1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



483 



QUEENS ! 



Now ready by return mail, reared In full col- 

 onies from the best honey-gathering strains 

 In America, at the following very low prices: 



Tested each $1.50 



per >4 dozen 8.00 



Warranted purely-mated each .7.5 



per H dozen 4.2.5 



'■ per dozen 8.00 



If you want Queens for buftlness, get my 

 old reliable strain. 40-p. descriptive Catalog 

 Free. W. W. GARV, Colraln, Mass. 



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KASTLER AND IRVINQ, 

 237 Blue Island Ave.. 

 26A4t Clilcaso, Ills. 



Mentimi Oie A.meHain Bee Joumak 



Woodcliff Queens. 



I will send a Guaranteed 5-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 3.50 Nuclei — have 1 home and 

 4 out apiaries. No Queens superior to my 

 Strain. 



^~ Send for Descriptive Catalogue and 

 Testimonials, to 



Wm. a. Selser, Wyncote. Pa. 

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0^ Either 3 or 3 Band- 



11 _ _ ^^ ^^ -^ .^ ed, 60c. each ; 6 for 



■ llinQrlO S3. 2.5. Give me a 



■ I I I fZ Wm I I ^ trial. I can please 

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COMB FOUNDATION. 



Wholesale aud Retail. 



Qualitj" always the best. Price always lowest. 

 Working Wax Into Foundation by the 

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

 you in any quantity, but otEer special induce- 

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

 making large lot of Wax into ii"oundation. I 

 am furnishing large Dealers, and can also 

 please you. Beestvax taRen at all times. 

 Write tor Samples and Prices, to 



CDS DITTMER, AUGUSTA, WIS. 

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GOLDEN QUEENS 



From Texas. K'S^S.'.'S' 



as well as for Beauty and Gentleness. 



^~ Safe arrival and reasonable satisfac- 

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 Untested, 7 He— Warranted, $1. 



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AND LUNG DISEASES, 

 DR. PEIRO. Specialist 

 Offices: loig, lOo State St., 

 CHICAGO. Hours 9 to 4. 



Queens and Iclei ! 



Untested Italian Queens, by return mail, 75c; 

 Tested. $1.00; Select Tested, $1.50. 

 Nuclei, by express— per Frame. 75c. 

 Address. C. E. mEAD, 



87 Artesian Ave., Station D, Chicago, III. 

 MentUyii the A.merlcan Bee Jownml. 



Questiot;)'Box^ 



In the multitude of counsellors there is 

 safety. — Prov. 11-14. 



Amount of Honey Used by a 

 Colony in One Year. 



Query 981.— How much honey does a col- 

 ony of bees need a year for its own consump- 

 tion ? I mean for the whole year, not merely 

 for winter. — Pa. 



Eugene Secor — I don't know. 



W. G. Larrabee — I don't know. 



W. R. Graham — About 100 pounds. 



E. France — I don't know, and won't 

 guess. 



Mrs. L. Harrison — Who can tell ? I 

 cannot. 



G. M. Doolittle — I estimate about 60 

 pounds. 



P. H. Elwood — I don't know. Ask the 

 experiment stations. 



Wm. M. Barnum — About 50 pounds. 

 Perhaps a trifle more. 



Prof. A. J. Cook — I do not know, but 

 would guess 60 pounds. 



J. A. Green — I could only guess at 

 this. Probably 60 to 75 pounds. 



J. M. Hambaugh — I do not know, but 

 at a rough guess I will say 80 pounds. 



Rev. E. T. Abbott— I do not know. It 

 would depend upon the size of the col- 

 ony. , 



H. D. Cutting — All It can get, and in 

 many localities you will have to feed to 

 keep them. 



Rev. M. Mahin — I do not know, and 

 at best those who know more about it 

 can only guess, 



Dr. C. C. Miller— I don't know. Look 

 at Doolittle's answer. Here's a nut for 

 Experimenter Taylor. 



B. Taylor^ — That depends upon the 

 size of the colony, the length of the win- 

 ter, and other I cannot answer. 



Chas. Dadant & Son — This is almost 

 impossible to answer, as all depends up- 

 on the quantity of brood reared. 



C. H. Dibbern — There is no way to tell 

 just how much honey bees consume in 

 summertime, therefore I must say I 

 don't know. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — There is too 

 much depending in this question to give 

 a correct answer. This answer would 

 be guess-work. 



R. L. Taylor — I don't know, and I 

 would give a fine present to anyone who 

 would tell me a way by whi(»h I could 

 find out for certain. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater — I do not know. 

 There are so many things to consider in 

 answering this question, which must of 

 necessity be but a guess. 



Jas. A. Stone — I do not see how that 

 could be estimated, as they certainly 

 take a part of what they gather while at 

 work, so it would have to be considered 

 ^how much of the time they are at 

 work. 



Allen Pringle — That is a question to 

 be guessed at, but we might figure a 

 little thus : In this climate from No- 

 vember 1 to the end of February (4 

 months of "masterly inactivity"), 5 

 pounds will do. The two months imme- 

 diately preceding these and the two 



immediately following them (4 months) 

 of say 4 times the activity equals 4 times 

 5 equals 20, plus 5 equals 25 pounds. 

 The other 4 months of very stirring 

 times, say 8 times the activity, equals 8 

 times 5 equals 40, plus 25 equals 65 

 pounds in a year. Of course I would not 

 swear to that. 



J. E. Pond— I pass. From 10 to 25 

 pounds will carry a colony through a 

 long winter, but in the summer bees are 

 at work, and I don't know of any rule 

 by which even a guess could be made. 

 To attempt to answer would, in my 

 opinion, be a mere matter of guess-work. 



G. W. Demaree — The amount of honey 

 consumed by a colony of bees in the 

 course of a year is necessarily an un- 

 known quantity, because the number of 

 bees reared by the colony in a year is 

 not a fixed number — some queens are 

 more prolific than others. At best, only 

 a crude approximation is possible, and 

 nothing gained by that. 



Globe Be^^^ii 



Mail for One Dollar. 



' Five cross-bars are rlvlted in the 



'centre at the top. These bend down 

 f and button to studs on a neck-band. 

 .The bars are best light spring steel. 

 * The neck. band is hard sprintr brass. 

 The netting is white with face-piece 

 of bIack*to see through. 



It is easily put together and folds 

 ^compactly in a case, 1x6x7 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 bed 

 without discomfort. It Is a boon to any one whom 

 flies bother, mosqultos bite, or bees sting. 



Nets, 50 cts. eacli. 



E^ This Veil we club with the Bee Journal 

 for one year— both for $1 .75 ; or give free as a 

 Premium for sending us 3 New Subscribers to 

 the Bee Journal at $1.00 each. 



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