SEPTEMBER 15, 1912 



Queens. — Improved red-clover Italians, bred for 

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

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

 and satisfaction guaranteed. 



H. C. Clbmons, Boyd, Ky. 



Quirin's famous improved Italian queens, nu- 

 clei, colonies, and bees by tJie pound, ready in May. 

 Our stock is Northern-bred and hardy ; five yards 

 wintered on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 with- 

 out a single loss. For prices, send for circular. 



QUIRIN-THE-QUEENBREEDER, BelleVUe, O. 



Queens reared scientitloally from breeders perfected 

 by years nf eliininatioii of all undesirable traits, are far 

 bettor and more prolific than tlie ones hatched from a 

 natural swarm or supersedure cells. We have the fa- 

 mons Moore strain of Italians, and are givinu' every care 

 to the perfection of cells and mating. We have never 

 had any disease in or near our apiary. If you are inter- 

 ested, "write us for booklets describintr our method. 

 Untested queens, 76 cts.; dozen, §8.00. 



DRS. WALLIN & CORLIS, Brooksville, Ky. 



Honey Reports continued from page 2. 



Buffalo. — The demand for honey is still very 

 slow here. Receipts are light, and still there is 

 plenty for the demand. We quote No. 1 to fancy 

 white-clover comb at 16 to 17, and in good-sized 

 lots this would be shaded from one to two cents 

 to eflfect sales. 



Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 7. W. C. Townsend. 



Zanesville. — Honey is moving a little more 

 briskly. The jobbing trade is still understocked, 

 and now is a favorable time for producers to sell 

 their crop; 15 to 16 cents is being offered producers 

 for No. 1 and fancy white-clover comb, and 8 to 

 8^ for best white extracted. Prices to the trade 

 grade from 19 down, on comb, according to quality 

 and quantity. Producers are offered 28 cents cash, 

 30 in trade, for beeswax of good quality. 



Zanesville, O., Sept. 5. E. AV. Peirce. 



New York. — There is a good demand for new 

 comb honey, and shipments are now arriving more 

 freely and in larger quantities. We quote fancy 

 white, 15; and in some cases it will bring 16; 

 No. 1 white, 14 ; No. 2 white, 13. No buckwheat 

 is on the market as yet, but we should think it 

 would sell on arrival at about 10 to 11. There is 

 no change in the market as to extracted, prices 

 remaining the same as in our last quotation, with 

 sufficient supplies. Beeswax is steady at 30. 



New York, Sept. 5. Hildreth & Segelken. 



Liverpool. — Since we last reported to you our 

 honey market has continued quiet; 25 barrels 

 Chilian have been sold at $6.84 for pile 2, and 

 20 casks unstrained Jamaica at $6.00; $5.76 has 

 been refused for 53 barrels Peruvian (manufac- 

 turing quality) ; sellers ask $6.00. We are sorry 

 the demand for white and fine sorts is so poor; 

 but sellers of Chilian, pile X and 1, are not get- 

 ting on, and we think the demand is only a ques- 

 tion of time. Some 50 cases Californian sold at 

 $11.16 for fine, $9.60 to $11.16 quoted. Jamaica 

 honey is slow-, and there are no sales of importance 

 beyond that mentioned above. Other descriptions 

 are quoted as follows: Haitien, $5.76 to $7.20; 

 Peruvian, $3.84 to $4.80; Chilian, $5.52 to $8.16; 

 Jamaican, $6.24 to $7.68; Californian, $9.60 to 

 $10.92. Beeswax, market is steady. Arrivals of 

 Chilian just in will test our market. Sales of 

 Gambia at $34.48, and Sierra Leone at $33.54. 

 Other descriptions are quoted as follows: African, 

 $32.16 to $34.48; .Jamaican, $37.72; West In- 

 dies, $32.64 to $36.28. 



Liverpool, Aug. 21. Tayloe & Co. 



Convention Notices. 



beekeepers of OKLAHOMA, ATTKNTION. 



Please place the date of Tuesday evening, Oct, 

 1, in your minds in such a position that it will 

 not be forgotten. At that time in the apiary 

 building at the State fair grounds in Oklahoma 

 City there will be a meeting that all should attend. 



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Some work looking to the interests of the industry 

 has been done, but more is needed. We must 

 have the support of those interested, to accomplish 

 more. We have not been getting the support neces- 

 sary. If you have not been seeing the display of 

 Oklahoma honey shown at this fair you have no 

 idea of its magnificence. It will likely be as 

 good this year, or better, than ever before. It 

 has been the practice of the fair management to 

 throw the grounds open in the evening, and ad- 

 mission is free. I presume this will be done this 

 year. Come and treat yourself to the sight of a 

 fine honey display, and at the same time give 

 encouragement to the industry in which you are 

 interested. It is hoped to present a program of 

 more than usual interest. 



M. Peed Gardiner, President. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



A. I. ROOT 



the convergent egg-farm, etc. ; see poultbt 

 department in this issue. 



On page 608 I mention the convergent dairy 

 ham; but I did not say that I had submitted to 

 the Cleveland architects my plan for a convergent 

 egg-farm as given in our issue for July 1. Well, 

 the letter below indicates what they think of it: 

 Briggs & Nelson, Architects, 

 669 Rose Building. 



Cleveland, Sept. 6. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — I beg to thank you for the 

 two copies of your journal giving a description 

 and cuts of the poultry-house and yards which 

 you have worked out. The principle involved is 

 identical with that being used in the dairy barn 

 which we are planning. It is certainly interest- 

 ing to feel that you have worked out a plan so 

 similar to the circular-dairy-barn plan without hav- 

 ing seen plans of the latter building. 



Very respectfully yours, 



Herbert B. Briggs. 



My opinion is that, a little later on, some of our 

 many poultry journals may think best to "sit up 

 and take notice" of the convergent egg-farm. See 

 our Poultry Department for July 1. 



SEED CORN FOR PLANTING NEXT YEAR; NOW IS THE 

 TIME TO GATHER IT. 



"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also 

 reap." If he plants poor seed corn he will hare 

 missing hills or worse than that. He may go 

 through the motions necessary to raise a crop, and 

 lose a great part of his labor as well as a part of 

 his land by having missing hills. Our attention 

 is called fo this matter by two very valuable articles 

 in the Successful Farmer, of Des Moines, la., for 

 SeiJtember. One of the articles is entitled "The 

 Significance of the Missing Hills." The other is a 

 "seed-corn symposium." And there is still another 

 article entitled "Our Junior Farmers' Department." 

 It tells the boys on the farm just how to go to work 

 to pick out the seed corn and how to keep it so it 

 will be sure to grow. Successful Farming is only 

 25 cents a year; but these articles I have men- 

 tioned are easily worth ten times that much. 



elust now we have here a beautiful field of corn 

 with great handsome ears bending over the stalks 

 by their weight. We have for several years selected 

 our seed corn in the fall, and dried and preserved 

 it in a basement where there is steam heat. Well, 

 for many years we have been in the habit of plant- 

 ing white beans in the missing hills, or where there 

 was only one stalk in a hill. Last spring we did 

 not plant any beans in that particular field because 

 there were no missing hills, or almost none at all, and 

 hardly any containing only one stalk. Another thing, 

 when you find a farmer so careful and thorough in 

 all his work that he picks out his ears to plant at 

 just the proper time, and then tests every ear before 

 planting in the spring, etc., you will find this farm- 

 er looks after his interests in a like manner all over 

 his farm ; and he is the farmer who has an automo- 

 bile to get around and enjoy life in an up-to-date 

 way. Are you one of that sort ? 



