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sequently, siii^ar would not be carried 

 up. 



The American Hee Journal handles 

 the matter very fairl> and conserva- 

 tively; and decides that the chanj^^e is 

 "very remote. " 



More than once have my winter stores 

 been larjjely buckwiieat, yet never has 

 there been an ounce of the buckwheat 

 appeared in the sections the following- 

 season. Last spring- we even put full 

 combs of buckwheat honey in the brood 

 nests of some of the hives, onlj' a short 

 time before the opening- of the honej' 

 harvest, yet none of it ever showed up 

 in the supers. 



I greatlj' doubt if supers are ever 

 filled in the slig/iiesf degree, with any 

 honey not gathered during the harvest 

 3'ear. 



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Give the Supply Dealers and Editors 

 Due Credit. 



In the article by Arthur C. Miller it 

 will be noticed that he not onl3' classes 

 editors with thesnpplj- dealers, as men 

 who should have no voice in the affairs 

 of the National, but departmental edi- 

 tors, emploj'es and even "close associ- 

 ates" of editors, ought to be counted 

 out. I wonder if even correspondents 

 and subscribers of bee journals will 

 not 3'et be asked to keep out I Seri- 

 ously, I am at a loss to know why edi- 

 tors should be classed in this manner 

 with manufacturers and dealers. I 

 can understand that dealers wish to 

 sell supplies at a high price, and that 

 producers of honey wish to buj' them 

 at as low a price as possible, but 

 where does the editor come in ? His 

 sympathies must ever be with his sub- 

 scribers. True, a portion of his in- 

 come is derived from the adver- 

 tisements of dealers, but a verj' small 

 portion, indeed, compared to that from 

 subscriptions. 



It is possible that an association of 

 honey producers would better confine 

 their officiary, yes, and their member- 

 ship, to those who are producers only, 



but, when the National does this, I 

 most respectfully ask that the past ser- 

 vices, efforts and contributions of sup- 

 pl3' dealers and editors be acknowl- 

 edged and recognized. Without such 

 assistance from these tabooed classes, 

 the National would have been pretty 

 small jiotatoes. 



Difference in Stock. 



In the past I have had much to say 

 regarding the importance of good stock, 

 but we, brother and I, have had a very 

 vivid illustration along this line the 

 past season. In two yards we had a 

 chance to compare two strains of bees, 

 and, whatever the bees of one strain 

 may have been in the past, they fell 

 behind this year. When making the 

 first examination, after moving the 

 bees, Elmer found the colonies of this 

 strain reallj' more populous than those 

 of the other strain, and they have re- 

 mained so during the entire season, 

 but have fallen far behind in the 

 amount of surplus stored. In the 

 buckwheat harvest, great masses of 

 these bees would loaf on the outside of 

 the hives, with plenty of emptj' combs, 

 and the other strain of bees were 

 bringing in honey hand over fist. The 

 management was the same with both 

 lots of bees. 



In another ajiiary this same strain 

 of bees did not store more than half as 

 much honey, although really' more 

 populous, and given the same manage- 

 ment as the other strain. 



I am requeening this strain of bees 

 this fall, mostly with queens from J. P. 

 Moore, and next year I shall expect to 

 see the results. 



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Building Cheap Cellars. 



My brother Elmer and myself now 

 have on the ground the material for 

 building tvN'o cellars for wintering bees 

 in Northern Michigan. 



Here is our plan for building them: 

 First, plow and scrape and dig out the 

 excavation in a sandj- hill side. Then 



