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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



sura nee that it will go tlirough as 

 safely as if it were extracted liouey. 

 Wlien we go to prepare supers for tlie 

 harvest, all we have to do to our bulk 

 comb supers is to scrape the top bars 

 a little, and fasten in the foundation, 

 but with section lioney we have to 

 make up shipping cases, and sections, 

 and spend a long time putting the 

 foundation in just riglit. When the 

 supers are put on, the bees go to work 

 in the bulk comb supers at once, and 

 in a big cluster, thereby forgetting to 

 swarm; but with section supers the 

 bees have to be carefully baited and 

 coaxed into the supers, and when they 

 get there they are cut off into twenty- 

 four or more small compartments, 

 which they have to try to keep warm; 

 and to get theiu sealed out to the 

 wood we have to crowd the bees, 

 thereby losing honey. By crowding 

 we lose equally as much honey as we 

 do when the supers are first put on 

 by reason of the bees being slow to 

 enter the sections. Just how much 

 honey is lost by the bees being slow 

 to enter the sections, now much is 

 lost by crowding, and how nmch is 

 lost by swarming I am unable to say, 

 but it is considerable. 



You may take the items in the pro- 

 duction of the two honeys from be- 

 ginning to end and there is not an 

 item that is not in favor of bulk comb 

 honey, except solely in the matter of 

 price received; but, friends, where un- 

 biased men have tried the production 

 of the two honeys side by side, and 

 carefully taken into consideration 

 every factor, they have invarial)ly 

 found that they can make at least 50 

 per cent more money producing bulk 

 comb, and many have placed the per 

 cent much higher. There is another 

 fact: not one of the men who once 

 (luit section honey have gone back to 

 it. We were, ourselves, large section 

 honey producers several years ago, 



but have been converted, and have 

 disposed of most of our section honey 

 supers. 



HOW TO CREATE A DEMAND FOR BULK 

 COMB HONEY. 



"You may say: "I have no trade or 

 demand for bulk comb honey." In 

 reply I will say that all you have to 

 do is to produce it, and offer it for 

 sale, and you will soon have a trade 

 that nothing else will satisfy. You 

 may say: "But I will have to ship 

 my honey, and there is no market for 

 this new product." I will say take 

 your honey to the cities, and offer it 

 yourself, and you will find a ready 

 and appreciative market; one that 

 will next year demand more; and the 

 grocerymen will have to order their 

 supplies from you. There is no ques- 

 tion but that a market can be found.. 

 The bee-keepers of Texas have found 

 a market for more than they can pro- 

 duce, and I take it that the bee men 

 of other States have the same intelli- 

 gence and the same get up and get 

 that the Texas bee men have. 



The packages used in putting up 

 this article are now most largely 3-, tJ- 

 and 12-pound tin, friction-top pails, 

 that are put up in crates holding 10 

 of the 12-pound cans, 10 of the 6- 

 pound cans and 20 of the 3-pound 

 cans. There is also some demand for 

 bulk comb in 60-pound cans, 2 in a 

 case, the cans having 8-inch screw 

 tops. These are sometimes ordered 

 Avhere the buyer desires to put the 

 honey into glass packages for a fancy 

 trade. 



In conclusion, I Avlsh to refute the 

 statements made that the production 

 of bulk comb honey was the old fogy 

 way of honey production. I assure 

 you that it is not, and that it re- 

 quires as much skill, and as fine a 

 grade of honey as it does for section 

 honey. I also assure you that the 

 consumers are behind this move, and 



