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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUI-TURE 



December, 1919 



into winter quarters not heavy in stores. Many 

 must be fed, owing to short fall crop. — R. H. El- 

 wood. 



NEW YORK. — Very little wholesale demand, pro- 

 ducers are receiving for extracted 20-28c; comb, 

 30-35c. Strong local retail market; wholesale buy- 

 ers not anxious to stock up very heavily. Sugar 

 shortage not severe enough to affect the honey 

 market to any great extent. Crop better than half 

 sold. Had one of the best fall honey flows we ever 

 had, and bees have plenty of stores. — ^Adams & 

 Myers. 



OHIO. — Wholesale price producers are receiving : 

 Extracted 20c; no comb honey on hand. Market is 

 very active. I believe that the sugar shortage helps 

 to stimulate the sale of honey, at least it seems so. 

 Nearly all honey in our locality is sold. All bee- 

 keepers in our association have been supplied with 

 sugar, the colonies are going into winter quarters 

 in good condition, and beekeepers are happy. — Fred 

 Leininger. 



PENNSYLVANI.A.. — Wholesale price producers 

 are receiving: Extracted buckwheat in cans 18c, 

 clovei- 20c; comb averages 22c per section, counting 

 all grades. Market is very brisk. Sugar shortage 

 severe enough to affect the honey market to a cer- 

 tain extent; altho we always have a good market it 

 is better since sugar got scarce. About 75 per 

 cent of the crop i.s already sold ; this means all the 

 clover and half of the buckwheat. Sugar shortage 

 has not, of any account, left the colonies short of 

 stores, as we have a good late flow, and most bee- 

 men, worthy of the name, put honey down from the 

 supers instead of waiting for sugar they could not 

 get. — Harrv W. Beaver. 



EAST TEXAS. — ^^^lolesale price producers are 

 receiving: Extracted, 21c; no comb honey. Con- 

 dition of the market is medium. Sugar shortage 

 not severe enough to affect the honey market. Eighty 

 per cent of the crop is already sold. About 20 per 

 cent of colonies short of stores. Feeding in East 

 Texas was practically unknown until the excessive 

 rains this fall. — T. A. Bowden. 



TEX.IS. — Wholesale price producers are receiv- 

 ing: Extracted 16c; comb 18c. Market is good. 

 Sugar shortage is severe enough to affect the honev 

 market. Merchants are selling only 25 cents worth 

 to each family each week. About 75 per cent of 

 the crop is already sold. Bees will go into winter 

 with plenty of stores. They are still storing honey 

 from broom weed — no frost vet. — .T. N. Maves. 



TEXAS, LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY. — 

 Wholesale price producers are receiving: Extracted 

 18c; bulk comb 18c. Market is steady — some 

 stronser. Sugar shortage is severe enough to af- 

 fect the honey market locally. Many retailers have 

 been wanting honev. but were unable to get all the 

 honey they wanted. Practically all of the crop is 

 already sold. I think that iii most parts of the 

 State that the bees stored enough during the fall 

 flow to carry them thru the winter. — -A. Lynn 

 Stephenson. 



UTAH. — Wholesale price producers are receiving : 

 Extracted 16 1^ -18c; comb 18-22c. Not much de- 

 mand only in jobbing way. Sugar shortage not se- 

 vere enough to affect the honey market. But few 

 car lots left unsold. But little need of sugar feed- 

 ing as late flow put bees in winter condition. — M. A. 

 Gill. 



WISCONSIN. — Wholesale price producers are 

 receiving: Extracted 20 to 25c; comb, very little 

 for sale. Market has been very good but somewhat 

 slow .iust now. Sugar can be secured as needed at 

 this time, and for this reason sale of honey has 

 decreased slightly. About 75 per cent of the crop 

 is already sold. Sugar shortage has left the colo- 

 nies short of stores to some extent. — H. P. Wilson. 



RED CLOVER ITALIAN BEES and queens in 

 two and three-pound packages for sale. My bees 

 have taken first prize at the North Carolina' State 

 Pair. Our bees are giving wonderful results the 

 entire U. S. A. over and Canada. We have shipped 

 bees to nearly every State in the U. S. and have 

 had wonderful success. We ship bees by parcel 

 post mostly with the privilege of the cages returned 

 to us. Our bees are wonderfully good honev-gath- 

 erers, and are beautiful queens, free from foul-brood 

 disease of any kind. You will make no mistake in 

 buying them. First come, first served. Deliveries, 

 Mav and .June, 1920. Write us your needs. 



H. B. Murray, Liberty, S. C. 



TRADE NOTES 



SECURE B.\CK NUMBERS OF GLEANINGS NOW. 



If you want to complete your back volumes of 

 Gleanings, order any missing copy of years past 

 now. It will soon be too late, as we shall very soon 

 have to dispose of all of our old Gleanings "copies 

 to make needed stock room. Complete years of 

 single copies (so far as we have complete years) 

 for 50e. 5c for single copies of any date (none of 

 1916 to 1918 on hand), and $1.50 for bound vol- 

 umes of the different years. Address Gleanings in 

 Bee Culture, Medina, O. 



SPECIAL SALE OF HONEY-JARS. 



We have a surplus stock of 

 glass jars holding 19 ozs., put 

 up 2 dozen to a case, including 

 lacquered tin tops, at our place 

 of business. Council Bluffs, la. 

 The cost of these jars has nearly 

 doubled in the past three years. 

 Our present list price is $1.70 

 per case; $16.50 for 10 cases. 

 Limited stock on hand. Must 

 move stock quickly. Send your 

 orders direct to us, mentioning 

 this notice and including remit- 

 tance with your order. 



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 Council Bluffs, la. 



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