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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



May, 



do they begin operations by building 

 drone comb? No, sir! Their desire 

 to swarm has been gratified and for 

 the first seven or eight days they build 

 only worker comb; then the leaven 

 of discontent begins to work again, 

 and drone comb is the result. 

 Wheelersburg, Ohio. 



PRODUCTION OF "EXTRACT- 

 ED" MORE PROFITABLE 

 IN GEORGIA. 



Other Notes From Dixie Land. 



F. W. LIVINGSTON. 



ALTHOUGH it is advised, and 

 perhaps rightly, too, that 

 every bee-keeper should pro- 

 duce both comb and extracted honey, 

 I think there are few places in the 

 Southeast where the extracted will 

 not pay better, at the prevailing 

 prices. The only thing against it be- 

 ing the lack of public confidence in 

 its purity (this will be remedied when 

 pure food laws are properly enforced 

 everywhere). In this locality extract- 

 ed honey has a more ready sale at 

 seven cents than comb honey at ten 

 cents, and I would prefer to raise 

 extracted honey anywhere at six 

 cents than comb honey at ten cents. 

 While the relative cost of produc- 

 tion is more in favor of comb honey 

 in this locality than in many others, 

 the trouble of taking care of it 

 through the long summer is all in 

 favor of the extracted, for when that 

 is once secured in a well ripened 

 condition and put up in self-sealing 

 tin cans, you need have no more trou- 

 ble about it. Comb honey, on the 

 contrary, must be sold soon after it 

 is taken from the bees or it must be 

 looked after carefully and frequently 

 to keep it from the wax moth (of 

 which there are two varieties here), 

 and the little black ants that are al- 

 ways ready to appropriate everything 



sweet, and are particularly fond of 

 honey. 



We have a few kinds of honey here 

 that are not so palatable alone as 

 when mixed with other kinds; for 

 instance, that obtained from poplar, 

 cowpeas and cotton, and I even pre- 

 fer gallberry honey mixed with some 

 other kind like titi, blackberry or 

 holly; though it is whiter when pure. 



When honey is extracted the mix- 

 ing can be effected to suit the taste, 

 and I would generally prefer a mix- 

 ture, when using it constantly, to any 

 one kind in its purity, but I do not 

 want honey mixed with other sweets 

 that are not honey. 



Leslie, Ga., Sept. 6, 1906. 



BLOSSOMS BUT NO FRUIT. 



Burbank to Be Asked to Investigate 

 Freak of Nature. 



Santa Rosa, Cal., Feb. H. — ^Over 

 on the Van der Mark 'place, in West- 

 ern Sonoma, is a fifteen-acre orchard 

 that has had but one crop of apples, 

 and every year since then, although 

 the trees are filled with blossoms, it 

 has not borne a single apple. The 

 accuracy of this statement is vouched 

 'f|or by people living in the district 

 and Superintendent I. J. Button, at 

 present in this city attending a meet- 

 ing of the Supervisors. 



Luther Burbank will be asked for 

 an opinion regarding the cause of the 

 freak of nature. — ^Exchange. 



THE BEE-STING CURE. 



R. I. Young, a wealthy Middletown 

 farmer is rejoicing over his recovery 

 from a long and painful experience 

 with rheumatism. He attributes his 

 cure to the bee-sting treatment, ap- 

 plied by State Zoologist Surface du- 

 ring the last three months. Once a 

 week for three months he allowed 

 himself to be stung, resulting in his 

 cur e. — Northumberland Co. (Pa.) 

 Democrat. 



