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there can be too many, as long as the territory is not fully occupied. We 

 have had the least trouble to get rid of our largest crop simply because the 

 price was low, then there would be good customers all through the country 

 as well as in cities, and everybody ate honey. But let it get to 15 or 20 

 cents and see how quickly the appetite for honey is gone. We are of opinion 

 that our honey would find a market at 10 cents per pound for comb honey, 

 no matter how large the supply, if we would circulate an educator like the 

 Honey Almanac, published by Thos. G. Newman, of the American Bee 

 Journal, Chicago. If the people were aware of the health-giving properties 

 of honey there could not be more produced than could be profitably dis- 

 posed of. If each individual bee-keeper would take it upon himselt to thus 

 enlighten his neighbor the demand for honey would thus arise so suddenly 

 that nearly all the honey produced would find a home market. The following 

 Irom a recent date of the Chicago Daily News shows somethmg of the value 

 of honey as an article of diet and remedial agent: "But few people are 

 cognizant of the benefits to be derived from a moderate use of honey as 

 iood. Saccharine matter as a rule is apt to affect the system injuriously, 

 but if taken in the form of honey, it at once becomes a valuable food and 

 medicine. Instead of having it given to us in combination with bulk foods, 

 as in the cane and beet, it is in the case of honey mingled with fruit juices 

 derived from flowers highly charged with medicinal properties. Honey 

 taken as food becomes a powerful medicine to the sugar- fed and half dis- 

 eased, and many people must begin on small quantities and acquire an 

 appetite for it. Foul air, improper ventilation, coal gas and sudden changes 

 of temperature, and exposure of lungs and throats to sudden chill are a 

 source of no end to throat and bronchial troubles. A free, regular and 

 constant use of honey is probably the best medicine for throat troubles 

 known, and its regular use is largely corrective." 



J. .J. FKKRILL, OOliDEN, UNION COUNTY, ILL. 



1 . About fifteen years . 



2. Do not. Am a farmer and fruit grower. 



3. Found a colony of bees in the woods about fifteen years ago; they 

 have increased till I now have twenty-four stands. 



4. Movable frames. 



5. 9>2Xi2 inside measure, II to the hive. . 



6. Comb honey. 



8. One pound sections. 



9. Wood separators. 



10. Red elm, apple, white clover, raspberry and blackberry bloom. 



11. About 35 pounds. 

 13. At home. 



16. Fifteen cents. 



20. I don't think they do. 



22. The Italian. 



24. On summer stands. 



25. I don't think I ever lost any except by starvation. 



28. I do not. 



29. Have not. 



