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sample case showing what kind of honey 

 I had for sale, and the style of putting 

 it up. I gave them the price that I 

 asked for the honey, f. o. b. Well, the 

 result was, in three weeks from the 

 time I wrote them, all of my honey was 

 sold, and I got just what I asked for it. 

 There is hardly a mail comes in that I 

 don'i get from one to three letters ask- 

 ing me to give prices for my honey in 

 large quantities. After shipping a party, 

 down in Indiana, one shipment, he wrote 

 nie asking for the exclusive right to sell 

 my honey in that city. 



I think it pays to take pains in put- 

 ting up our honey for market. 



Wm. Craig. 



Saginaw Co., Mich., Oct. 31. 



Better Season than for Several Years. 



I can report the season of 1896 as 

 considerably better than any of the three 

 previous ones for western Iowa. Last 

 fall was the driest one I can remember, 

 too, so I don't think the theory of rain- 

 fall or snow the previous fall can be de- 

 pended upon to foretell a failure or suc- 

 cess of the honey-yield for the next 

 season. I think the time that dry weather 

 hurts the honey crop worst is in spring- 

 early spring; we must have rain then 

 for a crop. 



I had intended, for two years, to at- 

 tend the convention, if it should be held 

 at Lincoln, and then at the last moment 

 I had to give it up. Well, we Iowa bee- 

 keepers are pretty well used to disap- 

 pointments, so I guess we can stand this 

 one. 



I put into winter quarters, last fall, 

 28 colonies. In spring I had 5 queen- 

 less ones, and of the 23 remaining 5 

 were so weak at the opening of the 

 honey season that I did not expect any- 

 thing from them, but did get 250 pounds 

 of extracted from them. And from the 

 18, which were only medium in strength, 

 I got 1,100 sections, with an average of 

 about 15 ounces of honey in each. I 

 bad only five natural swarms and two 

 that came out and went back. I have 

 an increase of nine colonies altogether, 

 from the 23. 



There is more white and sweet clover 

 in the country than there has been for 

 four or five years ; so next year bids fair 

 to be a good one. E. S. Milks. 



Denison, Iowa, Oct. SO. 



An Arkansas Bee-Experience. 



Take out the satisfaction that one ex- 

 periences when one is conscious of hav- 

 ing learned something, and my experi- 

 ence in the "bee-business" is worth 

 nothing to me, let alone to the readers 

 of the Bee .lournal. However, inasmuch 

 as the editor has invited contributions, 

 he shall have mine. 



Last fall I bought eight box-hives 

 of bees — took them In on bad doctor 

 bills ; I mean the bills were bad, not the 

 doctor. (Pardon me if I parenthetically 

 state that I am not as good as the honey- 

 eating doctor in Califoruia, who cures 

 folks without medicine.) 



After bringing them home, I divided 

 one and made two colonies, thus making 

 nine in all. I transferred two then, and 

 the other seven last spring. This work 

 taught me the great advantage of ex- 

 perience over " book larnin'." I learned 

 that the short methods of transferring 

 are utterly worthless to new hands ; 

 that few old combs are worth trying to 

 save ; that piftteboard strips to fasten 



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