538 





RP?SI<. 



Some may ask, " Why use glass 

 jars ?" I do so because they come to 

 me cheaper than tin jjails, are a neater 

 package, etc. 



I do not wish to adulterate the honej-, 

 but it seems to me that some harmless 

 substance could be worked up in the 

 honey, that would stop or delay its 

 granulation. I make a little living by 

 pi'oducing and selling honey, but I can- 

 not do anything in winter, hampered 

 as I have been. 



P. S. — I forgot to state that all my 

 jars had on the back, a notice lable. 

 such as dealers keep in stock, in regard 

 to granulation. 



New Orleans, La. 



[We do not know of anything which 

 will make honey remain liquid, with- 

 out at the same time adulterating it. — 

 Ed.] 



OUT-APIARIES. 



The manag^ement of Several 

 Apiaries at One Time. 



Writteji for fhe American Bee Journal 



BY JAMES HEDDON. 



I have been interested in reading 

 Dr. Miller's series of articles on " Out- 

 Apiaries," in Gleanings. While perus- 

 ing them, I have noticed how very dif- 

 ferent are man}- of the conditions in 

 diftereut localities. I am the more in- 

 duced to say something upon this sub- 

 ject, by reading the controversy be- 

 tween Messrs. Dadant and Hutchinson, 

 which makes a very good text for this 

 article ; the more so because Mr. Da- 

 dant mentions the number of colonies 

 w'hich his man can manage, and quotes 

 himself as saying that /want " a good 

 man in each apiary." 



From what I have read from the 

 pens of Western apiarists, and what I 

 have seen while visiting them, and 

 from what I know about honey-produc- 

 tion, I can very readily account for the 

 great diflerence of opinion between 

 such thoroughly honest and practical 

 men. 



I remember once having a lively dis- 

 cussion with Mr. E. J. Oatman, of Dun- 

 dee, Ills., on the question of working 

 several apiaries ; namelj*, whether it 

 were best to have a good man in each 

 apiary, with a number of colonies equal 

 to his time and skill, or whether it 

 were'Oetter to keep a less number of 

 colonies in a larger number of apiaries, 

 and have one or two parties to do the 

 work by driving from one to the other. 

 I took the former ground, while Mr. 

 Oatman took the latter. He tried it 

 his way. 



A few years later he visited me, 

 w^hen the same subject came up, and he 



said that he had changed his mind 

 after trj-ing it, and that he should 

 thereafter have a good man in each 

 apiary, with bees enough with each 

 apiarist to be worthy of his hire. But 

 further, my locality more readily de- 

 mands that closer-attention system 

 than does Mr. Oatman's at Dundee ; 

 and no doubt his is more like ours in 

 that respect, than is that of Mr. Da- 

 dant's. 



Then, again, Messrs. Dadant & Son 

 produce extracted honey exclusively, 

 while Mr. Oatman produces comb honey, 

 and in this locality we get both in the 

 same apiary, sometimes running more 

 to one, and sometimes to the other, ac- 

 cording to circumstances. 



Although I have never tried it, I 

 have often thought, and now believe, 

 that with my new hive (with its divisible 

 brood-chamber and plenty of those 

 brood sections) I could very readily so 

 manipulate an apiary run for extracted 

 honey, that so very few swarms would 

 issue that it might pay me better to 

 work several apiaries on the drive- 

 around plan, that to keep a man in 

 each yard. I do not know, but I fully 

 believe this. It seems very clear to me 

 that all this wide difference of opinion 

 between two honest bee-keepers, has 

 grown out of a hasty blindness, or not 

 understanding the circumstances and 

 conditions of each other. 



The early honey crop here, namely, 

 clover and basswood, is almost a total 

 failure. The fall harvest promised 

 fairly, but the cold nights of the fore- 

 part of August hurt that, and what the 

 outcome will be, it is too early to say, 

 yet. 



Dowagiac, Mich., Aug. 10, 1889. 



PRICE OF HONEY. 



