THE BEE-KEEPERS- REVIEW 



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was 14, I sold S25 00 worth of fur. To 

 me it seemed a small fortune, 52,500 

 would seem no larger to me now. 



Oh, the happiness of those days! When, 

 with gun over my shoulder, I tramped 

 over the rustling carpet of leaves under 

 foot, listened to the chatter of squirrels 

 as they gathered their store of nuts for win- 

 ter, when 1 feasted on bunches of purple 

 wild grapes, or crimson wild plums, com- 

 ing home in the gloaming, or possibly bv 

 moonlight, with a partridge or squirrel 

 in my sack, and a mind as free from 

 care as the wind that blows. 



From my experience I might write 

 quite an instructive book on trapping; 

 but it isn"t necessary, as others have 

 already performed the task: in fact 

 there is a montly magazine called The 

 Hunter, Trader, Trapper. It is brimful 

 of instruction how to catch all kinds of 

 fur bearing animals, trapping and hunt- 

 ing stories, and the like. I read it be- 

 cause it brings back so vividly those 

 happy days of my boyhood. 



The magazine is S 1 .oO a year, and 

 published at Columbus, Ohio, 1 will club 

 it and the Review one year for SI. 90. 



Of course, all this has nothing to do 

 with bee keeping, but I know that many 

 of my readers have boys who might 

 earn quite a little money trapping, if they 

 were reminded of it, and given the proper 

 instructions, and my heart is full of 

 sympathy and comradeship for those boys. 



Of course, there are some parts of 

 the country where there are no fur- 

 bearing animals to catch, but you would 

 be surprised at some of the large 

 "catches," reported in Hunter. Trader, 

 Trapper, as being made even quite near 

 to large cities. 



Selling Dark Honey for as much as White. 

 A good friend and subscriber of mine 

 in Northern Michigan takes me to task 

 for offering my buckwheat-willow herb 

 at a lower price than the straight, water- 

 white willow herb. He says that when 

 living in Missouri he sold the darker 

 Spanish needle honey in competition with 



white honey, getting the same price for 

 both. In Northern Michigan he has 

 buckwheat honey, the willow herb and 

 raspberry, and he sells all at the same 

 price, viz., ten cents. He says we are 

 foolish to offer our dark honey at a lower 

 price; that it is worth just as much as 

 the lighter colored honies, and consumers 

 would never think of paying any less for 

 it, if we did not put it into their heads. 

 He says we should put the different 

 varieties of honey before them, saying: 

 "Here is clover, buckwheat and golden- 

 rod; all the same price. Taste and take 

 your choice." Don"t praise one kind, nor 

 "run down'' another, simply let the 

 customer choose. Do this, says my friend, 

 and you will be surprised at the large 

 number who choose the darker, stronger 

 flavored honies. There is much truth 

 and good sense in these views, and 

 where a bee keeper can meet his cus- 

 tomers personally they might be put 

 into practice. 



It might be asked how came white 

 honey to be sold at a higher price? I 

 expect it is because the demand for it is 

 greater than for dark, strong honey. 



Subjects to be Discussed in the Review. 



A month or two ago 1 asked my read - 

 ers to let me know what subjects they 

 would like discussed in the Review. 

 Here are some of the topics mentioned. 



Do bees deteriorate as workers when 

 taken to a southern climate? 



Shall weak colonies be united early in 

 the spring? 



Is it advisable to use queen excluders 

 when producing extracted honey? 



What steps are neceeary to secure im- 

 provement of stock. Would like to hear 

 from F. B. Simpson and Geo. B. riowe. 



How far will bees fly and store honey 

 at a profit? 



How best to control swarming and 

 increase when working for comb honey. 



How can unfinished sections be dis- 

 posed of to the best advantage? 



What is the best method of removing" 

 honey from the combs of unfinished 



