May 26, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



379 



looks, and in this respect the Jishes have de- 

 cidedly the preference. Pofsilily the bottle 

 may lie a more lasting advertisement, but only 

 so long as the label remains on it. It is more 

 troublesome to prepare, but less to deliver. 

 Either may appear to some to be too trouble- 

 some and expensive, but there are two things 

 we should remember in connection: one is, 

 that you require to sample a place only once ; 

 this will create a demand for your honey that 

 will not cease with your first order. You 

 need not be over-anxious, therefore, to sell all 

 the flrst time. The other encouragement is 

 that once a trade is established the expense of 

 selling and delivering is much less, and apart 

 from this the advanced price of retail over 

 wholesale should cover the cost incurred. 

 When delivering the sample au order card 

 such as the following is handed in, and also 

 the circular reprinted below : 



3^:^. C3-. J^. IDE-^^ID^v^ Ji-OiT 



PLEASE DELI\'EK ME 



10-lb. pails pure honey, costiue- . 



and oblige. Yours truly. 



Name 



Street and No 



My Grocer's name is 



ABOUT OCR HONEY. 



Please try this sample of our honey, and if 

 you would like more, then state on the order 

 card the c|uantily you wish, and either myself 

 or my representative will call to-morrow and 

 get your order, together with the little dish. 



A 10-pound pail costs S Honey at this 



price not only compares fayorably with pre- 

 served fruit, but as a rule is preferred to it by 

 many, especially children. The system re- 

 quires a certain amount of sweets, and there 

 is none that is healthier or better than pure 

 honey that has been well ripened. By being 

 well ripened, we mean honey that has been 

 left on the hives until it is rich and thick. 

 When honey is first gathered by the bees it is 

 then known as nectar, and contains a large 

 percentage of water. If extracted or taken 

 from the hives too soon it will be thin and 

 watery, lacking in fiavor and keeping quali- 

 ties. This accounts for the great differences 

 in honey when gathered from the same flow- 

 ers. We, of course, do not get as much honey 

 when left on the hives iu this way, liut the 

 quality is much improved. Apart from this, 

 honey differs according to the llowers it has 

 been gathered from. In this country white 

 clover and basswood are considered the best. 



Almost all pure honey will granulate or be- 

 come hard in cool weather, or soon after it is 

 taken from the hives; all that is required to 

 make it as liquid as the sample given you is 

 to stand the vessel containing it in hot water 

 over a slow fire, according to directions on 

 the label. 



As our supply of honey may be exhausted 

 soon, I would recommend ordering your win- 

 ter supply. You need not have any fear of 

 our honey spoiling; all that is necessary is to 

 keep it in a warm, or at least a dry, place. 

 Never put honey in a cellar unless it is in 

 sealed containers, as it absorbs moisture. 

 Many families accustomed to honey have it 

 on the table every day, using from two to 

 three hundred pounds every year, and some 

 as much as five hundred pounds. We use up- 

 wards of three hundred pounds a year in our 

 fairily of seven. Order liberally, as it can be 

 returned either to myself or your grocer, if 

 not perfectly satisfactory. I am, 

 Yours truly. 



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FROM MANY FIELDS 



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Small Loss in Wintepins:. 



My bees wintered well. I lost 4 colonies 

 out of .57. I left them on the summer stands. 

 I am overhauling them and they have lots of 

 honey. 1 will get 1000 or 1200 pounds. I 

 have a mixed lot of bees. They did well last 

 season. I am a new hand, this being my sec- 

 ond season. 



I keep " l>ach,"' and take the American Bee 

 Journal, and it is a help to me. I like to 

 read it. James H. Bakbk. 



Marion Co., Mo., May 9. 



Wintep-Cases as Hive-Coveps. 



Mr. E. E. Hasty, on page 311, refers to my 

 article describing my winter-cases, and in re- 

 gard to the statement I made there, that I use 

 the cases during the summer, after taking the 

 packing out, to protect the hives from the ex- 

 cessive heat, and make them serve the pur- 

 pose, too, of a hive-cover, says: "Nice to 

 obviate the need of a hive-cover — providing, 

 that is, that the tar-paper continues imper- 

 vious all summer." 



I want to say to Mr. Hasty that my winter- 

 cases have done service tor four years, and 

 are all still "impervious." The tar-paper 

 to re-cover them will cost not to exceed 6 

 cents each. I spoke of my winter-cases par- 

 ticularly to call attention to the cheap way in 

 which they are made, and their serving double 

 purpose. A. J. Kilgoke. 



Wood Co., Ohio, May 5. 



Winteped in a Cold Cellar. 



I am a reader of the American Bee Journal, 

 and have been since I commenced in the bee- 

 business, iu the spring of 1903. I got 2 good, 

 strong colonies of Italian bees from Wiscon- 

 sin. They did very well last summer. Nov. 

 1 I put 7 colonies into the cellar ; they were 

 well supplied with honey. The temperature 

 in the cellar, up to Jan. 20, 1004, was 35 de- 

 grees aliove zero, then it dropped to 2S and 30, 

 and so remained until the first of March. 

 April 2 I put them on the summer stands, all 

 in fine condition. After being in five months 

 I swept up about '., gallon of dead bees. 

 They used but little honey during the winter, 

 and on April 15 were gathering pollen. They 

 will be in good shape when the honey-flow 

 comes. 



I mention this from the fact that I never 

 heard of bees being wintered in as cold a cel- 

 lar. The Bee Journal recommends 45 to 50 

 degrees. J- M. Adams. 



Davison Co., S. D. May 10. 



Winteping— Making Hives. 



I put 30 colonies of bees into the cellar Nov. 

 30, and took out 3S live ones on April 4, and 

 all are in (air condition at this date, although 

 there have been but four days warm enough to 

 give them a good flight since taking them out 

 of the cellar. I wintered 16 colonies out-of- 

 doors, plaui/d them close together in a row, 

 facing south, and packed with straw on the 

 north side, top and ends. Only 7 colonies 

 came ihruu^'h alive, but that is not strange, 

 as they are the weakest of the lot ; besides, 

 there were :!•! days between December S and 

 March o when the mercury ranged from zero 

 to 32 degrees below— days in December, 

 12 in January. 17 in February and one in 

 March. What the harvest will be for honey 

 and other crops the future will tell; the sea- 

 ton is nearly two weeks late. The frost is 

 not nearly out of the ground, and very little 

 seeding hiis been done. 



I was VBry much interested in Mr. Edwin 

 Bevins' article on " Making Frames, Hives 

 and Supers," on page 277. As 1 have never 

 been successful in " getting something tor 

 nothing,' 1 am quite anxious for him to 

 '• point out the source of material tor hives 

 and some other things that will cost no 

 money, or next to none." 



The Mi; .ict of making our own hives, etc., 



