Aug. 15, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



527 



of honey that ouukl be obtained from this 

 acreage would be outside of the present in- 

 quiry, and it is doubtful as to there being 

 sufficient data to justify anything like a 

 reasouable estimate. It is only desired to 

 show that the aggregate of red clover terri- 

 tory is no triHitig affair, and that it is widely 

 ilistribiited.— Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



Distance of Apiaries. 



At a conference of the Vietoriau Apiarists' 

 Association, as reported in the Australasian 

 Bee-Keeper, it was adopted as a rule of this 

 Association membership, that in the "./'«7k)t 

 I'stfihlixlimeHt of apiaries a distance of o^ hnxl 

 three miles should be preserved from any ex- 

 isting member's apiary unless by mutual con- 

 sent, and that failure to observe this rule, 

 should, on being properly brought before the 

 executive of the Association, disqualify for 

 membership."' 



Another rule added, provided that "any 

 member practicing adulteration of the pro- 

 ducts of the apiary, or guilty of fraudulent 

 preeeedings as a bee-keeper, should be dis- 

 iiualified." 



It was pointed out by one and another that 

 the very grave mistake of crowding close to 

 another apiary, often of superior numbers, 

 was made by beginners in the industry be- 

 cause they were kjuorant of the severe loss it 

 entailed on themselves, especially; and by 

 others who lacked that moral sense of honor 

 and fair play that even rabbiters will observe 

 in keeping at a fair distance from their 

 neighbor. Several bee-keepers thought the 

 distance should be five miles apart, and no 

 doubt was expressed that this is in all but 

 the very best of bee-country quite close 

 enough, and that three miles in the off or bad 

 season is' very much ?oo close for apiaries of 

 any considerable size. 



The Bee in Law. 



I'nder this caption has begun in Gleanings 

 in Bee-Culture a series of articles by F. D. 

 Fisher, with a view to having them afterward 

 in book form for convenient reference. This 

 will serve a convenient purpose, especially as 

 laws of different States are by no means alike. 

 As to ownership, Mr. Fisher says : 



With regard to bees, Blackstone, the great 

 law-giver, says: 



" Bees also are A'l'"' uatune (wild by nature) ; 

 but when hived and reclaimed, a man may 

 have a (|ualitied property in them by the law 

 of nature as well as by the civil law.'' 



And to the same purpose, not to say in the 

 same words with the civil law. speaks Brac- 

 ton ; " Occupation, that is, hiving or includ- 

 ing them, gives the property in bees; for, 

 though a swarm alights upon my tree, I have 

 no more property in them till I have hived 

 them than I have in the birds which make 

 their nest thereon ; and. therefore, if another 

 hives them, he shall be their proprietor; but 

 a swarm which flies from out of my hive is 

 mine so long as I can keep it in sight and 

 have power to pursue them ; and in these 

 circumstances no one else is entitled to take 

 them.'' 



But in respect to such animals as are in the 

 habit of going and returning, as pigeons and 

 bees, which are accustomed to go into the 

 woods ami fields, and come again, we have 

 this traditional rule that, if they cease to have 

 the intention of returning, they also cease to 

 be ours, and become the projjerty of the first 

 taker, because they cease to be what are termed 

 animus ren'rtetali when they have discontinued 

 their habits of returning. 



Ownership in bees is rathme wH — that is, 

 bearing reference to the soil, and is said to be 

 the ground of ownershi(5 in l)ees. So in the 

 civil law, if a swarm of bees had flown from 

 A'shive they were reputed his so long as 

 they remained in sight and might easily be 

 pursued: but they do not bei<ime private 

 property until they are actually liivc-d. Bees, 

 along with other wild animal*, lurnish the 

 only distinct class of challcl.- whicli have 

 been made the subject of primajy occupancy. 

 Even here, notwithstanding the universal 

 principle of law, that all mankind may pur- 



sue and take animals, whether of the air, 

 earth, or water, in a wild state, the first occu- 

 pant becoming the owner, there is found a 

 restraint which ownership of the soil imposes, 

 and which fastens the closer as population 

 grows and civilization advances. 



