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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS 



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E. B. TYRRELL, Editorand Publisher 

 Office OF Pu BLicATioN - - - 230 Woodlan d Aven u e 



VOL. XXIV. 



DETROIT, MICHIGAN, AUGUST 1, 1911. 



No. 8. 



Disposing of the Unfinished Sections. 



LEON C. WHEELER 



-^jfJ^VERY fall finds the average bee- 

 f\_ keeper with a lot of unfinished 

 sections and sometimes it is 

 quite a proposition to know just what 

 to do with them. This year I tried a 

 plan which worked so well that I must 

 give it to 3'ou. 



I have tried putting it up a la Scholl, 

 that is, in pails with extracted honey 

 poured over it, but must confess that I 

 never had much success selling it that 

 way. 



This year I waited till cold weather 

 when the honey would not run very 

 much, and then cut it out, taking care 

 to muss it up as little as possible, and 

 packed it in from two to six quart pails, 

 without putting the extracted honey on 

 it. As a sample of how it sold let me 

 tell you that the first hour and a half I 

 was out I visited eight places and sold 

 eight pails of honey. And mind you, I 

 was not selling honey alone, but had 

 some yarn which I had made up from 

 my own fleeces, which also took some 

 of my time. By the way, excuse me 

 for getting off the subject, but you bee- 



keepers who keep sheep, have you ever 

 tried getting your wool made up and 

 selling it in the yarn? It sells on sight 

 for $1.00 per pound, and they are very 

 glad to get it at that. This brings the 

 price of your wool to about 40 cents per 

 pound after all expenses are paid. 



Of course we cannot expect to get as 

 big a price for this honey as for the 

 better grades, but it will sell readily at 

 10 cents per pound net. 



USING B.\IT SECTIONS. 



Some beekeepers make a practice of 

 extracting these sections and using them 

 as baits, and I have practised this quite 

 a lot myself, but do not like the method 

 as it gives me too many off grade sec- 

 tions when I want the fancy. I used 

 to think this was made up by the extra 

 amount of honey I got, but I am of the 

 opinion now that I have been losing 

 money by so doing. The beekeeper who 

 sells his honey mostly around home does 

 not as a rule care so much about fancy 

 honey, and for such men the plan of 

 using baits might be all right. I be- 



