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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 15 



A New Contributor I 



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[T sometimes 

 seems as though 

 the Review 

 were favored by 

 fortune in the way 

 of capable corres- 

 pondents ; and the 

 last stroke in that 

 direction was in se- 

 curing: the services 

 of Mr. Elias E. Cove- 

 you, of Petoskey, 

 Mich., whose first 

 article, of a long 

 series, appears in 

 the Review for No- 

 vember. 



Mr. Coveyou's ex- 

 perience with bees 

 began some fifteen 

 years ago, when he 

 was a boy in his 

 teens, and has been 

 continued specially 

 and enthusiastically ever since- He was among the 

 first to see the possibilities of "keeping more bees," 

 and has gradually increased his number until he now 

 has three apiaries under his management. 



His special forte seems to be that of short cuts— 

 especially the invention of labor-saving devices that 

 can be made to take the place of labor; or, at least, to 

 multiply greatly the results of labor. For instance, 

 when I employed an electric alarm to notify me when 

 a can was full of honey I took one step; but Mr. Cove- 

 you took still another, and made an arrangement that 

 not only rings a gong when the can is full, but it auto- 

 matically closes the gate and a bell rings continuously 

 until the can is removed. 



He is t)re first man in Michigan to extract a crop of 

 honey (1906) with gasoline power for running his 

 extractor — an eight-frame automatic. One man con- 

 trols the extractor, putting in the full combs, remov- 

 ing the empty ones, ard changing the cans when the 



W. Z. Htitchinson, 



Perfection duplicating scales say one is full, while 

 three men do the uncapping standing along the side 

 of an uncapping-box that will hold the cappings from 

 10,000 pounds of honey. He is planning to bring all of 

 his honey home another year, and extract it there, 

 after warming it up with steam heat. 



There is no one in Northern Michigan, and I doubt 

 if there is any one in the whole State, who has put up 

 as much honey for the retail trade as has this Petos- 

 key boy; and into this bottling business he has car- 

 ried that same inventive spirit that characterizes his 

 work in the bee-yard and extracting-room. For in- 

 stance, he has a device that enables him to fill a whole 

 tray of four dozen jars without movmg one of them, 

 and the flow of honey is checked only the smallest 

 fraction of a section between the filling of one jar 

 and another. His plans for washing, drying, labeling, 

 and packing his jars are novel, original, and decid- 

 edly expeditious. 



He is going to tell the readers of the Review how 

 he raises big crops of honey with the least possible 

 labor; and then, more important than all, how, in the 

 fall and winter months he sells these crops, and thou- 

 sands of pounds besides, at the highest possible price. 



I have known in a general way, for some time, that 

 this northern friend of ours was making; a great suc- 

 cess along these lines, but it was not until I had the 

 pleasure of several days in his company this last fall, 

 visiting his apiaries and packing-house, seeing his 

 plans and processes put into actual practice, and 

 making photographs of most of them, that I fully 

 realized how far he was in advance of most of us. 



In the last issue of Gleanings I gave you a glimpse 

 of the Review for the past few months, and, in the 

 foregoing, you can see something of what you may 

 expect in the future. You will always find the Re- 

 view full of ideas of successful men— those who have 

 succeeded, and can tell you how to succeed. 



Send me $1.00 and I'll send you the back numbers 

 for this year, and then continue to send you the Re- 

 view to the end of next year— two years for the price' 

 of one. Send $2.00, and, in addition, I'll send you a 

 copy of "Advanced Bee Culture." 



Flint, Michig'an 



Dittmer S Comb Foundation 



y is the best, not because we say so, but because the bees prefer it to other makes. 



DITTMER'S PROCESS IS DITTMER'S. 



It has built its reputation and established its merits on its own foundation and its own name. 

 We make a specialty of working wax into foundation for cash. 



GUS DITTMER, Augusta, Wis. 



Write for free catalog, and prices 

 on full line of supplies. 



W. H. Laws says,' 



If there is a aueen-breeder who can boast of better stock let him trot out 

 the proof. Testimonials enough to fill this book. Will give you only one. 

 Mr. J. C. King, Washington, D. C. writes, "For two years I have had one 

 of your queens in my apiary. Each season she has given me over 200 lbs. comb honey; last season she actually 

 stored while other colonies starved. I have over twenty strains in my three apiaries, but yours is the best." 



Now is the time to get a fine breeding queen; stock up this fall and double your crop of honey the coming 

 season. Single queen, $1.00; 6 for $5.00. Extra select breeders, $5.00. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaran- 

 teed. W. H. LAWS. Beeville, Bee Co., Texas. 



