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40th YEAR. 



CHICAGO, ILL, JULY 19, 1900, 



No, 29. 



Hubbel. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbel are both 

 enthusiastic bee-keepers and have an 

 apiary of 110 colonies all in good condi- 

 tion. With them, as with most others, 

 the honey crop for 1899 was quite light, 

 but they, like most bee-keepers, are of a 

 hopeful turn, always seeing golden har- 

 vests in the future. For a short time we 

 had a real lively bee-keepers' convention 

 and then enjoyed a good farm dinner, 

 prepared by the skillful hands of the bee- 

 keeper's wife." 



I\fr. and Mrs. J. IV. Hubbel and Apiary, of Clark Co.. Wis. 



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The Home Honey Market. 



BY C. DAVENPORT. 



kNE day last fall, while at work in the 

 shop and honey-house combined, a 

 stranger stept in the door and greeted 

 me with, "How do j-ou do, Mr. Bee- 

 Keeper? Have you any nice white comb honey to sell this 

 fine day ?" He was the buyer for, and part owner of, a 

 large grocery in a city some 20 miles distant. He bought 

 and carried back in the light spring-wagon he came in, 

 $67 worth of honey, for which he paid 15 cents a pound. 

 I mention this because it so well illustrates what I wish to 

 emphasize in regard to developing the home market ; and 

 that old saying, "Rome was not built in a day," can aptly 

 be applied here, for it takes time, a number of years, to dis- 

 cover and fully develop its full possibilities, in perhaps I 

 may say the average locality; that is, it does when a strong, 

 vigorous effort is made to do so. 



Some bee-keepers might reside in the same locality un- 



Two Clark Co., Wis., Apiaries. 



MR. Harry Lathrop, of Green County, about a year ago, 

 visited a number of apiaries in Wisconsin, among 

 them the two shown on this page. Afterward he 

 wrote up his trip for the Wisconsin Agriculturist, from 

 ■which we take these paragraphs : 



" Peter J. Klein has an apiary of about 40 colonies. 

 His principal honey-plants are dandelions, white clover, 

 raspberries, basswood and asters. He informed me that in 

 1894 he took 900 pounds of comb honey 

 from 3 colonies and increast them to 9. 

 The honey was nearly all taken late in 

 the fall from asters. 



"Mr. Klein showed me a building 

 ■made with double walls which he had con- 

 structed for the purpose of wintering his 

 bees, but it was not a success, so he used 

 it for a workroom and used his dwelling- 

 house cellar for a winter repository. I 

 have seen quite a number of such build- 

 ings and in most cases they have been put 

 to other uses than that for which they 

 were constructed. It requires very thick 

 walls to make a building that will main- 

 "tain an even temperature above ground. 

 I saw such a building that is a success as 

 a winter repository. It was built by H. 

 R. Boardman, of Ohio. The walls are 

 about 14 inches thick. 



" After a few pleasant hours spent 

 with Mr. Klein, during which time I was 

 taken out in the great forest to examine 

 the various honey-plants, he kindly pro- 

 vided a horse and buggy and together we 

 went on to the home and aipiary of John Apiaiy and Daughters of Mr. Peter J. Klein, of Clark Co., Wis. 



