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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



deal in pints and pounds, and he de- 

 votes himself to g'etting- ready to pro- 

 duce another crop of honej'. 



When you have but little honey, or 

 any other commodity, to sell, you must 

 htint a itiarket, but when you produce 

 large quantities of the finest honey, the 

 market will hunt you. There is a 

 maxim among traders that anything- 

 that is brought right is half sold. We, 

 as bee-keepers are purchasing our 

 honey crops too dearly. We use too 

 much labor, and labor means money, 

 where rightly directed. Gill, Cogg- 

 shall, Atwater, Facey, France, and 

 many others, are buying their honey 

 with much less labor, consequently, 

 they make sales at a price that takes 

 our breath away, and still their bank 

 account grows, while we struggle, as it 

 were, for an existence. We have as 

 good flora as they, but we lack the bees 

 — the busy toilers to gather the sweet. 

 If every fourth person now engaged in 

 bee-keeping would operate all the bees 

 for the four now engaged, the other 

 three could devote their time more sat- 

 isfactorily to other pursuits, and No. 4 

 would increase his net income more 

 than four fold. 



Again, as with the potato and the 

 cow, I think we are using old, fogy 

 apparatus which makes our honey cost 

 too much, because we handle too many 

 pieces. The keeping of more bees by 

 one person involves the establishment 

 of out-yards. This necessitates the 

 controllingof increase by shook-swarm- 

 ing in some form; and the question of 

 how to tell with the least amount of 

 labor, when a colon}' is going to 

 swarm, or preparing to swarm, is the 

 question that is going to determine the 

 cost of producing honey. 



Increasing the number of bee-keepers 

 by encouraging farmers and others to 

 engage in the business may be bene- 

 ficial to the publishers of bee journals, 

 and the dealers in supplies, but I am 

 working to increase the prosperity of 

 existing bee-keepers, instead of in- 

 creasing their numbers. 



INCREASE is a handsome litt'e book telling 

 how to form new colonies without break- 

 ing s ocks. A simple, sure, satisfactory 

 plan. 25c. 

 BABY NUCLEI tells ho.v to mate many 

 queens from sections with a mere handful 

 of bees. -12 pages, 20 pictures. Plain, 

 cheap, simple. 50c. 

 QUEENS and QUEEN REARING OUTFITS 

 FOR SALE Golden-all-over and Cauca- 

 sian Queens. Circulars Kree 



E. L. FR ATT, Swarthmore, Penn. 



Honey Queens. 



Laws' Improved Golden Queens, Laws' 

 Long-Tongued Leather Colored Queens, and 

 Laws' Holy Land Queens. 



I<aws' queens are doing business in every State 

 in the Union and in many foreign countries. 



The demand for I<aws' queens has doubled any 

 previous season's sales. 



I,aws' queens and bees are putting up a large 

 share of the hon^y now sold. 



I<aws' stock is being sold for breeders all over 

 the world. Why? Because it is the best to 

 be had. 



Remeinber ! That I have a larger stock than ever; 

 that I can send j'ou a queen any month in 

 the year and guarantee safe delivery; that I 

 have many fine breeders on hand. Price, 

 $3.00 each. Tested, each, $1.25; five for |6.ooi 

 Prices reduced after March 15. Send for 

 circular. 



W. H. LAWS, Beeville, Texas. 



Bees and Queens 



Have you tried my queens? They are as good 

 as money can buy; they are daughters of impor- 

 ted mothers; and no tains have been spared to 

 mate them purely. When you send me an order 

 I fill it promptly and guarantee perfect satisfac- 

 tion. I have the three-banded Ita'ians, goldens, 

 Cyprians, Carniolans, Holy Lands and Albinos. 



Untested queens, of either race, 7 1 cts. each; 

 tested, $1 50; breeders, $3.00. Special prices on 

 lots of a dozen or more. Two-frame nuclei a 

 specialty. 



7-04-tf 



B. H. STANLEY, 



Beeville, Texas. 



Why he bought our 



I asked Mr. L. F. Weaver what he could say of 

 our queens, and tell the truth, and here is his 

 reply: 



.Shadeland, Ind., 2-S, 1905. 



Friend Michael. 



We received our first queens from 

 you in 1903, — >ou will find that you sent me 

 more queens in 904, and we expect to order a 

 greater number in 190.5. Why? Because your 

 queens have met all our requirements, their 

 workers being gentle, uniform in color and size, 

 energetic hustlers and prosperous, in colony and 

 store. We know not your method of rearing, 

 and it makes no difference to us so long as we 

 get such good and prolific queens 



Yours respectfully, 



L F. WEAVER. 



3-05-3t 



, MECInlAEL. 



R. F. D. No. I, Manchester, Ind. 



