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It is a pleasure to read his works and fol- 

 low his experiments. He had a colony in 

 his room gathering pollen and building 

 combs at Christmas. He placed cherry and 

 hazelnut branches in a pail of sand for a few 

 weeks, pouring warm water over the sand 

 every day, and in this way brought them to 

 bloom in a few weeks. He shows how it is 

 done so that not a bee will try to liy at the 

 window to get out. Of course, he only meant 

 to show what could be done with bees. He 

 asserts, too, that his bees voided dry fteces. 



He is also a great friend of the German 

 bee and does not get tired to sing their 

 praise. Of course he is not blind toward the 

 good qualities of the other races, but asserts 

 that the German bee has excellent qualities 

 which are entirely overlooked, and if it were 

 bred for years with as much care as the Ital- 

 ian, for instance, then its points of excel- 

 lence would be brought out still more yet. 



You see, in the business part, practical 

 work and in the profits, the Americans take 

 the lead, but in deep thinking and thorough- 

 ly performed experimenting the Germans 

 still take the lead. If you will take the two 

 volumes of extracts from the German bee 

 journals to hand, you will lind that many 

 questions and problems that we try to solve 

 now, were solved by German naturalists and 

 bee-keepers years ago. I have the work. It 

 is written by Schmid and Klein. 



Now I believe fully that the secret of w u- 

 teriug bees cheaply, without loss, and with 

 little labor is solved if the bee-keeper will 

 follow C. Weygandt's advice. 



Bebne, Mich. 



Nov. 20, 1893. 



Shipping and Selling Honey in Cold 

 Weatber. 



J. O. STEWART. 



"If you want your business done, go; if uot, 

 send." —FRANKLIN. 



fHAVE long wanted to write a letter for 

 the Review, and have selected this topic 

 as of most interest to its readers of any 

 thing I could write. My honey is produced 

 with the one-story wide-frame with tin sep- 

 arators so the combs are smooth and no 

 trouble to crate. I took them out of the 

 frames, put them into the shipping cases and 

 placed them in a spare room in my dwelling 



where a tire would keep the combs from 

 cracking. I left tliem there till near the 

 holidays, then scraped, graded, and cased 

 them for market. I stamped them all with 

 a self-inker. As the sections were well filled 

 1 paid no attention to the weight except to 

 see about how they averaged. I made the 

 following grades No. 1 waite. No. 2 white, 

 No. I dark. No. 2 dark, and culls. When I 

 was ready to sell I went to our R. R. agent, 

 told him how easy it was to break comb hon- 

 ey in the cold, and got permission to set a 

 stove in the car, which I did easily in the 

 morning. I took a large bundle of newspa- 

 pers into the car and tacked them over and 

 upon one door, then closed the other door 

 near to the stove pipe and packed that one 

 and then made a tire. It soon was so warm 

 that I began to sweat. I took into the car a 

 rack of a buggy cart and nailed it fast and 

 upright, the distance from the end of the 

 car that would allow the honey cases and ten 

 inches besides at each end of the inclosure. 

 Hay was spread four inches deep on the car 

 tloor and the cases set upon it. Newspapers 

 were placed all over the pile, and hay ten 

 iucliBn deep put at the ends and all sides. I 

 gave ihu train men a section apiece to uot 

 bump ttie car. They seemed pleased and I 

 thmk iliey did as they promised. The car 

 went sixty miles but arrived safe with not a 

 section broken in the 1,400 pounds. 



I must state that in the bottom of each 

 case and between the two tiers of sections I 

 had placed a sheet of oiled paper. On this 

 were laid live strips for the sections to rest 

 on ; so if any dripped the bottom would not 

 be so much daubed. I shipped no dripping 

 combs. 



When I arrived at the city I took a sample 

 section in a small grip and canvassed for 

 orders. I told them they must average thir- 

 teen or fourteen ounces and I wanted IS 

 cents a box for it. A good many grocers 

 said it would never sell for 25 cents each and 

 they must make five cents a box. But I 

 sold out and delivered. If 1 could not sell 

 for money I traded for goods. All said it 

 was very high, but as it was very nice, all 

 white clover, they bought, and but few stop- 

 ped to figure on the price per pound. I 

 verily believe a Vji section full is large 

 enough, and the way to get them full is to 

 use them and no larger. I think they are 

 filled fuller, more even, and quicker, and so 

 are whiter than a I's section and two-inch I 

 would not use. 



