406 THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEAV 



A certain firm that manufactures a corrugated fiberboard box for 

 shipping extracted honey have this interesting note: 



"The resihency of the material from which our boxes are 

 made absorbs the shocks of transportation, and rough handling and 

 the seal prevents dishonest handlers from robbing the cans." The 

 emphasis is ours. In a recent shipment to the north, we found one 

 entire five-gallon can emptied, the contents all gone. As the cans 

 used were all the single round cans, in stout wooden jackets, well 

 braced and nailed no damage was done to the tin of the can, but the 

 screw cap must have been removed and the honey ''extracted" a 

 second time! Of course we have put in a claim, but claims are 

 often unsatisfactory, always tedious. Who likes R. R. claims any- 

 how? If the seal alluded to above will do the thing, let's have 

 all our extracted honey retainers sealed for shipment. Why not 

 a good idea. — E. G. B. 



Queens of Quality for 1916 



Both Mr. John M. Davis and Mr. Ben G. Davis of Spring Hill, 

 Tenn. were quick to grasp the very great importance of having 

 queens as breeders whose progeny were the cream of 1100 colonies 

 during 1915, and we are pleased to announce that we have made ar- 

 rangements with them to breed queens from four of our very best 

 tested-for-honey queens, mentioned in the October Review as 

 being so superior as honey gatherers, where a dozen or so colonies 

 out of the 1100 we have worked for extracted honey, gathered 

 more than 250 pounds of honey this poor season, in yards that did 

 not exceed 40 pounds per colony, on the average. We do not think, 

 ever before in commercial queen-rearing was such a combination of 

 superior, tested-for-honey strain of bees ever offered for sale. We 

 often hear of large reports of honey being gathered from some 

 favored location under good management, but here is a case of 

 superior honey gathering qualities developed in yards under the 

 same management, others having an equal show, fell far behind. 

 We consider ourselves fortunate in securing so good hands to rear 

 our 1916 queens as the Davises. Mr. John M. Davis, having over 

 forty years of successful queen-rearing experience for the trade, 

 surely will do his part grand. Then Ben G. Davis, a "chip from the 

 old block" brought up with the bees, needs no introduction to the 

 honey producer of today. Our breeders sent them are of the three- 

 banded strain of Italian stock, and when crossed with the thorough- 

 bred stock of the Davises, will be second to none in existence. 



