1885 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



625 



Brig-ham and Claj'burn exhibited some fine comb 

 honey, and took first premium on single crate of 

 honey. 



Aaron Benedict exhibited some of the finest Ital- 

 ians we ever saw, and we have seen and examined 

 many strains since we have been a bee-keeper. 



Earl Clickinger also exhibited a fine nucleus. 



NAME AND RE.SIDENCE OF SOME OF THE PARTIES 



IN ATTENDANCE, W ITH TABUT>.\TED REPORT 



OF THE SEASON. 



Names aud Pcstoffioe Ackli 



A.S. Goodrich. W( 

 Geo. Allen, JettVi - 

 Dan White, New 1 

 A. Benedict, Biuii 

 S. R.Morris, Bio, , I 

 J. Miller, Thoi II M 

 E. Clickiiiy.T.i'- 

 W.Slieiih.r.l, K.H. 

 M. L. Can.H'.-iii, Ki, 

 Jennie Culii, i ', ilm 

 A. Rinlu-ul.i.rlMi, ■ 



B. Helphr.-v, I u,-:,. I.wknu' ( ... 

 Dr. BesM. Ih l.,,iai,. li. I,( ... 



C. E. Joijt--,li._-l:.":ir... )«.■!, I.J. 



J. W. Newlove, Cohnnbus, Frank. Co. 

 W. Artry, Franklin Square. Col. Co. 



I 



40 Good. 



Good. 



200 Poor. 



Poor. 



6000 Good. 



Poor. 

 Poor. 

 Poor. 

 500 Good. 

 Good. 



Poor. 

 Poor. 

 Poor. 

 Poor. 

 50 Poor. 

 Poor. 

 Poor. 



* Queen-breeder. 



Not yet taken. 



EXTRACTED HONEY. 

 How to Produce an Extra-Fine Article. 



FRIEND HEDDON IS TAKING THE MATTER IN HAND. 



fRIEND ROOT:— In Visiting bee-keepers, T find 

 that very few of our brothers know how or 

 are willing to take the pains to produce a nice 

 article of well-ripened basswood honey. It 

 took me years to learn how to take and keep 

 it in a perfect state, like comb honey. I wish every 

 bee-keeper in America could sample my ten tons of 

 basswood and clover honey. J am selling to a large 

 number of producers, and about every one of them 

 sends me a testimonial. 1 should like to send you a 

 100-lb. keg of such basswood honey as I think would 

 build up a large demand for extracted honey, if oil 

 who raise it would produce a "(/<:«d ripe" article, 

 and take the proper care of it. If you say so, I will 

 send you by freight a 50 or 100 lb. keg, such as I am 

 selling at 8 cts. per lb., F. O. B., and keg thrown in, 

 and you may credit me just what you think it is 

 worth, to be traded out >s'ith you in supplies, and I 

 will then write an article, if you wish, giving direc- 

 tions how to raise it, and keep it thus perfect. That 

 is, in my opinion, one of the "keys" to enlarging 

 the demand for our product. .Iames Hfddon. 



Dowagiac, Mich., Sept. 7, 18b5. 



Friend 11., you have got right hold of one 

 of the most important points, in my judg- 

 ment, now before us, and I am inclined to 

 think you are master of the situation, judg- 

 ing from the iiuality of the honey sent us 

 last season. 1 am well aware that this letter 

 and your forthcoming article will probably 

 be good advertisements for you; but you 

 ought to have a good advertisement. J3e- 

 sides, we expect to advertise lioney for any- 

 body so long as he produces a good article at 

 a fair price." While reading your letter 1 re- 

 called to mind the amount of ])ai>er that we 

 used up a few years ago in arguing the re- 

 spective merits of comb and extracted hon- 

 ey. Offering a fine article of extracted hon- 

 ey, in TjO-lb. kegs at 8 cts. per lb., is worth 



more than all the arguments that could be 

 put into a large book. Send me a 100-lb. 

 keg, and a 50-lb. keg. I want to see what 

 they look like, each size, and I will pay you 

 the same price for them that the other peo- 

 ple do ; and send along your article as well. 



INTRODUCING VIRGIN QUEENS FIVE 

 AND SIX DAYS OLD. 



HOW FRIEND GOOD DOES IT SUCCESSFULLY. 



SEND you by this mail the kind of cage I use; 

 and, by the way, it is a good cage for introduc- 

 ing any kind of a queen. I use the Alley meth- 

 od for obtaining cells. With his method we get 

 nice straight cells. I leave the cells in the hive 

 until the queens commence gnawing out, then I cut 

 them out and daub honey on the end of the cells. If 

 that is omitted, many of the queens will starve be- 

 fore they eat out. Then I put the cells in the wood- 

 en part of the cage, put the end of the cell through 

 the hole that opens into the wire cage, shut the lid 

 to the cage, and lay the cages in a queen-nursery or 

 on top of frames of a strong colony. I now keep 

 watch of them; and as fast as the queens hatch I 

 remove the cells and fill the wooden part of the cage 

 with the Good candy. The cages can now be laid on 

 top of the frame of any strong colony until they are 

 wanted, and there is no danger of their starvation, 

 even if the bees do not feed them. Now, when the 

 (jueens are five or six days old (and if they are 

 eight or ten it matters not), 1 introduce them to nu- 

 clei or full colonies, as the case maj- be. Where 

 they have been queenless for four days, simply 

 swing the lid half way round, so as to give the bees 

 access to the candy, and shove the cage down be- 

 tween two combs, and let the bees eat out the can- 

 dy, and liberate the queen; and, as a general thing, 

 I have a laying queen in five or six days. 



This and last season 1 had about 100 of the cages 



in use, and 1 know whereof I speak. I think many 



make mistakes in trying to introduce to colonies 



that have not been queenless long enough. 



Nappance, Ind., Sept. 3, IKS."). I. K. Good. 



I will explain to our readers, that friend 

 (Jood'scage consists, lirst, of a little elliptic- 

 al-shaped box, something like an old-fash- 

 ioned pill-box. It is made from a piece of 

 i-inch board with a half -inch hole bored 

 through the center. This hole is covered on 

 one side with a thin strip of wood, having a 

 hole in the center large enough to let tlie 

 lower end of a queen-cell pass through. The 

 other cover has a wire nail at one end, allow- 

 ing it to swing around to put in the cell, or 

 fill the cavity with candy. Now, attached to 

 the side where the point of the queen-cell is 

 to come through is a little bag of wire cloth. 

 This bag is made in such shape that it will 

 go down between a couple of combs readily. 

 There is something new in this arrange- 

 ment. You wait until the cells are almost 

 ready to hatch, and then when the newly 

 hatched queen is seen to be down in the wire- 

 cloth box. the cell is removed, and its place 

 lilled with (iood candy. She is now among 

 ! the bees of a good colony, and she has plenty 

 of candy where she can get it, but the bees 

 can not get it away from her. No doubt a 

 virgin queen from live to ten days old could 

 by this means be introduced to a colony that 



