. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 648 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Sept. 14, 19C5 tory has had to run night and day quite often in order to make the hives as fast as they are called for. and they are often Ije- hind witli orders. I suppose other factories are also kept pretty busy. Now, if my customers would just be as anxious after my honey as the bee-keepers are after the factory-made hives, so that I would have to work both night and day to supply the demand for honey, I am a little afraid that I should have "to raise the price of honey a little—in fact. I would prob- ably charge
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 648 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Sept. 14, 19C5 tory has had to run night and day quite often in order to make the hives as fast as they are called for. and they are often Ije- hind witli orders. I suppose other factories are also kept pretty busy. Now, if my customers would just be as anxious after my honey as the bee-keepers are after the factory-made hives, so that I would have to work both night and day to supply the demand for honey, I am a little afraid that I should have "to raise the price of honey a little—in fact. I would prob- ably charge 18 to 20 cents for the very finest. Fellow bee- keeper, would you condemn me for this ? Would it be a very great wrong? Would there be anything wrong in my raising the price of my honey if the demand was so great'? Say, fel- low hee-keeper, we are in luck that prices are no higher than they are. If the ordinary Wall Street capitalist controlled the hive industry we would probably have to pay $ for the inside furniture of an empty super. Several years ago I tried to make a few hives in swarm- ing-time. I had only store-boxes to make them of, and my tools consisted of a hammer, ax, and a cross-cut saw that had not been filed or set for about 10 years, and a square that the horses had stepped on. It is needless to say that my hive- making was not a success. The supers acted as if they were drunk—when one corner came down the other went up, and they persisted in staying in a whin-wha shape. I had to mark the corners to tell how to get the supers back as they were, and if I put the wrong super on a hive I had to introduce it before the body would accept it, and I am sorry to say I some- times said. " Darn it!" Well, I quit hive-making, and stayed quit for about IS years. But 1 have begun again, and I find it all depends upon knowing how. I now make a good hive that fits, and gives good satisfaction, for about 50 cents for an 8-frame, 1>2- story hive, complete ex
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