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on chunk honey, read before the National 

 Convention. I commenced a few years ago 

 to sell chunk honey on a small scale, and 

 without much effort have built up quite a 

 little trade in the business. At first I used 

 only broken or bruised sections, or sections 

 that were only '-';; or ;'.| sealed, but lately I 

 have used quite a number of shallow frames. 

 I cut the comb out and place it neatly in a 

 'o-gallon covered tin pail, filling the pail 

 even full, and then run in enough extracted 

 honey to make 5 pounds, which usually fills 

 the pails. I sell this at 14 cents per pound, 

 adding the price of the pail, and pay back the 

 price of the pail if returned in good condition. 



Some furnish their own vessels, and take 

 sometimes a 2 or 3 gallon jar full. 1 consider 

 this a drawing card; while it lasts, it out- 

 sells section honey. People have got to call- 

 ing it " bucket honey," and many of the first 

 families of Huntington and Warren buy it. 

 Some buy it largely for their own use, and 

 then buy a small quantity of section honey 

 for use when they have company. I can make 

 more money producing and selling this at 14 

 cents a pound than section honey at 16cents. 

 The only draw back is pollen in the shallow 

 frames; sometimes half the frames in a super 

 have pollen in them. Can any one give a 

 remedy for this; This trade has worked it- 

 self up without any special effort to push it, 

 and I will try to cater more to it the coming 

 season than ever. 



I have my bees packed on the summer 

 stands. I can't tell now how they will come 

 through, but I fear the loss will be heavy. 

 They have had no general flight since early in 

 November, and there is little prospect of their 

 having any soon ; and if this zero weather 

 continues much longer many colonies will die. 

 A. H. Snowberger. 



Huntington Co., Ind., Feb. 4. 



Coekleburr. 



On page 106, there is a question in regard 

 to "Cockleberry," and Dr. Miller's answer to 

 the same. There is no such thing as " Cockle- 

 berry." It is" coekleburr " — aweedl feel sure 

 Dr. Miller is perfectly familiar with. I kept 

 bees in Louisiana some years ago, and got a 

 little honey from it, but not often. I feel 

 sure that the main part of the honey came 

 from something else. E.T.Flanagan. 



St. Clair Co., 111. 



Jouncing Bees— Combs Buckling. 



Mr. Editor :— I notice that you have thrown 

 overboard the egg-hatching-on-a-colony-of- 

 bees humbug. I think it a great privilege, 

 and certainly very instructive, that you give 

 space for our experiences, but it is too bad 

 that sometimes we have bee-stories as well as 

 fish and snake stories. I tried another scheme, 

 in the shape of jouncing liees out of a super. 

 Well, I made such a jouncer, according to 

 discription, and began jouncing. I guess my 

 bees did not understand what I wanted, so 

 they got mad, when I concluded to let them 

 have the jouncer and I made a bee-line forthe 

 house, which I reached minus a pair of spec- 

 tacles. 



The next colony I wanted to jounce I 

 smoked before I began jouncing. I jounced 

 until I jounced comb and frames to pieces, 

 and the moi'e I jounced the more tbe bees 

 seemed determined to take possession of the 

 leaking honey. I thought perhaps my failure 

 depended on tw;ilitij, but I took my jouncer 

 and jounced it against the wall, for it re- 

 minded me of some 40 years ago when I 

 learned the cabinet-making trade, and some 

 one, on April Fool Day, sent to, me for a 

 " square " auger-bit I df"' LI1~ C .- ' 1 



I think it we sent our failures to the.'papers 

 they would often be as instructive as our suc- 

 cesses. For my part I am never ashamed to 

 confess my blunders ; and how I do admire 

 Dr. Miller, when he says, "I don't know;" 

 for then my confidence is doubly strong in 

 him when he says he does know. 



Some three years ago there was a contro- 

 versy between an African bee-keeper and Mr. 

 Dadant, regarding the use of comli founda- 

 tion, and the African claimed it was the ones 

 interested in its manufacture or sale that 

 advocated its use most. I had at that time, 

 as I have now, the highest esteem for Mr. 



