. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Poor Season for Bees. It has been a poay to tal^e bee-papers!" and keep bees. Hurrah for the American Bee Journal! ?ike Co., Ohio, .\ug. 12. J. M. West. 44 & 14« Erie St., CHICAGO, ILL. An Experience in Bee-Keeping. Three years ago I sent to a Tennessee firm fur four 2-frame nuclei, at | each, after being assured that the express charges would not exceed 45 cents apiece; but when they arrived there were $ express charges on them, and one of them was queenless, and of course died. I never could hear from that firm again, although I wr
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Poor Season for Bees. It has been a poay to tal^e bee-papers!" and keep bees. Hurrah for the American Bee Journal! ?ike Co., Ohio, .\ug. 12. J. M. West. 44 & 14« Erie St., CHICAGO, ILL. An Experience in Bee-Keeping. Three years ago I sent to a Tennessee firm fur four 2-frame nuclei, at | each, after being assured that the express charges would not exceed 45 cents apiece; but when they arrived there were $ express charges on them, and one of them was queenless, and of course died. I never could hear from that firm again, although I wrote several times to them. The other three nuclei built up strong, and filled the eight brood-frames. They wintered on the summer stands all right, and the next spring, about June 1, they commenced swarm- ing, and they did everlastingly swarm. I was away from home, and my wife, who had had no experience with bees, had her hands full. She succeeded in hiving six swarms, and she says five or six got away. As a result of ex- eessive swarming the original colonies were I reduced so that they did not store much QUPKS QUIRIN The Queen-Bheeder — has now on hand, ready to mail, 500 youog, lonp- tongued Red Clover Queens, Golden or Leather Colored. We have one of Root's best breeders from his $200, lon^-tongued. Red Clover Queen, and a Golden Breeder which we are told is worth iflOO, if there is a queen in the U. S. worth that sum. J. L. Gandy, of Humboldt, Nebr., tells us that the colony having oue of our queens, stored over 400 pounds (mostly comb) honey in a single sea- son. A. I. Root's folks say that our queens are extra line, while the editor of the American Bee Journal tells us that he has good reports from our stock from time to time. We have years of in mailing and rearing Queens. Queens positively by return mail from now on. Prices for balance of season as follows: 1 6 12 Selected $.75 $ $ Tested Selected tested 8 00 Extra selected
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