THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



force of bees into the surplus receptacle. 

 Especially desirable is this prompt start 

 in super-work when no separators are 

 used; as an even and simultaneous be- 

 ginning- upon the entire super of sections 

 is the chief secret of avoiding bulged 

 and uneven combs. • 



Notwithstanding all of the adverse 

 criticism of the sectional hive, it is ab- 

 solutely unequaled in flexibility and 

 economy of management. As this hive 

 is a radical departure from the principles 

 contained in deep, single-chamber hives, 



the methods employed to insure success- 

 ful results must be entirely different. 



The depth and shape of the divisions, 

 as well as the locality, may possibly, 

 to some extent, influence the production 

 of brood; however, sectional hives are in 

 this locality positively and emphatically 

 unequaled in this respect; and I wish to 

 go on record as urgently recommending 

 their adoption wherever the object in 

 view may be the greatest quantity of 

 fancy honey. 



Ft. Smith, Ark., Nov. 7, 1909. 



Why Chunk Honey does not Meet With 

 Favor in the North. 



M. P. CADY. 



fOME half-dozen years ago, when 

 the production of "bulk" or 

 "chunk" honey was quite ex- 

 tensively advocated by some of the 

 writers for the bee papers, I was much 

 taken with the idea, and gave it a trial 

 on an extensive scale. To put up comb 

 honey in tin packages, thereby getting the 

 benefit of low freight rates on shipments, 

 at the same time doing away with all 

 danger of damage during shipment, 

 seemed certainly a very sensible thing to 

 do. 



A good quantity of extra fine honey 

 was put up in five- and ten-pound pails. 

 The pails were well filled with fully 

 ripened raspberry and clover comb honey, 

 with enough strictly fancy extracted 

 honey of the same kind added to fill up 

 the chinks. 



In order to thoroughly test the desira- 

 bility of the "chunk" honey, and at the 

 same time to develop a market for the 

 new product, a good salesman was em- 

 ployed to solicit orders direct from the 

 consumers. A fine sample in a flint glass 

 pail was used in securing orders. The 

 salesman explained the superior money 

 value of the chunk honey, and, being a 

 silver-tongued hustler, he made sales 



very readily at 12,^2 cents per pound, at 

 the same time selling, to those who pre- 

 ferred, extracted honey at 10 cents per 

 pound, and section honey at 15 cents; 

 however, most of the sales were "chunk" 

 honey. 



While the immediate results were very 

 satisfactory, the final results were dis- 

 appointing. An occasional patron was 

 pleased with the chunk honey, but more 

 than nine-tenths of the purchasers were 

 emphatic in expressing their preference 

 for either extracted or section honey; and 

 finding it impossible to make sales of the 

 chunk honey, I was obliged to discontinue 

 its production. 



On the part of the consumers there 

 were three principal objections to chunk 

 honey: 



1. Its mussy condition (being much 

 more so than either straight extracted or 

 comb honey.) 



2. The flavor of the bulk comb honey 

 was not equal to that of section honey 

 (presumably due to the coating of ex- 

 tracted honey, as in many cases the 

 comb honey in the chunk honey packages 

 was cut directly from sections that were 

 nearly filled.) 



