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38tli Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 20, 1898. 



No. 42. 



" Golden " Method of Comb Honey Production. 



BY J. S. HABTZELL. 



As the season for the production of honey In these parts 

 has closed, and the product stored in supers removed and 

 assorted and cleaned ready for shipment, I wish to apprise 

 our " Doubting Thomas " (Mr. S. A. Deacon), and any others, 

 of the results obtained from my apiary of 61 colonies, 40 of 



yielded 1,866 completed sections. The 21 colonies on the 

 general plan, 489 completed sections. Average per colony 

 on the Golden plan, of 46 13/20 sections ; on general plan, 

 23 2/1 sections. Now, I hope this is plain enough for Mr. 

 Deacon, or any one who may be Interested enough to read this 

 article, to understand. 



It may be well enough, also, to state that of the 40 colonies 

 on the Golden plan 10 recast swarms, six of which were from 

 superseding queens, the remainder (four), with the exception 

 of one dissatisfied with results, and as soon as the queen was 

 liberated and began to deposit eggs, renewed their efforts and 

 prepared In the regular order for swarming. The one excep- 

 tion was a colony in a lOframe hive, and the second day aftar 

 liberating the queen swarmed twice (forenoon and afternoon) 

 with not a sign of queen-cell as I made a thorough examina- 

 tion while the swarm was out each time, and after returning 

 the second time began work and have behaved nicely since. 



Interim' View of the Apiary Building at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. 



which, as stated In the former article, were workt on the 

 Golden plan, and the remainder, 21 colonies, on the general, 

 or, as I termed It, "orthodox " plan, fortheseason now closed. 

 First, then, for results in completed sections of honey 

 which stand as follows : The 40 colonies on the Golden plan 



Will some of our experts — Dr. C. C. Miller, Doolittle, or 

 auy other little or big man — explain the cause, or will all 

 plead as Dr. Miller often does — " don't know ?" My own Idea 

 In regard to this colony is. It was simply " pure cussedness." 

 I was entirely too busy at the time to make as thorough inves- 



