1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



477 



but also because he loves the little fellows. 

 New York bee-keeping has for several years 

 suffered the setback that came to many parts 

 of the State some years ago when black brood 

 devastated so many yards; but with such men 

 as Mr. Snyder, Mr. Alexander, and a host of 

 other royal good fellows of the Empire State 

 doing so much in and for apiculture, it won't 

 1)6 long before bee-keeping will be more large- 

 ly carried on than now. 



The outlook for l^ee-keeping in New York 

 was never better than now. 



Rye, N. Y. 



[It is gratifying to see the similarity be- 

 tween this press and the one which we have 

 used so much. The construction is very much 

 the same, even to the round can or tub, al- 

 though our can is made of heavy tin while 

 this one is of wood bound with steel hoops. 



Last summer Mr. Snyder sent us four bar- 

 rels of slumgum, saying nothing about the 



HONEY -CROP REPORTS. 



Can Accuracy be Secured? 



BY CHAS. H. CARGO. 



The reports of the honey crop and its con- 

 dition as the season progresses is a very de- 

 sirable item to all bee-men, and especially 

 to those who are largely interested. The 

 changing of a cent in market value means 

 very large sums, especially to heavy dealers, 

 and an unnecessary slump in the market 

 caused by misgivings as to holdings general- 

 ly is a factor which ought to be eliminated. 



There is probably more honey produced 

 than is generally supposed, and any normal 

 increase will only keep pace with the grow- 

 ing demands of a growing nation. 



The weighing of single hives has proved 

 its value, but it lacks giving a proper average 

 for a whole apiary or a whole county. To 



FIG. 5.- 



■MR. AARON SNYDER, HIS WHEELBARROVT, TOOL-BOX, AND A PART OF HIS APIARY 



AT KINGSTON, N. Y. 



method which had been used for rendering 

 the wax. We found that it was so clean it 

 would not pay to work it over. Now we see 

 that this slumgum was from a press very much 

 like the one we were using. 



There is no question about the value of this 

 unheated press, which is practically the same 

 as the Hatch press. The extremely low cost, 

 the great capacity per day, and the beauti- 

 ful color of the wax, are all points well worth 

 considering. 



The scheme of putting an extra fence be- 

 tween the outside rows of sections and the 

 sides of the super has been used generally in 

 nearly all fence supers. It is a good plan 

 just the same.— Ed. J 



solve this difficulty bee-men interested in 

 such things can use a weighing-beam with 

 ice-hooks mounted on a tripod, or any wheel- 

 ed contrivance that may be convenient, and 

 need only to wheel from hive to hive, and 

 weigh as many hives as will give a fair aver- 

 age. But I am not fully persuaded that a 

 single hive from each apiary will not give 

 accurate results. Here is the reason: 



We are not interested in any one man's 

 yield, and are really weighing specially se- 

 lected hives from all the bees in the State. 

 Now, if 100 hives are weighed semi-weekly 

 in Ohio, and these hives are situated in all 

 sections of the State where there are good 

 flows of honey, and where there are poor, 



