that we furnish free to intending purchasers will tell you how we have succeeded. If you are looking for cheap John" goods don't write to Remus. E. D. TOWNSEND, Remus, Mich. FOR SALE.-10,000 lbs. comb honey. Can deliver July and August crop in September at 11 cts., f. o. b. in New York or 8 cts. in Havana; all fancy and A No. 1 white, in carriers of 170 lbs. net; nine cases to carrier, 24 sections to case. FRANK REIMAN, Nueva Paz, Cuba. FOR SALE.-Choice extracted white-clover honey, new crop, in new 60-lb. cans. Sample, 5c. G. A. BLEECH, Jerome, Mich. FOR SALE.-New clover honey in 60-lb. cans. FOR SALE.-Fine new extracted clover honey in 60-lb. square cans. C. G. LUFT, Forest, Ohio. FOR SALE.-7000 lbs. new clover honey in 60-lb. cans; sample free. JAS. MCNEILL, Hudson, N. Y. FOR SALE.-Comb and extracted white-clover honey; also full colony Italian bees. Please write. F. M. MAYBERRY, Obelisk, Pa. FOR SALE.-Superior grades of extracted honey for table use. Prices quoted on application. Sample, 10 cts. to pay for package and postage. O. L. HERSHISER, 301 Huntington Av., Buffalo, N. Y. FOR SALE.-12,000 lbs. new clover honey, comb and extracted; latter in five-gallon cans, one and five pound pails, and glass jars. State your wants, and we will quote a price that is right. QUIRIN-THE-QUEEN-BREEDER, Bellevue, Ohio. WANTED.-We will be in the market for comb honey in both local and car lots, and parties having same to sell or consign will do well to correspond with us. EVANS & TURNER, Columbus, Ohio. WANTED.-Honey in any quantity. State price, quantity, and quality. Address JUDSON HEARD, 110 South Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. WANTED.-Beeswax. Will pay spot cash and full market value for beeswax at any time of the year. Write us if you have any to dispose of. HILDRETH & SEGELKEN, 265-267 Greenwich St. New York. WANTED.-Strictly first-class white bulk comb honey. Any quantity. Write quantity you have, what size packages and price expected f. o. b. your nearest R. R. station. UDO TOEPPERWEIN, San Antonio, Texas. WANTED.-Comb, extracted honey, and beeswax. State price, kind, and quantity. R. A. BURNETT, 199 South Water St., Chicago, Ills. WANTED.-New comb honey-crop of 1905. We believe it would pay those having it in car lots or other It has a side grate that strengthens the fire-cup, and holds a removable metal and asbestos lining that keeps it cool, adding to its durability. It has no valves to get out of order. It has no snout to clog with soot. It gives a light or dense volume of cool smoke, at operator's option, 3 to 5 hours at one filling. Guarantee: Simplicity, quality, efficiency, durability. The General Manager of the National Bee-keepers' Association wrote me: Platteville, Wis., Oct. 28, 1904. I have given your Twentieth Century Smoker a thor ough trial. For convenience in lighting, durability, and long time one filling will last and give ample smoke. I find it all you claim. In the spring I shall want sev eral. I always want the best. Yours truly, N. E. France. Prices: By mail, one, $1.25; three, $3.25. F. DANZENBAKER, MEDINA, OHIO. A NUMBER OF TIPS!! Each of which has saved or gained me one dollar, is the talk of one of a series of articles by Dudley B. Truman, of Breezy Hill, Nassan, Bahamas, B. W. I., now running in the RURAL BEE-KEEPER, published at River Falls, Wis. Mr. Truman writes under the caption HIVE MANIPULATIONS In the July issue Mr. Truman gives six tips, each of which has saved or gained for him one dollar. The price of the RURAL BEE-KEEPER is but $1.00 for the twelve numbers, and one article tells how you can save or gain $6.00. There are 24 to 28 pages each issue-all valuable to bee-keepers; clubbed with GLEANINGS, $1.50. wise to write us. Give us your lowest spot-cash prices, W. H. Putnam, River Falls, Wis. and fully describe the goods and style of package, when you can ship, etc. We handle more of these goods than any other firm in the U. S. Yours for business, THOS. C. STANLEY & SON, Manzanola, Colo., and Fairfield, Ill. WANTED.-We are in the market for buckwheat honey, both comb and extracted. When writing be sure to tell how it is put up, mentioning the grade; if comb, No. 1 or fancy; and send sample if it is extracted. We do not want it mixed with other flavors. THE A. I. ROOT Co., Medina, Ohio. To Make of keeping bees in large numbers has been the leading theme of the Bee-keepers' Review for this year. Each issue contains one or more articles on this subject from men who have made great successes in this line; and these men are from widely scattered localities, from business grow until it brings you in thousands of dollars a year, send ten cents for three late but different issues of the Review, and the ten cents may apply on any subscription sent in during the year. Vermont to California, and from Cuba and Texas to W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich. Minnesota. If you are at all interested in making your FAIRS Why not make the fairs you attend profitable as well as instructive? Make a good honey exhibit and secure awards. Then use your time to advantage soliciting subscriptions to GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. GLEANINGS makes very liberal inducements in regular commissions besides large cash prizes. This matter is worth looking into. County and State Fair - Contest Prizes : : : : : $10, $5, $3, $2 To induce bee-keepers generally to enter our Fair Contest we make the following very liberal prizes over and above the regular commissions earned. For the party sending the largest list of subscribers, $10; for the second largest, $5; for third largest list, $3; for the fourth largest list, $2. Subject to the following CONDITIONS Please send agents' terms and enter my name as contestant in Fair Contest. Send to my address at proper time, advertising matter which will aid me in obtaining subscriptions. I have read conditions, and agree to them. ITALIAN QUEENS By RETURN MAIL. The Standard-bred kind. Untested, 75c each; 3 for $2.10; 6 for $4.00. They give satisfaction. Here are some unsolicited testimonials from those who have had our queens. What They Say of Our Queens. George