American Bee Journal them; but it appeared rather that they were pretending to sting. When one worker stings another you do not need to watch very long before you see the stung worker curl up and die. I never saw a drone have this appearance after a worker had pretended to sting it. If I am rightly informed the workers, aside from teasing and driving the drones, merely withhold food from them, and they die. For a drone cannot, like the workers, live by helping itself to the stores in the cells, but must be fed partly digested food by the workers. It is possible that you may say that there was no failure of the harvest. Well, sometimes it happens that individual colonies do not wait for the general slaughter, as it is called. After a colony has swarmed, the old queen having gone off with the swarm, the young queen in the mother colony becomes fertilized ready for laying. After REPORTS AND The Value of a Bee Journal When I took up bee-keeping I read every thing I could find on the subject with the hope of finding some system of management that would suit me and my environments. Needless to say I did not find it, but by picking up an idea here and yonder from the experience of others as given in the bee-papers and from observations of my own, I was able to evolve a system of my own that suited me. Then, a few years later. I moved about a thousand miles, and the first season showed me that my system was not good in my new location. I was up against the question of how to prevent swarming, make a reasonable amount of increase, and get a crop of honey while operating out-yards. I had to either solve that question or quit I read everything on the subject that I could find, and finally by combining the systems of two prominent writers, with some ideas I had gained by experience, I evolved a new system of my own that I am still following. It has been worth more to me than the subscription price of all the bee-papers published in America will amount to as long as I live. That is just one instance. I am constantly picking up new ideas, that I consider worth all the papers cost me. And if I knew all there is to be known about bee-keeping. I should still want the papers in order to keep in touch with other bee-keepers and see how they are getting along, their prospects. successes and failures, hopes, etc I should want to know about markets, about legislation, favorable or unfavorable to bee keeping, and about diseases of bees and the manner of treatment for them, and all the news of the apicultural world. When a man says he has no time to read bee-papers, it simply means that he has lost all interest in bee-keeping. It does not necessarily mean that he has found the pursuit unprofitable, but that he has become interested in samething else. I do not have time to read agricultural papers or medical journals, and yet I know farmers and doctors who are making more money than I am. I do not read those papers for the reason that I am not directly interested in those pursuits. When a subscriber tells you he has no time to read bee-papers, you might just as well tell him "So long. I wish you success in your new vocation." It never was intended that we should all be beekeepers or all farmers, or all doctors, and a man is liable to change his vocation and acquire new interests to the exclusion of old H. D. MURRY. ones. Mathis, Tex. Not All Illinois Reports this Good Bees are doing fine. I have one colony that was treated for foul foul brood the first of June. It has filled 9 supers of 24 sections each. FRANK HINDERER. Frederick, Ill., Sept. 9. Another Bad Report from California Our honey crop is again a total failure in this locality. The condition this year has been the same as two years ago. My 80 colonies of bees made about 500 pounds of comb this there is no further need of drones for the current season, and they meet their fate. Whether the driving out of the drones occurs at one time or another, not only does the colony become rid of the flying drones. but all drone-brood is destroyed by the workers. You will do well to prevent the rearing of these drones in all but a very few of your best colonies. Even one colony in a hundred will rear enough drones to do for the whole apiary. If there is no drone-comb in a hive, there will be no drones. You can cut out any drone comb and put in its place patches of worker-comb or of worker foundation. Some, however, think it is well to satisfy