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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Moth Balls Protect Surplus Combs. 



"Where surplus combs are stored in 

 hive bodies stacked one above another, 

 we use paper between each super and 

 on each set of combs place two 

 common moth balls. If no wax moth 

 eggs or young moths are among the 

 combs when so stacked up, it is doubt- 

 ful if wax millers will enter. 



Moth balls at any drug store are 

 cheap and are worth trying. 



Save Wormy Combs. 



Place all combs with any age of wax 

 moths in them into hive supers, plac- 

 ing about eight in a ten frame super. 

 Stack up the supers of such wormy 

 combs', and in empty super on top 

 place a tea saucer with a little carbon 

 bisulphide. Place carpet over top and 

 let the carbon evaporate, forming a 

 heavy poison gas, which goes down 

 between the combs and kills all wax 

 moths or other living thing. 



We kill woodchucks in their bur- 

 rows by placing some of the carbon^ 

 soaked into cloth down in the burro\ 



CAUTION: This carbon is 

 plosive, so keep all kinds of fire a/(vay 

 and it is perfectly safe. 



Alarm on the Weighing Scaled 



Any scales using balance bearn will 

 do. Place a short iron pin so thstt the 

 end rests against the lower side oi the 

 balance beam when the beam is dra 



The instant the weight is such a^^o 

 start the beam up, it lets this iron pi^ 

 fail, striking any form of alarm yc 

 wish to use. 



This sample (illustrating) isi a bent 

 wire, with a bicycle bell as an alarm. 

 It will tell to a fraction of an ounce 

 any weight tlte scales are set to — a 

 one-half ounce' tumbler or a sixty 

 pound can — it makes no difference. 



Strain Honey with Gravity Strainers. 



We now avoid handling the honey 

 ■between the time it is extracted and 

 placed in shipping packages. 



Attached to the faucet of the ex- 

 tractor is a short tin spout conducting 

 the honey to the gravity strainer under 

 the extractor, and under this strainer 

 is the storage tank of a few tons 

 capacity, so that as fast as the honey 

 is extracted it runs into the gravity 

 strainer, and on down into the storage 

 tank, without anj- person handling or 

 lifting it. 



As the storage tank holds several 

 ton, we can at leisure go below and 

 till five gallon cans for market of well 

 ripened and much clearer honey than 

 by anj^ other way I know of. 



To Keep Honey Liquid a Long Time. 



First of all — nev'er extract honey ■ 

 from combs until it is capped over by 

 the bees. 



Unripe honey, or that extracted be- 

 for it was sealed, has done more to 

 keep prices down and prevent a de- 

 mand for honey, than any overstock. 



The majority of kinds of honey will 

 granulate when cold weather comes, 

 so as soon as extracted, and before 

 granulation has started, if the cans of 

 honey are heated to one hundred and 

 thirty degrees for a few moments, and 

 sealed while hot, it is doubtful if it 

 will granulate all that winter, even if 

 set out in a, woodshed after being 

 sealed. 



Avoid over-heating or too long heat- 

 ing, as that will spoil the flavor. 



Queen Excluders. 



We have tried several hundred ex- 

 cluders, of many kinds, and much pre- 

 fer the ten frame wood and wire ex- 

 cluder. It lets the bees' through better, 

 yet keeps the queen below. It can be 

 used to find queens when in a hurry, 

 by shaking the bees from the combs 

 with queen, 'on top of empty super with 

 excluder below, as the bees will all run 

 into the super below, leaving her alone 

 above. 



Bee Hives Where the Sun Shines on 

 Them. 



Bees in hives where the sun shines 

 on them will winter better, will build 

 up faster in the spring, will get out 

 much earlier mornings, and will not 

 be as cross in handling. 



Possibly shade boards may be 

 needed in extremely hot days, ff hives 

 are well painted with white lead, the 

 sunshine will not hurt any hive of bees. 



Selling our Honey. 



Keep a list of your patrons and have 

 a follow-up system; you can supply 

 your customers year after j'ear in this 

 way, and j'Ou will not be able to pro- 

 duce enough honey to supply the 

 market. 



Notify your customers that you have 

 a crop of honey ready for market — 



