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(ILEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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desirable to nuiko Immediate shipnuMits of ex- 

 tracted honey. If you had an order for a car- 

 load of extracted honey put up in lard-cans for 

 im mediate deli very.. just as the honey came from 

 the hives, it might be a problem as to how you 

 would get this to a distant market without a 

 good deal of leakage. Then, too, a package 

 thai is easily opened is liable to be tampered 

 with by naughty boys and freight-handlers en 

 route. The standard fruit can package solder- 

 ed tight will go safely, whether candied or not. 

 Honey put up in these cans could be shipped 

 immediately. Where honey is put up in nested 

 pails it ought to wait till it is candied before it 

 It is ready for market.— Ed.] 



HONEY IN THE DANZENBAKER SECTIONS. 



TUE OPINIOX OF THE MA.IORITY NOT ALWAYS 

 RIGHT. 



By B. F. Ondcidouk. 



Mr. Root:— The 1000 " Danzy " sections came 

 to hand, and are highly satisfactory; the 

 change in width of bottom and top adding one- 

 eighth will help the appearance of the finished 

 section, and make the weight, when filled, a 

 plump pound. I notice the bees this year draw 

 the combs beyond the wood at the bottom of 

 last year's sections, so the glass presses on the 

 honey. I have taken off three supers of Danzy 

 sections so far, and the lightest fveighed 143^ 

 oz.: heaviest, 16J|^ oz.; but the majority weigh 

 plump 15 oz. I sell all I can produce, at 20 cts. 

 each; the 4)^x1^ at 15 cts. If you look in the 



Americdn Dee Journal, p. 378, under "Ques- 

 tion-box," Prov. 11: 14, you will wonder how 

 scripture texts can be twisted to suit the views 

 of fossils. Captain Hetherington ordered 50,000 

 cartons for tall sections from one house in New 

 York, and yet out of 22 experts only three in 

 the aforesaid Question-box favor tall sections; 

 and one of them. Rev. M. Mahin, says: "But I 

 am not sure but that, if I used another style 

 of hive, I should prefer 4)^x43^x2," doubtless 



meaning what is arbitrarily styled the stand- 

 ard section. 



I know little about bee-keeping. I am an 

 amateur of two years' practice, commencing in 

 May, 1895, with three colonies, and, buying one 

 nucleus of Carniolans, have increased to 30 col- 

 onies at this date; but when I see the Danzen- 

 baker section filled solid to the wood all round 

 —sides, top, and bottom, while my 4}4 sections 

 have passageways through each lower corner, 

 and even the whole bottom open, I feel a Chris- 

 tian regret for the experts, and rather hope to 

 die an amateur. 



By the way, I have always looked upon the 

 tin strips on super bottoms, to hold the sec- 

 tions, as an abomination, and have found a 

 way out. I drive carpet-staples X inch Into 

 the end-bars of holders, and hang them in the 

 rabbets, using a device like the "dividers" one 

 of our friends writes about on one side, and 3^- 

 inch strips on the other. The bee-space all 

 around seems a great comfort to the bees. 



Mountain View, N. J., June 29. 



[We have before had reports from those who 

 have been using the 4x5 sections and the 43^. 

 The former, in nearly every case, 1 think, sold 

 for a higher price in the open market. Whether 

 this dilTerence was owing to this fact that the 

 4x5 looked larger by contrast than the square 

 ones and therefore brought more money, or 

 whether the oblong shape is really more desir- 

 able even when alone. Is hard to say. If the 4x5 

 sells at a higher price because of the more 

 pleasing contl-ast, then when the square sec- 

 tions are crowded out of the 

 market I am of the opinion 

 that the 4x5 would seek the 

 same level in price as the 

 41^. In the cut both sections 

 weigh the same. Which one 

 looks the bigger ? — Ed. J 



HONEY AS FOOD. 



ITS VALUE MUST BE MORE 



GENERALLY MADE 



KNOWN. 



ByF.A. Snell. 



There Is no doubt as to the 

 great value of honey as food 

 and the purest sweet known. 

 Honey strengthens and invig- 

 orates the whole system, and 

 acts as a regulator. Honey is 

 easily digested and assimilat- 

 ed, and can be eaten by people suffering from 

 some diseases where sugar would not be al- 

 lowed by a well-read physician to a patient 

 under his care, so afflicted. For throat, lung, 

 or bronchial trouble it is highly beneficial, 

 and has prolonged the life of many so suffer- 

 ing who have used it. In case of sore throat 

 I have found half a teaspoonful of honey, tak- 

 en at intervals of fifteen or twenty minutes, 

 very soothing. 