the bees to the extent of leaving them one or two square inches of dronecomb. You can behead these drones in the comb after they are sealed over, or sprinkle a little salt on them before they are sealed. EXPERIENCES honey. Some bee-keepers south of here lost half of their bees by starvation. One traveling salesman and farm produce buyer, who has traveled through the central coast country, told me that there was practically no honey in the country, and that the bees were dying at an alarming rate, generally from starvation. B. SCHNUCKEL. Lone Oak, Calif., Aug. 30. Seeking a Bee-Location I made tracks in the snow last winter seeking a bee-location. I went towards the South. It was 40 degrees below zero at Great Falls, Mont., 27 at Edgemont. S. D, 17 at Liberty, Nebr. 7 at Anderson, Mo, and 3 below at Sarcy, Ark. As I stayed there a week. I made tracks in the mud after that. But I did not remain in the South, as I found too many bees for the pasture in the localities visited. In June I returned to this place. As I traveled by day only. I noticed the change in bloom from one place to another, and the great variety of flowers. I believe that, from Ogden, north to this place is the best bee-country. But in many spots too many bees are kept. Looking for a country where milk and honey flow, you will sav. Sure, and I have found it, too. They flow in the irrigation ditches and make the land sell for $200 per acre, even where the wild sage brush still grows However, some good bee-man spoke about the land boomers in the American Bee Jour. nal. He told the truth, and the truth has not been half told for much of the western irrigated land is a delusion or a frand Come and see before you sell out in the East. White clover does well here. As to alfalfa, our seedsman here sold 5 tons of seed in 1012 So far There will be half a million tons of alfalfa hay put up within 20 miles of Rupert, Idaho Thousands of stacks are in sight. In field corners along the ditch banks. there is plenty of bloom which cannot be cut down. Then there is alsike clover, sweet clover, and white clover in pastures. Here wild alfalfa, dandelion, rabbit brush and willow is the wild flora. There are no trees for stray swarms: another good point. Where bees are plenty, honey is found, but where too many bees are, honey becomes scarce. So a good bee-country is not always best for bee-men. I enjoyed and endorse what Mr Bver said about former Editor York. But York's wish about Dr. Miller. May he enjoy another twenty years." seems too short. It made me feel sad. Better send him a handful of flowers now. however, than a basketful when he is gone. L. W. BENSON. Rupert, Idaho, July 25. A Good Bee-Book I received a copy of "First Lessons in BeeKeeping." and I must say it is just the right thing for a beginner or a more advanced bee-keeper. What I like about it is. if a person wants to find out about something he doesn't have to read 3 or 4 pages before he finds what he wants, as in some of the other books. It has less pages than some of the other books, but says three times as much as another book. Everything is short and sensible, and comes right down to the point; therefore, I think the public will like this book the best. JOHN PASHEK. The Dalles, Oreg. Poor Crop in the South There was but little honey produced in this part of the country this year. I believe that it has been the poorest year for bees and honey that I have ever seen in any place. Broom corn, corn and the hay crop were very good. The cotton crop is being cut short on account of the extreme drouth that we are having. I believe that I have taken the American Bee Journal for 35 years or more. There have been many changes since that time. Many pioneers in bee-keeping (among whom was my father have passed away during that time. Best wishes for the success of the "Old Reliable." W. C. NUTT, Treas. Texas. Rain in California California has had quite a surprise, and something very unusual. Rain fell here Sept 3. and a good, heavy rain today. In 26 years rain has fallen only nine times in summer prior to Sept 3. and the last time we had rain before the date mentioned was in 1906. The rains will do great damage to the prunes and raisins, but will be of benefit to the bee-keepers The alfalfa blossoms are now yielding nectar, and the extractors and the bee-men are busy, but not up to expectations. JOHN C. FROHLiger. Berkeley, Calif., Sept. 5. Prospects in Iowa