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well throw that $1.00 out in the middle of 

 the road." 



There is only one bee-brother in my 

 locality (Mr. E. J. Weakley) who gets any 

 results from his bees, but he and I are 

 among Mrs. Atchley's ABC scholars. 



In regard to the brace and burr comb 

 trouble, I think if bee-keepers would use 

 the Hoflfman fixed frames altogether, they 

 would get rid of brace and burr combs. 

 Another great thing they wduld get rid of, 

 and that is the honey-boards. 



The bees in this locality were a fizzle the 

 past year; that is, as far as surplus honey 

 is concerned, but they had plenty of winter 

 stores; that is, those that were stimulated 

 a little through brood-rearing, and that 

 were strong. I winter mine in the cellar. 



The " Old Reliable " is a welcome visitor 

 every week. I think the Bee Journal is 

 worth its weight in gold to any beginner. 



Washington, Kans. J. H. Rupp. 



Something' About Marketing Honey. 



Dr. Miller, it seems from his writing on 

 page 817 of a December number of the Bee 

 Journal, cannot get a good price for his 

 honey, or at least he so stated it. Let me 

 say that 24 cents per pound is a little high 

 for extracted honey, besides 10 cents for 

 the 5-pound pail, but it must be remembered 

 that when you go to the store, or any place 

 else, to get a pound of honey in the comb, 

 you generally get a 434'x4^ section. Such 

 a pound generally weighs from 14 to 15 

 ounces— sometimes less. Now, Doctor, when 

 you go again to sell extracted honey, if you 

 produce any. or all who do produce and sell 

 it, do not forget to tell those customers 

 that when they buy the section honey they 

 do not get a pound of honey, besides about 

 one ounce off for the useless box. 



Do not forget to tell them that it is not 

 "strained honey," but extracted with a 

 machine made for that purpose ; it does not 

 contain any jwllen, and is not boiled or 

 heated to give it any bad taste. Wax is 

 not digestible, therefore not wholesome, 

 and it is another good point in favor of 

 selling extracted honey. 



I get from 15 to 20 cents per pound, and 

 sometimes more, for extracted honey. 

 With me, the best packages for selling ex- 

 tracted honey are the Mason pint and quart 

 jars. I find it hard to sell comb honey at 

 the same price per box as I get per pound 

 for the extracted. Theodore Bender. 



Canton, O. 



Rearing Extra-Large Queens. 



On page 31, Dr. E. Gallup appears to 

 think that Charles White was not badly 

 hurt about what he (Gallup) sai(#about the 

 light-colored bees. No, indeed, Doctor ; in- 

 stead of being hurt, I am well pleased. The 

 article you speak of, on page 631, was in- 

 tended to make you talk on queens, for I 

 did not think you practiced what you 

 wrote, and to see how near our ideas are 

 alike, was the object of my reply to your 

 artlple ; tor I ttm ready to agree that the 



color of the bee has nothing to do with it^ 

 working qualities, and very little with its 

 disposition. We can breed in, any good or 

 bad qualities at our pleasure. 



I have claimed for a long while that we 

 could beat Nature in producing fine queens. 

 It is asserted that there are uo queens as 

 good as those reared under the swarming 

 impulse, while I claim that there are better 

 queens reared artificially than those reared 

 by natural swarming. A colony of bees 

 that has cast a swarm is not in the best 

 possible condition to rear young queens, or, 

 in other words, it is not in a " normal con- 

 dition," as the colony should be to have the 

 best results. Of course there are excep- 

 tions, but as a general rule there is too 

 much excitement among bees that intend 

 to swarm. 



Now let us see how near the Doctor and I 

 agree on this statement. The Doctor says, 

 on pages 21 and 22, that the queens that he 

 I found in the hives where the old queen had 

 been superseded, were very large, and very 

 prolific, and their bees appeared to be 

 larger. Now why should those bees rear 

 finer queens and larger bees than the Doc- 

 tor was used to seeing in Canada ? For this 

 reason — that the bees were in a normal 

 condition, and not excited as they would 

 be if they were preparing to swarm; there- 

 fore, I claim that we can prepare a colony 

 of bees for queen-rearing that will beat 

 natural swarming, rearing fine queens, 

 either light, dark, gentle or vicious, good 

 workers, or loafers, just as we make our 

 selections of eggs or larvae. 



Aurora, Nebr. Chas. White. 



OouTention IVotices. 



WISCONSIN.— The Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will meet in Madison. Wis., on 

 Feb. 7 and 8, 1894. An interesting meeting is 

 expected. It is earnestly hoped there may be 

 a full attendance. J. W. Vance, Cor. Sec. 



Madison. Wie. 



Kansas.— There will be a meeting of the 

 Southeastern Kansas Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion on March 16, 1894, at the apiaries of 

 Thomas Willett, 5 miles northeast of Bron- 

 son, Bourbon Co., Kansas. All are invited to 

 come. J. C. Balch, Sec. 



Bronson. Kans. 



Honey as Food stud Medicine is 



just the thing to help sell honey, as it shows 

 the various ways in which honey may be 

 used as a food and as a medicine. Try 100 

 copies of it, and see what good 'sales- 

 men " they are. See the third page of this 

 number of the Bee Journal for description 

 and prices. 



A Binder for holding a year's num- 

 bers of the Bee Journal we mail for 

 only 50 cents; or clubbed with the 

 JOUBNAL for $1.40. 



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