1905, . 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



155 



ombs. Don't raise the first super un- 

 til they commence to cap a little in 

 ill!' center boxes. 



I have had as many as eight supers 

 HI one hive at a time, but, as a gen- 

 eral thing, I think five supers are as 

 nany as should be on a hi\*e at a 

 ime. I have taken off four supers at 

 me time — 90 boxes and all fancy honey 

 xcept two. 

 I use an escape board. I never 

 ave any trouble with bees not leav- 

 ng unless there Is brood, or a queen 



the natural shape of brood chamber, 

 to find a bee tree and cut it and tell 

 us what shape it is. I have cut bee 

 trees w^here the hollow was from eight 

 to ten feet in length and from eight 

 to twelve inches through, and where 

 the bees had used the comb for brood 

 was three or four feet in length. 



Keep your honey where it is dry 

 and warm. Do not put it in a cellar 

 or near anything with a strong odor, 

 such as onions, kerosene, etc., as it is 

 very sensitive to such things. 



I would say to Prof. Cook that the 

 queen ant pulls her own wings off 

 after mating. This can be ea-sily prov- 

 en by watching her after the queen 

 and drone separate. 



Black River, N. Y., June 15, 1905. 



PROFITABLE MARKETING. 



ill some times be in super. 

 There is a lot of honey ruined every 

 ar in removing it from the hive by 

 ing too much smoke to get the beea 

 t. The honey will taste of smoke. 

 )w while most people like smoked 



i?ats, there is hardly any one thai 



1 es smoked honey. 

 I know that by giving plenty of 



-pervS, and lots of ventilation from 



Ittom of hive you will control swarm- 



U to a certain extent. 

 [ would like to ask those who mak(» 



U claim that the form of a cube is 



A Suggestion for the Consideration 

 of the Smaller Producer. 



BY J. MILTON WEIR. 



REALIZING THAT bee-keepers 

 have of late years lost a great 

 deal of honey by not getting it, 

 as an Irishman might say; and that 

 the prices received for their limited 

 output have been ridiculously low, the 

 writer has been tempted to tell what 

 be Ijelieves to be the most natural 

 means of improving existing condi- 

 tion*. 



Many bee-keepers produce, in a fair 

 .season, several tons of honey, prin- 

 cipally extracted, which at a net price 

 of four and a half or five cents per 

 pound, brings them only a few hun- 

 dred dollars. 



Now, according to prices paid for 

 other goods, honey is easily worth two 

 or three times that which is now paid 

 for it. but the question is to make the 

 public demand it at the advanced 

 figures. 



There are certain goods which are 

 on sale at all grocery stores and which 

 everybody uses, such as condensed 

 milk, canned meats, breakfast foods, 

 rolled oats, various canned syrups, 

 Uneeda biscuit, etc. These goods are 

 in practically universal use, and can- 

 ned or in packages have largely super- 

 seded similar goods in bulk. 



If we could bring honey into this 

 class, the problem of marketing would 

 be solved, and producers sure of an 

 income. 



