Gr>EANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



.TuNK, 19-21 



Iiivingston not been of tlie typo of Dr. Tin- 

 ker, ne could never have built it in his own 

 woikshop. But he did. Unfortunately the 

 principle does not lend itself to the use of 

 power eight-frame extractors without add- 



l,i\ in':;'N(on's v>'->i'tiiljle extructin^- outtit. all of it im 

 :i cominon Ford. It consists of a four-frame revers- 

 ible extractor, uncapping outfit, and a takedown- 

 able wire-screen buildino'. Tbe whole thing- can be 

 put into operation in the space of a few minutes. 



ing comiilications. But it works on four- 

 frniiie hand niac"hines admirably. 



Mr. Livingston runs a series of outyards, 

 using this extractor in all of them. When 

 he goes to an outyard to extract he takes 

 along not only his extractor but his port- 

 able takedownable extracting-house, made 

 tip of a series of wire-screen panels, all on 

 a common Ford. On arriving at .the yard 



it takes him only a short time to unlimber, 

 set up his house, and begin extracting. At 

 the end of his tlay 's operations he takes 

 down the whole outfit and loads it on his 

 Ford as shown in the illustration, when he 

 is ready to go home. The next day he is 

 ready for auotlier yard, and so on he goes 

 thiu all of his extracting. ,J. J. Wilder 

 nays tliat a central extracting station using 

 l)0\V('r to dri\-e the extractor is not practic- 

 able for this ]i;n-t of the South, and so Mr. 

 1 ixiiigstcii is ill liii(> with tlie jiractice of 

 file t'oiith. 



It;' lias worked out a system of maiiage- 

 iiiei t that enables liiiii to accomplish a, 

 maximum of work with a minimum of labor 

 and cajiital. For a man of his y(^ars he is 

 able to accomplish an immense amount of 

 work. He makes all his own supplies and 

 scane for his neighbors; and Avith the help 

 of his son-in-law, who is associated with 

 liini, he is able to do quite a business in the 

 productio}! of honey. 



In this connection perhaps T should ac- 

 knowledge that both J. J. Wilder, who is 

 located some 40 miles from Mr. Livingston, 

 and Mr. Livingston himself, have called 

 my attention to the fact that a mistake was 

 made in Fig. 7, page 209 of April Gleanings. 

 This is not the titi that yields what is com- 

 monly called the titi honey of the South- 

 land. While it is a titi, and occasionally 

 yields a little honey at times, it is not the 

 titi of the Southland that inter.^^ts bee- 

 keepers. 



COMB HONEY PRODUCTION 



The Sfirit of the Hive. Hoijv to 



Increase the Crop by Speeedtng up 



the Workers 



By George S. Demuth 



BY u s i n g 

 f o rehaiid- 

 ed methods 

 |irc\i(ius to the 

 lioiK'N llow, es- 

 pcciall.N' in ref- 

 erence t(i ]iro- 

 \-iding the bees 

 with an abund- 

 ance of stores to 



insure the gretitest amount of brood-rearing 

 during the six or eight weeks just preced- 

 ing the honey tlow, together with 'an abund- 

 ance of room in the form of worker brood 

 combs to prevent the beginning of any stag- 

 nation or discontent which might cause the 

 bees to prepare to swarm, the colonies usu- 

 ally go ahead full speed doing exactly what 

 the beekeeper desires they should do. When 

 these two conditions have been provided, 

 liiit little else need be doiu' for the bees at 

 this time, exce])t such work as cliiijiing 

 (jut'i-iis and looking for disease, if disease is 

 imminent. In other words most of the work 

 ]>ie\'ious to the honey flow can be done ''by 

 rule of thumb methods'' and the. needed 

 attention can be given far in advance. 



At the beginning of the honey flow the 

 reverse of this cdiidition is usualh' true, for 



the beekeeper 

 m u st now be 

 const antly on 

 the job ready 

 for any emer- 

 gency if he ex- 

 pects to iiiirvest 

 a full crop of 

 honey. M a n y 

 things can hap- 

 pen during the honey flow to prevent the 

 colonies from doing all that they are 

 capable of doing in gathering and storing 

 honey, especially in comb-honey produc- 

 tion. Except when the greatest skill is 

 used in the management during the lioney 

 (low a large percentage of the co'onies will 

 fall behind in the race, leaving only a few 

 fortunate ones which have really done what 

 they could. At the close of the season these 

 few colonies, sometimes giving a yield dou- 

 ble the average for the ajiiary, become wit- 

 nesses bearing testitnony as to the high cost 

 of even some of the slightest mistakes in 

 management. 



After having provided conditions by 

 which a great army of "harvest hands" 

 are now ready, and others soon to b;^ ready 

 for the harvest, which in most localities 



