192 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. 21, 



I Will PAY the FREIGHT 



!;°,.S.SSL', £ Bee-KeeMrs' Supplies 



tore April 16th amounting to $15. OOoroveritt 

 cataloK prices, to nil points within tne Mate 

 of Iowa, an.l half of your freiKlit to points m 

 adjoininif States. liiiineii»e Slo<;k. 



Large Wholesale anii Ki-tall Catalog Free. 

 Adilrens JOSEPH NYSEWANDEB, 



l-iA2t' ''""**'^ DES MOINES. IOWA. 



MeiMon the American Bee Journal. 



EGGS FOR HATCHING ;;rnT.o^vif-:^o"c: 



and «.00 Per^-^^^-VoET'i^i"^'sON, 

 12A2 3822 Wood St., WHEELING, \V. VA. 



500 Sluelei Must be Sold This Year ! 



1 frame Nucleus. 75 cts.; with Queen, $1.00 



2 ■• •• $1.25; " •• 1.50 



3 ■• •■ 1.65; " " 2.00 

 Queens any time. 30 cents. Satisfaction guar- 

 anteed or"money refunded. Orders booked 

 now— Bees when ybu want them. Money Or- 

 der oflic9 and P. O.. Gunnison, Miss. 



12A3t J» H. SIPIjIis. 



Mention the American DceJaumnL 



-SECTIONS- 



Having a large stock of 7-to-foot and 1 15-16 

 inch Sections, will sell them— 



No. 1 White $1.75 M ; Cream $1.25 M 



Discount on Quantity. These are perfect 

 Sections. Catalogue of Supplies and Bees 

 Free. 



I, J. STUINOHAM, 



105 Pa rk Place. NEW YORK, N. Y. 



Foil SAI.K — 40 acres of choice, healthy 

 pine-laud, partly cl.ared, with house and 

 barn near a P, 0.. V, mile from Oulf ; fine bee- 

 range— for only $700 ! Keason. having two 

 places. C'HAS. NOIIMAN, 



12Atf ST. PETEKSBUHG, FLA. 



Menticm t>,^ American Bee Jotmuil 



Promptness is What Counts ! 



Honey - Jars, Shipping - Cases, and ev- 



] ery thing that bee-keepers use. Boot's 



(iloods at Boot's erU^es, and the 



best shipping point in the country. 



Dealer in Honey and Beeswax. Cata- 



!,°6rJa"I:Ave.WalterS. Ponder 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 

 Mention the American BeeJoumai. 



■linunor33fi ^lv^^Mu^y oiif Hojjto/tf 

 ONI •a^^IASNVAa eve 



'aaAaIfiKa^[^VAl '3 r 



Sq paqsiiqn J 

 saaqouax oishk oj uoijonpaH 'Pindisod 

 B^nao Of- saSJd 'Sans aaAajaqai 'Jiq « sasiujn 

 -»VOS ZX1VAV V— 



iisaivn SHX auw3H noA savh 



THE A. I. ROOT COS GOODS IN MISSOURI 



:i2-page Catalogue Free. 

 4Atf John Nebel & Son, HIgta Hill, Mo. 



WHEN ANSWERING THIS ADVERTISEMENT, MENTION THIS JOURNAL. 



Wants or Excliajiges. 



This department is only for your " Wants" 

 or bona-flde " Exchanges," and such will be 

 inserted here at lO i-eiils u Hue for each 

 time, when specially ordered Into this depart- 

 ment. Exchanges lor cash or for price-lists, 

 or notices offering articles for sale, will not 

 be Inserted here— such belong in the regular 

 advertising columns, at regular rates. 



WANTED— 25 to 100 Hives of Bees. Who 

 canturnlsh thtm the cheapest? I will 

 give in exchange for bee - hive machinery. 

 Queens bred from a straight .'j-banded breeder 

 valued at $50, or from best Imported stock. 

 Address, H. G. QUIKIN, 

 12A3t Bellevue, Ohio. 



bees I will not vouch tor my neighbor's 

 blacks, as I tried to hive a swarm last sum- 

 mer, and they got too hot, and I gave up 

 the job. With my own bees I scarcely get 

 stung by either blacks or Italians. I handle 

 bees without veil or gloves, and got stung 

 only once last summer, except by a Carnio- 

 lan colony. 



I have tried only one colony of Carnio- 

 lans, which proved to be the Grossest bees I 

 ever met. They used more propolis (prop- 

 olis and wax mixed) than any bees I ever 

 tried, but their honey rivaled that or the 

 blacks in whiteness, and they seemed to 

 store equally as well; but I can't put up 

 with their sting. However, I shall try 

 others by way of experiment. 



Last year white clover failed. It was 

 cold and wet. Basswood failed entirely 

 from some unknown cause; however, I 

 secured 40V pounds per colony, spring 

 count, principally from sourwood. In 1893 1 

 secured 77 pounds per colony, spring count, 

 and if I had had the bees in the same con- 

 dition then as last year, I might easily have 

 secured 100 pounds instead. 



I have a nice patch of alfalfa, Alsike and 

 melilot, sown last season, which I am 

 watching with considerable interest. I ex- 

 pect to experiment with other honey-secret- 

 ing plants, and would like to hear from 

 those who have done so. through the col- 

 umns of the " Old Reliable." 1 have never 

 lost a queen in introduction. I use the 

 Miller cage. G. H. Alle.n. 



Glen Wilton, Va., Feb. 2. 



Scarlet or Crimson Clover. 



