. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ITItsccllancous Hctps -> 3terns =\ J General Manager France, of Wisconsin, called on us last week when passing through Chicago on his way to New York State, where he will speak on bees and bee-dis- eases at farmers' institutes and bee-keepers' conventions during much of the time this month. It will be a treat for New York bee-keepers to hear Mr. France. Luna W. Elmore, of Jefi'erson Co., Iowa, when send- ing his renewal subscription dollar for 1905, added these appreciative words : " I can't get along without a good bee-paper like the American


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ITItsccllancous Hctps -> 3terns =\ J General Manager France, of Wisconsin, called on us last week when passing through Chicago on his way to New York State, where he will speak on bees and bee-dis- eases at farmers' institutes and bee-keepers' conventions during much of the time this month. It will be a treat for New York bee-keepers to hear Mr. France. Luna W. Elmore, of Jefi'erson Co., Iowa, when send- ing his renewal subscription dollar for 1905, added these appreciative words : " I can't get along without a good bee-paper like the American Bee Journal. All bee-keepers should read every copy. If one has only one colony of bees, a good bee-paper will help him to give that one colony the proper ; A Slx-Foot Swarm.—George Hodges, of Allegany Co., N. Y., sends us the following which originally appeared in the Friendship Register last summer : Mr. John Todd, who has a large apiary of nearly ISO colonies of bees, reported an unusual sight Tuesday of sev- eral colonies of bees that had swarmed and hung to a limb, one swarm after another caught on until the string of bees was nearly six feet long, and so heavy the limb finally broke with them. He said if they could have been photo- graphed it would have made a great picture. Mr. Hodges then added that he had had the same thing himself many times when the weather was warm. A Queen-Bee Free as a Premium.—We are now booking orders for untested Italian queens to be delivered in May or June. This is the premium offer: To a sub- scriber whose own subscription to the American Bee Jour- nal is paid at least to the end of 1905, we will give an un- tested Italian queen for sending us one new subscription with $ for the Bee Journal a year. Now is a good time to get new subscribers. If you wish extra copies of the Bee Journal for use as samples, let us know how many you want and we will mail them to you. Address all orders to the office of the American Bee Journal.


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