PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE W T FALCONER MANFG CO 



VOL. IV. 



OCTOB&R, 1894. 



NO. IO. 



For Better Markets. 



B} W i i.r.ii: GRAB \ M E. 



Success in the apiary doe.- noi nee 

 ily follow the footprints of the 

 successful management of bees Edi- 

 son once said that it takes more ability 

 to make money from an invention 

 that it takes to make the invention. 

 In other words constructive ability is 

 one thing' and executive ability quite 

 another. In the same way it may be 

 all very easy (though it seldom is) to 

 manage the apiary up to the prepara- 

 tion of the finished product for the 

 market, and then a little mistake or 

 series of them destroys the profits of 

 the season that are seemingly already 

 in sight. One may control the varying 

 features of his own premises much 

 easier that he can control the shifting 

 conditions of the markets. But there 

 are certain schemes and makeshifts by 

 means of which even the question of 

 markets is to some extent in the hands 

 of the individual. 



Two subjects should interest the 

 apiarist ; vis : quantity and quality, 

 whereas too often the first alone is 

 recognized. It is possible then for 

 the individual by courting the general 

 neglected item to place his product 

 out of the ordinary market run and 



manufacture a market of his own as 

 it were for his special brand and at 

 his own scale of rates. In these papers 

 it is proposed to treat upon the pro- 

 duction of an article worthy of a bet- 

 ter market than the ordinary run of 

 honey, and of the establishment of 

 that market and of better prices. 



One thing is of paramount impor- 

 tance in the production of a high 

 grade honey — cleanliness. And I ap- 

 ply the term in a much wider sense 

 than is frequently given it. I assume 

 the hives are sweet and absolutely 

 clean so fur as foreign matter is con- 

 cerned. If they are new so much the 

 better. Hives made of rough or 

 weather-tarnished boards will not do. 



When the colonies are first set out 

 in the spring for a new season one 

 should have an extra bottom board in 

 place. Lift the first hive from its 

 own board and set it upon the new 

 one which is, of course, already clean. 

 Remove the dead bees from the one 

 thus exposed, clean thoroughly and 

 set in place to receive colony No 2. 

 In a similar manner prepare the bot- 

 tom board of No. 2 for No. 3, etc. 



High grade honey can only be ob- 

 tained in its perfection with high 

 grade surroundings. Cleanliness with- 



