356 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The crop of honey may be largely increased by the aid of 
the “honey or mel-extractor.” By its use at the right time 
and in the proper manner a single stock will give three times 
as much honey as in the comb. There is a difference of 
about one-third in the market price of strained and comb honey, 
but the strained is so much easier to keep, and so much 
more convenient to ship that I have concluded to use the “ex¬ 
tractor ” to a greater extent in the future. I would advise all 
bee-keepers who use the old-fashioned box hives to change 
their bees immediately into hives with movable frames and to 
get one of these extractors, and I will venture to say, that, in 
one season, a single swarm, properly kept, will pay for it in 
extra yield of honey. By its use I obtained the last season 
an average of 180 pounds of honey from quite a number of 
hives. In all but three cases, the hives yielding this amount 
were young swarms, or colonies that had swarmed this season. 
Nearly all of the honey gathered by my bees, came from 
basswood blossoms. The season for these is usually short — 
the past year it was only about sixteen days. From this it 
will be readily seen that a location near a tract of basswood 
timber is a very desirable one for an apiary. 
Respectfully yours, 
ADAM GRIMM. 
Jeffeeson, December, 1871. 
ADVICE TO BEGINNERS IN BEE-KEEPING. 
Dr. J.W. Hoyt, Secretary Wisconsin State Agricultural Society: 
Dear Sir —It is a very common remark with many per¬ 
sons who are acquainted with my success in bee-keeping, “ If 
we were as well posted in the business as you are, there is no 
doubt but that we could make it profitable, but there is little 
hope of our being able to acquire the art.” To such persons, 
especially those about commencing to keep bees, I would like 
to say a few words. 
