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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



January 



shows the cases piled up at the cor- 

 ner of the apiary in summer. Mr. 

 Hemple produces comb honey with 

 125 colonies in one yard. His aver- 

 age was seventy-five pounds of comb 

 honey from basswood in 1917, which 

 is a record for comb honey seldom 

 excelled the past season. In this 

 winter case he provides five inches of 

 bottom packing, five inches on four 

 sides and eight inches on top, all 

 packed with planer shavings. He re- 

 moves the covers from the hives 

 when packing for winter and places 

 burlap over the frames. An exam- 

 ination in cold weather will often 

 show ice under the cover of the pack- 

 ing case, but all dry over the hive. 

 Mr. Hemple also has a very ingenious 

 swarm catcher which we hope to be 

 able to show at some future time, as 

 our photo was a failure. 



StOre-HoUSe for Comb Honey winter cases for single colonies used by w. r. hemple, bagley, wis. 



THE question of caring for comb 

 honey in cold weather has puz- 

 zled many a beekeeper. Once 

 it granulates in the combs the value 

 of the product is materially reduced 

 and the man who produces in large 

 quantity must market early or be 

 prepared to keep his comb honey 

 warm. 



Hubbard Brothers, of Boyne Falls, 

 Mich., are large producers of fine 

 comb honey. For a few months in 

 the fall and winter of 1916 comb 

 honey was a slow sale and many bee- 

 keepers sacrificed their crop rather 

 than risk keeping it until cold 

 weather. The Hubbards did not wor- 

 ry, for they are prepared to carry a 

 big crop through any kind of winter. 

 The picture shows their concrete 

 store-house for comb honey. The 

 building is ceiled inside with matched 

 lumber and a very little fire main- 

 tains an even temperature and re- 

 quires little attention. At the end of 

 the building can be seen an ordinary 

 iron stove for burning wood, which 

 is encased in a brick case. From this 

 case a pipe to conduct the warm air 



enters the building. They can thus 

 care for the fire without opening the 

 building. There is another pipe lead- 

 ing out at the side to provide for a 

 circulation of air. By holding the one 

 ■crop for a few months until the mar- 

 ket was stabilized, they were able to 

 get a fair price for their honey and 

 thus save the price of the building 

 several times over in one year. 



A Texas Beekeeper — T. W. 

 Burleson 



A T 



of the 

 friend, 

 a kind 

 and I 

 Mr. 

 enthus 

 of the 

 result 



By T. P. Robinson 



the close of the Dallas State 

 Fair, and where my services 

 had ended as superintendent 

 apiarian department, my good 



Mr. T. W. Burleson, gave me 

 invitation to go home with him 

 accepted. 



Burleson is one of those very 

 iastic beekeepers. He is full 

 malady of beekeeping and as a 

 is making a great success. I 



HUBBARD BROS.' CO 01 SE FOR STORING COMB HONEY 



must say, in the first place, that Mr. 

 Burleson was the greatest, or I 

 might say the largest exhibitor, at the 

 fair this year and he won many 

 prizes, both on honey and bees. The 

 money won by him amounted well 

 beyond $100. 



He is a believer in the motor truck 

 for apiary work and has a fine truck 

 which he uses with great success. At 

 the close of the fair he used it to take 

 back to his home all the honey and 

 other show things that he had not 

 sold. We started for his home, 35 

 miles south, at Waxahachie. 



This beautiful town is located on 

 the M. K. & T. R. R. and is a most 

 ideal place in which to live. The 

 wind was blowing strongly from the 

 north, with a temperature of about 45 

 degrees, and was chilly. We made 

 the run in about two and one-half 

 hours, leaving Dallas about 2 o'clock 

 p. m., and arriving at Waxahachie at 

 5 o'ciock. A half hour was lost in a 

 detour from our course to visit one of 

 Mr. Burleson's apiaries. Upon ar- 

 riving home we found Mrs. Burleson 

 busy with the cares of her house. She 

 is perfectly at home in her husband's 

 apiaries and a splendid homekeeper 

 besides. His home yard is kept in 

 his back yard, right in the heart of 

 town. He told me that the bees did 

 very well in this location. 



His honey house is two stories 

 high. In the upper story were stored 

 ca ns and momentarily unneeded 

 hives, frames and the like. The lower 

 Story is used for the extraction room 

 and "honey storage. This house is 

 tightly constructed and is used as a 

 heating room to liquify granulated 

 horn v I I"' house is equipped with 

 ., i, mi water system and artificial gas 

 is used as (lie heating agent Ml 

 Burli son's idea was to construct the 

 house so that he could cater to fancy 

 , , m ib Iimhi , Hade, keeping it heated 

 up to near 100 degrees so as to have 

 this honey in tip top shape for the 

 fancy market. Cotton honey gath- 

 er! d in Ibis district will granulate in 

 ten days with a temperature ranging 

 - „,;,, 4il degrees. There has been 

 very little use for the house for the 

 last three years, as the demand for 



