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December, 1916. 



American Hee Journal 



by continuous advertising. The ques- 

 tion then arises : Who is going to pay 

 for this advertising ? Large corpora- 

 tions who monopolize certain branches 

 of industry can easily carry on such 

 work. They can establish their price 

 for the commodity they produce, but 

 can we beekeepers do this? It would 

 mean concert action of the beekeeping 

 fraternity; it would mean the putting 

 of our money into the advertising 

 business. I wish that we honey pro- 

 ducers might learn from such concerns 

 as produce cornflake, wheatflake, shred- 

 ded wheat biscuits, etc., but it seems 

 we are not willing to put our money 

 into it. Extensive advertising would 

 cost us many thousands of dollars as 

 it does other concerns, but it would be 

 effective. 



The honey producers are situated ex- 

 actly as the other agricultural pro- 

 ducers, the farmers generally are. They 

 produce the goods, but they fail to 

 pool their interests so as to be able to 



produces his crop by the most modern 

 methods, but he disposes of them by 

 the same methods as did the farmers of 

 the Middle Ages."— Editor.] 



Minnesota Notes 



BY EDW. WILLBRIGHT. 



I BOUGHT an automobile last fall 

 and worked out a scheme for using 

 the machine for power to run a cir- 

 cular saw. I made a frame wide enough 

 for both hind wheels, and by means of 

 four pulleys covered with rubber, 

 hooked up to a circular saw. This out- 

 fit answers all my needs in the saw 

 line. For shafts I used one-inch gas 

 pipe. 



Figure 2 shows a design in honey 

 that took first prize at the State Fair, 

 and also at the county and local fairs. 

 Figure 3 gives designs in beeswax. 

 The extractor has comb pockets and 



rods from my cellar, necessitating a 

 long haul. Again, Fig. 4, I had to call 

 my car into use to get the colonies 

 moved. It accommodated eleven at a 

 trip and insured easy riding and few 

 jolts for the lot. 

 Preston, Minn. 



FIG I -EDWARD WILLBRIGHT USES HIS TOURING CAR TO RUN A SMALL 



CIRCULAR SAW 



control the market. On the other hand, 

 there are many good points made in 

 the leading article of the June number, 

 and the article will bear reading and 

 re-reading. 



However, the illustration of the car- 

 rier is misleading. That style of car- 

 ritr was all right before the present 

 ruling of the railroad companies went 

 into effect, but will not do at all now. 

 A friend of mine had several tons of 

 comb honey put up in such carriers 

 last fall, and when he took it to the 

 station for shipment the railroad com- 

 pany refused to accept it. He was at 

 the trouble of remodeling the carriers 

 by using more lumber and making per- 

 fectly tight boxes of them. If the 

 honey producers understand this fact 

 that all honey must be enclosed in tight 

 boxes, they will save themselves much 

 trouble. 



Naples, N. Y. 



[Mr. Greiner is right concerning the 

 agricultural producers, beekeepers or 

 farmers. "They produce the goods 

 but fail to pool their interests so as to 

 control the markets." A popular maga. 

 zine writer said lately: "The farmer 



will run, but is not reversible. 

 Unfortunately my bees are some 20 



Various Thoughts from the 

 Bee-Yard 



BY G. C. GREINER. 



WITH the usual routine of fall work 

 in the bee-yard, of which placing 

 our bees in their winter quarters 

 forms the last part, the season is ended. 

 If feeding, where necessary, has been 

 properly done, we may rest easy and 

 trust providence for the future welfare 

 of our bees. 



When examining my bees for winter 

 stores about the middle of October, 

 1915, I found eight or ten colonies run 

 for extracted honey not as heavy as I 

 would have them for best results in 

 wintering and springing. It is always 

 this class, if any, that is deficient in 

 stores. They keep storing in their 

 supers and neglect to stock up their 

 brood-chamber with sufficient winter 

 stores. This is probably one reason 

 why bees produce more extracted than 

 comb honey. All my comb-honey-pro- 

 ducing colonies were up to standard 

 weight, and those used for finishing 

 sections by feeding were even heavier 

 than necessary. They probably had 

 some honey to spare to help out needy 

 ones in the spring. 



After many yeais of experience try- 

 ing different feeding methods, I am 

 satisfied that heavy combs of capped 

 honey are the most desirable for this 

 purpose. I secure them by sorting out 

 the right kind of combs when doing 

 my bst extracting. If any colonies 

 are found insufficiently supplied, which 

 I easily ascertain by lifting, I exchange 

 one or two light side combs for some 

 of those reserved combs of honey. This 

 is a simple operation, quickly done and 

 no smoke needed. Some cool morning 

 when bees are well clustered, the cover 

 can be slipped an inch or two to one 



FIG 2 -WAX MINIATURE HIVES, A WAX CANNON. AND A HONEY EXTRACTOR 



MADE OF BEESWAX 

 The extractor works, too. but could not be made reversible.-Edw. Willbright 



