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eome six years ago, and try his hand at 

 city life. Well, he has practically put him- 

 self through a Chicago law school by sell- 

 ing honey. He has sold at retail as high as 

 $21 worth to a single wealthy family. He 

 finds no difficulty in getting 75 cents for a 

 Mason quart jar of honey. 



Now, why cannot other cities and towns 

 be worked in the same way ? We believe 

 they can. They ought to be, for city peo- 

 ple are longing for good honey, and bee- 

 keepers themselves are the ones that should 

 supply it. 



Mr. Walker's own crop this year amount- 

 ed to over 30,000 pounds, from 350 colonies 

 in seven different yards. He has not failed 

 to get a good crop of honey in 18 years. 

 And every fall we look for him in Chicago 

 to sell his honey himself, just as much as 

 we expect to see the birds on their annual 

 flight to the summerland of the South. 



There's money in pure honey, but it 

 needs to be gotten out by personal hard 

 work. Try it and see for yourself. 



Hasty iind tlic ICi^iising' IIa1>it. — 



The hints on kissing, given by Dr. Peiro, on 

 page 364, seem to have aroused Bro. Hasty, 

 for in the October " Review " he comments 

 thus on the subject: 



Mercy, doesn't Dr. Peiro, of the " Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal," go for the kissing habit! 

 Sets his face against it, as it were. Had we 

 only plenty of Dr. Peiros an anti-kissing re- 

 form would sweep over the country equal 

 to that which in some former age must 

 have swept over Japan. There it is a very 

 rare thing for a mother to kiss her own 

 babe. Who knows but what the Prohi- 

 kissem party is already being organized in 

 secret ? To arms ! to arms ! ! it's a coming. 

 " I know not what course others may take, 

 but as for me, give " no — let her come. 



Xliat Yoiiii;;- H<lil or in the office of 



" Gleanings " is beginning to " call names." 

 Yes, sir, it's a fact. "Ernest" called us 

 " a punster " right in print! He did, " by 

 George!" and we're going to tell his pa, if 

 he don't quit calling us names. So we will, 

 the big, overgrown Root-let, that he is ! 



Xliat Kocville Ifee-JHeolins:— 



don't forget it. Dec. 27 and 28 is the time. 

 Mrs. Atchley's home is the place— Beeville, 

 Bee Co., Tex. Better go if you can. Big 

 preparations are being made. A good and 

 profitable time is sure to result. 



Siiiolcer Fuel— Itol>l>er Bees.— 



Mr. E. France, of Platteville, "Wis., in 

 " Gleanings " for Nov. 1, says this about 

 fuel for smokers, and how he stops robbing 

 among bees : 



After trying about all the different kinds 

 recommended, we have settled down to 

 straw and tobacco stems — about half of 

 each. "We get the tobacco-stems at the 

 cigar-factories. They cost nothing — in 

 fact, we haul them on the place for ferti- 

 lizers. The factory men are glad to have 

 them taken away. Straw and tobacco- 

 stems make plenty of smoke, hold Are well, 

 and the tobabcco just takes the fight right 

 out of the bees. 



We have never failed to stop the worst 

 case of robbing we ever had, providing the 

 colony being robbed was strong enough 

 to be worth saving. This fall, in taking off 

 the three stories one morning, I worked a 

 little too long ; and as I smoked the bees 

 down with tobacco, I got one colony pretty 

 drunk. Like other drunken beasts they 

 could not defend themselves. It happened 

 that I went to town after working with the 

 bees, and was gone two hours. When I got 

 home the yard was terribly excited, all 

 trying to find where the honey was. The 

 bees were swarming about one quadruple 

 hive, and were tearing away at three of 

 the colonies in the hive just as fast as they 

 could get in and out. 



In a case of that kind, something must be 

 done, and done quickly, if we save the col- 

 onies that are being robbed. I had a large 

 asparagus-bed. I took my scythe and cut 

 a couple of armfuls and banked up the hive- 

 entrance with the tops, and then took a 

 sprinkler and wet the tops of the asparagus 

 with cold water, and kept it wet for an 

 hour. By that time the robbers had quit 

 trying to get in. I left them banked up for 

 another hour, and then took away the 

 asparagus-tops. Then the robbing was 

 done, and the robbers never offered to 

 trouble them again. I examined the rob- 

 bed colonies about sundown the next day, 

 and found that fully half of their honey 

 had been taken out of their combs, so I ex- 

 changed their honey-combs for full ones, 

 and now they are all right. 



I have fought robbers in this way a good 

 many times, and always with success. 

 They cannot get in through wet stuff. The 

 bees belonging there think it is a wet time, 

 and stay at home. In the spring, before we 

 get the asparagus-tops, I use straw. It is 

 not so good, but will do. 



i>ni- I'lnomy is just one too many. But 

 it is always preferable to stand up for the 

 right all alone, than to step down to the 

 wrong with the majority. 



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