A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 



$L00 A YEAR. 

 W. Z. HUTCBDiSON. Editor and Proprlelor. 



VOL. XIX. FLINT, MICHIGAN, SEPT. 15, 1906. NO. 9 



C©iniveiml©inices In tlhe Pir©dlmctioini of 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON. 



EVERY successful bee-keeper eventu- 

 ally works out a system especially 

 adapted to himself and his environ- 

 ments. I have in view the management 

 of a series of out-apiaries for the pro- 

 duction of extracted honey, and I wish 

 to develop a system with the greatest 

 amount of elasticity about it. I don't 

 wish to be compelled to do a certain 

 thing upon a certain day. I wish for 

 a whole lot of leewa3\ With ordinary 

 management, a great honey-flow brings 

 a hurry and a rush in extracting to 

 give the bees room — I wish to avoid 

 that. Mention has been made several 

 times in die Review of the successful 

 and profitable management of an 

 apiary by Mr. E. D. Townsend with 

 only four visits a year. It is in this 

 direction that my ideas are tending; 

 but I scarcely expect to reduce the 

 number of visits to four; in fact, Mr. 

 Townsend himself does not now prac- 

 tice nor recommend so few visits. 



WHAT M.\Y BE DONE WITH PLENTY OF 

 EMPTY COMBS. 



First and foremost in my system 

 must be plenty of supers and empt3' 



combs. I would have enough of these 

 so that the bee-keeper could give more 

 room at any apiary, at any time during 

 the season,, even though no honey 

 were extracted until the season was 

 over. I don't mean by this that 

 I would not extract any honey un- 

 til the season was over, as, in some 

 locations, it is quite likely that I should, 

 but I would have enough combs so that 

 the bee-keeper could give enough sur- 

 plus room at any time during the 

 season, regardless of what the flow 

 was, or of whether any extracting was 

 done — just as though there were a great 

 unlimited pile of supers of comb at 

 every 3'ard, and the bee-keeper could 

 go out and get one at anytime and put 

 it on where and when it was needed. 



Of course, extra combs and supers 

 cost money. I made 300 of them last 

 spring and I know what they cost me. 

 Each ten-frame super filled with sheets 

 of wired foundation cost 75 cts. I think 

 four such supers for each colony, 

 spring count, will be sutflcient in this 

 locality — probably more than would 

 ever be used, as they would furnish 

 storage room for nearly 200 pouuds of 



