. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 26, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 467. r 1 lie 1 laiue Oitiiai itpit LiiajJ-llive. Nos. 2 and 4, get rid of their honey-combs, and empty ones for exchange, by simply going to the shop-door. The little time saved in these few steps may seem of little importance, but it saves me daily the cost of one more man. Every one as busy and happy as the little pets we are working with, time passes so swiftly that it seems but an hour after our arrival when the alarm is sounded from the house—dinner. We all quit work as soon as possible and not leave hives ope
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 26, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 467. r 1 lie 1 laiue Oitiiai itpit LiiajJ-llive. Nos. 2 and 4, get rid of their honey-combs, and empty ones for exchange, by simply going to the shop-door. The little time saved in these few steps may seem of little importance, but it saves me daily the cost of one more man. Every one as busy and happy as the little pets we are working with, time passes so swiftly that it seems but an hour after our arrival when the alarm is sounded from the house—dinner. We all quit work as soon as possible and not leave hives open. These boys are active and hearty eaters, but even this laborious task is done in order. Nos. 1 and 2 feed the team ; No. 3 gets a pail of fresh spring-water ; No. 4 takes the baskets of dinner to a shady spot near by ; No. 5 spreads the cloth and sets the table—picnic style. No. 6 cuts the loaves of bread and carves the meat. Dinner over, each has a duty in packing up and getting to work. The same is true at the close of the day's work, which comes when the entire apiary of 100 to ISO colonies have been treated. The light-covered wagon with the boys in arrives at home in time for them to do the few chores common around a farm-house ; so they are ready, as the freight-wagon backs up to the warehouse, to roll the barrels in the house, the floor being on a level with the wagon-bed, carefully weigh each barrel, and mark its gross and net weight on the label. The honey is stored in these barrels until sold, without any other care—except afew dozen cases of 60-pound square cans for farmer trade. If barrels are made of a good quality of staves, kiln-dried and iron-hoopt, the barrels then stored a short time in a dry, airy room, and the hoops driven the day the barrel is filled, they will never leak. That is our experience for the past 20 years ; sending barrels thousands of miles, and to nearly every State east of the Rockies. We must use such packages for extracted honey as
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