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crcnscd to lake cnrc oi' this vast iiroduotion. 

 The V. W. J\Iulli (■(.. iuxd C. H. W. Wi'bor, 

 both of Cincinnati; the Colorado lionoy- 

 producei*' Association, of Denver, Col.; the 

 Superior Honey Co., of Ogden and Idaho 

 Falls, Ida.; and the A. I. Root Co., if you 

 please, are among" those who have been seek- 

 ing' to find a market for tlie honey-produc- 

 ci-s of the United States. Last year, in fact, 

 the A. 1. Koot Co. spent in the neighbor- 

 liood of $25,000 in newspaper and magazine 

 advertising. All of these companies have 

 been sending out traveling men to get honey 

 introduced in the main avenues of trade. 



THE SUPERIOH HON FA' COMPANY. 



One of the companies in the West tliat 

 has been doing much in promoting the .'^ale 

 of honey is the Superior Honey Co., of 

 Ogden, Utah, and Idaho Falls, Idaho. It 

 is not only interested in the honey-selling 

 business but is a large producer of honey. 

 It owns and operates something like 3000 

 colonies of bees in some very tine bee terri- 

 tory in Utah and Idaho. This company is 

 likewise interested in the sale of beekeepers' 

 supplies, and also maimfactures comb foun- 

 dation. It is also doing a large business in 

 l)uying honey, both comb and extracted. It 

 is buying tin cans by the carload, and ship- 

 ping honey all over tlie United States, both 

 wholesale and retail. 



The engraving sliown herewith represents 

 one of their warehouses in Ogden, Utah; 



and the oilier, alniosl a duplicate ol' it, is 

 located at idalio Falls. Both buildings are 

 of substantial brick, and the company is 

 well organized to do a large business in 

 buying and selling lioney and in the sale of 

 supplies for the beekeeper. 



If more of the large producers who are 

 interested in the promotion of the sale of 

 honey, especially the introduction of it to 

 Ihe large avenues of trade, would do as the 

 Superior Honey Co. is doing, there would 

 be a better and stronger demand for honey. 

 Already honey is now on sale in Pullman 

 cars, at fancy restaurants, first-class gro- 

 ceries, and drugstores, as it was never sold 

 before. Some day the beekeepers of the 

 country will recognize the services a few of 

 these concerns are doing in the line of pro- 

 moling the sale of honey in lines that hith- 

 erto have been undeveloped. 



I had the pleasure of visiting both of the 

 Superior Honey Comj^any's warehouses. I 

 found hustling business men at both places, 

 and evidences of a large business being car- 

 ried on. I doubt very much whether the 

 beekeepers of the Rocky Mountain districts 

 appreciate what this company is doing in 

 the Avay of extending the sale of honey. It 

 is doing an immense bu.siness. The Ogdeu 

 warehouse is in charge of the senior Red- 

 field. The Idaho Falls bi'anch is in charge 

 of his brother. A brother-in-law is superin- 

 tendent of the warehouses and of the manu- 

 facturing end of the business. 



THE SIMMINS METHOD OF QUEEN INTRODUCTION 



BY J. H. TODD 



A^"e have i-ead a good deal lately in 

 (tLKAnings about A. C. Miller's direct 

 method of introduction with smoke; and 

 from the varying results acliieved it seems 

 there are several essential details which must 

 be obsei-ved to secure success. I have not 

 l»ersonally tried it, as I nearly always use 

 Simmins' direct method, with which I have 

 nevei- had a failure, and which I believe, all 

 things considered, to be the safest and sim- 

 plest method of all, especially for a begin- 

 ner. I nmst confe.«s I am disappointed at 

 the remarks made on it in the A H C and 

 X Y Z of Bee Culture. When I got the 

 new edition, the first thing I referred to was 

 this, only to lind the same short, discourag- 

 ing allusion to this valuable aiul infallible 

 method of queen introduction. 



May I make special allusion to three 

 l)arts of tliis reference? 



1. "It is not one (method of introduc- 

 tion) that we would recommend 



in any event to a beginner." 



This I have always been at a loss to 

 understand. 1 should have thought the best 

 method for a beginner is the one where 

 there is the best manipulation and least 

 chance of making a mistake — in other 

 words, the simplest. Now, what can be 

 simpler than the Simmins method? It is of 

 all inethods tlw) one that can be performed 

 by rule-of-tho-thumb, regardless of every 

 condition of colony and weather, except 

 only that the colony must be queenless, no 

 matter for how short or how long a time. 

 Queen-cells may be piesent or not — only 

 • jueenlessness is necessary. 



2. "And the hive closed up for 48 hours." 

 T don't know how tiiis came to be inserted, 

 as I am sure Mr. Simmins did not intend 

 the entrance to be closed; and from the 

 footnote you clearly mean closing the en- 

 tiance. I find nothing in his book about 

 closing the entrance. He certainly gives a 

 caution against examining the hive for 48 

 hours, but that is all. 