Honey Market Ruined by Sliort- 

 Siglitcd Bee-Keepers. 



Written Jor the American Bee Journal 



BY A. J. DUNCAN. 



I am glad to notice in the American 

 Bee Journal that there is quite a re- 

 vival in the "Bee-keepers' Union," 

 since the successful tennination of the 

 Arkadelphia lawsuit. That is well. 

 Nearly everything now is run by com- 

 binations and trusts ; we have sugar- 

 trusts, salt-trusts, and, more recently, 

 •au ice-trust — in short, every industry is 

 run bj' trusts, and I sometimes fear 

 that some enterprising individuals will 

 get up a trust on the water that we 

 drink, or the air that we breathe. Whj', 

 then, should not the bee-keepers com- 

 bine for protection ? 



But the greatest protection that bee- 

 keepers need in this section of country, 

 is to be protected from the bee-keep- 



rs. That may look paradoxical, but 

 vertheless it is true. The last two 

 ,jQ^^*hree years, as every bee-keeper 

 what Ik ^""'^^^ ^''^^'y P°°^' y^^^^ ^"i" Jiouey : 

 readily fe'^® surplus we had, we sold 

 people here''^ ^' rather a low price, for 

 for honey, for"'" "«' P^^-J','* '"§'' l'"'^"'. 

 a luxury than al'^^^y consider it more ot 



_,, . necessltJ^ 



ihis season so , , , ,.^^, 



over an average ioi^''\^^'' l^^eu a little 



honey. I was worki.t*i« l"-°f'»'^fo"\f 



ing my neighbors some'-'.S ^^^rd and sell- 



tracted honey at 10 csnt^'^'^^T "'ce ex- 



and congratulating myself I? J'^'" PO"na' 



I would make up some of m>",^""'* J^^*; 



the previous poor years. BuF ^o^**?^ ^°^' 



went to our county-seat (Indiai,' "■.^^ ' 



Aug. 3, on business, and, to l'"°'^) °" 



prise, I found the town full an.'^J ^"''' 



ning over with honey, both com.,, '^"^" i 

 " •' i<b and 



^nit in 



I'neral- 



,1' large 



the 



iUit-ents 

 Wnd of 



there by the " small fry " that ge , 

 ly spoils our hone}' market, but 

 producers had brought it in bf 

 barrel, and fine extracted linden 1 * 

 was retailing at 6| cents per lb ;'^°'^®y 

 one-pound sections at 8 cts. — and te^^ 

 these same individuals pay 10 c 

 per pound for the commouest kjiit'?" ? 

 coffee C sugar! . 



I came home feeling thoroughly, 

 couraged, and utterly disgusted, i_ , 

 feel like giving the worst enemy I ha'*"*^ 

 mjr bees, and quitting the busines'."^^® 

 One thing is sure — if I cannot ge*® '' 

 better price than the foregoing, I w*.^''.,^ 

 have a good start for a crop of houf '_ 

 next year, for I won't sell ! t 'j 



Hartford, Iowa, Aug. 6, 1889. 



dis- 



HONEY. 



Encouraging the Production of 

 Our Own SAveets. 



Written for the Amerif^n Bee Journal 

 BY SIDNEY S. SLEEPER. 



Having been interested in apiculture 

 for the past thirty years, I have been 

 called on occasionally to give an essay 

 on the subject at our State and county 

 institutes. I had occasion to attend 

 the Cattaraugus county institute, held 

 on July, 2, 1889. In doing so I had to 

 pass through Wyoming county, the 

 home of Mr. E. D. Keeney. a profess- 

 ional druggist and apiculturist, and 

 so concluded to call on him, having 

 seen him but once before, and that 

 was at the first meeting of our Erie 

 County Bee-Keepers' Society, held on 

 June 15, 1889. He then became a 

 member. 



When calling, I asked him to explain J 

 how he obtained such a large yield of 

 honey, as I had heard reported from 

 his apiary. He could not do so with- 

 out showing the quality of the bees 



