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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



apiary what would 30U do with your 

 crop of honey, perhaps thousands of 

 pounds, if there was a law preventing 

 you to sell it. Xo, I don't think we 

 want such a law, just yet. 



The Late W. Z. Hutchinson. 



It has given me a great deal of pleas- 

 ure to read in the several bee-publica- 

 tions the many words of tribute to the 

 late Mr. Hutchinson. In Gleanings in 

 Bee Culture, Mr. J. E. Crane says : 



]\Iuch has been written of our friend 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, since his death, not 

 too much, however, for he was not only 

 the kindest husband and father, but the 

 friend of every bee-keeper, and I have 

 wondered many times since his death 

 why we were all so much attached to 

 him, so that his death has seemed like 

 a great personal loss. Was it not the 

 sweet Christian spirit that pervaded his 

 whole life, and controlled his relations 

 with all with whom he came in contact? 



It was my pleasure to become inti- 

 mately acquainted with Mr. Hutchinson 

 during my early bee-keeping experience. 

 My home was but nine miles from his, 

 and many were the times that I called 

 on him to help me solve my beginner's 

 problems. Never was he too busy to 

 do this, even before I was a Review 

 subscriber. ]\Ir. Crane is right, he was 

 the bee-keeper's friend, and I don't be- 

 lieve there is another man who has 

 done more to place bee-keeping on the 

 advanced plane it occupies today, than 

 has Mr. Hutchinson. 



Outdoor Feeding to Call Off Robbers 

 During Late Extracting. 



For years we have been taught to not 

 expose sweets of any kind at a time 

 when bees were not gathering honey 

 from the flowers. Of late however, 

 the advice is being reversed, and we are 

 now told to feed for late extracting. 

 The different view is taken from a bet- 

 ter knowledge of how that feeding 

 should be done, and is a point well 

 worthy our attention. In Gleanings in 

 Bee Culture, we read: 



During the late extracting periods, 

 outdoor feeding of honey thinned down 

 to the consistency of thin nectar will 

 stop all the robbing nuisance. We say 

 tliin honey because no one would ad- 

 vocate feeding sugar syrup which pos- 

 sibly might go into the combs and then 

 into the extractor. 



It is wonderful how little of sweet- 

 ened water will keep a whole apiary on 

 its good behavior. Actualh', 5 lbs. of 

 sugar with nine times its weight of 

 water will keep a whole apiary in good 

 humor all day ; and we venture the 

 statement that as many as a dozen hive- 

 covers can be taken off and left off for 

 an hour or more without a robber in 

 sight. We would not, however, advise 

 anybody to try out a scheme of this 

 kind, and then go away and leave the 

 apiary, for there might be trouble. 



That Shiping Case Again. 



Concerning the shipping case. Glean- 

 ings in Bec-Cnlture says : 



:\Ir. R. B. Slease. of Roswell, New 

 ^Mexico, a bee-keeper who has had 

 some twenty years' experience in ship- 

 ping honey, votes in favor of the 24-lb. 

 single-tier shipping-case wnth two-inch 

 glass. He says the trouble with the 

 double-tier case is that it is too nearly 

 square; that express men are "just as 

 liable to chuck it down on its side as 

 any other way." "The single-tier case," 

 he goes on to say, "will always go flat 

 or on one end." He does not favor 

 three-inch glass, because that width 

 weakens the case too much. 



See here, Mr. Slease. why do you 

 w^ant to give an expressman a chance 

 to "chuck it down on its side?" Don't 

 you know that honey should never be 

 shipped in single cases? Don't you 

 know that shipping honey in single 

 cases is one of the reasons why we are 

 paying such high freight and express 

 rates now? 



Manager France stated at the Na- 

 tional Convention that in his work be- 

 fore the Western Classification Com- 

 mittee to get a lower rate on honey, he 

 found that 80 per cent of all damage 

 claims were paid for single case ship- 

 ments. Mr. France and his colleagues 

 in this work have secured a second- 



