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tlie sections should be cleaned, the honey 

 carefully graded and crated. The earlier 

 this is done the better prepared is the 

 beekeeper to meet the demand for early 

 comb honey at the high prices. 

 OUT-APIARIES MAKE CONTINUOUS WORK 

 FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR. 

 Managing out-apiaries for comb honey 

 is not rasy work, hut itis cofiitnuous work 

 the ivhole year. It has some disadvan- 

 tages over having all one's bees at a home 

 yard. Much valuable time is lost each 

 day on the road to and from a yard. But 

 there are great advantages. In one local- 

 ity, from one or another cause, the bees 

 may dwindle badly, or the flowers may 



fail there, if all one's bees are there, a 

 complete loss follows. At another yard, 

 perhaps only a short distance away, con- 

 ditions may differ so that there is a full 

 crop, and some profit is realized. Differ- 

 ent parts of the country vary so that in 

 one State it may be advisable to concen- 

 trate one's stock; at another to scatter it 

 widely. Each beekeeper must study and 

 adapt himself to his own conditions of 

 environment. There is one principal 

 which applies to all localities: To get 

 good results in comb honey it is absolute- 

 ly necessary to have all hives full of bees 

 at the time of the honey flow. 



Denver, Colo. 



O^-'-^Xv 



REPORTING THE HONEY CROP. 



BY G. A. HATCH. 



Why and When the Reports Should be Made, and 

 Who Should do the Reporting. 



Read at the Denver Convention. 



GyT.\TISTICS can be u.sed for two pur- 

 ^ poses; one is general information as to a 

 business or calling, for the purpose of ed- 

 ucating the public and thereby increasing 

 or sh<nving up the importance of the call- 

 ing or business; the second use of statiiitics 

 is for commercial purposes only, and need 

 not be as elaborate and exhaustive as the 

 former, and, therefore, is less expensive 

 to obtain. The first would require a com- 

 plete and extensive report from each bee 

 keeper as to the number of colonies kept 

 and the amount of honey and wax pro- 

 duced, while for the second, the honey 

 alone would be sufTicient to furnish all 

 data needed. 



when statistics should be COLLECTED. 

 While there are many localities that 

 get the larger part of their surplus in dark 

 or amber honey, we have noticed that 

 while this later or fall crop of dark grades 

 may be abundant, it cuts only a small fig- 

 ure in influencing the honey market, its 



price being graded from the price of white 

 honey at the time, but if white grades are 

 in excess of the demand, the dark is sure 

 to feel the depressing effect. While this 

 ma}^ not always be true, for practical pur- 

 poses, we think it is, and, therefore, as- 

 sume it as a fact. 



In looking over the field from Maine 

 to California we find that most, if not all, 

 the white honey of this country is pro- 

 duced during June and July. Therefore 

 if we have a report for the two months, 

 we will have the white honey crop report. 

 WHO should m.\ke the reports. 



Facts are what are wanted, and there is 

 no one who can furnish these facts so well 

 as the bee men themselves, and where 

 there is an organization it should be done 

 through the local society to the National, 

 the secretary of the National giving out a 

 summary each month, or oftener, to all 

 the bee papers, showing tons product this 

 year and previous years at that date 



