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GLEANINGS IN liEE CULTUiiE. 



June 



'elmiiih 



tTniJerthia Jieatl will be insertea, free oC chaigc. tne names of 

 all those hnving honey to sell, as well as those wantinf; to buy. 

 Please mention how much, what kind, and prices, as far as pos- 

 sible. As a general thing, I would not advise you to send your 

 honey away to be sold on commission. It near home, where 

 you can look after it, it is often a very good way. By all means, 

 develop your home market. For 25 cents we can furnish little 

 boards to hang up in your dooryara, with the words, " Honey 

 forSale," neatly painted. If wanted by m.ail, 10 cents extra for 

 postage. Boards saying ' ' Bees ajid Queens for Sale, ' ' same 

 P'ice. 



CITY MARKETS. 



Cleveland.— Honey.— The honey market contin- 

 ues very steady with us. Several small lots of very 

 nice white sections have been sent in from various 

 quarters. The best has met with ready sale at T2c; 

 second, 18 to 20c; but buckwheat is unsalable at 

 any price. Extracted, none in the market, and no 

 inquiry. 



Beeswax.— 2^ to 3Cc. A. C. Kendel. 



Cleveland, O., May 20, 1883. 



Boston.— We are entirely closed out on honey and 



wax. Newhone.y will be in demand early this year. 



Boston, May 18, 188 i. Cbocker & Blake. 



CniCAGC— Ho/!Cf/.— I am paying- 7@9c for extract- 

 ed honey on arrival. Sales of comb honey are slow 

 and unsatisfactory.— Becsu'a.r.— 21@25c for bright 

 yellow; 15@23c for off colors and dark. 



Chicago, 111., May 33, 1883. Alfred II Newman. 



Cincinnati.— Honey.— Market for extracted hon- 

 ey is fair. Demand very good for manufacturing 

 purposes, and fair in the small way for table use. 

 It brings 7@10c on arrival. Demand slow for comb 

 honey, and prices nominal. — Beeswax brinas 20@35 

 on arrival. Cn.\s. S. Muth. 



Cincinnati, O., May 33, 1883. 



Nisw York.— Honey.— The demand for comb hon- 

 ey is very light — no white in this market. We 

 quote mixed and dark grades comb honey, 3-lb. 

 boxes, 11@13, of which we have enough suppl.v to 

 carry us over until the new crop arrives. Best 

 white extracted in firkins is selling at 9@10c. Dark 

 grades of extracted, 7@8c. Beeswax is in active de- 

 mand at 37@30 for prime quality. 



H. K. & F. B. Thurber & Co. 



New York, May 23, 1883. 



San Francisco.— Beeswax.- Your postal received. 

 Sorry to say, there is not a ton of surplus wax in the 

 market. Our season is backward, and we are anx- 

 iously awaiting the new crop, which will be in S. F. 

 in sixty days. Stearns & Smith. 



San Francisco, Cal., May 17, 18S3. 



CIRCl liARS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



J. T. Scott & Bro., Crawfish Spring's, Ga., send out 



a very nice " Catalogue and Guide Book" of poultry, hives, 

 etc., illustrated. Price 3 cents. 



H. H. Brown, Light Street, Pa., issues a 16-page 



list of bees, fdn., extraetors, etc. 



S. Valentine, Double Pipe Creek, Md.. has publish- 

 ed a pretty IS-page map-told circular of Italian and Albino 

 queens, nuclei, etc. 



A. B. Miller & Son, Wakarusa, Ind., send us a one- 

 page list of hives and apiarian supplies. 



J. H. Martin, Hartford, N. Y., sends out a 4-page 



circular, the prominent feature of which is sheets of wired fdn. 

 on a light wood rim. This rim can be pushed into the frame, 

 and you are all ready for business. We see no objection to the 

 plan, other than the expense. 



E. H. Cook, Andover, Ct., sends us a postal circu- 

 lar of queens, etc. It was printed with a rubber stamp. 



S. E. Douglass, Whitmore I/akc, Mich., sends out a 



onej_page list of bee-keepers' supiilics. 



w. Hoyt, Riplej', Me., sends a 4-p.igc list of Italian 



and C.vprian queens. 



B. B. Beebee, Oneida, N. Y., has published a very 



presentable 1'3-page list of bees ami all kinds of apiarian sup- 

 plies. Friend B. seems to value the Cvprian anti Holy-Land 

 bees more highly than the Italians, .and yet he is not prepared 

 to " discard either race." 



J. D. Goodrich, East Hardwick, Vt., sends us an 



elegant 6.page list of bee-keepers' supplies. 



W. G. Russell, Millbrook, Ont., Can., sends us an 8- 

 page list of bee supplies. 



L. E. Mercer, Lenox, la., publishes a postal price 

 list of Italian bees, etc. 



