1894. 



the a mi: an \ 1 n bee- keeper. 



not have to compete with the broken, 

 stained mussy honey in the market. 

 A comission man offered me 16 cents, 

 but I thought thai two cents would 

 pay my expenses and give me a 

 chance to see the city. The R. R. Co. 

 said they had no right to receive it 

 without the eases being crated as per 

 Mr. Ripley, but as nothing else was 

 in the car they did not care. Of 

 course I removed the stove before the 

 car started. I think the car would 

 have gone safely to New York, only 

 for the transferring. The Mayor told 

 me I could not sell from house to 

 house without a license, but others 

 said I could sell anything I raised. — 

 J. C. Stewart in Review. {Hopkins, Mo.) 



MANAGING BEES SO AS TO MAKE THEM 

 PROFITABLE. 



I started last spring with 13 colo- 

 nies of hybrid bees, one being queen- 

 lesfe. I increased them to 18, and got 

 about 500 pounds of comb honey in 

 one-pound sections. I use V-shape 

 starters 4 inches wide at the top, and 

 2 inches long. In the center of the 

 sections I fasten them in with a hand- 

 made machine. I made a section- 

 press or machine with which I use a 

 treadle. As soon as a section is 

 doubled it is pressed together. I can 

 fold and press about 15 to the minute. 

 It is on the principle of the old sash 

 saw. 



I use sect ion -cases made of ^ inch 

 boards, holding 14 sections to the 

 case, two cases filling one Langstroth 

 hive. I use a wood-slat honey-board 

 with four openings for t he bees to pass 

 up through. I scarcely ever have 

 any pollen in the sections. I don't 

 have any " young swarms." I man- 

 age to have empty combs to start on 



in the beginning of the -.vanning sea- 

 son, and when my first BWarm comes 

 off, I put it on empty combs with two 

 or three frames out of the hive whose 

 colony just swarmed. I then put it 

 on the stand of the old hive, with 

 partly-filled sections, and then remove 

 to a new hive. In 15 minutes they 

 are at work nicely, as the bees in the 

 field come in loaded with honey, they 

 are inclined to pass on up to the sec- 

 tions to unload before they do much 

 below, and as I get all the working- 

 force in the new hive, there are bees 

 enough to carry on all the work above 

 and in the brood -chamber. Now if 

 the flow of nectar continues good, in 

 six to ten days the sections are fin- 

 ished, ready to take off, or tier up 

 and have them finished on top of 28 

 empty sections. 



Now for the old colony: If I have 

 any weak colony I set this old hive 

 on it, closing it up so the bees have 

 to pass out through the hive of the 

 weak colony; in a short time another 

 swarm conies off. I still have empty 

 combs, so I go to the hive I have on 

 top of the weak colony, take out 

 about three frames, still partly-filled 

 with brood (seeing they have no 

 queen-cells,) put them in with the old 

 combs, and putting on the partly- 

 filled sections same as on No. 1. 

 When I have no more weak colonies 

 I tier up old brood-chambers after 

 swarming, and when a new swarm 

 come.- alter this, I smoke down all the 

 young hatched bees in the top hive, 

 remove all queen-cells, and put this 

 on the old stand, as in the beginning. 



Now, in a few days the bottom 

 brood -chamber, into which I drove 

 the bees from the top brood chamber, 

 is ready for sections. I go to one of 



