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in well, and they manage to push it 

 away and become quite irritable. 



To make a nice carrier, take a couple 

 of sticks about an inch square, and tack 

 some strips of old grain sack between, 

 leaving the sticks just far enough apart 

 to slip over the cleats of the sides of the 

 hive. Of course the sticks should be a 

 little longer than the hive, and it is to 

 be carried by two persons, each taking 

 hold of the cloth at the ends with one 

 hand. 



Perhaps Dr. Miller's cloth arrange- 

 ment is just as good for some kinds of 

 hives. If you have not tried some such 

 method, you will be surprised how nicely 

 it works, and you will never again carry 

 hives by the bottoms, twisting your 

 hands and walking sidewise. — C. H. 

 DiBBERN, in the Plowman. 



What Bees to Buy. 



Spring is the best time of year to pur- 

 chase bees, as there is a chance, at least, 

 of realizing upon the investment, while 

 if obtained in the Fall by a novice, they 

 may perish before flowers bloom. Bees 

 can be safely shipped long distances, but 

 everything considered, I would purchase 

 near home, if the variety of bees, and 

 hive preferred, can be obtained there. 

 And then there is no risk of buying a 

 " pig in a poke." Do not choose a hive 

 because it is heavy; you do not want 

 honey, but bees. If you want to buy 

 honey, get it in sections. 



Do not choose a hive because there are 

 many bees at the entrance, for in this I 

 have seen would-be purchasers deceived. 

 Such hives may be queenless, and the 

 bees,having nothing to do, no brood to feed 

 or water to carry, lounge and gossip at 

 the front door. If bees are working, 

 choose a hive whose bees are rushing in 

 and out with the greatest possible dis- 

 patch ; if not, one that has the most bees 

 between combs. — Orange Judd Farmer. 



Get Ready for a Big Crop. 



If you are ready for it, and it does not 

 come, there is no great harm done. If 

 you are not ready, and it does come, 

 then there is harm done. You will get 

 all in a stew right in the middle of har- 

 vest, and instead of being just running 

 over with gratitude for having such a 

 big crop, you will grumble at the supply 

 dealers because they do not start your 

 supplies on the road about two hours 

 before you mail your order, snap up 

 your wife when she asks you to stop long 



enough for dinner, and make yourself 

 such a nuisance generally that you will 

 want to get away from yourself. Get 

 ready in time. — Oleanings. 



"Wc Club the Am,erica7i Bee Journal 

 for a year, with any of the following papers 

 or books, at the prices quoted in the tiAS'F 

 column. The regular price of both is given 

 in the first column. One year's subscription 

 for the American Bee Journal must be sent 

 with each order for another paper or book : 

 Price of both. Club, 

 The American Bee Journal $1 00 



and Gleanings in Bee-Culture 2 00 1 75 



Bee-Keepers' Guide 150. ..140 



Bee-Keepers' Review 2 00 1 75 



The Apiculturist 175 1 65 



Canadian Bee Journal 1 75 ... 165 



American Bee- Keeper 150 140 



The 7 above-named papers 6 00 5 00 



and Lang-stroth Revised (Dadant) 3 00 — 2 75 



Cook's Manual (1887 edition) 2 25.. . 2 00 



Quinby's New Bee-Keeping. 2 50 2 25 



Doolittle on Queen-Rearing. 2 00 1 75 



Bees and Honey (Newman).. 2 00 — 175 



Bindert'or Am. Bee Journal. 160 — 150 



Dzierzon's Bee-Book (cloth). .3 00.... 2 00 



Root's A B C of Bee-Culture 2 25.... 210 



Farmer's Account Book 4 00 2 20 



Western World Guide 150.... 130 



Heddon's book, "Success,".. 150 — 140 



A Year Among the Bees 1 50 135 



Convention Hand-Book 150. . . 130 



Weekly Inter-Ocean 2 00.... 1 75 



Toronto Globe ( weekly^ 2 00 ... . 1 70 



History of National Society. 1 50 — 1 25 



American Poultry Journal. . 2 25 1 50 



The Lever (Temperance) 2 00 175 



Orange Judd Farmer 2 00 ... 1^5 



Farm, Field and Stockman. . 2 00 *1 65 



Prairie Farmer 2 00 . . . 1 65 



Illustrated Home Journal . . 150 135 



American Garden 2 50 — 2 00 



Rural New Yorker 2 50 ... . 2 00 



Nebraska Bee- Keeper 150 135 



Do not send to us for sample copies 

 of any other papers. Send for such to the 

 publishers of the papers you want. 



IH^^I am well plea.sed with the Sewing 

 Machine you sent me ; any person 

 wanting a good Sewing Machine, one 

 that is equal to the high-priced machines 

 which are sold by agents, can do no 

 bette;- than to send for your $15.00 

 Machine. They will be agreeably sur- 

 prised when they see it. Mine is really 

 better than I expected. 



W. J. Patterson. 



Sullivan, Ills., Dec. 5, 1890. 



|^° The Union or Family Scale has 

 been received, and I am much pleased 

 with it. W. H. Kimball. 



Davenport, Iowa. 