S. P. Roddy, Mechanicstown,Md., sends us a 1-pagc 



list nf apiai ian supplies, bees, etc. 



Friend Allfy. Wcnhain, Mass., is out with a tasty 4- 



page list of Halian, Cvprian. and Hungarian bees. 



Friend Hedd.m sends \w .i briyht, wide-awake circular of S p.. 

 from which we in;il;i- the folloH ing extract: " While I have not 

 the space to present the nn:nc'i-ou-; arguments in favor of a 

 standard fiame and section, I will assure you that I know its 

 advantages to be very Kieat. In buying, selling, renting, and 

 ivi's, .iiiil li.xt\ires, do we feel the stern 

 :inic ;in(l sccti.)n. Jlost agree that, all 

 Ian liid Lang troth frame is best, 

 ilse, it is cvidenily the coming fiaine, 

 lilfercnce in adv.antages in liitl'erent 

 . :ued with the benefits a(.-cTUing from 

 all using one size of frame. If you have no more than titty or a 

 hundred colonies, I feel sure it will pay you to adojit the' stan- 

 dard L. frame at onee, and in the change .secure jpcrlect combs. 

 I changed over littv colonies when the cost was dnuble what it 

 is now, and it paid me twice over. TheiX^ih x 2 section is 

 also becoming :\ standard." 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



interchanging i 

 necessity for a i 

 things consideicil. t 

 Whether this be line 

 nnd in my opinion 

 frames is iiot ti 



I think the magnetic tack hammer is a little 

 bcaut.y. Joseph M.^.son. 



Wallace, ill., March 4, 1883. 



The queen arrived ycsterda.v. As we were leav- 

 ing the church, one of the P. O. clerks came to us 

 (who is a bee-keeper) and said that a queen came to 

 our address this morning, and if we would drive by 

 the oflice he would get it for us. She is now con- 

 fined on a comb in a hive. Thanks for promptness. 



Peoria, 111., May 5, 1883. Mrs. L. H.\rrison. 



The 80 hives came through all right. I haven't 

 lost even a queen. She stood the storm of winter 

 like the burning bush on the mount before Moses. 

 Thanks to the Lord. The Lord bless you and your 

 business. I had one hive last summer that gathered 

 375 lbs., 300 of it in 23 days. J. W. Utter. 



Amity, Orange Co., N. Y., May 8, 1883. 



the cheap fdn. mills. 



My fdn. machine came to li I'ld May 1, and in the 

 very best condition. I have used it, and last week 

 made up about 150 lbs. of fdn., and it works to a 

 " pin." I wo\ild not take f.jO tor it. I had a chance 

 to sell it, but did not know whether you had them 

 on hand or not, so I did r.ot do so. There is no ques- 

 tion but that your machine is the best now at the 

 present day. The express on it was onlv $3.35. I 

 am fil.id you sent it as you did. F. G. Kinney. 



Bristol, Ind., May 15. 1883. 



I have never been so much pleased in dealing wilh 

 a man as I have been with you ; in fact, I am pleased 

 beyond description. The Waterbury watches were 

 received in due time, and tire, in short, just beauti- 

 ful, and are good time-keepers. Can't see how such 

 a watch can be got up for so low a price. They are 

 a boon here. It it were not for the limitation of m.v 

 pecuniary means, I would order an entire dozen. I 

 know I could dispose of them in a short time, and 

 make a good profit. Aug. Tigqes. 



Marathon City, Wis., March 31, 1883. 



I told my wife that I believed you to bo either a 

 good, jolly, honest man, or deserving much credit 

 for having reduced hypocrisy to a science; and if 

 the former, or either, 1 could lose nothing by help- 

 ing you. We get terribly out with our bees some- 

 times (they are the little black, spiteful kind), and 

 just as soon as I get able I mean to get some of your 

 amiable kind. You remember 1o have told us not 

 to buy until we could spare the money, and a right 

 sensible suggestion it is. F. M. Blount. 



West Point, Ga., April 3. 1883. 



I see by February Gleanings that you are suc- 

 cessfully learning to govern your numerous em- 

 ployes by being yourself governed by themeeKand 

 lowly One. Bless him who is higher than the heav- 

 ens! How wondrous his stoop of love that he should, 

 as it were, iff »eel to the chief of sinners, and pray, 

 through his ambassador, " Be ye reconciled to God"! 

 Oh! surely we are here taught the simple and only 

 way to obtain "great peace" and "rest to our 

 souls." Let not the unbeliever triumph. IF the 

 righteous fall ho shall rise again. Jesus savs, when 

 taken by those who were seeking his life, " Of them 

 which thou has given me, have I lost none." I very 

 much approve of the kind advice given you by 

 George and Ernest about crowding so much work 



