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"how he does it." Four articles from 

 his pen have already appeared, and 

 there are three more on hand. More 

 will follow on marketing' and winter- 

 ing. All of his writing-s are practical, 

 like the one in this issue, which so 

 graphically describes the most im- 

 portant feature of extracted honey pro- 

 duction — getting the combs of honey 

 from the hive to the honey house. 

 Last month he described 



12 X 16 feet in size, costing only about 

 $40, yet it can be taken to pieces by 

 sections, loaded on a wagon, and four 

 men can set it up in an hour. 



Another correspondent, over which 

 the Review is congratulating itself, is 

 Mr. E. W. Alexander, of Delanson, 

 N. Y. He has had 50 long j'ears of 

 experience with bees. His locks are 

 white, but his eyes are bright, his 

 step elastic, and he still has the 

 enthusiasm and fire of youth. The 

 first of a series of articles from his 

 pen appeared in the last Review, and 

 contained some most radical views on 



We have been led to believe that 

 about 100 colonies were the profitable 

 limit for keeping in one apiary. Per- 

 haps this is true in many, if not most, 

 localities, but, if many more than this 

 can be profitably kept in one apiarjs it 

 would greatly lessen the expenses. 

 Mr. Alexander has been experimenting 

 along that line for several years. 

 Last j^ear he had 700 colonies in his 

 home-yard without lessening his yield. 

 This year he expects to increase the 

 number to 1,000. His experience and 

 views on this subject are certainlj' 

 worth considering. 



'tmeens 



by using the bees of only one colony 

 would seem to be an impossibility, yet 

 W. H. Laws, of Beeville, Texas, has 



been, for the last year, practicing a 

 method that not only enables him to 

 do this, but allows of the introduction 

 of virgin queens that are from five to 

 seven days old, avoids all trouble 

 from fertile workers, prevents loss 

 from absconding, and queens may be 

 mated in a locality free from objection- 

 able drones. This method is illustrat- 

 ed and described in the last issue of 

 the Review. 



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When it comes to the marketing, I 

 have on hand an article by Mr. H. C. 

 Ahlers, of West Bend, Wisconsin, in 

 which he tells in detail how he has 

 built up a trade in selling extracted 

 honey direct to consumers, in which he 

 last year sold 20,000 pounds, and most 

 of it at /i" cenis a pound/ 



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is something that mtmy of us have 

 neglected as too small to be worth 

 noticing, especially if it is only a small 

 town, but our energetic General Man- 

 ager of the National Association, Mr. 

 N. E. FranceofPlatteville, Wisconsin, 

 manages to sell about 8,000 pounds a 

 year, if I remember arig-ht, in his little 

 home-city, of only 4,000 inhabitants. 

 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 something 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, 

 Michigan. There is no peddling about 

 it. On certain days, except during 

 the busy time of the year with the bees, 



