AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Prospects for the Next Season.— The 

 number of supply dealers this year, is 

 larger than ever, if we may judge by the 

 numbei- of catalogues received. The ed- 

 itor of Glemiings remarks thus on the 

 situation, after premising that the indi- 

 cations point to an extra good season this 

 year : 



We have never before had such a run 

 for machinery. Our machine shop is 

 having a big rush; and it is somewhat 

 behind in consequence. 



This does not necessarily signify that 

 competition is going to be any stronger 

 on account of new supply dealers, or the 

 increased facilities of old ones, but that 

 the bee-keeping industry is growing and 

 spreading, the world over. We wish all 

 every measure of success. 



We have a big country, or, if you please, 

 a big world, and there is plenty of room 

 for all, even for the bee-periodicals, 

 though the rule of "the survival of the 

 fittest" will rather crowd some of them 

 before the year is up, we fear. 



Competition! so much the merrier. We 

 shall get better supplies and better peri- 

 odicals; in fact, they begin to sparkle 

 already, in their new dresses and innova- 

 tions. 



Catalogues and Price-Lists for 1891 

 have been received from 



J. W. Rouse & Co., Mexico, Mo.— 20 

 pages — Bee-Hives and Supplies. 



F. N. Johnson, Knoxville, Ills. — 1 

 page — Bees. 



C. W. Costellow, Waterboro, Maine— 

 16 pages — Hives and Apiarian Supplies. 



S. Valentine, Hagerstown, Md. — 16 

 pages — Albino and Italian Queens, Bees 

 and Supplies. 



J. F, Michael, German, O. — 16 pages 

 — Bees and Supplies. 



Levering Bros., Wiota,Iowa— 28 pages 

 — Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



John Nebel & Son, High Hill, Mo.— 

 20 pages — Italian Bees and Queens. 



A. L. Kildow, Sheffield, Ills.— 16 

 pages — Bees and Queens. 



G. D. Black & Bro., Independence, 

 Iowa — 24 pages — Garden vSeeds. 



F. W. Lamm, Somerville, O. — 16 

 pages — Bees and Supplies. 



Bittenbender tt Jordan, Knoxville, 

 Iowa — 44 pages — Monthly Calendar for 

 Bee-Keepers' and Apiarian Supplies. 



Wavelets of News. 



Bees Visiting Different Flowers. 



"Bees visit only one kind of flower on 

 the same trip." That is old but not always 

 true. When forage is plentiful it may be 

 true ; but when scarce, they will change 

 from one kind to another several times on 

 the same trip. I have seen them do it.— 

 Dr. C. C. Miller, in Oleanmgs. 



" Do Bees Eat Eggs ?" 



That is the question up now, and I 

 hope we will learn when they do, and 

 when they do not. I know I have had^ 

 bees starve to death, leaving eggs in the 

 hive ; and I know if I remove a queen 

 from a hive, I expect nearly all the eggs 

 to disappear within 24 hours. — Dk. C. C. 

 Miller, in Gleanings. 



The Weather in England and Spain. 



We notice by the British Bee Journal, 

 that they are having unusually severe 

 weather. 



They have had it as low as 27° below 

 the freezing-point, or, as we would term 

 it in this country, 5° above zero. In the 

 south and southeast of England they 

 have had 60 days of frost, and during 

 the whole of that time, in many parts of 

 the kingdom, the bees have never seen 

 the outside of their hives. 



This is not an unusual thing for 

 the United States — at least the northern 

 part of it ; but when bee-keepers are 

 prepared for a warmer climate, it makes 

 the prospects for successful wintering 

 rather dubious in England. 



But if such weather has prevailed in 

 the latitude of London (53^0), which is 

 considerably north of the United States, 

 the unusual severity of last month is 

 realized when we read in friend Andreu's 

 Spanish bee-periodical of the unusual 

 prevalence of snow storms, cyclones, and 

 zero weather in the south of "Spain, 

 sunny Spain." The orange trees and 

 kindred semi-tropical fruits are all 

 killed. Wolves have roamed the villages, 

 and even destroyed human life, as we 

 learn from other sources. Friend An- 

 dreu asks, philosophically, "Is it pos- 

 sible for us to struggle against the north 

 pole ?" — Gleanings. 



Supply Dealers desiring to sell our 

 book, "Bees and Honey," should write 

 for terms before issuing their Catalogues. 



