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AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



small producers who have been in 

 the habit of shipping to the city mar- 

 kets and thereby placing their honey 

 in competition with the carload crops 

 of the big Western specialists, and 

 consequently receiving a low price, 

 while splendid markets near at hand 

 are overlooked. It pays to cultivate 

 special trade — to put up high-class 



January 



THE WISWELL-RICHARDSON 

 APIARY. 



ALMOST in the heart of the resi- 

 dential section of West Med- 

 ford. Mass, is the neat and 

 picturesque Wiswell-Richardson api- 

 ary, partial views of which are shown 

 herewith. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson * 



Photo by Pearl C. Richardson. 

 WISWELL-RICHARDSON APIARY, WEST MEDFORD, MASS. 



goods and to create a dernand for our 

 specialty in the smaller towns. 



For comments on pictures, see 

 "Our Cozy Corner" department else- 

 where in this number. — H. E. Hill. 



If all bee-keepers were willing to 

 have their bees examined by a com- 

 petent inspector we would have no 

 need of a compulsory law. That's just 

 it; if no one ever did anything wrong, 

 we would have no use for law. 



and the latter's mother Mrs. Wis- 

 well are practical and progressive bee- 

 keepers of the "advanced school," 

 having cut loose from old traditions 

 and gone ahead on independent lines. 

 That they have been remarkably 

 successful hardly need be said. Mr. 

 R's. skillful handicraft is in evidence 

 in all the appointments of workshop 

 and apiary. Mrs. R. is the secretary 

 of the Massachusetts Society of Bee- 

 Keepers. — A. C. Miller. 



