June 26, 1 •( 2 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



413 



knife with a hooked point is inserted, 

 and a comb cut out and dropped into a 

 broad sliallow copper — well, I will call 

 it a kettle. Two or more of these are 

 used; and when one is tilled it is taken 

 to the palm honey-house for further 

 treatment, while the man with the 

 the knife fills the other kettles. The 

 board on the rear end of the hive is 

 taken off aiid the honey is cut from 

 both ends of the hive or until the 

 worker-brood is exposed. Although I 

 was not a witness to it, I am informed 

 that drone-brood is also cut out and 

 dropped into the dish with the honey. 



In the honey-cabin the honey-comb 

 in the round-bottomed kettle is thor- 

 oughly pulverized with a large wooden 

 pestle or pounder. From the kettle 

 the mashed honey is emptied into wil- 

 low baskets of much the same shape as 

 the kettles — broad and shallow. 



Upon one side of the palm cabin is a 

 huge trough 10 or 12 feet long. This, 

 too, is made from the royal palm, and 

 sometimes is of such size as to hold 

 several barrels of honey. The baskets 

 with mashed honey-combs are placed 

 over the trough and left to drain. I 

 supposed these baskets would have to 

 drain for along time,but was informed 

 that the combs, being so thoroughly 

 pulverized and warm, the honey would 

 drain out in half an hour, and the ref- 

 use then dumped into an open barrel 

 or into another palm-tree trough, where 

 it could be solidly packed against the 

 day of rendering into .beeswax, which 

 operation is performed in larger kettles, 

 according to the boiling process, and 

 under some adjoining tree. 



When the trough is filled with honey 

 it is drawn off into the large bocoy 

 outside the building. 



Ebb and Tide in Bee-Keeping. 



Some 15 to 20 years ago a man in 

 this county and about 10 miles north- 

 east of here, made in one season SI, 000 

 with 100 colonies, at least so it was re- 

 ported. Of course it was not long un- 

 til nearly all his neighbors were keep- 

 ing bees, and at one time there must 

 have been something near 300 colonies 

 in that neighborhood. In enumerating 

 that section in June, 1900, if my mem- 

 ory serves me correctly, I did not find 

 10 colonies all together. This is one 

 straw that points toward a decrease in 

 tne number of colonies kept in Mis- 

 souri. Is it not probable that there 

 are many similar cases? — S. E. MiLl.SR, 

 in the Progressive Bee-Keeper. 



Keeping Bees Without a Bee-Booli 

 OF Paper. 



Commencing with six colonies on 

 frames, I run them the first season 

 without a bee book or journal, think- 

 ing I could manage them with a knowl- 

 edge I had gained from my father, he 

 having kept bees in hollow logs and 

 square boxes. I lost one colony the 

 first season. In the latter part of 

 August, while overhauling them, I 

 found a number of queen-cells in one 

 hive sealed over, preparatory, as I 

 thought, to swarm, as I thought it too 

 late in the season for them to build up 

 and store enough honey to winter on, 

 and as I had seen in some paper or 

 somewhere else that cutting out queen- 

 cells would stop swarmiiig, and being 

 anxious to try my hand, I cut out the 



cells. As it was a strong colony I 

 thought I would get one super of fall 

 honey from thuiu. In about two weeks, 

 on looking al them I foun<l they had 

 dwindled down to an average colony. 

 The next time I looked at them 

 I found they had dwindled below 

 an average colony. The next time I 

 looked at thctn, 1 found there were but 

 few bees in the gum, and on closer ex- 

 amination, I found they had no queen. 

 I then added them to another colony. 

 I learned afterwards it was a case of 

 supersedure. If I had had a bee-book, 

 I would have learned from it what to 

 do, and would not have lost them, and 

 the bees would have paid the price of 

 two or three books. So much for try- 

 ing to run an apiary without a bee book 

 or journal. — T. W. Mokton, in the 

 Progressive Bee Keeper. 



Tempepatupe Affects Ppopoption of 

 Extpaeted to Comb Honey. 



No matter how good the honey-flow 

 may be, if warm weather, especially 

 warm nights, are wanting, there will 

 be very little wax-production. Full 

 super combs often make a difference 

 between a crop or no crop of honey. 

 The past season's experience taught 

 me that when the nights were cool, no 

 wax was secreted. I was producing 

 sections and found those bees that had 

 not to build comb, produced considera- 

 bly more than those that were given 

 foundation only. The previous season, 

 which was warm throughout, gave me 

 almost as much comb honey per colony 

 as extracted. I have no doubt, where 

 bee-keepers' experiences vary, the dif- 

 ference is due to the unlike conditions 

 surrounding during observation. — Aus- 

 tralasian Bee-Keeper. 



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