Part 5

J. VAN DEUSEN & SONS, Sole Manufacturers, Sprout Brook, Mont. Co., N. Y.

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THE Headquarters in the South

for =ITALIAN= and =CYPRIAN BEES= and =QUEENS,= =FOUNDATION= and =APIARIAN SUPPLIES.= If you want Early Queens, from stock selected for their most desirable qualities, or want Imported Queens, Dunham Foundation in large or small quantities, or Apiarian supplies of any kind at moderate prices, send for my new Illustrated Price List. Pure Beeswax worked on shares and bought for cash. Address,

=Dr. J. P. H. BROWN,= Augusta, Ga.

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C. Olm’s Comb Foundation Machine.

9-inch.--Price $25.00.

The cut represents the 9-inch machine; the cheapest made until now. Send for Circular and Sample.

=C. OLM=, Fond du Lac, Wis. JOHN BAXTER, Pickering, Ont., agent for Canada.

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HEDDON’S CIRCULAR, Giving prices and descriptions, with cuts, of his IMPROVED LANGSTROTH HIVE, _White Spruce Sections and Boxes_, Latest Improved Honey Scales, Queens and Full Colonies, UNEXCELLED BEE FEEDER, The Three Popular and Best Styles of Comb Foundation, Wired or not, in Langstroth frames or out.

Protectors, Honey Knives, Smokers, Glass, Honey and Wax Extractors, etc., together with the Best Honey-Yielding and Market Garden

SMALL FRUIT PLANTS,

is now ready to mail. Please send at once your full address, Post Office, County and State, to

JAMES HEDDON, Dowagiac, Cass County, Mich.

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SECTIONS AND HIVES.

We will make the Dovetailed or the “Boss” One-Piece Section any size up to 5×6, for $5.00 per 1,000. Material for Langstroth hive, 50c., including brood frames.

JAMES FORNCROOK & CO. Watertown, Jeff. Co., Wis., March 1, 1880.

=Take Notice.=--There is a patent pending on the “Boss” one-piece Section. 9mtf

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BEFORE PURCHASING ANY Italian and Cyprian Bees,

Send for our 20th Annual Price List. Full Colonies. Nuclei and Queens at reduced rates, also headquarters for Apiarian Supplies in New England.

=WM. W. CARY & SON=, formerly WM. W. CARY, Coleraine, Mass.

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JOSEPH D. ENAS,

(Sunny Side Apiary,)

Pure Italian Queens, Bees, Colonies

_Nuclei, Comb Foundation, etc._

Address. =Napa, Napa County, Cal.=

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Italian Queens Only 80 Cents.

Warranted $1.00, Tested $1.50, 10 frame Colonies $5.75 to $8.00. ☞ Send for Circular, and save money.

=E. A. THOMAS=, Coleraine, Mass.

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ITALIAN QUEENS.

Safe Arrival Guaranteed!

I am prepared to furnish queens of the purest grade, all bred from Imported Stock:

Untested Queens, in May and June $1 50 Untested Queens, in July and after 1 00 Tested Queens, in May and June 2 50 Tested Queens, in July and after 2 00

I guarantee all my Queens to be purely mated.

☞ Send for price list--free.

=L. C. McFATRIDGE, M. D.=, Carroll, Carroll Co., Ind.

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SUPPLIES FOR THE APIARY, FOR 1881.

It is to every person’s interest, when they wish to purchase anything, to go where they can get the most for their money. State on a postal card just what you want, and we will let you know by return mail what we will furnish it for. No Circulars. Address,

=HIRAM ROOP=, Carson City, Mich.

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FRANCES DUNHAM, Inventor and Sole Manufacturer of the DUNHAM FOUNDATION MACHINE,

AND DUNHAM COMB FOUNDATION,

☞ New Circular and Samples free. ☜

FRANCES DUNHAM, =DEPERE, BROWN CO., WIS.=

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TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR.

=65 First Premiums, Medals and Diplomas.=--Send postal card, with name and address, for my new Illustrated Circular and Price-List, containing valuable information to all bee-keepers. CHAS. H. LAKE, successor to the late Richard Colvin, 96 West Pratt Street, Baltimore, Md.

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IMPORTED ITALIAN QUEENS.

I shall import, direct from Italy, =Choice Italian Queens= this season, and will sell them at $5 each. Tested Queens, of my own rearing, from Imported stock, $2 each; Untested, $1 each. Imported and Tested Queens will be sent by Express, and Untested ones by mail.

