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ten from Nevada a car-load of honoy, 

 and a half load from somo other State. 

 Thosp two lots of honey were the finest 

 that I had ever soon. There wasn't a 

 broken comb in it, and it looked like 

 alfalfa standard comb honey. It had 

 the flavor of red clover honey, and was 

 as white and clear as the white clover 

 and basswood. Well, I sent ten cases of 

 this honey to Norwalk, I believe, and I 

 soon received word that it was adulter- 

 ated ; that the customer had intended 

 buying the pure lioney, and not any 

 adulterated stuff. I wrote him in re- 

 turn that it t«(is pure honey, for him to 

 have it analyzed, and if it wasn't, I 

 would give him $100. The result was 

 that he afterwards bought two or three 

 lots more of the same kind of honey. 

 Many will say to me, "You can't raise 

 so much honey ; it is adulterated ; bees 

 cannot make so much." We bee-keepers 

 know better, and it rests with us to con- 

 vince our customers that the honoy we 

 sell is all pure. 



Mr. Kaab — I have been selling ex- 

 tracted honey for a good many years, 

 and I used to put it in stone jars, as 

 there were no glass ones at that time. 

 Well, after a while, it would granulate. 

 I remember one lady who bought somo 

 of me, told me that it was adulterated; 

 that it was not pure honoy, because it 

 had gone to sugar. I told her that she 

 was very greatly mistaken, for that was 

 a sign that it was pure, and that I 

 always liked to have honoy granulate. 

 This shows about how much some peo- 

 ple know about honoy. 



Pres. Russell — The next important 

 question before us is in relation to our 

 World's Fair exhibit for this State. You 

 will remember that it was decided in our 

 meeting last ytfar that we should make 

 an exhibit there, and so if we are to 

 make it, I think now is the time for us 

 to ask for an appropriation. Still 

 another important question is the revi- 

 sion of our premium list. But perhaps 

 it would be wise for us to defer these 

 two important matters until to-morrow, 

 when we shall probably have more mem- 

 bers present, and shall be able to get 

 opinions in full. 



(Continued next week.) 



Capons and Caponizingf, by 



Edward Warren Sawyer, M. D., Fanny 

 Field, and others. It shows in clear 

 language and illustrations all about 

 caponizing fowls ; and thus how to 

 make the most money in poultry-raising. 

 Every poultry-keeper should have it. 

 Price, postpaid, 80 cents ; or (;lubbed 

 with Bkk Jouknaj, one year, for $1.10. 



Wlieii <tiieen-Excluding: Honoy- 

 Boards arc IVcedcd. 



Written Jor the American Bee Jownal 



BY W. Z. HUTCHINSON. 



Last Doi^ember, when I contributed 

 an article to the Bee Jouunal, detailing 

 my experience in hiving swarms on 

 foundation starters only in the brood- 

 nest, I closed with these words : 



It was the result of these experiments 

 that led to tlio publication of luy little book 

 on "The Production of Conili Honey." 

 Tliree thousand copies of the hook were 

 sold, and I would be glad if the purchasers 

 of that book would tell where I am at fault, 

 if 1 am at fault. 



Soon after the appearance of the 

 number of the Bee Jouknal containing 

 that article, Mr. II. R. Boardraan, of 10. 

 Townsend, Ohio, who has had much ex- 

 perience in the line of hiving swarms 

 without foundation, wrote me a letter 

 showing where he thought I was in 

 error. Noticing from time to time that 

 the columns of the Bee Jouunal were 

 crowded, I have delayed writing further 

 on the subject. Here is what Mr. Board- 

 man wrote : 



FiiiENi) IIiiTcumsoN:— You are certainly 

 in error when you say it will bo necessary 

 to use <(iieen-excluders iu hiving new 

 swarms on eni])ty frames with only starters. 

 I have never used a queen-excluder, uor have 

 I imy M.W for t/imi ; I regard them as oidy 

 another accuimulatiou of worse than worth- 

 less fixtures. I have hived hundreds of 

 swarms upon empty frames with only 

 starters. This has been ray usual practice 

 for years. 



It is an excmiuiijly ran: occnrmirp, for the 

 queen to go into the sections, and if man- 

 aged jtroperly, I doubt if nhe, ii<rr (/ixs into 

 thctii.. When a ijueen once begins laying, 

 disturt) lier as much as you will, and she 

 will return to the brood-nest she left. This 

 is the rule. If undisturbed, she will not 

 leave the combs when she has commenced 

 laying. 



I have numy times, by way of experi- 

 ment, shook out the bees togetlier with the 

 queen, after she had begun laying, into the 



