. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 398 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL October pie apparently expected to see a black man when Mr. Lunelle appeared. His picture is shown, together wit:i G. H. Rea and Otto Hupfel. Mr. Hupfel is a New York business man who has a delightful farm home, not far from the Hudson, and who is an enthusi- astic beekeeper. Local Selling To a man from the west the num- ber of roadside markets is a con- stant surprise. New York has some wonderful roads, and farmers living beside them establish markets cf their own for the purpose of selling to tour- beside them establish mark
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 398 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL October pie apparently expected to see a black man when Mr. Lunelle appeared. His picture is shown, together wit:i G. H. Rea and Otto Hupfel. Mr. Hupfel is a New York business man who has a delightful farm home, not far from the Hudson, and who is an enthusi- astic beekeeper. Local Selling To a man from the west the num- ber of roadside markets is a con- stant surprise. New York has some wonderful roads, and farmers living beside them establish markets cf their own for the purpose of selling to tour- beside them establish markets of their roadside markets, where corn, toma- toes, fruit and other seasonable farm products were sold. Many city peo- ple driving through are very glad of a chance to buy fresh produce direct from the farm. Thousands of pounds of honey are disposed of in this way. Many western farmers will do well to give this roadside selling a trial. Ad- ams and Myers, of RansomviUe, N. Y., who are big fruit growers as well as beekeepers, stated to the writer that on one occasion they sold more than $500 worth of fruit and honey at the farm in one day. UNEDITED LETTERS OF HUBER Introduction (Continued from September) (Translated from the French by C. P. Dadant). Here is a resume of the discoveries of Huber, by the noted A. P. De Can- dolle: "Ihe origin of beeswax was then a much discussed point of the history of bees, by naturalists: some of them had said, but without sufficient proof, that they made it of honey; Huber, who had successfully unraveled the origin of propolis, confirmed that opinion concerning beeswax through numerous tests and showed especially, with the help of Burnens, how it oozed from the rings of the abdomen, in the shape of scales. He ex- tensive experiments to ascertain how the bees prepare it for their combs. He followed, step by step, all the con- structions of those marvelous hives in which the bees seem to solve the most subtle problems of geometry; he
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