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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. 27, 



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fore April 15th amountlag to JlS.OOorover.it 

 catalog: prices, to all points within the State 

 of Iowa, and halt of your freight to points in 

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12A2t DES MOINES. IOWA. 



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 MeniUm Vie AmerUxm Bee JowrwU. 



500 Nuclei 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 you want them. Money Or- 

 der office and P. 0.. Gunnison, Miss. 



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 inch Sections, will sell them— 



So. 1 White $1.75 M; Cream $1.25 M 



Discount on Quantity. These are perfect 

 Sections. Catalogue of Supplies and Bees 

 Free. 



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105 Park Place. NEW YORK, N. T. 



Promptness Is What Counts ! 



Honey- Jars, Shipping- Cases, and ev- 

 k erythingthat bee-keepers use. Root's 

 I Goods at Root's Frtces, and the 



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 or notices otfering articles for sale, will not 

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 advertising columns, at regular rates. 



WANTED— 25 to 100 Hives of Bees. Who 

 can luratsh thtm the cheapest? I will 

 ^Ive "in exchange fc)r bee - hive machinery. 

 Queens bred from a straight, 5-banded breeder 

 valued at $.50, or from best imported stock. 

 Address, U. G. QUIUIN, 

 12A.it Bellevue, Ohio. 



"IXTANTED- Farm (with horses and farming 

 f T implements) to work on shares. State 

 best terms. I am a good liee keeper- 

 K. TAYLOK, 4T W. Fiillcnon Ave., CHicioo. 



a^O EXCHANGE- Sec-lions or Queens, for 

 - Basswood Trees. 1. ,1. STKINGIIAM. 

 13A2 105 Park Place, New Yoik. N. Y 



Qei;)cral licn)s^ 



Good Honey Year Expected. 



We are now having spring weather, and 

 bees are in fine condition. They have win- 

 tered well, notwithstanding the severity of 

 the weather, and everything points to a 

 good honey year in East Tennessee. Sam 

 Wilson predicts a light flow from basswood 

 and sourwood, but wo hope that he has re- 

 covered too early. H. P. Coleman. 



Sneedville, Tenn., March 12. 



Her Bees Wintering Nicely. 



My bees are wintering nicely, although a 

 great many bees died In this vicinity dur- 

 ing the recant cold weather. 



The American Bee Journal is a welcome 

 visitor at our house. 1 could not get along 

 without it. Mrs. D. F. Heiser. 



Ottawa, Kans., Feb. 26. 



Bees D3ring with Diarrhea. 



My bees are dying with the diarrhea. 

 They had no flight from Dec. 23 to March 5. 

 I winter them on the summer stands. I 

 have 25 colonies. Last year was a poor one 

 here. Ldthek Bryant. 



Carbondale, Pa., March 12. 



Prospects for a Good Honey-Flow. 



I winter my bees on the summer stands, 

 packed in straw, and so far I have lost but 

 2 colonies this winter, with plenty of stores, 

 which I cannot account for. I have 18 left 

 yet, with a good prospect for a good honey- 

 flow the coming season. 



I commenced in 1S91 with one colony, 

 which I got in the woods; in 1892 I bought 

 6 more, and in 1S93 I bought 5 more, but I 

 have never gotten very much honey, it be- 

 ing too dry, but I have always made ex- 

 penses. InlS93Ihad increased to 14. We 

 have had so much honey-dew, and I lost 10 

 colonies, but I am not discouraged yet, 

 although bee-keeping in this part of the 

 country is considered a small business. But 

 I feel confident it will pay if conducted 

 rightly. J. J. Yoder. 



Chesterville, 111.. Feb. 5. 



Gathering Honey and Pollen. 



The bees are getting lots of honey and 

 pollen, and have been doing so for quite 

 awhile, but we will lose a great deal of 

 honey on account of the bees being weak 

 and the flowers ahead of time, which is 

 rather a bad combination. However, if we 

 get another rain it will give us later bloom, 

 and we may gather a large crop. 



John W. Lewis. 



Redlands, Calif., March 10. 



Cornmeal Pollen — Supers, Etc. 



This country is known the world over as 

 the drouth-stricken district, but does not 

 look very drouthy to-day, as we enjoyed a 

 soaking rain which continued all of last 

 night. Two weeks ago there was two feet 

 thick ice on the Republican river; to-day 

 it is sailing over our mill-dam as mush ice. 

