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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



April 



to drop all small particles of comb 

 when at work in the apiary. 



In the American Bee Journal, F. 

 L. Thompson, a Colorado specialist, 

 substantially avers that the life of the 

 "specialist" is "one continual round 

 of pleasure." Doubtless his success is 

 attributable directly to the pleasure 

 he finds in the persuit of his business. 

 A determined yet rational ambition, 

 born of innate love for the " art," will 

 ultimately achieve success, and only 

 those possessing this prime requisite 

 need hope to escape the fate of all 

 others who have been beguiled into 

 our ranks by avaricious motives, as at- 

 tested by pages of apicultural history. 



A current newspaper item is to the 

 efEect that an apiary has been estab- 

 lished in an Arizona penitentiary and 

 the convicts are required to attend the 

 bees which flit at will over the prison 

 walls and return of' their own accord, 

 thus affording envious amusement to 

 the denizens of the "pen." 



Australian bees have been success- 

 fully introduced in England, but the 

 English bee-keepers do not regard 

 them as possessing any merits. They 

 are about one-third the size of the 

 common house fly, and are valuable 

 only as a curiosity. They are unable 

 to sting, but bite and cannot endure a 

 temperature below fifty degrees Fah- 

 renheit. — Falmouth, (Mass.,) Enter- 

 prise. 



The inqniry is made in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, whether or not honey 

 gathered from mountain laurel is 

 really poisonous as supposed. Laurel 

 was abundant within range of my 

 apiary in Pennsylvania, where I kept 



bees for ten years, and disposed of sev- 

 eral thousand pounds of honey. Dur- 

 ing that time, though funerals were a 

 frequent necessity, not once did a cor- 

 oner's jury find that laurel honey had 

 inticed the " grim monster." I think 

 it is all bosh. Who has actual knowl- 

 edge ? 



Any one who contemplates fasten- 

 ing foundation into one hundred sec- 

 tions this season , yet fails to provide 

 himself with a Daisy fastener, is mak- 

 ing a big mistake. It is the only effi- 

 cient device of which I know that can 

 be worked all day without the appli- 

 cation of muscle, lubricant or unbe- 

 coming language. 



George Holbrook's 3-year-old child, 

 while playing near the home of its par- 

 ents in Letcher county, Missouri, was 

 stung by a yellow jacket. The little 

 one screamed and its mother ran to its 

 assistance. The sting had entered its 

 left leg below the knee. The limb be- 

 gan to swell rapidly, the child went in- 

 to spasms, and in ten minutes after the 

 insect had stung it the little one died. 



Spruce Bluff, Fla. 



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Selling Honey. 



BY CHAS. H. THIES. 



The bee journals have of late devot- 

 ed considerable space to the above 

 question. It is one thing to produce 

 a crop of honey and have it in mar- 

 ketable shape, and quite another to 

 dispose of it to the best advantage of 

 the producer. 



The majority of bee-keepers have 

 about concluded that the home mar- 

 ket should be supplied first. I for 

 one have decided so for myself long 

 ago, even though we get a little less 

 for the product. In the home market 



