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that he secured nearly as much honey 

 as by any other method, and he knows 

 that such honey has held his trade all 

 of those years. Last year he was un- 

 fortunate enough to hire a man of large 

 experience as a bee keeper, but given to 

 extracting too soon, and, in spite of all 

 his watchfulness, he got several thousands 

 of pounds of honey that had to be sent to 

 the bakeries. 



"How to Keep Bees for Profit." 



This is the title of a new book by D. 

 Everett Lyon. It contains 330 pages, 

 is delightfully written and beautifully 

 illustrated. The publishers are Mac- 

 Millan Co., 66 Fifth Ave., New York- 

 price $L50. 



The author's experience peculiarly fits 

 him for the writing of such a work. He 

 has had actual work in the apiary, while 

 his education and experience in writing 

 and speaking fit him to put his apicul- 

 tural knowledge into a delightful style. 

 By this I don't mean that the language 

 is lofty in "style," quite the contrary; 

 it is that plain and common place speech 

 that we so easily understand, and enjoy 

 because we do understand. 



Of all the numerous bee books, I think 

 this is the best one for the beginner that 

 I have ever read. In fact the general 

 public would find the book readable and 

 enjoyable. It assumes that the reader 

 knows nothing of bee keeping, and then 

 proceeds to tell in the most straight 

 forward manner, just those things that 

 the beginner ought to know. 



The Jones Method of Swarm-Control an 

 Expensive Method. 



I have received another letter from the 

 South touching on the Jones system of 

 preventing swarming. It was written by 

 Wald. C. Conrads, of New Braunfels, 

 Texas. He says: 



In regard to Dr. Jones" method, I beg 

 to state that it is rather expensive to 

 raise so much brood and then destroy it 

 in such a way. It is very likely, if we 

 would use the greater part of the surplus 



brood in the hive for increase, or building 

 up weak colonies, and then uncap only 

 about one L. frame of brood, this uncap- 

 ping being scattered all over the remain- 

 ing frames in the hives, just a little on 

 every frame, would prove quite as 

 effective. Then, an uncapping knife is 

 not a handy thing for such work. A 

 device like a four-inch print-roller, pro- 

 vided with sharp points which would tear 

 up the cappings of the sealed brood, 

 would do the work easier and quicker, 

 also, at the same time, it would not make 

 it such an unpleasant task. I suppose, 

 at least, that the bees would carry out 

 all of the sealed brood of which the 

 cappings were punctured. 



As a rule, the Jones method is a very 

 expensive way to control swarming; but 

 whenever a bee keeper got behind with 

 his work in a bad swarming season it 

 would undoubtedly prove more economi- 

 cal to destroy the brood than to lose all 

 the prime swarms, to say nothing of the 

 after swarms. 



Our Beloved General Manager of the 

 National Association, and his good wife, 

 met with a very serious accident on the 

 evening of March 31st. They were driv- 

 ing to the post office to mail the last lot 

 of "Legal Rights," when, as they were 

 descending the first hill, they heard the 

 rattle of a rig behind them, as though a 

 "run-away" was coming. Mr. France 

 hit his horse with a whip and tried to get 

 out of the track in time, but a drunken 

 neighbor drove his horse into the back of 

 their rig, and they were thrown out on 

 the stones. Mr. France was dragged 

 some distance, holding on to the lines. 

 He sustained a slight fracture of the 

 skull, his arm and hip were skinned, and 

 the muscles of his back torn loose. He 

 was obliged to lie on pillows for 21 days, 

 and even now, in getting into bed, he has 

 "to walk in on his knees," get a pillow 

 behind him and then "drop" back, as he 

 can't use his back yet, and will never be 

 strong there again. May 15th he had to 

 undergo an operation, and it will not be 

 the final one, either. Mrs. France landed 

 on the stones under the kicking broncho, 

 and had her eye glasses smashed into 

 her cheek, making a wound that will 

 leave a permanent scar, and receiving 



