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GLEANINGS IN BE:E CULTURE 



Comb honey protected by a tin slide on each side of the section. 



TIN COVERS FOR SENDING HONEY BY PAR- 

 CEL POST 



By W. J. LEWIS 



As an exi^eriment we are sending you un- 

 der separate cover, by parcel post, two sec- 

 tions of honey enclosed in our tin covers. 

 One of these sections, among- forty others, 

 was exhibited at the Gulf States Fair at 

 Mobile last fall, and was from tliere taken 

 to Chicago and exliibited at the land show. 

 It was then sent back to Citronelle, and, 

 with about twenty others, inclosed with tlie 

 tins, was put in a trunk with other baggage 

 and sent to tliis city. If it reaches you in 

 good condition I think it will be a fair test 

 of our tin covers for supporting a section 

 of honey while being handled. The tins 

 can be put on or removed more easiW by 

 clamping them sidewise over the section 

 than to attempt to slide on endwise. 



This honey was produced in an improved 

 Danzenbaker hive. We use a galvanized 

 iron strip to rest the frames on instead of 

 the wide cleats, for both supers and brood- 

 chamber. "\Ye think tliis makes an ideal 

 hive, as there is an air-shaft at each end of 

 the hive, also a liighway or passage for the 

 bees to go and come. We also swing the 

 extracting-frames and section-holders from 

 the center. Our special frames, both brood 

 and extracting, have seven-eighths top and 

 bottom bars. The section-holders have the 

 same width of top and bottom bars so as to 

 cover the sections entirely. We have used 

 the new frame and holder for two years. 



We shall pi-oduce about 3000 sections at 

 our Alabama place this year. Our apiary 

 in this city consists of about sixty colonies ; 

 the bee-yard is illuminated with electric 

 lights, and the hives stand on cemerit stands. 

 We produce extracted here. 



One correspodent tells how the price of 

 honey can be raised six or eight cents per 

 pound by advertising. Of this we feel cei'- 

 tain. We get from six to ten cents more 

 per section for our honey tlian the regular 



inice. Grocers will not handle other honej' 

 after once handling our product with its 

 tin covers. Fancy honey ought to bring as 

 much as fancy butter. We once thouglit 

 the producers would some time get together, 

 and, by advertising the merits and uses of 

 honey, establish a better price; but we hav'e 

 about lost hope. Beekeepers are too widely 

 separated for a concerted movement, and 

 in the ranks ai"e too many scientists and old 

 fogies for united action. 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



[The honey arrived in rather bad condi- 

 tion, the combs being cracked. However, 

 we photographed one of the sections to 

 show the protecting slide, an engraving of 

 which appears herewith. — Ed.] 



SHAKING COMBS OF A DISEASED COLONY 



Reducing a Foul-broody Colony to a Few Combs 



which can be Shaken Quickly when the 



Treatment is Given 



BY R. F. HOLTERMANN 



It appears to me, unless my memory fails 

 me, that in the many methods given for, the 

 treatment for foul brood (and if any do 

 give it), little emphasis has been given to 

 the best method of shaking bees from foul- 

 broody colonies. 



The object in shaking bees twice is to 

 minimize the possibility that, at the close 

 of the treatment, the "bees may have any 

 disease germs in the liive. The line of rea- 

 soning is that the bees are liable to fill their 

 honey-sacs the first time they are shaken; 

 that some diseased honey may be in the 

 l)ees after the first cells in comb have been 

 ]jroduced, and that they may have_ stored 

 this honey in the comb Avhere it is likely it 

 -sNil! be i^ed to brood. Therefore another 

 shake is given. Now, it might so happen 

 that the operation may be repeated by the 

 bees the second time; but the ratio of risk is 

 reduced just to tlie extent that the amount 



