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ous thing to iii:ike known your suc- 

 cess in an}' kind of businoss. 



SHU'PIXG HONKY TO COJIMISSION 

 MICN. 



I have always discouraged ship- 

 ping iionoy to he sold on com- 

 mission. The conniiission man has 

 but two motives in dealing in 

 honey : first, tlie profit or per- 

 centage ; second, to get it out of 

 his way as soon as possible. The 

 commission merchant gets his per- 

 centage whether the producer gets 

 tmy profit or not, — that does not 

 concern the merchant. 



I know it is almost impossible 

 to get any dealer to take honey by 

 the tons or carload and pay cash for 

 it, yet there are some who will do 

 it. In my opinion, it would be a 

 good move for the large honey pro- 

 ducers to lease a building in cities 

 or laige towns and ship their 

 honey there and employ an honest 

 and trust}' person to sell it. If such 

 places are established, a uniform 

 price might be placed upon honey. 

 The large honey producers could 

 purchase the crop of the small bee- 

 keepers, and thus, to a great ex- 

 tent, control the markets. This is 

 an experiment worth testing, and 

 it may work well. 



EXPERIMENTING IN THE APIARY. 



If there are any people who have 

 a strong desire to conduct experi- 

 ments in their vocation, it is bee- 

 keepers ; and we think nearly all 

 who keep bees have experimented 

 more or less : the testing of dif- 

 ferent styles and sizes of frames, 

 hives, honey-boards, division- 

 boards, feeders, etc., etc. This is 

 all right. Well conducted and care- 

 ful experiments are just what will 

 bring perfection in the end. Con- 

 tinue to experiment and thus amuse 

 and instruct yourself. "We have 

 spent hundreds of days in experi- 

 menting and intend to keep at it 

 until perfection has been reached. 

 One of the practical and best ob- 



jects to experiment for is the im- 

 provement in a race or strain of 

 l)ees. Cross up the different races 

 and strains, and if a careful record 

 is kept of such experiments the re- 

 sults will be beneficial and satis- 

 factory to yourselves, and to the 

 beekeeping fraternity if such ex- 

 periments are made public. Experi- 

 menting with frames and hives will 

 hardly prove as satisfactory as 

 many other experiments. Experi- 

 ments in contraction of the brood- 

 chamber or for building up colonies 

 rapidl}' in the spring will be pro- 

 ductive of good results, and so also 

 will experiments in queen-rearing 

 and fertilization of queens by par- 

 ticular drones. Don't waste much 

 time in inventing bee-feeders. The 

 simplest kind of an arrangement 

 for a feeder and feeding bees is the 

 best, and all such are well-known 

 to every person who reads and 

 keeps himself posted. 



FOUL BROOD. 



Foul brood is the terror of the 

 beekeeper in some localities. To 

 experiment for its cure, results in 

 loss of time and money. An apiary 

 in which this disease has once got 

 a good hold is in the condition of 

 a pest-house to which the public 

 may have free access. All the 

 apiaries for miles around will sooner 

 or later be infected by foul brood 

 unless vigorous and prompt meas- 

 ures are taken to annihilate every- 

 thing of the combs, bees and honey, 

 and in most cases, the hives should 

 be destroyed. We shall advise you 

 to destroy all as soon as possible 

 after the disease has made its ap- 

 pearance. First get some person 

 who knows his business to examine 

 the combs and brood. If he decides 

 that your bees are infected by foul 

 brood, lose no time in ridding 

 jour apiary of it. AVhen you have 

 thoroughly cleaned up everything 

 that might be a means of commu- 

 nicatino; the disease to other colo- 



