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cent and a half, less than your prices, and get my business 

 discounts besides." 



" It is barely possible that you can do as well ; but I very 

 much doubt about your getting as good value for the money as 

 I offer you. There is the rislf of your not Retting as good an 

 article as you expect when you place an order, and also risk 

 of breakage in transit. I am right here with the honey ; 

 every section of it is in first-class condition; you can see ex- 

 actly what you are buying, and If any case I sell you is not as 

 represented I will take it ofl your hands next time I come 

 over, without any hard feelings on the part of any one, or a 

 lot of unpleasant correspondence over such a matter. I sell 

 to every one alike ; and while it is natural for every buyer to 

 want to do a little better, and have a small advantage over 

 his competitor (and I do not blame you for it), at the same 

 time I know by experience that it is more satisfactory all 

 around to treat all alike. You can make 25 percent easily 

 enough on my honey at the prices I offer ; and the rebate of 

 the cases when empty, if you will let me have them back in 

 good condition, will more than equal the business discount 

 you mention. If you had these nine cases standing up front 

 here, I do not doubt it would attract as much attention, and 

 make as fine a show as any lot of honey you ever handled." 



He tries to beat you down on the price, but you are firm, 

 tho very gentlemanly, and, as a result, he concludes to take 

 two cases of fancy and two of dark, after you have reassured 

 him that you will be over again in 60 days or so, and will pay 

 him 10 cents each for the empty cases if he keeps them In 

 good condition. — Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 

 I Concluded nezt week.l 



Foul Brood in the San Joaquin Valley, Calif. 



Some pertinent and interesting fasts are brought out by 

 the county inspection for the purpose of stamping out foul 

 brood, a bacterial disease of great virulence and destructive 

 ability. 



In Fresno County. — J. A. Roberts workt at inspection 

 from April 1 1 to May 28. He lost his first two weeks' rec- 

 ord, but in five weeks he visited 150 places, inspected 2,038 

 colonies, and found VJ6 infected with foul brood. He says he 

 found none of the disease west of the West Park colony, but 

 two north of Fresno, and they had been moved from a diseased 

 district. He found nothing east of Malaga, north or south of 

 Easton. He confined his work principally to that section of 

 the country where the disease existed. 



Notes on the Disease. — Foul brood Is a disease that 

 kills the young bee in tbe larva state, after it has been capt 

 over. The dead larva becomes a shapeless mass, of a coffee 

 color, and, by running a straw into it, you will find It thick 

 and stringy. It will stretch out, and, when it pulls in two, 

 will fly back like rubber. Brood that dies from any other 

 cause is watery and generally of a lighter color. The young 

 bee retains its shape, and will not string out, as in foul 

 brood. Any one who will watch can soon learn to take care 

 of his bees and stop the disease should it get started. 



How THE Disease Spreads. — He finds a great many peo- 

 ple who have only a few colonies, who take no care of them, 

 and do not see the brood, and when one colony dies from the 

 disease the other bees in the neighborhood carry off the honey, 

 and so the disease is scattered ; and it goes on until it will de- 

 stroy the bee-industry if not checkt. He is confident that a 

 good bee-inspector can eradicate the disease in two years more 

 by working two or three months each year. It has been done 

 in other places, and can be done here. He thinks, as he has 

 quit the work, that the disease will not spread much before 

 next spring, when he thinks some one ought to be appointed 

 to look after it as soon as the spring will justify. 



In Tulare CouNTr. — Joslah Gregg was inspector, and 

 he workt from April IS to June -1. He inspected •i,478 col- 

 onies — an average of 127 colonies per day. He found nine 

 colonies infected with foul brood, and took the proper meas- 

 ures to have them properly attended to. 



The Countv Bee Interest. — There are about 10,000 

 colonies of bees in Tulare county. Among the larger apiaries 

 are the following : J. F. Boldan, -130 colonies ; R. H. Fray, 

 343 ; Richard Hyde, 233 ; J. C. McGubbin, 278 ; S. B. Hal- 

 ton, 180; Henry Miles, 150; Carmichael & Thompson, 175; 

 Hunsaker & Nelson, 140; William Wilkinson, 126; Clark 

 Decker, 104. The average amount of honey extracted from 

 each colony for the year 1897 he finds to be about 100 

 pounds. 



