THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Buckwheat did not furnish us any sur- 

 plus this year. 



The Natiora! convention will be held 

 this year in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 

 October 30. and 31. Excursion rates 

 on account of Jamestown Exposition. 



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Superseding Queens when they reach 

 a certain age is a subject that has brought 

 out quite a lot of correspondence— more 

 will be given next month. 



Messrs. Facey and Atwater each sent a 

 good article for this issue of the Review, 

 but they will be seasonable next month. 

 and other matters were pressing, so they 

 were left over. 



Twenty Cents a pound, in a jobbing way 

 to grocers, is where the price of fancy 

 comb honey will probably go before the 

 season is over; so says Mr. A. G. Wood- 

 man of Grand Rapids, Michigan; and he 

 has lots of experience in both buying and 

 selling. 



Screw-Caps on cans are sometimes hard 

 to turn, and there are tongs for this pur- 

 pose, if you have no tongs, tie a stout 

 string to the end of a stout stick, wind the 

 string once around the cap, pull on the 

 end of the string to draw it up tight, then 

 use the stick as a lever to turn the cap. 



A late honey season is usually a short one, 

 says E. D. Townsend. in Gleanings, and 1 

 agree with him. When the warm weather 

 finally comes, and nature gets things 

 started, it seems as though she, realizing 

 the need for haste, hustles things through 

 with more than the usual speed. 



Sixty Years will soon rest upon my head, 

 and yet. 1 never felt younger, stronger, 

 brighter, more enthusiastic and ready for 

 some new enterprise or "good time" than 

 1 do at present; and 1 hope the Review 

 will inspire similar feelings in its readers. 



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J. P. Moore, the veteran queen breeder 

 of Kentucky, writes me that he now has 

 560 nuclei, and the average output of 

 queens is 1100 per month. In July he 

 sold 1165, which brought him S862.05 

 Another year he will have between 700 

 and 800 nuclei. 



Every beginner in bee-keeping should 

 not now jump into queen rearing with the 

 idea that there is a fortune in the busi- 

 ness. Mr. Moore and his locality are es- 

 pecially adapted to this business, he has 

 a strain of bees that are without a su- 

 perior in this country, and he has worked 

 at the business at least a quarter of a 

 century — he is now reaping the fruits of 

 many years of toil and stick-a-to-ative- 

 ness. 



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Labels for honey are the subject of 

 much inquiry since the National pure food 

 laws went into effect. In the first place, 

 let it be said that the labeling of honey is 

 not compulsory— you can label it or not, 

 just as you please, but it must be labeled 

 truthfully if it is labeled. Another thing, 

 so long as your honey is sold in your own 

 State the National law has no bearing 

 whatever--only when it is shipped from 

 one State to another. A man who buys 

 honey and puts it up for inter-state trade, 

 can do a» he likes about putting on a 

 label; but. if a label is used, it must state 

 that the honey is "put up," or "bottled," 

 or "distributed." (not produced) by so and 

 so. 



