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wire is fixed to the bench at one 

 side. The wires are stretched tight 

 enough to sing, as they will slack- 

 en a little when putting in tlie 

 foundation. 



Our increase is made about 

 swarming time, as brood is plentiful 

 then, and the young colonies have 

 time to build up during the flow. 

 Brood is taken from such colon- 

 ies as can best spare it and placed 

 over an excluder on a weak colony 

 to ripen for a week, and then 

 three or four frames of this sealed 

 brood, with the bees on it, and a 

 frame of honey, are placed in a 

 new hive and given a ripe queen 



cell, or a young queen. Frames of 

 foundation are given later as they 

 are needed. Such colonies may be 

 made later in the season, but they 

 would likely require some feeding, 

 unless there was a Pall flow. 



For sticking labels on tin, we use 

 a well boiled flour paste, with a 

 little alum added, say a tenspoon- 

 ful of alum, powdered, to a pint 

 of paste. The paste should be pretty 

 stiff, just so as to spread evenly 

 with a brush. A few drops of car- 

 bolic acid are sometimes added, as 

 this prevents mould, and also keeps 

 mice or roaches from eating the 

 labels. 



The Secretary's Corner 



GEO. AV. WILLIAMS, Red Key, Ind. 



Well, it will have to be a rather 

 slim Secretary's Corner this month 

 although there is a wonderful lot 

 to say, but the Secretary is flat 

 on his back and not worth much 

 anyhow. 



I will have to go slow and do 

 the best I can. In the last four 

 months I have written hundreds of 

 letters, followed up and analyzed 

 a number of successful campaigns 

 of selling honey, taken the opinion 

 of several of the brightest com- 

 mission men of my acquaintance, 

 and after careful and mature de- 

 liberation,, I find that there is 

 but one way of increasing the sales 

 of honey and that is by persistent, 

 efficient personal effort. In making 

 this brief statement, I have com- 

 pressed in a few brief lines the 

 work of years of painstaking labor, 

 and I do not want to cheapen the 

 effect on the reader by being too 

 crisp, but I am stating exact facts. 

 This is not my opinion, alone, but 

 that of hundreds of the best and 

 brightest minds interested in the 

 honey sales proposition. 



Ttie most wonderful aid in selling 

 yet found is a live bee exhibit 

 right along with the honey. It dou- 

 bles up the sales right along, and 

 can be varied indefinitely. This one 

 feature is the one that will be of 

 more aid than any other, and we 

 must use it in every way we can 

 in connection with our exhibits, 

 make them as attractive as possible 



to make them. We small producers 

 must keep in mind that it is our 

 special duty to dispose of our local 

 crops locally, so as not to unduly 

 congest the bigger centers. We have 

 10,000 bee-keepers who can more 

 or less of them be interested in 

 this work. 



It has been decided that a week, 

 preferably shortly after the general 

 flow be devoted to this universal 

 demonstration. Mr. Ernest Root 

 has given me his warmest approval 

 of this plan, and will support it in 

 Gleanings. He believes that the fu- 

 ture lion'^y sales will be more or 

 less influenced by these ways. 



It looks to me from my bedroom 

 that we were due for the biggest 

 crop of honey in years. At any rate 

 we will surely have enough to make 

 us all study a little as to what the 

 market will be. 



In the meantime, your secretary 

 will not try to arrange any special 

 line work for publication, but sub- 

 mit the foregoing brief synopsis 

 for the consideration of the di- 

 rectors. I feel as though we had the 

 tacit approval of the board, but 

 this will give them an opportunity 

 to properly endorse the plan, so I 

 can go ahead next month and make 

 the chips fly every way. I believe 

 we are looking right toward suc- 

 cess, and with the united efforts of 

 the journals urging the bee-keepers 

 to concerted action, big results 

 must follow. 



