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We can furnish White Alfalfa Extracted Honey, in 60-pound tin cans, on 

 board cars in Chicago, at these prices : 1 can, in a case, 7}4 cents per pound ; 2 cans 

 in one case, 7 cents ; 4 cans (2 cases) or more, 6>2 cents. The Cash must accom- 

 pany each order. Fine Bass'wood Flavor Honey at '4 cent more when in 

 cans : or in 270-lb. barrels at (i;.2 cents per pound. 



A sample of the honey will be mailed to an intending purchaser, for S 

 cents, to cover postage, packing, etc. We guarantee purity. 



Now it seems to us here is a splendid chance for any bee-keeper to supply his 

 home demand after his own crop is all sold. Or, why not begin now to create a 

 local honey-trade? Order one 00-pound can first, and start out among your neigh- 

 bors and friends, and see what you can do. You ought to get at least 12 cents per 

 pound in 5-pound lots, or 40 cents for 3 pounds. Some may be able to do even 

 better than that, though we think that enough ought to be sold at these prices to 

 make a fairly paying business out of it. Give it a good trial. Push it. It may 

 grow into a nice winter's work for you. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Miehigan Stmt, CHICAGO, ILL. 



all went into winter quarters heavy iu 

 stores. I am wintering them on the sum- 

 mer stands, the hives covered with short 

 boards sawed two feet for the purpose. I 

 keep the snow heapt up around the hives, 

 leaving the entrances open. This has been 

 my method, and it has workt well so far; 

 so when a thing works well, that will do. 



I am an old soldier, and must engage in 

 some light out-door work. I have handled 

 bees all my life. I have come up all the 

 way from the hollow log hive to the im- 

 proved hives of to day, but I never thought 

 of getting right down to business till with- 

 in the last two or three years. I am horti- 

 culturally built, and also love to handle 

 bees. I read Langstroth's book 30 years 

 ago. but never until I saw the honey exhib- 

 its at the World's Pair did I get so inter- 

 ested in bee-culture as I have been since. I 

 was there during the entire Fair, in charge 

 of our horticultural exhibit. I am not 

 afraid the bees will do me or my fruit-trees 

 any damage. S. W. Maxey. 



Kittitas Co., Wash., Dec. 26. 



Deep Snow and Windy. 



I have three out-apiaries. I've had bees 

 for seven seasons, the last being the best 

 yet. My average from 143 colonies was 

 34 pounds per colony. I keep all my bees 

 in dovetail chaff hives, except 26 that are 

 in Bristol hives. I rear leather-colored 

 queens, which are the best that I have 

 tried, and I have tested quite a number. It 

 has been snowing the past 48 hours; the 

 snow is two feet deep on the level, and the 

 wind is blowing hard, filling the roads 

 with snow. Thad. H. Keelek. 



Westchester Co , N. Y., Dec. 24. 



Report for 1896. 



I began in the spring with 14 colonies — 

 blacks and hybrids. I had 6 swarms, and 

 300 pounds of basswood comb honey. There 

 was white clover, also many wild flowers, 

 but no nectar in them. Basswood trees 

 were very full of bloom from the 1st to the 

 20th of June, but bees could work on it 

 only one week, because it was too damp 

 and chilly most of the time. Basswood is 

 the principal lependence here, but alas! 

 the woodman's ax is ruthlessly roljbing us 

 of this best of all honey-plant's. I have 

 been a subscriber only 1^ j years, but I have 

 learned to like the Bee Journal and the 

 editor more and more. Long may they 

 live to cheer the hearts of the bee-keeping 

 fraternity, and battle for the right. 



Platte Co., Mo. R.T.Rose. 



"Honey Exchange" Suggestions. 



I was considerably interested in the re- 

 port of the Chicago convention. I am not 

 a member of any organization, nor do I 

 know that I shall connect myself with one. 

 But it seems to me that the reason our bee- 

 keepers failed to get returns for the honey 

 shipt to the commission men, was not on 

 account of a lack of organization on their 

 part, but because they failed to use com- 

 mon sense in business, and /,;io«> their men 

 before making a consignment, either by 

 letters of inquiry, or of reference. A man 

 who will ship a carload of honey to an un- 

 known firm, except through his advertise- 

 ment in a paper or a richly worded and 

 attractive circular through the mail, cer- 

 tainly comes short in his make up. or. to 

 express it in a more charitable and broth- 

 erly way, he is anticipating a hundred 

 years hence, when in the Millennial Reign 

 of Christ we are told that •• the fir^/i shall 

 be filled with the knowledge of the glory of 

 the Lord as the waters cover the sea." — 

 Heb. 2; 14. 



A suggestion: It would seem to me that 

 the most effective form of organization 

 would be to have a common center, or 

 '■ Honey-Exchange,'' if you prefer to name 

 it such, in a central city, like Chicago. At 

 that honey-exchange have a thorough busi- 

 ness man, who is already associated with 

 bee-keepers, located on a salary. His du- 



