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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



September 



colony of bees, will be consumed after 

 the severest weather has past, when 

 brood- rearing has coniiuenced in earn- 

 est, and when tiiey should hove a good 

 supply. Probably one reason for this 

 great difference is on account of the 

 time when we call it winter. There- 

 fore. I would particulai-ly warn the 

 beginner never to attempt to winter a 

 colony on anything near like 5 lbs., 

 even if it should take them through 

 cold weather, it will never take them 

 to where they can take care of them- 

 selves ; better have o to 10 lbs. too 

 much than 5 to 10 ounces too little. 

 Steeleville, 111. 





The W. T. Falconer M'f'g Co., 

 Gentlemen : Please send tne cartoons. 

 * >1< * * It has been a great honey sea- 

 sou here. My bees gathered on the 

 6th day oi July, 3,000 lbs. of honey in 

 ten hours. I think they beat the rec- 

 ord of the world, and on the 15th day 

 of August, they gathered 1,500 lbs. of 

 basswood and 7,000 lbs. of buckwheat 

 honey. I have 188 working colonies. 

 Yours truly, 



Sidney Sleeper. 



Holland, N. Y., Aug. 30th. 



I From Paeitic Bee Journal.) 



SaiPPING OOMB HONEY SAIELY 



BY FREIGHT, IF YOU 



HAVE ANY. 



BY B S. K. BENNETT 



The loss of our beautiful comb 

 honey by breakage in shipment and 

 the ruined condition of the home mar- 

 ket caused by the damaged condition 

 of our honey packages has led me to 

 try to better the method of handling 

 this tender article — comb honey. I 

 have often witnessed the forced sale 

 of damaged honey, and in almost 

 every store that I visited last summer 

 I found a quantity of this leaky case- 

 dobbed comb honey. 



Brother bee keepers, arouse your- 

 selves and put up your honey right. 

 The first step is to produce the article 

 in correct shape by having the combs 

 built solid to all four sides of the sec- 

 tions, and to do this to a certainty, 

 two sets of starters must be used. One 

 large strip at the top of the section 

 and a small one at the bottom, per- 

 fectly fastened to the section, and 

 they will stay. The Daisy Foundation 

 Fastener is the best machine for start- 

 ing foundation in sections that has 

 yet come to ray notice. 



Secondly, to get evenly built combs, 

 we should use the slotted wood sawed 

 separators, and then the capping of 

 the honey will not scrape off in ship- 

 ping. I hope that there is no such 

 thing as the packing of broken honey, 

 but I am ofttimes tempted to think 



