THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



191 



ANSWERS BY P. H. ELAVOOD. 



1. Prices lately have been as low as 

 we can afford to have them. Owing to 

 the general short crop of white honey 

 this season, prices ought to be better. 



2. This depends on locality, market 

 and beekeeper. In some localities the 

 honey flow is of so short duration that 

 boxes are rarely finished with one kind 

 of honey. It requires less skill to se- 

 cure extracted honey. 



3. The best means we have now is 

 correspondence with reliable beekeep- 

 ers in different parts of the country. 



4 & 



Have no natural swarming. 



5. Take the frames with bees and 

 quietly put them into a hive together, 

 alternating the frames. When this can- 

 not be done shake off' the bees in front 

 of the hive and let them run in. Mix 

 them up as much as possible and allow 

 them to fill up with honey if convenient. 



Starkville, N. Y., July 22, 1884. 



ANSWERS BY G. W. HOUSE. 



1. Ifi cents for comb honey, 10 cents 

 for extracted. 



2. It depends much upon the sea- 

 son — on an average about one-fourth 

 extracted, when both are produced. 



3. See article on page 171. 



4. Shake them on a sheet, find and 

 cage the queens and divide the bees as 

 you like. 



5. By mixing the frames of bees 

 and brood alternately through the hive. 



6. No, it depends upon the flow of 

 honey, but usually two to five days af- 

 ter, the object being to get tlie brood 

 nest started and prevent the queen 

 going into the boxes. 



2. Every apiarist should consult 

 his best interest when deciding this 

 point. I would say about an equal 

 portion of each class of goods. It is 

 to the interest of the honey-producers 

 to keep extracted honey before the 

 public, whether it sells readily or not. 

 It must be the staple article in the 

 honey line some day. 



3. Make fewer exaggerated reports. 

 I hope some day to see a well organ- 

 ized society in the interest of apicul- 

 ture, originating with the local 

 societies, and culminating in a great 

 national association, so well organized 

 that it can post its members from head- 

 quarters about all important matters. 



4. I tumble them into a large shal- 

 low box, and hunt out the queens by 

 keeping the bees in motion by stirring 

 them with a stick. The bees are then 

 divided, and each division supplied 

 with a queen. I find this method at- 

 tended with the least amount of fussing 

 in the long run. 



5. Make one of the colonies queen- 

 less two or three days in advance ; then 

 unite the combs interchangeably, thus 

 so "mixing" them till they "don't 

 know their aunt Hanna." 



6. It depends on how the new hive 

 is fitted up to receive the swarm, as to 

 when they are ready for the surplus 

 cases. If hived on full sheets of foun- 

 dation, twenty-four hours after hiving 

 them is soon enough for the surplus 

 cases, for if put on at the start the queen 

 may sometimes waste her precious 

 time, loitering in the cases, as bees in- 

 stinctively seek the highest point in 

 the hive, when first hived. 



But if hived on a full suit of combs 

 filled with brood the cases should go 

 on at once. 



Christianshurg , Ey. 



LETTER BOX. 



ANSWERS BY G. W. DEMAREK. 



1. I should say 12i^ for extracted, 

 and 16a ffi" comb in good marketable 

 shape. It depends much, however, 

 on the location occupied by the apia- 

 rist. I can find locations where I 

 could make honey-producing profitable 

 at much lower figures. 



Thorn Hill, Onondaga Co., N. Y. 



Friend Locke : 

 I notice in your Editorial a call for 

 subscriptions. Now I will make you 

 the following ofler. If you think it will 

 not help you, don't accept it, as I have 

 more calls for my queens than I can 

 possibly fill, making this ofler just to 

 help the circulation of the Apiculturist. 



