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a thin wood slide in the bottom groove — 

 these are the catching boxes. 



In the conib-box fit a piece of black 

 brood-comb — the old black comb is the 

 best, as it won't soften in the heat of the 

 sun. Take .some y;o(.x\ jj^ranulated suj^ar 

 and water, equal parts, mix well together, 

 and fill the piece of comb in the comb- 

 lx)x. (jet a very small vial of oil of anise, 

 and now you are all ready to start. 



(tO where the bees are working o!i the 

 flowers, set the comb-box on a stump or 

 stake — on anything that will be seen by 

 the bees when they "come back " Don't 

 set it too near the flowers ( at this time of 

 year). Then take one of the catching 

 boxes, draw the slide nearly out, take it 

 in the right hand with glass side up; when 

 you come up to a flower with a bee on it, 

 put the left hand under the flower, bring- 

 ing the box ilown over the bee, and the 

 left hand up the sati'.e time; the bee see- 

 ing the light through the glass will fly 

 up against it at once, when j^ou push in 

 the slide, and you have the bee. Go to 

 the comb-box, put the catching-box on 

 top with the .slide side down, then draw 

 the slide, put your hand over the glass to 

 darken it inside, and the bee nine times 

 out of ten will at once begin to fill. You 

 can look in the glass and see if she is 

 loading up all right. If so, raise the 

 catching-box gently, and take it off; then 

 sit down and watch the bee go; al.so note 

 the time, so as to estimate the distance 

 they are from you. 



Be sure to ])ut a little oil of anise on 

 the outside of the comb-box, so that when 

 a bee comes back she can smell it. She 

 will be sure to go into the l)o.x when she 

 comes back, as the smell attracts the at- 

 tention more than the flowers. 



.\fter a bee has Ijeen a few times she 

 will go straight off the box without whirl- 

 ing at all. Then if she is gone so long 

 that you wi.sh to "carry them" and setoff 

 again, you will now need your second 

 catching-box. As the bees come back 

 and alight on the comb von must catch 

 them at once, by putting the catching-box 

 over the comb-box. .\s they fly off to the 

 glass, push in the slide, and you have 

 them. Then take the other catching-box 

 and do the same, and then put the two 

 catching-box slides together, open both 

 slides, and the bees will go into the top 

 one; take the empty one to catch some 

 more off the comb. When you have 

 enough bees, you "goon the line" near- 

 ly as far as you think the time they are 

 gone will take them, allowing 15 minutes 

 for a mile the first time a bee goes, then 

 set off again, and .so on until you find 

 them. 



TO CALIFORNIA. 

 Via the Midland Route. 



Every Friday night, at 10.35 p. m,, a 

 through Tourist Car for San Francisco, 

 carrying first and second-class passengers, 

 leaves the Chicago, Millwaukee & vSt. 

 Paul Railwa}- Union Passenger Station, 

 Chicago, via Omaha, Colorado Springs 

 and Salt I^ake City (with stopover privi- 

 leges at Salt Lake City), for all points in 

 Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. 



The Tourist Car berth rate from Chi- 

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 the sleeping car births should be reserved 

 a few days in advance of departure of 

 train. 



Through tickets and sleeping car ac- 

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 Chicago, Milwaukee & vSt. Paul Depot or 

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Send for our free illustrated California 

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Honey Quotations. 



The following rules for grading honey were 

 adopted by the Nortli American Bee Keepers' 

 Association, at its Washington meeting, and, so 

 far as possible, quotations are made according 

 to these rules. 



Fancy.— All sections to be well tilled ; combs 

 trai^ht, of even thickness, and firmly attached 

 to all foar sides; both wood and comb unsoiled 

 by travel-stain, or otlierwise ; all the colls sealed 

 except the row of cells next the wood. 



No. 1.— .MI sections well tilled, but combs un- 

 even or crooked, detached at the bottom, or 

 with but few cells unsealed ; both wood and 

 comb unsoiled by travel stain or otherwise. 



In addition to this the honey is to be classified 

 accorilingto color, using the terms white, araber 

 and dark. That is, there will be " fancy white," 

 No. 1. dark." etc. 



NKW YORK. — The demand is good for white 

 and amber comb honey: also for extracted. 

 Beeswax is dull. We ((uole as follows: Fancy 

 white, 14 to 15: No. 1 white, 12 to 13; fancy amber, 

 ii: No, I amber, lo; white, extracted, 7K: amber,. 

 6'A to 7; beeswax, 25 lo 26. 



HIIvDKKTH &.SKGKI^KKN, 



Aug. 26. 120 West Broadway, New York. 



JiVy.l-'Al^O. N. Y.— Honey has sold slower 

 since the first of January- than I ever knew it to 

 sell at this time of the year. I qiiote as follows: 

 fancy white 11^2 to i2;'No. i white, 11 to ii!4; 

 fancy amber, 10 lo 11; No i amber; 9 to 10; fancy 

 dark, S to H'A; white, extracted, 7 fo -'A; amber, 6 

 to 7; dark, 5 to 6; beeswax, 28 to 30. 



W. C. TOWN.SEND, 

 Jan. 25. 86 West Market St., Buffalo, N. Y. 



