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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 26, 1904, 



$50 and $60 per 1000 feet ; but we will 6ay it is 

 5 cents a foot. A standard S-frame dovetailed 

 hive has 20 feet of lumber in it, including 

 waste necessary. This makes the lumber in 

 that hive cost SI. 00 At 6 cents a foot it will 

 cost $1.20. Let us now look at a 1904 catalog. 

 We find that the price of an 8-frame hive in 

 lots of 100 is $1.25 (for it would be folly for 

 any one to make less than a hundred hives). 

 If a bee-keeper goes to a planing-mill he will 

 pay, then, almost as much for his lumber, or 

 perhaps just as much, as the regular supply- 

 manufacturer would charge tor the hives all 

 cut ready to put together witfiout any toaste. 

 But labor has advanced, and the mill-man 

 will not charge less than 40 cents an hour, 

 and possibly fiO. He is not familiar with hive- 

 making. His saws are coarse-toothed, and his 

 men do not realize the importance of extreme 

 accuracy in hive-making. The hives at the 

 ends will not be lock-cornered, for the mill 

 has no machinery for that purpose. The 

 boards, when put together, will have to de- 

 pend entirely upon the nails for the strength 

 of the corner. 



Perhaps it might be said that the bee-keeper 

 will have to pay freight on his factory hives, 

 but they will be accurately cut and standard 

 in every respect. I have seen a lot of plan- 

 ing-mill hives, and heard some of the bee- 

 keepers who had hives made in that way, tell 

 their experiences. The stuff was irregular, 

 the frames would not alternate, they were 

 very rough, and the work was altogether un- 

 satisfactory. 



But perhaps some one does not see how a 

 manufacturer can furnish a bee-keeper a com- 

 plete hive at the bare cost of the lumber in 

 the open market. The supply-manufacturer 

 can buy by the cargo and a comparatively 

 cheap grade of lumber, and cut around the 

 knots. Here is a board that is 12 or IG feet 

 long. We will say it has tour or five knots 

 in it. Out of this board he may be able to 

 cut out of the clear stock two or three ends or 

 two or three sides. There will be several 

 boards ihat have knots In thera. The manu- 

 facturer, who is in the business, can use 

 these for a great variety of purposes, and not 

 lose money on them. Some of them will go 

 into the ends of square (can) boxes; others 

 will be ueed tor crating; some will be used 

 for a great variety of purposes too numerous 

 to mention. The bee-keeper who desires to 

 have his hives made in a small way would 

 have to buy clear stock at a price of $50 or 

 $60 per 1000, for the planing-mill could not 

 afford to throw away short boards having 

 knots in thera, for it would have no use for 

 short, knotty boards. Its business is making 

 .sash, doors, blinds, door-cases, window- 

 frames, etc., and it can use only long stuff. It 

 will, therefore, be necessary for the bee- 

 keeper to buy clear stock, which is expensive, 

 as he can not afford to have hives with loose 

 knots in that are liable to fall out. He may 

 argue that he can use a cheap grade of lum- 

 ber; but experience with thousands of custo- 

 mers shows that the average customer won't 

 have such lumber in hives at nay price. 



It is true there has been a sharp advance in 

 prices on bee-supplies; but the marked ad- 

 vance in lumber, in labor, and in all common 

 commodities, has made this all necessary. 

 Prices on bee-goods have hardly kept pace 

 with other commodities. 



Selling Extracted Honey by Samples. 



G. A. Deadman gives the following inter- 

 esting particulars in the Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal: 



If you prefer giving the sample in a bottle 

 rather than in a little dish, a wide-mouthed 

 dish, a wide-mouthed bottle, such as vasoline 

 or similar preparations are put in, is the bet- 

 ter; it would, I presume, hold nearly three 

 ounces, which would be little enough in a 

 bottle, less than this does in a' dish. I have 

 found a 10-pound pail serve for 112 dishes, or 

 about l.^o ounces for each. As to the cost, if 

 only used once the latter would be the more 

 expensive of the two, but when used over and 

 over again they cost much less. The bottles, 

 corks and labels, apart from the honey, would 

 cost 30 cents a dozen, and require double the 

 quantity of honey; of course smaller bottles 

 could be used, but there is something in 



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