Mar. 31, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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country. The importance of this is not 

 cmpliasized as it should be. Next to adver- 

 tising honey, this is the most important worl< 

 that the National could engage in. 



We are anxious to see the National take up 

 the systematic advertising "f honey ; not be- 

 cause as was intimated by the Editor in his 

 foot-note to our article, Dec. 1, but liecause we 

 jtrudiici lioncij for a living. A moment's re- 

 Hection will make it apparent that in buying 

 we pay a price that we know we can sell on 

 the markets as they are, at a profit. Any- 

 thing done to improve the markets will bene- 

 fit the producer, and him oulv, and exclu- 

 sively, in the end. 



To return to the article again. Mr. D. has 

 not stated the matter fairly. He leaves the 

 readers to believe that he had a car-load of 

 honey, when as a matter of fact he had but 

 talt a car. That was a season, also, that 

 prices made a rapid advance from opening 

 figures. If there had been a car of the goods 

 mentioned, it would have lieen taken at 10 

 and 11 cents, by the cash buyers, readily. 



We trust that the Editor will let us add this 

 closing remark at the risk of some free adver- 

 tising. Our customers have received as much 

 for their honey and procured their supplies as 

 cheaply as any association in Colorado or else- 

 where. Thos. C. Stanley & Son. 



Otero Co., Colo., March 11. 



Some Experience With Bees. 



When I was a boy my father was a bee- 

 keeper to quite an extent, keeping as high 

 as 50 colonies sometimes, in which I was 

 somewhat interested, but they were kept in 

 the old-fashioned hives, which did not pay so 

 very well, owing to the heavy winter losses, 

 and when the winter of 1882 came we lost all 

 — some 40 colonies. 



I did not have another colony until 1901, 

 (3 years ago) ; 21 years of grace, and during 

 that time lots of things had happened. I sold 

 the farm that we lived on in Fond du Lac Co., 

 and moved to Wood Co., Wis., where 1 now 

 live. I have a farm here where I keep my 

 bees and 40 head of cattle. 



Three years ago, on June 30, I bought a 

 colony of bees at an auction for .^8 00, and it 



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