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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar 1 



Wake up Bee-Keepers. 



To the Changed Conditions. 



I have many times advised my readers to keep more 

 bees. We are often asked what will mix the most 

 successfully with bee-keeping, and I have replied, and 

 still say, "a few more bees." In my eastern trip I 

 met quite a number of men who are making money 

 keeping bees — not simply making a living, but laj'ing 

 up money. All of these men, with no Exception, 

 keep bees in large numbers, scattering them around 

 the country — perhaps 100 colonies in a place. It isn't 

 profitable to put only a few in a place — there must be 

 enough in each yard to make a day's work when the 

 apiary is visited. 



Mr. H. ly. McLallen, a former pupil of Mr. \V. I,. 

 Coggshall, but now the owner of several hundred col- 

 onies, made a very bright remark at the Romulus in- 

 stitute. He said : " We can't produce so much honey 

 per colony. as we did years ago, but we can make more 

 money. The reason is that we can keep more bees 

 with less labor." The reason of the lessened yield 

 per colony is the cutting off of natural resources, such 

 as clover and basswood, but the improved methods 

 that enable us to manage a greater number of colo- 

 nies, the short cuts, if we will only recognize and 

 practice them, really gives us advantages over our 

 predecessors. It is in the discoverj' and practice of 

 short cuts that we must look for our financial salva- 

 tion. A great many processes that may be employed 

 at a profit in a home apiary, are totally out of place in 

 an out-apiarj-. The swarming problem, for instance, 

 must be solved by a different process in an out-yard. 

 The honey-extractor is the most satisfactory solution. 

 Give the bees plenty of empty comb in which to .store 

 honey, and swarming is practically ended. Years 

 ago extracted honey was of slow sale at a low price, 

 but its vise by bakers and other manufacturers has 

 placed the demand upon a firm basis, and, at present, 

 I know of no more hopeful field for the apiarist than 

 the production of extracted honey on a large scale. 



Keep a lot of bees, scatter them around the country, 

 and don't use up all your profits in useless manipula- 

 tions. I wish to see bee-keepers prosperous, and 

 believe I have never given them better advice than I 

 am giving them now. I,et me repeat it : Keep hun- 

 dreds of colonies, scatter them around the country, 

 100 in a place, produce extracted honey, study short 

 cuts as though your life depended upon it. Personal- 

 ly, let me ask you to give this matter your careful, 

 serious thought. Not only this, but write to me on 

 this subject. Especially would I like to hear from 

 men who have had experience along these lines. 

 Men who have made but an indifferent success with 

 only one apiary, but have made money with several 

 apiaries, or those who have tried running several 

 apiaries and failed, if there are any such, could tell an 

 interesting and instructive story. I<et me hear from 

 you. Those who have had experience w^ith both few 

 and many bees are especially invited to write. If I 

 have drawn any incorrect conclusions, or omitted 

 any important factors, I shall be glad to have these 

 defects pointed out. For the best article on this sub- 

 ject, received before March 1st, I will pay $b 00. For 

 any article that I think well enough of to use, but to 

 which the first prize is not awarded, I will send the 

 writer the REVIEVV one year and a queen of the 

 Superior Stock. The establishing and managing of 

 out-apiaries might, very properly, form the latter 

 part of the article. — Editorial in January ReiUew. 



Remember that the REVIEW is §L00 a 

 year, but I send 12 back numbers free of 

 charge. For $2.00 I send the back numbers, 

 the REVIEW for 1901, and a queen of the 

 Superior Stock. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich. 



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