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advances, and the experience that he 

 gives, are certainly worthy of con- 

 sideration. Next month he will tell 

 how to make the most out of weak 

 colonies in spring-, and how, some- 

 times it is possible, by the right kind 

 of feeding in the spring, to change 

 what would have been a season of fail- 

 ure into one of profit. A simple, inex- 

 pensive, convenient method of feeding 

 will be described. The next month he 

 will describe his tank aud methods for 

 disinfecting combs from colonies in- 

 fected with black brood. By his 

 thoroughness, he has been successful 

 on a large scale. 



The beginning and the end of the 

 honey season are 



To induce the bees to promptly take 

 possession of the supers, to wind up 

 the season with nearly all of the 

 sections completed, yet lose none of 

 the honey that the bees can store, are 

 most desirable accomplishments; and 

 James A. Green, of Grand Junction, 

 Colorado, has sent me an article tell- 

 ing how all of these things may be 

 managed by what he calls his "Combi- 

 nation System." It will appear in 

 the next issue of the Review. 



Mr. M. A. Gill, of Longmont, Colo- 

 rado, last year, with the assistance of 

 his wife, and one other helper, man- 

 aged 1,100 colonies, increased them to 

 1,600, and shipped 



Within the next month or two the Re- 

 view will publish an article from Mr. 

 Gill in which he tells exactly how he 

 manages — particularly in reg^ard to 

 the swarming-problem. 



^old 20p©00 libs. 



When it comes to the marketing- 

 question, I have on hand an article by 

 Mr. H. C. Ahlers, of West Bend, Wis- 



consin, in which he tells in detail how 

 he has built up a trade in selling ex- 

 tracted honey direct to consumers, in 

 which he last year sold 20,000 pounds, 

 and most of it at 12 cents a pound! 



is something that many of us have 

 neglected as too small to be worth 

 noticing, especially if it is only a 

 small town, but our energetic General 

 Manag-er of the National Association, 

 Mr. N. E. f^-ance of Platteville, Wis- 

 consin, manages to sell about 8,000 

 pounds a year, if I remember aright, 

 in his little home-city, of only 4,000 in- 

 habitants. He does no peddling, it is 

 all sold at the groceries, butcher shops, 

 and the like, and he so manages as to 

 get eight cents a pound for it. What 

 that management is, how the honey is 

 put up, the package, in fact the whole 

 modus operandi will be described by 

 Mr. France in the Review, long ere 

 the time comes to put this year's crop 

 on the market. 



in somctliing the same line as a milk- 

 man has a route, has been inaugurated 

 and put in practice for several years 

 by Mr. C. F. Smith, of Cheboygan, 

 Michig-an. There is no peddling about 

 it. On certain days, except during 

 the busy time of the year with the bees, 

 Mr. Smith goes over a certain route, 

 calling at certain houses and deliver- 

 ing a certain amount of honey. In 

 this way he sells all of his own ex- 

 tracted honey at 13 cents a pounds and 

 then buys and sells thousands of 

 pounds besides. How the honey is 

 put up, how the route was established, 

 how he knows at which houses to call, 

 and how much honey to bring, etc., 

 will be told to the readers of the Re- 

 view in an article that Mr. Smith is 

 now preparing with much care as to 

 detail and helpfulness. 



