feet of royalty, A democrat of the democrats, he chooses his own 

 queen, and he lives and works as if he believed the doctrines of 

 industry, thrift, and equality which he preaches. The queen-mother 

 of his social democracy must not contract the habits of indolence. 

 She rules by her power of service, and when her power to serve is 

 spent, she must give place to the young queen, chosen by the 

 w^orkers. 



The history of honey production in fragmentary. The loose 

 ends have not been gathered up and tucked in as they might have 

 been. The early bee-keepers were too intent on getting honey to 

 write history. 



A year ago Frank Rauchfuss, Secretary of the Association, in a 

 summary of the history of the industry in Colorado, stated that the 

 first statistics of the business were gathered in J885 by Secretary 

 Shiff of the State Association, Shiff estimated that there were about 

 500 bee-keepers and 6,000 swarms of bees, " Two bee-keepers had 

 J 50 colonies each and reported a crop of five tons of honey for that 





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