. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. can Bee Journal—Chas. Dadant & Son. Each subject is clearly and thoroly ex- plained, so that by following the in- structions of this book one cannot fail to be wonderfully helpt on the way to success with bees. The book we mail for $, or club it with the American Bee Journal for one year—both for $ But, as a SPECIAL OFFER, and only until next Jan. 1, we will mail this book for only 75 cents provided you send enough on your Bee Journal subscription to pay all arrearages and to the end of 1900. Those having alreadj' paid their Bee Journal s


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. can Bee Journal—Chas. Dadant & Son. Each subject is clearly and thoroly ex- plained, so that by following the in- structions of this book one cannot fail to be wonderfully helpt on the way to success with bees. The book we mail for $, or club it with the American Bee Journal for one year—both for $ But, as a SPECIAL OFFER, and only until next Jan. 1, we will mail this book for only 75 cents provided you send enough on your Bee Journal subscription to pay all arrearages and to the end of 1900. Those having alreadj' paid their Bee Journal subscription to the end of this year, need send only $ for the book and the Journal for 1900. This is a splendid chance to get a grand bee- book for a very little money. ADDRESS, George W. York & Co. CHICAGO, ILL. 118 Michigan St. ital letters, for we have never known bees (with a virgin queon), when fairly numer- ous, to refuse to clear out ail evidence of disease during the active season of honey- ; k^^a«g^5»g^5^s>i^Sfe;^a^i;e^^g^\^^jgj ^%EiyL" f^M T/',!^{,^mm A Good Report for 1899. The past season opened with the best of prospects, and the bees were making prepa- rations for swarming, when behold! a heavy frost killed the blossoms, and set back swarming—the bees killing off every drone. But when Alsike clover opened, they made up for lost time, giving nearly KlU pounds of nice white honey per colony. That was about all I got, for the drouth and heavy early frosts finisht the fall flow, the bees getting hardly "enough to winter on. My crop is H 000 pounds from 35 colo- nies, and increasing to .">tj. I. D. Bartlett. Charlevoix Co., Mich., Nov. 30. Lost All Last Winter. I lost all ray bees last winter—I'.l colonies —and got about 200 pounds of hone^'from two colonies that I bought in the spring, and inereast them to ten. I did not get any surplus honey the past fall. But 1 am not discouraged, as I like to handle bees. R. H


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