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Dr. Dubiui favors bottom ventilation and 

 sealed covers, with a cusliion above tlie cov- 

 er. The winters of northern Italy, from re- 

 ports, cannot be called mild. 



It seems that Gravenhorst, according to 

 Dr. Dubiui, has the idea that the mixing of 

 bees from different queens makes them work 

 better. Gravenhorst in the spring, in order 

 to accomplish this, removes a frame of brood 

 from liive No. 1 and gives it to No. 2, anoth- 

 er from No. 2 which he gives to No. I?, and 

 so on, giving the last frame removed to No. 

 1. A man who, like (irovenhorst, believes 

 in handling hives rather than frames, must 

 consider the principle of some value to go to 

 all that trouble. 



The Guazzoni foundation press, much like 

 the Rietsche, is figured and described. It is 

 made of aluminium. The size for the stand- 

 ard Italian frame weighs about 3% pounds 

 and costs about $7.0(). The wax is formed in 

 a melted condition. ( )ne form is provided 

 with two handles and plunged slightly open 

 in a bath of wax then closed, withdrawn and 

 plunged into cold water, like the plaster 

 casts described by Mr. Woodley in the Re- 

 view for last April. 



The " raking " of bees, by some consider- 

 ed a sign of swarming, has several times 

 been observed by Dr. Dubini after swarming 

 time. 



Ajjvada, Colo. March .S, 1895. 



In What Way Shall Commission Men Give 



Quotations on Honey T 



Two or three times I have received complaints 

 that J. A. Shea <fe Co., of Minneapolis, Minn., 

 were quoting honey too high. These complaints 

 have been sent to them, and they reply as fol- 

 lows : Ed. 



Minneapolis, Minn., March G, 18%. 



Editok Bee-Keepeks' Review — Deak Sik : 

 — Your letter under date of March 4th re- 

 ceived and carefully noted. Very glad in- 

 deed that you called our attention to the 

 matter of complaints, as this is a matter 

 which we are at all times pleased to answer, 

 and, if possible, rectify. 



We are and have been very careful in 

 handling shipments of honey to realize for it 

 all it is possibly worth. Furthermore, we 

 solicit consignments of fancy honey only, 

 and from men who thoroughly understand 

 putting it up and shipping it in first-class 

 shape. We do not remember of having a 

 complaint of poor sales on honey for nearly 

 five years. 



Now, as to the quotation, we herewith en- 

 close you our latest price-current, which is 

 an official report and published by the daily 

 Market Record, and which quotations are on 

 round lots. These prices are made at the 

 exchange every day, on butter, eggs, cheese, 

 poultry, beans, peas, potatoes, honey and, in 

 fact, these quotations apply to everything in 

 the produce line, and are made upon the 

 selling basis at the Exchange. Now, you 

 will notice honey is quoted here at its high- 

 est price Wc. We have one brand of honey 

 we are getting Kic. for. In this lot we pur- 

 chased ;5(X) cases from Grant Brothers, Hud- 

 son, Wis., and it is a strictly fancy line of 

 goods ; occasionally we get as high as 17c. 

 for it. If you will notice, in this quotation 

 there is a dark honey quoted at 9c., but the 

 best you can do in this market on the cheap- 

 est honey is 10c. per pound in a jobbing way 

 and it is retailing for lie. There is no very 

 poor honey in the market. Probably about 

 fifty cases all told of the dark honey and 

 about 500 cases of choice to fancy white, of 

 which we control about 350 cases. It now 

 appears that the market will clean up very 

 soon and prices go a little higher. The small 

 supply of honey in this market, if the same 

 were in responsible hands, those who under- 

 stood the situation, and knew how to ad- 

 vance honey to its actual value, would 

 easily bring 17 to 173^c. The trouble is and 

 has been, in this market there are too many 

 small dealers in the business soliciting con- 

 signments and cutting the life out of things. 

 We bought about 100 cases of honey a few 

 days ago, in order to get it out of the way 

 and ofiE of the market so as not to be com- 

 pelled to meet with the low prices, of as fine 

 honey as you ever saw at lie, at the same 

 time this should not be quoted as the market, 

 as we got it from a gentleman who wanted 

 to turn it and get the money, and made it a 

 cash transaction. We do not know who the 

 gentleman is that complains of our high 

 quotations, but there has not been a time 

 when we quoted prices that we could not sub- 

 stantiate. 



While this subject is up we would like to 

 ask you for the following information, and 

 that is this : There are always two prices. 

 Say, for instance, we quote honey in the 

 country at 16 to 17c., while the same goods 

 sell in the city to the jobbing trade at 15c. 

 Do you want the lowest quotations or what 

 the stuff is actually sold for ? If we received 

 a consignment of fancy honey and sold it to 



