. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mar. 24, 1904. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 239 is left; Or if a Ix'e-kerper can't sell his honey at all, what shall he do with it; I wrote to a bee-keeper that he was lueky to have no room to store his honey. He had told me that ho sold his comb honey for 11 cents and extracted for 7 eents per pound. I just got a letter from him saying, "The store- keeper has all my honey on hand yet; 35(10 poundsof comb and SOO pounds of ; I sell my extracted honey at home for S cents 11 pound, but it is selling slowly. There has been some talk abou
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mar. 24, 1904. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 239 is left; Or if a Ix'e-kerper can't sell his honey at all, what shall he do with it; I wrote to a bee-keeper that he was lueky to have no room to store his honey. He had told me that ho sold his comb honey for 11 cents and extracted for 7 eents per pound. I just got a letter from him saying, "The store- keeper has all my honey on hand yet; 35(10 poundsof comb and SOO pounds of ; I sell my extracted honey at home for S cents 11 pound, but it is selling slowly. There has been some talk about eating honey. I eat more than 100 pounds a year, and never touch anything sour. A farmer bee-keeper has a book in which I found the following ad vice: '? Paint your hives 4 weeks before hiving a swarm in them; bees don't like the smell of the ; I know bet- ter. , When painting wagons, bees visited me, and I have painted bee-hives inside and out, and hived swarms in them the day. When giving up my trade—wagon-nmkei-— I had some 7-ineh basswood on liand. I made supers from them and I also have a few hives from basswood lumber. They won't warp any more than pine, and last as long when kept painted. The first swarms I ever hived was on June 23, 1S90. The queen piped on July 4, which meant that the second swarm would come on July r. I wrote this to the American Bee Journal before, and have known it over .50 years, so Dr. Miller may answer to those who have but a few colonies: When your (lueens have piped 3 evenings, you will be sure to have the second swarm the next day; and not: If you hear your queens pipe to-night, watch for swarms to-morrow. It takes too much time to watch for queen-piping for those who have so many bees. Why didn't Mr. Hasty tell Dr. Miller about this queen-piping! I extracted my unfinished sections, put them into a box. and then gave them to the bees and let them clean them out slowly. Wv. Dl'escher. Brown Co., Wis., Jan. 29. CONVENTION
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