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you and others happier. Then be kind 

 to people. Consider their feelings. As 

 I said last September, in the Review, " I 

 don't believe in fulsome flattery, nor in a 



servile prostration at the feet of a custo- 

 mer, but there is a pleased politeness that 

 lowers no one's self respect, yet sends 

 everyone away a pleased customer." 



TIIK HONEY CROP OF LMTEL) STATES. 



L'ucle Sam Counts his Bees as Well 

 As his Chickens. 



Some three years ago, there was an at- 

 tempt made, by inducing each manufac- 

 turer to report the number of sections sold, 

 to estimate the annual crop of honey. 

 Something over 50,000,000 sections were 

 sold that year, and then it was estimated 

 that twice as much extracted honey was 

 produced as was produced in the comb. 



As luck would have it, this estimate 

 was made the same year as the United 

 States census shows the actual figures, 

 and it seems that e.stimating the crop by 

 the number of sections sold, is a very un- 

 certain way. Sections are not always 

 filled because they have been bought. 

 Possibly, too, there is not twice as much 

 extracted hone\' produced as there is of 

 comb. The census report does not show 

 the number of pounds, each, of comb 

 and extracted, but puts both together, 

 and reports as follows: — 



The census bureau also issued a com- 

 plete report, showing that for the country 

 as a whole on June i, 1900, there were 

 707,261 farms keeping bees, or substan- 

 tially one fur everv eight farms in the 

 nation These farms reported 4,109,626 

 swarms or colonies, valued at $10, 186,513, 

 averaging a little less than six swarms to 

 each farm reporting. The twelfth census 

 is th'; first to report the number and value 

 of bees, or the number of farms reporting 

 them. 



During the year 1S99 there were pro- 

 duced 61 , 196, 160 pounds of honey and 

 1,765,315 i)outids of wax, of an aggregate 

 value of f6, 664. 904, orjg 42 each for farms 

 reporting. Of this value 35 per cent is 

 rom the nf)rth central, 12 per cent from 

 he north Atlantic, ami 15 per cent from 



the south Atlantic, 23 per cent from the 

 south central, 14 per cent from the West- 

 ern states and i per cent from Hawaii. 



Of the states reporting honej', Texas 

 reports the largest quantity, 4,780,204 

 pounds. California reports the second 

 largest quantity, 3,667,738 pounds; New 

 York the third largest, 3.342,497. The 

 counties showing the heaviest production 

 are Fresno, San Diego and Tulare, of 

 California, and Tompkins, Cayuga and 

 Seneca, of New York. 



AIKINS 



PLAN OF PRODUCING COMB 

 HOXEY. 



A Scheme to Control Swarming; Intelligent 

 Expansion Followed hy Contraction; 

 the Use of Double Brood- 

 Chambers. 



In running out-apiaries for comb hon- 

 ey, the management of swarming, or its 

 control, some plan whereb}^ there will be 

 no swarming, and a good crop of honey 

 secured, either with or without increase, 

 is an all-absorbing question. When I 

 was out to Colorado last fall, and Bro. 

 .•\ikin and myself were enjoying ourselves 

 looking over one of his out-apiaries (the 

 one in the timber-claim) he outlined to 

 me a plan for breeding up a good strong 

 colony, by the use of two brood -chambers, 

 securing an increase of one colony from 

 each thus treated, yet there was no swarm- 

 ing, and the great bulk of the working- 

 force was kept upon the old stand during 

 the main honey-flow. He told me that 

 he had de.scribed the plan in detail, last 

 year, in Gleanings. It occurred to me 

 the other day, to look it up, and here it 

 is: — 



