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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 8, Hr3. 



Headquarters F°" Bee-Supplies 



Root's Goods at Root's Factory Prices. 



Complete stock for 1903 now on hand. Freight rates from Cincinnati are the 

 lowest. Prompt service is what I practice. Satisfaction gruaranteed. I^ang- 

 stroth Portico Hives and Standard Honey-Jars at lowest prices. 



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There ■wa.s more morvey ma^de by Fa.rmers 

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I Johnson & Stokes' Garden and Farm Manual 





for 1903 illustrates by photographs and describes some of the greatest Money Bringers 

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 in the extra early class — enormously productive of large, fine. 

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Wholesale Marketing of Honey. 



B. S. K. Bennett makes iu Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture the following rather surprising state- 

 ments : 



The great bakery trust in the United States, 

 with factories in each main city, is such an 

 extensive user of honey that they pay their 

 honey-l:)uyer .?1.5,000 a year, or 5^7 a day. This 

 man does nothing but manipulate the market. 

 How does he earn his salary > It matters lit- 

 tle to him how many buyers there are. He 

 sets the price, and sees to it, as has just been 

 demonstrated in California, that no click can 

 get a corner on the market nor on him (this is 

 all private information), but it is what I went 

 into the honey-business to learn. California 

 producers have an offer, through one of the 

 agents of this bakery trust, of i^{ cts. per 

 pound for all amber extracted honey for a 

 three-year-delivery contract. In good years 

 we rarely get above 3'., cts. Is this a feeler 

 as to our condition ? or is it an expectance of 

 an advance in price through the efforts of 

 organization. 



Then and Now— Organization. 



The editor of the Australian Bee-Bulletin 

 gives a discouraging picture of the condition 

 of bee-keepers in that far-off land, crediting 

 it largely to the big stories that were told of 

 the profits of bee-keeping. His closing words 

 show that organization is in the air, even on 

 the other side of the globe. He says in part : 



" Take some ten years ago, when bee-keep- 

 ing first became prominent in Australia. 

 What were the stories told about it by persons 

 who wished to avail themselves of a good op- 

 portunity to make monej' by selling supplies? 

 The honey industry was going to excel the 

 butter industry; there was to be more money 

 in bee-keeping than in gold-mining: a square 

 mile of forest and a hundred colonies was an 

 assured income of €200 a year ; a hive of bees 

 in the bush would average 2.50 pounds of 

 honey a year; in the town 150 pounds; it 

 would add so much to the income of the pub- 

 lic servants, and occupy but little of their 

 time, and that would be all pleasure. Had 

 there been less "blow'' then, the industry 

 would have been in better condition now. 

 How have these beautiful pictures been real- 

 ized ? Not long since hundreds of empty 



your neighbors. Leaflet telling how. and 3 

 packets earliest tomato si'ed, for 25c in stamps. 



** Bees in Colo rado'' 



I still have several hundred copies of 

 the souvenir with the above title. The 

 bee-papers and a g-ood many people 

 without visible axes to g^rind have said 

 it is a valuable and attractive thing. 

 If you should like to have a copy, send 

 me a silver dime or S two-cent stamps, 

 and I will mail you a copy. 



" Bees in Colorado " is the title of a 48- 

 page and cover pamjihlet gotten up to boom 

 the Denver convention. Its author is D. \V. 

 Working, the alert secretary of the Colorado 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association. It is beauti- 

 fully illustrated, and printed on enameled 

 paper. It is a credit to Mr. Working, and 

 will be a great help in actiuaiuting those out- 

 side of Colorado with the bee and honey 

 characteristics and opportunites of that 

 State. — American Bee .lournal. 



D. W. WOF?KING, Box 432, Denver, Colo. 



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