If the apiarist desires increase only it may be desirable and even profitable to hive all after swarms that come out early in the season having enough bees to constitute a swarm. But if honey is to be produced all after swarming should be prevented, for it is a well established fact with me that so long as the swarming fever is upon a colony they gather comparatively little surplus. The usual way of preventing after-swarms is to examine the combs some time, say in a week, after the first swarm has issued and cut out all queen cells except the oldest and best. This will do if every cell is found, but cells are so easily overlooked that this is not a sure plan, so I run my apiary for honey. I aim to prevent swarming as as much as possible, and at the same time retain a large force of workers, and to do it with as little work for the apiarist as possible. It is done in this way : Have a nucleus ready early in the season, with a laying queen ; then when my first swarm issues I remove the old queen and run the bees into the nucleus, giving them enough combs to accomodate them ; the old queen is left to go back into the hive where she came from, the colony being weak in numbers will at once, upon the return of the old queen, destroy every queen cell, thus doing the work themselves, and thoroughly, that otherwise had to be done by the apiast. This colony is A. In a day or so B will swarm. The queen is taken from the swarm and caged ; the bees in A are subdued by smoke and the swarm from B is run in with A, thus making the worker force as strong as ever. The queen from B is returned to her own hive which will tear down every queen cell and the work is done. The swarm that issues from C is put into hive B, and the queen returned to C. This process can be continued _ad libitum_. In case of several swarms coming out in one day the bees can all be put in the last hive that destroyed its queen cells and plenty surplus room given. Such colonies will produce an enormous amount of honey and be the most profitable in the end. _Microfield Farm, Lawsville, Pa._ Read at the Eastern N. Y. Convention. Marketing Honey at Home. Will M. Kellogg. As I have been requested to write on the above topic, perhaps I can do no better than give some of my experience in that line, for what we have learned from our own work is surely better than any theory. I have been working faithfully for seventeen or eighteen years to establish a home trade for my honey, and though it was slow, up-hill work at first, I kept gaining all the time till I have reached a point where I find ready sale for all, and more honey than I can produce. My first effort was with extracted honey, an article then almost unknown, strained honey being all the liquid honey we had. I made the first extractor (or _slinger_, as it was called) that I ever saw, or that was in this vicinity, a small one that I could carry, and for several years I had considerable to do each year transferring bees and throwing out honey for other parties. Thus going around and through town with my bee tools in one hand, and my slinger on the other arm, the people became familiar with slung honey, many coming to see me do the work, and it was not long before they knew and spoke of the difference between the new product and the old. Of course I had it to sell, and pushed it the best I could, but relying mainly on the grocers for the sale. As my experience and the number of stocks increased, solid the amount of honey produced, and I had to resort to other methods for sales. I visited neighboring towns and sold much in that way but was met there by other producers, and the grocers gave their own customers the best show, so I later drifted into being my own salesman, and it has proved the best of all. Like too many others I felt that a crop of honey like a crop of small fruit must be hustled off as soon as possible after being harvested, and it is this idea, coupled with the one that some one else will get there first, that keeps down the price of honey, for nearly all do it, especially the man with a few boxes or hundred pounds. I talk honey to every person I get a chance to, friend or stranger, at least once in a season, not obtrusively, but in a general talk ; find out if they use honey, if I can supply them with what they need, talk trade if I can't see cash. Another point I make is too make no fuss over my business; don't bore people with details. I keep still as to what my yield is, and I always have honey to sell, if I don't have it scratch around and find some. It never bothers the public whether I have a good crop or a poor one; nine out of ten have no idea but what bees make about so much honey each year. My crop for '86, over 7,000 pounds, was the most I ever produced, except one year it exceeded 10,000. I kept pushing the sale of it with few knowing how much I had. I traded for everything we could use and sold for for cash, and worked off about 5,000 pounds, at ten cents for extracted and fifteen cents for comb. The drouth of 87 cut my crop down to 625 pounds, the least I ever produced, but I have about honey enough to keep selling till white clover comes, drawing on the balance of that of '86. My show case at the grocery is kept filled now with comb honey produced over eighteen monthsago, and with extracted honey of last year. My town trade is light, but I sell honey all through a region at least thirty miles across, the purchasers coming to my honey house door, or having it sent them by rail. I have also worked up quite a trade in other States by talking honey when writing on other business. But I tell you my friends, the one great point above all others is to always send out honey of _first class A N0_. I quality. That kind of bread will always float back to you. Thoroughly well ripened honey, put up in clean packages, will never disappoint customer or seller. I never extract any more honey during the season than enough to supply the call for it, but I leave it all upon the hives till the season is over, for I am convinced that the bees can take care of and ripen it better than I can.