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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Prices for honey are likely to be 

 be pretty well up this coming- season. 

 Cuba has not had much of a crop, the 

 South is not starting- out well, Cali- 

 fornia has not had the needed rain, 

 and through the Northern States at 

 least one-third of the bees are dead. 

 Any one having extracted honey on 

 hand can do no better than to hold it, 

 unless offered an unusually good 

 price. I know of some who, with an 

 eye on the future, are now buying ex- 

 tracted honey and storing it. 



Extracted Honey production has 

 one advantage that is quite important, 

 and of which very little has been said, 

 and that is that it may be carried over 

 from one year to another, if a large 

 crop lowers prices, while comb honey 

 must be sold the same year it is pro- 

 duced. Of course, it is possible to 

 keep over comb honey, but the expense of 

 furnishing proper storage and keeping 

 it warm so that it will not candy, 

 greatly lessens the profit. Besides 

 comb honey kept over, even under the 

 most favorable conditions, never has 

 the delicious freshness of new honey. 



Factories for making bee hives and 

 other supplies are starting up in sev- 

 eral places, and there are still others 

 "in the air." This is one of the re- 

 sults of high prices; and thus do these 

 things reach their level. I would sug- 

 g-est to the brothers who have in con- 

 templation the starting of hive-fac- 

 tories, that present high prices may 

 not be maintained. Instead of choos- 

 ing and remaining in the business for 

 which Nature and their surroundings 

 have best fitted them, too man^^ are 

 inclined to change about, adopting a 

 business when its products sell at a 

 high price, and dropping it if prices 

 go down; forgetting that competition 

 always lowers prices, and that low 

 prices eventually drive out of the busi- 

 ness those least fitted for it, when 

 prices again go up. 



BoARDMAN's HoNEY that did not 

 candy Aa.y candied at last; that is, the 

 sample sent Mr. E. R. Root has 

 candied, but that whicla Mr. Boardman 

 kept at liome has not candied, wliich 

 is something of a puzzle. Mr. Board - 

 man wonders if Mr. Root has not 

 made a mistake in the sample, or tliat 

 some one has been meddling, but Mr. 

 Root is positive there has been no 

 mistake. 



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Rendering Wax in a small way 

 does not call for any elaborate ap- 

 pliances. Put the old combs into a 

 gunny sack, tie the mouth securely, 

 put the sack into an ordinary wash- 

 boiler, set it on a stove, fill it two- 

 thirds full of water, and then, while 

 it is boiling, take a common garden 

 hoe, and push, and punch and turn 

 the sack of combs about. By throwing 

 a good share of the weight of the body 

 upon the hoe, quite a lot of pressure 

 can be brought to bear while the 

 combs are hot and under water. Fin- 

 ally set off the boiler, and lay some 

 stones or bricks upon the sack to keep 

 it down in the bottom of the boiler. 

 Nearly all of the wax will rise to the 

 top and form in a cake. While this 

 method may not secure quite so much 

 wax as ma\' be obtained with a Ger- 

 man wax press, it answers very well 

 for the man who keeps bees in a small 

 way. The boiler can be easily clean- 

 ed with gasoline. 



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In the early years of the Review I 

 remember how, once upon a time, my 

 compositor and myself marshalled all 

 of the advertising pages of type into a 

 row upon one corner of the "imposing 

 stone," and how we patted each other 

 on the back as we walked around the 

 stone and congratulated ourselves 

 upon the "spread" of advertising that 

 had been secured by the Review. 

 There were _five pages! Little did I 

 dream at that time that it would ever 



