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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Odoher 13. 



honey while the farmers get nothing ?" it is 

 said. It is not the people I sell to who talk 

 this way, but the people who hear of my 

 success but do not buy any honey. I find 

 that after I have once sold to a man I sell 

 to him again and again, and he only laughs 

 when he hears these adulteration yarns, for 

 he is satisfied that my honey is honey. 

 Why, somebody actually convinced a gro- 

 cer (who bought a case of comb honey of 

 me), that that honey never came from the 

 inside of a bee-hive. (It was in plain sec- 

 tions). He lookt at me with much sus- 

 picion the next time he saw me, and askt 

 me some sharp questions. I askt him if his 

 informant tasted the honey, and he said no. 

 I askt him if he himself had tasted it, and 

 he said no. Well, I gave him a lecture on 

 the non-existence of artificial comb honey, 

 and when I saw him a few days later his 

 face was all smiles— he had eaten a cake of 

 my honey and he wanted some more like it. 



I am satisfied that it is for my interest to 

 sell my own honey direct to consumers and 

 grocers, for every person sold to this year 

 will be my customer next year, and he be- 

 comes a living advertisement. 



Another year I expect to go a little heavier 

 into extracted honey. I workt only a few 

 weak colonies for it this season. 



I take great pains in breeding my stock. 

 My breeding colony this season gave me 163 

 sections and 130 pounds of extracted honey. 



I think I could get along without the "Old 

 Reliable," but I would rather have it, just 

 the same. E. W. Brown. 



Erie Co., N. Y., Sept. 29. 



Keeping Bees from Swarming. 



I am only a beginner at beekeeping, this 

 being my second year with the bees. But 

 for the American Bee Journal I would not 

 be able to get along with my bees, and I 

 think that we cannot appreciate its efforts 

 too highly. 



I was much interested in an article by 

 Herman F. Jloore, on page 612, in which he 

 refers to non-swarming bees, and so I will 

 relate a little of my limited experience 

 with mine. 



I began the past season with three colo- 

 nies of Italians; had only one natural 

 swarm, which absconded while I was away 

 from home, with a virgin queen — at least 

 there were no eggs and very little brood, a 

 queen-cell from which a young queen had 

 hatcht, and as the old queen was dipt 

 she must have died. 



I workt only one colony for comb honey, 

 giving them empty brood-combs when the 

 queen needed room, and forming new colo- 

 nies with the brood I took away. This col- 

 ony produced 125 full sections of honey. ICO 

 of which were as white as snow, from 

 the sweet clover, with which the fields and 

 roadsides here are covered. This colony at 

 one time had three supers, more or less 

 filled with honey. The queen in this col- 

 ony I purchast last summer (1897). 



Another colony, which, did not swarm, 

 produced 200 pounds of extracted honey; 

 this colony at one time had four full-size 

 brood-chambers tiered up. 



I sold all of the comb honey to my neigh- 

 bors, and all o£ my extracted that I cared 

 to sell. I get 15 cents for comb and 10 



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