1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Commercial Bee-keeping 



may not be exactly the right words to use; but the idea is, "keeping bees to make money." 

 The man who has kept bees several years, who knows thoroughly the A B C of the busi- 

 ness, is now interested in learning systems, methods, and short cuts that will enable him to 

 spread out, "keep more bees," and make some money; and no journal is now doing more 

 for this class of bee-keepers than is being done by the — 



Bee-lceepers' Review 



It is emphatically the specialists' journal. For 15 years its editor made his living in 

 the apiary ; he still owns, and helps to manage, several hundred colonies ; and he knows 

 the needs of this class of bee-keepers. Instead of using space for "hints to beginners," 

 which are all right in their place, the REVIEW turns its attention to the unsolved prob- 

 blems of advanced bee culture. Some of the best bee-keepers of the country, those who 

 have managed large numbers of colonies, and made money in so doing, tell in the Review 

 how they have succeeded. 



The Review is $1.00 a yea but so long as the supply of back numbers holds out I will send this year free to 

 those who send $1.00 for 1910. You may have been thinking of subscribing with t'..c beginning of the year— do 

 it now, and you will get the back numbers. If you wait until January you probably won't get them. 



For ten cents I will send three back numbers of different dates, also a special clubbing offer. The ten 

 cents may apply on a subscript! -n sent in later. 



W^Z. HUTCHINSON, Flint, Mich. 



The Best Honey-jar 



No. 25 with lined cap, $5.00 per gross. 

 Sample, 20c. Catalog of supplies free. 



FINE LIGHT HONEY, 8^G per Lb. 



Apiaries: 

 Glen Cove, L. I. 



I. J. STRINCHAM, 

 1 05 Park PI ice, N. Y. CITY 



Honey Markets continued from page 5. 



Albany.— The honey market is steady, with very lit- 

 tle fancy grade of either buckwheat or clover: hence 

 quotations for fancy grades are quite nominal. The 

 bulk of clover honey grading No. 1 sells at U to 15, 

 while strictly fancy would sell at 16. Amber, or hon- 

 ey grading between buckwheat and clover or mixed, 

 sells at 13 to 14; buckwheat, 12 to 13; strictly fancy, 14; 

 extracted clover or basswood, 8H; amber or mixed, 7 

 to I'/i. Straight buckwheat sells best at 7 to 7}4. 



Nov. 8. H. R. Wright. 



Denver. — We quote our local market as follows: No. 

 1 white comb boney, per case of 24 sections, $3 20; No. 

 1 light amber, $3.05; No. 2, $2.90; white extracted, I'A to 

 8'3; light amber, 6*4 to 7J4. The demand for carload 

 lots of comb honey has been good, and the State is 

 pretty well cleaned up. We pay 24 to 25 cts. per lb. for 

 clean yellow beeswax delivered here. 



Colorado Honev-producers' Asso'n, 



Oct. 23. F. Rauchfuss, Manager. 



SCHENECTADY.— There has been no change in our 

 market since our last quotations, except that there is 

 less demand for light extracted, and prices are a trifle 

 lower. We are receiving many letters from California 

 and other far western dealers desiring to sell or con- 

 sign us both extracted and comb honey; but so long as 

 our eastern crop is ample to supply our trade we can 

 offer them no inducements to do so, and our custom- 

 ers much prefer eastern honey. 



Nov. 6. Chas. MacCulloch. 



Buffalo.— There is quite a good demand for white 

 comb honey. Prices do not change, and I suppose the 

 market will continue pretty steady until the first of the 

 year. There is a poor demand for No. 2 or under 

 grades, buckwheat selling very well; No. 1 to fancy 

 white comb honey, 15 to 16; No. 2 ditto, 11 to 12; No. 1 

 buckwheat, comb, 10 to 12; white-clover extracted, 754 

 to 854; amber extracted, 7 to 754; dark e.xtracted, 6 to 7. 

 Beeswax, 28 to 30. 



Nov. 8. W. C. TOWNSEND. 



Zanesville.— There is a moderate demand for hon- 

 ey, and not much change in prevailing prices, though 

 the tendency now is rather upward than otherwise. 

 For No. 1 to fancy white comb, producers would re- 

 ceive from the jobbing trade 14 to 15H. Best grades of 

 comb go to the retail grocery trade at 16 to 18 in one or 

 two case lots; 854 delivered is offered producers for 

 best white-clover or raspberry extracted in five-gallon 

 cans, jobbers selling at 1 to 15'2 cents advance on this 

 price in small lots. Producers of beeswax are offered 

 28 cts. cash, or 30 in exchange for bee-supplies. 



Nov. 8. Edmund W. Peirce. 



BINGHAM 



Burninr 



Tin4-in.SmokeEQgine 3'^-inch 3-inch 2;4-inch 3-inch Wonder 



tl.f.O Sl.io 11.00 »0 cts. 1-,:, rts. 



Perhaps our sinokers cost us a few lent^ 

 more to make than they would were we to 

 cut out the valve and brass-lined exhaust 

 and tin shields and fonlcal tips with handle 

 far away from hottest iJart of the smoker; 

 but :i2 years of trial by disinterested bee- 

 keepers who have used hundreds of thou- 

 sands, with the greatest satisfaction, would 

 say NO. Our larife valves till the bellows 

 quick, and the smoke continues to pour 

 out of the chimney Instead of being sucked 

 back to fill the bellows with cinders and 

 smoke. We make live sizes of smokers, 

 alike except In size and price. A large 

 smoker furnishes more smoke, and keeps 

 smoking like the smaller ones, till the fuel 

 Is all burned up (It not pulled three to six 

 hours). Price by mall, postymld, Smoke 

 Engine. 4-lnch tin. «1. 50; Iioctor, 3 1-2-lnch, 

 Jl.lO; Conqueror, .3-lnch, «1.00; 2 12 Inch, 

 90 cts.; Wonder, 2-lnch, 65 cts. We make 

 the three larger sizes of heavy copper if 

 ordered, but charge .'iO cts. extra. We have 

 moved our smoker factory to .\lma. Mich., 

 about 40 miles south of Farwell. where we 

 have fine facilities for shipping and mak- 

 ingsmokers. T. F.Bingham, Farwell, Mich, 



