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Certainly this season, the honey 

 secured by bee-men all over the 

 orange belt, is of a clear, almost 

 light straw color, good body, and 

 of a flavor such that nothing equals 

 it. For example, a friend of ours, to 

 whom we gave a jar of the honey 

 came down into the pantry where 



his wife was opening the jar, and, 

 sniffing the air, asked "Who has 

 orange blossoms here?" That is 

 surely "bouquet" enough to satis- 

 fy anyone! Samples sent Xorth bring 

 back the verdict from large dealers 

 "The honey is SUPERB." 



E. G. B. 



Field Notes From Tennessee 



J. M. BUCHANAN, Franklin, Tenn. 



In the clover sections of our 

 state we are "up against it," good 

 and hard. The drouth last summer 

 killed nearly all the young white 

 clover, and very little honey will 

 be gathered from that source. Then 

 it has been dry all through May, 

 and there is nothing in sight for 

 a honey crop, unless it is honey- 

 dew, and may heaven preserve us 

 from that. 



Ten years ago I made a hundred 

 or more brood frames. These were 

 in all respects like the standard 

 Hofmau, except that the top bar 

 was about a sixteenth inch wider, 

 and they were made of poplar in- 

 stead of pine. These frames have 

 been in promiscuous use through the 

 yards. Now, wherever you find one 

 of those home-made frames, you 

 will find the top bar clean, while 

 the factory made frames are cov- 

 ered with bur-combs after three or 

 four years' use. Why the differ- 

 ence? I think it is on account of a 

 nearer perfect bee-space between 

 the homemade frames. This is re- 

 spectfully submitted to the manu- 

 facturers. 



I want to give a further report 

 of the hundred colonies wintered 

 in two-story hives. At the beginning 

 of the honey flow the excluders 

 were put on, and the queens and 

 open brood placed in the lower 

 story. They had four or five frames 

 of brood in the upper story, and an 

 empty comb or two in the brood 

 chamber. Although these averaged 

 twenty-five per cent stronger than 

 the one-story colonies, only five per 

 cent made any preparations for 

 swarming, while the one-story col- 

 onies in my own yard built cells or 



swarmed in thirty per cent of such 

 bives, and my neighbors report 

 from fifty to one hundred per cent 

 of swarms. It is too early yet, 

 .June 5th, to give a report of honey 

 stored by these colonies. 



Of the honey produced in the 

 South, perhaps more than half is 

 used in the form of bulk comb. 

 White honey in new combs is cut 

 from the frame and packed in 

 buckets and filled in with liquid 

 honey. Extracted honey from tupelo 

 or sourwood is in good demand for 

 this purpose as these honeys do not 

 granulate. We find the five and 

 ten pound friction-top pails the 

 most satisfactory package for bulk 

 honey. The price varies from ten 

 to fifteen cents wholesale. For 

 home use this is much the best 

 form of honey to produce, as it 

 requires very little equipment and 

 less care than with sections or 

 extracted honey. 



It is quite a problem to keep 

 moths out of combs that are not 

 in care of the bees. Fumigating with 

 carbon bi-sulphide will kill the 

 moths and larvae, but very few eggs 

 will be affected by it. These eggs 

 hatch out in from twelve to four- 

 teen days, so it would be well to 

 give a second dose in about two 

 weeks. For a stack of six supers of 

 ten full depth combs each, it will 

 take four or five ounces of the li- 

 quid. Place this in a pan in an 

 empty super on top of the combs, 

 and close up tight for twelve hours. 

 Comb honey can be fumigated with 

 bi-sulphide but should be well aired 

 afterwards to remove the odor of 

 the drug. 



