- 

 pearance and general make-up that at first 

 sight I came very near taking it for an in- 

 truder or stranger, but some of the "old 

 land marks " soon gave the necessary pre- 

 lude, and I soon sailed into its contents. 

 The first page is exactly to the idea that 

 came to my mind some time ago, while 

 looking over the old numbers with a view 

 of putting them into book form— the front 

 covers were especially in my way; in the 

 new number the objection is done away 

 with, making it look very neat, too. 

 The prospects for the coming season are 



