Sept. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



575 



for my experience has been thai it does not 

 pay. My method Is to keep the bees from 

 swarminj; if I can. I believe in double-decli- 

 ers. I find that it works the best to add 

 the extra brood-chamber when they need it. 

 When the queen gets her hive full of eggs 

 and brood, and needs more room, I do nit 

 wait for them to get the swarming fever, but 

 raise up the hive and put another under it 

 with drawn combs. I find thai drawn combs 

 are far ahead of foundation to keep them from 

 swarming. I do not claim that they will not 

 swarm, nor are all queens good enough for 

 double-deckers, so an apiarist would be fool- 

 ish to try to use a double-decker with a poor 

 quee'n. With Dr. Miller, I am still looking fi r 

 a strain of non-swarming bees. To produce 

 comb honey we must have strong colonies, and 

 keep them so without a desire to swarm. 

 Proper ventilation goes a long way toward 

 this. 



Last spring and early summer we had cold 

 weather. I used to go down in the yard and 

 close the entrance according to the strength 

 of the colony, on cold nights. Sometimes it 

 would keep so cold that I would not open 

 them up for two or three days. I have found 

 that those with large entrances, especially on 

 cold nights, did not breed as rapidly. When 

 they are storing comb honey in very hot 

 weather they need a good deal of veritilation 

 from the hatiom. I have tried raising the 

 hive in the heat of the day, and then lower- 

 ing it toward evening as it begins to get 

 cooler. I use shade-boards, and I never raise 

 the cover to ventilate unless it is a powerful 

 colony, as they can not cap when there is a 

 draft through the hive. If you do raise the 

 cover, always lower it at night. Work with 

 the bees, for they always want their ventilation 

 at the bottom. Give them plenty of section 

 room. As soon as they get one super well 

 started I raise it up and give them another. I 

 have found that they work all right in three 

 supers; but when you get up to four or five 

 they cap slowly in the upper supers. — George 

 B. Howe, in Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



Close Saturdays a 1 p.m. — Our custo- 

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 beginning with July 1, for three months we 

 will close our office and bee-supply store at 1 

 p.m. on Saturdays. This is our usual custom. 

 Nearly all other firms here liegin the Saturday 

 afternoon closing with May 1st, but we keep 

 open two months later on account of the local 

 bee-keepers who find it more convenient to 

 call Saturday afternoons for bee-supplies. 



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HONEY AND BEESWAX 



MARKET QUOTATIONS 





Chicago, Auff 7.— Consig^ameats of the new 

 crop are coming' to commi-ision houses that 

 have not had honey for years past, and as there 

 is not any consumptive demaad they are Gad- 

 iog- difficulty in disposing of it. Under such 

 conditions it is hardly possible to give accurate 

 prices, as some merchants ask 10 cents for 

 honey that others hold at 15 cents. The prices 

 ^ivea in our last quotations are asked but feel- 

 ing is unsettled. Beeswax steady at 30c. 



R. A. BCRXETT & Co. 



Kansas City, Aug. 25.— Receipts of comb 

 honey more liberal; demand improving-. We 

 quote fancy white comb» 24 secti<)n case, $3.25; 

 No. 1, white amber comb, 24-8ection case, *5 <X»; 

 No. 2, white amber comb, 24 section case, $2.75; 

 Extracted, white, per lb., t%c\ amber 5!^@6c. 

 Beeswax, 25@30c. C. C. Clemons & Co. 



Albany, N.Y., Aug. 26.— Demand increasing; 

 receipts light as yet, and could sell more comb 

 than coihing. Light, 15c; mixed, ]4@i5c; dark, 

 13c. Extracted quiet; light, 7c; dark. 6c. Bees- 

 wax, 30c. H. R. Wright. 



Cincinnati, Aug. 6— The supply about equals 

 the demand for extracted honey. We are sell- 

 ing amber extracted in barrels from SJ^@6}'gc, 

 according to quality. White clover, barrels 

 and cans, 7(p)8i^c, respectively. Comb honey, 

 fancy, in no drip shipping cases. 16@16^ cents. 

 Beeswax, 30c. The Frbd W. Muth Co. 



New York, July 8.— Some new crop comb 

 honey now arriving from Florida and the South, 

 and fancy stock is in fair demand at 14c per 

 pound, and 12@13c for No, 1, with no demand 

 whatever for dark grades. 



The market on extracted honey is in a very 

 unsettled condition, with prices ranging from 

 5@5^c for light amber, 5^@6^c for white, and 

 the Common Southern at from 50f5)55c per g-al- 

 lon. Beeswax steady at from 30@3lc. 



Hildreth & Segelken. 



Cincinnati, Aug. S.— New honey is now of- 

 fered very freely, particularly extracted. The 

 demand for honey is about as usual at this 

 time of )he season. I made sales at the follow- 

 ing figures: Amber, S@S%c\ water-white al- 

 falfa, 6^c; fancy white clover honey. l@~%c. 

 Comb honey, fancy water-white, brings from 

 14@15c. Beeswax, 27@3oc. C. H. W. Weber. 



San FRiNCisco, July 22.— White comb houey, 

 lli^@13i^c; amber, 8@10c. Extracted, white, 

 S'4(a5 c; light ambcr,4?/i 05c: amber, 4%@A%c\ 

 dark. 3^@4Kc. Beeswax, good to choice, light, 

 27}4@29c; dark, 25@26c. 



This season's crop is not only unusually late, 

 but is proving much lighter than was generally 

 expected. While the market is unfavorable to 

 buyers, the demand at extreme current rates is 

 not brisk and is mainly on local account. 



HONEY 



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 delivered Cincinnati. The Fred W. Muth Co. 

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WANTED— Comb Honey in quantity lots. 

 We are perhaps the oni v dealers in this article 

 owning- as much as 150,000 pounds at one time. 

 Please state quanlitv. quality and price asked 

 for your offerings. Thos. C. Stanley & Son. 

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WANTED— Extracted Houey. 



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