June 28. 1906 



American liee Journal 





HENRY SEQELKEN 



The honey commission firm of Hildreth & Segelken are 

 one of the oldest in the business. They were requested to 

 write a paper for the last National Convention. This is 

 found on page 557, and also a late picture of Mr. Segelken, 

 who is practically the firm. He wrote us as follows under 

 date of June 11, when sending his photograph : 



Editor York : — I will be 50 years of age on Nov. 16, next, and 

 for an old chap I think my picture does not look quite as badly as I 

 thought it would. Though we have been in the business 18 years, a 

 large number of our shippers, especially in the South, we have never 

 had the pleasure of meeting personally, and with your kindness they 

 can now at least take a look at the man to whom they have been ship- 

 ping so long. 



There are really no other members in our firm now. My old, dear 

 and beloved partner, Mr. L. L. Hildreth, died about 8 years ago. Dur- 

 ing all the years we were together not a hard word passed between us. 

 After his death we had a special partner in Philadephia, who died 

 suddenly last fall. His capital remains with the Arm, but on advice 

 of attorneys and others we deemed it best to incorporate our firm, 

 which was done last month. 



We have always tried to do justice to everybody, and our success 

 is wholly due to the good-will, confidence and esteem of our shippers 

 all over the country, as well as to our customers, and we do not fear 

 the future. Hy. Segelkhn. 



In the New York Mercantile and Financial Times for 

 May 19, 1906, a copy of which Mr. Segelken sent us, we find 

 a reference to the incorporation of the firm of Hildreth & 

 Segelken. From this publication we take the following 

 paragraphs : 



One of the most noticeable features of modern business life is the 

 tendency toward incorporation. This is, as a rule, always a wise move. 

 By means of incorporating the business of a concern is greatly solidi- 

 fied and widened in scope, as it were ; the members are brought into 

 closer touch with the business and each other, and additional capital 

 may be secured at a time required by the issue of new stock. 



An interesting case in point is the incorporation of Hildreth & 

 Segelken, of New York, located at 205 and 267 Greenwich street, and 

 82 and 84 Murray street, under the laws of this State, with a capitali- 

 zation of $65,000, under the old-style name. The business was estab- 

 lished in 18SS, and President Henry Segelken, of the new company, 

 has been identified with the business for the pa6t 26 years, and has 

 been looked upon as an authority among the trade of this section for 

 some time past. 



The house occupies a prominent position in the trade, and its 

 success may be attributed not alone to the long and thorough experi- 

 ence that has been brought to bear in the conduct of its affairs, but 

 also to the excellence of its facilities. A special feature of the busi- 

 ness is the selling of car lots. 



The company are direct importers from Jamaica, San Domingo, 

 Cuba and the West Indies, having their own buyer located at Havana, 

 also Los Angeles, for the California product, which, with the Florida 

 output, they ship to all parts of the United States, and export largely 

 to England, Germany, Holland and Belgium. One of their specialties 

 is the handling of comb honey of the highest grades, especially the 

 New York State product. 



The incorporation of the business was certainly a progressive 

 move, and one that is destined to make Messrs. Hildreth & Segelken's 

 presence strongly felt in the trade. 



We are very glad indeed to present to our readers the 

 foregoing account of the firm of Hildreth & Segelken, as they 

 have for so many years quoted the New York honey market 

 in the American Bee Journal, and at different times have 

 patronized our advertising columns, which they are now 

 doing to a limited extent. So far as we remember, we have 

 not seen a single complaint against Hildreth A Segelken 

 from any shipper of honey, etc., during all the time that we 

 have been connected with the American Bee Journal, which 

 now is over 22 years. They certainly have made a fine rec- 

 ord, for, if any complaints were due them, we certainly 

 would have heard of them during all these years. No won- 

 der Mr. Segelken closes his brief letter to us with these 

 words : " and we do not fear the future." Surely, any busi- 



ness firm that deal justly, and make the interest of their 



patrons their first consideration, need not worry concerning 



their future. 



M i i 



fl. A. GILL 



On page 558 will be found a late photograph of Mr. M. 

 A. Gill, of Longmont, Colo. He is one of the leading bee- 

 keepers of that State, and one of the best convention men 

 in all beedom. When sending his picture, June 11, he wrote 

 these few words about his present honey prospect : 



Our honey-flow is just coming on, and swarming as well. With 

 1000 colonies to handle, and 100 miles to drive each week, it amounts 

 to a " strenuous life." 



One year, we believe, Mr. Gill had 70,000 pounds of 

 alfalfa comb honey. If we remember correctly, his whole 

 family are interested in the bee-work. It is doubtless as 

 "sweet " a family as is indicated by the number of colonies 

 of bees they handle and the amount of honey produced 

 when they have a fair crop. We trust they will be able to 

 make a good report by the end of the present season. 



r ,■ Contributed 



Jj!# Articles 





Prevention of Swarming When Working 

 for Extracted Honey 



BY G. M. DOOLITTI.E. 



A CORRESPONDENT wishes me to give the best 

 method of preventing the swarming of bees when 

 working for extracted honey, adding, "The bees are 

 to be at an out-apiary." 



Bees seem far less inclined to swarm when worked 

 for extracted honey than when worked for section or 

 comb honey, hence the prevention of swarming when 

 working for extracted honey does not require nearly so 

 vigorous treatment as when working wholly for section 

 honey. In fact, my experience says that when a person 

 has plenty of supers filled with drawn combs, so that each 

 colony can be given I, 2, 3, or even 4 hives full of frames 

 of comb, giving these I at a time, a little in advance of 

 their being filled with honey to the sealing point, there 

 need be no treating for swarms in other ways, as not one 

 colony in 50 will swarm when they are given hives of 

 comb in this way. 



As regards swarming, it matters not whether these 

 combs are given in the way spoken of, or all at once, but 

 better results in honey will be obtained when given 1 

 hive at a time, as the bees progress with their work in 

 them, than will be the case if the whole number of upper 

 hives filled with empty combs are given all at once. 



That pioneer in bee-keeping, here in the east, Moses 

 Quinbv. told us as early as 1865, in his "Mysteries of Bee- 

 Keeping Explained," that if a colony was placed in a 

 large dry-goods box, and filled it with comb, such a col- 

 ony would not, as a rule, swarm ever afterward; or words 

 to that effect. He also told us, that if a swarm hived in 

 this same box, which the first year built comb sufficient 

 to fill onlv about 2,000 cubic inches of the large space, 

 such a colony would generally swarm before they would 

 add very much to the combs they already had. From 

 this the correct inference was drawn that merely empty 

 space in any hive, or in a super or supers above the brood- 

 nest, would not prevent swarming; but with the same 

 space filled with empty comb-, -warming w-as practically 

 done away with. And" in all of my experience with bees 

 along this line I have found Quinby correct. 



But there are very few at the present day, who wish 

 to give comb-room in a big box, or even in .?. 4. or 5 

 hives set one top of the other in such a way that the 

 queen has access to all of these combs, for in so doing 



