1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



771 



SKt LANDS 



Tor Sale at t,«»v I'l-ioes and 

 on Easy Xenns. 



The Illinois Central Kailroad Company offers 

 for sale on easy terms and at low prices, 150,- 

 000 acres of choice fruit, Rardening, farm and 

 grazlnif lands located in 



SOlTHEy ILLIMS. 



They are also larg-eiy interested in, and call 

 especial attention to the 600,000 acres of land 

 In the famous 



YAZOO VALLEY 



OF MISSISSIPPI 



lying along and owned by the Yazoo cSc Miss- 

 issippi Valley Railroad Company, and which 

 that Company offers at low prices and on long 

 terms. Special inducements and facilities 

 offered to go and examine these lands, both 

 in Southern Illinois and in the " Yazoo Val- 

 ley." Miss. For further description, map and 

 any information, address or call upon E. P. 

 SKENE, Land Commisioner, No. 1 Park Row, 

 Chicago, 111.; or, G. W, McGINNIS, Ass't. 

 Land Commissioner. Memphis, Tenn. 

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Queens and <tiieen-Kearins:. — 



If you want to know how to have queens 

 fertilized in upper stories while the old 

 queen is still laying below ; how you may 

 safely iidrodiue any queen, at any time of 

 the year when bees can fly ; all about the 

 different races of bees ; aU about shipping 

 queens, queen-cages, candy for queen- 

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 queen-business which you may want to 

 know — send for Doolittle's "Scientific 

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 pages, which is as interesting as a story. 

 Here are some good offers of this book : 



Bound in cloth, postpaid, ?1.00 ; or clubbed 

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 for sending us three new subscribers to the 

 Bee Journal for a year at $1.00 each. 



Qeijeral licrrfs^ 



Short Crop— Bees in Good Condition. 



My honey crop was short this year, 

 though I have a plenty for home use. My 

 bees are in good condition for winter. I 

 have left most of the supers on the hives 

 for winter. My bees did not swarm until 

 August. C. V. Mann. 



Riverton, 111., Nov. 6. 



Good Season Compared witli Others. 



My report for the season of 1S95 is as fol- 

 lows: Spring count, 84 colonies; fall 

 count, 102. Comb honey, 200 pounds; ex- 

 tracted, 3,500 pounds, and about 30 pounds 

 of beeswax. I put the bees all in the cellar 

 Nov. 4. The season has been good here, as 

 compared with other seasons. But there is 

 a great tendency on the part of a few bee- 

 keepers to cut on prices of honey. 



Chard, Ont., Nov. 15. W. J. Brown. 



A "Tong'uey" Affair. 



I believe there is one thing, Mr. Editor, 

 in use by the rais — I beg Mr. Abbott's par- 

 don — the jirtnlncers of extracted honey that 

 cannot be improved upon. I have to-day 

 (Nov. 4) been using the Bingham honey- 

 knife, and it seems to me to be about as 

 near perfection as anything apiarian ever 

 gets. It glides along under the cappings 

 so easily, and is so easily adjusted to in- 

 equalities of surface, and leaves the cut 

 surfaces so clean and nice, that I do not see 

 what more can be expected of a honey- 

 knife. 



It has one fault, however, that I feel con- 

 strained to chronicle. When daubed all 

 over with well-ripened nectar from white 

 clover blossoms, it is a too-inviting thing to 

 lick. The first time I got mine soiled (?) in 

 this way, I felt an almost irresistible in- 

 clination to draw my tongue along the 

 whole length of its surface, but remember- 

 ing Hasty's experience on a similar occa- 

 sion, I desisted. Then taking another look 

 at the knife, I thought what a marvelous 

 breadth of tongue Hasty must have, that it 

 should sprawl over the two edges of a Bing- 

 ham knife at one lick ! Then I thought that 

 by placing my tongue against the center of 

 the knife near the handle, I could draw it 

 along the center to the poiht, and so get a 

 good lick without receiving any harm. 

 Then the fear arose that my tongue inii//it 

 possibly spread out as wide as Hasty's. 

 Then I desisted again. 



At this writing my tongue is in working 

 order. Edwin Bevins. 



Leon, Iowa, Nov. 4.i 



Bees Did Well. 



My bees did very well here this season. I 

 do not see how I succeeded so well without 

 the American Bee Journal. I think every 

 one with even only one colony of bees 

 should read the " Old Reliable." 



Slaghts, Colo. W. H. Price. 



Past Season in N. W. Missouri. 



The season of 1895 opened here very dry, 

 and remained so until the latter part of 

 May. after which we had an abundance of 

 rain until August, at which time another 

 drouth set in, and still continues. I began 

 the season with six colonies, two of them 

 being mere nothings, having scarcely 

 enough bees to cover two Langstroth 

 combs; the remaining four were average 

 colonies, from which I have increased to 18 

 good colonies, by natural swarming, and 

 have taken off 250 sections of choice comb 

 honey. 



Fruit-bloom was very plentiful in the 

 spring, and the^ weather being favorable, 

 all colonies built up very rapidly. My first 

 swarm came off May 2; swarming contin- 

 ued through May, but I had none in June. 



In July and the forepart of August swarm- 

 ing began again, owing, I think, to the 

 large amount of buckwheat grown in this 

 vicinity, 



I can say, lilie Mr. Barber, of New York, 

 that the 5banded bees are ahead with me 

 this year, my best colony having a5-banded 

 queen, gave me 100 well-filled sections of 

 honey. This colony did not swarm, and 

 were very strong all through the season. I 

 cut out all cells but one after a colony has 

 cast a swarm ; of course, waiting until the 

 7th or Sth day after the swarm issues, and 

 if well done, I am not bothered with after- 

 swarms. 



The fall flow was almost an entire fail- 

 ure, although all colonies were able to get 

 ample stores for winter, and are in fine con- 

 dition for wintering. Geo. H. Curl. 



Darlington, Mo., Nov. 11. 



Did Well, Considering — Honey-Plants 



I think a great deal of the American Bee 

 Journal. Taking the dry seasons into con- 

 sideration, my bees have done well. I never 

 had bees to build up so strong and fast, but 

 the cold weather cut my white honey off, 

 though I got, on an average, about 27 one- 

 pound sections well filled from my 29 colo- 

 nies, spring count, and the brood-chamber 

 is full. Some are as much as I want to lift. 

 It is all fall honey, but some almost white, 

 or very light straw color. 



My bees had a rousing good fly yesterday. 



I am working a scheme here, and it is 

 this; Mr. Lovesy, of Salt Lake City, Utah, 

 sent me some Rocky Mountain bee-plant 

 seed, and I raised a half pound. I also have 

 crimson clover, sweet clover, mignonette, 

 a little catnip, and white clover. I put 150 

 packages in little envelopes, and gave them 

 away to all who would agree to plant them 

 within three miles of my apiary. Next sea- 

 son 1 will put out a thousand packages 

 of more varieties. People seem to take the 

 seeds eagerly when I give then away. 



Ebb Watson. 



Redwood Falls, Minn., Nov. 15. 



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Foul Brood ! 



Don't destroy Colonies of Bees diseased by 

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 on the Cure of this destroyer of your apiaries. 

 Circular sent free. Address. 



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 48Atf WENHAM. MASS, 



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