1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



CORRESPONDENTS 



FOR 1910 



Not all of the correspondence for the Bee-keepers' Review can be mentioned, 

 but a few of them for 1910 are as follows: 



Comb Honey, Out-apiaries, No Swarming 



Mrs. S. Wilbur Frey, of Sand Lake, Michigan, has, for sixteen 

 years, managed from two to four apiaries, producing from $500 to 

 $1000 worth of comb honey yearly (in the last three years she has 

 cleared $1000 yearly), and, what is of much importance, she has 

 practically solved the swarming problem— no watching for swarms 

 is necessary. She does most of the work herself with the aid, when 

 necessary, of a helper to do the heavy lifting. If you wish to 

 know Mrs. Prey's methods, read the Bee-keepers' Review for 1910. 



'^^^ New System of Extracting Honey. 



Mr. E. D. Townsend has, the past year, evolved and put into prac- 

 tice a new system of extracting honey. It is radically different from 

 and away ahead of what has been done in the past. In the first place, 

 the honey is freed from the bees without removing a comb from the 

 hives, yet without the use of bee-escapes. When it comes to extract- 

 ing, no hot knives, no capping-melters, no electric bells, no strainers, 

 are needed — what is called a separating-tank does pretty nearly the 

 "whole business" in a manner decidedly novel. Mr. Townsend's son 

 and a student extracted, canned, and nailed up ready for market, in 

 60 pound cans, 3000 pounds in a day. Mr. Townsend will describe 

 this system in the Review in time for use another season. 



A Boy's Business Worth $1000. 



Mr. F. B. Cavanagh, of Hebron, Indiana, is still a young'^man, 

 perhaps not far from 30 ; but his bee-keeping experience began in 

 his teens, and has been of the kind that appeals to the man who is 

 starting in to build up a bee business. With only such capital as 

 may be commanded by the average boy, with odds and ends picked 

 up here and there, he built up three apiaries for which I paid him 

 $1000 three years ago. He went into other business for a year, 

 then bee-keeping again claimed him as her own, and now he and 

 his young wife are running several apiaries down in Indiana, and 

 Review readers are to be congratulated thaf he is to contribute a 

 series of articles for the coming year. 



No Loss in Seven Years. 



Ira D. Bartlett, of East Jordan, Michigan, is another of the 

 younger but successful bee-keepers. He began with only one col- 

 ony when only 14 years old, and made the proud record of increas- 

 ing to 150 colonies in seven years without the loss of a colony in 

 wintering, although he wintered his bees out of doors, and had to 

 contend with the long winters, deep snows, and low temperature 

 of Northern Michigan. He now runs several apiaries, nunibers his 

 colonies by the hundreds, sells a good share of his product in local 

 markets, and has promised to tell Review readers of his methods. 



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W. Z. Hutchinson, 



Flint, Michigan 



