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like this deep, inclined bottom. 1 had 

 them made years agfo with the idea that 

 they would be practically self-cleaning, 

 and would do away with the cleaning up 

 of bottoms and entrances clogged up 

 with dead bees and filth. All my hives 

 now have these boards. The moisture 

 runs out of the hive, and ice and snow do 

 not clog up the entrance. Being inclined, 

 there is not room enough to build much 

 comb under the frames, and it is not 

 necessary to put in little racks as Dr. 

 Miller does. And when it is desired to do 

 a little feeding, I just shove under a few 

 sections or a wooden butter dish filled 

 with honey or syrup. Or the caged 



queen is shoved in there some times. 



Such a deep entrance makes it easy 

 to form a pretty good estimate of the 

 strength of a colony without opening the 

 hive, by simply looking under the frames, 

 through the entrance. It provides good 

 ventilation and tends to lessen swarming. 

 The cost is low, 1 \i cents, nailed, at a 

 box factory. 



In the winter, of course, the entrance is 

 reduced, by a board which fits in, to f 

 inch by the width of the hive. In case a 

 few colonies have only ons brood cham- 

 ber it is still further contracted by throw- 

 ing a shovelful of dirt into the entrance. 

 Cassville. Wis. Dec. 1909. 



Selling Chunk Honey and Extracted 

 Honey at Twenty Cents. 



M. M. BALDRIDGE. 



MISS Mathilde 

 Candler, of 

 Wisconsin, wrote 

 me as fol 1 o ws: 

 I see quite a little 

 in the bee papers 

 regarding bulk 

 comb honey. I 

 am very much 

 interested, and 

 wish some more 

 northern men 

 would tell us 

 something about 

 it. M. M. Baldridge, I believe, sells bulk 

 comb honey in his local market, but he 

 doesn't add extracted honey, if I under- 

 stand him correctly, and says he cannot 

 supply the demand, at 20 cents a pound; 

 and that with section honey selling in the 

 grocery stores at a less price. 



1 had quite a lot of cull sections this 

 year, and sold them here in my home 

 market, cutting them out and adding 

 extracted honey. I sold it at 10 cents a 

 pound, the customer supplying the dish, 

 and it went very readily, more than 

 either section or extracted honey. I am 

 planning to try it on a somewhat larger 

 scale next year and do a little advertis- 

 ing to push it along. I believe, in the 

 right hands, it can be made to pay. 



I sent the foregoing to Mr. Baldridge 

 and he replied as follows: — Editor. 



Friend Hutchinson: — Miss Mathilde 

 Candler says she is very much interested 

 regarding bulk comb honey, and wishes 

 some northern man would tell us more 

 about it. She also says that she thinks 

 M. M. Baldridge sells bulk comb honey 

 in his local market, that he does not add 

 extracted honey, and that he cannot sup- 

 ply the demand at 20 cts. per lb. when 

 section honey sells at a less price, in the 

 grocery stores. 



In reply I will say that for the past 

 five years or so I have sold nearly all 

 my comb honey in five pound packages, 

 but I often add some liquid honey to the 

 package so as to make it weigh exactly 

 five pounds, net weight. I never sell 

 less than five pounds, nor more than ten 

 pounds of comb or liquid honey at one 

 time to consumers, unless they come to 

 my home and get it. I never sell to 

 grocers, and never pay the least attention 

 to the prices they sell at. I never sell 

 my comb honey, net weight, no wood 



