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customers the advantage of a minimum 

 price, and that is what I want. I wish to 

 sell as much around home as I possibly can. 

 If I could sell it all at home I would not 

 ship any to help glut distant markets. My 

 honey nets 10 cents, as the pail is weighed 

 in. 



I made only one mistake in my manage- 

 ment, as I see it, the past season. I sold 

 3000 lbs. of amber fall extracted to a crack- 

 er-factory at 7 cents on ears at my station, 

 and lost the cans in which it was stored. I 

 resei-ved a thousand pounds of the same 

 honey, and sold it out the same as the white 

 at ten cents net. I find quite a number of 

 customers Avho prefer this amber honey 

 straight. Others think that a blend of half 

 white and half amber is just right. This 

 latter is, indeed, a very pleasing honey, and 

 1 believe we have no need to take a greatly 

 reduced jDrice for a good quality of amber 

 honey from heartsease and the general au- 

 tumn flowers of the middle States. 



I think it is a good thing to discuss prices 

 and to let each other know what we are do- 

 ing. I have reached a point where I must 

 either keep more bees and produce more 

 honey to supply my growing trade or raise 

 my price in order to cut some of it off. I 

 can't buy honey at a price that would allow 



me to make any thing for the trouble of re- 

 packing and selling — at least not this sea- 

 son. I know that farmers would raise the 

 price of eggs to one dollar a dozen if there 

 was a scarcity and they could get that 

 much ; but I don't feel like raising the price 

 of honey in that way, nor do I believe it 

 would be good policy. Tell me, if you can, 

 editors or readers, what would be the best 

 tiling to do. 



Bridgeport, Wis., Feb. 7. 



DINE'S METHOD OF RAISING QUEENS 



Where the Scheme Originated 



BY I. HOPKINS. 



Under the above heading there appeared 

 in the Canadian Bee Journal for March 

 last, page 75, an article by Mr. Oscar Dines, 

 on the plan he has adopted for raising 

 queen-cells, and also an editorial introduc- 

 tion to the article, in Avhieh it is claimed 

 that Mr. Dines is the originator of the 

 method. The plan is also described by Mr. 

 Holtermann in Gleanings for March 15, 

 page 177, Mr. Dines' experience being giv- 

 en as set out bv himself. 



Fig. 1. — Portion of comb prepared for cell-building m New Zealand, 



