December, 1908. 



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that among these would be some which 

 had not yet marked their location, and 

 these would not find their way home. 

 Testimony was called for, and among 

 those who reported there was no one 

 who had noticed any loss, all saying 

 there was none. It is very likely, as 

 claimed, that very young bees that have 



to offer it through the advertising col- 

 umns of the American Bee Journal. As 

 ftidicated by the foregoing unsolicited 

 testimonial, it shows that we have been 

 right in such urging. Of course, the 

 bee-keeper who advertises honey for sale 

 must have the very best honey, and take 

 care of liis orders in a businesslike way. 



Api.\ry ok C. B. P.\lmer, of Bradshaw, Nebr. 



not yet marked their location are not 

 found in supers, as such bees are to be 

 found only on the brood-combs. 



Apiary of C. B. Palmer 



I am sending a photo of my bee-park. 

 This is the yard from which I took 

 1500 sections of honey. I had 14 colon- 

 ies in 1907, and this photo was taken 

 Aug. I, 190S. You can see we are just 

 commencing to build up for the hearts- 

 ease, as we have a complete failure so 

 far this season from white clover. It 

 rained constantly in June. 



The hives face the east, and you are 

 looking southwest. Commence with the 

 hive with black center and count west. 

 There are 7 in this row. These were 

 all requeened last season. You can see 

 from the e.xtra supers on this row that 

 it paj'S to requeen, as they are working 

 in the second and third supers now. The 

 other hives have on mostly one cap, and 

 have old queens, and should have been 

 requeened last summer. No queen in 

 the yard has cost more than $1.00, and 

 the tall hives show that it is the best $1 

 that can. be invested in the whole yard. 



This piece of ground (2 common vil- 

 lage lots, 100.KI40 feet) is set with fruit 

 trees 10 feet apart, and the bees have 

 paid for the ground in one season. The 

 trees have been set 4 years, and are 

 peach, apricot, cherry, apple, and Kelso 

 Japan plums. C. B. Palmer. 



Bradshaw^ Nebr., .^ug. 14. 



We have no doubt that if such adver- 

 tising is continued from year to year, 

 a large shipping demand can be devel- 

 oped. In every instance, however, in or- 

 der to get increased orders for honey, 

 it must be of good quality and give en- 

 tire satisfaction. 



There are, no doubt, many bee-keep- 

 ers throughout the country that would 

 find it to pay nicely to offer their surplus 

 honey crop through the advertising col- 

 umns of the bee-papers, especially ex- 

 tracted honey. We hope that more of 

 our readers will follow this plan here- 

 after. 



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Home Apiary of A. Rehnstrom & 

 Sons 



The picture I send is the home apiary 

 of August Rehnstrom & Sons, in its 46th 

 year. The person to the left in the pic- 

 ture is Aug. Rehnstrom, and the two to 

 the right are the sons. 



The bees are wintered out-doors on 

 the summer stands. We give them ven- 

 tilation by tacking burlap on a super and 

 filling the same with dried leaves, plac- 

 ing 2 sticks between the frames and the 

 burlap for bee-space. We have never 

 lost a colony thus treated. No disease 

 ever existed in this apiary. We have 

 fed our bees for winter. They work 

 for nothing, board themselves, and give 

 us the surplus. 



Next year we are going to run all 

 our colonies for extracted honey. Our 

 bees are mostly Italian. 



We have a great deal of red and sweet 

 clover, but our main honey-flow is white 

 clover. We sell all of our surplus honey 

 to our neighbors, and could sell more if 

 we had it, as we have never been able to 

 supply our home trade. 



Five years ago, A. N. Cook, of Wood- 

 hull, persuaded me to subscribe for the 

 American Bee Journal. I didn't care 

 very much about it at the time, but I 

 have learned to appreciate the paper so 

 much during the time that I would not 

 do without it at any price. 



S. Rehnstrom. 



Andover, 111., Sept. 17. 



Scott and Barrett Apiaries 



On page 330 of last month's American 

 Bee Journal we got the names of the 

 owners of two California apiaries ex- 

 changed. The picture over J. L. Scott's 

 name should be over Mr. Barrett's name, 

 and vice versa. We regret the error very 

 much. 



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"Hawaiian Honey" 



This is the title of Bulletin No. 17 of 

 the Hawaiian Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, by D. L. van Dine, Entomolo- 

 gist, and Alice R. Thompson. Assistant 

 Chemist, and issued by the U. S. Gov- 

 ernment. While bees visit a large num- 

 ber of plants in Hawaii, the great bulk 

 of the honey gathered by them may be 

 classed either as algeroba honey, gather- 

 ed from the algeroba tree; or honey- 

 dew, which comes mainly from a viscid 

 saccharine secretion of the sugar-cane 

 leaf-hopper and the sugar-cane aphis, 

 deposited on the surface of the leaves 



It Pays to Advertise Your Honey 



One of our honey-advertisers when 

 remitting to us for his advertising re- 

 cently, had this to say : 



"I consider this money a good investment, 

 as I have been able to sell my crop (6000 

 pounds) for J/j cent to 2^^ cents per pound 

 more than some of ray brother bee-keepers." 



For a number of years we have been 

 urging bee-keepers who have more honey 

 than they can use in their home market 



api.\ry of a. Rehnstrom & Sons, of Andover. III. 



We have 54 colonies, all run for sec- 

 tion honey. We use the lo-frame dove- 

 tailed hives with Hoffman frames, and 

 the 1% plain sections with fences. 



of the sugar-cane. The total crop of 

 honey in 1906 was 600 tons, one-third 

 of which was algeroba honey and the re- 

 maining two-thirds was either a dis- 



