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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



daug'hters being the fastest for uncap- 

 ping, and other light work, it saves 

 that many dollars per day. 



I let no bees out on shares, as that 

 would be starting competitors. I sell 

 six tons of my best honey anually to 

 my home-trade. 



When too busy to raise queens, I 

 order from other breeders to replace 

 those that are not doing good work. 



In connection with the bee-business, 



I have an alfalfa ranch of 120 acres, or 

 which I carry 200 head of stock. I 

 usually mow the first crop of alfalfa 

 before the extracting commences. Tht 

 stock take care of the alfalfa the resi 

 of the year. In this way I have steady 

 work for hired help the year around 

 I haul my alfalfa honey, with four- oi 

 six-horse teams, 35 miles, and ship i 

 in car load lots. 



Buckeye, Arizona, Jan. 11, 1905. 



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.ee'piime, SkS Si o©iiaf3i^Sio 



JAMES HEDDON. 



yRIEND HUTCHINSON, not in 

 ^ manj^ a day have I read in the 

 Review a brighter contribution than 

 the one on pages 212 and 2I3, under 

 your caption of "A red hot letter." 

 The writer writes clearly and to the 

 point, and there is no more fog con- 

 nected with his opinions than with his 

 manner of expressing them. 



Reference to back numbers of the 

 American Bee Journal and Gleanings 

 will remind you that the "burning" 

 truths your correspondent refers to, 

 were burning and discovered many 

 years ago. I well remember one writer 

 who, after extolling the get-rich-quick 

 profits of bee-keeping was reminded 

 that a truth might be told so many 

 times that it would become a falsehood. 

 Once there was a good profit in honey 

 production, but the big supply dealers 

 had to have it, and with their journals 

 of wide circulation, they soon trans- 

 ferred it from the producing class to 

 the middle men; and it was done by 

 the same old road. 



I have no longer any personal dollar 

 and cent interest in it, as the unknown 

 brood disease has reduced me, within 



tvv'o years, to only 17 colonies. Fron 

 Washington, (Prof. Prank Benton 

 proprietor) I received a circular lettei 

 inquiring as to whether I had any dis 

 ease in my apiary; and then, very ap 

 propriately (I thought) I wrote to tlw 

 great Prof, all about my experiences 

 and observations relating tothediseast 

 mentioned above, but just as I expected. 

 I received no reply; no doubt because 

 the Prof. 's bureau doesn't contain anj 

 information on the subject. The Prof 

 is too busy counting the stripes on c 

 yellow-jacket just discovered by c 

 Hottentot in Timbuctoo. The "Prof.' 

 and his Washington "Bureau," are £ 

 unique pair. There is nothing com- 

 mon place about the whole busines.s, 

 except the salary, wliich is prettj 

 small, their being so many things the 

 Prof, needs. Let us all petition Con- 

 gress to raise that salary. 



Some experience with black brood. 



Concerning the disease in question, 

 supposed by some to be "Black Brood" 

 (whatever that is) I discover nothing 

 d/ar^ about it. Of course it is /toi foul 

 brood; however, it depletes the diseasedj 



