Twenty-Five Years With Bees - Jay Smith 1925
Twenty-Five Years With Bees - Jay Smith 1925
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1924
ALBERT R. MANN
LIBRARY
NEW YORK STATE
COLLEGES
OF
ECONOMICS
AT
CORNELL
UNIVERSITY
Ijears
1171TH
BEES
JAY SMITH
ROUTE THREE
VINCENNES, INDIANA
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with
When
that
Spring
my wife said we
had intended going for
had become an expert
cuses, the church going
must go to church.
several Sundays; but
at inventing suitable
had been put off until
Twenty-five
Year,
JBeehejer
My First
Summer as a
The First
Winter
Sunday
We
as
ex
this
work.
and the main part
is the breeder."
H. Peterman.
Lathrop, California.
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A Isconding,
A New
Experience
My
One
Colony
leefar
Thus
proposition
"The queen you sent ms is sure a dandy and her bees are so yellow and
gentle. We reared twelve queens from her and. they were fifte.
Your queens
are worth more than you ask for them,"
F. D. Williams, Coopsrstown,
North Dakota.
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II
here, mine are getting just that much less.
you get another gum, our bees will all starve
unless we feed 'em." I felt bitterly chagrined
that I was inconveniencing him thus; but I was
out lor information, so I timidly asked how he
kept his swarms from getting away. He majes
tically pointed to a large tin dish pan that his
wife had evidently junked, as it had several holes
rusted in it. "Well," said he, "when a swarm
comes out, I take a club and pound that dish pan
The bees sort of
and make a noise like thunder.
get the notion it's going to rain, and they al
ways cluster."
I thought this o_ver carefully,
then I told him I had put a swarm into a hive but
they failed to stay "put." I asked him how he
made his stay.
He said, "Well, bees never leave
in the dark of the moon." I said, "Mine didn't.
Mine left in the light of the sun." Whereupon he
informed me I had made a dreadful mistake. 1
had failed to rub my hives with peach leaves.
That was why they had not stayed! I went home
to think matters over.
I
to try other sources c'f information.
began to look up and order books about Bees
and Beekeeping.
read all of these with avid*
ity. I subscribed to all of the Bee Journals then
I studied these carefully. I became
published.
more and more interested. There was so much to
the subject. I was amazed and fascinated.
decided
looking
back
We
Overstocking
information
Cettmq
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Off
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Rigkt Fovt
Inblunders I
made
TheI
"Your queens are the finest I ever got from four different
are the cheapest of any when you figure the results."
My
5e<m<2
Summer
breeders and
...
ed me up.
'y.T
Swarms
On
there
"
Swarm*
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And Mori
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of-way."
E. L. Stalcup,
Unionville, Missouri.
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got from
The Ufa
and Dawns
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"Better Beet"
selected
Fall,
Breeding
Queens
one
OneErbaugh,
Why Xot
Sell Queens?
Itold
go into
A dvict
From an
Expert
Then
would
"We have given your queens a trial and find them the best of any we
have ever used. Our Inspector, when he saw them said, 'This is the prettiest
bunch of bees I ever saw."
Van Cleave & Son, Blakesburg,
Iowa.
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if
hurting his
recommend them without
conscience or injuring his reputation for truthful
ness and honesty well, I would be mighty well
pleased for him to do so.
could
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Thus
Breeder.
Catalogue
Our Customers
Lite
Seem
Old Friends
Mr.queens
Demand
Exceeds
Supply
the
"I cnn say that the queens that I got from you last year are the best
have ever seen in a'.l of my beekeeping experience."
A.
J.
Davis,
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We bees.
the
for our
As crease
and our apiary
continued to in
was enlarged, we found
. it necessary to move to the country, and in
1917 we purchased our present location, a twelve
acre plot, covered with magnificient
oak trees,
overlooking the city of Vincennes, an ideal spot
for a home as well as an apiary.
demand
queens
1918, Dr. E. P. Phillips, in charge of Bee Culture for the Government asked me to do Ex
tension Work in Beekeeping for the Govern
ment for the duration of the war. Like the rest,
I wanted to do my "bit" for our country, so resigning my position here in the High School. I
sent to California for six
accepted and was
months to 'teach "Better Beekeeping."
As far as
the educational value of my California trip is con
cerned, it was a success to me, at least, for I
learned a lot about beekeeping, especially abou
Bee Disease; but as to whether I taught the Cali
fornia Beekeepers anything why, that is another
story!
One big thing I also learned during that
six months is how thoroughly splendid and worth
while beekeepers as a class really are, and not
only in California but all over the States and
Canada, where I have since met them in Conven-
The Paclage
Business
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to
The Country
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"The queens
received from you last year were certainly fine ones.
This
year has been exceptionally bad for swarming,
but their was not a queen
cell started in any colony containing your queen."
Helen
Steiner,
Elma,
Washington.
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Thus
we
Antr
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iwenty-pvt
Ytari
Our
Stock
F breeding
How We
Stltct Our
Own
SntJing
'
we have
am well satisfied with the queen I received from you last spring.
are the gentlest of any I have in' my yard."
"I
bees
Alfred E. Thomas.
Secor,
Illinois.
Her
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Tooif
Allkeeper as well
Colo
Italian See
Best
For
America
Black Bee
Inferior
'Extra
Yeffow
Italians
Genthness
Splendid
Characteristic
"A flriend of mine has one of your queens that has kept the best part of
twenty frames filled with brood.
She is doing practically the same thing this
year in spite of the wet weather."
J. C. Swift, Clifton Station, Virginia.
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There
est
TJu Most
Wonderful
Qultn
On Record
"I have those bees I got from you seven years ago pure as the day I got
them. My sister got a big crop from them last summer.
