Alqu.st, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



467 



the cans in the boxes. Had this shii)nuMit 

 been packed in regnlar shijiping cases (or 

 tight-fitting, home-made, substantial boxes), 



A honey can ul'tiT railruail ridiuy: loose in :i Ihin. 



it would have arrived without the loss of a 

 single pound of honey, as it traveled the 

 entire distance from Chicago to Medina in 

 the same car without transfer or handling. 

 The last illustration accompanying this 



article is that of a correct shipping case 

 containing two honej' cans of standard size 

 (60-pound). Honey can be shipped in this 

 case any distance without loss. Such a ship- 

 ping case is easily made at the beekeeper 's 

 liome, or any wood-working establishment 

 will make them at small expense. A saw- 

 mill can supply the lumber for them in the 

 right sizes, and the honey-shipper has only 

 to nail this material together to have a per- 

 fectly good shipping case that will insure 

 his honey shipment against loss. 



Honey cans properly packed in a good shipping case. 



THE PLAN OF FALL INCREASE 



oAdvdntages Claimed for It, and 

 Still Another Way to Do It 



By R. F. Holtermann 



AFTER read- 

 ing the 

 May num- 

 ber of Glean- 

 ings, if it were 

 m y disposition 

 to go with the 

 majority, and, if 

 I wanted above 

 all things to be 



in the fashion, it would be my policy to keep 

 quiet. I know many will say: "Theirs 

 not to reason why, theirs but to do and 

 die." But even fashion has not appealed 

 to me, altho that is always fairly easy sail- 

 ing for the moment. 



G. C. Greiner, on page 270, May Gleanings, 

 states: "In a recent number (December, 

 1917) of one of our bee journals a prominent 

 beekeeper tells of his plan of making in- 

 r.rease in September, by dividing his colo- 

 nies." 



I make no claim to being ' ' prominent, ' ' 

 but, as far as I know, I am the only one 



guilty of having 

 brought before 

 the public this 

 method of mak- 

 i n g increase. 

 Truth to tell, I 

 felt that I had 

 to muster up my 

 generosity to 

 publish this, as 

 I felt it was a revolution in beekeeping and 

 worth following. 



Mr. Greiner states that in his locality 

 he would sooner winter the full colony and 

 divide in the spring early enough to nip all 

 swarming notions in the bud. 



Now, I have an ordinary locality, a moder- 

 ate amount of blossoms for bees to build 

 up in the spring, if the weather is right 

 (which it very often is not), and then no 

 flow after clover, or, possibly a light bass- 

 wood flow. My colonies are in 12-frame 

 iiives and are run not to swarm. 



But I have divided even 10-frame hives, 



