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compelled to feed. They were not only 

 short but quite weak. The candy feeding 

 in the spring resulted in some fine booming 

 colonies. We succeeded that winter but Ave 

 did not succeed another winter. Taking it 

 all in all, we quite agree with our corres- 

 pondent J. E. Hand in what he says in this 

 issue on page 915. 



Easy Way of Selling Honey 



Last winter we had a visit from G. W. 

 Bell, of Bell's Landing, Pa. Mr. Bell has 

 a unique method of disposing of a part of 

 his crop without any effort. He lives on 

 the New York Central Railroad, and there 

 are six passenger trains a day, besides a 

 number of freight trains. Of the twelve 

 conductors on the passenger trains there is 

 only one who does not buy honey. The 

 brakemen also buy considerable, as do also 

 some of the crew of the freight trains. 



The trainmen first started buying honey 

 by seeing shipments of his honey, and so 

 they gradually began buying, taking more 

 and more until he disposes of about 1000 

 pounds of comb honey a year in this way 

 with absolutely no effort on his part. 



Mr. Bell produces comb honey principal- 

 ly, altho he does considerable extracting as 

 well. He has a rack for holding sections, 

 and he extracts all the honey from the 

 unfinished sections, and uses the combs for 

 baits the next season. 



A Honey-Advertising Campaign 



The a. I. Root Company's full-page hon- 

 ey advertisement in the Ladies' Home Jour- 

 nal and Good Housekeemng, reaching five 

 million readers, is apparently having its ef- 

 fect. When all the prospects looked favor- 

 able for a big crop of honey in the East, and 

 when it was apparent early in the season 

 that the honey market was on the toboggan 

 slide, going down, down, down, an aggi'es- 

 .sive movement was decided on. The cam- 

 paign featured the advertising of honey as 

 a food, and, of course, the Airline brand in 

 particular. 



The October Ladies' Home Journal reach- 

 ed the housewives, the particular buyers of 

 honey, Sept. 20, all over the United States. 



Later. — What one of the largest distribu- 

 ters of honey in the West thinks of this is 

 shown by the following: 



We have just seen the October number of 

 the Ladies' Home Journal and have admired 

 the full-page advertisement your firm has in 

 same regarding Airline honey. It is certain- 

 ly vei y tastily gotten out and ought to bring 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



good results. Every beekeeper should ap- 

 preciate what you are doing to popularize 

 the use of honey in the home. 



The Colorado Honey-producers' Ass'n, 

 F. Rauchfuss, Manager. 



Denver, Col., Sept. 22. 



The Disappearing Disease in Mrs. 

 Allen's Apiary 



In this issue, page 907, Mrs. Allen de- 

 scribes exactly the symptoms of what was 

 supposed to be the Isle of Wight disease in 

 the western part of Ohio, and which created 

 quite a stir in the newspapers, especially 

 when it was learned that a representative 

 from Great Britain, and two or three repre- 

 sentatives from the bee-inspection depart- 

 ment of Ohio, were to make an investiga- 

 tion. As our readei's now know, nothing 

 very serious was found, and the trouble has 

 entirely disappeared. It seems that Mrs. 

 Allen found exactly the same thing in one of 

 her colonies. At all events, she gives the 

 exact symptoms that we found at Weston. 

 Whatever it was or is, the disappearing dis- 

 ease has disappeared. The same disease 

 that showed itself in Oregon, down the Mis- 

 sissippi Valley, in parts of Texas and Okla- 

 homa, and which threatened to Avipe out 

 whole colonies last season, did not appear 

 this year. 



Wintering Hives Buried in the Snow 



On page 322 of this issue Mr. John Mack 

 shows his hives almost entirely buried in 

 snow. Notwithstanding the hives were 

 buried from November till March 25, he 

 wintei'ed without loss. But when the cli- 

 mate is such that the weather changes from 

 warm to cold, so the snow thaws enough to 

 cause the water to run into the entrances, 

 and then freeze, there is danger of a severe 

 loss. At outyards where it is practical to 

 get the snow away from the entrances it is 

 best to do so when the Aveather is change- 

 able. On the other hand, Avhere the Aveather 

 is mild and there is changeable weather, the 

 snoAv Avill not be very deep. Where the cli- 

 mate is cold enough so that it does not warm 

 up all wintei-, bees can lie buried in the 

 snoAv without much danger. Like every- 

 thing else in bee culture, this is a matter of 

 locality. 



Diagnosing Colonies by External Indi 

 cations 



We regard Mr. J. L. Byer, of Markham, 



Ontario, as one of the best beekeepers on 

 the continent. He started Avith absolutely 

 nothing, raised a family, and noAv is one of 



