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AMERICAN BEE JOUENAL. 



Jan. 16, 19C2 



and sowed sacks for chaff cushions till the 

 wee hours of the night, then hauled oats chaff 

 to the baru to use for filling, and in spite of 

 all I would lose some bees. There was too 

 much work in this, so I adopted this plan, 

 which has been a success so far for some 

 years: 



First, I see that every colony has plenty of 

 stores; then I take supers (without section- 

 holders), cut a thin board just to fit in the 

 rabbet at the top of the super. Then scrape 

 clean the top-bars of all burr-comb, if any. 

 then set the super on the hive. The bees 

 have room to pass over all the brood-frames 

 as they may have occasion. I put nothing 

 whatever in the supers. I have a lot of 

 boards cut and ready to drop in the suiiers, 

 and in a few hours one man can put ou a 

 great many supers. This plan has been a 

 success with me for some years. I once 

 bought a lot of the Hill's device, which are 

 now as worthless as a last year's bird's-nest. 



In my judgment, there are too many new- 

 fangled" things gotten up for the benefit of 

 the inventor and the man who manufactures 

 them, and great effort made to make the new 

 bee-man think that without these he is not 

 up-to-date in bee-keeping. In fact, I do not 

 think the bees themselves like so much red- 

 tape. 



I do not tinker much with my bees. When 

 they swarm I give them a good house to com- 

 mence in, and then let them alone. I get lots 

 of honey almost every year. Owing to the 

 severe frost and freeze of Sept. IS and lii. 

 I'Ml. the honey-flow was cut, square off. 

 which left me with more unfinished sections 

 than I have ever had at one time in my 30 

 years of bee-keeping. J. W. C. Gray. 



Piatt Co., 111., Nov. 26. 



Candied Honey — " Educating" the 

 Public. 



In a letter recently received from Mr. R. C. 

 Aikin, of Colorado, he writes that he put up 

 over 20,000 pounds of honey in lard-pails, let 

 it candy, and that now there is less than a 

 fourth of it left, or a total of 16,000 pounds of 

 candied honey sold in three months. He is 

 now buying more extracted, and proposes to 

 put it in paper bags, just " to save money and 

 to head off the tin trust," as he says. 



This goes to show what can be accomplished 

 in one's own locality by educating the con- 

 sumers. In the East they have been taught 

 to call for extracted, not candied. It may be 

 well, in view of the large amount of the glu- 

 cosed product on the market in jelly-tum- 

 blers, with a little piece of dry comb in it, to 

 educate our customers to the use of candied 

 honey. Just imagine, if you please, the glu- 

 cose people trying to make their product 

 candy solid. If the consumers of the whole 

 United States were "educated ■' or made to 

 understand" that our product in the granu- 

 lated form of a certain amount of consistency 

 was absolutelv pure, they would buy honey in 

 that shape and give the glucosed jelly-tumbler 

 the go-by. 



There, now, I do not mean to advocate that 

 we of the East should put out candied honey 

 exclusively. Oh, no! but I only desired to 

 show that where a locality is " educated " to 

 the use of honey in this form, it would buy 

 quantities and quantities of it, as well as 

 clear extracted, because it would know it was 

 getting pure honey. — Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture. 



A Long-Tongued Canard. 



A wild statement is going the rounds of the 

 European bee-journals, the last one I've seen 

 it in being LeRucher Beige, a really excellent 

 journal. In that it is said in all seriousness 

 that Mr. Root, the well-known American bee- 

 keeper, has succeeded in obtaining long- 

 tongued bees of such excellence that, not- 

 withstanding the high price at which Mr. 

 Root sells them, *200 apiece, he has not been 



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