1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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repeatedly sold to buyers of California hon- 

 ey who afterward remained my customers. 

 Most of my honey is put up in 1-lb. jars, 

 which nets me 10>^ cents per lb. This should 

 be sufficient proof of its quality. 



My experience has been somewhat differ- 

 ent from friend Wheeler's, in that I have 

 always been able to get higher prices for my 

 fancy honey at home. 



Coming back to new comb vs. old, I will 

 say I can extract old wired combs without 

 damage to them, and also get more honey 

 per comb than I can from the new, as the 

 extractor can be run at a higher speed. An- 

 other advantage in having an abundant 

 supply of combs on hand is that one is al- 

 ways ready for a sudden or heavy honey- 

 flow, and bees that were building new comb 

 or drawing out foundation could be other- 

 wise occupied; the ])roducer would save .55 

 cent per lb. on comb foundation every three 

 or four years, to say nothing of the amount 

 of honey required in drawing out the same. 



Siloam Springs, Ark. 



[You have brought out a point that may 

 explain why some producers feel that they 

 must have new combs only for the best hon- 

 ey. It is true that, with old brood-combs, 

 all honey looks dark; so if the locality is 

 such that both dark and light honey are 

 likely to be found at the same extracting, 

 they are more likely to be mixed if old black 

 combs are used. — Ed.] 



HOW SHOULD HONEY BE ADVERTISED? 



SIMPLE 



ENTRANCE - VENTILATION 

 METHOD. 



BY LOUIS H. SCHOLL,. 



The writer believes in hive ventilation, 

 but only at the entrance. Given at any 

 other point it interferes more or less with 

 the inside work of the colony, such as comb- 

 building, the rearing of brood, and the stor- 

 ing of honey in proximity to any such open- 

 ing. Then we do not believe in giving too 

 much space, nor in methods that consume 

 too much time to apply, or such as create 

 an extra expense and extra labor also. Too 

 deep bottom-boards come under the first 

 head. Any method that requires blocking 

 up at four corners, putting extra strips on 

 the bottom-board, cleats, or reversing the 

 bottom-board entirely, come under the next; 

 and the expensive "racks," etc., to slide in 

 deep bottom-boards, also expressly made 

 for the purpose, or such contraptions as 

 were recently illustrated in this journal, 

 come under the third head. Why, just 

 think of the man who counts his hives by 

 the hundred or thousands, and — ! 



By raising up the front of the hive by in- 

 serting the hive-tool in the entrance, while 

 doing some kind of work with the colonies, 

 a small stone or piece of wood is placed in 

 the middle of the entrance, as shown, and 

 it gives us good results. 



New Braunfels, Texas. 



The Importance of Having a Responsible 

 vidua! or Corporation Back of 

 all Advertisements. 



Indi- 



BY WESLEY FOSTER. 



F. .1. Root's plan of advertising honey 

 through the grocery papers, page 41(), .luly 

 1, would bring honey to the notice of whole- 

 salers and retailers, and would heli^ make 

 sale*; for the more the dealers can be induc- 

 ed to handle honey, the more it will be sold. 

 There are many disadvantages to the plan 

 of advertising nationally, unless there is a 

 national honey-bottling company to take 

 the honey of the members, say of the Na- 

 tional Association, and jnit it up in uniform 

 sizes, grades, and styles. Such a company 

 or association would have to be organized 

 to send salesmen throughout the United 

 States, calling on wholesalers and retailers. 

 Similar results might be secured by getting 

 brokers to represent the association's inter- 

 est in the large cities. These brokers sell 

 to the wholesalers, and can often get an 

 oiiening for a new brand or product, while a 

 salesman unacquainted with the local firms 

 might not. 



Suppose the National Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation should raise twenty thousand dol- 

 lars for advertising honey in the grocery pa- 

 pers to reach the dealers, and in the popular 

 monthly journals to reach the people — the 

 consumers. The consumers would become 

 interested, and would ask their grocers for 

 honey lut up by members of the National 

 Association. They would want the Associa- 



SC'HOLL S ENTRANCE-REGULATOR. 



A small stone, quickly applied, gives good results 

 in entrance ventilation. 



