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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 6, 1904. 



asked. It is one of the best forms of advertising pure 

 honey, although rather expensive. Still, when the number 

 of future sales of honey are considered, as a result of such 

 sampling, it is perhaps as cheap advertising as can be done. 

 During the time our demonstrator was in that particular 

 store, her retail sales amounted to an average of about $40 

 a week. 



About Bee-Keepers' Planning. 



Good plans are of great importance. When a new piece 

 of work is to be done, which, without planning, would take 

 a day"s time, it may be economy sometimes to spend half a 

 day in planning, for, by that half-day's planning, the whole 

 of the work can be done inside the remaining half day. 

 The Bee-Keepers' Review, in speaking of this, says : 



" If a man would just take owf day 'off' and spend it 

 in studying his business, going over all of its phases care- 

 fully, he might find it the most profitable day's time he ever 

 spent." 



That is well said, and true. Hardly so true, however, 

 are the two sentences immediately preceding, which read : 



"Most of us do too little thinking and planning. We 

 are so busy working that we have no time for study." 



There are, no doubt, bee-keepers who do too little think- 

 ing and planning, but hardly " most of us ". One of the 



great attractions of bee-keeping is the constant arising of 

 new problems and the enjoyment of studying them out. 

 Compare bee-keeping with other occupations in general, 

 and your average bee-keeper will take a pretty high rank as 

 a thinker and planner. Just because of this our bee-papers 

 are filled with new ideas from year to year. And just be- 

 cause he is a thinker and a planner, each beginner in bee- 

 keeping gets up something new — perhaps a hive — even if 

 he does find out later that it has already seen the light, or 

 is to be cast aside as worthless. Oh, yes, " most of us " do a 

 lot of thinking and planning. 



Newspaper Enterprise — and Surprise. 



The enterprise of the metropolitan dailies in bringing 

 to light the unusual is likely to be amusing when bees are 

 in question. A bee-keeper in Pennsylvania took from four 

 colonies of bees an average of 125 pounds per colony, ex- 

 tracted honey. This information appears in a Chicago 

 daily with the heading, "Bees Make Record", and the 

 further heading, " Quarter of a Ton of Honey is Taken 

 from Four Colonies "; and yet again, " Special Dispatch to 

 the Intet-Ocean "! The newspaper man who fitted up that 

 item might open his eyes if he should read of some of the 

 record takes. 



Closed-End Frames vs. Other Styles In Spring. 



15. — Do bees breed up better in sprint/ witli etoseil-enil frames, ur is 

 tiiere no diff'ereneef 



G. M. DooLlTTLE (N. Y.) — No difference. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown (Ga.)— I find no difference. 



S. T. Pettit (Ont.) — Never used closed-end frames. 



Jas. a. Stone (111.) — I have never noticed any difference. 



J. M. Hambaugh (Calif.) — I don't know. Never used 

 them. 



Mrs. J. M. Null (Mo.) — No experience with closed-end 

 frames. 



Wm. Rohrig (Ariz.) — In this locality I think there is no 

 difference. 



Iv. StachELHAUSEN (Tex.) — There is no difference in 

 this locality. 



C. Davenport (Minn.) — I have never been able to notice 

 any difference. 



O. O. PoppLETON (Fla.) — Have no experience with 

 closed-end frames. 



James A. Green (Colo.) — Yes. I think there is a dif- 

 ference in favor of closed-ends. 



P. H. Elwood (N. Y.) — I think there is quite a differ- 

 ence in favor of the closed-ends. 



N. E. France (Wis.) — Abundance of honey is of most 

 importance; second, young queens. 



C. H. DiBBEKN (111.) — I think there is little difference as 

 to frames ; all depends upon the queen. 



E. D. TowNSEND (Mich.) — I have had no experience 

 worth mentioning with closed-end frames. 



Rev. M. Mahin (Ind.) — I have so little experience with 

 closed-end frames that I can not express an opinion. 



Adrian Getaz (Tenn.) — I have never used closed-end 

 frames. I don't think there would be any difference. 



R. L. Taylor (Mich.) — Yes, somewhat, necessarily, as 

 the closed-end frames are some protection against the cold. 



C. P. DadanT(I11.) We tried closed-end frames, but 



soon discarded them ; so I am not in a position to answer 

 knowingly. 



G. W. Demareb (Ky.) — Closed-end frames have never 



shown any good qualities in any respect in my apiary. I 



still have a few shallow extracting supers in use that have 

 closed end-bars, and they are a worry to me. 



Dr. C. C. Miller (111.)— I don't know; I think they 

 ought to breed up better with closed-end frames, because 

 warmer. 



E. Whitcomb (Nebr.) — I never could see any difference. 

 Certain causes seem to bring about the same effect in a 

 well-stocked bee-hive. 



E. S. LovESY (Utah) — I know of no difference ; a strong 

 colony of bees with plenty of stores will build up quick in 

 the spring. At least this is my experience. 



Prof. A. J. Cook (Calif.) — I believe they give a slight 

 advantage, but not enough to make one sleepless of nights 

 who has them not. 



Eugene Secor (Iowa) — I don't know. Never used 

 closed-ends enough to make my opinion valuable, but if 

 allowed to guess I'd say there wouldn't be any difference. 



R. C. AiKiN (Colo.) — I am not sure of any difference, 

 and I use both. Possibly closed-ends are better, but I think 

 the gain one way or the other would not justify a choice of 

 style. 



Money as a Health-Food is the name of a 16- 

 page leaflet (3>2x6 inches) which is designed to help in- 

 crease the demand and sale of honey. The first part is 

 devoted to a consideration of " Honey as Food," written 

 by Dr. C. C. Miller. The last part contains "Honey-Cook- 

 ing Recipes " and " Remedies Using Honey." It should be 

 widely circulated by every one who has honey for sale. It 

 is almost certain to make good customers for honey. We 

 know, for we have used it ourselves. 



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