 We had but little snow, but on the whole 

 a solid winter after Jan. 1. 



I have 2S colonies of bees which are 

 packed in chaff, or rather oat-hulls — as you 

 see by my letter head I am interested in 

 flour and oatmeal business. I have had 

 bees for five years, and have never known 

 them confined to their hives over one 

 month at a time. 



There is a great deal of alfalfa raised 

 here which furnishes nearly all our honey. 

 My bees make much trouble about our 

 mills at this time of the year, as they are 

 crazy to get pollen ; and as 1 have heard 

 the question asked many times as to what 

 is best to feed for pollen, I would say I have 

 placed in a long trough in separate piles, 

 wheat flour, wheat Graham, rye flour, rye 



Graham, ground oats, oatmeal, buckwheat 

 flour, cornmeal (yellow and white), and 

 found the bees would hardly touch any- 

 thing else until the cornmeal was all gone; 

 it is decidedly their preference, though they 

 go into the mills and ball up the dust from 

 the dust rooms. 



Much has been said also regarding supers, 

 many favoring section-holders so as to 

 move the outside sections to the center 

 when the center sections are full, or nearly 

 so. I use a double super, each holding 13 

 sections ; when well filled over the center I 

 change ends with the supers, which brings 

 the outside to the center, and in place of 

 section-holders I nail the pattern slats solid 

 to the super, and leave one side of the 

 super loose, and fasten it on with hooks. I 

 like the arrangement much better than so 

 many loose pieces. I use 2-story chaff hives 

 of the Champion style; it is an excellent 

 hive, but I am a strong believer in deeper 

 brood-chambers. O. K. Olmstead. 



Orleans, Nebr., Feb. 26. 



Gathering Manzanita Honey. 



My bees are doing well. They have been 

 gathering manzanita honey for the past 

 month. This promises to be a good season 

 for bees. C. W. Kerlin. 



Monterey, Calif., March 9. 



Prospects for a Good Honey-Flow. 



The prospects for a good honey -flow are 



all right. The bees are wintering well so 



far. Honey retails for 22 cents a pound. 



Our main honey-flow is from white clover. 



Ai.viN T. Ball. 



E. Blackstone, Mass., March U. 



Bee-Keeping in Iowa. 



Apiculture has run low in this part of 

 Iowa. Ten years ago Lucas county counted 

 her colonies of bees by the thousands; now 

 they won't number as many hundreds. Bee- 

 men say that they don't pay expenses any 

 more. And I must acknowledge that it is 

 somewhat discouraging. White clover is 

 all gone, and linden is being destroyed at 

 a fearful rate. Red clover will be our main 

 dependence in the future. I find that my 

 bees can gather honey from red clover 

 when these is nothing else for them. 



We have had a nice winter here, only six 

 weeks, and eight inches of snow. To-day 

 (Feb. 28), the bees on the summer stands, 

 are bringing in the first pollen. I have 8 

 colonies on the summer stands, and 46 in a 

 cave; the latter are very quiet, and are 

 wintering well. I have been in the bee- 

 business for 15 years, and took the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal for 10 years prior to this. 



I see a correspondent asked Dr. Miller 

 how long a colony of bees could be kept 

 in a cellar. He replied, probably four or 

 five months. I have kept them in my cave 

 six months, and they came Jut in fine con- 

 dition every time. Wm. Malone. 



Newbern, Iowa. 



An Experience with " Foul Brood." 



In June. 1892. foul brood got started in 

 my apiary. During that year and the 

 next it got into more than TO hives. I 

 cured it by the starvation plan. I have 90 

 colonies to-day, and have seen no foul 

 brood for one year. Now 1 want to tell 

 how I think my bees got it (which I think 

 will be the most important part of this 

 letter). 



I believe it developed in my own bee- 

 yard. I have been so sure of it that I pro- 

 posed to give Mr. Root, or any other re- 

 sonsible man, $5.00 if my plan would not 

 produce foul brood. If it did produce it I 

 would give him nothing. He never an- 

 swered my letter, because he did not be- 

 lieve it was possible, for he thinks that 

 would be spontaneous generation. I do not 

 believe it would, for I claim the germ that 

 produces foul brood is in every young 

 larval bee when in a healthy state. If any 

 one wants to try the experiment, here is 

 the formula: Take a quantity of young 



