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and has from 10 to 25 acres within 

 range of each yard, right in the city of 

 Toronto; and a gentleman that visited 

 him lately was surprised to see Mr. 

 McArthur's bees storing honey from this 

 source, when all others had failed. 

 Other people's bees were idle, while he 

 was getting about 100 pounds of surplus 

 per colony." 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Some Apiarian Botes anl CoDiinents. 



Written for the " Kansas Farmer " 

 BY BEV. E. T. ABBOTT. 



" Fitness of person " is taking the highest 

 rank in the bee-business in the place of 

 honey-producing hives and fixtures. — Amerl- 

 cau Bee-Keeper. 



This has always been and always will 

 be true. There has been no greater 

 humbug connected with the bee-business 

 than the idea that the kind of hive or 

 appliance used increased the amount of 

 honey gathered by the bees. This idea 

 was no doubt started by the patent hive 

 people, and it has gotten such a hold on 

 the minds of many that it is very hard to 

 make them believe that it is all a mis- 

 take. One hive may be more convenient 

 than another, or may give one the honey 

 in better shape than another, but the 

 hive has nothing to do with the quantity 

 of honey, if the bees are looked after 

 and manipulated properly. 



PACKAGES FOR HONEY. 



By putting up good honey in handy-sized 

 packages, and then by taking a little 

 trouble to introduce your honey into the 

 families who are able and willing to pay 

 for a good article, you can build up a good 

 home trade. Then by square dealing it is 

 easy to hold it. — Nebraska Bee-Keeper. 



Now is the time to look after the 

 honey-package. The farmer who turns 

 old starch boxes over his hives for the 

 bees to store surplus honey in will get 

 as much honey as his neighbor, perhaps, 

 but he will " stand no show " with that 

 neighbor when he goes into the market 

 with his honey all broken and running 

 over everything, if his neighbor has 

 taken pains to have his honey stored in 

 handsome pound boxes, and has cleaned 

 and sorted them carefully before going 

 to market. 



SWARMING AND OUT-APIARIES. 



Friend Alley says, " Let your bees swarm ; 

 they'll do better if you do." Granted; but 

 will he tell us how to run half a dozen out- 



apiaries, miles apart, all swarming at the 

 same time, and no competent help ? No 

 doubt he'll growl out, as he has done on 

 former occasions, "Drone-traps, drone- 

 traps;" but ''honest Injun," friend A., will 

 it work on a large scale ? I seriously doubt 

 it. — Progressive Bee-Keejjer. 



I do not know what answer friend 

 Alley would make, but I would say, do 

 not run them. One apiary is all the 

 average bee-keeper needs. If the spe- 

 cialist who thinks himself an expert, and 

 very scientific, wishes to run more, let 

 him devise ways and means suited to his 

 own ideas and methods. There are very 

 few who will want to follow out his 

 plans. 



RIPENING HONEY ARTIFICIALLY. 



I wish to go on record that to advance 

 the idea of ripening honey artificially, as it 

 has been advanced, is injurious to the bee- 

 keeping industry, besides it is impractical. 



— Canadian Bee Journal. 



This is my- idea, exactly. The less 

 artificial work there is about any kind 

 of honey the better the honey ; natural 

 methods are the best methods in the 

 apiary. The longer any kind of honey 

 is left in the hive, the better the flavor 

 and quality. It may not improve the 

 looks of comb honey to leave it on too 

 long, but it surely will greatly Improve 

 the taste of It and its keeping qualities. 

 As to extracted honey, it is very hard to 

 secure first-class honey of this kind if it 

 is not left in the hive until it is sealed 

 over and thoroughly cured. 



St. Joseph, Mo. 



Houey-Planls of Coloralo. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY REV. L. .J. TEMPLIN. 



A short time a^o I received a letter 

 from some one in Michigan, asking about 

 the honey-plants of this region. His ad- 

 dress having been mislaid, I know of no 

 better way than to write my answer to 

 the American Bee Journal, and trust 

 to my correspondent seeing it there. 



I am located on the Arkansas river at 

 the point where it debouches from the 

 Rocky Mountains, south of the center of 

 the State, and at an elevation of about 

 5,300 feet above sea-level. Our earliest 

 pollen is obtained from willow, cotton- 

 wood and maple. Fruit bloom is the 

 source of most of our early honey. Of 

 this there are many hundreds of acres 

 within bee-range of my location, both 

 ' orchard and small fruits. 



