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American VeetJonrnal 



commenced with one colony and is 

 catching more swarms from buildings 

 with traps. I helped him one day get 

 three swarms, the first one on a walnut 

 tree. I had six combs. The second 

 was in the roof over some blooded 

 horses, and the owners had a time until 

 we got the bees away. The third was 



Where They Have Foul Brood. 



in a barrel a man had bought. Before 

 he could use it the bees had gone into 

 the bung-hole. The barrel stood by 

 the kitchen door. 



Goleta, Calif. (Mrs.) Lucy Se.xton. 



That picture, " Where they have foul 

 brood," with surroundings all grown 

 up with weeds, looks like a favorable 

 place for the disease, where it is not 

 likely to be interfered with until it has 

 completed its deadly work. 



A Successful Lady Beekeeper 



Under this title, Geo. W. Williams, 

 the man who shakes bees to make them 

 work, says in the Beekeepers' Review : 



"It remains for a little energetic 

 lady to show us how to do it success- 

 fully, secure a good crop of honey 

 every year, and to winter with practi- 

 cally no loss whatever, winter after win- 

 ter. In fact, if she loses more than one 

 it almost breaks her heart. Frequently 

 she goes through two successive win- 

 ters without losing a single colony. 



"I am going to call her Mrs. Smith, 

 as that is not her name and will do as 

 well as any other. She lives in town, 

 and like the roseate 'ads' we are see- 

 ing less of lately, she ' keeps her birds 

 all on one city lot. She has about 100 

 colonies, spring count, and she uses 

 100 more hives in her system. 



" She clips all her queens in the spring, 

 thereby 'shaking up ' the colony and 

 inducing prolific brood-rearing. She 

 allows her colonies to swarm naturally. 

 (I am not defending this part of her 

 system, but she does it successfully.) 

 She hives the swarm on the old stand 

 and moves the old hive a little to one 

 side, with the entrance turned slightly 

 away. 



"AH the supers are placed on at the 

 proper time, and the old colony is 

 allowed to rear a young queen if the 

 stock is satisfactory, and if not it 

 is supplied with a virgin or a cell 



from good stock. When this queen 

 begins laying, supers are given as re- 

 quired, and all the honey possible is 

 secured from both colonies in the or- 

 dinary manner. 



"When the supers are all off, and be- 

 fore cold weather sets in, the two colo- 

 nies are united by shaking them to- 

 gether, after removing the old queen, 

 which is readily found by reason of 

 having been clipped, and all the honey 

 crammed into the one hive, leaving 

 only one comb in the center, partly 



empty, for brood rearing. 



" The shaking again stimulates brood- 

 rearing, and by winter a fine colony of 

 young bees are ready for their long 

 nap. (In uniting bees by shaking, she 

 has found that it can be done success- 

 fully, even in a dearth, if frames are 

 shaken alternately from each hive and 

 the whole manipulation is performed 

 late in the evening, so that the bees get 

 acquainted before morning.) She win- 

 ters her colonies outdoors with hay 

 cushions over the colonies." 



A Boy's Start in Bees. 



Bee-Keeping 



In Dixie^ 



Conducted by J. J. Wilder. Cordele. Ga. 



Comb vs. Extracted Honey 



Many beekeepers are " on the fence " 

 as to what kind of honey to produce. 

 It is not so hard for the beekeeper who 

 is increasing his business to decide, 

 for he is buying supplies right along 

 and can use his discretion. 



But the beekeeper who has all the 

 bees he wants and equipment neces- 

 sary, does not know whether to make 

 the change. This of course is a ques- 

 tion every beekeeper can best decide 

 for himself. But in the way of throw- 

 ing light on the subject, let me say that 

 if all the surplus honey is of good 

 body, flavor, color, etc., and very slow 

 to granulate, it would be more profit- 

 able to produce extracted honey be- 

 cause such an article would be best 

 thus put on the market. But if the 

 honey is a little off in body, flavor or 

 color, it would be best to put it on the 

 market in the comb, for it would keep 

 better in this form, and the taste and 

 color of it would not be as objection- 



able to the'consumers as if it were ex- 

 tracted and if sold in that way. 



Extracted honey has become so well 

 known that it will sell as well as comb 

 honey on most markets. From the 

 standpoint of labor and investment, it 

 is best to produce e.xtracted honey 

 when, as stated above, the article justi- 

 fies. This has been my experience and 

 that of Mr. T. W. Livingston, of Leslie, 

 Ga., who has had much experience in 

 producing honey in both North and 

 South. He says he can make more 

 money producing e.xtracted honey at H 

 cents per pound than comb at 10 or 11 

 cents. But the honey he produces is 

 of extra fine quality. 



The Price of Supplies 



The prices of raw material suitable 

 for making our supplies has advanced 

 considerably in the last year, as has 

 also the price of labor, etc., and as a 

 natural consequence the prices had to 