DO YOU WANT A HIGH GRADE OF 



Italian Bees and Queens? 



2-fraine Nucleus with Untested Queen, $2.00, 

 purchaser paying express charges. 



NOTICE. 



Having sold my pi-operly I am required to 

 give possession soon,. -is well as move my entire 

 apiarv. Therefore I will quit filling orders 

 Sept.'t. Our bees will be put in a more roomy 

 place, and there prepared for winter. 



Months July and August. 



Number of Queens 1 6 12 



Golden Queens. 



Untested $.75 $4.00 $7.00 



Tested 1.2S 6 50 10.00 



Select Tested 2.00 9.00 16 00 



Breeders S.0O 



Honey Queens. 



Untested $ .75 $4.00 $7.00 



Tested 1.25 6 SO 10.00 



Select Tested 1.50 7.00 12.00 



Safe arrival guaranteed. Descriptive price- 

 list free. D. J. BLOCHER, Pearl City, III. 



28Alf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



■ ir_ A. I Fancy White Comb Honey 



fW/llltl^n in no'drip cases; also ^l 

 " till I Vll traded Honey. Slate price, 



delivered. We pay spot cash. Fred W. Muth 



& Co., Front & Walnut Sts., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Reference— German National Bank, Cincinnati. 

 2.SA17t Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Wanted — Honey. 



Car Lots or otherwise: will pay hie^hest mar- 

 ket price, spot cash. Address, stating quantity, 

 quality, aad price desired at your station. Will 

 send man to receive when lot is larg-e enough to 

 iuslify. THOS. C. STANLEY & SON, 



3lAtf Fairfield, III. 



Wanted. 



Comb and E.ttracted Honey. Will buy your 

 honey no matter what quantity. Mail sample 

 of extracted, state quality of comb honey and 

 price expected delivered in Cincinnati. I pay 

 promptly ou receipt of groods. Refer you to 

 Brighton German liank, this city. 



C. H W. WEBER, 

 2146-214S Central Ave., CINCINNATI, OHIO. 

 29Atf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Gonib and E,x- 



,.a.eo,.eelffiSnft9"^y- 



R. A. BURNETT & ca. iw S. Water St., Chicago 

 33K\i Please mention the Bee Journal. 



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|HON&y AND beeswax! 



MARKET QUOTATIONS. 



The Enierson Binder 



This Emerson stiff-board Binder with cloth 

 back for the American Bee Journal we mail for 

 but 60 cents; or we will send it with the Bee 

 Journal for one year— both for only $1.40. It is 

 a fine thing to preserve the copies of the Jour- 

 nal as fast as they are received. If you have 

 this "Emerson" uo further binding is neces- 

 sary. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



144 & 146 Erie Streel, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Daily Excursions Via Nickel Plate Road 



Chicago to Biitl'alo and New York. 

 Special low rales and favorable limits 

 to all points iCast. Call on or address 

 John Y. Calahan, General Agent, 111 

 Adams St., Chicago. 21— 3t 



Please raetitlou Bee Journal 

 when writing Advertisers. 



Chicago, Au^*-. 3. — For choice white comb 

 honey the demand is equal to the receipts at 15c 

 per pound, but off grades are slow at 1 to .Scents 

 less. Extracted is selling' more freely at 5'2^fl.('C 

 for white; amber, 5^-5J4c. Beeswax' steady at 

 30c. R. A. BURNKTT & Co. 



Cincinnati, May 17.— No demand for comb 

 hooey, also stock of it well exhausted. Ex- 

 tracted very dull; sales are more or less forced; 

 lower prices from K to 1 cent per pound. 



C. H. W. Wbber. 



Boston, Aug. 3.— The honey market is prac- 

 tically nominal, demands being nothing owing 

 to the warm weather. We have had one lot of 

 new honey in that sold at 17c. Extracted, light 

 amber, 8c; amber, 66i»7c. 



