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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 



ment of the honey-flow, it will be entirely filled 

 with brood, leavins' but little if any space in which 

 the bees may deposit honey, but forcing- or com- 

 pelling- them to go into the sections for the neces- 

 sary room to store it. This, 1 think, is the only way 

 that comb honey can be secured successfully. A few 

 extra combs, and the use of the extractor on them, 

 ■would spoil the whole thing-. Some prefer a half- 

 depth brood-chamber instead of the division- 

 boards to accomplish the obove object; but what- 

 ever plan is used, the principle is the same. I 

 tbink it is safe to say that few if any of the bee- 

 keepers of the present time use the extractor on 

 the combs of the brood-chamber while working- for 

 comb honey. G. M. Doolittle. 



Horodino, N. Y., June 1, 1887. 



In justice to frieud Doolittle, it is proper 

 to state that the foregoing article should 

 have appeared in Gleanings for June 15 : 

 but by an oversight it v/as omitted. We re- 

 gret this, inasmuch as the subject treats of 

 swarming. No doubt the article will be 

 found seasonable even yet, in some localities. 

 — Friend D., your method of telling where 

 the swarm came from is quite ingenious, 

 and I know it will work, fori have tried it 

 many times since yoti or somebody else gave 

 it several years ago. While it is true, ttutt 

 we are comparatively unable to tell about 

 how much honey an acre of clover or even 

 basswood will furnish, 1 am inclined to 

 think it has been put too high. See my 

 tigures in regard to the spider plant, in the 

 A B C book. If an acre of buckwheat fur- 

 nishes oO lbs. of honey during the Avhole 

 time it is in bloom, I am inclined to think it 

 is an extra good crop, and I do not believe 

 white clover often does better. 1 know a 

 large basswood-tree, in an open lot, will 

 yield a great amount of honey ; but it seems 

 to me quite doubtful if any single tree ever 

 produces as much as -50 lbs. in one season. 

 Honey from all these sources, when tirst 

 gathered, is comparatively watery, and 

 must be evaporated a great deal before it 

 becomes honey such as we would put on the 

 market. I thiuk you are right about ex- 

 tracting from brood-combs. .Vlthough we 

 have sold many extractois to bee-keepers 

 who were working for comb honey exclu- 

 sively, I have always been sorry to sell them 

 one when they gave as a reason for wanting 

 it, that there was too much honey in the 

 brood-combs. 



OUB P. BENSON LETTER. 



GRAND enterprise! !! AMERICAN BEE-KEEPKRS' 

 STORE. 



BEE-KEEPERS arise in yure mite! Trooth is 

 mitey and will prevale. The g-rate coz of the 

 depreshen in the bunny mai-ket is the lo 

 price of hunny. This is projuiced by the 

 commition men. So mutch bizness is poot 

 into thare hands that sum ol them is makin munny 

 at it. And the way thay do with the hunny is a 

 outrag. I will sightl instants. A man by the name of 

 Mut from Jirmany sot up in the commition bizness 

 a sellin of hunny. Hunny was sent to him from ev- 

 ery '.1. Now what did hedo with that hunny? Why 

 he sold it for all sorts of things. Hunny is a dellick- 



asy and hed ot to be poot on the table of the ritch, 

 but this retch, Mut, sold it to ritch and poor alike 

 and tried to git every ;buddy to buy it. Think of 

 that, poor peapel that cood hardly afford to by but- 

 ter, a eatin nice hunny onto thair bread. But that 

 wuzzent the werst. He sold hunny even for me- 

 canuickle purpusses. Sura of it he soled to bake 

 with, \- siuu to print with, and some to maik hams 

 with. Think of that! a taking good hunny to poot 

 on greezy hams. He allso sold sum in the jirman 

 language. 



I think I hov now shone quite clearly that the 

 commition meu is the trubble, and as I have the 

 good of bee-keepers at hart 1 have thot out a plan 

 whairby in whitch evry bee-keeper ken set his oan 

 price on his hunny. The hunny shood all go to 1 

 common seenter and then it can be controaled. 

 Sum men goze around and sells thair hunny to the 

 farmers. Enuy man which does that lax common 

 scents. If the farmers wants hunny, let them cum 

 for it. Oil the bee-keepers will send thair hunny to 

 1 scentral point and I will be thair agent and re- 

 seeve it in a fine, large billding maid for that pur- 

 puss. It will be called t'le Amen-ican Uee-Keepers' 



I'. lSK.\SON S n(».M;V-ST<JRE. 



Store. Evry man will send me his hunny and set 

 his oan price to it, and 1 will sell it at a nominal 

 commition of ^4 of 1 per scent. For instants, if he 

 wants 30 scents for his hunny, for evry scent he 

 wants to git, he will send me 14 of 1 scent, so he will 

 send me 10 scents, and when I sell the hunny I will 

 send him 30 scents. The commition must be sent in 

 advance as I doant do a credit bizness, for I doant 

 want to encurridge enuy buddy going in det. Det 

 hez bin the rooin of menny a man. You see thair 

 will be no trubble in this wa for them that thinks 

 hunny ot to bring 10 (ten) scents ken poot that price 

 on thair hunny and them that wants it ken poot (30) 

 thirty scents onto thair hunny. In order to help 

 bare expenses I will charge 1 scent a pound each 

 month for stowridge, and if the stowridge gits moar 

 than the price of the hunny, 1 will take the hunny 

 for part pay and thay ken send a post office order 

 for the ballence. 



Enny 1 whitch rites letters of inquiry will send 

 his reel name not nesseriy for publickashen but as 

 a garntea of good faith. P. Benson, A. B. S. 



Whitch it stands for Agent Bee-Keepers' Store. 



