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other beautiful thinj^'s may not be abso- 

 lutely necessary for our existence, but 

 they certainly add greatly to our happi- 

 ness, and some one hns wisely said that 

 "happiness is the only good." Even 

 from a utilitarian point of view I am not 

 so sure that beautiful surroundings are 

 are not of some value. A man is influ- 

 enced by his surroundings. I believe 

 that pictures on the walls, music and 

 flowers in the home or office, actually 

 help the inmates to do better work. 



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Photographs of members of bee con- 

 ventions are something that I have been 

 taking now for several years, and, as the 

 Denver meeting pronuses to outdo all of 

 its predecessors, I am making arrange- 

 ments to have an extra large photograph 

 taken of the members of that convention 

 — one at least twice as large as has yet 

 been taken. Not only this, but I am hav- 

 ing some large numbers printed that the 

 members can pin on their shoulders when 

 the picture is taken. A printed list of the 

 members, accompanied by their respec- 

 tive numbers will accompany each pic- 

 ture, thus enabling even a stranger to 

 know "who is who." 



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Chas. DadanT, at the advanced age of 

 85, passed away, after a short illness, on 

 the i6th of July. Forty years ago, when 

 he came to to this country, from France, 

 he was a poor man with a family, and 

 no knowledge of our language. Notwith- 

 standing these disadvantages, he and his 

 son, C. P. Dadant, have built up a most 

 prosperous business in the production of 

 honey, and especially so in the manufac- 

 ture of comb foundation. Not only have 

 they done much towards the building up 

 of bee keeping in this country, but the 

 mother country has not been forgotten 

 — the name of Dadanl being an authority 

 in that sunny clime. 



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A Home M.\rket, steady, year after 

 year, is a good thing. Where this can be 



secured, it is worth looking after and fos- 

 tering. I am reminded of this b\' a letter 

 from Mr. N. E. France in which he says: 

 "375 colonies spring-count, and not a 

 pound of surplus. No clover, and just 

 enough basswood for winter stores. Last 

 year we got 22,500 pounds of surplus; 

 I sold half of it last winter, and saved the 

 other half for this winter. A home mar- | 

 ket at ten cents is better than a wholesale ' 

 market at seven cents." That's the idea; 

 look out for the years when j'ou don't 

 produce any honev, and be sure that you 

 have some on hand to hold your custom. 



Dr. Gandy of Humboldt, Neb. (See 

 Extracted Department) writes me that 

 since the appearence of his article in 

 Gleanings, he has received 300 letters 

 from bee keepers, and 25 bee keepers have 

 visited him. He says that catnip yields 

 honey as bountifully as does basswood, 

 and lasts for Dionths. I am getting let- 

 ters asking me about catnip and where 

 seed can be procured. I can only repeat I 

 what I have said elsewhere: Let us not 

 go headlong into this artificial pasturage | 

 until we know more about it. Gleanings j 

 is getting some conflicting reports. I j 

 may say that I expect to visit Dr. Gandy 

 while on my way home from Denver, and 

 shall thus have an opportunity of seeing 

 some things with uiy own eyes. 



West India Honey, and its impor- 

 tance as a competitor in the markets of 

 the United States, is di.scussed in Glean- 

 ings by Mr. R. A. Burnett of Chicago. 

 Mr. Burnett corroborates everything that 

 Mr. Morrison had to say on this subject. 

 Mr. Burnett says that he dealt in Cuban 

 honey only long enough to satisfy .some 

 customers who were prejudiced in favor 

 of Cuban honey. That is, they believed 

 that it had more of the properties of hon- 

 ey than any other honey — that it wonl<l 

 stand the oven test and carry its aroma 

 into the product over any other honey 

 in the market. To those who were using 

 Cuban honey, with this idea in mind, Mr. 