Instances of Honey-Yield. — Clark Decker, who lives 

 near the Lamberson ranch on the west edge of the county. 



near Waukena, had 84 colonies last year. From these he got 

 six tons of extracted honey, and one ton of comb honey, or 

 14,000 pounds altogether. This year he has 104 colonies, 

 an increase of 20. Most of this large amount of honey is 

 ihipt away to San Francisco and eastern points. Some of it 

 realized 5 cents a pound the past spring, tho most of it sold at 

 less than 4 cents — Pacific Rural Press. 



Report of the Utah Bee-Keepers' Convention. 



The Utah Bee-Keepers' Association held their semi-annual 

 meeting April 5, 1898, in Salt Lake City. 



Pres. Lovesy called the meeting to order, the minutes of 

 the October meeting were read and approved, and also the 

 financial report. 



The election of officers resulted as follows: President, 

 E. S. Lovesy; Vice-President-at-large, George Hone; Secre- 

 tary and Treasurer, John B. Fagg, of East Mill ; Assistant 

 Secretary, G. E. Garrett. 



The following county vice-presidents were chosen : Salt 

 Lake county, Frederick Schach ; Utah, William Peay ; 

 Wasatch, J. A. Smith; Davis, Wm. C. Smith; Boxelder, J. 

 Hansen; Weber, C. O. Falkman ; Juab, Thomas Bilston ; 

 Sevier, C. Canutesen ; Washington, Mrs. Woodbury; Tooele, 

 Benjamin Barrows ; Cache, Henry Bullock, and Morgan, T. 

 R. G. Welch. 



Pres. Lovesy spoke in part as follows : 



" I can congratulate our bee-keepers that in some respects 

 we meet under more favorable conditions ; still there are 

 other conditions that we would very much like to see im- 

 proved. We now have a good foul brood law, and we should 

 get it in force all over the State, especially where there Is 

 any danger of disease. This law can be made a practical suc- 

 cess for the benefit of our bee-keepers and for the protection 

 of the bee-industry, so that if there is any failure in the mat- 

 ter the fault will lie with the bee-keepers. 



"The Langstroth monument fund — some of our bee- 

 keepers are interested in this matter. Out of 100,000 or 

 more bee-keepers in the United States, one would think that 

 something handsome should be done to mark the last resting 

 place of our departed friend, the greatest of all American bee- 

 keepers. 



"Cooperation in the purchasing of supplies and in the 

 marketing of our products are questions which I hope this 

 convention will take into consideration. 



"Adulteration by middle-men, and the getting of our 

 products on the markets at a reasonable price, are the most 

 interesting and difficult problems that confront the whole of 

 the agricultural pursuits of the United States to-day. Some 

 claim that over-production is the cause of the trouble ; while 

 I admit this to be true to some extent, there are other vital 

 questions that seem to be lying out beyoud this in obscurity, 

 which the people seem slow to grasp or grapple with. 



" For the general benefit of the bee-industry of our State 

 I hope to see a good exhibit of j)ur products sent to the Trans- 

 Mlssisslppi Exposlion at Omaha." 



Mr. Welch said that foul brood inspectors were needed to 

 look after the bees of those that do not make a business of 

 bee-keeping. He cited a case through which the disease was 

 scattered all over a neighborhood. Messrs. Butler, Corwall 

 and Johnson also discust this question at length. 



Mr. Smith spoke in regard to buying sections and other 

 supplies. He said that bee-keepers should buy them in car- 

 load lots. The subject of supplies in general were discust by 

 Messrs. Peay, Woodmansee and Schach, the prevailing opin- 

 ion being that nearly all supplies except sections are as good 

 and cheaper at home. 



J. B. Fagg spoke on the adulteration of honey, and said 

 that all packages should be labeled exactly what they con- 

 tained ; that an effort was now being made to get a National 

 law past on this subject. Mr. Lovesy and others also spoke 

 on this subject. It was shown that a law of this kind would 

 be of much benefit to the bee-industry, as the practice of mix- 

 ing glucose with the best grades of honey was carried on In 

 Eastern cities. 



Mr. Terry spoke on the marketing of our bee-products. 

 A general discussion followed, and while it was shown that 



