May 28, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



351 



noticed them when a little girl appeared and 

 said her pa wanted to see me. ( Her pa is the 

 owner of this plant — the miller, i I expected 

 to see an angry Dutchman, when I got over 

 there, but I didn't,. They were grinding bar- 

 ley and wheat-screenings, and running the 

 "chop'' into a wagon-box out-side the build- 

 ing, and the miller said bushels of bees must 

 have been buried up in the meal in loading, 

 and sent for me out of sympathy for the bees. 

 Rain and cold followed for several days, and 

 they have not bothered them since. 



I tried to make a test as to the benefit of 

 giving bees a winter flight, and returning 

 them again to the cellar. Sickness, bad 

 weather, and a complication of other matters, 

 and the benefits so slight, if any, so far as I 

 can determine, made it impossible to be any- 

 thing like sure about it. I put the balance 

 (90 colonies) of my bees out the last two days 

 of March, and had it not been for several colo- 

 nies-needing feed, they would have been bet- 

 ter off to have stayed in the cellar several 

 weeks longer. 



In general, my bees are in good condition, 

 having lost 6 colonies out of tW, three of which 

 were in poor shape on cellaring them. One 

 was ciueenless. being a united colony, and 

 two had drone-laying, old queens. Very few 

 bees are left among those who did not feed 

 last fall, or on taking them out this spring. 

 One man near me has but two good colonies 

 and two weaklings left from a yard of 26, 

 most of them starving during the last recent 

 ice-storm. I bought most of his hives with 

 combs, and on cleaning them up some had as 

 many as six frames with brood in, three or 

 four frames being nearly solid with capped 

 brood. F. W. Hall. 



Sioux Co., Iowa, May 10. 



CONVENTION NOTICE. 



Texas.— The Te.xas Bee-Keepers' Association 

 meets in annual conventioa at the Agricultural 

 and Mechanical College, at Colleg'* Station, 

 Texas, July T to 1", inclusive, during the Texas 

 Farmers' Congress meeting-s. Cheap excursion 

 rates. Large crowds. A good time. Learn a 

 heap. Meet your fellow-men, and talk. Ex- 

 hibits of all 'kinds of stuff. Premiums of all 

 kinds awarded. Come, and bring what you 

 have, and take home some of the premiums, 

 "you are invited. Be sure to be there. JulvTtolO. 

 1903, at the A. & M. C. of Texas, College Station. 



Hunter, Texas. Louis H. Scholl, Sec. 



Tennessee Queens. 



Daughters of Select Imported 

 Italian, Select long'-toagued 

 (Moore's), and Select, Straight 

 5-band Queens. Bred 3K miles 

 apart, and mated to select 

 drones. No bees owned with- 

 in 2H miles; none impure 

 within 3, and but few within 

 Smiles. No disease. 3ii vears' 

 experience. WARRANTED 

 QUEENS, 75 cents each ; 

 TESTED, $1.50 each. Dis- 

 count on large orders. 

 Contracts with dealers a spe- 

 cialty. Discount after July 1st 

 Send for circular. 



JOHN M. DAVIS, 



'9A26t SPRING HILL, TENN. 



Christian Scientists' 



meeting in Boston, June 2Sth to July 

 1st. It will be to your advantajje to ob- 

 tain rates applying over the Nickel 

 Plate Road before purchasing else- 

 where. No excess fare charged on any 

 of our trains. Tickets on sale June 25, 

 26 and 2". Final return limit Aug. 1. 

 Call on or address John Y. Calahan, 

 General Agent, 113 Adams St., room 

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DAIRYMEN ARE DELIGHTED 



DRAPES PUBLISBINQ CO., Cblcaeo, Ills. 



Apiary FOR SALE 



AT A SACRIFICE. 



During my ir:ivels as State Inspector of 

 Apiaries, I iohihI an excellent opportunity for 

 some bee-keeper to make an investment. Mr. 

 Wm. Wray, ot Ashley, Mich., died last fall and 

 left an apiary of UNi colonies, nearly all Ital- 

 ians, in chaft hives, on American frame combs 

 built on wired foundation. There are reasons 

 why they will be sold at a sacrifice. There is 

 no one to take care of them, and some of the 

 colonies are slightly infected with foul brood. 

 Of course these bees'canuot be sold and shipped 

 all over the country, but if some man could buy 

 them and manage them right where they are, 

 he could make some money. Each hive con- 

 tains 11 combs, most of them overflowing with 

 bees, and no colony of the few infected contains 

 more than a few cells of foul brood— not enough 

 to affect the amount of surplus. There are xO 

 extractiug-supers full of empty comb, 14 supers 

 with frames filled with wired foundation, 70 

 queen-excluders, 12 old empty hives, 12 new 

 hives, and supplies to make 12 more hives, a 2- 

 frame Cowan reversible extractor, besides other 

 articles too numerous to mention. 



