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Mr. Hyde — We once bought about 180 

 hives — I don't know whether they were 

 the "St. Joe'' hive or not, but when I 

 wanted to get the frames out I had to 

 move one at a time 



J. A. Delano — I think if we used tin 

 right on the end of our hive where the 

 frame is, so tliat we could slide our frames 

 back and forth, then get a straight top- 

 bar and a straight end-bar, it does not 

 matter what width we take (and not use 

 any spaces of any kind), we will find it 

 wiilsuit all localities better. In our lo- 

 cality, I do not think, of all the plans 

 suggested in this discussion, that an}' of 

 them would work. They will get gummed 

 up. 



Out of eight speakers only one cham- 

 pioned the self-spacing frames, two were 

 rather non-committal, and five very ve- 

 hement in their denunciation of self- 

 spacing. A man with any kind of an eye 

 at all can space frames accurately enough 

 without an)' self-spacing device, and when 

 it comes to getting frames out, especially 

 after they have been in the hive a few 

 years and are all glued fast, there is no 

 nuisance like a self-spacing frame, that 

 cannot be moved either way. but must be 

 drawn straight up — if you can ever get it 

 loosened. 



EXTRACTED HONEY. 



How To Make Money In Its Production and 

 - Sale. 



If there is any man in this country who 

 has made money producing and selling 

 extracted honey, it is J. F. Mclntyre, of 

 California. He has followed business 

 methods; and at the Los Angeles conven- 

 tion he read a paper on this subject. To 

 me it was as interesting a p-\per as there 

 was read. It was brief, but to the point, 

 and dealt with the essential features. Mr. 

 Mclntyre's paper is as follows: 



To make money producing extracted 

 honey it is necessary — 



First, to produce a large quantity of 

 high grade honey; and 



Secondly, to sell it for a good price. 



In starting out to accomplish these ob- 

 jects the first thing to be considered is 



the location, or locations, as it will be 

 necessary to keep more than one apiary 

 if you make very much money. If you 

 can find a good fiehl where you can keep 

 a number of apiaries around your home 

 apiary without overstocking or crowding 

 out other bee-keepers, you are fortunate. 

 I shall not attempt to tell you where to 

 find this "Rldorado," because every field 

 has some drawbacks, and vou might not 

 thank me when you find them out I 

 will, however, name some of the things 

 to be taken into consideration in select- 

 ing a field. 



The qu inlity and quality of honey that 

 can be produced, an open field, cost of 

 transportation to market, society, health- 

 fulness of climate, annoying insects, ex- 

 cessive heat in summer, or cold in winter. 



Having found your "Eldorado," it is 

 important to start with a hive that you 

 will not regret I have found nothing 

 better than the lo-franie Langstroth, with 

 an unbound zinc queen-excluder between 

 the super and brood chamber, and a 

 painted duck cloth under the cover. All 

 condis in the brood-chamber should l)e 

 built from full sheets of foundation. 



It is also important to stock your hives 

 with the very best stock of bees to he 

 found in the world. I can only recom- 

 mend that you buv some queens from 

 every breeder who claims to have superior 

 stock, and breed from that which is best. 



A system of management should be 

 adopted that will prevent excessive in- 

 crease, and keep both the super and 

 brood-chamber full of bees during the 

 honey-flow. 



Honey should not be exiracted luitil it 

 is ripe, otherwi.se it must be evaporated 

 to prevent loss from fermentation. It re- 

 quires experience to tell when honev is 

 ripe enough to extract. In Kome seasons, 

 and in damp locations, the nectar from 

 the flowers is very thin, and the honey 

 will often ferment after it is all sealed 

 over; at other times, and in dry locations, 

 it is sometimes thick enough to keep, 

 when the bees commence to seal it over. 

 In most locations it is about right when 

 half sealed. 



It is economy to have the best tools to 

 work with. At my Sespe apiary, this 

 season, my daughter Flora, iq years old, 

 extracted all the honey, 10 tons, as fast as 

 a man could cart it in; but she had an 8- 

 comb extractor driven by water-power to 

 do It with. At an out-apiarv it cost me 

 f;t, 00 per day 10 get the same amount of 

 honey extracted with a 6-comb Cowan 

 extractor. Two good honev-carts, carry- 

 ing 4 supers, or ^2 combs of honey, at a 

 load, are necessary to bring the honey in 



