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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Apr. 1 



E. D. TOWNSEND'S EXTRACTING-HOUSE, CHARLEVOIX CO., MICH., SHOWING FOUR-FRAME 



NON-REVERSIBLE EXTRACTOR, THE MCINTYRE UNCAPPING-BOX, AND THE 



FERGUSON UNCAPPING-MACHINE. 



order to secure the first-class article at the 

 dark-honey price. But better things are in 

 store. Daylight is dawning. The bee-men 

 are learning how to sell to better advantage; 

 are beginning to think for themselves; more 

 and more the buyers of choice table honeys 

 are reaching down into the peninsula for 

 the excellent table honeys that are produc- 

 ed here, and better prices are ruling. 

 De Land, Fla. 



To be continued. 



None of them are extremely important in 

 the surplus field. The wide range of honey- 

 sources above named makes a total failure 

 in any one year for the whole State practi- 

 cally impossible. For instance, the past 

 year has been a very poor one here in De 

 Land. It was a good one on the southwest 

 coast and in the northwest. Taking the 

 State as a whole, the yields are much more 

 reliable than in the Northern States. 



Notice that eleven out of the fifteen sources 

 enumerated are trees, not plants. Can not 

 the claim, therefore, be justly made that 

 Florida is a land of tree honey? Can any 

 other State say the same? Observe, too, 

 that there are four strictly y^rsi-cZass honeys 

 — orange, saw palmetto, tupelo, and black 

 mangrove, to say nothing of the manchineel 

 and cabbage palmetto, which would almost 

 touch high-water mark for quality. Show 

 me any other section that can boast so many 

 choice honeys to its credit. These four hon- 

 eys are all of great commercial importance, 

 and are shipped out of the State by the ton; 

 and yet the market quotations on honey 

 often read "dark and southern." The mid- 

 dlemen have a large load of accountability 

 for the "black " name they have given the 

 Florida honeys — dumping them all in as 

 "Southern," with no effort, apparently, to 

 classify or differentiate; in fact, it appears 

 that they may have done so purposely in 



BEE-KEEPING 



FOR BEGINNERS. 

 TRATED. 



ILLUS- 



The JMcIntyre Uncapping-box vs. a Large Cap- 

 ping-melter. 



BY E. D. TOWNSEND. 



The engraving in connection with this ar- 

 ticle shows one corner of our headquarter 

 honey-house in Charlevoix Co. This build- 

 ing is 18X26 feet, but is built on the same 

 plan as the one at the Springbrook yard, de- 

 scribed in my last article. Unlike the 

 smaller 12X16 extracting-houses, the inside 

 arrangement is such that the uncapping- 

 tank, extractor, etc., are away from the 

 walls, so that the operator can get all around 

 them, this arrangement being more con- 

 venient where there is room. We were for- 



