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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $L00 A YEAR. 

 w. z. flUTCHlNSOK, Editor and ProDrietoi, 



VOL. XVII. FLINT, MICHIGAN, FEB. 10, 1904. NO. 2. 



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BY E. D. TOWNSEND. 



T N the production of honey for profit, 

 J- it is essential to do all the necessary 

 manipulations in season, and a good, 

 practical system that does away with 

 all unnecessary labor must be adopted. 

 I can remember well when it cost me 

 at least four times as much to produce 

 a pound of honey as it does today; and 

 I have reason to believe there are 

 many bee-keepers working- the old in- 

 te7ise system, who are not getting the 

 results the3'^ could by keeping more 

 bees, scattering them over the country 

 in yards of, say 100 colonies, or enough 

 in a place to gather what hone3' the 

 location will supply, adopting a sj's- 

 tem in which every turn brings in cash, 

 stoppingy«55/;?;?' with bees, adopting 

 modern methods, and discarding the 

 old, out-of-date implements, for the 

 up-to-date, labor-saving kind. 



TEN-FRAME, I.ANGSTROTH HIVES THE 



MOST DESIRABLE IN PRODUCING 



EXTRACTED HONEY. 



After a long experience with several 

 styles and sizes of hives, from an eight- 



frame Langstroth to a ten-frame Quin- 

 by, I have decided on the ten-frame 

 Langstroth as the best style and size 

 for my system and location. A colony 

 in a small hive, like the eight-frame 

 Langstroth, needs more care than a 

 larger size. Such colonies are more 

 likely to be short of honey in the fall, 

 thus making more work to prepare 

 them for winter. They are also more 

 likely to get out of stores during the 

 breeding season of April and May, 

 and need spring care, (a procedure of 

 which my system will not admit) with 

 no corresponding gain in surplus; but 

 the main reason for my preference is 

 that the ten-frame size is much less 

 liable to send out swarms than is the 

 smaller size, and this is a most impor- 

 tant point in the management of out- 

 yards, where no one is present to hive 

 swarms. Let me repeat: Whatever 

 style of hive you adopt, do not make it 

 of less capacity than 1400 square inches 

 of comb-surface for the brood-nest. 

 For the production of extracted honey 

 in out-yards, I have been, for the past 



