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their customers. A bee-keeping chemist who wrote 

 me not long since says : " I commenced bee-keeping 

 two years ago, afld have about twenty stocks. As a help 

 to some of your clients I would suggest they endeavour 

 to persuade some chemists in fashionable watering-places 

 to put a large show of honey in their windows — sections 

 and pots ranging from one to ten pounds, and if properly 

 displayed the sale is very great. I have sold over my 

 counter since July (letter dated April 24th), nearly two 

 tons, not at a low figure, as that would kill the sale, but 

 clover honey at is. 3d. per lb., and heather honey at 

 IS. 5d. Clover sections at is. ; heather sections at is. 3d. 

 I would also advise that any chemist making honey a 

 leading line, should keep one or two hives of bees ; he is 

 then in a position to interest his customer who at once has 

 confidence, and moreover, is in a position to answer any 

 questions and silence people who are so very ignorant 

 that they know better than the seller." 



The Bees, the Forage, and the Man. 



In an article in ''Gleanings in Bee-culture" for July 

 15th, 1902, Mr. J. L. Gandy unfolds one of the most 

 interesting experiences that ever fell to the lot of a bee- 

 keeper. He has had as much as ;^5,ooo from his bees 

 within two years, but here are his own words : " I give 

 herewith some ideas obtained during my thirty years' 

 experience as a bee-keeper, the last seventeen of which I 

 have handled them as a commercial pursuit, keeping during 

 this time from 500 to 3,000 colonies, 100 of them being 

 in my home apiary, of which I more particularly write. 

 . . . When I started bee-keeping on a large scale my 

 neighbour bee-keepers did not average a surplus yield of 

 over 50 pounds per year to the colony. I immediately 

 set about improving the bee-pasturage, and my average 