I sowed one acre about Sept. 1.5, 1804. I 

 sowed it broadcast in the cornfield, and 

 then I cut a brush and hitched a horse to it, 

 and went once in a row. A prettier stand 

 of clover never was seen. I sowed 10 pounds 

 to the acre. I don't see anything to hinder 

 it from going through the winter, for it 

 looks so nice and green. It was recom- 

 mended highly to me for bee-pasture. I 

 send the editor a sample of the seed. 



Forestville, Ind. J- M. K. 



[Thank you. Mr. K., for the sample of 

 seed, which came all right. As I expected 

 Dr. Miller a few days after the seed came, 

 I decided to keep it and hand it to him, 

 which I did. He will plant it, and then 

 likely report on it.— The Editor.] 



them but a few times (perhaps a half dozen) 

 until I purchased my colony (August, 

 1893) , which cost me -SIO delivered at my 

 home. I had never seen a queen until then, 

 nor read or heard of a bee-paper. How 

 foolish and ignorant some people are. But 

 I suppose we all live and learn. 



My father has kept from three to five col- 

 onies of blacks in the old-fashioned hol- 

 lowed-out-log hive for several years, and I 

 never gave them the first look or thought, 

 only to "Steal" a little of their sweets in 

 the honey-flow. Jim J. Webb. 



Mayking, Ky., Feb. 18. 



A Good Lesson Learned. 



Last year was a total failure here, as far 

 as honey was concerned. All our bees had 

 to be fed sugar for winter stores, but they 

 are wintering finely, and we hope for a 

 better time the coming season. One lesson 

 1 think I learned. Had the bees been fed 

 when the hot, dry wind killed everything 

 on which they could work, so brood-rear- 

 ing would not have stopped, they would 

 have been in condition to gather the little 

 honey which came in September but only 

 lasted for a few days. Had they been yerii 

 .ilniiii; they might have gathered enough 

 for themselves, at least, and perhaps a lit- 

 tle for me also. 



Mrs. A. L. Hallenbeck. 



Millard, Nebr., Feb. IS. 



Bee-Keeping in Alabama. 



I sold my bees at Brothertown, Wis., last 

 fall, and came here to try the Sunny South, 

 which, by the way. is covered with about 4 

 inches of snow this morning. We have had 

 pretty good winter weather since Feb. b. 

 for this country. I bought 10 colonies of 

 bees in January, in gums (boxes made of 

 pine plank and chincked up with mud) ; 

 they cost me .«13.20 for the lot. delivered. 

 Mv bee-yard does not look very fine at pres- 

 ent, but in time I expect to see what can be 

 done here. Bees were bringing in pollen 

 last month. J- H. Haight. 



Fruitdale, Ala., Feb. 15. 



Success of a Beginner. 



I had only one colony of bees, spring 

 count, and increased to six. All seem to 

 be in good condition to go through the win- 

 ter. I am just making a start with bees, 

 and delight in the work more than any- 

 thing that 1 have ever come in contact 

 with. 1 am now 21 years of age, a farmer's 

 son, and have taught about 2.5 months in 

 the last four years of my life, in the free 

 schools. 



I manufactured my own hives, frames, 

 etc., and delight in doing my own work. 



The Italian bees are strange little ani- 

 mals in this section of country. In fact, 

 two years ago they were not heard of here, 

 to my knowledge, and 1 had not heard of 



Early Brood-Rearing. 



To-day (Feb. U) is the first fair day after 

 the blizzard, so I took a walk through the 

 bee-yard, and I noticed some with their 

 hive-entrance nearly closed up. So I got a 

 bent wire that I keep for cleaning en- 

 trances, and while doing this 1 noticed some 

 young bees, fully developed. In order that 

 the readers of the Bee Journal may know 

 that I ain not telling a story, 1 got two of 

 those that were not much broken to pieces 

 by scraping them out through the entrance, 

 and I have sent them to the editor. This is 

 the first that ever came to my notice at this 

 time of the year. I got them from two dif- 

 ferent hives. The bees are on the summer 

 stands, and they have had no flight since 

 the third week of December. 1S94. 



Easton, Pa. John Bebkey, 



[It is nothing very unusual for bees to 

 have a little patch of brood in their hives 

 in February, but it is not considered the 

 most desirable thing.— The Editor.] 



A Splendid Report. 



My daughter and I are novices in bee- 

 keeping. A year ago last April we com- 

 menced with two colonies, which were 

 shipped from Colorado, and were very 

 weak when received; however, we in- 

 creased to five colonies, and secured '.^5 

 pounds of comb honey that season. We 

 brought the five colonies through the fol- 

 lowing winter (1893-94) all right in packed 

 hives. The first swarm came out on May 

 (J, and went off to the timber. However, 

 we increased to 19 colonies, and had 1,118 

 pounds of comb honey. We had one swarm 

 come out on June '29. We put it into an 8- 

 f rame dovetailed hive, and they about filled 

 it the next day. We put on a super the 

 second week after. We had three supers 

 on it, and kept three on all through the 

 season, and we took from it 234 pounds of 

 comb honey, and they had enough left to 

 carry them through the winter. 



We have our colonies all packed, and the 

 bees fiy nearly every day. T. R. Jones. 



Watrous, New Mex., Feb. 5. 



RUDY'S PILE SUPPOSITORY 



Is guaranteed to cure Piles and Constipation, 

 or money refunded. .50 cents per box. bend 

 two stamps for circular and free Sample to 

 MAKTIN RUDY. Registered Pharmacist, Lan- 

 caster, Pa. No PosTAi.s ANSWERED. For 

 sale bv all flrst-class druggists everywhere. 

 Peter Van Sehaack & Sons. Kobt. Stevenson 

 & Co., Morrison. Pluramer & Co., and Lord, 

 Owen & Co.. Wholesale Agents, Chicago, Ills. 

 Please mention the Bee Journal. Novlo 



