We would urge upon our readers the importance of creating a home demand for honey this season in order that we may not have a glutted honey market with which to contend. Work hard at the State conventions to have county associations formed; these are the educators that will prove the gateway to a home demand. Prepare to make first-class exhibitions at county fairs next fall: it will pay. It may seem as though this advice was premature, but we have none too much time to prepare for these fairs. Remember that if we ever have a permanent market for our honey the beekeepers must make it. We wish our readers to come to us with their experiences, successes and failures and we shall endeavor to give them such instruction as will aid them in their work. Do not fail to send for a few of our “Companions” and distribute them for us; it will be but little trouble and will aid us wonderfully in building up our subscription list. We are preparing to give our readers a large number of illustrations and as our list increases we shall be able to add many new and interesting features to our Journal. We have already sent out 5,000 “Companions” within the last two weeks, and the call is so great that we are printing 5,000 more. _EXPERIMENTAL BEE FARM NOTES._ On account of the many duties devolving upon us in establishing our bee farm we have not as yet been able to carry out any of the experiments that we mean to test for the benefit of our readers. While for the purpose of experimenting we shall devote some colonies to the production of honey, both comb and extracted, yet this season’s operations will be confined almost exclusively to queen-rearing. We start with about one hundred colonies of the different races of bees. The season thus far (in this locality) has been unusually backward and trying, giving us but little warm, pleasant weather and but few days when the bees could gather honey freely. Last winter most of our colonies were wintered in the beehouse and were removed to the summer stands, about the 28th of March, in fine condition and there seemed to be but little difference between their condition and that of those wintered on the summer stands. The first work of the season commenced when the bees were removed from the beehouse. The hives were cleared (as much as possible without removing the combs) of dead bees; the honey boards with which the hives were covered during winter were removed and replaced with mats on the top of which chaff cushions were placed. We kept our colonies well packed that they might be snug and warm even during the sudden changes in temperature and we make it a rule never to remove such packing until warm weather has “come to stay.”