W. York & Co.:-The two queens received of you some time ago are fine. They are good breeders, and the workers are showing up fine. I introduced them among black bees, and the bees are nearly yellow now, and are doing good work. Nemaha Co., Ks., July 15, 1905. A. W. SWAN. George W. York & Co.:-After importing queens for fifteen years you have sent me the best. She keeps 91⁄2 Langstroth frames fully occupied to date, and, although I kept the hive well contracted, to force them to swarm, they have never built a queencell, and will put up 100 lbs. of honey if the flow lasts this week. CHAS. MITCHELL. Ontario, Canada, July 22, 1905. George W. York & Co.:-The queen I bought of you has proven a good one, and has given me some of my best colonies. N. P. OGLESBY. Washington Co., Va., July 22, 1905. George W. York & Co.:-The queen I received of you a few days ago came through o. k, and I want to say that she is a beauty. I immediately introduced her into a colony which had been queenless for twenty days. She was accepted by them, and has gone to work nicely. I am highly pleased with her and your promptness in filling my order. My father, who is an old bee-keeper, pronounced her very fine. You will hear from ine again when I am in need of something in the bee line Marion Co., Ill., July 13. E. E. MCCOLM. Some Special Offers.-A queen and the WEEKLY AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, a whole year, for only $1.50; or the queen, BEE JOURNAL, and GLEANINGS-all three-for only $2.25. How to Sell and Ship Honey.-The AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL for Aug. 3 is a DOUBLE NUMBER (32 large pages) and illustrated. A strong feature consists of several experiences on selling and shipping honey. This alone is well worth a FULL DOLLAR to any bee-keeper right now. Then there are the usual departments, besides some ten pages of the Chicago-Northwestern Convension Report. It is all a feast of good things. Send ten cents for the August 3d copy with four others of late date. Or better still, send $1.00 for a year's subscription; or $1.50 for a queen and the BEE JOURNAL a year. Sample regular copy free for the asking. Address Be sure of the last step In producing your honey, which is the pur- * Your honey put up in good shape will bring higher prices, and the demand for it will be increased from year to year. This factory's reliable goods have started many a man on the road to success. ЛЕМ WATERTOWN 55 A G.B.Lewis Co., Watertown, Wis. Bee-keepers' Supplies. C. E. WOODWARD is less worried, if possible, than I am, as to the disappearance of basswood lumber. He says in Review: "I have never yet seen a one-piece section that I considered worth putting the foundation into. The four-piece section, made from white poplar, is the only first-class section on the market." Thanks, Bro. Woodward. A SWARM issued from No. 18. I said, "That's strange; the queen is caged in No. 18; are they swarming with the queen in the cage?' But I found a clipped queen on the ground in front of the hive. Then I said, How could that queen get out of the cage?" Looking in the hive I found the cage all right and the queen still in it. A queen from some other colony had evidently entered, and agreed to elope with the colony. Precisely the same thing occurred at No. 60, and on the same day. Bees are queer. [This only emphasizes what I have said elsewhere, that queens sometimes make mistakes by going into the wrong hive.-ED.] C. H. DIBBERN thinks from my Straw, p. 755, that I think his trap a failure. That's where you're out, friend Dibbern. The work of the trap was to catch that queen, and it caught her. The regular thing would have been to hive the swarm, and the trap had the queen caught all right for that. But I didn't want to hive the swarm. All I wanted of the trap was to tell me the colony had swarmed. It did that, saving me the trouble of looking for queen-cells every ten days up to the time the colony swarmed. I left the colony till it was convenient for me to have a controversy with it about the mat ILLUSTRATED SEMI-MONTHLY Published by THEA-FRoot Co. $100 PER YEAR No. 16 ter of swarming; and I suppose in most cases the queen would have remained in the trap. FOR ONCE I wish I hadn't put on so many supers. It will be all right if clover takes a fresh spurt, but otherwise there will be an undesirable number of unfinished sections. Yet the promise was so great, and the cutoff so sudden, that I hardly blame myself. Suspect I'd do the same thing again under like conditions. [At one of our outyards I put in a lot of frames of foundation to give the bees room, and now I wish I hadn't. The honey-flow that seemed to be so strong was followed by chilly weather, and especially by cool nights. Some of the brood chilled. In other years these nuclei would have suffered from want of room, with precisely the same conditions that made it seem necessary to put in foundation this year.ED.] REPLYING to your queries, p. 805, Mr. Editor, this season is better than last in this locality, and better than the average season. Nothing like so good, however, as it promised. Up to July 20 it was great; then suddenly robbers began to trouble, although plenty of clover bloom was in sight. Gradually the whiteness of clover faded out, although there was no drouth. But it has brightened up again, and Aug. 7 there is a fine show of clover. Whether the bees get any thing from it remains to be seen; but, like a genuine bee-keeper, I'm hoping. Twelve hours later. -Been to work at the bees since writing the foregoing, and there's no question about the fresh start. No trouble from robbers, and "honey shakes". that is, when you shake the bees off a comb a flood of nectar flies out. [This is the kind of reports we have been getting from other bee-keepers. It looks decidedly as if there would be belated crops in many sections, when, early in the season, it was estimated they would be without honey.-ED.] "THE SUNDAY closing law has finally triumphed in Missouri. St. Louis police put the lid on good and tight in St. Louis Co. yesterday."-Chicago daily, Aug. 7.-"That's nothing to do with bee-keeping?" Yes, it |