THE BEBKEEPERS' REVIEW 



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E. R. R(WT was re-elected as President 

 at the Chicago convention, and Dr. Mason 

 was served the same as Secretary. R. C. 

 Aikin was elected at Vice-President. The 

 choice for the place of holding the next 

 meeting lies between BufTalo with the 

 Pan American and Niagara Kails as at- 

 tractions, and Denver with the low rates 

 that will be assured with the meeting 

 there of the G. A. R. 



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Thk Chic.\go Convention was well 

 attended. I didn't count the members, 

 but Bro. York says in his paper that there 

 were fully 350 present one evening. I 

 presume that some of these were Chicago 

 bee-keepers and their friends. In the 

 group that I took one afternoon there were 

 about 175, but I am satisfied that quite a 

 number were absent at that time. The 

 hotel accommodations were good. Chi- 

 cago can always take care of a crowd. 

 The hail w is conveniently located. The 

 only drawback was the difficulty of mak- 

 ing one's self heard in the hall. The 

 room was large, and the heat necessitated 

 the opening of the windows through 

 which floated in the evidence that we 

 were in Chicago — that noisy, bustling 

 metropolis of the West. 



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RKT.\II,ING EXTRACTED HONEY. 



PZ. R. Root, President of the convention 

 reeently held at Chicago, urged the im- 

 portance of developing the home-markets 

 for the sale of extracted honey. He de- 

 plored the sending of large quantities to 

 the cities, where it is adulterated, and 

 palmed off on the unsuspecting public. A 

 number of prominent producers are now 

 bottling their own product, and putting 

 it on the market of their own vicinities, 

 under their own name and guarantee. 

 The fact has been demonstrated, over 

 and over again, that the general public 

 will pay a good round price, providing 

 that it can be assured that the honey 

 that it is buying is pure bees' honey, and 

 that the bee-keeper or person putting it 

 up is reliable and honest. 



SlvI-LINC HONEY. 

 Mr. Herman F. Moore, at the Chicago 

 convention gave very nearly, if not exact- 

 ly, the advice that I gave last month in 

 regard to sending honey away to distant 

 markets. Among other things he said: 

 "Be methodical; have your bargain in 

 writing; save the envelope covering the 

 correspondence; look up the standing of 

 the purchaser in Dunn or Bradstreet; 

 write a personal letter to a banker, en- 

 closing a stamped envelope for a reply, 

 asking about the party. This one pre- 

 caution, that of asking a banker for the 

 name of a reliable dealer, would almost 

 entirely prevent loss. To sell goods on 

 commission and not pay for them is 

 larceny. If honey is sold direct, the 

 dealer may say that collections are bad, 

 or he may go into bankruptcy." 



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Shipping Queens successfully by mail 

 is quite a knack. At the Chicago con- 

 vention, Frank Benton put some stress 

 upon the packing. The center apart- 

 ment ought to be well shut off from the 

 rest of the cage. The outer hole should 

 be well ventilated. In cold weather the 

 bees can cluster in this inner darkened 

 chamber. In warm weather they can go 

 out into the ventilated apartment. Most 

 manufacturers make the holes interlap or 

 cut into one another. This ought not to 

 be. The wood should not be cut out be- 

 tween the different apartments, simply a 

 small hole made to allow the bees to pass. 

 Inside of the food apartment should be 

 waxed to prevent the honey soaking into 

 the wood. Too many bees with the queen 

 is worse than too few. A dozen bees is a 

 great plenty in the warm weather* 



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The Laws of one State have no bind- 

 ing force in other States. This was 

 pointed out in the address of Mr. H. F. 

 Moore at the Chicago convention. The 

 only bearing that the Arkansas case re- 

 garding bees as a nuisance has in Illinois 

 is that courts generally respect the de- 

 cisions of sister States in any matter that 



