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Advertising Honey for Sale 



There are too few l)ee-keepers who 

 have l)cen bright enough to avail them- 

 selves of the opportunity to offer their 

 honey for sale through the bee-papers. 

 The Canadian Bee Journal has this to 

 say on this very important subject : 



'"Very few, if any, bee-keepers adver- 

 tise tlieir honey for sale. The adver- 

 tising appears to be left entirely to 

 tliose wanting to buy. This is not as 

 it should be. The men who have some- 

 tliing to sell should make the fact 

 known, then those who are wanting to 

 Inty can address them promptly. Many 

 bee-keepers could dispose of their whole 

 crop quickly and economically, and with 

 a minimum of time and worry, if they 

 got in touch with some one who would 

 take their whole crop." 



Produce a fine grade of honey, put it 

 up in the proper kind of packages, then 

 let the buyers know you have it for sale 

 tlirough an advertisement in the bee- 

 papers — that's the coming way to dispose 

 of more honey than you can sell in the 

 home market. Try it and see. It 

 should be easily possible to get many 

 times more for it than the advertising 

 costs, besides in all probability getting 

 permanent customers for your whole 

 crop eacli year thereafter. 



Honey Articles for Newspapers 



On other pages of this number will 

 be found three of the ten articles for 

 which the National Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation paid $5.00 each, using the money 

 turned over to it by the Honey-Pro- 

 ducers' League. The purpose was to get 

 some really valuable matter on honey 

 as a food that could be used by bee- 

 keepers in their local newspapers, and 

 elsewhere, perhaps. 



Tlie first three articles referred to 

 arc as follows : 



1. "A Food That Fills the Bill," by 

 Eugene Secor. 



2. "Did You Ever Stop to Think?" by 

 Ralph Benton. 



3. "Where the Pure Food Law is Not 

 Xcedcd," by Rev. R. B. McCain. 



From month to month we will con- 

 tinue to publish more of the articles, un- 

 til all have appeared in these column-- 

 We hope that all who can do so will 

 request their local editors to copy them 



General Manager N. E. France, of 

 Platteville, Wis., has this to say about 

 the articles: 



"These valuable advertising honey ar- 

 ticles are now being printed, and a sam- 

 ple copy of each will be mailed you free 

 if you will try to have your local papers 

 publisli same. No doubt we can sell or 

 rent to your printer the cast type much 

 luaper than he can set type for." 



eeesimr. 



Bee Joamal for 1907 — 40c. 



We still have on hand some complete 

 volumes of the American Bee Journal for 

 /po/, which we will mail for 40 cents 

 each. The first half of that year the Bee 

 Journal was issued weekly, and the last 

 half monthly, which would make 32 

 numbers. And all of them for only 40 

 cents ! Surely this is a bargain for any 

 new reader who has become a subscriber 

 this vear. 



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Notice of National Nominations 



All members of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association are requested to 

 mail by postal or letter, to N. E. France, 

 Platteville, W'is.. on or before Septem- 

 ber 30, igo8, tlicir nominations for can- 

 didates for the offices named below to 

 be voted on at the regular December 

 election : 



President, Vice-President, Secretary, 

 Treasurer and General Manager, and 3 

 directors. 



October ist, the General Manager 

 and one disinterested member will count 

 the nominations and publish results in 

 all the AiTierican bee-papers. 



Each member should send in the nomi- 

 nations early. N. E. France. 



Platteville", Wis. 



K- E. KhNXIC'ii 1, (IF Gl NNVIKW. Il.L. 



He climbed a tree 50 feet liigh, cut oft the 

 limb and broujcbt down the swarm shown, 

 without getting a sting or losing any bees. 



Why Not Bee-Keepers? 



Wanted — 3,000 practical farmers who 

 would like to own homes of their own. 

 The Government lias nearly 200,000 acres 

 of land lying under the various irrigation 

 projects throughout the West for which 

 water will be available ne.xt season. The 

 farm unit on these projects varies in 

 most cases from 40 to 80 acres of irri- 

 gable land, depending on location. In 

 many sections a tract of grazing land 

 has been included in the farm unit 

 wherever practicable, bringing the total 

 I p to 160 acres. 



The only charge for these farms, be- 

 sides the regular land office fee for filing, 

 is the actual cost of getting water to 



them, and payment may be made in ten 

 annual instalments, without interest. 



These irrigation projects are scattered 

 over the entire arid region, from Canada 

 to the Mexican line. In consequence, 

 every variety of crop grown in the tem- 

 perate zone can be raised under them. 

 If you would like a fruit or dairy farm, 

 a garden for market truck, a tract for 

 diversified farming, hog or poultry rais- 

 ing, just write to the Statistician of the 

 U. S. Reclamation Service, Washington, 

 D. C, for particulars. 



A "Queen" Under the Hat 



We have received the following in 

 reference to the queen that was on Miss 

 Wilson's hat, mentioned in the July 

 American Bee Journal : 



Mr. Editor : — We are told on page 

 206 that even so versatile a gentleman 

 as Dr. Miller could not aCtount for the 

 "queen on the hat." 



I didn't think it of him. But even at 

 this distance I can readily vouch that 

 there was a queen under tlie hat. 



Em Dee. 



Em Dee is quite correct. He knows 

 a "queen" when he sees one, or hears 

 one even "afar off." 



Death of C. Davenport 



C. Davenport, of "Southern Minne- 

 -^ota," whose real name and address was 

 C. Davenport Monette, Chatfield, Minn., 

 a very bright bee-keeper, and the in- 

 ventor of the Monette queen-clipping 

 device, lately came to a tragic end, as 

 noted in Gleanings : 



"He was burned to death in his own 

 liome, where he lived alone, and had 

 the reputation of being a very success 

 ful and practical bee-keeper. No par- 

 ticulars are known of the manner or 

 cause of the fire; but his charred bon-^s 

 were found just in front of what was 

 the doorway, indicating that he had 

 made an effort to escape. He was only 

 42 years old, and was one of the bright- 

 est bee-keepers that we had in our 

 ranks. Our sympathies are extended to 

 his parents, wlio lived but a short dis 

 tance away." 



The American Bee Journal joins in 

 the expression of sympathy to Mr. 

 Monette's parents, for "C. Davenport" 

 was a valued contributor to our col- 

 umns some years ago. 



Bee-Diseases in Massachusetts 



This is the title of Bulletin No. 75, 

 Part III, issued by the U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture, and written by Burton N. 

 Gates. A unique feature is a map show- 



