September. lOoS. 



American Hee -Journal 



Mr. Taylor— I don't see much ili (Ter- 

 ence between the two cases, except that 

 the bees can communicate with one an- 

 other in niy plan, but the 2 can work 

 together just the same. They _ form 

 one chister, the same as Dr. Miller's. 



Mr. Kannenberg — Would a wire par- 

 tition be better than the wooden? I 

 believe the heat would go through the 

 screen better than it would with the 

 wood. 



Dr. Miller— Wire might be a little 

 cooler. 



Dr. Bohrer — I had some queens that 

 I wanted to save over this fall. I had 

 a good, strong colony and put in a good, 

 strong partition. I gave a colony that 

 was queenless a queen. You must see 

 that the bees are equally divided. I 

 introduced the queen after the ordinary 

 method. I don't see why they won't 

 winter well. I think the wooden parti- 

 tion is better, unless you want the queen 

 to be acquainted with the bees on both 

 sides. 



Mr. Kimmey — Three years ago I win- 

 tered 6 colonies that way in 3 lo-frame 

 hives, with partitions of as thin wood 

 as I could use. There was no connection 

 whatever between the two parts. 



Dr. Miller— In the spring I put them 

 on the summer stands, and left them 

 there until crowded and then eiiiptied 

 them into ordinary 8-frame hives side by 

 side, and no trouble. 



Granulated Honey. 



Mr. Barkemeier wants to know what 

 to do with people that ask foolish ques- 

 tions about granulated honey. 



Dr. Bohrer — Tell them that he is not 

 allowed to sell honey that is not pure 

 unless so labeled. That is the plainest 

 way to deal with that kind of people. 



Mr. Whitney — I would say, if I were 

 selling honey, and if any one has some 

 that would granulate, it is pretty evident 

 that it is pure. 



Dr. Eaton — I suppose I have had about 

 as much experience with that line of 

 complaint as bee-keepers themselves. 

 Every little while some one will come 

 in with a sample with the complaint that 

 the honey he has purchased has "sug- 

 ared," and that it has been adulterated. 

 I have to explain that all honey will 

 granulate, and if it doesn't granulate it 

 is more a sign that it is adulterated than 

 if it does not. Granulation is a sign of 

 purity more than if it were not. 



Mr. Moore— This has been the princi- 

 pal trouble in my business. Consumers 

 are the people who find fault. Mr. Tay- 

 lor is a wholesaler. I try to stick to the 

 truth whether it pleases them or not. 

 ■Very few people in Chicago know any- 

 thing about it. They expect honey to 

 be liquid, the saiue as when it runs out 

 of the combs. The best thing I had to 

 say was this : Go to your drug-store and 

 find out if it is pure. Refer the custom- 

 ers to the druggists. 



(Continued next month.) 



OOA/E people are so fond of 

 ^ ill-luck that they ran half- 

 way to meet it. — Douglas Jerrdld 



C^anadian 



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Conducted by J. L. BYER. Mount Joy, Ont. 



Prospect for Best Buckwheat Honey- 

 Flow. 



At this date of writing (August 20) 

 prospects are good for one of the best 

 fall flows of honey we have ever had 

 in our locality, all being from buck- 

 wheat. Only once previous to this year 

 have we had any surplus from th's 

 source ; but warm weather favoring us 

 for a week or so longer, it looks as if 

 considerably more than enough for win 

 ter stores will be gathered. 



Report of Committee on Honey Ex- 

 change. 



Toronto, Aug. i, 1908. 



Dear Sir: — The Honey Exchange Commit- 

 tee of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association 

 met in Toronto on Friday, July 31st. Reports 

 were received from over 250 points in the 

 Province, and the general outlook is better 

 than in 1907. While the number of colonies 

 is still low, due to the terrible losses from the 

 cold springs of 1907 and 1908, there will be a 

 medium crop of both extracted and comb honey. 

 The crop is much better distributed and the 

 local consumption will be greater. 



Prices are ruling higher in the United 

 States and other exporting countries, and the 

 quantities imported from these sources will 

 likely decrease in competition with the On- 

 tario honey at more moderate prices than 1907. 

 Bee-keepers are urged to cultivate their local 

 markets as much 



A later report to cover buckwheat will be 

 issued. 



Yours very truly, 



Wm. Couse. Slreetsville. 

 W. J. Craig, Brantford. 

 H. G. S1BBAI.D, Claude. 

 P. W. HoDGETTs, Sec'y. 



Shortly after this report was issued to 

 Ontario bee-keepers, a circular was re 

 ceived from N. E. France, among other 

 things saying that 8 cents was the ruling 

 price for extracted honey. 



Of course this no doubt refers solely 

 to the United States markets, and is 

 not likely to influence many Ontario 

 bee-keepers to sell cheaper. All the 

 same, it is a pretty good thing for us 

 Canucks that there is a duty of 3 

 cents per pound on honey coming into 

 Canada from countries other than Brit- 

 ish colonies. To the latter, the prefer- 

 ential tariff applies, and to this largely 

 may be attributed the large amount of 

 honey imported from Jainaica for manu- 

 facturing purposes; the duty being 2 

 cents per pound. The Jamaica product 

 will never come into competition with 

 our clover honey for table use, but for 

 manufacturing purposes there is no 

 question but that it is a factor well 

 worth taking into consideration. 



Apiary of J. W. 



The following prices are suggested for this 

 year's crop: 



No. I Light Extracted (wholesale) loc. to 

 11c. per lb. 



No. I Extracted (retail) izj^c. to 15c. per lb. 



No. I (^omb (wholesale) $2.00 to $2.25 per 

 dozen. 



No. 2 Comb (wholesale) $1.50 to $1.75 per 

 dozen. 



Free, of Ontario. 



A Neat Ontario Apiary. 



The picture shown on this page is the 

 apiary of J. W. Free, of Ontario. It has 

 been the writer's privilege to visit a 

 large number of apiaries during the past 

 two seasons, many of which are kept 



