1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Swathmore babies 

 borned" everywhere." 



123 

 "being 



Tliere's notbiug baa so "good as 

 honey" for twice the '•money" and 

 glucose is worse than nothing at any 

 price. 



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Raising bees for sale, instead of run- 

 ning for honey, would probably prove 

 pro'titable to those suitably equipped, 

 this season. 



Mr. E. H. Dewey, of Great Barring- 

 tou. Mass., has assumed charge of Dr. 

 Culver's "Brookmede" apiary, and will 

 engage in the rearing of queens. 



Prospects for good prices and an ac- 

 tive market for the honey crop in pros- 

 pect are encouraging to those who 

 have successfully wintered their bees. 



Commenting upon Dr. Blanton's re- 

 cent remarks concerning Cyprians, a 

 correspondent says: "A premature 

 grave await the man who persists in 

 trying to earn a living with Cyps." 



INIr. Henry Reddert. of Cincinnati, 

 has recently invented a section press 

 by the use of which two sections are 

 squarel.v put together at one operation. 

 The inventor says it works to perfec- 

 tion. 



Hives for the reception of swarms 

 should be kept in the shade. Bees dis- 

 like a hot hive: and newly-hived 

 swarms frequently abscond as a result 

 of this oversight upon the part of the 

 bee-keeper. 



To those unaccustomed to its use, a 

 generous taste of pure, well-ripened 

 honey is the best advertisement possi- 

 ble. The "taste' is what leads to the 

 habitual use of any commodity or lux- 

 ury. It don't pay to be stingy. 



("omi)laints of honey-dew, which 

 were formerly so frequent, are now 

 seldom heard. 



A favorite topic with apiarian writ- 

 ers of the eighties was, "The" Coming 

 Bee." However, nothing of great im- 

 portance has "come." during the past 

 fifteen years or so. If it has. its land- 

 ing has been unobserved. 



The poorest salesman in the world 

 might be one of the most successful 

 producers of honey. Both branches 

 should be directed by competent 

 hands; and it is difficult to say which 

 of the two is the more important. 



It is said that a specimen of honey 

 from Trebizond. gathered from the 

 rhodoendron ponticum, which is com- 

 mon in that vicinity, was sent in 1844 



