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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



November 



Making the best of a poor season : 

 — In this part of the country our 

 takes of honey are not large, and 

 among the cottagers, who still stick 

 to the straw skeps, many of their 

 " casts " have had scarcely a pound 

 of honey in them, while the very 

 early swarms died from starvation. 

 Then a change for a fortnight, and 

 most of the swarms that came off at 

 the beginning of the settled whether 

 are fairly heavy, but many of the old 

 stock-hives simply swarmed them- 

 selves to death or, at least, swarmed 

 themselves queenless.which eventually 

 means death to the colony. I would 

 advise readers who still use the straw 

 skeps to have them made a good 

 size ; some I have handled this season 

 contained good lumps of honey, but 

 even in a good season the bees cannot 

 store the sweetest sweet of nature if 

 they have no room in which to store 

 it. The query is: What is the price 

 of honey this year ? To which I am 

 foreed to reply, "About the usual 

 price." I believe that bee-keepers 

 could get a better price for honey if 

 there was more unity amongst them, 

 and were not so ready to compete with 

 each other in trying to cut down the 

 price to secure the order. 



Then another item bearing on the 

 price of honey this season in the short 

 supply in California and other honey- 

 producing countries, though what 

 quantities our colonies at the anti- 

 podes may have to send us of their 

 eucalyptus honey I have no data, so 

 that considering the produce is short, 

 generally speaking, 1 think we ought 

 to be able to secure an advance on 

 last year's prices, and thus help some- 

 what in adjusting the balance on the 

 right side when footing up the account 

 of the years's work. — W. Woodley, in 

 Bee Keepers' Record, (England). 



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EDITORIAL, 



The North American Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation held its Twenty-Fifth Annual Con- 

 vention in St Joseph, Mo., on October 10th 

 as advertised, and as the Bee-Keeper was 

 not represented we have no detailed report 

 to offer but from the rather meager reports 

 that have thus far been published by those 

 papers which were represented there, we 

 cannot but conclude that in point of attend- 

 ance and general enthusiasm it was not an 

 unqualifies success. There were only 

 about seventy members present and very 

 few of them were bee-keepers of any promi- 

 nence. The Convention was more thorough- 

 ly advertised and more elaborate prepar- 

 ations were made for it than any previous 

 convention and it was certainly not through 

 any fault of the officers of the association 

 that it was not a great success. The only 

 explanation we can arrive at for the small 

 attendance is that the Convention was held 

 too far from that section of the country 



