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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



it is the comb that car- 

 ries the germs of dis- 

 ease — the more easily 

 the older it is. 



A number of short 

 courses are held an- 

 nually to instruct bee- 

 keepers in all branches 

 of the craft. Fig. 13 

 shows a gx'oup of stu- 

 dents who attended a 

 short course in 1911. 

 After my description 

 of the institute this 

 photo might be of in- 

 terest, as it shows, in 

 the midst of the stu- 

 dents, the men whose 

 etforts built up the 

 institute and whose 

 spirit permeates its 

 works and doings. 



It is, after all, the spirit emanating from 

 such a place of science and jiractical work 

 that imj^arts deeper and more lasting re- 

 sults than the teaching of mere science, how- 

 ever exact and wonderful, or the teaching 

 of mere practice, however useful and prof- 

 itable. 



Wendhausen bei Hildesheim, Germany. 



Paul Huiiteu's super for holding tin sections. Notice that the section- 



holder fully 

 wide fraiiu 



COMB HONEY IN TIN SECTIONS 



An Entirely New Method of Marketing Comb Hon- 

 ey, Obviating Much of the Loss from Breakage 



BY PAUL HUNTEN 



Too little attention has been given by 

 the jDroducer to the mai'keting of his honey. 

 His pretty wooden sections that leave his 

 apiary iiii c aiul clean, after passing through 



The section-holder with 



the four tin sections 

 being removable. 



surrounds the four sections, being somewhat similar to the 



the hands of several middlemen are apt to 

 reach the consumer with an accumulation of 

 dust that can not be wiped off. This is 

 sometimes barely noticeable to the naked 

 eye, and yet the dust is there. All kinds 

 of crackers and other food products are 

 now put up in separate packages instead 

 of in bulk, and the consumers are glad to 

 pay the extra price for the sake of having 

 the food free from contamination. I know 

 of a case of hone}^ that stood in a promi- 

 nent place in the only store of a town; 

 and, although it remained there for weeks, 

 the contents were sold very slowly. In 

 order to call attention to the honey it was 

 often taken out of the disj^lay package and 

 put in the show-window, where it gathered 

 dust and germs. For some time I hf>d 

 been working on the new plan of using tin 

 sections; and as soon as I had fifty pack- 

 ages off my hives and 

 ready for market in 

 the tin boxes I dis- 

 played in this store in 

 competition with the 

 wooden sections ; and, 

 though the latter had 

 been on sale for some 

 time, the clerks told 

 me that the entire lot 

 of fifty tin boxes could 

 have been sold inside 

 of an hour. 



The three illustra- 

 tions show my super 

 with the section-hold- 

 ers, and also some of 

 my honey as it appears 

 ready for market. 

 There is absolutely no 



slipped out, the end-bars 



