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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



J. P. Martine's exhibit at the Kentuckj' State Fair Si'ptemljer 15-20, 1913. 



as our object was to advertise the manner in 

 which we put up our comb honey — that is, 

 we cut the comb from the frames in strips 

 about one inch in width and tive inches in 

 length, placing the same in wide-mouth 

 white-glass jars having perpendicular sides 

 so the cajDpings are shown to advantage, 

 and filling in the space with extracted hon- 

 ey. This was favorably commented upon 



by a great many, and we sold quite a num- 

 ber of jars at To cts. each. 



We have been putting up our comb honey 

 in this shape for the last three years, and 

 have never failed to dispose of all we could 

 produce at 75 cts. a jar. We have been 

 offered 65 cents per jar by the gross. 



Louisville, Ky. 



THE SMOKE 



iETHOB OF INTMODUCMG SUCCE^ 

 THIRTY YEARS 



BY MAJOR SHALLARD. 



Please credit the discovery of smoke intro- 

 duction of queens to me, Mr. Editor, unless 

 some one has a claim prior to 1885. I started 

 to introduce queens by the smoke method at 

 that date, and have continued ever since. 

 My method has been to remove the old 

 queen, and to give the new one at once, to 

 close the hive, and then use smoke. I can 

 hardly recall a failure. I have removed an 

 old queen, and have given a virgin at once. 

 1 have even removed an old queen, and giv- 

 en a cell immediately, without any protect- 

 or. In fact, one can do almost any thing 

 witli bees if they become demoralized and 

 all have the same smoke odor. 



My wife took over my queen-rearing bus- 

 iness for one season, 24 years ago, because 

 I had too many irons in the fire, and some 

 were getting burnt. She also ran the home 

 farm of 250 colonies for honey. I may 

 mention that she is an expert beekeeper. 

 She introduced all the queens that year wjtb 

 smoke. She introduced virgins into the nu- 

 clei, and had very few if any failures. She 

 took nine tons of honey that year with the 

 help of two girls, and her experience with 

 swarms was somewhat unique. 



The season was a great swarming one. 

 One morning a swarm came out and settled 

 on the trunk of a tree. Almost immediate- 



