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CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 10, 1895. 



No. 2. 



Cojptributed /Vrticles> 



On Important Ajii&rian Sut>jeots, 



The Production of Comb Honey. 



The first of a series of articles on this subject. 

 BY EMERSON T. ABBOTT. 



Why write anything more on this subject? Has not all 

 been said that can be said ? Why should I ba expected to 

 write on the subject, anyway ? I am sure I do not know why, 

 except that Editor York has asked me to do so ; and, as a 

 matter of business, I have agreed to comply with his request. 

 I do not mean to say by this that I do not have any ideas on 

 the subject of comb honey. Neither do I mean to say that my 

 ideas are exactly the same as all other people's, and therefore 



EMERSO!^ r. ABBOTT, 

 Ex-President of the North American Bee- Keepers' Association. 



there is no use to take time and space to express them. No, I 

 do not mean anything of this kind, for many of my ideas are 

 not like other people's, as you will discover, Mr. Editor, from 

 the way the bee-keepers will be hopping onto my^notions be- 

 fore I get through with this series of articles. 



I write, then, because the editor asked me to do so, be- 

 ;ause I have something to say, and because — well, I do not 



know as it is necessary for me to give all the reasons why I 

 write. 



" Why write any more about comb honey ?" Why write 

 any more about anything? Why preach the gospel of good 

 works ? Why talk temperance reform, etc., etc., etc.?j^SimpIy 

 because there are people in the world who need reforming, 

 and because there are children growing up in the world who 



JA3IES A. STONE. 



Secretary of the Illinos State Bee-Keepeis' Assoeiation. 

 (See Report in lliis number.) 



need teaching so they may not go astray and need reforming, 

 too. 



I apprehend, Mr. Editor, that you have some readers who 

 have not read all that the " wise men " of the ages have writ- 

 ten on the subject of comb honey, and to them I address 

 myself. 



To begin with the bottom facts, 



WHAT IS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO SECURE COMB HONEY? 



Why, bees, of course ! I presume Dr. Miller would say, "No ; 

 that is not it. There must first be some nectar in the 

 flowers." But I am not intending to be switched off the track 

 by any such a frivolous objection as that. If he cannot find 

 any nectar in Illinois, all there is of it he must move to the 

 alfalfa regions of Colorado, or else call a convention in his own 

 State, and spend his time talking "bee-talk" until some 

 nectar comes. 



Bees, then, are what we want. What kind of bees? 



