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to detect the practical from the imprac- 

 tical, and it will be useless in the future 

 to attempt to introduce impractical im- 

 plements. This space is too straight- 

 ened to give room for suggestions. — (x. 

 W. Demaree. 



1. Well, I should think in the line of 

 hivers and non-swarmers, if any one 

 wants to use them. 2. Most other uten- 

 sils are good enough until we can get 

 something better, and no one can tell 

 whether they can be improved so well as 

 a born inventor. — R. L. Taylor. 



If I knew just what was needed, I 

 would go to work to supply it myself. 

 However, we need better honey and 

 wax extractors, smokers, foundation 

 fasteners, bee-veils, automatic swarmers, 

 etc. I know of nothing that is perfect, 

 or "good enough." — James A. Green. 



Try your hand at hive-covers. I have 

 not seen the one that suits me yet; and 

 also please hunt us up a little better and 

 more convenient veil than we now have. 

 Extractors, honey-hives and smokers, 

 are pretty good, but there is room for 

 some improvement yet. — S. I. Freeborn. 



There is room for considerable im- 

 provement in nearly all our fixtures. I, 

 for one, am interested in the self-hiving 

 problem, and think it will yet be a suc- 

 cess, when the right inventor takes hold 

 of it. Then, how about our "bee-es- 

 capes ?" They are fairly a succcess ; 

 but ! — Will M. Barnum. 



Much depends. I find that the uten- 

 sils now in common use are good enough 

 for me. Invention in this line is about 

 played out, so far as practical beneficial 

 results are concerned. Improve what 

 we now have, should be the rule, rather 

 than to attempt to create an "era " by 

 getting up new ones. — J. E. Pond. 



We need a smoker that never goes out 

 unless put out. We need an uncapping- 

 machine run by steam or foot-power, 

 that will do good work on a crooked 

 comb. We need a non-swarmer that 

 doesn't swarm. Or an automatic swarm- 

 catcher that will work whether a fellow 

 is watching it or not. — Eugene Secor. 



Capons and Caponizins:? by 



Edward Warren Sawyer, M. D., Fanny 

 Field, and others. It shows in clear 

 language and illustrations all about 

 caponizing fowls ; and thus how to 

 make the most money in poultry-raising. 

 Every poultry-keeper should have it. 

 Price, postpaid, 30 cents ; or clubbed 

 with Bee Joitrnal one year, for $1.10. 



iSelling Extracted Honey — Sev- 

 eral Ways of Doingr It. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



I am asked by a subscriber to the 

 American Bee Journal, to give my 

 plans of selling extracted honey. 



First, we have our home trade, which 

 is of two-fold nature — that which comes 

 to the door, bringing pails, etc., and 

 taking away the number of pounds 

 called for. If this were only large enough 

 to take all that could be produced, the 

 bee-keeper might be perfectly happy 

 when thinking along the line of dispos- 

 ing of his product; but as this is not 

 often the case, we next take a sample 

 and go around among our more distant 

 neighbors, leaving a sauce-dish full at 

 every house, and informing them that 

 we shall be around in a couple of days 

 or so with the same kind of honey for 

 sale, giving the price that will be asked 

 for it. 



Where the crop is not large, the whole 

 can be disposed of in the above two 

 ways, especially if we feel disposed to 

 trade our honey for butter, eggs, wheat, 

 oats, etc., which can be used in our fam- 

 ilies, or readily converted into cash. I 

 find people much more ready to ex- 

 change their products for honey than 

 they are to pay cash for it. Even the 

 man who works for me is much more 

 ready to exchange his day's work for 

 honey than he is to pay me the price of 

 a day's work in money. There seems to 

 be a certain desire, with most people, to 

 keep money after it is once obtained, 

 which is so strong that they will often 

 go without that which costs money, 

 while an exchange can be readily ac- 

 complished with no money in view. 



Second, we have our "store trade," 

 by which I mean the leaving of honey 

 in glass fruit-jars, honey-tumblers, and 

 the different pails suitable for retail 

 purposes, at the stores in our vicinity, to ^ 

 be sold on commission, or to pay for the - 



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