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Geobge W. York, Editor. 



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38th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 27, 1898. 



No. 43. 



UNITED STATES BEE-KEEPERS' UNION. 



Report of the 29th Annual Conveatiou Held at 

 Omaha, Nebr., Sept. 13-15, 1898. 



DR. A. B. MASON, SEC. 



LContlnued from page 661.1 

 FIRST DAY — Afternoon Session. 



WHITE OR CREAM-COLORED SECTIONS — WHICH ? 



" Is it better to use white or cream-colored sections, or does it 

 make any difference which you use ?" 



Mr. Masters — I believe that in. my market I can sell comb 

 honey in white sections for one cent more per section than in 

 cream-colored sections. I have tried it time and again. In 

 the cream-colored sections It doesn't sell well. 



Mr. Lathrop — I have tried both, and I find that the ma- 

 terial in the cream-colored sections is very much poorer than 

 that in the white sections. There is more breakage in the 

 cream-colored. I do not use them either for myself or for my 

 customers. I buy nothing but the snow-white, and I feel bet- 

 ter satisfied. 



Mr. Scott — I have sold more or less honey with both white 

 and cream-colored sections to the merchants In Chicago, 

 Omaha and Kansas City, and I do not know that there is any 

 difference. We have made no difference. 



Mr. Danzeabaker — I have recommended in my book the 

 best sections. No. 1. I think If the honey I was getting was 

 dark I would use dark sections, but if I produced white honey 

 I believe I would like white sections. 



Mr. Rauchfuss— The past season we sold about 100,000 

 No. 2 sections, and pretty nearly every one of the bee-keepers 

 who bought them because they were forced to buy them would 

 come back and say they wouldu't take any more at any price. 

 We have concluded that next year we will not sell them. The 

 dark sections don't show off the honey so well. 



Mr. Danzenbaker — That remark has paid me for coming 

 here. I was almost ready to recommend that for home use or 

 for dark honey they might use No. 2 sections. For my own 

 use I always feel that No. 1 Is the thing. I guess I will let it 

 stand. 



Dr. Miller — I do not feel that we have had any topic be- 

 fore us as good as this. It has been one of the questions In 

 my mind that I wanted to have settled. I have not used any- 

 thing but the white sections, but I have felt uneasy and have 

 had an idea of trying the cream-colored. Some say that dark 

 honey in white sections Is made to look darker by the contrast ; 

 but oughtn't that to be an argument the other way, too ? If 

 I put white honey Into white sections, the white wood Is 

 whiter than the white honey. The testimony of those who 

 have tried the cream-colored will not try them again shows 



me that It Is perhaps a wise tjiing for me to make no experi- 

 ments. I hope if there are any more here who have used both 

 they will give the results of their experience. 



Mr. Miles — I have used some of both kinds, not altogether 

 because I desired to experiment, but I happened to get some 

 No. 2. I think white honey in white sections looks most at- 

 tractive; but the main saving to me would be In the fact that 

 there is better wood in the white sectiois. In the cream- 

 colored you lose so many sections. 



Dr. Miller — You pay a lower price for the cream-colored. 



Mr. Miles — That would not make up the difference. I 

 do not like to bother with them unless It would pay. It is the 

 inferior wood in the cream sections. The white wood is from 

 the young, sound trees. I think the looks of cream sections 

 is a good deal like having bee-glue on the sections. If the 

 cream sections make the honey look whiter and more attra3- 

 tive I should think the bee-glue would, too ; but we know it 

 would not. 



Dr. Miller — There is a point In favor of the cream sec- 

 tions — they do not show the bee-glue as bad as the white 

 ones do. 



Mr. Cameron — I bought a few as an experiment. I didn't 

 know what they were. They ought to have been thrown away 

 by the manufacturers. They were very bad. If you simply 

 opened the box they would fall apart. If all cream sections 

 were like those, I wouldn't take them as a gift. 



E. R. Root — It doesn't make any difference to the manu- 

 facturer which kind are sold. The cream-colored sections are 

 cream-colored because the wood Is dried in the summer time. 



Miles Morton. — See page 679. 



The white wood is dried In cold weather. If the logs are cut 

 in the summer time and sawn into planks, they would be 

 almost Invariably dark or cream-colored. There are two 

 classes of cream-colored sections; there are some that are de- 

 fective In the wood, and there are some that are made of good 

 sound wood. You can tell when you have a strong, sound 

 section by looking at the edges of the V cut. In the poor wood 

 this cut will. have its edges ragged and more or less torn. If 



