four or six crates ; it takes two men to 

 handle it, gets handled better, and kept 

 right side up. Advise the shipper to load his 

 honey into the car himself. Producer to 

 dealer, and dealer to small dealer ; we all 

 want to do it right. 



What is the difference in price between 

 comb and extracted honey ? 



C. O. Perrine. About one-half, usually. 

 Dealers prefer extracted honey in barrels. 

 I won Id recommend small sales at home in 

 one and two pound bottles. 1 think the 

 trade in extracted honey is getting better. I 

 advise bee-keepers to work up their home 

 markets. My house needs mostly white 

 honey ; don't care as to taste, only color. 

 White honey is what the trade demands and 

 pays the most for. 



L. H. Scudder. I am satisfied we must 

 have a small package, and in most markets 

 it must be white honey. White honey is 

 nearly always the poorest article. I would 

 always use tin separators, then our honey 

 will be ready for any market, glass or no 

 glass. I would rather cross the world with 

 honey in bulk, than to ship a short distance 

 and have the railroad men handle it. 



Isthere any difference in quantity of honey 

 produced by the separators ? 



L. H. Scudder. I don't think there is any 

 difference. I would not remove all the 

 sections from a hive at once, but take off a 

 part at a time, thus keeping the bees always 

 up there at work. 



D. D. Palmer. I have been watching this 

 item of boxes for years. I used to think 

 the 6 lb. box best ; then came the Harbison 

 box ; our Yankees in the East set their wits 

 to work to beat it and. they did it, and we 

 have the prize box as the result, which I 

 prefer for all markets. 



How can we raise the most honey in mar- 

 ketable shape ? 



D. D. Palmer. Some propose next year to 

 cut out the combs, smash up and strain. 



M. Wirt. 1 can get the most honey in the6 

 ib. box by tiering up. As fast as the first tier 

 gets near full, raise itand putanother under. 

 I think I nearly double my yield by this 

 way. 



Geo. Bischoff. I get the most honey by 

 tiering up, no matter what box I get it in. 



L. H. Scudder. I think those remarks are 

 calculated to mislead beginners. Tiering 

 up soils the comb by the bees traveling over 

 it. I think we can never get nice, white, 

 clean comb honey by tiering up. 



Geo. Bischoff. I take off the upper box as 

 soon as the bees get well to work in the 

 lower ones, and the honey is not spoiled. 



D. D. Palmer. Boxes will not be filled as 

 full by tiering up. 



C. O. Perrine. With the section box we 

 can tier out and get all combs full ; by tier- 

 ing up. we cannot. 



D. u. Palmer. I would always use comb- 

 foundation in surplus boxes, and prefer it 

 to natural comb for starters. The most 

 honey can be got, and the easiest marketed, 

 by extracting. A word of caution to begin- 

 ners ; don't extract honey till it is nearly all 

 capped over. 



What is the best location for an apiary ? 



E. D. Godfrey. As near a grove of bass- 

 wood trees, in a white clover region, and 

 fall bloom, as possible. 



C. O. Perrine. No location at all, keep 

 moving, keep tramping, if you can't tramp, 

 boat it. My success with the boats has only 

 been partial ; we did well on the willow, 

 which I consider the best honey plant in 

 the South. There is plenty of white clover, 

 but there seems to be no honey in it. I 

 intend to make a better report next year, 

 for I am going to try it again. 



D. D. Palmer. Locate where you can 

 have plenty of bloom the season through. 



Which is the best way to increase, natu- 

 ral or artificial ? 



C. P. Dadant. 1 would prefer the artificial, 

 for in that way the bees are perfectly under 

 our control. 



L. H. Scudder. 1 agree with Mr. Dadant. 

 We not only get the best bees by artificial 

 swarming, but we get them just when we 

 want them. 1 would use plenty of comb- 

 foundation. 



D. D. Palmer. In the spring we have a 

 lot of strong colonies, run these for box 

 honey, the light ones run for new queens, 

 and get them strong by the time of the fall 

 run. 



C. P. Dadant. We do best by dividing 

 the less stronger colonies. If we divide the 

 lighter ones in the fall, we can give them 

 frames from the stronger ones. 



Jas. A. Simpson. 1 prefer natural swarm- 

 ing. When a hybrid swarm comes out, let 

 them settle ; then take a fertile queen from a 

 nucleus and give to the old colony. Then 

 hive your swarm, and both will go ahead at 

 once. 



How shall ive prevent the rearing of too 

 many drones ? 



C. P. Dadant. Cut out all drone comb, 

 and replace with comb-foundation. 



E. D. Godfrey. In the spring, go through 

 every colony, by changing over to other 

 hives ; cut out ail drone comb and refill the 

 spaces with worker comb, cut from others. 

 VVhere I have a hive with no drone comb, I 

 find 1 am bothered less by swarming. A 

 queen not more than two years old will not 

 bother by laying drone eggs in worker cells. 



L. H. Scudder. If all colonies in the 

 yard are deprived of drones but one, will 

 not the drones from that one disseminate all 

 over the yard. 



C. O. Perrine. In rearing only a few 

 drones we should try to raise them from our 

 choicest queens. If you intend to raise 

 your own queens and drones, raise early by 

 feeding. 



A. N. Van Camp. Is it a benefit to thus 

 deprive a colony of drones ? 



By several — Yes. 



L. H. Scudder. The reason for this cut- 

 ting out of drones, is to get rid of their eat- 

 ing so much honey and soiling the combs. 



C. P. Dadant. Two drones during their 

 lifetime, will eat as much honey as three 

 workers. I think it a benefit to cut out 

 drone comb. 



Dr. I. P. Wilson. The trees along the 

 river are full of black bees, and 1 think we 