=G. H. ADAMS=, North Nassau, N. Y.

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“American Apiary” for Sale.

About =150 Colonies of Bees=, in fair condition, in Langstroth hives; honey and wax extractors, empty combs, and the usual implements of an apiary.

Will sell for cash or trade for land.

=PAUL DUNKEN=, Freeman, Cass Co., Mo.

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MUTH’S HONEY EXTRACTOR AND UNCAPPING KNIFE.

The Extractor is made of all metal, is always ready for use, easily cleaned, and will last a lifetime. In fact, it has only to be used to be appreciated. Every Bee-Keeper should send for my circular giving details about the care of bees and how to get the most Honey.

CHAS. F. MUTH, No. 976 Central Av., Cincinnati, O.

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WESTERN BEE-KEEPERS can save money by sending for our new Illustrated Circular and Price List of =Apiarian Supplies, Note and Letter Heads, Cards, &c.=

BRIGHT BROTHERS, Mazeppa, Wabasha Co., Minn.

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Be SURE

To send a postal card for our Illustrated Catalogue of Apiarian Supplies before purchasing elsewhere. It contains illustrations and descriptions of everything new and valuable needed in an apiary, at the lowest prices. Italian, Cyprian and Holy Land Queens and Bees.

=J. C. & H. P. SAYLES=, Hartford, Wis.

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Books for Bee-Keepers.

=Cook’s Manual of the Apiary.=--Entirely rewritten, greatly enlarged and elegantly illustrated, and is fully up with the times on every conceivable subject that interests the apiarist. It is not only instructive, but intensely interesting and thoroughly practical. The book is a masterly production, and one that no bee-keeper, however limited his means, can afford to do without. Cloth, =$1.25=; paper covers, =$1.00=, postpaid. Per dozen, by express, cloth, $12.; paper, $9.50.

=Quinby’s New Bee-Keeping=, by L. C. Root.--The author has treated the subject of bee-keeping in a manner that cannot fail to interest all. Its style is plain and forcible, making all its readers sensible of the fact that the author is really the master of the subject. Price, =$1.50=.

=Novice’s A B C of Bee-Culture=, by A. I. Root.--This embraces “everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee,” and is valuable to beginners and those more advanced. Cloth, =$1.25=; paper, =$1.00=.

=King’s Bee-Keepers’ Text-Book=, by A. J. King.--This edition is revised and brought down to the present time. Cloth, =$1.00=; paper, =75c.=

=Langstroth on the Hive and Honey Bee.=--This is a standard scientific work. Price, =$2.00=.

=Blessed Bees=, by John Allen.--A romance of bee-keeping, full of practical information and contagious enthusiasm. Cloth, =$1.00=.

=Bee-Culture; or Successful Management of the Apiary=, by Thomas G. Newman.--This pamphlet embraces the following subjects: The Location of the Apiary--Honey Plants--Queen Rearing--Feeding--Swarming--Dividing--Transferring--Italianizing--Introducing Queens--Extracting--Quieting and Handling Bees--The Newest Method of Preparing Honey for Market, etc. It is published in =English= and =German=. Price for either edition, =40 cents=, postpaid, or $3.00 per dozen.

=Food Adulteration=; What we eat and should not eat. This book should be in every family, where it ought to create a sentiment against the adulteration of food products, and demand a law to protect consumers against the many health-destroying adulterations offered as food. 200 pages. Paper, =50c.=

=The Dzierzon Theory=;--presents the fundamental principles of bee-culture, and furnishes a condensed statement of the facts and arguments by which they are demonstrated. Price, =15 cents.=

=Honey, as Food and Medicine=, by Thomas G. Newman.--This is a pamphlet of 24 pages, discoursing upon the Ancient History of Bees and Honey; the nature, quality, sources, and preparation of Honey for the Market; Honey as an article of food, giving recipes for making Honey Cakes, Cookies, Puddings, Foam, Wines, &c.; and Honey as Medicine, followed by many useful Recipes. It is intended for consumers, and should be scattered by thousands all over the country, and thus assist in creating a demand for honey. Published in =English= and =German=. Price for either edition, =6c.=; per dozen, =50c.=

=Wintering Bees.=--This pamphlet contains all the Prize Essays on this important subject, that were read before the Centennial Bee-Keepers’ Association. The Prize--$25 in gold--was awarded to Prof. Cook’s Essay, which is given in full. Price, =10c.=

