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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 13, 



McCALLUM STEEL WHEEL WA&flNS 



HltrhH^t Awards 

 at World'ri iuir. 



Broador narrow 

 tires, high or 

 low wheels to 

 fitauyskein. 



Arn cliiimte- 

 proof, WfMi:ii 



Ihsh. run lix;hter 

 s*'II taster. 

 AVarrantfd 



fur teu year.s j 



Wheels 



or axles 



made 



for 



wagon 



. cttatowiii* <s i-icKerrt, also, ^^jK^^ makers. 



Liberal Discounts to Agents or first to purchase. 



McCaKum Steel Wheel Wagon Co.. Aurora, Zll.,U. S. A. 



14,A Lit Pleust' meiiMiMi Hie Bt't^ .louriial. 



TAKE NOTICE! 



BEFORE placing your orders for SUP- 

 PLIES, write for prices on 1-Piece Bms 

 wood Sections, Bee-Hives. Shipping -Cratet 

 Frames. Foundation, Smokers, etc. 



PAGE & LYON niFG. CO. 



NEW LONDON, WIS, 

 Mention the American Bee Journal, 



Control Your Swarms, Requeeii, Etc. 



Send 2.5e for sam- 

 ples of West's Patent 

 Spiral Wire Queen- 

 Cell Protectors, and 

 Patent Spiral Queen 

 Hatching- and Intro- 

 ducing Cage: & best 

 Bee-Escape, with cir- 

 cular explaining. 12 

 Cell-protectors, 60c-; 

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

 100. $.3, by mail. Cir- 

 cular free. Address. N. D. WEST, .fliddle- 

 M r^ ,' •"'••••ol'S'-le Co , N. X . Sold also by 

 all leading supply-dealers, 22A5 



Me>itio7i the A.iiicrkan Uee Journal. 



$1.00 

 5.00 



COMB FOUNDATION. 



Wholesale and Retail. 



Quality always the best. Price always lowest, 



..^^"jr'""- ^^'^^ '"«o Foundation by the 

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

 you in any quantity, but offer special induce- 

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

 making large lot of Wax into Foundation. I 

 am iurnlshing large Dealers, and can also 

 please you. Beesivax taken at all tinieK. 

 Write for Samples and Prices, to 



GUS BITTMER, AUGUSTA. WIS. 

 Reference— Augusta Bank. 16Atf 



Golden Italian Queens. 



One Untested Queen before June 1st 



Six 



One •• ■' after 



Six *' '* " •. 4 oQ 



One Tested •■ before " " " 1 50 



S» ;• •' " •' ...; 7;.5o 



One '• after '• .... i.oo 



SIX ■* •' »• 5 QQ 



One Selected Tested for breeding, $3,00 

 Price-lilst Free. 



22A5t DEPOKT^Lamar'co^.TEX. 



Mention theAmcriran liee journal. 



PATENT WIRED COMB FOUNDATION 



Has No Sag iu Krood-FramcH 



Thin Flat-Bottom Foundation 



Has Jo Fislilione in the Sarplns Ilonfy. 



Being tiie cleanest Is usually worked 

 the quickest of any Foundation made 



J, VAN DEl'SEN ic SONS, 



Sole Manufacturers, 

 Bpront Brook Montgomery Co., N. Y. 



IMPDRTPn Italian Queens reared this yr.. 

 linrUniLU $3.50 each. Tested Queens— 

 Breeder»-41.50 to *-J.0u each. 

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



WHEN Answering this ADVEflTlseMENf, MENTION TMI3 JOUHNAU 



vey the idea that such non-productive va- 

 rieties are used every second or third row, 

 or more, to fertilize the pistilates. Now 

 there may be such, but I never saw or 

 heard of a variety producing blossoms 

 le/iolly staminate. I never /imnl of any one 

 using a non-bearing variety as fertilizers, 

 but some such as the Wilson. Michael's 

 Early, etc.. which are themselves heavy 

 bearers. Now if Mr. Abbott knows of such 

 wholly staminate, non-bearing varieties, 

 will he please name them, that we may 

 steer clear of them? 



I take no side in this discussion, only give 

 my experience, and that is. that my bees 

 have very little use for my strawberries or 

 my neighbor's. J. E. King. 



Sodus, Mich.. May 19. 



A Common Beetle. 



I send a species o£ the bug generation 

 that seems to bother my bees very much. 

 So far as I have noticed, it only stays at the 

 entrance of the hive. Two or three have 

 been found on the frames at the bottom. It 

 made its appearance in the last five days. 

 What is it, and what is its office ? Will it 

 it do any special harm ? T. L. Parsons. 



Tampico, Tenn., May 20. 



Prof. Cook says this about it: 



The insect is Knriiinnia india. It is a com- 

 mon beetle all through the East. The grub 

 lives in the earth, and the beetle is noto- 

 rious for eating into ripe fruit, apples. 

 pears and peaches. I have never heard be- 

 fore that it harms bees. I think it must 

 have been after the honey. I do not think 

 it can do any serious mischief. —A. J. Cook. 



Expects a Good Crop of Sweetness. 



