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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPEH. 



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earning? to like extrueted honey at ]0 

 its. per pound. At 15 cts., it would 

 lave too much the flavor of money to 

 liem. 



All customers bring back the empty 

 ;ases, and fruit jars in which extract- 

 jd honey is sold. I also find that with 

 idvertising I can sell quite a lot of ex- 

 ;racted honey in eight-ounce glass tum- 

 )lers at 10 cts., at the store, which 

 dears me 14 cts. per lb. I believe if 

 jvery bee-keeper will do a-s much ad- 

 ^■ertising as I have done (of honey), 

 iiere would be a much greater de- 

 nand for honey. In fact honey would 

 ;ake a boom second only to the boom- 

 ;ki of the Russian bat-tleshipski; as 

 liey blow themselves up in the harbor 

 >f Port Arthuriski. 

 In every enterprise of the present 

 rJay special attention is given to adver- 

 :ising. Many firms spend thou.sands of 

 lollars and if they did not advertise 

 •oustantly their business would utter- 

 y fail. Our business has competition 

 lid our competitors are doing all the 

 (Ivertising. We'll get it in the neck if 

 V(^ don't adopt up-to-date methods. 



The National would do well to spend 

 iiie-third of its surplus in judiciousS ad- 

 ■ertising; but each member should not 

 orget his home paper. I feed my home 

 laper editor on honey all he will eat 

 iiid take my pay in advertising. He 

 inly uses 30 or 40 lbs. a year (aided 

 )y his wife), but we are both well 

 atis'fied and he sends me his paper 

 ree. 



I have only a few cases left of 2,- 

 :00 lbs., and all sold near home. 



Try the advertising method and you 

 an sell lots of honey without being a 

 orn honey peddler. 

 William-sfield, 111.. .Jan. 10, 1905. 



REVIEW^ OF VOLUME XIV. 



By Fred Stroschein. 



^ROPHETS have been assuring us 

 of a mild winter, but, up to date, 

 January 10 their predictions 

 ave not been fulfilled; for the weath- 

 • has been about as severe as it was 

 St winter, and we have to console 

 irselves with the idea that prophets, 

 ike other people;" are liable to make 

 listakes. 



There being little work during the 

 ormy days which we are having, I 

 we been reviewing the pages of the 

 merioan Bee-Keeper. which I often 

 >ad hurriedly during the busy summer 

 onths. Mr. W. W. McNeal opens up 

 le year with an article on comb build- 

 g; wherein he says, "It is a well- 



known fact that black bees build more 

 worUor-comb, as a rule, than Italian." 

 Now, last season I had a colony of 

 black bees, which built combs from 

 half-inch starters, nearly every cell of 

 which was worker comb, was in a 

 isuper of shallow frames and was 

 therefore used for store purposes, yet 

 some bee-keepers claim, that black as 

 well as Italians will build drone-comb 

 for storing honey. 



"All that Doolittle discovered will be 

 found in Huber's book, published over 

 100 years ago, writer Mr. .John Hewitt, 

 page 3, well, perhaps yes butDoolittle's 

 way of discovering it has been of 

 more value to us. That is why Ameri- 

 can apiarists give to Doolittle the 

 honor of having first discovered how 

 to make artificial cells, etc. 



On the next page Mr. Hewitt further 

 Avrites: "I never cut a cell out, all be- 

 ing hatched in the stocks they are rear- 

 ed in, being naturally protected and 

 fed by the bees in their cells for two 

 days at least." I am either such a ter- 

 rible block-head, that I don't under- 

 stand it. or else it is the peculiar traits 

 of those Punic bees; for in this locality 

 the bees will not feed the queens for 

 two days in the cells, except at times, 

 during after-swarming. If they did, 

 there would be no need for cell protec- 

 tors. 



No such a thing as foul brood, black 

 brood pickled brood or paralysis, so 

 writes T. C. Hall about black bees, on 

 page 54. Where did you get your 

 strain of black bee-s, Mr. Hall? Many 

 of us would like to get foul brood proof 

 bees, but the strain of black bees we 

 have in this part of the country are 

 not proof against the malady; and if 

 you would warrant your queens in this 

 respect, I think you would have a 

 booming queen trade. 



I wonder if Mr. Greiner has tried the 

 method of making paper boards from 

 waste paper, as he describes on page 

 57? I was interested in this, so I tore 

 up a lot of paper and covered it with 

 water. The ladies of tue house asked 

 me what kind of a pudding I was go- 

 ing to make for supper. It never 

 changed into a "sort of pudding," as 

 desci-ibed by that correspondent to the 

 Leipziger Bienen Zeitung.* It simply 

 stayed wet paper. If Mr. Greiner can 

 explain, I will be thankful. 



Prevention of increase, by Mr. C. 

 Theilman, page 111, reminds me of a 

 queer method to prevent afterswarms, 

 employed by a box-hixe bee-keeper, 

 years ago; dressed up his son sting- 

 proof, who was then armed with a 