=The Hive I Use.=--Being a description of the hive used by G. M. Doolittle. Price, =5c.=

=Extracted Honey; Harvesting, Handling and Marketing.=--A 24-page pamphlet, by Ch. & C. P. Dadant, Hamilton, Ill. This gives in detail the methods and management adopted in their apiary. It contains many good and useful hints, and is well worth the price--=15c.=

=Practical Hints to Bee-Keepers=, by Chas. F. Muth, Cincinnati, Ohio; 32 pages. This pamphlet gives Mr. Muth’s views on the management of bees, and embraces several of his essays given at Conventions, etc. It will be read with interest by beginners as well as those more advanced in the science of bee-culture. Price, =10c.=

=Kendall’s Horse Book=.--No book can be more useful to horse owners. It has 35 engravings, illustrating positions of sick horses, and treats all diseases in a plain and comprehensive manner. It has a large number of good recipes, a table of doses, and much other valuable horse information. Paper, =25c.=

=Chicken Cholera=, by A. J. Hill.--A treatise on its cause, symptoms and cure. Price, =25c.=

=Moore’s Universal Assistant= contains information on every conceivable subject, as well as receipts for almost everything that could be desired. We doubt if any one could be induced to do without it, after having spent a few hours in looking it through. It contains 480 pages, and 500 engravings. Cloth, =$2.50=.

=Ropp’s Easy Calculator.=--These are handy tables for all kinds of merchandise and interest. It is really a lightning calculator, nicely bound, with slate and pocket for papers. In cloth, =$1.00=; Morocco, =$1.50=. Cheap edition, without slate, =50c.=

☞ Sent by mail on receipt of price, by

=THOMAS G. NEWMAN=, 974 West Madison Street, =Chicago, Ill.=

EMERSON BINDERS.

☞ =Binders for the Weekly Bee Journal, of 1881=, cloth and paper, =postpaid, 85 cents=.

We can furnish Emerson’s Binders, gilt lettered on the back, for AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL for =1880=, at the following prices, postage paid:

Cloth and paper, each 50c. Leather and cloth 75c.

☞ We can also furnish the Binder for any Paper or Magazine desired.

=THOMAS G. NEWMAN=, 974 West Madison Street, =Chicago, Ill.=

RATES FOR ADVERTISING.

A line will contain about =eight words=; fourteen lines will occupy one inch of space.

One to three weeks, each insertion, =20= cts. per line. Four “ or more “ “ =18= “ “ Eight “ “ “ “ =15= “ “ Thirteen “ “ “ “ =12= “ “ Twenty-six “ “ “ “ =10= “ “ Fifty-two “ “ “ “ =8= “ “

Special Notices, 50 cents per line.

Advertisements withdrawn before the expiration of the contract, will be charged the full rate for the time the advertisement _is_ inserted.

Transient Advertisements payable in advance.--Yearly Contracts payable quarterly, in advance.

THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL is the oldest Bee Paper in America, and has a large circulation in every State, Territory and Province, among farmers, mechanics, professional and business men, and is, therefore the best advertising medium for reliable dealers. Cases of _real_ imposition will be exposed.

THOMAS G. NEWMAN, =974= West Madison Street, =Chicago, Ill.=

Contents of this Number.

Correspondence:

Interesting Letter from Singapore 105 Exploring for Javan Bees in Ceylon 105 Cause of Bee Cholera or Dysentery 105 Extracting Bees--The New Industry 106 Separators for Surplus Honey 106 Pure Liquid Honey in Glass Jars 106 How to Separate Swarms 106 The Raspberry as a Honey Plant 106 Apis Americana 107 Fertilization of a Crippled Queen 107 Best Method of Marketing Honey 107

Editorial:

Editorial Items 108 The Lessons of the Hour 108 Is Bee-Keeping a Failure? 108 Law Against Adulteration in New York 108 Circulars and Catalogues 108 Vennor’s Predictions for April 108 Two Queens in a Hive 108

Selections from Our Letter Box:

Correction 109 Good Enough 109 Using Old Combs 109 Never Give Up 109 Good Prospects 109 Spring Time Come at Last 109 Come, Gentle Spring 109 Bees all Right 109 Lost 6 out of 100 Colonies 109 Vexed and Perplexed 109 Ventilation 109 Bees Confined 5 Months 109 Orchard Apiary 109 Loss in Cellar 109 Blasted Hopes 109 The Outlook Encouraging 109 Severe Winter, but Bees All Right 109 Winter Bee-House 109 Bees Wintered Well 110 Bees in Fair Condition 110 The Survival of the Fittest 110 Half of the Bees Dead 110 Wintered Without Loss 110 Wintered Safely 110 Chaff did not Save the Bees 110 Wintered in Chaff 110 Eleven Swarms from one Colony 110 A Visit Every Week very Pleasant 110 Buds are Swelling, Spring is Coming 110 Double-Walled Hives 110 Bees About All Dead 110 Losses in Wintering 110

Bees for Sale.

