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" Several of the southern colotiies are 

 wisely taking precautions, by the appoint- 

 ment of inspectors, to stop the exportation 

 of an inferior article. " — E. C. Cusack. 



The method of working of the Berkshire 

 Bee-Keeiiers' Association in England is thus 

 described: " We secured most of the best 

 grocers, dairymen, etc. in Berkshire, and 

 the Aylesbury Dairy Company in London, 

 as agents, all of whom undertook to stock 

 our members' honey, we on our part under- 

 taking to supply guaranteed pure Berkshire 

 honey as required. Now, in order to carry 

 out our part of the agreement, the first step 

 was to produce a label, which guaranteed 

 the article on which it is placed to be pure 

 honey, and in order to protect ourselves we 

 have these labels numbered consecutively in 

 sets of 20,000, and sold to the members at a 

 email profit to cover working expenses, a 

 register being kept of those to whom these 

 labels were supplied. * * * Our scheme 

 has been in work for several years, and we 

 have scarcely received a single complaint. 

 * * * We have, of course, given the mem- 

 bers all the necessary information as to the 

 best way to put up and pack their pro- 

 ducts in a clean and attractive form. I ven- 

 ture to say that owing largely to the efforts 

 of our association and our label system, 

 Berkshire honey has gained in reputa- 

 tion, not only the county, but outside its 

 borders, and practically we are able to dis- 

 pose of all that our members produce, and 

 we may claim to have substituted Berkshire 

 honey in the place of foreign on the shelves 

 of a large number of tradesmen, thus dis- 

 posing locally and saving transit, of a large 

 proportion of the produce of the apiaries of 

 Berkshire. " 



Rheinische Bienenzeitung. — " Our fath- 

 erland does not suflfer from an over-produc- 

 tion of honey. But the honey of a region is 

 too frequently offered to the same markets, 

 so that the price there is necessarily much 

 lowered. * * * In this respect the single 

 bee-keeper is powerless. * * * In various 

 branches of industry, especially in agricul- 

 ture, single producers have in many ways 

 united themselves into associations. * * * 

 These associations can get better prices, 

 because there is but one seller instead of 

 many. That under capable management 

 they do well, is sufficiently well known to 

 the initiated. * * * Shall we bee-keepers 

 disregard the road which landowners, in 

 disposing of milk, butter, cheese, and lately 



grain, have advantageously followed ?— B. 

 Huendgeu. 



CoNuuiTE uu RDOiiEK. — This is a manual 

 of apiculture arranged according to months, 

 by Edouurd Bertraud, editor of La Revue 

 Internationale. 



As I do not remeu^ber to have seen before 

 a discription of the " queenless hum," the 

 following may be worth quoting: " If the 

 bees give out a lively buzzing, which stops 

 promptly and completely, it shows the 

 queen is there ; if the hum is prolonged, 

 and increases in intensity, the colony is 

 probably queenless. This sign is infallible 

 in the spring, when the first visits are made, 

 but later is not so certain. " 



The chief fault of the Carniolans, he says, 

 is that they do not defend themselves 

 against robbers as well as any of the other 

 races. 



In the rare cases in which a queen is not 

 laying in the latter half of March, the mere 

 inspection of the colony ought to incite 

 laying. If two or three days later eggs are 

 not found, the queen is worthless. Such a 

 rule should no doubt be adapted to localities. 

 I have known a queen to not begin until a 

 week or so after the Ist of April, and be all 

 right. Apparently in this case she was in- 

 cited to lay by a previous inspection, as he 

 says. 



Page 287, colomn 2, line 14, read " none " 

 instead of " more. " Page 340, colomn 1, 

 line i;> from the bottom, " ten " should be 

 " few, " and two lines above, read 1.500 in- 

 stead of 15,000. 



Abvada, Colo. Feb. 5, 189G. 



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FL/NT. MICHIGAN. MAR. 10. 1896. 



The Southland Queen comes out with a 

 spick and span new dress ( of type ) . There 

 isn't one of the bee journals has a handsomer 

 " dress " now than has the Queen. 



