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Tilly. 1910. 



American Hea Journal 



of the year. Since that date it has been 

 hot — very hot even for the month of 

 June. About June l-jth, clover started 

 to yield, and at present (June 23) the 

 flow is fine. 



Bu/, unfortunately, the most of the 

 bees in the country are not prepared 

 to take full advantage of the fiow, as 

 during the first week of June the old 

 field-bees in the most of my colonies 

 seemed to melt away out of sight in a 



discouraging manner. For the open- 

 ing of this heavy f\ov/, I have baby bees 

 and great quantities of brood — many 

 colonies that filled the supers with 

 bees in May are not now strong enough 

 to enter the supers. The length of time 

 the flow lasts will gauge the amount of 

 surplus honey I will obtain, but at 

 present I am not counting on very 

 much clover honey. 



More about this next month. 



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Southern Beedom 



Conducted by Louis H. Scholl. New Braunfels. Tex. 



The Albany National Meeting 



Albany, N. V., should be a pretty nice 

 place to hold a great, big meeting of 

 bee-keepers next fall. Let us who can 

 go at all prepare to go and have a 

 great, big time. Let us begin anew; 

 wake up from our long sleep, as it were, 

 and revive matters pertaining to bee- 

 keepers' conventions once more. It 

 has seemed as if we have been playing 

 " Rip Van Winkle " for the last several 

 years, and have left much undone to- 

 ward making our annual meetings 

 what they should be. Why should our 

 interest be waning ? Is our industry 

 getting to be of less importance to us, 

 that we have lost that enthusiasm, that 

 energy and interest that used to possess 

 us when it came the time for going to 

 the annual bee-meetings ? What say 

 you ? 



tioued in our articles thus far, and our 

 articles to follow, will cover all these 

 styles of honey under one term — fit///; 

 comb honey. As soon as we get to our 

 articles under putting up bulk comb 

 honey for the market, the readers will 

 find that we have many ways for put- 

 ting up this product in a nice, neat, at- 

 tractive and sensible way, to meet all 

 demands, from the poorest to the rich- 

 est purchaser, for the consumer, the 

 retailer and the jobber. This includes 

 tin cans, pails and boxes, glass jars of 

 various sizes and shapes, and several 

 varieties of fancy paper cartons and 

 other packages. 



So it will be remembered that all the 

 comb honey produced other than sec- 

 tion honey, must come under the one 

 head of " bulk comb honey." 



Texas Solid in Bulk-Comb Honey 



That Texas was as solid on bulk- 

 comb honey as our map shows, very 

 few of our readers have been able to 

 realize, although much has been writ- 

 ten and said on the subject. Neverthe- 

 less, it is a fact that more bulk-comb 

 honey is produced in Texas than all the 

 other kinds put together. .A.nd then, 

 since it takes extracted honey to fill up 

 the containers of comb honey, to make 

 what is known as "bulk-comb honey," 

 we could take the e-xtracted honey pro- 

 duced in Texas to fill up with the comb 

 honey that is not already bulk-comb 

 honey, and "Texas zioiilii be solid on 

 bulk-comb honey." 



The Texas bulk-comb honey map was 

 built by a colony of bees belonging to 

 one of the writer's friends, Mr. Willie 

 Wiede. of Maxwell, Tex. It was shown 

 last fall at both the Dallas State Fair 

 and the San Antonio International Fair, 

 where it attracted great attention. It 

 captured the first prize on special de- 

 signs in comb honey, at both places. 

 The map is beautifully built of white 

 comb. It measures about 2 feet square, 

 for the frame work and all. Mr. Wiede 

 has received many congratulations for 

 his skill in obtaining this piece of bee- 

 keepers' art. 



Knowing a Good Thing 



Jimson Ragweed, on page l!t3, is 

 right, in that we Texans know a good 

 thing when we see it. Consequently 

 our annual output of millions of pounds 

 of bulk-comb honev is consumed here 



"Chunk," " Canned/'" Cut," or "Bulk" 

 Comb Honey ? 



These are a variety of names used 

 for one and the same thing. But what's 

 the use of having so many ? Besides, 

 there is only one right one, or only one 

 that covers all the others, so let's get 

 into the habit of using this one — the 

 right one. 



" Chunk " honey is so much used, but 

 I venture to say that most of the users 

 of this term do not know just why they 

 use it. It may be all right to apply this 

 to chunks of comb honey taken from 

 bee-trees or "gums," etc., but when we 

 talk of our bulk comb honey we do not 

 include for a moment such stuff as 

 "chunk" honey from bee-trees and 

 bo.x-hives. 



"Canned" comb honey has been a 

 term suggested for bulk comb honey, 

 but not all of the bulk comb honey is 

 put up in cans, or " canned ;" therefore, 

 this term does not apply. 



" Cut " comb honey is given to comb 

 honey cut up into small squares and 

 wrapped up into fancy packages. We 

 might also have "boxed" comb honey 

 which is put up in fancy tins made to 

 hold a pound or so of fancy comb 

 honey. 



But, after all, it is hidk comti Iudu-v, no 

 matter how it is put up for the market. 

 The method of production will be the 

 same for all, and it will be produced in 

 bulk in frames, hence is bulk comb 

 honey. 



Therefore, all that has been men- 



Texas as a Bii'. Hri n-Comh Honkv Statk. 



