June 13, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



383 



ill. and sakl. '■ Nuw I'vt! tjot you." auJ weut 

 vn to SunJay-sehool aud church content. 

 When I retured I went to see our bees, aud 

 noticed that the ground in front of the hive 

 was wet. and the bees lool<ed lifeless. I 

 opened the hive, and they were all dead. 

 They had smothered to death. What a fine 

 swarm lost, for they had in 13 hours built the 

 eiffht frames of foundation halt full. 



Giving Combs of Honey to Swarms. 



Editor Hultbiuson says in the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review : 



Combs of solid honey may be placed in the 

 brood-nest when hiving swarms, and the 

 honey brought in will of necessity be carried 

 into the sections. Friedeniann Greiner men- 

 tioned this at one of the New Yorli institutes, 

 saying that he had frequently practiced the 

 plan, and in addition to being compelled to 

 put the new honey above, the bees are also 

 oljliged to remove mucli of the honey from 

 the combs put in the brood-nest, and carry 

 it up into the sections, in order to malie room 

 for a tirood-nest. By this management not 

 only is the newly-brought-in honey put into 

 the sections, but any combs of first-class 

 honey may be " worlied over," so to speak, 

 into section honey. 



Queen Accepting Bees. 



Editor Pender says in the Australasian Bee- 

 Keeper : 



During a honey-flow bees are so much en- 

 gaged as hardly to notice a change of queen, 

 provided the queen does not disturb the bees 

 herself. I have had liees too busy gathering 

 even to start cells when made queenless. Dur- 

 ing a scarcity of honey queen-introduction is 

 not at all certain, the bees are idle and resent 

 interference. The editor of Gleanings does 

 •■ not understand how fasting for 30 minutes 

 on the part of the queen should induce a 

 friendly behavior on the part of the bees." 

 In queen-introduction I find success is due 

 quite as much, if not more, to the disposition 

 of the queen. I never introduce a queen if 

 she is excited, and runs about madly in the 

 cage. I simply withdraw the candy and 

 starve her until she is prepared to beg for 

 food, and thus i>rei'.\ke hek to acrept of the 

 bees. We usually prepare bees to accept of a 

 queen. Cause a queen to run excitedly over 

 the combs and the bees will ball her at once, 

 even their own queen, how much more a 

 stranger. 



Bees of a Swarm Living Longer. 



Knowing what a short lease ot life worker- 

 l)ees have in the busy season, it seems a little 

 strange that the bees of a swarm hold out as 

 well as they do. lu the British Bee Journal 

 H. B. Buckston reports some experiments 

 concerning the matter, and concludes by 

 saying: 



The reason, then, why bees in a swarm live 

 longer than usual seems to be that the younger 

 bees of the swarm have to serve as indoor 

 workers for a longer time than they would 

 do in a hive containing eonstantly-liatching 

 brood, and they thus are not exposed to the 

 accidents and hard labor experienced by field- 

 workers. 



Shall Hives Be Painted? 



In defense of )minted hives, A. C. Miller 

 says in the Bee-Keepers' Review : 



An unpainted board will absorb moisture 

 freely; coat it with paint or varnish and it 

 will not. When it is thus coated, the en- 

 closed cellular structure is a fair non-conduc- 

 tor; hence, a hive coated with varnish on the 

 inside and paint on the outside is. in a limited 

 way. the same as a chaff hive. /. e.. a porous 

 poor conductor between two better conduc- 

 tors. When the pores in the wood of a sin- 

 gle-walled hive are filled with water, which is 

 a good conductor, the hive becomes a little 

 better than if it were made of metal or stone. 



After 28 Years. -We are not much ia sympa- 

 thy with advertisers who make use of extrava- 

 f^adt claims as beiiitr '' biggest," the ''best on 

 earth," " none so t.'.iL.d," etc. When, however, 

 these or similar claims are borne out by tbeact- 

 ual tacts we believe that the advertiser has not 

 only a perfect right, but that he should make 

 the facts public. This is brought to miod by 

 the advertiseraeul of the Elkhart Carriage and 

 Harness Manufacturing Co., of Elkhart, Ind., 

 who regularly use this paper in season. These 

 people for the past several years have been lay- 

 ing claim to being "the largest manufacturers 

 of vehcles and harness ia the world selling to 

 the consumer exclusively." To one who will 

 take the pains to iavestigate, or what is better 

 still, if it is possible, go to Elkhart and look 

 over this institution and examine their methods 

 of doing business, this statement will appear as 

 modest and entirely within the bounds of 

 truth. Of course this result is not one of sud- 

 den attainment; it has taken more than is years 

 of hard and persistent effort to bring this insti- 

 tution up to its present high plane, ilaving de- 



Upen Driving Wayoti.) 



