. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 466 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. well taken care of, and placed upon the market when there is a demand at a remunerative price, and not be- fore. There is one other point; before honey is shipped away to a large city, the home market should be well sup- plied. Supply the home market firstj and if tliere is any leftover, there will be time to sell it at some distant mar- ket. One who has never tried it will be surprised at the quantity of honey that can be sold in a home market, especially when an energetic man goes at it in the right manner. Each grocer
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 466 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. well taken care of, and placed upon the market when there is a demand at a remunerative price, and not be- fore. There is one other point; before honey is shipped away to a large city, the home market should be well sup- plied. Supply the home market firstj and if tliere is any leftover, there will be time to sell it at some distant mar- ket. One who has never tried it will be surprised at the quantity of honey that can be sold in a home market, especially when an energetic man goes at it in the right manner. Each grocer should be furnished with a neat stand for extracted honey; also a case, with glass front, for comb honey; and unless sold outriglit to the grocer, he should be instructed to sell the honey at a certain price. As I rear queens, I do not have a great deal of honey. I have at pres- ent taken off about 3,000 pounds, but have not sold more than 100 pounds. I have been too busy to even get it crated, or to put the extracted into pails, but there is time enough yet for that, as October is the best month in which to sell honey. Before selling my honey, I sliall probably exhibit it, together with numerous other bee- keeping articles, at the State Fair at Detroit. For some reason, some colonies at this season of the year are found queenless. Perhaps the large number of eggs laid during the busy season is so great a tax upon the vitality of old queens that they die, and then the young queen that the bees afterwards rear is lost in mating. Of all the methods that I have tried for intro- ducing queens that have been long out of the hive, I have found none better than the following : Make a cage of wire cloth by rolling a pieces or 4 inches square around a round stick ?^ of an inch in diameter. One edge of the cloth should be un- raveled a few wires, and the long ends of tlie wires tlius left sticking out can be thrust through the meshes of the opposite edge, then bent over or " clinche
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