June 30. 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



463 



ering. I have tried all the ehi.-aper trrades of 

 sweets, and tied DOthiDg as cheap, all things 

 considered, asgranulated sugar. If you have 

 a little extracted honey to mix with it, the 

 bees will like it some better. To have the 

 best results, make it very thin, about like 

 the nectar as gathered from the flowers, and 

 feed it quite warm. — E. W. Alexander, of 

 New York, in Bee Keepers' Review. 



Bee-Keeping at the St. Louis Expo- 

 sition. 



The St. Louis Exposition has not cone very 

 much for bee-keepers, but who is to blame we 

 are not able to say. There was an opportun- 

 ity-offered for one of the largest and grandest 

 displays of this kind that was ever known on 

 earth had the matter been taken up early last 

 year, and some one put in general charge who 

 was widely know among bee-keepers, and 

 who had had extended experience along the 

 line of apiarian exhibits. The display would 

 have proved a drawing card for the exposition , 

 not only among the 400,000 bee-keepers in 

 the United States, but among those of other 

 lands, and would have resulted in untold ben- 

 efit to the industry. As it is, tht- honey and 

 apiarian display is a kind of a farce. It is oil 

 at one side, poorly equipped and overshad- 

 owed by other things deemed more important, 

 if not more attractive. 



Colorado will have a fine display in charge 

 of Senator Swink, which is located in the 

 basement part of the Horticultural Building. 

 California has a fine one of extracted honey 

 located in the Agricultural Building, where 

 the entire exhibit should have been located. 

 Utah also has a very attractive exhibit of ex- 

 tracted honey in the same place, and there 

 may be other States which have good displays 

 in connection with their State exhibit, but we 

 did not have time to hunt them up. 



In the Horticultural Building the A. I. 

 Root Company is setting up a neat, attractive 

 display of apiarian supplies, but when we 

 were there, some one who had an exhibit in 

 front of it was erecting a barrier about ten 

 feet high, so it will be hard to find when the 

 other display is completed. Mr. Danzenhaker, 

 who is in charge of the Root display, told us 



that the space next to it was to be occupied 

 by an exhibit of bees, etc., which Senator 

 Swink propo.sed to set up, but this space al- 

 ready had a board fence in front of it so high 

 that no one could see over it, so it would lake 

 a police detective to find the Senator's bees, 

 should he locate them in this place. The lady 

 superintendent seems to be a very excellent, 

 hard-working woman, and is doing all she 

 possibly can to help the departments along, 

 but she evidently lacks experience sutlicient 

 to handle such an undertaking. This, how- 

 ever, is not the most serious trouble. She is 

 forced to "make bricks without straw," and 

 the most e killed expert in the land could not 

 get together a creditable apiarian display 

 under the circumstances. First, the location 

 is about as poor as could be ; second, last year 

 early in the season was the time to begin a 

 work of this kind; and last, but not least, 

 there is not money enough and push enougn 

 back of this display to guarantee success, even 

 though the location was a good one, and the 

 matter had been taken up at the proper time. 

 The honey and bee display at the St. Louis 

 Exposition is bound to prove a failure. Mis- 

 souri does not have any honey display &', all, 

 to her own discredit be it said, as she produces 

 as fine honey as can be found anywhere in 

 the land. — Modern Farmer and Busy Bee. 



CONVENTION NOTICE. 



Texas.— The Texas State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

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 day, Wednesday and Tiiarsday, July S, 6 and 7, 

 1W4, beginning at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. This 

 will be during the meeting of the Texas Farm- 

 ers' Congress, so it will be a great time. Rail- 

 road rates and board will be cheap. 



The convention will open at the time named. 

 Come early and take part. 



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HONEY AND BEESWAX 



MARKET QUOTATIONS 





Chicago, May <).— The market has an over- 

 supply of cumb houey, very little of which will 

 pass as No. 1 grade— price is H@iic per pound, 

 and off grades at a corresponding value. Ex- 

 tracted, 6((i7c per pound for best grades of 

 white; amber colors, S(§ 6c per pound. Bees- 

 wax, 30Cji3Jc. R. A. Bdrnett & Co. 



Cincinnati, O., June 18.— Since warm weather 

 set in, hardly any sales of comb honey are 

 made; what little there was sold, was fancy 

 white and brought from 12^s@H3>ic. Extracted 

 has a fair demand, as follows: Amber, in bar- 

 rels, from .^yi(«>5^c; in cans, Mc per pound 

 more; alfalfa. t.i4c; fancy white clover, 7J4c. 

 Nice yellow beeswax, 30c. C. H. W. Weber. 



Albany, N. Y., June 3.— The honey market is 

 very dull now, and prices nominal Receipts 

 are very light and demand the same. We quote 

 comb honey, in good order, white. 13@15c- 

 mixed, 12(gil3c; dark, 10@12c. Extracted, buck- 

 wheat, SH'itiz; mixed, S}4@6c; white, 6!i(a<7c. 

 Beeswax, 30@32c. H.R.Wright. 



Cincinnati, J une' IS.— The demand for honey 

 is slow for this season of the year, which is due 

 10 the vast quantities that were held over fr .m 

 last season, and the importation of 'uhan 

 honey. We quote amber in barrels and ,-;i,i« at 

 SKS^^^c; while clover, 6WW,s- ■•»=.- ,-.-., 

 The Fsed W.Muth Co. 



Boston, May 14.— The demand for honey is 

 extremely light, almost nothing, and supplies 

 aie heavy for this lime of the year, -luj our 

 prices therefore are largely nominal. We quote 

 fancy white at 15@lt.c; A No. 1, 14(ai5c and 

 Nc.l, 14c, with no call for under grades. Ex- 

 tracted, from 6@7c. Blake, Scott & Lee. 



Kansas City, Jane 15.— The market is about 

 cleaned up on old honey, the last selling for 

 $2.75 per case. We expect our first shipment of 

 new stock in next week, and will sell same at 

 $3.25 per case: we have been receiving letters 

 from all of our honey-shippers, from which we 

 gather that Ihecrop in Iowa and Missouri runs 

 from fair to good. Old extracted honev meets 

 with very slow sale. Beeswax in good dem ii 

 at 30c. C. C. Clemons & Co. 



New York, June 21.— Ve'y little demand for 

 comb honev. Some trade for No. 1 and fancy 

 white, at from 12@13c, while dark and amber 

 are almost unsalable. Extracted is in fair de- 

 mand, although prices are irregular. We quote 

 from 5(si65ic, according to quality. Southern 

 in barrels, at from SO^SSc per gallon. 



Beeswax more plentiful and prices are erad- 

 We quote 28s'2'lc. 



Hildreth & Segelken. 



Philadelphia. June 2C— It is just between 

 seasons now with comb honey. No sales re- 

 ported and nothing doing. Our commission 

 markets are at the height of the berry season, 

 and there are few sales made in extracted 

 honey for manufacturing purposes. We quote: 

 Fancy white extracted, 7c; amber, 6c. Beeswax 

 is declining; 2Sc for best yellow. 



We are producers of honey and do not handle 

 on commission. Wm. A. Selser. 



San Francisco, June 15.— White comb, 1-Ib. 

 sections, 12^!@13c; amber, i.^llc. Extracted" 

 white, SSi@6c; light amber, S@S%c; amber, 

 3K@4Kc; dark amber, 3^@3iic. Beeswax, good 

 to choice, lie ht, 28(a30c; dark, 26@27!^c. 



There are no heavy spot supplies of any de- 

 scription, and especially is choice to select, 

 either comb or extracted, in quite limited slock. 

 Demand at presenl, however, is not active. 



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