Blake, Scott & Lee. 



Omaha, Aug. 8.— New comb honey is arriving 

 by express in small quantities from Iowa and 

 Colorado, and selling at $3 50 per case in a re- 

 tail way. California extracted honey is being 

 offered carlots at 4J^@4Kc per pound, f.o.b. Cal- 

 ifornia shipping-points, but we have not heard 

 of any sales having been made thus far. The 

 production of extracted honev seems to be quite 

 large this year in Colorado, Utah and Califor- 

 nia. Peycke Bros. 



New York, Aug. 7.— There is some demand 

 for new crop of comb honev, and receipts are 

 quite numerous for this time of the year. They 

 have been principally from the South, but we 

 are now beginning to receive shipments from 

 Xew York State and near-bv. We quote: Fancv 

 white, 15c; No. 1 white, 13f!i 14c; amber, llral2c. 

 No new buckwheat is on the market as yet. and 

 we do not expect anv before next month. 



Extracted is decidedly dull. Plenty offerings, 

 with only a limited demand, and "-luotalious are 

 rather nominal. We are selling at from 5(g(.'-^c, 

 according to quality, and Southern in barrels 

 at from 55"' (j5c per gallon. Beeswax dull and 

 declining; for the present we (juote 2~ta2Sc. 



HiLDRETH & SBOBLKBN. 



Albany, N. Y., June 18.— Honev market is 

 dull with uo receipts or stocks and little de- 

 mand. It is between seasons now. Prospect of 

 good crop in this vicinity from what bees there 

 are left, the greater portion having been killed 

 by foul brood exterminators. H. R. Wright. 



Des Moines, Aug, ".- There is very little 

 doing here in new crop of honey. Some small 

 lots of near-by produced comb honey are on the 

 market and selling in a retail way at %3>.^\i to 

 $3.75 per case. We do not look for much trade 

 in this line before Sept. 1. Our market does not 

 consume a great deal of extracted honey. 



Peycke Bros. & Chaxey. 



Detroit, July 18.— Fancy white, 15c; No. 1, 

 13@14c: no dark to quote. Extracted, Tirhite, 

 6@7c; dark and amber, 5@6c. Beeswax, 2oc. 

 M. H. Hunt & Son, 



Buffalo, Aug. S. — Fancy new 1 pound comb 

 honev, Itii" ITc; darker, proportionatelv lower, 

 from'l5c down. Old not wanted, and neglected. 

 Beeswax, 22^<_) ZSc. Batterson"& Co. 



Kansas City, June 14.— Very little old honey 

 on our market but what is damaged by being 

 granulated. Sales are light at 15 cents for best 

 grade No. 1 Colorado. Amber, 13c. Beeswax 

 firm at 25#30c. 



W. R. Cromwell Produce Co., 

 Successors to C. C. Clemons & Co. 



San Francisco, July 31.— White comb, 11@ 

 \2% cents; amber, 8@10c; dark, 6(ni7>^c. Ex- 

 tracted, white, 5H@— ; light amber, 4H@5c; 

 amber. A^^Mc. Beeswax. 26@28c. 



Only very moderate quantities offering and 

 nothing in spot supplies to indicate that this 

 year's yield wa^ of liberal proportions. Much 

 of this season's honey, however, is being held 

 back at producing points. Bids of large opera- 

 tors continue uuder the views of holders. 



Kansas City, Aug. ().— Some very fine Mis- 

 souri honey is now on the market, selling at 

 10Coil7c per pound for fancy white comb. Colo- 

 rado and Utah shippers are offering new comb 

 honey in carlots for first half of August ship- 

 ment at lOc per pound for No. 1, and *>'o'»^c for 

 No. 2, f.o.b. shipping-point. The market for ex- 

 tracted hor.ey is as yet rather unsettled, asking 

 prices ranging from 45i(^4',c, f.o.b. shipping- 

 point. IIuYcrs-. however, seem to be in no hurrv 

 I to make contracts. Pkycke Bros. ' 



