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sell to you at the rates he will sell to 

 others, the only thing to be done is to 

 beat him at his own game. 



Next season put in a stock of section- 

 holders and sections, snow-white and 

 polished ; with the newest and best sep- 

 arators, that are the width of the sec- 

 tions ; have these sections 8 to the foot, 

 and use very thin foundation in them. 

 These you can sell at a price that will 

 meet competition with any one who has 

 a tendency to cut the price. 



Bee-keepers should live in harmony. 

 There is no use in running down prices 

 which are now too low. Comb honey 

 sells now in my market at 10 cents per 

 pound, and extracted at 8 cents. My 

 whole crop of extracted honey will be 

 sold at home, for 8 cents a pound. 

 These prices are low, too low, in fact ; 

 no man could keep enough bees to make 

 it pay, off bees alone. 



W. C. Frazier. 



The subject of Mr. Frazier's essay 

 brought out quite a discussion. 



Mr. De Clare — It is the small pro- 

 ducers that sell their honey at low 

 prices. 



Mr. March — In my locality there is not 

 enough honey to supply the market at 

 20 cents per pound. 



Mr. Young — If bee-keepers would all 

 take bee-papers, they would be posted 

 on the honey market. 



A Member — I have no trouble to get 

 15 cents for my honey, and bee-keepers 

 should send their honey to market. 

 They should pay more attention to the 

 producing of fancy honey, and then they 

 should get fancy prices. 



Mr. Frazier — I have seen "cut-out" 

 honey sell for as much as fancy honey. 



Thos. Johnson — To prepare sections 

 for market, proceed on some cool morn- 

 ing and scrape off air propolis, and thus 

 make them attractive. 



Mr. Barrows — Bee-keepers do not in- 

 vestigate the market, and so sell at too 

 low prices. 



Mr. Frich — I am a beginner, and 

 know that beginners do ruin the mar- 

 ket, because they do not know how to 

 prepare the honey for selling. 



Mr. Young — Some bee-keepers think 

 that when other sweets are down, honey 

 must come down also, which is a great 

 mistake. 



Mr. Coverdale — All small honey-pro- 

 ducers sell their honey too low, because 

 they do not consider it worth holding ; 

 and many have no proper place to keep 

 it. 



Mr. Fultz — The time is not far off 

 when honey will bring cash, and it is 

 the most satisfactory way of doing busi- 

 ness: 



THE USE OP BEE-ESCAPES. 



The subject of bee-escapes was then 

 taken up. 



Mr. Barrows had used three different 

 kinds, and all with success. 



Mr. Secor likes the Porter escape best. 



Mr. Marshall said that bee-escapes 

 would not give satisfaction when brood 

 is above the brood-chamber. 



The following were elected unani- 

 mously as officers for the ensuing year : 



President, Eugene Secor, Forest City ; 

 Vice-President, 0. B. Barrows, of 

 Marshalltown ; Secretary, J. W. Bitten- 

 bender, of Knoxville ; and Treasurer, 

 Mrs. J. W. Bittenbender. 



J. W. Bittenbender, Sec. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



Oct. 18, 19.— Illinois State, at Chicago, Ills. 

 Jas. A. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, Ills. 



Oct. 19.— N. E. Ohio, N. Penn. & W. New York 

 at Sagrerstown, Pa. 



George Spitler, Sec, Mosiertown, Pa. 



Oct. 20.— Southern California at Los Angeles. 

 Geo. W. Brodbeek, Sec, Los Angeles, Calif. 



Nov. 3.— Connecticut, at Hartford, Conn. 

 Mrs. W. E. Riley, Sec, Waterbury, Conn. 



Nov. 28.— Allegany Co., at Angelica, N. Y. 

 H. L. Dwight, Sec, Friendship, N. Y. 



Jan. 13, 14.— S.W.Wisconsin, at Boscobel.Wis. 

 Edwin Pike, Pres., Boscobel, Wis. 



Jgg" In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editors. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Eugene Secor..Forest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary— W. Z. Hutchinson Flint, Mich 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon . .Dowagiac, Mich. 

 Sec'y and Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 



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