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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



J. S. YODER S BEE AND HONEY 



EXHIBIT AT THE VIRGINIA STATE 



24-27, 1907. 



FAIR, HELD AT ROANOKE, SEPT. 



bottle would be full of bee bread and scum that 

 would rise to the top. When I began selling 

 my honey I put it up in glass Mason jars, from 

 a pint to half a gallon, with a nice label on it. 

 When I first went to the houses to sell the honey 

 the people would ask the price, and I would tell 

 them. Then they would say they could get hon- 

 ey from the Mexicans cheaper. But I nearly al- 

 ways made a sale before I left, for I told them 

 how the Mexicans squeezed out the honey by 

 hand, and explained the difference. It wasn't 

 long before I could sell honey by the 60-lb. can 

 to customers who began buying by the half-gallon. 

 Taft, Texas. 



the old hive, and this Danzenbaker body on top 

 of the sections. On the 13th I found the sec- 

 tions full and capped nicely, so you see the bees 

 got busy. The flow of honey from July 1 to 

 15 was the largest I remember, and it was all 

 from white clover. 



Cottageville, W. Va., Aug. 12, 1907. 



A GOOD SURPLUS FROM A WEAK 

 COLONY. 



Some Well-filled Frames. 



BY WELCH BIBBEE. 



Here is a picture of three Danzenbaker frames 

 of honey taken off July 2, 1907. These are the 

 nearest perfect of any that I have ever seen. 

 They were produced by a colony that I thought 

 was almost worthless — in fact, the hive-body was 

 almost rotten, and I had intended to transfer the 

 bees to a Danzenbaker hive ; but the spring was 

 so cold and backward that I just took the lid off 

 the old hive and set the Danzenbaker hive on 

 top, and thought that, as soon as they showed 

 signs of being strong enough to transfer, I would 

 put them in the new hive. Probably I did not 

 watch them closely enough, for on July 2 I 

 found that the ten frames were full, with brood 

 in three frames. I took out five frames and put 

 empty ones in their places; and as the colony 

 was doing so well I put a super of 32 sections on 



DANZENBAKER FRAMES WELL FILLED WITH 

 CLOVER HONEY. 



