isie 



GLKANINCJS IN UKK CULTURP:. 



32:-) 



they will i-nst yon a frn^at deal loss than four 

 dollars per colony, hi'sidcs tiic experience and 

 fnn you liave. I iMu'l side witli our Texas 

 friend. I liave no short cuts, hut lind thai I 

 pet well paiil for all fussinji that I can do. I 

 should like to read more from our Texas hreth- 

 ren. as our State is so different from others. 

 Linn Crove. Texas. Z. S. Wkavki{. 



[The instructions given ahovo are good in the 

 main; hut foi' the heuetit of beginners, perhaps 

 some limitations ought to he made. There is 

 much danger in spreading brood. Many times 

 we havi> cold nights and days, even aftei- wo 

 think the weatlier is settled" for warm. The 

 result is. the brood is kiiliHl and the colony is 

 setback. As a general thing it is best for be- 

 ginners to lot nature tak(> its own course. Mr. 

 Weaver's plan for dividing the hoes may work, 

 but we prefer to do it this way: Put the (iiioon, 

 one-third of the brood, and "two-thirds of the 

 bees on the new stand. A largo part of the 

 bees, not used to the new stand, will return to 

 the old one. The consoqnonce will bo. that 

 each stand will have aliout an equal division of 

 bees. The now stand will have one-third the 

 brood: but it has the queen, and therofoie tlio 

 power to go right on witli brood -rearing, while 

 the old stand with two-tliirds of the brood will 

 have to wait until they can raise a queen; 

 therefore they ought to have the more brood. 



Wo tried this plan of dividing last season, and 

 it worked very nicely. As a general thing we 

 secured about an e(iual division of the bees, 

 and both colonies would incroas*^ to about the 

 same strength, both having equal advantage in 

 the first place as near as we could make it.] 



SHIPPING-CASES. 



THK ADVANTAGE OF A DOUBLE - TIER CASE 

 OVER A SINGLE-TIER. 



One way of making our honey look well, so 

 as to find a ready market, is to have a nice 

 shipping-case— one that will show off the honey 

 to the best advantage, and insure its safe ship- 

 ment, oven if it costs a trifle more. I know 

 that, at the present price of honey, the cents 

 have to be counted pretty closely. But the 

 question is. whether we lose or gain in the long 

 run. The sliip]ting-case was bi'ought up foi' 

 discussion in tlie Chicago convention, and I be- 

 lieve the majority present were in favor of the 

 single-tier case. 



l"J-I.r.. SINGLE-TIER AND :.'4-i,ii. douhlktikk 

 CASES. 



We have always used the double-tier case 

 holding :24 sections, and perhaps for that reason 

 I am pi'ojudicod in its favor. I know it costs a 

 little more, and hence many condemn it. Per- 

 haps we ourselves may some day. Hut I don't 

 believe there is any other case that will show 

 off the honey to as good advantage as the 



double-tier 24-seclion case. There is less wood 

 and more honey shown by it than by any other 

 cas(> 1 know of. Many say it does not ship w(>ll, 

 and I presume they are right about it as they 

 use it and as we formeily used it. We piled 

 one tier of sections on top of the other, letting 

 the upi>er tier of sections rest on the lower ones; 

 and I must say. using it in tliat way is very ob- 

 iectionable; for. do the best you can, you are 

 likely to have a sticky, dauby mess of it, as 

 there will Ijo broken sections unless «!vory sec- 

 tion is exactly square; and even if it is, there 

 will still be the weight of the upper sections 

 resting on the lower ones, which is sometimes a 

 severe strain with the bumf)ing and jolting 

 th(>y must undergo in the cars. Hut as w(! use 

 it we do away with all thes(! objectionable fea- 

 tures, and the only objection I can see to it is 

 its cost. It does cost more. But, doesn't it 

 pay? Wo have always thought so. 



Our cases are made for 24 sections 4}^x4'4'xl^, 

 using 12 sections in a tier. Between the two 

 tieis we use a board 13J^x7%x^. Each tier is 

 separated into three compartments of four sec- 

 tions each by two little boards measuring 4% 

 long by 7J<xi4. It will be seen that those little 

 boaids" project h inch higher than the sections, 

 so that the board between the upper and lower 

 tiers can not rest upon any of the sections. 

 Practically it is the same as six separate cases 

 of four sections each, with all the advantages 

 of a double-tier case. 



I think no one will deny that these cases do 

 look nice. They are a nice size to handle easily, 

 but their main superiority is that they show so 

 little wood and so much glass and honey. For 

 that reason they look better than any other 

 case I know of. 



To begin with, it is not possible to use as 

 wide glass in the single tier as in the double. 

 Now look at the cut. You will see that, in 

 place of the one central cleat in the double-tier 

 case, there must be four pieces of wood in the 

 pile of two single tiers. 12 lb., the cleat and the 

 bottom of the upper case and the cleat and top 

 of the lower case. If cleats 1^ inches wide are 

 used, and li^'-inch stuff for tops and bottoms, 

 then you have 13^ inches of wood in the one 

 case against 3 inches in the other — less than 

 half as much. As we now use sections 1% 

 wide, the dimensions of our cases will have to 

 be changed. Emma Wilson. 



Marengo, 111. 



KETAILING-CASES FOR COMB HONEY. 



HOW TO I.Ml'KOVE THE APPEARANCE OF THOSE 

 RETURNED. 



Those who shij) their honey away to be sold 

 on commission in some distant maiket. and 

 never expect to gel the empty cases back again, 

 will find nothing lointei-est them in this article. 

 There may ho some, though, who. like myself, 

 sell a groat di'al of honey direct to grocers, and 

 expect to get the cases back and use them over 

 and over again. Those may like to read some- 

 thing on how to keep them neat and presenta- 

 ble. Very likely you are getting many of them 

 back from the grocers about this time, so I will 

 speak of it now, though it may seem a little out 

 of season. 



Some grncoi's will keep a case so neat and 

 clean that it can bo used several times before it 

 begins to look dingy and dirty. Others will re- 

 turn a case so daubed and smeared and stained 

 that it seems as though every thing that could 

 stick to it was represented there by sample. 

 After this has been scrubbed off', it still looks so 

 dingy that your thoughts turn to paint. 



I used to ijaint all my retailing-cases with 

 regular oil paint. A dark color shows off the 



