APRIL 1, 1913 



BEEKEEPERS DIRECTORY 



Nutmeg Italian queens, leather color, after June 

 1, $1.00. A. W. Yates, Hartford, Ct. 



Well-bred bees and queens. Hives and supplies. 

 J. H. M. Cook, 70 Cortlandt St., New York. 



Improved golden-yellow Italian queens for 1913 ; 

 beautiful, hustling, gentle workers. Send for price 

 list. E. E. Lawrence, Doniphan, Mo. 



Queens. — Improved red-clover Italians, bred for 

 business; June 1 to Nov. 15, untested queens, 75 

 cts. ; select, $1.00; tested, $1.25 each. Safe arrival 

 and satisfaction guaranteed. 



H. C. Clemons, Boyd, Ky. 



Quirin's famous improved Italian queens, nuclei, 

 colonies, and bees by the pound, ready in May. Our 

 stock is northern-bred and hardy ; five yards winter- 

 ed on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 without a 

 single loss. For prices, send for circular. 



Quirin-the-Queen-breeder, Bellevue, Ohio. 



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Convention Notices 



WORCESTER COUNTY BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Meetings held on the second Saturday of each 

 month, except July and August, at 2 P. M., at Hor- 

 ticultural Hall, Worcester, Mass. 



April 12, Building Up for Work, Arthur C. Mill- 

 er, State Inspector, Providence, R. I. 



May 10, Swarming and Requeening, Allan La- 

 tham, Norwich, Ct. 



June 14, Addi-ess, Wilfrid Wheeler, Concord, 

 Mass., Secretary State Board of Agriculture. 



Summer Field Meeting. Date, location, and pro- 

 gram to be announced. 



September 13, Address, Burton N. Gates, Ph. D., 

 State Inspector, Amherst, Mass. 



October 11, Rights of Beekeepers, Arthur Monroe, 

 Spencer, Mass. 



November 8, Comb and Extracted Honey, A. 

 Plansberg, Marlboro, Mass. 



December 13, Value of Inspection, J. L. Byard, 

 Inspector, Marlboro, Mass. 



January 10, 1914, Annual meeting. Election of 

 officers. Reports of officers. General discussion of 

 year's work. 



Honey reports continued from page 2. 



Schenectady. — There is a limited demand for 

 both comb and extracted honey ; but there is very 

 Httle to oflEer, especially of comb; and a fancy article 

 would bring 15 to 16 cts. in a small way. Light ex- 

 tracted brings 8 to 9 ; amber, 7 ^ to 8. No dark to 

 offer. 



Schenectady, March 18. Chas. MacCulloch. 



Indianapolis. — Fancy whit* comb is selling at 

 18 cents per pound; No. 1 white, one cent less. 

 Amber is in slow demand, and at lower prices. Sup- 

 ply of fancy white seems to be limited, and none is 

 offered by producers. Best extracted sells at 11 to 

 12 in five-gallon cans. Beeswax is in good demand, 

 and producers are being paid 30 cents per pound. 



Indianapolis, March 17. Walter S. Pouder. 



Cincinnati. — The demand for comb and extract- 

 ed honey is light, vrith a good supply. No. 1 white 

 comb honey sells in large lots at $3.60 per case of 

 24 sections. There is no demand for off grades. 

 White extracted honey in 60-pounds cans is selling 

 from 91/^ to 10; light amber in barrels, 7 to 7 V^ ; 

 in 60-pound cans, 8 to SVa. Beeswax is in fair de- 

 mand; sells at $33.00 per hundred. The above is 

 our selling prices, not what we are paying. 



Cincinnati, March 18. C. H. W. Webee & Co. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



By Oue Business Manager 



SKCOND-HASn FIVE-HALLON CANS. 



