Feb. 21, 1901, 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



117 



We saw a iiiinil'er of samples (if Iheir lioney 

 Sjoods, and all were nice and teniptinij. 



One of the tcenial employees in llie office 

 was very kind in taking Mr. Root and the 

 writer all over the factory, showinj; the mak- 

 ing of candies ami baking of crackers, etc. 

 One machine and oven consumes 40 barrels of 

 Hour a day, which makes nearly 300 barrels of 

 oyster- crackers. 



One of the many things that imprest us, 

 was the happy looking boys and girls that 

 were working there. All seemed to enjoy 

 their work. May be it was because of the 

 sweet business in which they were engaged 

 that day — making candies of various descrip- 

 tiiins! Their motto might well be that of the 

 bee-keepers—" Our toil doth sweeten others.'" 



-is agreed, Mr. Hutchinson joined us in 

 Milwaukee, and we all arrived in Chicago 

 again before 10 p.m. Editors Hutchinson and 

 Koot took a late train for Lansing, Mich., e.\- 

 peeting on the following day to aid in secur- 

 ing the passage of a foul-brood law in the 

 legislature now in session there. 



Well, our Madison- Watertown trip was a 

 very pleasant one, and afforded the writer a 

 nuieh-needed change and rest after a most 

 trying month following the fire on Jan. 1st, 

 and the subsetjuent moving to a new and im- 

 proved location, where we will soon be all 

 settled anil running as if nothing unusual had 

 happened. 



Mk. EiiiiiXE .'^l;(llIi, general manager of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association, desires 

 us to make the following statement in these 

 columns: 



In my annual report in December. lUOO, the 

 financial .statement says that Mr. .Abbott re- 



ceived S41.'i 

 Pure I' 



in ntti- 



I r 



Till 



iiling the 

 ' inislead- 



Mr 



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that .?UI of llii> am. mill wa- Mili-rriliiii I .y him 

 toward paying the expenses nf ai iriniin^- the 

 Pure Food Congress. ( mivi -|iiriiil\ the 

 amount he received for his e\|irii^r> hm^ imly 

 ■*31. 25. which was probably a uoiH ihal less 

 than he actually spent. The -laiiinriii slmuld 

 have shown those items sepai ai'-l\ . \\ liirh it 

 failed to do. Ei'okni: Si.rni!, 



General Manaarr, 



Mk. J. M. H.\Mii.vi"OH, writing from San 

 Diego Co., Calif., Jan. 2Tth, said: 



■' We have been liaving very seasonable 

 weather so far, and the outlook is superb for 

 another year. A tine rain to-day."' 



EiiiTiiu Will W.iun Mitchell seems to 

 be a very busy man, if we may judge from a 

 short editorial paragraph in the Progressive 

 Bee-Keeper. He says that besides his work 

 on that paper, he issues a small weekly, 

 writes for_several publications (preparing for 

 the future now), gets out from .50,000 to 100,- 

 000 catalogs each year, with job work galore, 

 reads the latest books' with Mr. Leahy (who is 

 a delightful critic), acts as secretary in 'two 



lodges, superintends a Sunday-school, teaebe.-- 

 a class mostly of teachers, and, in fact, is nol 

 burdened with idle hours. He hopes soon to 

 catch up with his work, now that his eyes are 

 better. 



We wonder that Mr. .Mifchi'll has any eyes 

 left at all. We do not see how he can do any- 

 thing well when he attempts to do .so much. 

 The trouble witli most busy men nowadays is 

 that they attempt to do everything, or el.se in 

 some cases there is an attempt made to put 

 almost everything on the busy man. Of 

 course, the busy people are the only folks 

 who do things. They plan their work, and 

 are tlius able to do many times more than 

 people who do not plan to use their time 

 wisely. Mr. Mitchell would better go slower 

 and thus live longer to help his fellow men. 



Mr. Thomas (1. Newman, as most of our 

 readers know, during the past year, on ac- 

 count of physical weakness and defective 

 vision, has been unable to read and write. In 

 the number of his Philosophical Journal 

 for Feb. 2d, he says: 



•• With improved physical health the editor 

 is now able to resume editorial work, and 

 fully expects the return of vision at no very 

 distant day." 



All our readers will be pleased to know of 

 the prospect there is for Mr. Newman to have 

 the full use of his eyes again. 



\ Contributed Articles. | 



No. 4. Extracted Honey Production. 



Can not Produce Both Comb and Extracted from 



Same Colonies — Limited Swarming Best — 



About Equipment- How to Make 



a Strainer. 



BY K. C. AIKIN. 



IT is practically out of the question to produce both comb 

 and extracted from the same colony, I know it impos- 

 sible to do it, but in an averajje field and in the hands of 

 an averapfe apiarist, it can not be made a success. Some of 

 the thing's necessary to get both and be a success, would be 

 a sure and positive flow, lasting long enough and of suffi- 

 cient quantity to fill the sections put on. A flow giving 

 two or more supers, may be taken part in each form by al- 

 lowing the sections to be well nigh completed before adding 

 the extracting-super, or by lifting the latter and giving sec- 

 tions under it. But the job is beset with so many difficul- 

 ties.! would say let none but experts undertake it. I will 

 give up trying to tell how to do it. 



I have already told you something about size of hives 

 and their manipulation in building up colonies before the 

 flow, and also somewhat about control of swarming. I 

 will repeat, if you want best work and most lioney obtain- 

 able where flows are somewhat uncertain and of short dura- 

 tion, the less swarming the better. This applies more fulh- 

 to summer flows — a fall flow is different because one has all 

 summer to build up and may be able to double, treble, or 

 quadruple, the number of colonies and still have good 

 working ones. 



There are other things besides bees and hives needed in 

 producing extracted honey. A honey-house becomes a ne- 

 cessity even when the apiary is very small, tho of course if 

 one has only a half-dozen colonies or so, a small room or 

 tent may be used in lieu of a honey-house speciallj- built 

 for the business, ^)articularly when comb or section honey 

 is produced ; but when extracting and producing from 15 or 



more colonies, a room should be equipt for this alone. Ex- 

 tracted-honey production needs a larger equipment of tools 

 and appliances than does comb, atad needs more care and 

 labor in getting it into proper shape for market. So far as 

 the handling of the two products (comb and extracted) is 

 concerned, there is more labor in the extracted, but in the 

 preliminary work or management of the bees the comb 

 takes both greater skill as an apiarist, and more labor. 

 But I am not discussing the comparison of the two, hence 

 will continue my subject. 



Of course you want an extractor. As to whether a 2 

 or 4 frame machine, I think there is no very great economy 

 in using the larger. I have used for many j'ears a 2-frame 

 machine, and now have a 4-frame one. I do not think I 

 would go back to the 2-frame one ; I consider the 4-frame 

 size enough better — especially for extensive producers — to 

 justify its use. If crank help is not convenient and cheap, 

 the larger machine has the advantage. I would also use a 

 reversible. 



The extractor should be set solid that it maynot shake. 



L 'ncapping and Extracting Honey. 



