1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



385 



-notice- 

 To Bee - Keepers and Dealers. 



I have one of the largest Factories in the 

 West, flevoted entirely to the manufacture of 

 Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



Having- made arrang-ements with the in- 

 ventor to manufacture the " Hig-g-insville 

 Hive-Cover," I will place It on all hives sent 

 out this year, unless otherwise ordered. 



Write at once for large illustrated Cata- 

 logue for 3 895. trlving full description and 

 prices of Higrginsville Hive - Covers, Dove- 

 tailed Hives, t^ecliiins. Frames. Supers. Foun- 

 dation, Crates, Boxes, Smokers, Extractors, 

 etc. 



Write for prices on large quantities. 



E. L. Kincaid, Walker, Vernon Co., Mo. 



Mention the American Bee Journal. 



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 Wyandotte, Langshan and Leghorn Eggs foT 

 hatching. Cat. free, hut state wliat you wan) 

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of water has made the vegetation. Now 

 the sun shines — the Honey wells up — the 

 Bees gather it, and every Bee-Keeper 

 should have all needed Supplies at 

 once. Catalogue Free. 



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147 Southwestern Ave. 

 CHICAGO, II.I<. 



ONE-PIECE SECTIONS -CHEAP ! 



In Order to Reduce Our !!)tock, Wc Offer 



No. 1 CREAM SECTIONS -4'-4.\4i4xT-to-ft.: 



194, 17b. 1 15-16 aud 2 inch : 



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G. B. LEWIS COMPANY, Watertown, Wis. 



WILLIAMS' Automatic Reversible Honey-Extractor. 



Perfect in Principle and Workings. Here is what 

 the veteran bee-keeper, N. E. France, of Platte- 

 ville. Wis., says of it: '1 consider the Williams 

 Automatic Reversible Extractor head and shoul- 

 ders;above anj' T have ever used; and further- 

 more, consider it the best on the market." 



100 Italian Queens. 



Reared in 1894. We make the readers of the Bee 

 Journal A Special Offer, in order to have them 

 move off quickly: for the next 30 days we will 

 sell these Queens as follows: 



One Queen reared in 1894 $ .75 



6 Queens •• ' 4.00 



12 ■' '• ■• 7.00 



These Queens were reared from fine stock and 

 are right in their prime ; they are a great bargain 



t^- For Price-List No. 

 and Queens— address. 



2, of Extractors, Bees 



Van Allen & Williams. Barnnm, Wis. 



p. S.— We have in one of our hee-yards. a few 

 Mismated Queens— to those that want them, 25c, 

 for one, 5 for $1. Stamps taken for single Oueen. 

 Send Eipiess Monej Urdu i i\ il^de it Barnum, or P. O. Money Order payable at Boscobel, Wis. 



there being no dead bees in the hive. I 

 would like to have some one explain this, 

 if he will. 



The top-bars of my frames are 10 inches 

 long, 1'k wide, and !„' thick, leaving the 

 lower side of the top-bar flat and smooth, 

 with a groove cut in the center 1-lC, of an 

 inch wide to fit in the brood-foundation. 

 The end-bars are '.I}.: inches long. \ thick, 

 and the same width" as the end-bar. The 

 bottom-bar is IT.'s inches long, and '4X->ii 

 wide. This makes the frame, outside meas- 

 use, 17\'. My hives are after the Lang- 

 stroth pattern, and they are good enough 

 for me. They are all right to winter bees 

 in in this part of the country. 1 haven't 

 lost any bees on account of cold weather. 

 Oliver Dott. 



Mishawaka, Ind., May 19. 



Clover Looks Promising. 



My bees came through the winter in good 

 condition. We had two weeks of good 

 warm weather in fruit-bloom, which filled 

 the hives full of bees. If the warm weather 

 bad kept on clover would have been ahead 

 of the bees. The last two weeks' cold 

 weather checked the clover, and the bees 

 kept right on, so the hives are boiling over 

 with bees now, and white clover will be in 

 bloom here in about one week, and it looks 

 to be very promising. 



Henry Bohlmann. 



Defiance, Ohio, May 35. 



A Criticism— Paste for Labels. 



If there is any one thing I love to see. it 

 is a man who is able to form an opinion 

 and stand up for it against all comers. Such 

 a man Emerson T, Abbott seems to be; but 

 unfortunately this, like everything else, 

 can be ■■ run into the ground." Many of 

 our best and brightest apicultural lights 

 (among whom are Messrs. Hutchinson and 

 R. L. Taylor) have pronounced the divisible 

 brood-chamber a grand good thing. A, I. 

 Root seems to be leaning that way also, 

 but now comes Mr. Abbott (page 329) de- 

 claring in a notto-be-contradicted tone of 

 voice, that divisible brood-chambers are 

 " useless traps," "of no more use than a 

 second tail on a dog.'' aud "freaks for a 

 museum;" and further declares that re- 

 versing is of no value whatever. 



Now I believe that the great majority of 

 apiarists admit that reversing is the only 

 sure method of getting combs firmly at- 

 tached to bottom-bars. Personally. I be- 

 lieve in reversing to secure the above-men- 

 tioned results, and also, after three years' 

 experience with the Dovetail. Foster and 

 Heddon hives, side by side. I say that I can 

 do four times the amount of work in a 

 given time with the latter than with either 

 of the former. The trouble with the divisi- 

 ble brood-chamber hive is. that but few un- 

 derstand the peculiar system of manipula- 

 tion which is required, and without which 

 they are of no advantage whatever, as I 

 can see. 



Mr, Abbott aspires to be a leader in api- 

 culture, and as such he should be very cau- 

 tious about absolutely condemning amilhiHg, 

 lest he by his sweeping denunciations do in- 

 excusable in,iustice, and irreparable injury. 

 The novice is apt to look up to and follow 

 the leaders, and therefore much harm may 

 be done. For Mr. Abbott to say he does 

 not regard the divisible brood-chamber of 

 any value, is all right. We all have a right 

 to express our opinion, but to make the 

 positive assertion is another thing. 



It appears from Query 066, that I have a 

 good many of my way of thinking as re- 

 gards essays at conventions. 



Now for a kink: I have talked with 

 many bee-keepers who have had much 

 trouble getting labels to stick on tin. Well, 

 just get some varnish, make it tolerably 

 thin with turpentine, and use as paste, and 

 if your labels come off any more — well, 

 they won't, that's all. 1 am indebted to my 

 wife for that discovery. 



Laclede. Mo. F. H. Richardson. 