From present indications my bees at 

 Evansville. Ind.. are going to give mean 

 extraordinary crop of sweetness. My man- 

 ager there reports them all in fine condi- 

 tion. I ^ould locate an apiary here, but 

 there is an ordinance forbidding the keep- 

 ing of bees within the city limits, passed 

 by the city council some years ago. and the 

 local fraternity of bee-keepers never had 

 backbone in tliem enough to fight the ordi- 

 nance. I seriously contemplate joining the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Union, and get it to 

 help repeal the ordinance passed by bull- 

 necked whiskey bloats. Sam Jones has 

 been hitting them pretty hard, and suc- 

 ceeded last Sunday eve in raising S25,000 

 for a Young Men's Christian Association 

 building. J. C. Wallenmeyer. 



Owensboro. Ky., May 27. 



Bees Doing- Finely. 



I have 4 colonies of the 3-banded Italians 

 aiid 4 of hybrid. I put 10 colonies in for 

 winter last fall, but lost two — one died and 

 the other lost its queen. I united the bees 

 with a weak colony. The one that died 

 was in a hive with frames O^gxlT-''^'. I do 

 not know whether they froze or starved; 

 they had plenty of sealed honey left. The 

 balance of my hives have frames 13x13, 

 outside measure. 1 do not blame the shal- 

 low frame for the ones that died. I prefer 

 the deep frame. The balance of my bees 

 came through all right, and are doing 

 finely. Our first honey-plant here is soft 

 and hard maple, dandelion, spice, red-bud, 

 black and red haw, then comes the locust, 

 which lasts about two weeks, and raspberry, 

 blackberry, which are all good for bees! 

 Then we have white and red clover, linden 

 and other blossoms. S. L. Delanv. 



St. Leo, W. Va., May 27. 



Deserted the Hives. Etc. 



I haven't many bees at present. Two of 

 my colonies deserted their hives this 

 spring, for some cause or other, though I 

 couldn't say why they did so. They had 

 plenty of honey in the hives. I looked into 

 the hives in the morning, and I found about 

 a pint of bees clustered about the queen, 

 and at night they had all disappeared. 



Globe Bee Veil 



mail for One Dollar. 



' Five cross-bars are rlvited In the 



'centre nt the top. These bend down 

 p and button to studs on a neck-band. 

 The bars are best lierht spring steel, 

 t* The neck-band is liard sprinp brass. 

 The netting is white with face-piece 

 of black to see through. 

 5 It is easily put together and folds 

 Icompactly In a case. lxGx7 inches, 

 ■—the wliole weighing but 5 ounces, 

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

 does nut obstruct tlie visiutj.nnd can be worn In bed 

 without discomfort. It Is a boon to any one whonp 

 flies bother, mosqultos bite, or bees sting. 



{^^ This Veil we club with the Bee Journal 

 for one year— both for$l.7o; or give free asa 

 Premium for sendint? us 3 New Subscribers to 

 the Bee Journal at «i.00 each. 



Household Repairing Outfit. 



This Outfit Is a 

 combiuation of the 

 practical, tried and 

 common-sense tools 

 and materials that 

 will enable anyone 

 with enough ingen- 

 uity to drive a nail, 

 to do his own half- 

 soling-, boot, shoe, 

 rubber and harness 

 repairing, right at 

 home. No pegs re- 

 quired. Simple wire 

 clinch nails. Saves 

 time, trouble, ex- 

 pense and vexatious 

 "shoe-maker's bro- 

 ken promises." En 

 tire Outfit, neatly 

 boxed, bv express, 

 Ik. ps^ *^a^ only $2.00. 

 . ■ ■'^Li^STS Or clubbed with 

 the Bee Journal for 1 year—both for $*2.60; or 

 given as a Premium for sending us 6 New 

 Subscribers to the Bee Journal at *1.00 each. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



CHICAGO, ILLS- 



AND LUNG DISEASES. 

 DR. PEIRO, Specialist 

 Offices: 1019, 100 State St., 

 CHICAGO. Hours 9 to 4. 



When Amswering this Aovertisemeut, Mentio^i this journac 



Bee-Pamphlet Barsfain 



Preparation of Houey for the Alarlcdt* 



Including tlie production iiud care of comb and 

 extracted lioney. A chapter from Bees and 

 HoxEV. Price, 10 cents. 



Bee-Pasturagre a Necessity. — This book 8Ug 

 gests what and how to plan li is a chapter froa- 

 Bees and Uoxev. Price, 10 cents. 



Swarinliigr, SIvtdlne aud Feedlnsr* —Hints 



to beginners In apiculture. A chapter from Bee3 

 AND UoxEV. Price, 5 cents. 



Bees In "Winter, Chaff-Packing, Bee Houses 

 and Cellars. This Is a chapter from Bees axo 

 Honey. Price. 5 cents. 



Tlie Hive I rse, by G. M. Doolittle. It 

 details his management of bees, and methods 

 of producing comb honey. Price. 5 cents. 



^1^ We will send the above 5 Pamphlets 

 postpaid for 25 cts. ; or club them with the 

 Bee Journal for one year for $1.15; or we 

 will give them as a Premium for sending one 

 New Subscriber to this journal for a year. 



Wants or Excliajiges. 



This department is only for your ■* Wants " 

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

 inserted here at 10 cents a line for each 



time, when specially ordered into this depart- 

 ment. Exchanges for cash or for price-lists, 

 or notices ofl'ermg articles for sale, will not 

 be inserted here— such belong iu the regular 

 advertising columns, at regular rates. 



TO EXCHANGE"Buzz-Saw. ShlppingCases. 

 Lang. Section- Frames with tin separators, 

 for Queens. Honey, or own otTer. 

 22A4t G. M. DEEtC. UIga, Mich. 



