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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



whatever, at a less price than liquid 

 honey to consumers, and this has been 

 my practice for many years. I do not 

 plead guilty of selling honey— comb or 

 liquid— for as low a price, as 20 cents 

 per pound to consumers, and I treat all 

 alike, rich or poor, black or white. It is 

 a mistake to say or suppose that I can- 

 not supply the demand for comb honey 

 when selling as indicated to consumers. 

 On the contrary, the demand for comb 

 honey, when consumers can get the 

 liquid honey at the same price per pound, 

 net weight, is so small, that I do not 

 find it very much trouble to supply it. 



[Selling unfinished sections as bulk 

 comb honey is a profitable manner of 

 disposing of this product of the apiary; 

 and yet, I'm inclined to the belief that 



there is a more profitable use to make of 

 them; that of having them cleaned up 

 and used as bait-sections the next spring. 

 There is a difference of opinion as to 

 whether '"baits" ought to be used in the 

 center or the corners of the supsr, but, if 

 1 could have my choice, I would haye the 

 first super filled full of partly drawn 

 combs. I have seen the sections in such 

 a super filled, capped and ready to come 

 off, when the bees were only getting 

 nicely started in a super containing only 

 sheets of foundation. This early start in 

 the supers relieves the pressure on the 

 brood nest, prevents or delays swarming, 

 and results in just one more super of 

 honey. It is a fact, that a super of partly 

 drawn combs at the opening of the 

 harvest is really worth a super of finished 

 honey — perhaps more. — Editor. 



Shipping a Car Load of Bees From 

 Wisconsin to Indiana. 



F. B. CAVANAGH. 



1 F veteran bee 

 ^ keepers were 

 asked, what is 

 the most back- 

 breaking, nerve- 

 taxing job con- 

 nected with bee- 

 keeping, I be- 

 lieve all would 

 be ready to 

 answer: "The 

 shipping of 

 bees." Trying as the work is, however, 

 there is about it an element of adventure 

 and excitement that tends to smooth out 

 many of the rough places. 



When I started for Wisconsin last 

 spring to move my second car of bees, I 

 was still tired from just having made a 

 shipment to Aylesworth. Added to this 

 double dose of moving, the first week 

 brought rain, hail, snow and wind storms, 

 which, in connection with the terribly 



bad roads, caused a gloomy outlook, in- 

 deed. However, 1 decided to be game. 

 1 crated the extractors which went by 

 local freight, packed loose tools, cut 

 screens and entrance blocks, and made 

 all as nearly ready as possible, mid cold 

 and storm, for the coming battle. 



The car, an ordinary 36-foot, stock- 

 car, was to contain about 1 75 hives of 

 bees, 400 full-depth sets of extracting 

 combs, over a ton of feed-combs of 

 honey, extra hives, tanks, wheel barrow, 

 and miscellaneous tools. Obviously, it 

 was necessary to economize space, 

 though a previous estimate confirmed the 

 fact that all could be packed in the car. 

 Every extracting super was crammed 

 to the utmost with combs and frames, 

 leaving extra bodies to be nested or 

 packed with other materials, later. 



Upper stories were prepared with 

 about six combs, pressed tightly to one 

 side, and secured by two nails driven into 



