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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



November 



will be induced readily to occupy two 

 stories, here's something like what 

 seems desirable, only with two seasons 

 of utter failure 1 know practically lit- 

 tle more about it than I did two years 

 ago : At the beginning of spring, 

 give a story of combs below with some 

 honey, so that there will be abundance 

 oF stores, and so that the queen can 

 occupy as many frames as she likes of 

 the sixteen. At the beginning of the 

 honey-barvest, whether the whola six- 

 teen frames shall be left, or whether 

 the number be reduced to 12, 10, or 

 to a single story, is a question on wliich 

 I desire more light. In any case, at 

 the close of the white-honey harvest 

 two stories will be put or kept in use, 

 remaining till perhaps October, when 

 one story will be taken away till 

 spring. If the hives wei-e to remain 

 on the summer stands there would be 

 no need to take away one of the stor- 

 ies at any time of the year, unless 

 thought advisable to do so during the 

 harvest. 



lam very much afraid, however, 

 that, with such frames as I should 

 like, aud with the desirable absence of 

 burr and brace combs, the queen 

 would not readily go from one story 

 to another. Possibly that might ba 

 remedied by some sort of ladder of 

 comb fi'om the first to the second story^ 

 so the queen could go from one to the 

 other without setting her dainty feet 

 down upon wood. 



Marengo, 111. 



(Prom Gleanings.) 



HOW AND WHERE TO KEEP 00MB 

 AND EXTRACTED HONEY. 



Ed. Gleanings: — Can you inform us, 

 or some of your readers through the 

 columns of Gleanings, the temperatnre 



that extracted honey can be raised to 

 with safety so it will not granulate 

 again ? also the proper temperature 

 for keeping comb honey. 



We notice that the sale and con- 

 sumption of honey in comb is greatly 

 reduced by honey being held in fluc- 

 tuating and cold temperature ; where- 

 as, if kept in an even high tempera- 

 ture it would not chill nor granulate, 

 and become premature old honey to 

 all appearances. 



We have spacious rooms that Ave 

 use for cold storage of butter and eggs 

 in the summer, and are now emptying 

 them and contemplate heating those 

 rooms to the proper temperature for 

 comb honey. These rooms are so pro- 

 tected that they can hold any temper- 

 ature, so they will not vary five de- 

 grees in six months. 



We believe that will be a great 

 benefit to the honey placed in our 

 hands for sale, especially for such as 

 comes to us before cold weather. We 

 think one reason why honey sells best 

 and gives best satisfaction in the early 

 part of the season, is because, in the 

 later part of the season, it has been 

 exposed to extreme changes in temper- 

 ature, and it stiffens or granulates in 

 the comb, and the consumer, buying 

 such once, doesn't want it again. We 

 do not know of a. honey-dealer who 

 keeps honey in a warm room, but gen- 

 erally in an open store, where the 

 doors are not closed in many places in 

 the coldest winter weather. We know 

 of two huadred cases of honey that 

 was carried over winter in that way, 

 and is now unsalable except for bee- 

 food. The holders say it came to 

 them December last, and was granu- 

 lated then, and would not sell. I 

 should like to hear opinions on the 



