July 5, 1906 



American Ttee Journal 



honey. If you put into that hive some empty combs on 

 the outside it has the same effect for the time being. The 

 bees put honey into these empty cells and they stop the 

 production of wax. I think it is a detriment rather than 

 an advantage. I prefer to have every section filled, and then 

 the bees arc secreting wax. 



Mr. Stewart — My experience is in working the brood 

 in shallow supers, by getting the bees nicely started in the 

 tops, and then putting on a case for comb honey and tiering 

 up, it does not check them, and they will work in the sec- 

 tions below as if they had a case of sections above them. 

 I don't think there is any difference. A person wants to use 

 judgment as to when they shall put under that case of sec- 

 tions. 



Mr. McEvoy — Now I think we can work this all right. 

 We are going to work for both comb and extracted honey. 

 This gentleman is going to put a frame for extracting and 

 comb on the outside. That is all right. In the first place, 

 fill those in between with foundation, and after they have 

 extracted the first round the bees will brush up those drip- 

 ping with honey, and they will pull those combs out between 

 the sections very readily till I get them started. They are 

 going to crowd the queen, and it is going to lead to a little 

 early swarming. Now, I will head off the swarms and then 

 take out the extracting frames and shove these others up. I 

 will hang a separator back of the frame and crowd them up, 

 and now they have gone to work in that, and I will secure 

 a quantity of honey, and I will take more dollars out of it 

 than on the other section. Try it, and you will find I am 

 prettv near right on that. I have worked at that since 

 1882.' 



Mr. Wheeler — I would like to ask Mr. McEvoy — why, in- 

 stead of putting in full sheets of foundation and making them 

 build it out for extracted honey, he does not put in sections 

 just as well? 



Mr. McEvoy — If I said that, I made a mistake. This is 

 nice white comb. I raise it up and I put under a super or 

 half-story comb to keep them working there. The space which 

 is between the bottom and the top is just the same as was 

 talked of, only it is a narrow frame and they crowd up. Give 

 it a trial. If you find the season coming to a close, you can 

 take 2 or 3 and put them in the center in extracting, and put 

 the extracting combs on each side. They will come out with- 

 out any being unfinished. 



Dr. Miller — Mr. McEvoy spoke of having nice white 

 comb there, and that point must be emphasized. If some of 

 you think you can take old black combs and put them in 

 there you will find the black comb will be carried over to 

 your sections. 



Mr. McEvoy — You are right. It will spoil them. 



Mr. Pettit — There is a point in the subject matter of 

 this paper, which I think I heard emphasized, and that is this 

 shallow extracting super. It is about the right quantity of 

 space you want to put on in the spring for fruit-bloom. It 

 takes up the dark fruit-bloom honey, and what dark fall 

 honey there is to go up, and that goes up into these combs, 

 and then the sections are put on afterwards, and they get 

 the white honey. And there is another point, when they get 

 to working in these combs you don't want to take them 

 away just when you put on the foundation, because I find 

 without using the extracting combs we don't want to have 

 them start storing honey in the extracting combs, and then 

 take these off and put on foundation, because that imme- 

 diately makes them sulk, and swarm before they start on 

 the sections. 



(Continued next week.j 



Honey as a Health-Food. — -This is a 16-page honey- 

 pamphlet intended to help increase the demand for honey. 

 The first part of it contains a short article on "Honey as 

 Food,'" written by Dr. C. C. Miller. It tells where to keep 

 honey, how to liquefy it, etc. The last part is devoted to 

 "Honey-Cooking Recipes" and "Remedies Using Honey." 

 It should be widely circulated by those selling honey. The 

 more the people are educated on the value and uses of 

 honey, the more honey they will buy. 



Prices, prepaid — Sample copy for a two-cent stamp; SO 

 copies for 70 cts.; 100 for $1.25; 250 for $2.25; 500 for $4.00; 

 or 1,000 for $7.50. Your business card printed free at the 

 bottom of front page on all orders for 100 or more copies. 

 Send all orders to the office of the American Bee Journal. 



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ouftiGriT\ 

 Beedom ^ 



Conducted by Louis H. Scholl, New Braunfels, Tex. 



Successful and Easy Way to Work Up a Home 

 Honey Market 



In response to the call for experience in working up a 

 home market, I will give mine. 



I found there was a great deal of prejudice in my home 

 town against extracted honey, the people thinking it was 

 the old-fashioned " strained " honey. About every other 

 lady I tried to sell honey to said, " Oh 1 I don't like strained 

 honey. I want comb honey." I would then explain the 

 difference between "strained" honey and extracted, and 

 wind up by sellingher half a gallon, or a gallon, of ex- 

 tracted honey, with the distinct understanding that if she 

 did not like it, or it was not entirely satisfactory, she was 

 to return what was left, after giving it a fair trial, and get 

 all of her money back. I never had any returned. 



But that was too slow — explaining to every other custo- 

 mer, so I wrote an article for the local paper, explaining 

 the difference, and announced that at a certain time and 

 place on the principal street I would give a free exhibition, 

 showing the latest method of extracting, and the difference 

 between extracted and "strained " honey. 



When the time arrived I was there with the extractor 

 and a lot of supers of honey, and a frame of brood for illus- 

 trating the old method of securing strained honey. I showed 

 them that extracted honey was exactly the same thing as 

 comb honey with the comb left out. I passed an empty 

 comb around for them to taste, thus showing that the comb 

 had no taste, and all the taste of comb honey was in the 

 liquid honey contained in the comb. 



" Seeing is believing," and I converted this whole town 

 in 30 minutes. They bought all I extracted on the spot, 

 and gave me orders for more. And never since that day 

 have I had anybody tell me he liked comb honey and did 

 not like extracted. 



I still sell some comb honey to a few people who do not 

 mind a little extra expense, but the great majority call for 

 extracted honey. 



Try it, fellow bee-keepers. Don't take it for granted 

 that everybody else knows all you know about bees and 

 honey. H. D. Murry. 



Texas. 



Send Questions either to the office of tbe American Bee Journal, 



or to Dr. C. C. Miller. Marengo, 111. 



tt^*" Dr. Miller does not answer Questions by mail. 



aueen-Experlence-Getttnjj Drones from a Distance 



Last year I purchased 3 Italian queens to try to help a widow and 

 her family get a start. They tried to winter them in the barn, but the 

 result was that the stores were consumed or robbed out, and all the 

 bees died but 1 colony. There were not enough bees to keep the brood 

 warm. The queen was laying 2, aud sometimes 3, eggs in one cell. 

 When I noticed this I advised placing them in the bouse, with an exit 

 of about 1 inch through the bottom of the window, bending a piece 

 of sheet-iron to allow it to answer as a chute, and closing the balance 

 of the window with a strip of board to prevent the wind from blow- 

 ing in, and screening the remainder of the entrance to the hive, there- 

 by allowing the warm air of the room to pass freely through the hive, 