Ten acres of land leased from the Grand 

 Trunk R. R Co., and a small dwelling-house 

 of 6 rooms, and a honey-house, will be sold. No 

 reasonable offer will be refused, but it must be 

 made AT ONCE. Write to 



MRS. WM. WRAY, Ashley, Mich. 



The above advertisement was written and 

 vouched for by W. Z. Hutchinson, State In- 

 spector of Apiaries for Michigan. The location 

 is fine. 



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55 Best Queen ot Sixtu-tive 55 



Bkllk Plaine, Minn, April, 1''03. 



Mr. Alley: I have a queen received from 

 you in 190". Her bees are the best honey-gath- 

 erers of an apiary of 65 colonies in which are 

 queens from different breeders — natural queens 

 —as Dr. Gallup calls them. The Adel queen is 

 the best of the lot. C. J. Oldenbekg. 



A Tested Adel Breeding Queen and my new 

 book giving result of 40 vears' experience in 

 rearing queens, sent by mail for $2.00. War- 

 ranted Adel queens, each, $1.00. Safe arrival 

 guaranteed. Send for price-list of queens and 

 prospectus of book. 



20Atf HENRY ALLEY. Wenham. MASS. 

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Chicago, May 7.— The past winter and pres- 

 ent spring have been a disappointment to pro- 

 ducers and dealers in honey, in that the con- 

 sumption has been away below the average of 

 the past decade. Choice to fancy comb is held 

 at 15'a>16c per pound, with off grades at 2fai5c less 

 per pound. Extracted, white, 6fa7c; ambers, 

 t.(ai6!4c; dark, 5J4@6c. Beeswax in good demand 

 at 32c. R. A. Bdrnbtt & Cu. 



Kansas City, May 2S.— The supply of comb 

 honey is about exhausted. The demand good. 

 We quote you as follows: Fancy white comb, 

 24 sections, per case, $3.50; No. 1 white comb, 24 

 sections, $3 40; No. 2, white and amber, per 

 case, $3,011(0)3.25. Extracted, white, per pound, 

 6@(}}4c; amber, S^c Beeswax, 25(aJ30c. 



C. C. Clemons & Co. 



Albany, N. Y., Mar. 14. — Honey demand 

 quiet; receipts and stock light. Comb selling, 

 light, 15c; mixed, 14@15c; dark, 13@14c. Ex- 

 tracted, dark, at 7@7J^c. Beeswax firm, 30@32c. 

 H. R. Wright. 



Cincinnati, Apr. 27.— Little demand for comb 

 honey at present; fancy white sells at l5rg;16c in 

 a small way. We quote amber extracted at 

 5H@(>%c\ white clover, 8@9c. Sales not as lively 

 as expected this season of year. Cuban ex- 

 tracted is offered on all sides, and future prices 

 are awaited with intense interest. Beeswax 

 strong at 30c. The Fred W. Muth Co. 



New York, May 21.— Comb honey trade ex- 

 ceptionally quiet, very little doing. Fancy 

 stock not plentiful and is sold at 14c. A large 

 supply of other grades on hand, which we are 

 quoting at from ll(S'13c, according to quality, 

 and in large lots make concessions from these 

 prices. Extracted, unusually quiet, and prices 

 show a downward tendency all along the line. 

 Beeswax, firm at from 30@3lc. 



HiLDRBTH Si SbGBLKBR. 



Cincinnati, May 19.— The demand for comb 

 honey is nearly over, but as the stock is almost 

 exhausted, prices keep up. The demand for ex- 

 tracted has not changed whatever, and prices 

 are as follows: Amber in barrels, 5K^55^c; 

 in cans, b(g)0^c; white clover, sfa'.sj^c. Bees* 

 wax, 2S@30c. C. H. W. Webb«. 



San Francisco, Apr. 29.— White comb honey* 

 12@12J^c; amber, 9^10c; dark, 7@7Hc, Ex- 

 tracted, white, 6M@Tc; light amber, 5H®6c; 

 amber, 5@s^4c; dark. 4@4Kc. Beeswax, good to 

 choice, light. 27@29c; dark, 2S@26c. 



Last year's product has been tolerably well 

 cleaned up, particularly the desirable stock. 

 Present offerings are largely odds and ends, in- 

 cluding little of fine quality. Values for the 

 time being are little more than nominal. A 

 lower range of prices is looked for on coming- 

 crop. 



TRACTED HONEY ! 

 Send sample and best price delivered here; also 

 Fancy Comb wanted in no-drip cases. 



THE FRED W. MUTH CO. 



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