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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 6, 



McCALLUM STEEL WHEEL WA&ONS 



Iliirhnst AwanlH 

 at \\arlii'H Fuir. 



Broadornarrow 

 fires, high or 

 low wheels to 

 tit any skein. 



PAT 

 DEC. 15. 91. 



Wheels 



or axles 



made 



for 



wagon 



. ea;*Go t.-.;!;!) ** ■«^«»-'if rs, fiiso. ~^ m[' \^ makerSt 



Liberal Discounts to Agents or first to purchase. 



McCallum Steel Wheel Wagon Co., Aurora, Z11.,U. S. A. 



14Al.'it Please mention the Bee Journal. 



TAKE NOTICE! 



BEFOKU placing your orders lor SUP- 

 PLIES, write tor prices on 1-Piece Bass 

 wood Sections, Bee-Hives, Shipping -Crates 

 Frames. Foundation, Smokers, etc. 



PAOE & I.YOX MFG. CO. 



NEW LONDON, WIS. 

 Mention Die American Bee Journal. 



Control Your Swarms, Requeeii, Etc. 



Send 25c. for sam- 



Eles of West's Patent 

 plral Wire Queen- 

 Cell Protectors, and . 

 Patent Spiral Queen 

 Hatching and Intro- 

 ducing Cage; & best 

 Bee-Escape, with cir- 

 cular explaining. 12 

 Cell-protectors, BOc. ; 

 100, $.3. 12 cages. $1; 

 100, $5, by mail. Cir- 

 cular free. Address. N. ». WEST, Ifliddle- 

 bnrgli, Solioliarie Co , N. 1". Sold also by 

 all leading supply-dealers. 22 A5 



Mention the American lice Journal. 



BEES & QUEENS 



Ready in May. Queens. $1.00. Dees by the 

 Pound, $1.00. Two-frame Nuclei, with Queen 

 $2.50. One-frame, $2.00. Also, Barred P. 

 R. Eggs, for setting, $1.00 per 15. 



JUrs. A. A. SIMPSON, Box 48, Swarts, Fa. 

 15Al.'Jt Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Golden Italian (Jneens. 



One Untested Queen before June 1st $1.00 



Six " '• •■ ■■ ... 5.00 



One " " after " 75 



Six " '• •■ '• .... 4.20 



One Tested •■ before " 1.50 



Six " '• '• " .... 7.50 



One '• '• after " .... 1.00 



Six '•.... 5.00 



One Selected Tested for breeding, $3,00. 

 Prlce-Ijisrt Free. 



W. H. WHITE. 

 22A5t DEPORT, Lamar Co., TEX. 



PATENT WIRED COMB FODNDATIOH 



HaH No Sag In Hrood-Frauies 



Thill Flat-Kottoni Foundation 



Has Bto Fishbone Id the Surplas Honey. 



Belod the cleanest le nsually worfceO 

 the quickest of any Foundation made 



J. VAN DEtTSEN A: SONS, 



Sole Manufacturera, 

 BprontBroofc MontKomery Co., N. T. 



FOR SALE. 



I have some 35 good Bee-Hives to sell, with 

 all the Frames and Honey-Boxes— some 10 

 are Heddon Hives, and 6 double 10-frame, 

 balance 8-frame, with stuff tor honey-boxes. 

 Smokers, and some Foundation, Bee-Veils, 

 and all the Fixtures for bee-keeping which 1 

 will sell tor $2.00 per hive, and throw in all the 

 fixtures. Big bargain here. Correspondence 

 solicited. SAIflUEl. CtiARK, Ifl. ».. 



22A2t LAWRENCE, McHenry Co., ILL. 



by bee.keepers who were very enthusias- 

 tic over them ; but, taking it all in all, I 

 VdnK I can get a more satisfactory 

 knowledge with a given number of hives 

 containing full-dedth Hoffman frames in 

 less time than from any equal number of 

 horizontally divided brood-chamber hives 

 I have ever seen or read of. 



Now, why do I like mine (or, more 

 correctly, Hoffman's) better ? A Hoff- 

 man-frame hive can be split -perpcndlcu- 

 hirly in two parts. A divisible-brood- 

 chamber can be split horizontally in two 

 parts; but it will be apparent that such 

 a split does not show brood surfoce — only 

 the edges of the combs, and those very 

 imperfectly. A perpendicular split does 

 show the u'li'Olc surface of two corabs. 

 Then if we remove one comb we have 

 for examination the two surfaces of the 

 one comb, besides two surfaces of each 

 of two other combs." 



MAKKET QUOTATIONS FOR HONEY. 



Complaint having been made that 

 Shea & Co. quoted honey too high, they 

 write to Review: "There are always 

 two prices. Say, tor instance, we quote 

 honey in the country at 16 to 17 cents, 

 while the same goods sell in the city to 

 the .jobbing trade at 15 cents. Do you 

 want the lowest quotations, or what the 

 stuff is actually sold for ?" To this the 

 editor replies: "The figures the bee- 

 keepers want given in quotations are 

 those that they may expect to realize for 

 honey if sent to the market from whence 

 come the quotations. Exceptional prices 



are not wanted Each dealer should 



give the average price at which he is 

 selling each grade of honey." 



