Texas beekeeping by Scholl Louis H

Author:Scholl, Louis H
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bees
Publisher: Austin, Tex., Austin printing company
Published: 1912-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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making 120 pounds; six-pound friction top pails, ten in a case, making 60 pounds, and three-pound friction top cans, 20 in a case, also making 60 pounds, are used for both comb and extracted honey in smaller sized packages for retailing in the original package. This

Friction top honey pails.

standard is so well known that orders are always made in accordance with the price lists, in all of which the various sizes appear in the same regular order.

Barrels are not advised for honey, as they are very cumbersome in handling, besides there is danger of losing the honey by leakage due to bursting of the hoops or the drying out of the staves in our southern climate. They are good enough for the inferior grades of honey, and are used extensively for shipping them to large biscuit and cracker factories; but, while this is the case in the eastern part of Texas and in adjoining States, honey cans are almost entirely used in the West; and, for good grades of honey, such are an advertisement for the producer, and their general use is therefore recommended.

The question regarding the advisability of using second hand cans, those that have been used once before for shipping honey, is one that confronts many beekeepers, on account of the cheap price at which they are advertised. Good honey should never be risked in anything but bright new cans, and, even for poorer grades of honey the results of the risk may prove them dear at any price.

BULK COMB HONEY.

Since the expense of section honey production is so much greater, the Texas beekeepers long ago resorted to other ways of producing comb honey, and today there is very little section honey produced in this State. Bulk comb honey is the leading product of Texas apiaries, and, produced in shallow frames, with full sheets of foundation, the bees do not hesitate to enter the supers, therefore making it possible to obtain larger averages per colony. Although the bees are required to build their own comb, it is not necessary to crowd them, and, consequently there is less swarming. In this case they work much more readily in the supers and the colonies are more easily managed. On the whole, bulk comb honey production is easier, less laborious and

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less expensive than section honey, and not much more difficult to produce than extracted honey, while the profits are much greater.

The average yield per colony of bulk comb honey, comb and extracted honey together, is about 100 pounds, and, as extracted honey is required to put up with the comb honey, both are generally produced on the same hive. The extracted honey supers are placed on early in the season to catch the early honey before the season is well enough advanced for the best work in the comb honey supers, and they are also made use of again at the end of the flow to catch the honey which otherwise would result in a great deal of unfinished comb honey.

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