THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



367 



I have been interested in your advice 

 about keeping more bees, but thought 

 the advice did not apply to me, as I am 

 getting along in years, or the years are 

 getting into me, but, last spring, my 

 son, novF twenty-two past, thought we 

 might spread ourselves a little, and so 

 we went some ten miles away, in a 

 good range, and bought "a yard" 

 consisting of 100 colonies of bees, 125 

 empty hives, two buildings, 14x20, 

 several thousand sections, clamps, etc., 

 including all the fixtures necessary 

 for running a yard of bees, as well as 

 all the useless claptrap accumulations 

 of years. Well, the season has been 

 a fair one, and we have brought home 

 from that yard about 9,000 lbs. of 

 honey; much more than enough to pay 

 for it. This with five old yards, has 

 kept us two very busy; but we were 

 able to do all the work until the close 

 of the honey season, when my son 

 went on the road selling honey, and I 

 engaged another man to assist me in 

 putting honey up for filling orders. 

 Oh ! I guess I am a little fast, we did 

 hire three days' work during the 

 busiest of the season. So you see that 

 your advice to keep more bees, has 

 brought us no harm. 



THE GREAT NEED FOR ADVERTISING 

 HONEY. 



I feel that we must increase the use 

 of honey by advertising, and writing. 



and in every possible way, until all 

 came to know its value as the most 

 delicious and healthful of foods. 



My neighbor, Ex-Gov. Stewart, has 

 been abroad the past summer, and he 

 tells me that in all the hotels in 

 Switzerland he found honey on the 

 the tables. We have begun selling to 

 hotels here, and find the demand in- 

 creasing. I think it would be well if 

 all bee keepers, when away from home, 

 and stopping at hotels or restaurants, 

 would ask for honey. 



Wish you could have been with us in 

 some of our rides this fall, to our out- 

 yards, with the forests in all their 

 autumnal glory, and the beautiful green 

 mountains in full view. I am sure you 

 would have enjoyed it as I have done. 



what will happen if everybody 

 "keeps more bees ?" 



Aren't you afraid if every body 

 keeps more bees that our markets will 

 be overstocked ? 



Those were sensible articles in last 

 Gleanings about advertising 



But I am afraid I shall weary you 

 with my rambling pen. and so will 

 close. 



Middlebury, Vt., Oct. 28, 1905. 



[As to my views regarding the diffi- 

 culties that may arise from advising 

 bee-keepers to keep more bees, see my 

 reply to Bro. Lathrop on Page 371.— 

 Ed. Review.] 





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Bleaching of wax has been more suc- 

 cessfully accomplished by Prof. Shutt, 

 of the Ontario Agricultural College at 

 Ottawa, Canada, by the use of one per 

 cent, of nitric acid, than by any other 

 chemical. One per cent, is sufficient, 

 while too large a portion of acid de- 

 stroys or injures the wax. 





H. G. Sibbaid was re-elected Presi- 

 dent of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation; R. H. Smith, 1st Vice Presi- 

 dent; and F. J. Miller, 2nd Vice Presi- 

 dent. Next meeting will be held in 

 Toronto during the fruit, flower and 

 vegetable show, which assures reduced 

 rates. 