PLANTING THE LINDEN OB BASSWOOD. 



It would take a good many years for 

 basswood or linden trees to yield honey 

 — perhaps 20. We set out a basswood 

 orchard something over 20 years ago, 

 and it is not yielding honey very satis- 

 factorily even yet." — E. R. Root, in 

 Gleanings. 



WHICH HAS THE GREATER INFLUENCE, 

 THE QUEEN OR THE BEES, IN DETER- 

 MINING. THE AMOUNT OF BROOD? 



P. L. Thompson raises the above ques- 

 tion in Review, and says : "Two years 

 ago in April I dug out and transferred a 

 wild swarm from an abandoned skunk- 

 hole. The capacity of the hole, which 

 was completely filled with comb, prob- 

 ably exceeded 16 Langstroth frames. 

 They then had an amount of brood equal 

 to 6 solid Langstroth frames, and the 

 colony had to be divided, because it was 

 simply impossible to get the bees in one 

 8-frame Langstroth hive, or anywhere 

 near it. This was very nearly the time 

 of year when our colonies are weakest. 

 Exceptional ? Yes, but afterward that 

 same queen would have been taken for a 

 very ordinary queen indeed, judging 

 from the amount of her brood. I always 

 think of her behavior i?i and out of the 

 skunk-hole, when reading arguments 

 for the S-frame size." 



The editor thinks that at least some- 

 times the queen is the more important 

 factor, saying : " I have seen many col- 

 onies come out of winter quarters quite 

 populous, yet they would rear only a 

 small amount of brood and be entirely 

 outstripped by other colonies that were 

 quite weak in numbers in early spring." 



l$ee"ABC"»neroii|ngcm. 



GOMB FOUNDATION. 



Made by Improved Machinery. 



Get Samples. 



Here are prices by the pound— just compare. 



1 lb. 5 lbs. 10 lbs. 25 lbs. 

 Heavy or I .., .,,„ ■jop ■jop 



Medium Brood )*-'^' *"<=• •^"<^- ■^'*'^- 

 Light •• 44 



Thin Surplus 50 

 Extra-Thin Sur. 55 



^^ If wanted at those prices, send to 



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



When ANSwCRirtG this AovertisemE'»T. Mestioi this JOURNAL. 



Woodcliff Queens. 



I will send a Guaranteed .'i-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 Italian 

 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 spring 3.")0 Nuclei— have 1 home and 

 4 out apiaries. Boukins Orders flow— 

 will begin shipping about May 1st. No Queens 

 superior to my Strain. 



tS^ Send for Descriptive Catalogue and 

 Testimonials, to 



Wm. a. Selser. Wyncote. Pa. 



COMB FOUNDATION. 



Wliolesale and Retail. 



Quality alwaj-s the best. Price always lowest. 

 Working H'ax luto Foundation by the 

 lb. a Specialty. I can make it an object for 

 you in anj' quantity, but offer special induce- 

 ments on straight 25 or 50 lb. lots. Or for 

 making large lot of Wax into Foundation. I 

 am furnishing large Dealers, and can also 

 please you, Bee«tvax taken at all times. 

 Write for Samples and Prices, to 



Gi;s DITTMER, AUGUSTA. WIS. 

 Reference— Augusta Bank. 16Atf 



Globe BeeVeil 



By Mail for One Dollar. 



Five cross-bars are Hvlted In the 

 'centre at the top. These bend down 

 f and t.utton to studs on a neck-band. 

 The bars are best llsht spring steel. 

 M Tile neckband Is hard sprlntx brass. 

 The netting is white with face-piece 

 of bUicli to see thrsuch. 

 It is easily put tof-'ether and folds 

 ompactly in a case, IxB-xT Inches, 

 _ ._ the whole weighing but 5 ounces. 



It can be worn over an ordinary hat; fits any head; 

 does notobstruct the vision, and can be worn In bea 

 without discomfort. It Is a boon to any one whom 

 flies bother, mosqultos bite, or bees sting. 



;^~ This Veil we club with the Bee Journal 

 tor one year— both for $1.75; or give free as a 

 Premium for sending us 3 New Subscribers to 

 the Bee Journal at Jl.OO each. 



GEORGE W. "iORK & CO., 



CHICAGO, ILLS. 



IMOnDTCn Italian Queens reared thisyr., 

 IIYlrUnlLU $3.30 each. Tested Queens- 

 Breeders-.*!. 50 to $2.00 each. 

 21A W. C. Frazler. Atlantic, loiva. 



WHEN ANSWERING THIS ADVERTISEMENT, MENTION THIS JOORNAU 



Wajits or Exctiajiges. 



This department is only for your •' Wants " 

 or bona-nde " Exchanges." and such will be 

 Inserted here at 10 cents a line tor each 



time, when specially ordered into this depart- 

 ment. Exchanges for 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. 



TO KXCHANGE~Buzz-Saw, Shipping-Cases, 

 Lang. Section-Frames with tin separators, 

 for Queens, Honey, or own offer. 

 22A4t G. M. DEEK, Riga, Mich, 



WANTED— I have some fine Mastiff and 

 Collie Shepherd I'ups to exchange for 

 offers. Write me. SCOTT BKILLHAKT, 

 23A1 Millwood, Knox Co., Ohio. 