Continuous rains here give promise of a flow of honey from hearts-ease for the first time in four years. There seems also to be considerable white clover in bloom, and I have already seen bees on a few blossoms. Sweet clover was the great stand-by this summer. There was an abundance of it in this vicinity, which yielded well. However. if there is any surplus put up it will be from now on, so far as I know. A. F. BONNEY. Buck Grove, Iowa. Aug. GOLDEN Italian Queens, Nuclei, and Full Colonies. See price-list in May number, page 131. Isaac F. Tillinghast, Factoryville, Pa. GOLDEN QUEENS that produce 5 and 6 band bees. Untested, $1.00; Tested, $3.00. Robert Inghram, Sycamore, Pa. FOR SALE-Three-banded Italian Queens bred for honey, gentleness. and prolificness. One. $1.00; 6 for $5.00, Wm. S. Barnett, 7A4t Barnett, Va. MY SYSTEM - Union bee-hive and Queen. Will increase both your colonies and honey crop, and improve your stock, making beekeeping a real pleasure. Cash orders $10.00. 3Atf Joe Egner, Box 552, Lavergne, Ill. GOLDEN QUEENS that produce Golden Workers of the brightest kind. I will challenge the world on my Goldens and their honey getting qualities. Price, $1.00 each; Tested, $2.00; Breeders, $5.00 and $10. 7A4t J. B. Brockwell, Barnett, Va, QUEENS Italians and Carniolans. Will exchange choice queens for bees by the pound, frame, or hive. Write, stating what you have, Frank M. Keith, 3Atf 83% Florence St., Worcester, Mass. QUIRIN'S famous improved Italian queens nuclei, colonies, and bees by the lb, ready in May. Our stock is northern-bred and hardy; five yards wintered on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 without a single loss. For prices, send for circular. 3A5t Quirin-the-Queen-Breeder, Bellevue, Ohio. FOR SALE-Italian queens bred from the best honey-gathering strains obtainable. Untested, 75c; Select, $1.00; Tested. $1.25; Select Tested, $1.50; Nuclei without queen, 1-frame, $1.50; 2-frame, $2.00; 3-frame, $2.75. For queens and nuclei in quantity lots, and bees by the pound, write for prices and circular. Robert B. Spicer, Wharton, N. J. ALUMINUM HIVE NUMBERS 1% in, high, 2c GOLDEN and 3-band Italian Queens (strictly free from disease). Tested Queens, $1.00 each: 3 for $2.75; 6 or more, 85 cts. each. Untested. 75c each; 3 Queens $2.00; from 6 to 50, 55 cts. each. Bees by the pound, $1.00. Nuclei, per frame, $1.25. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. C. B Bankston, 2Atf Buffalo, Leon Co., Texas. ORDER IDEAL WINTER CASES now, and be CARNIOLAN QUEENS-Bred from best imported stock. Many colonies can be manipulated without the use of smoke or veil. Untested, one for 75c; six for $4.25: twelve for $8.00. Tested, one for $1.00; six for $5.00; twelve for $10. William Kernan, Rt. 2, Dushore, Pa. HONEY བ་ཀ་འ་བ་བ་འ་འབ་བ HONEY FOR SALE-Clover honey of the finest quality in new 60-lb. cans at 9 cts. per pound. 8Atf J. P. Moore, Morgan, Ky. FOR SALE.-50 colonies of bees in 8 and 10 frame Langstroth hives. If sold, mnst be shipped in November. Colonies are all strong and hives well filled with winter stores. No disease. Price will be low, as I have more bees than I am able to handle. Write for what you want, and get further partibulars and prices. Edwin Bevins, Leon, Iowa. SUPPLIES. FOR SALE-A full line of Bee-Keepers' Supplies. Agents' prices. Save freight. Dreamland Farms, Buckingham, Fla. FOR SALE-Empty second-hand 60-lb. cans 25 cts. per case of two cans. 100 for $22.50. 7A4t E. R. Pahl & Co., Milwaukee, Wis, WANTED-Comb, extracted honey, and beeswax. FINE WHITE and light amber alfalfa honey put up in any size of tin packages, any quan tity. Dadant & Sons, Hamilton, Illinois. CHOICEST THICK RIPE CLOVER HONEY in WANTED - Choice extracted white and M. V. Facey, Preston, Minn. MISCELLANEOUS MAKE PURE, delicious fruit acids from Better Fruit Published at HOOD RIVER, OREGON, is the best, handsomest and most valuable Better Fruit Publishing Company HOOD RIVER, OREGON. "A Year's Work in an OutApiary" is the name of a booklet by G. M. Doolittle, the well-known honeyproducer of New York State. He tells how he secured an average of 1141⁄2 pounds of honey per colony in a poor season. It is fully illustrated, and tells in detail just how Mr. Doolittle has won his great success as a honey-producer. The price of the booklet is 50 cents, postpaid, but we club it with the American Bee Journal for a year-both for $1.30. Every bee-keeper should