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l)ee-keepers, which vv'ill 1)egin May 28. The school will be followed 

 by a convention on June 11 and l"^. 



The faculty and the courses which they will give are as follows: 

 "Practical Phases of Bee-Keeping," Dr. Burton N. Gates; ''Crops 

 for Honey Bees," Prof. S. B. Plaskell : "The Relation of Bees to the 

 Pollenation of Plants," Dr. George E. Stone; "Structure of Bees," 

 Mr. I. W. Davis; "Bees and Bee-Keepers" Supplies," Dr. James B. 

 Paige. 



Students will have the use of the regular apicultural equipment 

 of the college, consisting of about two acres with fift}- colonies of 

 bees and a modern building constructed especially for the teaching 

 of practical apiculture. Practically every device used in American 

 apiculture will be shown, it being the aim of the department to pro- 

 cure new inventions as fast as they appear for the purpose of study 

 and comparison. A library of over TOO volumes, and papers of api- 

 cultural literature, will also be available to students. 



It has been found necessary to limit the registration to fifteen, 

 and applications will be accepted in the order received. A registra- 

 tion fee of $2 will be charged. 



For bulletins or other information, address Professor \V. D. 

 Hurd, Amherst, !\Iass. 



Free Sugar. 



A\'ith the taritY taken off of sugar, or a considerable reduction 

 in the tariff', bee-keepers will be wondering what eft'ect, if any. it 

 will have upon the price of honey. 



Let us see : .Sugar is veiy cheap at the present time, selling for 

 from 41-2 cents to 0^3 cents per pound in the retail way, while 

 honey sells in the jobbing way from $0 per hundred pounds for 

 baker stock of extracted to, say, $1<S per hundred pounds for best 

 comb at wholesale, and at about $25 per hundred pounds at retail. 



The best maple sugar is quoted at $1" per hundred pounds, at 

 wholesale. 



It is presumed that sugar in the future (cane or beet) as at 

 the present time will be used for sweetening purposes, while honey 

 and maple sugar will be bought — for and an extra price paid — for 

 their respective flavors. If under a free clause sugar should sell for 

 a cent a pound less than at present, people would consume some 

 more than at present on account of its cheapness. 



^ly opinion is that the price of cane or beet sugar has prac- 

 tically nothing to do with the price of honey and maple sugar, they 



