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THE A3tEEICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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keeper sent it in, I presume. "Oh no," 

 is the reply, "it is a man with a hun- 

 dred or more colonies." Then I get to 

 thinking, and I wonder why the farm- 

 ers will demoralize the market by sell- 

 ing honey in unscraped section boxes. 

 Now brethren, "be ye not weary in 

 well doing." If you have a ton of 

 honey to sell and you don't get what 

 you think you ought to have for it, 

 look around and see if you can't find a 

 farmer to blame for it. Don't stop and 

 think that if the great producers will 

 only sell good honey and ask a good 

 price, it will come all right. And above 

 all things, don't say the glucose man 

 has cut prices on honey. Lay it to the 

 farmer. What business has he to be a 

 farmer, anyhow? 

 Mannville, Fla. 



ITEMJ or IMTERE5T. 



It is now suggested that the next 

 meeting of the U. S. B. K. U. be held at 

 Omaha during the Trans-Mississippi 

 exposition. 



If pollen from natural sources is not 

 available in early spring, whole-wheat 

 or rye flour placed in open vessels in 

 the apiary, will be found a good sub- 

 stitute. 



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The bee-keepers' supply factory of 

 the Goold, Shapley & Muir Co., of 

 Brantford, Ont., was damaged to the 

 extent of $20,000 by fire on the 3rd ult. 

 Insurance, $19,000. 



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A gloomy prospect for the season of 

 '98 now confronts the honey producers 

 of California. The necessary rainfall 

 failed to come this year, as we learn by 

 letter from our old friend A. A. S^oett- 

 ing, of El Casco, one of California's 

 substantial bee-keepers. A nice photo- 

 graphic view of one of Mr. Goetting's 

 apiaries also arrived this week, for 

 which he has our thanks. We will 

 show it to our readers as soon as space 

 will permit. 



Bees, small fruits and poultry keep- 

 ing, make a good combination, and 

 with good management will make a 

 ni-'e living. One advantage is that on- 

 ly a small acreage will be necessary. — 

 Ex. 



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E. T. Flanagan, the veteran migra- 

 tory specialist of the Mississippi valley, 

 is at it again. This time Mr. F. has 

 gone with 300 colonies nearly to the 

 Rio Grande, in Southern Texas, a move 

 of about 1,400 miles from his Southern 

 Illinois home. 



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That the bee-keeper who is endowed 

 by nature with the requisites for a good 

 salesman, should quit the producing 

 business and go into dealing in honey, 

 is the gist of several good paragraphs 

 on the marketing question by F. Grei- 

 ner in Gleanings. 



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The report of the Ontario experi- 

 mental apiary for 1897 strengthens the 

 position of those who advocate early 

 setting out in the spring; showing, as 

 it does, that the earlier activity stimu- 

 lated by sunshine, results in a corre- 

 sponding increase of brood. 



The idea of having a %-inch space 

 between the bottom bar and the bottom 

 board, thus compelling the bees to 

 crawl up the sides of the hive with 

 their load of honey, is a measure 

 recommended in poetic language by 

 the Farmers' Voice, to secure well- 

 filled outside sections. 

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Dr. Miller detects a vein of inconsist- 

 ency in our awarding the single-colony 

 championship to the "flowery penin- 

 sula." in the face of the greater yield 

 reported from the "lone star," as stated 

 in the February Bee-Keeper. One is 

 authentic, plausible and accepted. The 

 other is said by our esteemed contem- 

 porary, through which we are criti- 

 cised, speaking upon authority of those 

 in a position to know, to be overdrawn, 

 "padded." See? 



