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In this way twice as much honey will be stored as where the 

 swarms are allowed to go away (here in Colorado). 



Give away all the honey you cannot sell to your neighbors, (a 

 section or two to each family), and after they get a "'taste'' of this 

 "purest and best of all God's sweetness/' you will have no more 

 trouble selling all you can produce. 



The Annual Report of the Illinois Association. 



Secretary James A. Stone writes under the date of April lOlh 

 as follows: "Editor of the Review :— The twelfth annual report of 

 the 111. S. B. K. Association is now about to issue from the hands 

 of the printer, and will be ready for distribution before this letter 

 reaches the readers of the Review. It will contain a full shorthand 

 report of the Illinois State Association meeting in Springfield, of 

 the Chicago Northwestern in Chicago, and a complete report of the 

 meeting of the National held in Cincinnati, P'ebruary of this year. 

 The report will contain about 170 pages more or less, and the sec- 

 retary who compiled it wishes to say it gives information regarding 

 the National that every bee-keeper should possess; and in these 

 meetings some of the best informed bee-keepers we have acknowl- 

 edged they had learned something new. AAe think it our best re- 

 port yet issued. A cloth bound copy is sent to every member who 

 has paid his annual fee of $1.50 for membership in the National and 

 State (and the Review) to either Secretary Tyrrell of the National, 

 or Secretary Stone of the State (111.). 



(Signed) Jas. 2\. Stone^ Secretary. 



Honey Production in the West. 



y^ OLORADO produces and ships from thirty-five to fifty cars of 

 1 ^^ honey yearly. Of this honey probably two-thirds is comb. 

 Idaho now produces and ships almost as much honey. From 

 present indications the time is not far distant when it will equal, if 

 not surpass, Colorado in total production. Utah does not produce as 

 much as Colorado and Idaho, but probably comes pretty close to it. 

 Nevada will ship from eight to twelve or fifteen cars yearlv. Wyoming 

 and [Montana bee-keeping is not so very extensive as yet, but each 

 ships a few cars each year. New Mexico and Arizona are quite heavy 

 producers, equaling Nevada's production and perhaps surpassing her 

 mark. From these western states mentioned, it is safe to sav that 



