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cent to market their honey. Last year 

 we fitted up our salesroom and com- 

 menced to carry a complete stock of 

 supplies, and kept the store open the 

 year through, therefore, our expenses 

 were larger, but still it cost our mem- 

 bers only three per cent to market 

 their honey last season. 



"If a member is in need of money 

 we will advance him one dollar per 

 case on all honey as soon as delivered 

 at our wareroom. Every member has 

 also a right to set a price upon his 

 honey, but there are very few now 

 that do this. We also have a way of 

 securing reliable crop reports from all 

 sections of the State, and other honey 

 producing sections of the West, and, 

 therefore, are in a position to estimate 

 what the crop will be and to fix our 

 prices accordingly. 



"To enable an association to carry 

 on a work of this nature without a 

 large capital, it is necessary that 

 they should have a fair proportion of 

 its members that are willing to put 

 their shoulders to the wheel and do 

 their work in an enthusiastic and un- 

 selfish manner. 



"The funds for carrying on our work 

 are raised in the following manner: 

 First, jy issing shares of stock of $10 

 each, we expect our members to sub- 

 scribe for these according to the size 

 of their apiaries. Second, by having 

 the members deposit with the Asso- 

 ciation the necessary amount for the 

 supplies they expect to use during the 

 season. Third, if we need any money 

 for making advances on honey, we se- 

 cure this from members, and pay them 

 a fair rate of interest for the short 

 time needed. 



"Members are not compelled to sell 

 their honey through the Association, 

 but you will see that if they do not 

 sell any honey through the Associa- 

 tion, they are also not entitled to any 

 of the rebates, and all they will then 

 get out of their membership is a divi- 

 dend of $1 per share. 



"We are anxious to have every fair 

 minded bee-keeper, who is willing to 

 put up his honey in firstclass shape, 

 join our Association, but people that 

 are unreasonable, or likely to be dis- 

 honest in packing their honey, we 

 would rather have stay out." 



SLATTED HONEY BOARDS. 



Will Thick Top Bars take their Place ? 



Last month I said that I wondered 

 why and how anybody could think of 

 dispensing with the Heddon slatted 

 honey board; now I find, among Doctor 

 Miller's "Stray Straws," in Gleanings 

 for October 15th, the following: 



"I always said James Heddon de- 

 served a vote of thanks for giving us 

 the slat honey-board. As friend Grein- 

 er says, p. 807, it lessened pollen, trav- 

 el-stain, buiT-combs, and propolis. But 

 when I learned to lessen those things 

 just as much with thick top-bars and 

 proper spacing, I was delighted to cast 

 aside the slat honey-board with its 

 sticky mess between the top-bars and 

 honey-board, and I can't understand, 

 friend Greiner, why you should want 

 to give it another trial. [Just our 

 experience exactly; and yet every once 

 in awhile I run across men who do 

 not believe that thick top-bars prop- 

 erly spaced will lessen— in fact, do 

 away almost entirely with the burr- 

 comb nuisance. I can only think their 

 prejudice is so deep-sealed that uncon- 

 sciously they are blind to their best 

 interests. — Ed.]" 



Now, friends, I will own up that I 

 have never used thick top-bars. My 

 hives were already furnished with the 

 ordinary 3-8 top-bars when the thick 

 top-bars were introduced. I also had 

 the slatted honey boards in use, and 

 found them satisfactory, and I talked 

 and corresponded with a great many 



