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THE BEE-KEEPER'S REVIEW 



it can be exhibited more attractively 

 in show windows or other places of ex- 

 hibition. Therefore, chunk honey would 

 fill a demand which cannot otherwise be 

 filled. 



The common public does not look upon 

 it with as much suspicion as the manu- 

 factured article. It is the "old style 

 honey," such as mother and father or 

 grandfather or grandmother used to put 

 up. Country people buy it from one 

 season to another, and they will not, to 

 any extent, when otherwise put up. Large 

 cities are supplied with section and ex- 

 tracted honey, and if we produce much 

 more honey we are dependent on the 

 country trade, and this is the only channel 

 through which we can reach it as well. 



1 am getting into the future of my sub- 

 ject too soon, but I wish to bring out 

 these points here, and state that this is 

 already occurring in some sections of the 

 South. 



Any regular section honey dealer or 

 customer will take chunk honey on trial, 

 and this is all that is necessary. It 

 wholesales from two to six cents a 

 pound more than extracted honey; and 



nets the producer about as much as 

 section honey, while the demand is 

 greater. 



ITS FUTURE. 



I will say without fear of contradiction 

 that chunk honey production has a great 

 future. It has been largely instrumental 

 in making Texas the greatest bee and 

 honey country; and other States are sure 

 to fall into line. 



There is already much enthusiasm 

 aroused among the bee keepers on the 

 subject, especially those producing comb 

 honey, and as soon as the bee supply 

 manufacturers put out a chunk honey 

 hive and give its merits, and the proper 

 information on the production of chunk 

 honey, I believe that bee keeping will 

 take a rise such as it never has at any 

 time previous. The misty, knotty, 

 tedious, lengthy, puzzling, and expensive 

 conglomeration of hives and methods in 

 comb honey production which are now 

 hanging like a weight on the progress of 

 our industry will be at an end; and we 

 will have a clean-cut proposition again. 

 CoRDELE, Ga., Oct. 25, 1909. 



Advantages of Sectional Brood Chambers in 

 Comb Honey Production. 



LEO E. GATELY 



IN endeavoring to determine which 

 was best adapted to the exclusive 

 production of comb honey I de- 

 voted a number of years to experiment- 

 ing with and testing the merits and 

 demerits of the various styles and depths 

 of hives. 



In this and perhaps in the majority of 

 localities, contraction of the brood nest is 

 a necessary essential to insuring satis- 

 factory work in the surplus boxes; and 

 in this respect all brood chambers con- 

 sisting of a single tier of deep frames 

 are enormously deficient. Any method 

 of contraction involving the replacing of a 



part of the frames with dummies, in- 

 variably results in imperfect filling of the 

 outer sections, and increases the diffi- 

 culty in getting them completed simul- 

 taneously with those more centrally 

 located. Obviously, the only logical and 

 practical method is to contract from the 

 top instead of the side, without reducing 

 the supering surface of the brood nest. 

 By simply removing one o'f the divisions, 

 a hive in which the brood chamber is 

 horizontally divisible may be reduced to 

 about the proper capacity; and the 

 shallowness of the remaining division 

 immediately throws the whole working 



