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cents per pound for it, and then sell it 

 for 15 cents. The consumers do not 

 seem to understand honey, they buy it, 

 and finding it poor stuff, throw it away, 

 and then condemn all kinds of honey. 

 No wonder grocery men say they have" 

 all they can handle. Yet, what is to be 

 done ? Bee-keepers are too slow to 

 attend conventions, and they even do 

 not read anything on the subject of 

 bees. The honey dealers are too stub- 

 born and conceited to receive advice or 

 instruction regarding honey, so our fine 

 honey has to sell at the same price as the 

 poor grades. The consumers, it seems 

 to me, are the only ones we can reach 

 here, and they should be taught to use 

 the clear white and sweet smelling honey 

 as produced by our best bee-keepers, 

 instead of that which is unsightly and 

 unfit to eat by reason of the propolis 

 all over it. Worthy bee-keepers would 

 then have some encouragement. 



S. M. Carlzen. 

 Montclair, Colo. 



Another Victim of La Grippe. 



Baxter C. Griffith, one of our brightest 

 young apiarists has joined the great 

 majority. His illness was short^ — only 

 eight days, from La Orippe followed by 

 pneumonia. The only child of aged 

 parents ; the father of five lovely girls, 

 and the owner of a large apiary, with no 

 one left to manage it — all go to make his 

 death a peculiarly sad one. His place 

 in church, in state, in apiculture, and 

 in society, will be hard to fill. He was 

 a bee-keeper of only a few years, but by 

 his untiring efforts, and the knowledge 

 gleaned from his many text books and 

 journals, it is safe to say he was well 

 advanced in the art of bee-keeping. He 

 was a consistent member of the A. R. P. 

 church, and his pastor's loss is hardly 

 second to that of his family. To his 

 bereaved wife we can only tender our 

 sympathy, and point her to Him who 

 does all things well. A Fkiend. 



Pineville, N. C. 



Well Pleased About Last Season. 



I commenced the last season with 25 

 colonies of bees, but many were weak 

 and short of stores. In the Spring and 

 Summer they did well, but in the Fall 

 they did nothing. It was too dry. They 

 gathered 550 pounds of honey, and put 

 it into the sections, which I sold at 15 

 cents per pound ; and they increased to 

 32 colonies, but they are not in the best 

 of condition. I am well pleased with 



the results of the season. Last May the 

 little son of one of my neighbors got 

 stung, and it was charged to my bees. 

 Complaint was made to the village au- 

 thorities that my bees were a nuisance, 

 and I was threatened with a suit for 

 damages. A committee of three of the 

 Village Board waited on me, and as I 

 did not want any trouble, I promised to 

 remove my bees after the season closed, 

 and so the matter rests. There are 

 other bees in the village, but no com- 

 plaints have been made about them. My 

 bees are now in the cellar. I think of 

 removing them outside of the village in 

 the Spring, if I do not sell them. 



J. Seibold. 

 Homer, Ills. 



Bee Paralysis. 



I have a strong colony of black bees 

 that seem to be dying very fast, some- 

 times at the rate of a teacupful in three 

 or four days. They seem to come out of 

 the hive and act as if they had the palsy. 

 They have plenty of good honey, nicely 

 sealed and ripened. Can you explain 

 the cause or remedy, so that I can pre- 

 vent the ravages of the disease, if it is 

 one ? All other bees in this neighbor- 

 hood are in good condition, and doing 

 well. J. B. Ramage. 



Blaine, Wash. 



[The following treatment for bee 

 paralysis is recommended by Mr. R. L. 

 Cobb, of Matsqui, B. C. :] 



I had a colony very badly affected with 

 it, and the following treatment cured 

 them completely in four or five days : 

 Take a small cotton cloth about 6 inches 

 long, and put on one end of it a few 

 drops of carbolic acid; shove the end 

 into the entrance of the hive, leaving 

 the other end out so that it can be easily 

 withdrawn. Renew the acid night and 

 morning until cured. 



Standard Section, Grading Honey, etc. 



I have 36 colonies of bees in winter 

 quarters, and they are wintering well. 

 Last Winter the bees wintered so well 

 that I am afraid bee-keepers have been 

 too careless here this Fall, and have not 

 fed the bees, but they will repent when 

 it is too late. I look for a heavy loss of 

 bees here this Winter from starvation. 

 Most of the bee-keepers here have too 

 much other work to take proper care of 

 their bees. All bee-keepers in this 

 vicinity work for comb-honey, and the 