We have accumulated about a carload of good sec- 

 ond-hand cans from which honey has been emptied 

 and not washed, guaranteed to l)e without rust inside, 

 ami in good condition to use for amber honey for bak- 

 ing purposes. Price $;?.50 for ten cases of two cans 

 each: .*T.5o for ^5 cases; 100 cases or more at 95 cts. per 

 case. 



BICKWHKAT SEED. 



We have a good stock of buckwheat for seed, both 

 Japanese and silverhull, which we offer while it lasts 

 at 40 cts. a peck: 75 cts. per half-bushel: .*1.25 per bush- 

 el; ^i.25 for two bushels, bags included. Toward seed- 

 ing time, a few weeks later, this price will doubtless 

 be advanced. If you plan to sow this year you had 

 better lay in a supply of seed when it may be had. 



beeswax wanted. 

 Our large stock of beeswax is greatly reduced by re- 

 cent orders for comb foundation, and we are in need of 

 a further supply. Until further notice we will pay 30 

 cts. cash or Si in trade, delivered here, for good average 

 wax. This is the best price we have ottered in print 

 for several years, and may not last long. If you have 

 any wax to sell, get it oft" to us without delay, and be 

 sure to mark the shipment so we can identify it when 

 it arrives. Write, giving gross, tare, .and net weight 

 shipped. 



maple sugar and syrup. 

 The weather this spring has been again unfavorable, 

 and this makes the third poor syrup year. Some pro- 

 ducers estimate the crop will be about 30 to 65 per 

 cent of an average year. To-day, March ^4, the season 

 is about over, and we hope to ship orders from date at 

 the following prices: 

 Single l-gallon cans, or a case of 6 cans. Si .95 per gal. 

 Two to ten cases of six one-gallon cans, 1.20 



Larger quantities 1.15 " 



One to 100 lbs. maple sugar 16 per lb. 



100 lbs. and upward 15 



beehives of CALIFORNIA REDWOOD. 



We liave made up part of a carload of California red- 

 wood into hives, both eight-frame and ten-frame, with 

 supers and covers of the same wood. We shall be 

 pleased to furnish them to any who would like to tr>' 

 them in comparison with pine. In Arizona and parts 

 of California they prefer hives made of redwood, claim- 

 ing they will not shrink or change their shape as much 

 as pine. Manufacturers of incubators are using red- 

 wood almost entirely, finding it most suitable for the 

 purpose. An incubator is a very trying place for lum- 

 ber of any kind: and if it works well there it ought to 

 be excellent for hives. So far they are in stock at 

 Medina only. If samples find favor we may use more 

 of this kind of lumber in hives. It is as light in weight 

 as pine, but red in color. 



sweet-clover seed. 

 As we go to press we are oversold on white-sweet- 

 olover seed. Our stock, both hulled and unhulled, is 

 entirely exhausted. We have upward of a ton of hull- 

 ed seed engaged in California; but it may not arrive 

 here for several weeks. We may also find some other 

 lots. Until we do we can not name a price, and will 

 accept orders subject to supply available and the best 

 price we are able to make. Seed-hou.ses are asking 

 much higher prices than we have been selling at. We 

 will try to supply some at no higlier price than we are 

 quoting on the yellow biennial. AVe still have a good 

 supply of this, as well as of the annual yellow. 



This blooms one to three weeks earlier than the 

 white, and by many is considered fully as good, if not 

 better. It is not as well known or as widely distrib- 

 uted as the white. 



1 lb. 10 lbs. 25 lbs. 100 lbs. 

 Hulled yellow biennial. .98 .*9.60 $6.25 $94.00 

 Unhulled " " .91 1.90 4.50 17.00 



Hulled yellow annual, .14 1.20 2.75 10.00 



OCT TOP NOTCH PRICES DV 

 UL I FOR YOUR HONEY DT 



USING LEWIS SECTIONS 

 AND SHIPPING CASES 



Send (or Annual Catalog which will tell 

 yon who u yonr nearest Distributer. 

 G. B. Lewis Company, Watertown, Wis. 



