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not yet discouraged. I am still in pos- 

 session of the bee-keepers' anchor — hope. 

 There is an abundance of Alsike clover 

 sown in my neighborhood, and white 

 clover, which was burnt out during our 

 drouth, has again come to the front dur- 

 ing our past wet summer, and the 

 ground along the roadsides in many 

 places is literally carpeted with it, so 

 that the prospect from clover for next 

 season could not be better at this time. 

 How the yield will be, time must tell. 



Rev. E. T. Abbott hits the nail square- 

 ly on the head in his paper on page 698, 

 under the head, " The Dealer's Rights." 

 Some small dealers who had worked up 

 a little trade among their neighbors who 

 keep a few colonies, and had ordered 

 their supplies early, in order to get a 

 little reduction, and had paid out their 

 money, or were paying interest on the 

 bill, were confronted later, when those 

 neighbors wanted to buy, with circulars 

 from the manufacturers from whom they 

 bought, offering to sell to them the same 

 goods at prices so much below catalogue 

 prices that the small dealer could not 

 compete with them, and he either had to 

 keep his goods or sell at a dead loss. 

 This is especially true of last spring, and 

 is unfair to the dealers who in former 

 years had introduced the goods, and 

 made it possible for them to be sold at 

 all ; and I am glad that so prominent a 

 man as Mr. Abbott had the courage to 

 " speak out in meetin' " against the 

 practice. 



I am glad of the Bee Journal's bold 

 stand against frauds, and I hope the 

 editor will not relax one iota. I sell 

 most of my honey in the city of Hunting- 

 ton, and I find many who are suspicious 

 of adulteration ; it takes a little talk, 

 sometimes, to get them to buy ; yet, as a 

 rule, if I sell to a family once, I can sell 

 to them again, if they want honey, or 

 have the means to buy it. 



A. F. Snowbkrgeb. 



Huntington Co., Ind., Nov. 30. 



An Old Bee-Keeper. 



Two years ago last spring I had 8 col- 

 onies, last spring 4(3 living, and I now 

 have piled up in the cellar 104, after 

 selling 4 and taking up several. 



H. P. WlLLSON. 



Pembina Co., N. D. Dec. 5. 



The Past Season with Bees. 



We are having delightful fall and win- 

 ter weather, but I expect zero atmo- 

 sphere soon ; in fact, any time now-a- 

 days. The fall in general has been quite 

 cool, and in consequence everything is 

 short in growth. White clover and Al- 

 sike look very promising, the white es- 

 pecially ; being everywhere in abun- 

 dance, a crop of honey is assured from 

 this source the coming season. 



I was not so successful this season in 

 reaping a harvest. I obtained 200 

 pounds of fine comb honey, which I 

 wholesaled for 13 cents per section, and 

 100 unfinished ones for home consump, 

 tion — with numerous ones fed back, 

 which I will level down and use next 

 season. My spring count of colonies 

 was 12 ; fall count, 9 prepared for out- 

 door wintering, and eight for the cellar, 

 making 17 in all. 



An experiment is being tested on those 

 for out-doors, which I will report later 

 on with illustrations if I am only suc- 

 cessful in a degree on this venture. 



My bees are stronger in numbers, as 



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