GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



January, 1917 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



$6.50. I sell the comb honey for $3.25 

 to $3.50 in second-hand cases or in no eases 

 at all. 



Not far away honey is selling for $5.40 

 per 60-lb. can. It is the custom, of the bee- 

 keeper in question to leave the honey with a 

 garage man to be sold at that price. Another 

 producer near me sells for 8 ets. a pound. 

 I can not see why beekepers do not hold 

 up the price of honey. I advanced it this 

 year 50 cents per 60-lb. can, and sold out 

 two months earlier than I did last year. 

 Moreover, I had a much larger crop this 

 year than the year before. 



When my customers say, " Why, your 

 prices are higher than they were last year," 

 I merely say that everything that I have 

 to buy is higher, and that I must get more 

 for my product. I tell them that the de- 

 mand is stronger this year, and that the 

 best markets are higher. 



I never sold honey any faster than I 

 did this year. I believe I can work up 

 a home trade that will take several cars of 

 honey at a good price, provided other 

 producers do not ruin the market with 

 lower prices. Their honey must be almost 

 identical with mine. 



I have had more experience in selling 

 honey than in producing it. I sold honey 

 for my father for years. Since his death, 



two years ago, I have been producing honey 

 as well as selling it. 



Sedgwick, Col. C. E. Crowfoot. 



Easy to Make for Winter Feeding 



I have been making some bee candy that 

 is so soft and creamy, and so easily made, 

 that I wish again to urge beekeepers to 

 run no risk in ease of doubtful colonies. 

 If there is danger that there may not be 

 stores enough it is easy to make the bees 

 safe by placing a pan of this candy over 

 the colony. The recipe appeared on page 

 158 of the Mareh issue for 1913, but since 

 many may not have this particular number 

 at hand I quote : " To a quart of boiling 

 water add twelve pounds of gTanulated 

 sugar, a teaspoonful cream of tartar, a 

 pinch of salt. Allow this to simmer ten 

 minutes, then remove from the fire and 

 stir until it begins to thicken, when it is 

 to be poured into molds." I find that eight 

 pounds of sugar makes nine pounds of 

 candy. In this way we can have an abso- 

 lutely safe winter feed. I have found that 

 care is necessary not to have the fire too 

 hot. The syrup should not be stirred until 

 it is taken from the fire. 



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A crop of 6400 pounds of honey was produced in onp season bv these 48 colonies on a plot of gr 

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