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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Selected Articles 



AND EDITORIAL COMMENTS. 



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SPECIALTY AND LXTRACTLD HONLY 



These Two Make a Team that Will Pull 

 a Load of Profit. 



A few years ago it came to me with 

 all of the clearness of a vision that the 

 way to make more money in our business 

 was to "keep more bees," and that this 

 program could be carried out more com- 

 pletely in many localities in producing 

 extracted honey. Since then I have not 

 only preached but practised my belief. 

 A few have been inclined to criticise this 

 course, of abandoning a beautiful pursuit, 

 comb honey production, but it seems 

 others, too. have recognized the changed 

 conditions. For instance. Gleanings for 

 September 1st says: 



There is plenty of evidence going to 

 show a tendency on the part of comb 

 honey producers to go into the business 

 of raising extracted. The reason of this 

 seems to be that there is not enough 

 difference between the market prices on 

 comb and extracted to warrant a con- 

 tinuation of the production of comb, 

 which really costs more to produce than 

 the market quotations would seem to 

 show. 



This is something of an indication that 

 the public is beginning to have confidence 

 in extracted honey. The practical work- 

 ings of the pure food laws, both State 

 and national, have restored confidence 

 in the product. It is becoming noticeable 

 that extracted has a tendency to rise, 

 while C3mb has remained almost station- 

 ary for many years. This fact has 

 given considerable encouragement to the 

 production of extracted honey. When 

 we consider also that swarming is an 

 unsolved problem in the production of 

 comb honey, and an easy one in the pro- 

 duction of extracted, and that the hive 

 and super equipment is much simpler t03. 

 it is not at all surprising that there should 

 be a marked tendency toward the rela- 



tively cheaper article that apparently 

 yields a larger return for the investment. 



The question as to which to produce, 

 comb or extracted honey, is still open to 

 discussion, and conditions will always 

 remain wherein comb honey is the more 

 desirable product, but it is very evident 

 that, in the last few years, a few addi- 

 tional points have developed in favor of 

 extracted honey. 



FOUL BROOD. 



It may not be an Unmixed Evil to 

 the Specialist. 



Foul brood has been looked upon as an 

 unmixed evil to all classes of bee keep- 

 ers, as a foe to bee keeping in general, 

 but not all who have studied the matter 

 closely are ready to agree with such a 

 conclusion. For instance editor Root 

 spent a few days with his automobile, 

 going about with the inspector, and con- 

 cludes an editorial as follows: 



We have about come to the conclusion 

 that American and European foul brood 

 will eliminate the don't-read-the-paper 

 class of farmer bee keeper. It may take 

 several years before it is accomplished; 

 and while we are sorry to have these 

 people suffer loss, the result will be very 

 salutary to the specialist and progressive 

 farmer bee keeper who read the papers. 

 American foul brood has no terrors for 

 the specialist bee-keeper; but the ignor- 

 ant and haphazard farmer bee keeper 

 must either burn up or otherwise destroy 

 all his old hives and fixtures. European 

 foul brood is much more difficult to 

 eradicate; but we feel confident that, 

 when we come to know more about it, 

 the expert will handle one as well as 

 the other. 



