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issue until they are either victors or 

 vanquished. " 



Good for you Holtermarin. We may 

 not ag-ree on all things, but we do on 

 the foresfoing-. 



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One Thousand Colonies in one 

 apiarj' is what Mr. E. W. Alexander, 

 of Delanson, N. Y., proposes to try 

 the coming season. For a series of 

 years he has been getting good results 

 from a large number of colonies in a 

 single apiary. Last year he had 700 

 colonies in one j^ard, and secured from 

 100 to 150 pounds of extracted, buck- 

 wheat honey per colony. He admits 

 that his locality may be exceptional, 

 and every bee-keeper with whom I 

 have talked feels sure that it is. The 

 outcome of this experiment will be 

 watched with great interest. 



Sugar, by the hundreds of barrels, 

 has been fed at a profit to the bees in 

 the spring by Mr. E. W. Alexander, 

 of Delanson. N. Y. Under the back 

 end of each hive he has a feeder, made 

 like the Simplicity feeder from a piece 

 of plank. One end projects a few 

 inches beyond the side of the hive, and 

 is covered with a piece of block. To 

 feed, the block is removed, the feed 

 poured into the feeder, and the block 

 replaced. A little feeding during a 

 temporary break in the honey flow will 

 not only prevent the destruction of 

 brood that would otherwise occur, but 

 avoid any slacking up in brood rear- 

 ing. As a result, the colonies come 

 up to the harvest with combs full of 

 brood instead of emptiness. 



Insurance is something that ever_y 

 man should keep upon his property and 

 his life. The mere pittance paid each 

 year is no more than one would 

 give to a man who had suffered a 

 loss by fire, or to a widow and her 

 family in need. It is much easier to 

 spare these few dollars each year, than 

 to bear up, unaided, under the loss of 



many years of toil — swept away in a 

 few short minutes. Every little while 

 there comes to me a letter, or I see the 

 account in the journals, telling of the 

 loss by fire of some bee-keeper's home 

 or honey-house, with "no insurance. " 

 To leave buildings uninsured, or to 

 neglect to insure one's life when there 

 is a dependent family, seems to me lit- 

 tle less than criminal carelessness. 



One thing more, take all possible 

 precaution to prevent fires, and make 

 all possible arrangement to extinguish 

 them when they first start. Be sure 

 that all stove pipes, flues and chimneys 

 are absotutely safe. So often do we see 

 a fire attributed to a defective chimney. 

 Keep matches in a safe place. Store 

 ashes so far from the house that there 

 will be no danger. Have handy a lad- 

 der that will reach to the top of your 

 home. See that there is an abundant 

 water-supply, and plenty of pails — 

 and a Whitman fountain pump would 

 be a good thing to have. Yes, and a 

 fire extinsuisher of the Babcock type 

 would be excellent. It has a strap bj' 

 means of which it may be carried over 

 the shoulder, and a simple turn of a 

 handle mixes the chemicals, generat- 

 ing a gas that creates a pressure that 

 will throw the two pails of water and 

 gas with great force, while the little 

 hose and nozzle enables the operator to 

 direct the stream where it will do the 

 most good. Mr. H. R. Boardman 

 keeps one of these standing on a shelf 

 in his dining room all ready for in- 

 stant use. To be of any use, these 

 things must be all in readiness when 

 the fire breaks out. 



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THE international BEE AND HONEY 

 INSPECTORS' ASSOCIATION. 



At the late meeting of the New York 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, held 

 in Syracuse, there were present six 

 inspectors of apiaries, the four from 

 New York, and the inspectors from 

 Wisconsin and Michigan, and they 



