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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Oct. 



a colony of bees not containing a queen ; but 

 very likely the judges were not expert bee- 

 keepers, as is very often the case. Perhaps 

 this would explain why they gave the pre- 

 mium to a single-walled hive. Now, this is 

 rather bad ; but it seems to me it was not as 

 bad as getting into the too common habit of 

 finding fault with the judges at our county 

 fairs, who, as a rule, work for nothing and 

 board themselves. If they awarded the 

 premium according to the best knowledge 

 they had on the subject, what more could 

 they do? Very likely it would have been 

 better to have appointed bee-men as judges, 

 and this throws the blame back on the ones 

 who gave them their appointments. Now, 

 then, do all who complain make it their bus- 

 iness to be on hand at the preliminai-y fair 

 meetings in the fall, and assist in having ar- 

 rangements made as they should be ? Are 

 the men who are competent to till positions 

 as judges, on hand and ready to serve? If 

 I were you, I believe I would submit to al- 

 most any thing, rather than find fault with 

 the awards as they were given. Beware 

 about thinking evil of your neighbors. I 

 think it is .many times far better to let 

 wrongs go unrighted than to go to the other 

 extreme of fault-finding. Is it not so, friend 

 II.? 



SOmi<: NEW TINWAKE FOR HOLDING 

 HONEV. 



MORE PATTERNS FOR HONEY-PAILS. 



fOK two or three years back I have been 

 thinking, every "time a new honey-pall 

 was suggested, " Well, now, we certain- 

 ly shall never need any thing more ; " but in 

 a very little time something new started out; 

 and as people preferred it, nothing else was 

 to be done but to make it for them ; and 

 when the trade ran up into the hundreds and 

 thousands, I began to think perhaps it was 

 good to have something new under the sun, 

 after all. I told you in the last number that 

 the Jones honey-pails were exactly like the 

 old ones, only that the tops screwed on in- 

 stead of being slipped on as before, and be- 

 ing fastened with cement. Well, here is a 

 picture of the improved Jones honey-pail. 

 Prices are as follows : — 



JONES S NEW PAIL. 



These caps are made by machinery, and 

 made so accurately that, when the cap is 

 screwed down closely, it is almost honey- 

 tight, without any rubber, waxed paper, or 

 any thing of the sort ; in fact, I believe the 

 honey may be put into these pails, put out in 

 the cold, and allowed to candy, and then it 



can be shipped and handled without any 

 trouble, just as it is, and no amount of 

 throwing it around would ever burst the 

 caps off, as often liappens with the former 

 Jones pail, even if the caps are cemented. 



]{y the way, while in a conversation with 

 friend Muth on the cars, he told me that it 

 seemed funny to think liow long he and 

 others had fussed with tumblers, pails, and 

 bottles, to keep the honey from oozing out, 

 before they learned how. Tlie whole secret 

 consists in filling your packages, and then 

 allowing them to stand 24 hours or more be- 

 fore they are closed up. Unless you do this, 

 the honey will be sure to ooze out around 

 the caps or corks. lie said he supposed it 

 was owing to the fact, that the honey in 

 pouring contained more or less air by a sort 

 of mechanical admixture, and this air must 

 be allowed to rise to the top and pass off, or it 

 will push the honey out. Friend Jones uses 

 rings made of paper, and these rings are dip- 

 ped in melted paraffine, and then cooled by 

 shaking a lot of them on a stick. When 

 dipped so as to contain a sufficient quantity 

 of paraffine, they are put under the caps be- 

 fore screwing down. 1 have never used 

 them, for our caps seemed to be sufficiently 

 tight without it. 



THE IMPROVED DADANT 

 PAIL. 



THE MILK-PAIL HON- 

 EYPAIL. 



Here are some pails for honey that I found 

 at a large tinware factory in Buffalo. The 

 milk -can is made in two sizes — li and 2i 

 quarts. Price 10 and ]5 cts. each respective- 

 ly. Prices by the 100, $9.60 and $13.50. The 

 advantage of this can is, besides being neat 

 and attractive in appearance, the neck pre- 

 vents the honey from slopping when it is put 

 in in a liquid state. The utensil is also 

 something that is wanted for milk in almost 

 every family. The ones we have are very 

 niceiy made indeed. The other, which \ 

 have termed an improvement on the Dadant 

 pail, is made sloping so that one pail will 

 nest in another. They slip down inside of 

 each other until they are stopped by their 

 ears, and the covers may then be nested in a 

 similar manner, and we have a package of 

 honey-pails so solid and compact that it can 

 be shipped at the rate of stamped ware, or 

 about third or fourth class freight, while or- 

 dinary tin pails have to go at first class, or 

 sometimes double first class. The price of 

 this improved Dadant pail, which holds 2* 

 quarts, is $9.50 per 100. The pail is very 

 nicely and strongly made by special machin- 

 ery. It seems that this matter of getting tin 

 pails to nest into each so as to get little bulk 

 and low rates of freight, is something we 

 shall eventually be obliged to adopt. 



