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any way, we have succeeded, and that is, 

 to have a biographical sketch and picture 

 in the Bee Journal eoerii week for a xvhole 

 year. It has taken some planning to do 

 this, and no little anxiety lest we should 

 have to miss having the department some 

 week, but fortunately we have been able 

 to continue it regularly without a break for 

 52 weeks. We hope to be able to con- 

 tinue this entertaining department of the 

 Bee Journal right along. 



'I'o IiKliaua, Bee-Keepers. — The 



13th annual convention of the Indiana State 

 Bee-Keepers' Convention will be held in 

 Room 15 of the State House at Indianapolis 

 at 9a.m., on Jan. 5, 1894. Prominent bee- 

 keepers have promised to attend. All are 

 requested to bring samples of honey and 

 anything new in bee-appliances. Articles 

 should be forwarded by express (charges 

 prepaid) to Chas. F. Kennedy, Room 14, 

 State House, Indianapolis, Ind. A grand 

 meeting is anticipated, and bee-keepers are 

 urgently requested to be present. 



The following is the programme, which 

 promises to be very interesting : 



Address by the President — R. S. Russell, 

 of Zionsville. 



Honey as Food and Medicine — Dr. J. M. 

 Hicks, of Indianapolis. 



Profits of Bee-Keeping Combined with 

 Other Vocations — J. A. C. Dobson, Browns- 

 burg. 



Do We Wish to Prevent Swarming ? — 

 Geo. P. Wilson. Tolleate. 



Properly Managing the Apiary — Chas. F. 

 Muth, Cincinnati, O. 



Bees for Profit — David Learning, Arcadia. 



Controlling the Mating of Queens— W. S. 

 Pouder, Indianapolis. 



Characteristics of Different Races — J. F. 

 Michael, German, O. 



Bees for Profit with Least Attention — Dr. 

 E. H. Collins, Carmel. 



Value of Honey Exhibits and Bee-Con- 

 ventions — E. S. Pope, Indianapolis. 



Our Honey Resources Compared with 

 Those of Other States — Geo. C. Thompson, 

 Southport. Geo. P. Wilson, Sec. 



Tollgate, Ind. • 



A B C of I*otato-dilt»ire is the title 

 of an attractive, 220-page pamphlet just 

 issued by Bro. A. I. Root, of Medina, O. 

 Price, postpaid, 40 cents. It is illustrated, 

 and neatly bound in imitation leatherette. 

 It was niainly written by Mr. T. B. Terry — 



the greatest specialist farmer in this coun- 

 try—and teUs all about raising potatoes. 



We thought we used to know something 

 about raising potatoes, some 15 years ago, 

 for we remember very distinctly digging GO 

 bushels in one day, with an ordinary 4- 

 tined barn-fork, with a handle about three 

 feet long. (They were what we then called 

 " Early Rose " potatoes, and fine ones, too.) 

 We notice that Mr. Terry calls such a fork 

 as we used, the •• Boss Unpatented Potato- 

 Digger ;" but we also see that he had a man 

 that dug over 220 bushels in nine hours 

 with that kind of a digging-machine. That 

 digger-man must have been a distant rela- 

 tive of the " Digger Indians," for we don't 

 believe we ever could dig so many potatoes 

 in so short a time as he did. 



Better get that potato book, friends, and 

 learn how not only to dig potatoes, but 

 also how to have lots of them in the ground 

 before commencing to dig. 



Ho^v to Advertise.— Bro. Hutchin- 

 son, in the I)ecember Beview. has one busi- 

 ness editorial that ought to be read and 

 heeded by every advertiser that desires to 

 buUd up a paying business. Here is the 

 item: 



Avertising, yood advertising, in these 

 times is almost half the battle. I have in 

 mind a queen-breeder who keeps his adver- 

 tisements running the whole year. When- 

 ever I write to him for a few queens, I 

 always have to wait a long time before he 

 can fill my order — so many orders ahead. 

 But when I send him a bill for advertising 

 the money always comes back by return 

 mail. I have in mind other men who send 

 in an advertisement in June, and stop it in 

 August or September, saying it does not 

 pay them. 



I am well satisfied that a man can com- 

 mence uou' and so advertise that he will 

 have a good trade next season in almost 

 anything that bee-keepers need to buy. See 

 what a trade Mr. Trego secured by getting 

 out an attractive line of advertisements 

 last year. It's none too soon to begin ad- 

 vertising for next season's trade, and the 

 better the advertising the greater will be 

 the trade. I feel perfectly free to talk in 

 this way, if I do have advertising space to 

 sell, because I know that what I say is true, 

 besides, I " take my own medicine," as they 

 say, and find that it does me good. 



We can endorse every word Bro. H. says. 

 Why, we wouldn't think of advertising 

 spasmodically, semi-oecasionally, etc. Heg- 

 ular advertising keeps your name before 

 the people, and later on secures the patron- 

 age. Try it, and see. 