Beat my other bees
all to pieces. Your bees are very easy to handle and are great honey gath
erers."
W. G. Standbridge, East Kildonan, Manitoba.
10
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To larvae
All or
Our
At
*Beei
Honey
Gettirt
How Our
Queens
Art
'Reared
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"I now have a number of colonies headed by queens reared from one of
your breeding queens and I like them very much.
The thirty queens I am
now ordering will make my entire yard headed by queens of your stock."
W. E. Fry, Aubry, Texas.
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Matmg
SfminJ
Every
my direct supervision.
"
tn
D*"
n
Our
Rearing
flH"n*
Personal
Intenst In..
Each Quitn
will
r PRODUCE."
"THE BEST
KNOW
In
earlier
Ft
Oni yrad*
of
Qutmt
or under
My assistants in the
WE
queens
HOW
of
TO
experience when we
our
were not able to rear as high grade queens as at
At
present, we produced all grades of queens.
that time we offered the best as "select" and the
poorer grade as just "ordinary" queens; but with
improved methods, the number of the lower grade
is less and we cull them out entirely, and now
offer only the very best, formerly called "select."
As stated before, if for any reason a queen does
not measure up to our high standard in every par
ticular, she is discarded; for as you know it is
false economy to have any but the very best
queen at the head of a colony.
"Your queens tare all doing fine. I am using one as a breeder and am
willing to wager that her daughters are equal to any you send out. That is
saying
somsthing."
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Withoffer
No
Tested
Queens
Youpurchase
Big Value
In Our
Queens
Our
^Breeding
Queens
A)J
Breeding
Queens
Clifaed
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Breeding
Our
Service
Guarantee on
Breeding gueens
for
Breeding
Qu een
^""."
oervtct
(food Queens
Necessary to
Success
O
Jursatisfaction
itho all of our best authorities have called attention to the importance of having vigorous
young queens at the head of all colonies if
the best results are to be obtained, yet it is doubt
ful if beekeepers generally realize just what an
important part the queen really plays in profit
One may employ a perfect
able beekeeping.
system of management in every respect except
having good young queens and yet only negative
results will be obtained. No matter how good the
hive, how well winter packing is done, how much
1
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"The three queens I received from you have given most excellent, satisfac
tion.
Their bees are gentle and great honey getters. Please send the Dame
variety to me this time."
C. D. Forney, Lawndale, North Carolina.
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If own
Inown
<Rearmg
Your Own
Queens
Our
Boot
Methods of
Queen Rearing
Described
"Please send me two more queens. If they are as good as the last Italian
queens I received from you, they will be all right."
S. E. Mighton, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
15
* 1900-1925
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In queens
Provision ing
The Queen
Mailing
Cage
Certificate
of Health
WitJl Every
Shipment We
Make
A
Introducing
New Stock
Curing
European
Foulbrood
"I
received the queen from you last September and she came through the
She looks good and her bees are the yellowest I ever saw."
A. N. Barnum, Columbia Falls, Montana.
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Ourthe
We ply nuclei
of our untested
shipped to points in
the United States and Canada are mailed in
our long distance cage, well supplied with
proper food. Air Breeding Queens and all ship
ments made to foreign countries are sent in our
Not only is it essential that a
export cage.
queen arrives alive, but she should be in full vigor
We take
and in no way injured by her journey.
pride in our record of successful shipment of
queens, the loss in the United States and Canada
averaging a little less than one-half of one per
cent, with a comparatively small loss in foreign
shipments.
All
'Sees
Winter
Length of
Our
Season
.No Virgin
Queens, Nuclei
or Package Bees
for
Sale
Queens,
All that
How Our
Small Sniping
Loss
BooJcmg
Orders
"My apiarist is much impressed with the work of the daughters of the
They are
Breeder I purchased of you two years ago, so I want some more.
the handsomest bees I ever had."
Dr. C. R. Myrick, Uvalde, Texas.
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Dates
of
an
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Shipment*
'bee
Frequently
r.ately and telegraphs or telephones us an order.
We most certainly wish to accomodate such
aeroplane to
short time.
They are mailed at our local postoffice at ten
o'clock in the morning and arrive in San Franjisco at five o'clock the afternoon of the day fol
lowing.
Prom San Francisco, they are carried
by the regular mail to their destination.
Last
season we shipped a number of untested as well'
as breeders by aeroplane with the best of results.
When queens are desired Sent by aeroplane, add
the West Coast is remarkably
Queens
'"Hie Breeding Queen you sent by aeroplane September fifth, arrived here
safely September seventh. We have reared a number of queens from her and
they are beauties."
Mrs. L. A. Birch, Durham,
California.
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iann-1925
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Remittance
money order
How To Remit
Removing Your
Do be
We introduction,
We when
Old Quttn
Introducing
Queens
Oiling
We every
Or Guarantee
"I am well pleased with the queen I got from you last year. She did well.
Have a daughter of hers that is the beat of any that I have ever had."
C. F. Smith,
I'J
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Let
U,
You
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If I
For
This Year
1.
$2.00 each
$1.95 each
Ten or more
$1.90 each
QUEENS, which
BREEDING
$1.50 each
$1.45 each
$1.40 each
$1.35 each
$1.30 each
..$1.25 each
$1.20 each
means
Jay Smith
Push-in
1.
..$10.00
Simplified"
Introducing
Cage,
$1.25
35c
postpaid.
Address
JAY SMITH
ROUTE THREE.
VINCENNES, INDIANA.
"The queens I bought of you last year have produced to August first, 100
pounds of section honey per colony, which, is about 40 pounds more per
colony, than the other thirty colonies."
V. N. Asbury, New Port, Ind.