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be found that desirable condition in which 

 the country is only partly cleared. Mr. 

 Walker said that the willow herb, that was 

 looked upon as a never-failing source, had 

 failed the past year. 



EXPEKIMENTAL, WOEK IN APIOULTUUK. 



The Hon. R. L. Taylor read the essay that 

 appears this month under the head of "Work 

 at Michigan's Experimental Apiary." There 

 was a unanimous expression of interest in 

 the work and a resolution was passed asking 

 the State Board to continue the experiments 

 with Mr. Taylor in charge, also asking that 

 the decisions in regard tt) line of experi- 

 ments to be performed be left with the ex- 

 ecutive board of the Michigan Bee- Keepers' 

 Association, in consultation with the api- 

 arist. 



THE FUTUBE OF THE SUPPLY TUADE. 



Mr. M. H. Hunt, of this State, has had 

 quite an experience as a dealer in and manu- 

 facturer of supplies. He commenced in a 

 small way and has gradually built up a trade 

 that has reached !|1;10,00() a year. He has 

 discovered that the small manufacturer, with 

 poor and limited machinery, cannot compete 

 in price or quality of goods with the larger 

 concern having superior machinery and 

 skilled workmen. He thinks that the small 

 manufacturers will find a more profitable 

 field in selling tlie products of the larger 

 concerns. He cites the case of the small 

 cabinet shop^that a few years ago were scat- 

 tered over the country. They liave all dis- 

 appeared so far as manufacturing is con- 

 cerned. The large factories are making all 

 the furniture, and as a result we get better 

 furniture for less money. He predicts the 

 same future for the supply trade. Thus does 

 specialty always win. 



EXHIBITING HONEY AT KAIBH. 



Another man who is always on hand at 

 conventions, Mr. H. D. Cutting, was kept 

 away this time by the sickness (La Gri[)pe) 

 of three members of his family. He sent a 

 good paper showing that a great many peo- 

 ple bought honey at the fairs that had never 

 before bought any. Sometimes the sale of a 

 single section led to the sale of a case of 

 honey. Dealers reported an increase of de- 

 mand for honey because of the attention that 

 had been called to honey from its exhibi- 

 tion. 



MOISTURE IN BEE OKLLARS. 



Mr. S. Corneil, of Canada, sent a paper 

 entitled " Moisture in the Bee Cellar ; What 



it can do and What we can do." As he has 

 so fully stated his views upon this subject, in 

 the Review, it will scarcely bo worth while 

 to go over the matter again. In a large re- 

 pository for storing away a large number of 

 colonies there should be special arrange- 

 ments for ventilation, and he recommended 

 the Smead system of ventilation. Mr. Tay- 

 lor did not agree entirely with Mr. Corneil. 

 His cellar was well ventilated. The chimney 

 extends down to the l)ottom of the cellar, 

 and has an opening at the bottom. Usually, 

 the bees have wintered well, but not always. 

 He thought the conditions, so far as moist- 

 ure and ventilation were concerned, were 

 the same each year. He had also had bees 

 winter well when the inside of their hives 

 was dripi)ing wet and the combs covered 

 with mould. 



HONEY A FANCY ARTICLE— ITS ADULTERATION. 



Mr. Heddon had been expected to be pres- 

 ent, but the appointment of his assistant 

 editor, Mr. H. A. Burch, to the postmaster- 

 ship of Dowagiac, left so much on his hands 

 that it was impossible for him to leave. He 

 sent a paper, however, in which he stren- 

 uously opposed the idea that honey will ever 

 become staple. He asserted that it will al- 

 ways remain a fancy article and advised bee- 

 keepers to do all in their power to put it up in 

 fancy shape and bring it before the public in 

 that condition. He then very vehemently 

 opposed the stir that is continually being 

 made by bee-keepers in regard to adultera- 

 tion. As he has done before, he argued that 

 the hue and cry was doing far more damage, 

 by prejudicing the public mind, than is the 

 adulteration, because adulterators are not 

 so foolish as to put upon the market an uq- 

 palatable compound. He referred to the 

 change in the constitution of the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Union which allows the Union to pros- 

 ecute adulterators, as an unwise change. 

 Manager Newman had declared that in the 

 present state of the art of chemistry, anal- 

 yzatit)!! was not sufficient proof of adultera- 

 tion, besides, where there are laws, they are 

 so varied that the Union found it impossible 

 to cope with the su{)posed practice. 



That bee-keepers should pay no attention 

 to the adulteration of their product is not to 

 be expected, but, unless they can do some- 

 thing to stop it, I must say that I agree with 

 Mr. Heddon that the continual agitation of 

 the subject only arouses suspicion in the 

 minds of consumers and thereby injures 

 the pursuit. 



