Aug. 22, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



543 



the third super, and all the empty combs in 

 the two chambers of the brood-nest, arrang- 

 ing the combs so as to spread the brood, and 

 to push brood-rearing, as we want a great 

 force of bees just at the beginning of the main 

 tlow, which with us is about the Hrst of May. 

 The other super, containing the combs of 

 honey, is now set on top. This operation will 

 generally be done at about swarming-time in 

 the month of March, sometimes sooner or later, 

 depending on the earliness or lateness of the 

 season; and at this examination, if some col- 

 onies are overpopulous, combs of hatching 

 brood are taken from them and used' either to 

 strengthen weaker colonies or for making 

 nuclei. If some of the colonies hare already 

 started queen-cells they are destroyed or oth- 

 erwise as the case may be. I have already 

 said something about swarming; but with 

 such a large brood-chamber, and providing 

 plenty of room for the queen, there will be 

 very little if any swarming; but I gave the 

 foregoing for the "e.xoeptions. " 



Now comes the time of our main flow, which 

 is just beginning; and if everything has been 

 favorable we shall have strong colonies with a 

 large force of bees ; and, besides having had 

 plenty of honey for breeding purposes, they 

 will liave some surplus stored in the shallow 

 extracting-super above. 



We must now hurry and get on the comb- 

 honey supers; so, taking the section-supers, 

 which we had all nice and ready, with foun- 

 dation in the sections, and an extra Danzen- 

 baker reversible bottom-board, we proceed as 

 follows : 



First set one of the section-supers down, 

 and on this set the upper (or third) case of 

 the hive, without removing the cover. Then 

 move the two lower chambers, bottom-board 

 and all. to one side of the stand, and in its 

 place put the extra Danzenlmker bottom — the 

 deep entrance-side up — putting on this the 

 upper one of the two brood-chamber cases, 

 and on this the lower one, thus cutting the 

 brood-nest in two, thereby putting the honey 

 in the upper frames in the center of the 

 brood-nest for the bees to remove, while the 

 upper frames now contain brood. 



The two other supers, the section super 

 with the extracted-honey super above it, are 

 now set on top of the brood-chamber. Here 

 are two features with which I am greatly 

 pleased ; namely, in having bees first used to 

 storing in shallow extracting- supers ; and 

 when the section-super is put in between this 

 and the brood-nest, they go right on to work 

 in the sections without losing anytime; and 

 I have also found that nicer and fuller boxes 

 of honey can be produced between such a 

 super than where the cover is directly over 

 the sections. Then by using shallow extract- 

 ing-supers during the lime before the main 

 tlow, as we have honey coming in nearly all 

 the time, and sometimes a little more than is 

 necessary for brood-rearing, it is stored in 

 these supers, leaving plenty of room for the 

 queen, while otherwise it would have to go to 

 waste or the bees would store it in the brood- 

 chamber, thereby crowding out the (|ueen. 

 With a set of these frames above, too. it a 

 colony has more honey in the hrood-chambtr 

 than is needed, the bees, when providing 

 room, will carry the honey up into these 

 frames, also bringing the brood up closer to 

 the top of the frames. 



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MARKET QUOTATIONS. 



Chicago, Aug. 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 3 cents 

 less. Extracted is selling more freely at F%(qif)c 

 for white; amber, 5^5^c. Beeswax steady at 

 30c. R. A. Burnett & Co. 



Cincinnati, Aug. 10.— The honey market is 

 rather dull on account of the warm weather. 

 Extracted sells only to manufacturers from 

 5@(,c; better grades alfalfa water-white from 

 6@7c; white clover from s(w'^>c. Fancy white 

 comb honey sells from 1354@15^c. 



C. H. W. Weber. 



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, 6@7c. 



Blake, Scott & Lbb. 



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 4l4@'4^ic 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 honey seems to be quite 

 large this year in Colorado, Utah and Califor- 

 nia. Peycke Bkos. 



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 

 New York State and near-bv. We quote: Fancy 

 white, 15c; No. 1 white, 13(«i4c; amber, IKqUc. 

 No new buckwheat is on the market as yet, and 

 we do not expect any before next month. 



Extracted is decidedlv dull. Plenty offerings, 

 with only a limited demand, and quotations are 

 rather nominal. We are selling at from 5^654c, 

 according to quality, and Southern in barrels 

 at from 55"' o5c per gallon. Beeswax dull and 

 declining; for the present we quote 27(&28c. 



Hildreth & Sboelkbn. 



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 S3.50 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, Aug. 12. — Fancy white comb honey, 

 14@15c; No. 1, 13@14c; no dark to quote. Ex- 

 tracted, white, 6fs-7c. Beeswax, 25(a26c. 



M. H. Hunt & Son. 



Buffalo, Aug. 10,— Quite a good demand for 

 fancy honey, 16@17c, and lower grades, U^14c; 

 old neglected. Advise moderate shipments only 

 of new as yet. Batterson & Co. 



San Francisco, Aug. 7.— White comb. 11® 

 12J^ cents; amber, s@i0c; dark, 6@7Hc. Ex- 

 tracted, white, 5J^@— ; light amber, 4Ji@5c; 

 amber. 4@4^c. Beeswax, 26@28c. 



The market shows the same (juiet state as for 

 some time past, bids of wholesale operators not 

 being of a character to encourage free consign- 

 ing from producing points. The <ierman 

 steamer Herraonthes, sailing this week via the 

 Cape Horn route for Europe, took 152 cases ex- 

 tracted honey, destined for Germany. 



Kansas City, Aug. 6.— Some very fine Mis- 

 souri honey is now on the market, selling at 

 Uif« 17c 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 10c per pound for No. 1, and ^(ft'ij^c for 

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

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 prices ranging from 45ife4'iC, f.o.b. shipping- 

 point. Buyers, however, seem to be in no hurry 

 to make contracts. Peycke Bros. 



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