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deed, we usually find the early market 

 the best. Somehow, new honey in nice, 

 clean sections, is a great attraction, and 

 usually meets with ready sales. Owing 

 to the great scarcity of fruit this year, 

 we should insist on a good price, cer- 

 tainly not less than 17 cents per pound 

 at wholesale. That is by no means high, 

 as we have sold honey at 40 cents a 

 pound years ago when wages were much 

 lower than now. This price will cer- 

 tainly not make bee-keepers very rich 

 soon, when we remember that it is the 

 first honey of any consequence we have 

 had for three years. 



Then, if we commence selling our fine 

 white honey at a low price, what can we 

 expect to get for the late crop, that will 

 be darker, and not so good ? Better to 

 put away a liberal allowance for the 

 family, for the bee-keeper should have a 

 supply for his family and for company 

 at all times. 



One point we want to make : When 

 honey is sent to market, be sure that it 

 is in nice shape, and packed so it will 

 not get damaged. Scrape each section 

 of all the propolis, and pack in neat, 

 new cases. If you have a lot of the 

 paper, such as the Dadants pack be- 

 tween their comb foundation, it is just 

 the thing to wrap the sections of honey 

 in. If the sections are thus wrapped, a 

 shipping case will stand much more 

 jarring and rough handling than other- 

 wise, besides keeping out the dust, and 

 showing that some care has been taken 

 in preparing it for market. 



Some have advised packing the sec- 

 tions upside down in the shipping cases, 

 claiming that they will stand more 

 rough handling than when packed as 

 they stood on the hives. This is true, 

 if not built down to the bottom ; but the 

 trouble from leaking, from the unsealed 

 cells, greatly overbalances all the ad- 

 vantages, so we pack all right-side- up, 

 and have but little complaint on account 

 of breakage. — C.H.Dibbern, in Plowman 



Moths Kept Out with Salt. 



The best way to keep out moth is by 

 the use of salt. Put in the salt as you 

 put away your combs. Hold the combs 

 in your left hand, take the right hand 

 and throw it against the comb. Be sure 

 and get it all over both sides, and put in 

 a tight box and a dry place. It must be 

 dry, or the salt may melt and injure the 

 combs. When ready to use again, shake 

 out the salt a little. Some salt won't 

 harm your bees. I have tried many 

 ways, and found it the best. 



Of course if your combs are already 

 filled with living moth, it will do very 

 little good. This is only a prevention. 

 Always have a double-story hive, bees 

 can be better taken care of with a 

 double-story hive. Keep your colonies 

 to work as much as possible, by extract- 

 ing or giving plenty of room, not too 

 much at a time. Give it to them as 

 they need it.— P. Henry, in the Western 

 Rural. 



Carniolan Bees a Dark Race. 



Frank Benton, in a long article in the 

 Apiculturist, admits that there are a 

 few yellow bees in Carniola, but explains 

 that they were brought in, by a system 

 of migratory bee-keeping, from neigh- 

 boring provinces. Mr. Benton says that 

 he regards the Carniolans as a distinct 

 and well established type — one of the 

 dark races, and neither the history of 

 bee-keeping in Carniola, nor his obser- 

 vations while traveling and residing 

 there and breeding Carniolans exten- 

 sively, would lead him to think that 

 pure Carniolans were other than dark- 

 colored bees. As I said a year or more 

 ago, the so-called golden Carniolans get 

 their color from the admixture of yellow 

 blood. — Ree-Keepers'' Review. 



Uniting Small Colonies. 



During an abundant flow of honey, 

 those hives where little activity is mani- 

 fest should be examined, and their con- 

 dition ascertained. Open early in the 

 morning or late in the evening, when 

 but few bees are flying. A hive which 

 has but few bees, and is queenless this 

 month, is not worth saving; better take 

 care of the comb to prevent its being 

 destroyed by the larvae of the bee-moth, 

 and unite the bees with an after-swarm. 

 Perform the operation as follows : 



In early morning or late evening, re- 

 move all the combs but one or two, and 

 confine these to one side of the hive b'y a 

 division-board. Prepare another hive 

 containing a like swarm in the same 

 way. When the bees have become ac- 

 customed to the side of their hive, place 

 the comb in the prepared hive, when 

 the two swarms will soon communicate 

 at the entrance, or across the division- 

 board. The queenless bees will ascer- 

 tain that their neighbors have a queen, 

 and the other colony that their new 

 tenants have honey. Friendly relations 

 will be soon established, and a strong 

 colony be the happy result. — Mrs. L. 

 Harrison, in Orange Judd Farmer. 



