. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Hubbel. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbel are both enthusiastic bee-keepers and have an apiary of 110 colonies all in good condi- tion. With them, as with most others, the honey crop for 1899 was quite light, but they, like most bee-keepers, are of a hopeful turn, always seeing golden har- vests in the future. For a short time we had a real lively bee-keepers' convention and then enjoyed a good farm dinner, prepared by the skillful hands of the bee- keeper's ; I\fr. and Mrs. J. IV. Hubbel and Apiary, of Clark Wis. 0" The Home Honey Market. BY C.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Hubbel. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbel are both enthusiastic bee-keepers and have an apiary of 110 colonies all in good condi- tion. With them, as with most others, the honey crop for 1899 was quite light, but they, like most bee-keepers, are of a hopeful turn, always seeing golden har- vests in the future. For a short time we had a real lively bee-keepers' convention and then enjoyed a good farm dinner, prepared by the skillful hands of the bee- keeper's ; I\fr. and Mrs. J. IV. Hubbel and Apiary, of Clark Wis. 0" The Home Honey Market. BY C. DAVENPORT. kNE day last fall, while at work in the shop and honey-house combined, a stranger stept in the door and greeted me with, "How do j-ou do, Mr. Bee- Keeper? Have you any nice white comb honey to sell this fine day ?" He was the buyer for, and part owner of, a large grocery in a city some 20 miles distant. He bought and carried back in the light spring-wagon he came in, $67 worth of honey, for which he paid 15 cents a pound. I mention this because it so well illustrates what I wish to emphasize in regard to developing the home market ; and that old saying, "Rome was not built in a day," can aptly be applied here, for it takes time, a number of years, to dis- cover and fully develop its full possibilities, in perhaps I may say the average locality; that is, it does when a strong, vigorous effort is made to do so. Some bee-keepers might reside in the same locality un- Two Clark Co., Wis., Apiaries. MR. Harry Lathrop, of Green County, about a year ago, visited a number of apiaries in Wisconsin, among them the two shown on this page. Afterward he wrote up his trip for the Wisconsin Agriculturist, from ?which we take these paragraphs : " Peter J. Klein has an apiary of about 40 colonies. His principal honey-plants are dandelions, white clover, raspberries, basswood and asters. He informed me that in 1894 he took 900 pounds of comb honey from 3 colon
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