I wish to sell my =75 Colonies of Bees=, all in movable frame hives. In fair condition. I will take =$4.00= per Colony.

=J. J. QUINN=, Corydon, Henderson Co., Ky.

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QUEENS & BEES.

Tested, $2; Untested, $1; Black Bees, $6; Italians, $10; Plymouth Rock Eggs, $1.25 per dz., and the best and cheapest Hives made. Circular free. [14w1tp] H. BARBER, Adrian, Mich.

Hives, Sections, AND BOXES.

Material for Langstroth Hives, including brood frames, 40c. each; Lewis’ V-shaped groove one-piece Sections, any size to 6×6, $5 per 1,000; Lewis’ one-piece Honey Boxes of all sizes, $2 to $4 per 100, including glass; Dovetailed Sections, any size to 6×6, $4 per 1,000. Manufacturing experience of 20 years.

Send for Price List.

=G. B. LEWIS=, Successor to Lewis & Parks, Watertown, Wis.

N.B.--There is no patent on the Lewis One-Piece Section.

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=ITALIANS AND HYBRIDS=--30 or 40 Colonies for sale low. Queens and Nuclei after May 15th. Address,

=R. M. ARGO=, Lowell, Garrard County, Ky.

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=WANTED=--You to send for our Circular and Price list of =American-Italians=. Address,

=JOS. M. BROOKS & BRO.=, Columbus, Ind.

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=MAMMOTH RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER SEED=--Excellent for poultry, and yields an abundance of fall honey. Flowers from 10 to 20 inches in diameter. Price =25c.= per pkg., postpaid.

L. M. WAINWRIGHT, Noblesville. Ind.

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=PRIZE COMB FOUNDATION=, 10 sq. ft. per lb., with natural base. Send for samples.

G. W. STANLEY, Wyoming, N. Y.

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THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL, AND BEE-KEEPER’S ADVISER.

The _British Bee Journal_ is published monthly at $1.75, and contains the best practical information for the time being, showing what to do, and when and how to do it. =C. N. ABBOTT=, Bee Master,

School of Apiculture, Fairlawn, Southall, London.

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=My Annual Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seed for 1881=, rich in engravings from photographs of the originals, will be sent FREE to all who apply. My old customers need not write for it. I offer one of the largest collections of vegetable seed ever sent out by any Seed House in America, a large portion of which were grown on my six seed farms. _Full directions for cultivation on each package._ All seed _warranted to be both fresh and true to name_, so far, that should it prove otherwise, _I will refill the order gratis_. The original introducer of the Hubbard Squash, Phinney’s Melon, Marblehead Cabbages, Mexican Corn, and scores of other vegetables. I invite the patronage of _all who are anxious to have their seed directly from the grower, fresh, true, and of the very best strain_.

NEW VEGETABLES A SPECIALTY.

JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass.

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WORTH WILL WIN.

Truly, “Time sifts the wheat from the chaff.” We lead in Smokers. Our Double-blast Smoker is perfection. See what “the most extensive bee-keeper in America” says of our Quinby Smoker:

Cherry Valley, N. Y., March 22, 1881.

After testing your smokers with others of the best make, I do not hesitate to order two dozen for use in our apiaries. When we use a Smoker we make a business of it, running it all day and burning hard maple wood, which tests the construction most thoroughly. Those we have been using admit coals into the bellows, which burn the leather. The tube in your Quinby Smoker running further into the firebox, must prevent this in a great measure.

CAPT. J. E. HETHERINGTON.

If you desire to see a description of the goods we used in securing over 15,000 lbs. of honey from 176 colonies of bees the past poor season, send for our New Illustrated Circular for 1881, which is just ready.

=L. C. ROOT & BRO.=, Mohawk, N. Y.

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Rev. A. SALISBURY, Camargo, Douglas County, Ill.

