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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



July 



Gay says: 

 "The daily labors of the bee 

 Awake my soul to industry-" 



Note 'twas only his soul. He knew 

 how to loll. 



"Wouldst thoxi achieve greatness O 

 man? Then hustle." Not much, just 

 loll and "crib." 



You needn't stay mad 'cause folks 

 keep on borrowin' your copy and palm- 

 in' it off as their own. It's heaps 

 easier nor originatin'. Is it the glory 

 you want? Borrow a tin halo. Re- 

 venge? 



"Revenge we find, 



The abject pleasure of an abject 

 mind.'' 



Is it facts you want? They're a nui- 

 sance and interfere with fiction. 



What sort of kind of honey do you 

 s'pose Shakespeare got against when 

 he wrote: 



"They surfeited with honey; and began 

 To loathe the taste of sweetness 



whereof little 

 More than a little is by much too 

 much." 



'Twant Mangrove. 



That makes me thirsty; but Popp's 

 "lemonade" fills the bill. 

 "A small glass, and thirsty! be sure 



never ask it; 

 Man might as well serve up his soup 

 in a basket." 



Two more Root men on the directo- 

 rate of the Natl. Whose Association 

 is it, anyway? 



Bro. York has put all the headings 

 of the A. B. J. in mourning. What sin 

 is he mourning for now, b'gosh? 



Look a here, youngster, drop that 

 "humble servant" business quick! No- 

 body can execute humility with such 

 neatness and dispatch as the Humble 

 servant. Rememberest thou not the 

 malodorous INIr. Uriah""Heap who was 

 ahvays "so humble." Like him, they're 

 all bear watchiu'. 



Well, them bees has got to have 

 some more supers today, so I'll have 

 to stop lolling for awhile. 



Remember Uriah. 



Yours as ever, 



.Tohn Hardsorabble. 

 »*♦ 



BULK COMB HONEY. 



(H. H. Hyde.) 



A few year.s ago bulk comb was 

 practically unknown, but today there 

 is scarcely a bee-keeper in the United 



States that has not heard of it and how 

 it is produced. It is now the principal 

 product of the southwestern Texas 

 bee-keepers. Its production is rapid- 

 ly gaining ground not only all over 

 Texas, but is gaining a footing in Ne- 

 braska. Colorado and LTtah. 



The demand from the consumers 

 for this article is rapidly growing and 

 is keeping far ahead of its production, 

 and of this fact the bee-keepers are 

 rapidly catching on. There are many 

 reasons why it is gaining a hold with 

 both the consumer and the producer 

 and especially the former. 



When he buys a can of bulk comb 

 honey he feels sure that he is getting 

 a pure sweet just as the bees made it; 

 he feels that he is getting full weight, 

 and he knows that he has bought it at 

 a less price per pound than he could 

 have bought section honey. Then he 

 has his honey in a nice bucket where 

 the honey cannot break or lose out 

 when cut in two, and when he has 

 eaten out the honey he has a useful 

 pail left. These are some of the reas- 

 ons why the consumer prefers bulk 

 honey comb to section honey. I am 

 talking of the majority of the people. 

 Of course there are the wealthy who 

 will, always buy a limited quantity of 

 section honey because it is high in 

 price, and has to them a fancy look. 



Bulk comb is produced in either full 

 bodies or shallow Ideal supers. If the 

 former is used it is hardly practical to 

 fasten in full sheets of foundation, as 

 the frames cannot be wired because 

 we expect to cut the honey out, but 

 with the Ideal frames we can use full 

 sheets if we so prefer. Ideal supers 

 and frames are prefered generally be- 

 cause they are not so large, are not so 

 heavey to handle, the.v are nearer the 

 right amount of room to give a colony 

 at one time, and they can be freed of 

 bees much quicker than can full 

 bodies. To free them of bees we sim- 

 ply smoke down between the frames 

 well and then pry the super loose and 

 jounce it, when it will be found that 

 most of the bees will fall out. They 

 can then be stacked up and a hole 

 left at the top, when in two or three 

 hours' time the last bee will have left 

 the supers. 



Then again the supers and frames 

 are nice for extracted honey should 

 the bee-keeper in any event desire to 

 so use them, and, in fact, in putting up 

 bulk comb it requires about one-third 



