Dunham Comb Foundation Machine. 



We have received at our Museum one 

 of these popular machines. We neg- 

 lected to notice its arrival before, 

 though it came in time to be examined 

 at the National Convention. As a re- 

 sult orders for 12 machines were received 

 during the week of the Convention. 

 This machine makes foundation with 

 high side walls, and while we do not 



wish to say anything against any other 

 machine, our own experience is that 

 bees will work out the cells on this kind 

 of comb foundation before that of any 

 other, even when strips of each are put 

 side by side in the same frame. 



igg°At the Convention of Bee-Keep- 

 ers held in Edmonton, Ky., (a report of 

 which may be found on another page) 

 it was decided to organize a State Con- 

 vention next year. Bee-keeping is on 

 the increase in that State, and a great 

 many intelligent men are taking an in- 

 terest in the business. This is a step 

 in the right direction. Every State 

 should have such an organization, and 

 the State Vice Presidents of the Na- 

 tional Association we hope, will see to 

 it that such are formed at an early day. 

 To be successful we must have organ- 

 ized efforts. The Vice Presidents, too, 

 must see that Bee and Honey Shows 

 are inaugurated in every State, so that 

 those who produce honey for the mar- 



ket may be induced to produce it in the 

 most marketable shape ; for the old 

 slip-shod manner of production must 

 pass away, while the new methods and 

 new ideas of practical management 

 will take the place of the old and 

 undersirable methods. 



i^° The Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Free 

 Press speaking of the Eev. O. Clute's 

 lecture before the Bee Association in 

 that city last fall, says : 



There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, and 

 there is also a pleasure in hearing a pleasant speaker 

 when he is so filled with his subject and familiar 

 with all its phases and details, and has such a mas- 

 tery of language that his subject unrolls before you 

 like a series of illustrated maps j as all who were so 

 fortunate as to hear Rev. O. Clute's lecture before 

 the Bee Association on Saturday evening last, will 

 bear witness. 



"Too Much Honey " was the cry only 

 a few months ago ; now it is the oppo- 

 site of this ! Then, a bee-keeper wrote 

 as follows: "I do not know but so 

 much honey will be produced that it 

 wilt not be worth raising/' Now the 

 cry is for more honey ! Before the win- 

 ter is over, there will probably not be a 

 pound to be obtained at any price. 

 Europe is stretching out her hands to 

 us across old Atlantic's billows, and 

 crying "More, more; give us morel" 

 The low prices of the past few months 

 have encouraged thousands to " eat 

 honey," as advised by Solomon of old, 

 and the demand is steadily increasing. 



The present advance in prices and the 

 short crop will retard the consumption 

 a trifle, but it will be only of short 

 duration. Not one in a hundred is now 

 eating honey that will do so, within a 

 few years. The prices may be some- 

 what lower but the demand will be 

 good, and we hope that next years' crop 

 will be plentiful, that the prices may be 

 somewhat lower than now, so that those 

 who have learned to eat honey during 

 the past year or so, may feel as though 

 they could afford to continue to use it 

 unsparingly. "Too much honey pro- 

 duced!"— not at all ! Markets yet un- 

 developed would take ten times as 

 much as is now produced. 



