. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 666 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. October 20. a share of the cash premlutns offered. But we should regret to learn that he had eeast making bis annual exhibits at the fairs, for there are very few bee-keepers in this country that can equal him in putting up a honey-show. Instead of any good exhibitor dropping out of the list, there should be more added to it, for it is an effective means of calling the public's attention to honey and its great food value. Mr. W. K. Morrison, in Gleanings, says of Porto Riso : " It is a very fine bee-country. It is th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 666 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. October 20. a share of the cash premlutns offered. But we should regret to learn that he had eeast making bis annual exhibits at the fairs, for there are very few bee-keepers in this country that can equal him in putting up a honey-show. Instead of any good exhibitor dropping out of the list, there should be more added to it, for it is an effective means of calling the public's attention to honey and its great food value. Mr. W. K. Morrison, in Gleanings, says of Porto Riso : " It is a very fine bee-country. It is the only part of the Spanish colonies worth ; While referring to the same country a current newspaper Item reads : " A peculiarity of the island is that neither snakes nor flowers are found, as in other tropical countries.—American Bee-Keeper. Hon. Eugene Secor, the General Manager of the United States Bee-Keepers' Union, is interested in fruitgrowing as well as bee-keeping. At his late Winnebago County (Iowa) Fair, the local newspaper reported that "Mr. Secor showed 36 varieties grown on his place inside the city limits. Many of these were Russians that would give the reporter the lock- jaw to pronounce. These new candidates for public favor are only on trial and will not be recommended by Mr. Secor for general planting until they prove to be more valuable than those kinds already known and ; Ye Editor and Wife had the pleasure of spending nearly a whole day—Oct. 6—with Mr. and Mrs. F. Grabbe, at their place in Libertyville, Lake Co., III. Mr. G., while still keep- ing some 30 colonies of bees, and securing about 1,000 pounds of honey the past season, has been getting into the spring and mineral water business the past year or more. He owns a spring that flows at a rate of five gallons a minute, of the purest, clearest water imaginable. It is intended to be used as a table water, for general drinking purposes. A care- ful chemical analys
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