GLEANINGS IN BRE CULTUR.:: 



the jars. All the empty jars are first set on 

 top of the hives. One man with the can of 

 feed passes along Ihe row, filling the jars, 

 while another follows, quickly adjusting the 

 caps and placing tlie jars in place in the 



blocks at the entrance. Even when robbing 

 is bad, by working quickly we get into the 

 yard and out again so quickly that robbers 

 hardly know what we are doing. See edi- 

 torial in the last issue. — Ed.] 



SYSTEM IN PACKING AND LABELING HONEY- PACKAGES 



BY R. F. HOLTERMANN 



For some years it has been my business 

 to label and pack a good many glass jiack- 

 ages of honey — last year over 30,000 jars. 

 All that can be said of this is that it is a 

 large number in a small way. Having to do 

 a good deal of this work I have made a 

 practice of trying to find out the most ex- 

 peditious way of doing it. 



Our system is to use a metal board (we 

 use the cover of a 12-frame hive) on which 

 we put the ipaste with a flat fluid-brush. 

 The paste needs to be just the proper con- 

 sistency. We use a paste made by stirring 



Applying paste to laljels for lioney-bottles by plac- 

 iiiij them on a metal hive-cover brushed with paste of 

 the right fousisteney. 



" steco " in boiling water. It is a prepara- 

 tion which looks something like starch, and 

 no doubt it has a germicide in it to prevent 

 mildewing of the paste under the label. The 

 labels are laid upon the pasted surface, and 



in that way receive their paste in just the 

 right quantity. The paste must not be too 

 thick and not too thin ; it must also be put 

 on the metal sheet in the right quantity, or 

 the label will have too much paste or not 

 enough. A little practice will soon make an 

 intelligent person an expert in this matter. 



Tiie bottles are labeled before they are 

 filled with honey, and the labels are picked 

 from the pasted board as required. Three of 

 us put up 87 eases of 24 each (2088 bottles), 

 in one day, putting two labels on each bottle. 

 We filled them with honey, putting screw 

 ca^DS on the glasses, and packing 2 dozen in 

 a case. 1 did the filling, and the other two 

 (one of them my younger son) did the label- 

 ing, putting on of screw caps and packing. 

 The packing consisted of merely inserting 

 the pasteboard partitions in the case and 

 slipping in the jars. 



Klvery thing was done according to a 

 studied and planned system; every thing 

 was at hand; and, so far as I could see, no 

 unnecessary moves were made. The proper 

 method is for No. 1 to label the bottles be- 

 fore they are filled; pass them to the right 

 to No. 2, who fills them and passes them 

 again to the right to No. 3, where the screw 

 caps are put on and the bottles packed. 

 System, and a right system, is a great thing 

 in one's work. Make no unnecessary moves. 

 How much energy is continually lost by 

 making repeatedly uiniecessary moves in 

 work ! 



Brantford, Canada. 



TREATMENT FOM FOUL BKOOD SIMPLIFIED 



BY U. E. LHOMMEDIEU 



If one finds an occasional infected colony, 

 all that is necessary to do is to shake the 

 bees into a clean hive without even frames, 

 leaving them there long enough to consume 

 the honey that they carry with them. Then 

 build them up at once by taking frames of 

 brood, honey, and empty combs from 

 strongest colonies in the yard, and every 

 thing will go right along as though nothing 

 had ha|)iiened. 



One of the secrets in having a shaken 

 swarm stay lies in not moving or disturbing 

 the hive in any way. Be careful also to see 

 that the queen is not hurt, and that she goes 

 into the hive, not under it. Furthermore, 

 shake just enough hoiiey from the combs on 

 to the bees so that they will be extra well 

 filled. This is important, as the bees are 

 then more likely to stay and not swarm out. 

 (Op course, tliis refers to shaking during a 