have a copy of this booklet, and study it thoroughly. Address all orders to the American Bee Journal, White Sweet Clover Seed Sweet Clover is rapidly becoming one of the most useful things that can be grown on the farm. Its value as a honey-plant is well known to bee-keepers, but it worth as a forage-plant and also as an enricher of the soil are not so widely known. However, Sweet Clover is coming to the front very fast these days. Some years ago it was considered as a weed by those who knew no better. The former attitude of the enlightened farmer today is changing to a great respect for and appreciation of Sweet Clover, both as a food for stock and as a valuable fertilizer for poor and worn-out soils. The seed should be sown either in the fall or early in the spring. Postpaid, one pound for 30 cents, or 2 pounds for 50 cents. 20 to 25 We can We can also furnish the yellow biennial seed. This variety blooms about two weeks earlier than the white which makes it preferred by some bee-keepers. For the yellow seed add one cent per pound to the above prices on the white variety. Seed will be shipped promptly on receipt of order. American Bee Journal, The Campbell Correspondence School Has a course of thirty subjects and sixty lessons in Intensive Farming. This Course is the result of thirty years experience and demonstration by Prof. Campbell and associates. It applies to Irrigation, the humid regions, and the semi-arid country. It brings results. Send us your name and address and we will mail you a sample copy of the Scientific Farmer and a catalog of the Correspondence School. DO IT NOW. This book on bees is also known as the "Manual of the Apiary." It is instructive, interesting, and both practical and scientific. On the anatomy and physiology of the bee it is more complete than any other standard American bee-book. Also the part on honeyproducing plants is exceptionally fine. Every bee-keeper should have it in his library. It has 544 pages, and 295 illustrations. Bound in cloth. Price, postpaid, $1.20; or with a year's subscription to the American Bee Journal-both for $1.90. Send all orders to the office of the American Bee Journal. CAMPBELL SOIL CULTURE CO. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. ECONOMY: ECONOMY TO YOURSELF Are Two Essential Points Gained by Using Because it is the same TASTE, and the same Remember, Mr. Bee-Keeper, that to you HONEY IS MONEY-then use Dittmer Process Comb Foundation Work for a Full-Capacity Honey-Crop. Augusta, Wisconsin. DOOLITTLE'S This is G. M. Doolittle's master-piece on It is practically the only comprehensive book on queen-rearing now in print. It is looked upon by many as the foundation of modern methods of rearing queens wholesale." Mr. Doolittle's book also gives his method of producing comb honey, and the care of same: his management of swarming, weak colonies, etc. It is a book of 126 pages, and is mailed at the following prices: Bound in cloth. $1.00: bound in leatherette..75 cents. Special Clubbing Offer We offer a cloth-bound copy of this book with the American Bee Journal one year-both for $1.50; or a copy of the leatherette-bound edition, with the American Bee Journal one year-both for $1.25. The cloth-bound book given free for getting 3 new subscribers at $1. each; or the leatherette-bound copy given for 2 new subscribers. Every bee-keeper should have a copy of Mr. Doolittle's book, as he is one of the standard authorities of the world on the subject of queen-rearing and everything else connected with bee-keeping and honey-production, American Bee Journal, Hamilton, Illinois. American Bee Journal Missouri-Bred Queens! | BOOKS FOR BEE - KEEPERS My strain of bees is the result of many years' breeding and selection. I believe they are equal to any, and surpassed by none. They are long lived, winter well, breed early, and are unexcelled honey getters. The workers are long-bodied, goodsized bees, uniformly marked with bands of orange yellow. They are good comb-builders, gentle and easy to handle, and yet protect their homes from robbers. You will make no mistake in introducing these queens into your apiary. I guarantee safe delivery at your post-office, and make a speciality of long and difficult shipments. I endeavor to keep a large supply of queens on hand. Prices as follows: Untested-One, 60c: 6. $3.25; 12, $6.00. Select Untested-1, 75C: 6, $4.25; 12, $8.00. Tested. 