Jaiuiarij, 1922 



Oregon and California had shipped about 5000 

 cars. The increasing movement from Idaho has 

 become a feature of recent seasons. The Gem 

 state has already .about doubled its carlot output 

 of last season. 



Northwestern box apples, says a government 

 report, have been holding to much more uniform 

 prices from season to season than others. Extra 

 fancy grades of leading varieties, like Jonathan, 

 Spltzcnberg and Wincsap, it is cited, have 

 commonly sold in eastern mirkets around $3 a box 

 seldom at more than $4 during the early part of 

 the season or less than $2, as compared with 

 extremes of $1.50 to $10 a barrel for Baldwins. 



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W/HILE apple markets generally have been 

 " rather dull in recent weeks, local movement 

 of a holiday character has been good, with demand 

 chiefly for the better grades. 



The general range of New York prices to 

 jobbers of northwestern apples, just before Christ- 

 mas, follows; 



Spitzenbergs, extra large to very large $3 to 

 3.25, small to medium $2.50 to 2.75, fancy large 

 to very large $2.60 to 2.75, small to mediun. 

 $2.25 to 2.50, C grade medium, mostly $2.25; 

 Romcs, extrn fancy, medium to large, $2.50 to 

 2.75, small, $2.25 to 2.40, fancy medium to large, 

 $2.35 to 2.50, small, mostly $2.25. Delicioui, 

 extra fancy, large to very large, <4 to 4.25 fe-v 

 high as $4.50, medium $3 to 5.50, fancy mediuni 

 $2.50 to 2.75, C grade, small, $2 to 2.25. New- 

 tn- -' extra fancy, lar — to very large, $2.75 to 

 $3; few $3.25; medium mostly, $2.50; fancy 

 medium to large, $2.50 to 2.75; few very lar^ic, 

 $3; small, mostly $2.25. Ortleys, extra fancy, 

 car run, $2.65; fancy, car run, $2.50; C grade, 

 car run, $2.25. St.aymens, fancy, car run, $2.25; 



C grade, car run, $2. 



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A CCORDING to W. T. Jcnks, manager of the 

 "^Willamette V'alley Prune .■\ssociation, there is 

 every prospect that the prune market will continue 

 strong and may possibly advance. He believes 

 that the season's crop from western states will be 

 entirely cleaned up by next June, leaving an open 

 market for the 1922 crop. Prospects for a heavy 

 crop in 1922 arc excellent and he predicts a 

 prosperous year for the growers. 



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A PPLE growers were elated early last month 

 over a new reduced rate put into effect for ap- 

 ple shipments by refrigerated steamship from the 

 Pacific Northwest to Atlantic Coast points. The 

 new rate is 40 cents a box, to which freight from 

 interior points and other charges add an average 

 of about 22 cents a box. This average total of 

 62 cents is to be compared, it is said, with a charge 

 of 75 cents by rail, or 87 cents if the rail lines 

 put into effect rate increases announced to become 

 effective this month. 



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Booth & Co., have completed construction of a 

 fruit juice plant at Centerville, Cal. 



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READER who has heard of the splendid 

 qualities of pure bred Italian bees asks me 

 how he can Italianize his colonies. It is not much 

 of a job. 



Get a young, purely mated Italian queen. She 

 may be had of a reput.ible queen breeder for $1 

 to $3. My experience is that July to September 

 Is the easiest, cheapest and best time to requeen and 

 Italianize your hives. This is especially true if 

 there is anything of a honey flow in your locality. 

 The removing of the old queen from a colony and 

 the introduction of a purely mated Italian is all 

 there Is to Italianizing a colony. 



Bees accept a new queen readily during a honey 

 flow. If there Is no flow of nectar I usually feed 

 the colony into which I put a new queen, a few 

 days before her introduction. A half pint of 

 sugar syrup made half and half by bulk, boiling 

 water and cane sugar, is the only feed necessary. 

 Bees that are storing nectar, natural or artificial, 

 accept a new queen most readily. 



When your new queen arrives she will be In a 

 little wood and wire cloth cage, already to be 

 introduced. Find the old queen. She will prob- 

 ably be a black one if she is like the majority of 

 bees throughout the country and her bees will be 

 nervous when you open their hive, running over 

 the combs pretty fussily. To partly stop this, get 

 your smoker ready. Fill it with old rotted apple 

 wood or hickory or planer shavings or excelsior. 

 Clean old rags or old burlap will do. But don't 

 use greasy waste or greasy rags, unless you want 

 to irritate the bees. 



Blow a little smoke in at the entrance of the 

 hive. Pound on the top of It a couple of smart 

 blows — until the bees within begin to set up a 

 roaring — which means they are filling up on 

 honey. They will not run on the combs when 

 doing this and the queen will be easier to find. 

 If you can locate her on a frame of comb or 

 elsewhere, pick her up and pinch her head off. 

 If she cannot be found this way, put a queen 

 excluder on the front of the hive and shake the 

 bees in front. They will all run through the 

 excluder into the hive and the queen will event- 

 ually be found outside. 



'T'HEN put the good young queen in her cage 



across the top of the frames, as per the 

 directions that accompany her.- In a couple of days 

 open the hive and cut out all queen cells and tear 

 the pasteboard off the candy hole so that the bees 

 can eat out. Be sure to locate and destroy all 

 queen cells as the bees will try to rear a queen at 

 long as the new one has not yet been introduced 

 to them. Do not disturb them again for five days 

 or a week, but keep feeding the colony if there is 

 no honey flow. Sometimes any disturbances of the 

 colony within a few days after the new queen 

 gets out of her cage will be laid to her and her 

 bees will ball her. They may kill her when doing 

 this so let the colony alone for a while after 

 fixing the cage so the bees can eat her out. 



In 21 days from the time she begins laying the 

 new queen's bees will emerge from their cells and 

 gradually, as the older bees of the former queen 

 die, the colony will become entirely purebred 

 Italian. The queen, having been mated for life 

 In the queen breeder's yards where she was reared, 

 her eggs will always produce purebred Italian bees. 

 Italian bees are most always gentler than black 

 or German bees, are better honey gatherers, larger, 

 and more easily handled. 



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