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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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peared in some of our i-eputable journals 

 have done the comb-honey market an awful 

 damage, and it will be a long while before 

 we recover from it. Bee-keepers all over 

 the country should sell, as far as possible, to 

 their own local markets, and, what is more, 

 seek means to educate the public regarding 

 the purity of their pi'oduct. In many cases 

 it may be advisable to make a house-to- 

 house canvass. Some of the city markets 

 were overstocked last season, and even now 

 have on hand quite an amount of honey— see 

 market quotations. Rather than rush it to 

 the nearest commission houses, hunt up 

 some bee-keeper who is an adept at peddling 

 honey. There are hundreds of them who 

 are able to dispose of four or five times 

 what they are able to produce. 



BEE-KEEPERS SHOULD DRUM UP TRADE AMONG 

 THE GROCERY CLASS. 



Mr. E. B. Rood, in the American Bee 

 Journal for Aug. 4, urges the great impor- 

 tance of bee-keepers developing their home 

 markets. At first his grocer friends were 

 suspicious; but when he convinced them that 

 his honey was pure he sold them 1000 lbs. 

 the first season, and in a year or so after- 

 ward sold as high as 10,000 lbs. He quotes 

 the editor of Gleanings as suggesting that, 

 if the grocery trade is once worked up, or- 

 ders will come in regularly without effort. 

 This, he says, is not in the line of his experi- 

 ence. Grocers buy most of their stuff 

 through drummers; and he finds that the 

 grocery trade has got to be drummed up by 

 bee-keepers if they expect to sell their prod- 

 uct. The suggestion attributed to me, if I 

 remember correctly, had reference to co7i- 

 sumers, not retailers. 



DEATH OF ANOTHER PIONEER BEE-KEEPER. 



Mr. J. B. Hains, of bee-feeder fame, of 

 Bedford, O., a bee-keeper who has taken a 

 prominent part in apicultural affairs in Ohio, 

 died at his residence Aug. 24. He did quite 

 a large business in putting up bottled honey 

 for the markets of Cleveland. Much of it 

 he produced, and the rest he bought, all 

 from well-known bee-keepers, so the purity 

 of his goods was always unquestioned. 



Mr. Hains was a tmsmith by trade, and 

 that is how he happened to make what was 

 known as the Hains atmospheric feeder. 



When he called at our office two months 

 ago he said he had been ailing for some 

 months, and the nature of his trouble was 

 such that he did not think he would live 

 long. As he bade me good by he said, 

 ' * Ernest, I feel this is my last visit to your 

 plant." The immediate cause of his death 

 was apoplexy. 



GETTING UP A CARLOAD OF BEE-KEEPERS TO 



ATTEND THE NATIONAL CONVENTION 



AT ST. LOUIS. 



At various times there has been an effort 

 to get up a carload of bee-keepers to attend 

 the National convention. At the meeting 

 that was held in Los Angeles a year ago 



there was a whole carload that went from 

 the East, and the trip was in every way 

 very enjoyable, as kindred spirits like bee- 

 keepers that travel together can talk bees 

 to their fill. There is another effort on foot 

 to get a car to go from the Northwest. 

 The following announcement will explain 

 itself : 



I am planning to get together a carload of bee-keepers 

 to go from St. Paul to the National convention via 

 Chicago, to leave St. Paul on the morning of Sept. 26. 

 Fare for round trip will be $13.00 without sleeper ; sleep- 

 er from Chicago to St. Louis is $2.00. Already twelve 

 talk of going with car, and I think we shall have no 

 trouble in getting our number, which is twenty. 



There will be very little fall honey unless weather 

 clears up soon. It rains much, and we have cool nights. 

 Crop so far is less than last year, and number of colonies 

 is greatly reduced since last year. 



L. F. Hanegan, Manager 

 St. Croix Valley Honey Pro. Assn. 



Glenwood, Wis., Aug. 22, 1904. 



Those interested should write to Mr. 

 Hanegan. 



OUTDOOR FEEDING FOR WINTER STORES, TO 

 GET THE BEES TO REAR BROOD. 



In addition to what is written on page 811, 

 in a footnote to a correspondent, I would 

 say we have been continuing our experi- 

 ments in outdoor feeding, and the results 

 continue to be satisfactory in every way. 

 Never, at this time of the year, have the 

 bees of our home apiary been so quiet and 

 peaceable, for the outdoor feeding has 

 brought on a condition very much the same 

 as we get in a light honey-flow. Brood- 

 rearing has been going on— just what our 

 weak colonies have been needing ; cells have 

 been built out, and the hives can be opened 

 anywhere without a horde of pilferers hang- 

 ing around trying to steal a sip of honey, for 

 these marauders are otherwise busily oc- 

 cupied by the aforesaid outdoor feeding. 



Combs are being filled and capped over ; 

 and our head apiarist, Mr. Phillips, reports 

 that the outdoor method stimulates much 

 more than the in-hive plan ; and, what is of 

 the greatest importance, it is not a tenth of 

 the work. The feeders we use are nothing 

 more nor less than our quart Mason jars- 

 larger ones would be better— inverted on 

 boards having shallow saw-cuts about ]/& 

 inch apart and the same in depth, and ex- 

 tending nearly the entire length of the 

 board. Of coui-se, the saw-cuts are made 

 parallel with the grain. 



We have been feeding, part of the time, 

 weak granulated-sugar syrup in the propor- 

 tion of one-half sugar and one-half water. 

 At other times we have fed dark unsalable 

 extracted honey, reducing the same down 

 to about the same consistency as the sugar 

 syrup. But the latter we not only consider 

 better for the bees, but it is much less 

 liable to excite them when first given. 



By the old way of feeding up for winter, 

 the bees were stimulated in a way that 

 made them very disagreeable. They rushed 

 out of the hives to see where the great sup- 

 ply of food came from, and nosed around 

 the doors and windows of our neighbors in 

 a way that was sometimes very annoying. 

 While they do this to a certain extent now, 



