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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



I turn the best side towards the front. 

 As I do this with all, it gives a much 

 more even appearance. 



I sort into four grades: Fancy, No. 1, 

 No. 2 and unfinished. The first two 

 grades are shipped to market. As much 

 of the No. 2 grade is sold in the home 

 market as it will take; the culls are sold 

 as chunk honey; the rest is extracted 

 along with the unfinished sections and 

 used for baits the following year. 



I used to grade into six different cases, 

 patting sections of about the same ap- 

 pearance in each case, but making only 

 three grades, fancy, No. 1 and No. 2. 

 In this way all the sections in a case run 

 very even and it is much the most satis- 

 factory way. But since the No. 2 sec- 



tions have been thrown out of the market, 

 1 have fallen in line with other bee keep- 

 ers and I sort them into three cases the 

 way they do. 



I think it is a mistake that there is no 

 market established for No. 2 comb 

 honey. Such honey is produced at a 

 loss and to have to extract them as we 

 must, if our market will not take them, 

 only adds to that loss, for it is work that 

 is not paid for. Therefore, bee keepers 

 are not as critical and do not grade as 

 close as they would do if they could dis- 

 pose of them better. They are a "by 

 product" for which a market ought to be 

 found. 



Cassville, Wis., Oct. 14, 1909. 



Comb Honey Production Versus Extracted. 

 Some Helpful Pointers. 



LEO E. GATELEY. 



XNCOMPREHENSIVELY the pro- 

 duction of extracted honey con- 

 tinues to rise in popularity, like 

 the growth of a fourteen-year-old girl, 

 whose skirts have to be let out every 

 week. 



In proportional ratio to the remarkable 

 tendency in this direction, the question of 

 over production, in its relation to section 

 honey, becomes correspondingly obscure 

 and inconsequential. This fact, taken in 

 connection with the unbounded enthusi- 

 asm prevalent over the recently re- 

 discovered chunk article, which will 

 inevitably further diminish the available 

 supply of comb honey, affords an un- 

 compassed element in apiculture that 

 should be alive with unlimited possibili- 

 ties and vast significance. 



Under normal productive conditions, a 

 crop of section honey equal only to that 

 which last year supplied the demand, 

 would this year be inadequate. 



The present situation is, therefore, de- 

 serving of the most critical contemplation 



by those suffering from an ingrowing 

 desire to switch off to either liquid or 

 bulk honey. It is always the part of 

 wisdom to be positive before relinquish- 

 ing a passably good thing, that you have 

 a better at command. 



Not a single condition exists which 

 augurs unfavorably for the section honey 

 producer, but, on the contrary, the 

 horizon presents a decidedly rosy aspect. 



PROTECTION OF SECTIONS AND SURPLUS 

 ARRANGEMENTS. 



Inseparably connected with the profit- 

 able production of section honey is the 

 immutable necessity of securing invari- 

 ably a superior and high-grade product. 

 The labor and time involved, and the 

 cost of production covering a cheap and 

 inferior article, is never less than for the 

 more remunerative and salable kind. 



Surplus arrangements allowing the 

 bees unreserved access to any part, ex- 

 cept the inside of section honey boxes, 

 are but imperfectly adapted to securing 