1, $1.25: 6, $5.50: 12. $12.00. Select Tested-i, 1.50 6. $8.00; 12, 15.00. Two-comb Nuclei with laying queens. $3.00 each; 3-comb Nuclei with laying queens. $3.50 each. Discounts on large orders. 5A6t L. E. ALTWEIN, St. Joseph, Mo. Please mention Am. Bee Journal when writing. FOR SALE BY AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, HAMILTON, ILLINOIS. First Lessons in Bee-Keeping, by Thos. G. Newman, revised by C. P. Dadant.-Intended mainly for beginners. Nearly 200 pages. and over 150 pictures. Bound in strong paper cover, showing bee-brood in all stages of development from the newly-laid egg. This book contains the foundation principles of bee-keeping, as its name indicates. Price, postpaid, 50 cts.; or free with the American Bee Journal one full year if paid strictly in advance-by either new or re-. newal subscription at $1.00. Fifty Years Among the Bees, by Dr. C. C. Miller. 340 pages, bound in cloth, and illustrated with 112 half-tone pictures taken by Dr. Mlller himself. It is a good, live story of successful bee-keeping by a master of the subject, and shows with clearness just how Dr. Miller works with bees and produces tons of honey. Price, $1.00, postpaid; or with the American Bee Journal a year, $1.80; or given FREE as a premium for sending 3 New subscriptions at $1.00 each. Scientific Queen-Rearing, as Practically Applied, by G. M. Doolittle. It tells how the very best Queen-Bees are reared in Nature's Way. A good authority says: "It is practically the only comprehensive book on queen-rearing now in print. It is looked upon by many as the foundation of the modern methods of rearing queens wholesale." Price, bound in cloth, 75 cts., postpaid; or with the American Bee Journal a year-both for $1.50. The same book bound in leatherette, 50 cts., postpaid; or free with the American Bee Journal one full year if paid in advance strictly, by either new or renewal subscription at $1.00. Langstroth on the Honey-Bee, revised by Dadant. This classic on bee-culture has been entirely rewritten. Fully illustrated. No apiarian library is complete without this standard work by the "Father of American Apiculture." Over 500 pages, bound in cloth. Price, $1.20; or with the American Bee Journal a year, $1.90; or given FREE as a premium for sending 4 New subscriptions at $1.00 each. Bee-Keeper's Guide, or Manual of the Apiary, by Prof. A. J. Cook.-This book is very instructive, interesting, helpful, and thoroughly practical and scientific. It is perhaps the most complete of any bee-book on the Anatomy and Physiology of bees. and also the Botany of beekeeping. Bound in cloth, 544 pages, 295 illustrations. Price, postpaid, $1.20; or with the American Bee Journal a year-both for $1,90; or given FREE as a premium for sending 3 New subscriptions at $1.00 each. ABC & X Y Z of Bee Culture, by A. I. & E. R. Root.-Over 500 large pages describing ev. erything pertaining to the care and management of honey-bees. It is a veritable encyclopedia on bees. 400 engravings. Bound in cloth. Price, postpaid, $1.50; or with the American Bee Journal a year-both for $2.25; or given FREE as a premium for sending 5 New subscriptions at $1.00 each. Advanced Bee Culture, by the late W. Z. Hutchinson.-The author was an extensive beekeeper, and a practical, helpful writer on bees and bee-keeping. Over 200 pages, cloth bound. Price, postpaid, $1.00; or with the American Bee Journal for a year-both for $1.80: or given FREE for sending 3 New subscriptions at $1.00 each Southern Bee Culture, by J. J. Wilder, of Georgia, perhaps the most extensive bee-keeper in the State. It is a real hand-book of Southern bee-keeping, Bound in paper, 145 pages. Price, postpaid, 50 cts.; or with the American Bee Journal a year-both for $1.30. Amerikanische Bienenzucht, by Hans Buschbauer.-A bee-keeper's hand-book of 138 pages, which is just what German bee-keepers need. It is fully illustrated and bound in cloth. Price, postpaid, $1.00; or with the American Bee Journal a year-both for $1.70. The Honey-Money Stories.-64-page book. let of short, bright items about honey. Has 23 fine illustrations, and 3 bee-songs. Its main object is to interest people in honey as a daily table food. Price, postpaid, 25 cents; or with a year's subscription to the American Bee Journal-both for $1.10. Two copies for 25 cts. The Emerson Binder.