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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



July 



per cent, more money producing bulk 

 comb, and many have placed the per 

 cent, much higher. 



There is another fact, not one of the 

 men who once quit section honey have 

 gone back to it. We were oursebes 

 large section honey producers several 

 years ago, bnt have been converted 

 and have disposed of most of our sec- 

 tion honey supers and today have a 

 large pile of them awaiting a pur- 

 chaser. 



You may say, I have no trade or 

 demand for bulk comb honey. I will 

 say that all yon have to do is to pro- 

 duce it and offer it for sale and you 

 will soon have a trade that nothing but 

 bulk comb will satisfy. You may say, 

 I will have to ship my honey and what 

 then? — there is no market for this 

 new product? I will say. take your 

 honey to the cities and offer it your- 

 self and you will find a ready and ap- 

 preciative market and one that will 

 next year demand more bulk comb 

 and tlie grocerymeu will have to order 

 their supplies from you. There is no 

 question biit that a market can be 

 found. The bee men of Texas have 

 found a market for more than they 

 can produce, and I take it that the bee 

 men of other states have the same 

 intelligence and the same get-up-and- 

 get that the Texas bee men have. 



The packages used in putting up 

 this article are now most largely three, 

 six and twelve pound tin friction top 

 pails, that are put up in crates holding 

 ten of the twelve pound cans, ten of 

 the six pound cans and twenty of the 

 three pound cans. There is also some 

 demand for bulk comb in sixty pound 

 cans, two in a case, the cans having 

 "8" screw tops. These are sometimes 

 ordered where the buyer desires to 

 put the honey into glass packages for 

 a fancy trade. 



In conclusion I wish to refute the 

 statements made that the production 

 of bulk comb honey was the old fogy 

 way of honey production. I assure 

 you that it is not and that it requires 

 as much skill and as fine a grade of 

 honey as it does for section honey. I 

 also assure you that the consumers 

 are behind this moA'e and that it is 

 only a question of time when the pro- 

 duction of section honey will almost 

 have disappeared. 



Should there be any who read this 

 that desire further information I 



should be glad to give it.— From The 

 Progressive Bee-Keeper. 



THE ROMANTIC CAREER OF 

 LORD STRATHCONA. 



The life of the Scotch boy, Donald 

 Smith — now Baron Strathcona and 

 Mount Royal — would read more like 

 romance if it were not so studded with 

 improbabilities. People like their ro- 

 mances to be possible; it is only from 

 reality that will be endured the touches 

 of extravagance which turn standard 

 fiction into fairy tales. 



Young Donald Smith, dreaming in 

 his Scotch village the stirring adven- 

 tures of a fur-trading uncle in the wilds 

 of North America, and afterward be- 

 coming fur-trader himself, first as clerk 

 of the Hudson Bay Company in the 

 bleakest corner of its vast territory, 

 "pitiless Labrador;" then climbing, af- 

 ter years of hardship and fidelity, to be 

 a chief factor of the Company and resi- 

 dent Governor in America^ and finally, 

 in his old age, governor of the home 

 company in London, High Commis- 

 sioner for Canada, and a peer of the 

 realm — that is romance. — From the 

 series "Captains of Industry,'' in the 

 June Cosmopolitan. 



The following paragraph is from a 

 series of articles now running in the 

 Irish Bee Journal, written b.v Dr. A. 

 W. Smyth: "Temperature is every- 

 thing to the bees, and in cold climates 

 they have a great deal t<> contend 

 with. Large numbers are chilled and 

 benumbed foraging in the spring, and 

 are unable to return to the hive. The 

 loss of bees in this way, however, is 

 not so serious as the loss from disease, 

 which cold is certain to bring about. 

 Ii]ditor Hill says that bees in Florida 

 do not suffer much from disease, and 

 in the West Indies foul brood is not 

 prevalent, Avhile in some of the islands 

 it is said to be unknown. The more 

 honey bees have to consume in order 

 to keep up the temperature of the hive, 

 the more they exhaust their vital pow- 

 ers, and the more susceptible they be- 

 come to disease, i. e., the less is the 

 resistance to the growth of the bac- 

 teria." This is an interesting point in 

 regard to the propagation of foul brood 

 worthy of the attention of AV. J. Tefft, 

 Geo. Rockenbauch and the Cuban bee- 

 keepers generally along the northwest 

 coast of the island. 



