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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Field of Labor for Bee-Keepers. 



In my opinion, the most promising 

 field of labor is that of lessening the cost 

 of honey. Honey is not a staple in the 

 same sense that flour, meat and pota- 

 toes are. In proportion as prices of 

 honey climb up, does the demand go 

 down ; and it is mostly in the devising 

 of plans, methods, hives, appliances, 

 etc., whereby the labor of producing 

 honey may be lessened that bee-keepers 

 must look at present for their success. 

 The invention of the bee-escape was 

 right in this line. Self-hivers are point- 

 ing in the same direction. 



What is needed is to be able to place 

 an apiary out here a few miles, another 

 out in this direction, another in that, 

 etc., and then have matters so arranged 

 that one man can care for all of them. 

 Or these same methods must allow a 

 man to have an apiary at home, and be 

 able to manage it by the use of a small 

 part of his time, some other business 

 taking the greater part of his time. I 

 believe that it is in this direction that 

 bee-keeping talent should turn its ener- 

 gies. — w. Z. Hutchinson, in the Review. 



Large Colonies Not Best for Winter. 



While it may, and no doubt does, pay 

 to have strong colonies in the North, it 

 will not pay, as a rule, here in the South 

 to winter strong colonies. Anything 

 above an ordinary colony, or about half 

 a gallon of bees, is wintered at a loss in 

 the South, as a moderate swarm will 

 build up sufficiently strong, long before 

 the honey-flow. It is worse than useless 

 to have a powerful colony. The late 

 Judge Andrews, of McKinney, who is 

 high authority on bees, has well said 

 that it was better to burn your bees off in 

 the fall rather than have them hang 

 around idle all the fall and winter, 

 using honey at a great loss to the owner. 

 This I have found to be true in this 

 country. We need the honey here, 

 especially in the spring, but it is best 



only to have a fair colony of bees, a 

 good queen, and plenty of honey in 

 Texas, or the Southern States. — Mrs. 

 Atchley, in the Progressive Bee-Keeper. 



Manitoba Honey. 



It may yet be found that Manitoba is 

 one of the best honey-producing coun- 

 tries in America, especially in wooded 

 districts. The profusion of flowers that 

 exists during the summer season, and 

 the unrivalled bloom of the millions of 

 wild-fruit trees, with the exceedingly 

 long days of warm sunshine, make a 

 condition of things favorable for bees. 

 As an instance, Mr. Aitken, of Pilot 

 Mound, who keeps a few colonies, had 

 last season 120 pounds of honey from 

 one colony, and the bees were last 

 spring as vigorous as ever. Manitoba 

 honey tastes very much like the honey 

 gathered by bees from the blossoms of 

 heather in the Highlands of Scotland.— 

 Pilot Mound Sentinel. 



The Pennsylvania State Build- 

 ing is shown opposite. During the past 

 few months we have given quite a num- 

 ber of the State buildings that our read- 

 ers will likely inspect closely next year. 

 They afford quite a study in architecture 

 for those who are interested in that 

 branch of art. We have presented the 

 pictures so that our readers might know 

 in what building they would find the 

 most friends and acquaintances, as nat- 

 urally each one would be most interested 

 in his or her own State building. Some 

 of them are beautiful. 



The Ladies' Home Journal, 



of Philadelphia, Pa., is perhaps the 

 finest monthly home magazine in the 

 world. If ordered before Dec. 20th, 

 1892, we can club it with the Bee 

 Journal— both Journals for one year— 

 for $1.60, to either old or new subscri- 

 bers. If you are a new subscriber to 

 both Journals, you will receive ours the 

 rest of this year free ; and the "Ladies' 

 Home Journal" will begin with the 

 January number. 



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