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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



October 



department, iusteail of getting ready 

 to swarm they may be made to do so, 

 and thus secure a good crop of honey. 

 Small hives and the surplus room not 

 being prepared in good time, will in- 

 duce the bees to swarm excessively in 

 a good honey season. 



1 run my apiary for extracted honey. 

 At the beginning of the honey flov/, 

 having extracted combs, I give them 

 to the bees, and so get them to work. 

 I have only had about twenty per cent, 

 increase, while many around me have 

 had 100 or more per cent, increase. 

 But I have got honey to show for my 

 work in the apiary, while others have 

 bees. 



I now have my apiary in good trim 

 for the fall flow when it starts, and I 

 am looking for a good one. The bees 

 are now getting a good living, and 

 some perhaps storing a little. This 

 keeps up brood rearing so as to have a 

 large force for the fall How. 



If I were working for section or 

 comb honey, I would bait sections, 

 even if I had to prepare them, to get 

 the bees to go to work early in ihem. 

 The careful apiarist can very mater- 

 ially help in the honey crop, if he will 

 work the bees in the right way. 



While there will be a good honey 

 crop this season, I would advise honey 

 producers not to demoralize the honey 

 market by rushing their honey to mar- 

 ket too early. And also be careful 

 about shipping honey to parties not 

 known. In fact, I have always man- 

 aged to find sale for my crop of honey 

 around home. 1 would rather give my 

 neighbors the benefit of low prices 

 than to ship my honey, and be com- 

 pelled then to take a low price. Of 

 course more honey may be secured in 

 some localities than one can fiud a de- 



mand for, but there are very many 

 people who seldom, if ever, get any 

 honey to eat. So with push, one may 

 dispose of a good crop. A good ar- 

 ticle is very likely to find customers, 

 for it is delicious, and people want it. 

 Mexico, Mo. 



(From Bee Keeper:? Review.) 



HOW TO SELL HUNEY fiEAR HOME 

 AT GOOD PRICES. 



BY FRED H. LOUCKS. 



I am more and more impressed as 

 to the necessity of disposing of our 

 honey near home as the best and 

 surest way of maintaining prices, and 

 the good of all concerned. lam sure 

 that nine-tenths of all the beekeepers 

 could get more money out of their 

 honey if only they would drum up a 

 home trade instead of shipping to a 

 congested centre, saying nothing of 

 dishonest commission merchants. 



My comb honey is all put into three 

 grades, according to the following 

 rules: No. 1 White, straight, clean, 

 nicely capped and filled boxes, retail 

 selling price, 14c.; in large lots, not 

 less than 100 pounds, 12^c. No. 2, 

 slightly colored, corners not filled or 

 capped and small imperfections of the 

 comb, retails at I2^c. No. 3, dark, 

 crooked, half filled or half capped, 

 retail price, lOc. I have private cus- 

 tomers enough to Lakp all of grades 2 

 and 3 at my house. Now graile No. 1 

 in nice, clean crates, with paper under 

 each layer of sections, so there can be 

 no dripping of honey inside, or out of 

 the crate. Drum the grocery trade 

 first, and if you strike a man who 

 will take 200 pounds, or contract for 

 100 or 200 pounds, seill to him, allow- 

 ing a di.-count, which you can afford 