-It has a stiff board outside like a book-cover, with cloth back. Will hold easily 3 volumes (36 copies) of the American Bee Journal. Makes reference easy, and preserves copies from loss, dust, and mutilation. Price, postpaid, 75 cts.; or with the American Bee Journal a year-both for $1.60; or given Free as a premium for sending 2 New subscriptions at $1.00 each. A Modern Bee Farm, by Samuel Simmins The author is a live English bee-keeper. He has kept up with the progress in this line not only in his own country but all over the world. His views are determined, but very well taken, and his points are made with an accuracy which is convincing. Cloth bound 470 pages. Price postpaid $2.00 or with the American Bee Journal one year both for $2.75 WANTED New Crop BOTH COMB and EXTRACTED Are you looking for a market? HILDRETH & SEGELKEN, 265-267 Greenwich St. NEW YORK, N. Y. Please mention Am. Bee Journal when writing. QUEENS! QUEENS! Italians AND of Breeding nsures The Keith System the best Queens that can be produced. My Strain is the result of 20 years of careful breeding and selection. I feel confident that few, if any, can surpass them. Color has not been my special object; but to produce bees that will bring in honey, and store it in supers where it is wanted. i am also paying a great deal of attention to Gentleness among my bees, so that almost any one can handle them. Annual importations of Queens has kept my stock absolutely pure. Prices as follows; 6 .$3.50. 4.00.... 1.00.. ... 1.25.. .... 5.50.. 1.50.. 7.50.. Select Tested, $2.00 each. Breeder. $3.00 and up. 12 .$ 6.00 7,00 II.00 13.00 Nuclei and Full Colonies. Bees by the Pound. Write for Circular. Apiaries inspected for brood-diseases. FRANK M. KEITH, 831⁄2 Florence St. Worcester, Mass. Please mention Am. Bee Journal when writing. ITALIAN QUEENS Untested, 70c each; 6 for $3.75. Tested. $1.00 each; 6 for $5.50. Safe Arrival Guaranteed JOHN LEININGER Ft. Jennings, Ohio Please mention Am. Bee Journal when writing American Bee Journal Order Your Magazines for Next Year Dr. Peiro will continue to give the readers of the American Bee Journal free advice regarding the subject of SURGICAL and MEDICAL treatment. Many have availed themselves of this offer. Return postage is all you need to send. Address, DR. PEIRO, 2148 Sunnyside Ave., Chicago, Ill. Through an agreement with the different publishers Crown Bone Cutter we have secured a net rate on nearly all Newspapers and Magazines published, and can therefore offer them at very low price in combination. The following are some of our offers with the Ameri can Bee Journal for one year: Send us a list of the Magazines and Papers American Bee Journal, Hamilton, Illinois. This is The Write for Fall Discounts-we can save you money C. C. Clemons Bee-Supply Co. 128 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Time to Buy Root's Bee Supplies Next season promises a bumper crop for bee-keepers. Besides the actual cash saving there is considerable advantage in getting your season's supplies early. Orders reaching us during the next few weeks can have special attention given to particular items. You get the goods early and can put them up at your leisure at odd moments thereby saving the expense of extra help. EARLY ORDER DISCOUNTS For cash with orders we offer six per cent in October, five per cent in November, Root's goods may be secured from most of the large distributing centers. Complete stocks are always on hand at our branch offices and our jobbers aim to carry as large a line as possible to serve bee-keepers in their territory promptly. Any special items not in stock will be ordered from the factory to come in carload shipments. THE STOCK The well known quality of Root's goods hardly needs mention here. We are not content with making supplies "good enough." They must be just right and a little better than necessary to answer the requirements of our standard. Hives, frames, and sections are uniformly acurately cut and finely finished. From the machine shop to the packing and shipping room every detail is carefully cared for to ensure the entire satisfaction of every customer. Extractors, smokers, honey-knives, veils, gloves, honey-tanks, every thing used in the smallest yard or the largest apiary is here ready for your use. Honey labels, letter heads cards, etc., used by bee keepers made to your order promptly. Special catalog for these on request. THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY, 213 Institute Place, Chicago, Illinois Home Office and Factory Medina, Ohio. |