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that over-loaded bees can be relieved of 

 excessive moisture by heat and ventila- 

 tion, without the privilege of a flight in 

 the open air. — G. W. Demaree. 



In my climate (Georgia) the winters 

 are so mild that bees can fly every few 

 days, hence our bees are not affected 

 with diarrhea. But if I were in Ne- 

 braska, and had such a case, I would re- 

 move it to a warm room, and allow the 

 bees to take a " room flight." Clean 

 out the hive and remove all soiled combs, 

 and if they were deficient in stores, feed 

 with candy until they could fly out-doors, 

 then feed up with sugar syrup. — J. P. 

 H. Beown. 



[For years, bee-keepers have felt that they 

 owed the Rev. L. L. Laugstroth— the Father 

 of American bee-culture— a debt that they 

 can never very well pay, for his invention of 

 the Movable-Frame Hive which so completely 

 revolutionized bee-lieeping- throughout all the 

 world. In order that his few remaining- years 

 may be made as happy and as comfortable as 

 possible, we feel that we should undertake a 

 plan by which those bee-lieepers who consider 

 it a privilege as well as a duty, might have an 

 opportunity to contribute something toward 

 a fund that should be gathered and forwarded 

 to Father liangstroth as a slight toljen of their 

 appreciation, and regard felt for him by bee- 

 keepers everywhere. No amount above' $1.00 

 is expected from any person at one time— but 

 any sum, however large or small, we will of 

 course receive and turn over to Father L. 

 All receipts will be acknowledged here.— Ed.] 



L,ist of Contributors. 



Previously Reported $23 65 



North American Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation 50 00 



Geo. T. Gunn. Wall Lake, Iowa 25 



C. E. Mead, Chicago, Ills 1 00 



Total $73 90 



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 nicely illustrated, and bound in cloth. It 

 shows " how bees may be cultivated as a 

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 the busy man." It also illustrates how 

 profits may be "made certain by growing 

 crops yielding the most honey, having also 

 other uses; and by judgment in breeding a 

 good working strain of bees." Price, post- 

 paid, from this otiice, .$1.00; or clubbed with 

 the Bee Journal for one year, for .$1.70. 



Have You Read page 485 yet ? 



Indications of the Honey Mar- 

 ket — l§onie Experiences. 



Wnttcn for the American Bee Journal 



BY C. W. DAYTON. 



(Continued from page 470.) 



In the apiary where I was employed, 

 the instructions were to extract when 

 the combs were sealed one-third of the 

 way down, but toward the end of the 

 harvest, negligence allowed several colo- 

 nies to seal their combs all of the way ^ 

 down. When the harvest was over I 

 thought to try my hand at peddling 

 honey in Colorado. A wagon was loaded 

 up, and I started for Cheyenne, about 

 50 miles distant. After going about 10 

 miles in the hot sunshine, I looked 

 back at my load and saw honey getting 

 out through some of the screw caps ; I 

 laid it to the jolting on the rough roads. 



A few miles farther I came to a rail- 

 road section-house, occupied by a family 

 of "old country" people, and as I 

 climbed off the wagon, I mentioned that 

 I had a load of honey, and the hot 

 sun and rough roads made it pretty 

 hard traveling. 



"Oh," said the lady of the house, " we 

 don't want to buy any ; we don't any of 

 us like honey." 



Then I said, "I did not stop to sell 

 honey. I am going to seii the honey in 

 Cheyenne ; but I wished to get a drink 

 of water and inquire the way." 



I proceeded to get plenty of water, 

 and make complete inquiries as to the 

 routes, and if there was any water, etc., 

 and returned to the wagon as if to de- 

 part; but before doing so I stopped to 

 wipe up the honey which had gotten out 

 of the cans, and to re-arrange other 

 things which had jolted out of place; in 

 doing this, crates of sections, packages 

 of extracted honey, and other peculiar 

 utensils were brought up in sight or 

 piled upon th(' seat while I continued to 

 mutter aloud as to the difficulties of 

 handling honey and hauling it long dis- 

 tances to market, giving the parents 