Warranted Italian Queens, $1.00; Tested Italian Queens, $2.00; Cyprian Queens, $2.00; Tested Cyprian Queens, $4.00; 1 frame Nucleus, Italians, $4.00; 1 frame Nucleus, Cyprians, $5.00; Colony of Italians, 8 frames, $8.00; Colony of Cyprians, 8 frames, $10.00. Wax worked 10c. per lb. Pure Comb Foundation, on Dunham Machine, 25 lbs. or over, 35c. per lb. ☞ Send for Circular.

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DON’T BUY SUPPLIES

Till you have read my new price list for the spring trade. Wax is cheaper now, so I can sell you a fine article of Comb Foundation cheap, and made on the best machine. Italian and Cyprian Queens, Bees, Hives, Sections, etc. Price List free to all.

J. V. CALDWELL, Cambridge, Henry Co., Ill.

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Given’s Foundation Press.

The latest improvement in Foundation. Our thin and common Foundation is not surpassed. The only invention to make Foundation in the wired frame. All Presses warranted to give satisfaction. Send for Catalogue and Samples.

=D. S. GIVEN=, Hoopeston, Ill.

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=To One and All.--Are you suffering from a= Cough, Cold, Asthma, Bronchitis, or any of the various pulmonary troubles that so often end in Consumption? If so, use “_Wilbor’s Pure Cod-Liver Oil and Lime_,” a safe and sure remedy. This is no quack preparation, but is regularly prescribed by the medical faculty. Manufactured only by A. B. WILBOR, Chemist, Boston. Sold by all druggists.

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QUEENS, BEES, ETC.

IF YOU WISH THE Best, Gentlest and Most Beautiful Bees, I am prepared to furnish early Queens.

PURE ALBINO, ITALIAN AND HOLY LAND QUEENS,

Bred from Imported and Select Stock. Warranted to be pure, and safe arrival guaranteed. Also Hives, Novice’s Extractor, and Apiarian Supplies generally. Send for Price List. Address,

=S. VALENTINE=, Double Pipe Creek, Carroll Co., Md.

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=13 EGGS= from fine Plymouth Rock or W. Leghorn fowls for $2, or 26 for $3. Will exchange eggs for Queens or Bees.

=J. H. THORNBURG=, Winchester, Randolph Co., Ind.

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I HAVE NOW OVER

300 COLONIES

of Pure Italian Bees, in good condition, in 10 frame Langstroth hives. Orders for

ITALIAN QUEENS,

Nuclei and Full Colonies,

are now being booked and will be filled in rotation as received, commencing about June 1st., at the following prices:

Tested Queens, each $2.50 “ “ per half-dozen 13.50 1 frame Nucleus, with Tested Queen 5.00 2 “ “ “ “ “ 5.50 3 “ “ “ “ “ 6.00 4 “ “ “ “ “ 6.50 Full Colonies, each 12.00 “ “ in lots of 5, each 10.00 “ “ “ 10, each 9.00

I will use all possible care in preparing the above for shipment, but cannot guarantee safe arrival, except on queens any distance less than 1,000 miles.

ALSO 100 COLONIES OF BLACK AND HYBRID BEES,

In Langstroth hives, in quantities of not less than 5 colonies at =$8.00= each, which I will ship direct from the South, at any time after April 15th.

Also, 200 Colonies of Native Bees,

in Box Hives, delivered on Mississippi River Steamboat any time after April 15th, in lots of 10 or more, at =$6.00= each.

☞ The Colonies of Hybrids and Natives are very strong in bees reared this spring, and combs well filled with brood. They can be transferred or divided by May 1st, and increased in time for white clover and basswood surplus.

ALFRED H. NEWMAN, 972 West Madison St., CHICAGO, ILL.

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THE ORIGINAL

Patented Jan. 9, 1878, and May, 1879; Re-issued July 9, 1878.

If you buy a Bingham Smoker, or a Bingham & Hetherington Honey Knife you are sure of the best and cheapest, and not liable to prosecution for their use and sale. The largest bee-keepers use them exclusively. Twenty thousand in use--not one ever returned, or letter of complaint received. Our original patent Smokers and Honey Knives were the only ones on exhibition at the last National Bee-Keepers’ Convention, 1880. Time sifts the wheat from the chaff. Pretensions are short-lived.

The Large and Extra Standard have extra wide shields to prevent burning the fingers and bellows. A real improvement.

Send postal card for testimonials.