1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



747 



Perh;tps the secret can he explaiued by the 

 fact that he never playtd cards nor g^am- 

 bled; never drank any intoxicating' liquor, 

 nor used tobacco, and that he has been a 

 member of the Methodist Church since 1880. 



But I came ver}' near forgetting^ to make 

 reference to the engraving'. The large 

 Cowan extractor show^s for itself. This is 

 the m.;chine that Mr. France uses exclu- 

 sively in his yards. At the left is shovrn 

 one of the large quadruple hives, or, as 

 some call them, "tenement" hives. The 

 fact that E. France I'v: Son are the only 

 users of such hives does not prove at all 

 that the}' are not practicable when proper- 

 1}' managed. Over on the right are pack- 

 ag-es in which the France honey is put up 

 in small lots. Not all their honey is put 

 up in this way, for a large part of their 

 honey is put up in barrds and keg's. Mr. 

 W. A. Selser, 10 Vine St.. Philadelphia, 

 is a very discriminating bu3er. For his 

 city trade he can not have any thing but 

 white clover honey. I remember his once 

 getting a large shipment from E. France iSi: 

 Son, because he knew their goods were 

 first-class; and if the firm said it was 

 strictl}' white clover, without basswood or 

 anj' thing else, he could depend on the 

 statement. 



Perhaps in this connection it might be 

 well to state that Mr. France has tried the 

 rew treatment of using formaldehyde gas 

 fjr destroying the germs of foul brood. 

 The test he has already made does not 



N. K. FRANCE. 

 General Manager of the National Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, and Foul-brood Inspector for Wisconsin. 



warrant him in recommending it to the 

 average Wisconsin bee-keeper, as he found 

 that some combs after treatment would 

 transmit the disease again, and he there- 



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FRANCE'S HIVE, EXTRACTOR, AND HONEY-P.\CKAGE. 



