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of better sale ami better prices that this 

 coiitparison is brought up as the leading 

 factor. Now suppose that every bee- 

 keeper should sudtlenly change to the 

 use of the tall section, and there would 

 be none of the square sections on the 

 market; the object of comparison being 

 absent, would the price of honey in the 

 tall section hold at any better figure than 

 it does now ? I think not. Then there is 

 another point: The bee keeper with a few 

 crates of tall-section honey may get a 

 little better price in his home-market 

 where he can work it off, but suppose he 

 has a carload of various grades, will the 

 aggregate once for the lot amount to any 

 more than the same amount of comb hon- 

 ey in square sections ? 



Several years ago, while living in the 

 East, I .saw a nice lot of honey put up in 

 round sections. These sections were 

 made of material that berry ooxes are 

 made of, and they were really attractive. 

 They looked taller and wider than the 

 square section, and I have no doubt that 

 there would be purchasers who would 

 prefer this style of section. Suppose that 

 when the tall section is well adopted 

 some one should spring the round section 

 upon the bee-keepers; then, when the 

 round section was well established, some 

 one should spring an octagon upon the 

 bee-keepers; then wliere would be the 

 end to the changes? It is well and fit- 

 ting that we should have the different 

 kinds, diversity leads to the better sale of 

 honey, for if one style of package does 

 not attract the eye of the purchaser, then 

 another will. It is well to go slow in the 

 adoption of new things. Those of us who 

 have been in the business for a number 

 of years have some marks upon the ends 

 of our fingers yet where we were sadly 

 burned with some new fangled invention. 

 If I produce comb honey I shall prob- 

 ably use the tall section; not because I 

 think I will like it any better than the 

 square section, but because I use the 

 Heddon hive; and, as everything is new 

 in my apiary, I can use the tall section 

 better than any otht style. I work the 



bees mostly for extracted honey. The 

 same super that I use for extracting I use 

 for the tall section. By making the sec- 

 tion-holder with a }i inch bottom-bar, and 

 end pieces about an inch in thickness, 

 the holder with four sections can be ad- 

 justed to the hive the same as the regu- 

 lar brood-frame, and there is no extra 

 comb hone}' supers to handle; our brood- 

 chambers and supers are all uniform. 

 Had I a full complement of Heddon su- 

 pers for comb honey in square sections I 

 would not change for the sake of using 

 the tall section. 



Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 29, 1899. 



STABLISHING O U T - A P I A - 

 RIES AND TRANSFERRING 

 BEES. BY H. H. HYDE. 



As I am no hand to offer 

 apologies, I am not going to offer any 

 for condng into the Review's corps of 

 correspondents. The subject of out- 

 apiaries is a deep one, and, although I have 

 had a great deal of experience in that 

 line, I fear I shall not be able to do the 

 subject justice. At the outset I wish it 

 understood that the views herein ex- 

 pressed are those of only two persons, 

 my father (O. P. Hyde) and myself; also, 

 as locality is such an important thing, 

 that our views and methods might not 

 work, in their entiret}', elsewhere, with- 

 out alteration. 



It is not every bee-keeper who can suc- 

 cessfully manage out-apiaries, any more 

 than every man can be a bee-keeper. 

 We will suppose, however, that the man 

 contemplating starting an apiary, is fully 

 competent to manage the same; if so, the 

 first important consideration is the loca- 

 tion. If possible locate where the bees 

 can have access to timber, parairie and 

 farms; water, also, should be at a con- 

 venient distance. As to whether trees or 

 shade-boards should be used, will be dis- 

 cussed later. The out-apiaries should be 

 as near home and as near one another as 



