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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



"Von can if yon do a little talking. Since 

 yon asked that qnestion 1 mnst tell you a 

 little joke, and it's on you too. I was over 

 to your town last week and made quite a 

 few sales. 1 sold to eig'lit families on the 

 street j'ou live on. When you go home to- 

 night ask your next-door neighbor (Mrs. 

 Ga.skill) how she likes Donaldson's honey." 



" Look here, old man ; you ai-e getting too 

 fresh," Bill exclaimed. " I am going to 

 make it my business to see that you don't 

 do that again." 



" Well, that's business. See that you 

 don't forget it." 



If beekeepers would devote as much time 

 and study to marketing as they do to i^ro- 

 ducing a crop, there would be less cause for 



grumbling about Ihe market i)rice of lionoy. 

 There are many who live in thickly popu- 

 lated districts who, witli a little eifort, could 

 retail their honey for much better prices 

 llian the market quotations; but instead of 

 doing so they keep on shijjping into the 

 cities, paying freight, commissions, and 

 cartage. When their returns come they will 

 growl about the difference between what 

 they received and the retail price. 



1 often wonder if such beekeepers ever 

 stop to consider what the added cost of 

 honej^ is, from the time it leaves the apiary 

 until it reaches the table of the consumer in 

 tlie cities. 



Moorestown, N. J. 



BUSY BEES OF BEEVILLE 



BY J. W. TAYLOR 



We have worked up 

 from five colonies in 

 1884 to about eleven 

 hundred at this time in 

 eighteen apiaries, all 

 of them two to sixteen 

 miles from this city in 

 nearly every direction. 

 We work our queen 

 nuclei up to full colo- 

 nies to winter, and 

 start new ones every 

 spring. I, my son, and 

 a hired man take care 

 of all the work in con- 

 nection. 



We work for bulk 

 comb and extracted 

 honey, and we have 

 made a specialty of 

 breeding for the best 

 honey-gatherers. 



Beeville, Tex. 



Mr. and Mrs. J. ^^■. Tavlor. 



BEES AND THE YOUNG IDEA 



BY J. L. GRAFF 



A colony of Italian bees has been installed 

 in the biological laboratory of the high 

 school at Holland, Mich. The bees are to 

 become an object of study to the biological 

 class during the whole of the school year. 



They have been hived in a case with glass 

 sides, and during the bloom season they will 

 be located at an open window so that they 

 may go and come at will. 



The study will be in charge of a young 

 woman teacher who is informed on bee cul- 

 ture. It is a movement that should interest 



not only everj^ apiarist in the land but 

 thousands of people who should be eating- 

 honey if they are not. 



It is particularly interesting to all Mich- 

 igan, the land of bloom, and to the people 

 of other states in which tliere is an increas- 

 ed spread of crops that afford work for bees 

 and profit for their owners. 



The experiment at Holland is being 

 watched by varied interests, among them 

 the men and women who appreciate the 

 pollination agency of the honeybee. 



Chicago, 111. 



