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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 26, 



on top of the sections was only a nuisance to hira : then in 

 went another deluge of smoke, among ihe white capping of 

 the section honey. Next, off came the super of honey. Just 

 boiling full of bees. He then tried the " shake-out " process, 

 f?enerally accompanied with a sort of war-dance, with excla- 

 mations that sounded like " bad lujin '' talk. The super would 

 then be set up edgewise on the ground, while the nozzle of the 

 smoker was applied to the openings on one side, while the bee- 

 brush got in its work on the other side, and the apiarist (?) 

 pumpt smoke through the nice, white honey, until it lookt, 

 tasted and smelt as if it had been the very last thing rescued 

 from a burning barn. 



Late in the season the bees are loth to leave the sections, 

 even after they have been piled up in the bee-yard for several 

 hours; but if the supers can be left out over night the bees 

 will either get out early in the morning or cluster in a few 

 sections, when they can be lifted out and shaken on the 

 ground, after which they will soon find their way home. All 

 leaking or uncapt sections can be returned to the hive for 

 the bees to finish during the working season, or packt as sec- 

 ond class. If not filled well enough to sell they can be ex- 

 tracted, and used for "baits" next season. In fact, I try to 

 have the bees draw foundation as late in the season as possi- 

 ble, in order to have a lot of drawn combs to start the next 

 season with. 



PACKING AND MARKETING HONEY. 



While on this subject, under the good of the order, I 

 might be permitted to say a few words about packing and 

 marketing the honey. Since the advent of the deep-cell foun- 

 dation, the cheerful idiot is again cavorting on his hobby of 

 bogus comb honey, filled with glucose, sugar, syrup, etc., 

 (id nauscum. Life is too short to make a personal matter of it 

 with those chattering Jack-er-daws, and some of the honey is 

 packt in such a slovenly manner as to justify the bees in dis- 

 owning it. Therefore, to my mind, the best thing for a self- 

 respecting comb-honey producer to do is to see that his honey 

 is put up in proper shape, and then label each section, stating 

 thereon that it contains " Pure Honey," and adding his name 

 and address as a guarantee that it is the unmixt product of 

 the bees. Section labels, printed in four colors, cost only 75 

 cents a thousand, and can be had for less in larger lots. This 

 is only 7J^ cents for labels enough to label 100 pounds of 

 honey. To put them on rapidly, just brush the paste on the 

 sections after they are all packt, then lay the labels on and 

 smooth with a clean, dry cloth. 



The middle-man generally does not like to see the sections 

 labeled with the producer's name, but, under the existing cir- 

 cumstances, it seems necessary, and will not interfere with his 

 calling in the least, for as long as we allow a few private indi- 

 viduals and corporations to own and control our money, we 

 will be confronted with a restricted market and falling prices, 

 which makes the middleman a necessity. And when we mount 

 on that " wave of prosperity " (let her wave) we will need him 

 Just the same, for then the producer cannot afford to take the 

 time to hunt the purchaser for his products. — Pacific Bee 

 JourDal. 



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given In Dr. Howard's pamphlet on " Foul Brood ; Its Natural 

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OONDUOTBD BY 



DR. O. O. JUILLBR, MARENGO, ILL, 



[Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal, or to Dr. Miller direot.l 



Selling Sugar Syrup Tor Honey. 



Some people that I know, are feeding their bees sugar 

 syrup and selling it for comb honey. Is there any way to 

 stop it ? If so, how ? There is more of this kind of fraud 

 than I imagined, till I tried to sell some of my white clover 

 honey put up in one-pound boxes in white cases. Some would 

 say it is too nice ; that they had bought some just like it that 

 wasn't honey, and askt me if I fed my bees sugar to make it. 



W. D. C. 



Answer. — This is a matter for the United States Bee- 

 Keepers' Union. Join that body if you have not already done 

 so, and help it to put down all sorts of fraud against bee- 

 keepers. But the suspicions of your customers are hardly 

 positive proof that any one is getting combs of honey filled 

 with sugar syrup. 



Colony Tearing Foundation Oul of llie Seelions. 



I had a strong colony on which I placed a super of sec- 

 tions filled with full sheets of foundation, about July 15. The 

 bees immediately tore out all the foundation, and even pasted 

 a good deal of it all over the sections. There wasn't a bit left 

 hanging. 



1. Why did they do that ? 



2. What could I have done to prevent such tantalizing 

 actions on the part of the bees ? Algonquin. 



Answers. — 1. I don't know. Possibly there was some- 

 thing wrong with the foundation. Indeed, that's about the 

 only guess I can make, providing there was a good flow of 

 honey when the foundation was given them. I have known 

 bees to gnaw out very thin foundatian if they were allowed to 

 have it at a time when no honey was coming in. 



2. If the trouble was with the foundation, of course the 

 only remedy would be to give foundation to which the bees 

 could make no objection. 



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Clipping Queens- -Dronc-Conib Foundation — 

 Taking Oft' Honey. 



1. I notice in Frank Benton's book, as publisht by the 

 Government, that he advised clipping one wing of the queen 

 one season, and the other the next season. Is this your prac- 

 tice? 



2. I have had splendid success this year with my bees. I 

 will average 100 pounds to the colony, spring count, but as I 

 practice clipping my queens, and hiving on the old stand, I 

 secure my largest crop from the current year's swarms, by 

 hiving on starters. But I find that this practice gives me 

 more drone-comb than I want. I have thought that this 

 might be prevented if we had extra-thin foundation on the 

 drone-cell order, and I use full sheets of this- drone-comb 

 foundation in the section-boxes, and inch starters of worker- 

 foundation in the body. My question is this: Do you think 

 this would be any advantage in lessening the amount of drone- 

 comb built in the brood-nest ? I believe that it would be best 

 to use extra-thin drone-comb in the sections, as it would be 

 less wax, and also a saving of time for the bees. 



3. Is there any drone-comb foundation, extra-thin, made? 

 If so, where ? 



4. You say you do not use bee-escapes. How do you get 

 the bees out of the supers ? Arkansas. 



Answkhs. — 1. No, my queens are generally all dipt alike, 

 the two wings on the left side being taken off. For those who 

 keep no record of their queens, there would be an advantage 

 in clipping differently in alternating years. To make the ad- 

 vantage very great, however, It would bo necessary to replace 