cided loag ago that the public would much pre- 

 fer to deal direct with the manufacturer, the 

 man who made the goods, if the people but 

 could be convinced that they were getting the 

 best goods at the lowest procurable price, the 

 Elkhart people inaugurated their present sys- 

 tem of doing business. That their methods 

 have been approved and appreciated is evi- 

 denced by the growth, magnitude and prestige 

 of their "present business. In their two large 

 factories at Elkhart they manufacture 178 styles 

 of vehicles and i>5 styles of harness. In vehicles 

 they are prepared to supply the public with 

 every conceivable article from the open buggy 

 through -phaetons, stanhopes, a long line of top- 

 buggies, surreys, two and tliree seated carriages, 

 traps, spring - wagons, etc. — to wagonettes, 

 busses and all classes of delivery wagons. In 

 harness they have anything from single-strap 

 buggy-harness all down the line to best double- 

 team harness for farm work. Remember that 

 they make every article they sell in their own 

 factoi ies, and that they employ no agents or 

 middle men, but sell e.xclusively to the con- 

 sumer at wholesale prices. Every article is 

 guaranteed in a way that removes all element 

 of chance. Everything is made of good mate- 

 rial in the most substantial way. in the best and 

 latest style, and sold to the consumer at the 

 most reasonable of prices. Write them for their 

 large illustrated catalog which they will take 

 pleasure in sending to our readers free, not for- 

 getting to mention seeing their advertisement 

 in the American Bee Journal. 



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MARKET QUOTATIONS. 



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Chicago, June 7. — Not any new comb honey 

 has come to this market up to date hereof, but 

 promises are being made for some before the 

 month closes. A little g^ood while comb still on 

 sale, which easily brings l<-c; not much of any 

 other kind here. Extracted very dull, practi- 

 cally no sales made. Beeswax tirm at 30c. 



R. A. Burnett & Co. 



Dktroit, May 21.— Fancy white comb 14@15c; 

 No. 1, 13f3H4c; dark and amber, 10@12c. Ex- 

 tracted, white, 6!^@7c; amber and dark, 5@6c. 

 Beeswax, 27@28c. 



Very little desirable honey in sight. The new 

 crop will find the market well cleaned up. The 

 demand is always light at this season of the 

 year. M, H. Hunt & Son. 



Cincinnati, May 17. — No demand for comb 

 honey, also stock of it well exhausted. Ex- 

 tracted very dull; sales are more or less forced; 

 lower prices from J^ to 1 cent per pound. 



C. H. W. Weber. 



Boston, May 21.— Our market continues dull 

 on honey with very light stocks on hand. Our 

 normal prices are as follows: Faccy 1-pound, 

 cartons, I7c; A No. 1, 16c; No. 1, 15c; No. 2, 12@ 

 14c. Extracted from 6J^@*7^c. 



Blake. Scott & Lbb. 



Omaha, May 1. — Comb honey, extra white, 

 24-frame cases, per caee, $3.40; No. 1, $3.25; am- 

 ber, $3.00. Peycke Bros. 



New York, June 1.— Extracted honey is ex 

 ceedingly dull and verv little moving. We quote 

 for the present: Whi'te, 6j^f<' 7c; light amber, 

 S\i&.i>c\ amber, 5(^5'4C. Some demand for comb 

 honey at unchantjed prices. New crop is now 

 beginning to arrive from the South, and sells at 

 from 12fctl5c, according to ijuality and style. 

 Beeswax, 2''c. Hildreth & Segelken. 



Albany, N. Y., June 1.— Honey market quiet. 

 No stock, no receipts, and no demand now. It 

 is between seasons. We look for good prices 

 the coming season, for in this vicinity the foul 

 brood has nearlv exterminated the bee-keepers. 

 H.R.Wright. 



Buffalo, May 29.— Very light trade in all 

 grades of honey. Strictly fancy sells fairly, at 

 14@l5c; dark dull at any price,'and 8'rt9c about 

 the range. Beeswax, fancy, 27fa.^2vSc; dark, 23@ 

 25c. Batterson & Co. 



Kansas City, May 4.— Practically no ship- 

 ments arriving, and very little selling. We are 

 getting $3.50 to $3 65 per case of 24 sections No. 

 1 white; amber, $3.00 to $3.25. Beeswax scarce 

 at 25c. W. R. Cromwell Produce Co., 



Successors to C. C. Clemons & Co. 



San Francisco, May 22.— White combllK® 

 \2% cents; amber, 'i@10c; dark, 6f^as cents. Ex- 

 tracted, white, 5(2 (tc; light amber 4@4^c; 

 amber. 3H@4c. Beeswax. 26@28c, 



Market presents a weak tone, with dealers, 

 large and small, holding off as much as possi- 

 ble, in anticipation of liberal offerings from 

 producing sections at an early day. There is 

 not much new honey now here, either comb or 

 extracted. For some very choice white comb 

 13 cents is asked. New amber extracted has 

 been placed at 4 cents, which is the utmost fig- 

 ure obtainable in a wholesale way in the local 

 market for this grade. 



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