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several years I made a specialty of comb 

 honey production. I did not produce 

 such very large crops, didn't keep enough 

 bees, but have raised as much as 7,000 

 pounds in one year. One reason that 

 makes me consider comb honey produc- 

 tion is that the expsrience thereby gained 

 may be of soma benefit to my readers. 

 Fence separators, plain sections and the 

 Townsend plan of using extracting combs 

 at the sides of the supers, have all sprung 

 into existence since I produced any comb 

 honey. I visited Mr. Townsend recently, 

 and for one long day we sat by the fire 

 and talked bees, and one object of that 

 visit was that I might go over the ground 

 of comb honey production as he is now 

 putting it into practice. I didn't find him 

 very enthusiastic on the subject. He 

 had produced comb honey all of his bee- 

 keeping life; he liked that branch of the 

 business; it was fascinating; he hated to 

 give it up; but it was too expensive. He 

 had one apiary fitted up for comb honey, 

 and should run it for comb honey one 

 more year in order to use up the supplies 

 on hand, then he should drop it. The 

 amount of time put upon this yard would 

 enable him to run about three similar 

 yards for extracted honey. 



Now then, there isn't a particle of 

 doubt in my mind that I could run my 



apiary here next season for extracted 

 honey, and make more money than to 

 run it for comb honey. Perhaps not re- 

 ceive any more money in the aggregate, 

 possibly even less, but I would be able to 

 do the work with so much less expendi- 

 ture of time. If there were only the 

 question of which would bring me the 

 most profit, there would not be a moment's 

 hesitation. The only thing that makes 

 me give the comb honey production any 

 consideration, is that the experience may 

 be helpful in editing the Review. If it 

 will, I'm willing to make the sacrifice; 

 but. right on the top of this comes the 

 question, if extracted honey will yield me 

 the most profit, why won't it be the same 

 with my readers? I think this is a fair 

 question for discussion Don't think that 

 I am bringing up the matter in this way 

 to try and persuade comb honey pro- 

 ducers to change to extracted honey. It 

 doss not make a cent's worth of differ- 

 ence to m3. I only wish to help each one 

 to do that which will yield him the most 

 profit. 



The question of swarm-control would 

 not enter into the problem in my case, as 

 when there is increase made, to the 

 extent of doubling the number of colonies, 

 there is no difficulty in preventing swarm- 

 ing, even in comb honey production. 



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PRLVLNTION OF SWARMING. 



A Radical Cure for the Swarming Habit 

 of Bees. 



As probably most of my readers know. 

 Dr. Jones of Minnesota has published a 



management whereby swarming is ab- 

 solutely prevented. The book is copy- 

 righted, so that no one has a right to 

 copy any of it without permission— to do 

 so brings a liability of prosecution— but I 

 have paid the author a good round sum 

 for the privilege of copying the entire 

 book into the Review — no other journal 



little book describing a simple system of can print it unless similar arrangements 



