90 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



but onlv as a luxury, to l)e indulged in occasionally. Rich pci)j)le 

 seldom buv it. In the territory where I sold extracted honey for 

 ten years, by house to house canvassinti", there were hundreds of lani- 

 ilies that consumed 24: lbs. or more of extracted honey, but I never 

 found but one family that had 24 lbs. of comb honey in the house 

 at one time. Of course people bought a section at a time from the 

 grocer, but said grocer, in the fashionable end of a very aristocratic 

 college town, only sold two cases of section honey in a season, 

 while I distributed two tons of extracted honey in less than a 

 month. 



But — that was when I bought fine clover and basswood honey 

 for TJ/^c, and sold it at I'^jAc. When the honey advanced to iDc, 

 and I attempted to retail at 15c, it was a case of quit or walk home, 

 especially when wages were cut 20 per cent. So I abandoned the 

 fine trade acquaintance that had taken years of time and hard work 

 to establish, joined a couple of friends to form The Piney Creek 

 Honey Co., of ^Monterey Co., California, and enjoy rustling bees 

 again as of old. 



To increase the coiisinnptioii of Jioucy as a food, cut out the 

 comb honey production and devote the time and talents to producing 

 and distributing i^ood, ripe, clean, extracted honey at a reasonable 

 price. 



Handling Eleven Apiaries in Three Counties in the 

 Production of Bulk Comb Honey. 



PRODUCES BULK COMB HONEY.— INSPECTS EACH COLONY EVERY 

 TEN DAYS.— SPLITTING THE BROOD-NEST.— STARTING INCREASE. 



By H. D. MURRAY, Mathis, Texas. 



(Inspecting every colony in eleven apiaries every ten days would look like a 

 big- job to most of us if we had never had any experience along that line, Init I 

 will say the job is not so big as it looks. For one season I worked with a comb 

 honey producer who personally inspected each one of his colonies, between three 

 and four hundred, each week, and this man went so far as to go over every 

 frame in each hive wdierever there were indications of swarming. While I have 

 never tried or seen tried the plan outlined below by Mr. Murray, yet I can sec 

 no reason why it should not be practical in a warm climate, but I should hesitate 

 to split brood-nests very early in the spring in our northern climate. It seems 

 to me there would be too much chance for chilled brood in those outside comlis. 

 The best argument in favor of the plan, however, is the success that the man is 

 meeting with in using that plan, and if Mr. Murray is handling eleven apiaries 

 under the plan, there certainly must be a merit in the same.) 



'^^S^ X com])liance with your request for something al)out how I 



/]l manage ele\-en apiaries in three counties, I will do my best 



at trying to explain. 



As I do all my work myself, I have to l)egin in the latter part 



of the winter jnitting foundations in the shallow frames we use in 



the production of bulk comb honey. I try to get this all done by 



