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ard is so well known now that orders are always made in accordance with 

 the price lists which appear as follows: 



PRICES OF HONEY. 



Comb. Extracted. 



60-pound cans, 2 in a case, per lb. 



12-pound cans, 10 in a case, per lb. 



6-pound cans, 10 in a case, per lb. 



3-pound cans, 20 in a case, per lb. 



Terms: — Sight draft, bill of lading attached, subject to examination. 



The freight rates on honey put up in this way are very low as it goes at 



fourth-class rate, while section comb honey must go in glass shipping 



cases properly crated at double first-class freight and . at owner's risk; 



the can packages are much safer. 



WORK OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



A great deal of good has been done toward furthering the bee-keeping 

 industry here by the State and local bee-keepers' association. The Texas 

 Bee-keepers' Association is the largest of its kind in the State, and comprises 

 all the local associations. To it belong the North Texas Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, the South Texas, the Southwest Texas, and the Uvalde Bee-keepers' 

 Association. While these local associations have their annual and some 

 their semi-annual, meetings, in their respective territory, the State Associa- 

 tion meets annually in July at the Agricultural and Mechanical College and 

 Texas Experiment Station, at College Station. Delegates from the other 

 associations attend. 



This association has been instrumental in obtaining several measures, 

 chief among which is the experimental apiary at the A. and M. College; 

 then the Texas foul-brood law was due to its efforts. The adoption of 

 the standard honey-cans was a move of this association, as well as obtain- 

 ing at the large fairs at San Antonio and the State Fair at Dallas premium 

 lists for bee-keepers' exhibits to the amount of $300 at each of these. 

 The association has also a special committee to look after exhibits at 

 fairs; hence large and creditable exhibits of bee-keepers' products represent 

 the industry at such places, with the result that the industry is furthered 

 thereby. 



"In union there is strength," so it is with a State Association of bee- 

 keepers, and every State should have one. The Texas association at the 

 same time is affiliated with the Texas Farmers' Congress, of which it is 

 the bee-keepers' section. This congress comprises some two dozen State 

 agricultural associations, each representing its industry. All the members 

 of the State association become members of the National gee-keeper's 

 Association, by joining it in a body, at 50 cents each, thereby receiving 

 all the privileges and the protection of that great association. Besides 

 this, special low rates are given on subscriptions to the different bee- 

 journals, as an additional inducement. The membership to both associa- 

 tions in the above way is only $1.00; and if several journals are subscribed 

 for, enough is saved on them to pay for this. Gleanings in Bee Culture 



