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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



ony for winter is to set the hive one 

 side, put the packing-case bottom-board 

 where the hive stood, set the hive back 

 on this bottom board, set the packing- 

 case over the coIon\', finally putting the 

 chaff tray on top. The whok is done in 

 less time than it takes to tell it. You 

 do not have to handle the packing ma- 

 terial at all. The inside entrance can 

 be contracted or left open as desired. 

 The outside entrance is ^^ in. x 3 in. 

 while the entrance through the inside 

 case is 3 in. x 16^ in. This forms a ves- 

 tibule or storm door which keeps the 

 sun from shining in and drawing the 



bees out when it is unfit for them tO' 

 fly. 



Latrobe, Pa. 



[Although Mr. Sebold does not make 

 it entirely clear in the above explana- 

 tion, yet I infer from what he writes, 

 that the above case is just right for art 

 eight frame Langstroth hive, and that 

 it will contain such hive without the 

 necessity of transferring the frames 

 from the hive to the packing case. In 

 other words, this is a packing case with 

 both outside and inside rims in which 

 to place a whole hive of bees without 

 removing the frames. In this respect it 

 differs from the ordinary winter-case 

 and it seems to me, aside from the addi- 

 tional expense, should be a valuable fea- 

 ture.] 



This Man Made 

 $6,400 in 1904, $7,640 in 1907 



M. A. GILL. 



"^^ HE most money I ever secured in 

 4^_y one year from the bees I own 

 and have leased was in the year 

 1907, all comb honey. It was sold to C. 

 H. W. Weber & Son, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 ■ at $3.00 per case for No. 1, and $2.75 

 for No. 2, f. o. b. Longmount, and 

 brought $7,640, and was produced from 

 a little less than 1,000 colonies. 



In the year of 1906 my yield was 

 about the same but I had less bees, and 

 it sold for $2.75 per case at Longmount. 

 In the year 1904 I had $6,400 from about 

 700 colonies. The largest average I ever 

 had was in the year of 1900 when my 

 bees averaged $14.00 per colony, all 

 comb honey, which sold for $2.50 per 

 case. The most money I ever got from 

 a colony was in Wisconsin in the year 

 1881 when I took $42.00 from one col- 

 ony; $36.00 worth of extracted honey 

 and $6.00 for a nucleus swarm, made 

 from the old colony. 



One peculiar feature was, that in the 

 jear above mentioned some apiaries 



would average perhaps $11.00 per col- 

 ony, and another one, perhaps not four 

 miles away, would only average $3.50' 

 per colony. But these conditions always 

 have and no doubt always will exist. 



WHAT WERE THE PECULIAR CONDITIONS?' 



You ask what were the peculiar con- 

 ditions that enabled me to secure these 

 yields. I think my answer will cover 

 such yields in both the rainy and arid 

 regions alike, and that is that the proper 

 conditions must exist for two years to. 

 get a good honey crop. This does not 

 mean that we will secure two good 

 crops of honey, but that the proper- 

 conditions of heat, moisture and plant 

 growth must exist for two years in 

 order to affect the perrennial, biennial', 

 and annual plants. 



Of course one could get a good yield' 

 from buckwheat if the conditions were 

 only right for one season, but if the 

 crop was to be from buckwheat and 

 sweet clover then the conditions must 

 be right for two years. 



