. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Wax Moth and Worms in Comb Honey. BY 6. M. DOOLITTLE. One of our oldest and largest comb honey producers writes me thus: Please give us through the columns of the American Bee Journal the best method of keeping comb honey from worms, or the larvae of the wax-moth ; how to destroy such as may be in it when taken from the hive, etc. By doing this you will. Apiary of Mr. V. W. McKown, of Knox Co., Ills. in the spring of 1882 he had 60 colonies, and that summer secured 10, pounds of honey, and sold it for an average of 13 cents, having hired only .SIS
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Wax Moth and Worms in Comb Honey. BY 6. M. DOOLITTLE. One of our oldest and largest comb honey producers writes me thus: Please give us through the columns of the American Bee Journal the best method of keeping comb honey from worms, or the larvae of the wax-moth ; how to destroy such as may be in it when taken from the hive, etc. By doing this you will. Apiary of Mr. V. W. McKown, of Knox Co., Ills. in the spring of 1882 he had 60 colonies, and that summer secured 10, pounds of honey, and sold it for an average of 13 cents, having hired only .SIS worth of help. Since then it has been smooth sailing with him and the bees. He has had as many as 24:0 colonies at a time, but aims to winter but 100. The apiary is in the center of the village, with a street on two sides within a few feet of the outside hives, yet he has never had any trouble with travelers, thieves or neighbors. His production Is about ofie-third comb and two-thirds ex- tracted, and he depends upon the home market, just like every wise bee-keeper does, when he possibly can do so. give us something which will be appreciated by the largest number of bee-keepers. I know you have before given your method of keeping moth-worms out of comb honey, but that was for comparatively small lots; and, besides, the methods which have proven elBcient should be given again and again, so as to keep them before the people, and especially that those new in the business may find what they want," I had not thought it necessary to write further on the sub- ject of "worms in comb honey," but from the above, and sev- eral letters which have come to me of late, of like import, per- haps it may be well to speak of this matter again, prefacing it a little to show how we were led to the present ways of keep- ing comb honey. Years ago, when I first commenced to keep bees, nearly every one who then kept them,stored their honey in the Please note that these images a
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