1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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profit out of the business. Bee-keepers 

 who sell best extraoled honey at Tyi cts. or 

 less, take notice. Of course, this is on the 

 assumjition of 50 lbs. per colony in the av- 

 erage season, and I think that hits the most 

 of us. The specialist depending on the prof- 

 its of bee-keeping to a great extent can stand 

 no shrinking of that 20 per cent net profit. 

 There are too many little shoes to buy. 

 Prosperity in apiculture means that we 

 must have more than 20 ])er cent net profit, 

 which means higher prices for honey to the 

 producer. 



Kenmore, N. Y. 



[We do not understand from Mr. Pol- 

 lock's article that he would reduce his sell- 

 ing price if he found he could produce at a 

 lower cost, nor that he would base the sell- 

 ing price merely on the cost of production. 

 As we look at the question, he was only 

 making an effort to show that, under those 

 circumstances, the two -hundred -colony 

 man is probably making a safe profit on 

 his investment. — Ed.] 



THAT HONEY-HOUSE OF MINE. 



BY LOUIS H. SCHOLL. 



One of the first essentials in up-to-date 

 bee-keeping is a convenient and substantial 

 honey-house and work-shop. It is the very 

 next necessity after the bees and supplies 

 are secured, no matter whether for one or 

 more apiaries. A well-kept and convenient- 

 ly arranged work-shop should be the pride 

 of every bee-keeper. Here the ever ready 

 tools, each with its place and ever in its 



place, make his work much more enjoyable. 

 The honey-house, for economy and con^•en- 

 ience, should be under the same roof, but at 

 the same time it is preferable to have the 

 two parts separated from each other. To 

 combine the two into one, and use both for 

 a work-shop or a honey-room, is most disa- 

 greeable indeed. This is too often done, 

 not only by such bee-keepers as can not af- 

 ford a better arrangement, but by many who 

 are able to have up-to-date conveniences. 



How many bee-keepers have a really suit- 

 able place in which to do their W'Ork in t he 

 best possible manner? The majority of the 

 work-shops that we have seen have been in 

 some crowded place, made more crowded 

 because of the fact that nothing had a defi- 

 nite place, everything being thrown around 

 the room, so that care had to be taken in 

 getting about. The same is true with most 

 of the honey-houses, many of them being 

 the most miserable makeshifts, in small 

 close places without ventilation — regular 

 sweat-boxes where the work was every thing 

 but agreeable. We have had theseexperi- 

 ences at various times in the past, but it 

 did not take us long to study over the prob- 

 lem, with the result that we constructetl a 

 building that answers its purpose so well 

 that we have decided to tell others about it, 

 as so far it is proven to be the best that has 

 ever come to our knowledge. 



Fig. 1 shows our building, which is both 

 honey-house and work-shop. It is 24 ft. 

 long, 14 wide, and 18 high. The view-point 

 is from the south, so that the long side with 

 the large shutters is to the southwest. These 

 provide shade during the entire day, which 

 shade, in connection with the cool south 



FIG. 1. — SCHOLL'S honey-house AND WORK-SHOP; EVEULASTING, FIREPROOF, AND YET 



COOL IX THK TifHTEPT WEATHER. 



