Feb. 25, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



153 



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We sell l>y tlic case to retail grocers. The 

 fellow who talks of weight and wants large 

 profits sells 5u pounds. The fellow that is 

 satistied with a reasonable profit sells 1000 in 

 the same time. This has been our experience 

 for the past 3 years. We tell the one he needs 

 no hone.v, and the other he will be supplied 

 as long as we can produce it, and he gets the 

 cream, when the crop runs light. A lively 

 grocer in any of these small towns can sell 

 1000 in the fall and early winter. If he is just 

 a penny too high he will lose halt his'trade; 

 if he goes 3 cents too high he might as well 

 throw the honey overboard. 



A. C. HUNSBERGEK. 



Northampton Co., Pa., .Jan. 29. 



A Long-Continued Drouth. 



As to the coming season in Southern Cali- 

 fornia, everything points toward an alisolute 

 failure. There has been a little over half an 

 inch of rain to this date, and if that mal;es 

 the heart of a bee-man glad he is easily 

 pleased. I do not believe there will be enough 

 honey gathered here this season to feed the 

 bees. 



I recently tooK a trip to my apiary, nearly 

 30 miles from this city, and never, since living 

 here, have I seen everything so dried up and 

 parched by long-continued drouth. 



The American Bee .Journal is a most wel- 

 come visitor each weeli, and the report of the 

 Chicago-Northwestern Convention, in the 

 issue of Jan. 28, is good reading. 



Albert Rozell. 



Los Angeles Co., Calif., Feb. 4. 



Satisfied with Last Season. 



I feel very well satisfied with the past 

 season. I started with 9 colonies and in- 

 creased to IT. I had TOO pounds of comb 

 honey. Spring was very backward, wet and 

 cold. The first swarm came on June 26. 1 

 shook five of my colonies into Danz. hives, 

 and am well pleased with them. I took some 

 of my 4x5 sections to the county fair. There 

 was a good display of honey, and some of it 

 very nice. Mine were the only plain sections 

 there. I received 1st on it. On the closing 

 day of the fair, I took my honey to one of the 

 largest stores in Aurora and showed it to the 

 manager; he was very anxious to get the 

 whole crop of section honey. I received .*2.60 

 a case (20 sections), and the shipping-cases 

 returned. They called my attention to some 

 honey they had on the counter, and said they 

 were pa.^ing three cents more a pound for 

 mine. Most of the honey I have seen in the 

 stores is just as it came from the supers. 



My bees are in the cellar. We have had so 

 far a very mild winter, and very dry ; no snow 

 at all. if it takes snow to bring white clover 

 through the winter I am afraid we will be 

 minus the clover. There is a good deal of 

 alfalfa around me, but I have been quite disap- 

 pointed in it. The bees do not seem to work 

 much on it, but it may be on account of the 

 past two seasons being very wet. 



Frank M. Roseman. 



Hamilton Co., Neb., Feb. 5. 



Colors and Flavors of Honey. 



I notice Dr. Miller's error, on page Tl, in at- 

 tributing my suggestion regarding New Hamp- 

 shire's sample of honey to Missouri instead of 

 New fork. 



The error is of no consequence whatever; 

 but the great ilifTerence in distance and of 

 climate between Missouri or New York and 

 New Hampshire might be considered as bring- 

 ing the influence of locality into the consider- 

 ation. New Hampshire and New York, vicin- 

 ity of Albany, would not vary much in cli- 

 matic inlluences, and therefore the honey from 



