1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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and I put about a dozen back in the hives 

 they left: I had 2 colonies robbed and 

 killed, took up 5 and put the bees in with 

 other colonies, and put 33 into the cellar. 

 There are now 52 in the cellar, young and 

 old. Most of them have plenty of stores, 

 but a few of them are very weak. 



We got only about 200 pounds of comb 

 honey fit for market, and about 150 pounds 

 in partly-filled sections and in one hive 

 "taken up." Such swarming 1 never 

 dreamed of before. 



There was no flow of honey last fall, 

 although the weather seemed favorable. 

 The previous fall the bees gathered a great 

 deal of honey from golden-rod and asters, 

 but last fall scarcely any. 



I might tell of a good many kinks that 

 occurred in the bee-yard, but I gifess I will 

 not ask space for that. But I want to say 

 something about honey-plants. It seems 

 to be a well-established fact that plants 

 that offer an abundance of nectar in one 

 locality may be almost worthless in another 

 locality. There are certain plants here that 

 the bees work on constantly and busily 

 from morning till night. The principal of 

 which are mignonette, phacelia, borage 

 and clarkia ; on poppies in the morning, 

 and on chickory in the forenoon. And of 

 those they work on more or less are bal- 

 sams, marigolds, datura, nicotiana, hyssop, 

 radish, cabbage and turnip flowers. These 

 are all garden plants. Judging from the 

 way bees work on them, I believe that one 

 acre of phacelia or mignonette would pro- 

 duce more honey than ten acres of buck- 

 wheat. H. P. WiLLSON. 



Bathgate, N. D., Dec. 16, 1895. 



KesuUs of the Past Season. 



The season of 1895 opened here very good. 

 Fruit-bloom was plentiful, and the bees got 

 to breeding up nicely, then the cold weather 

 set in. After that white clover came into 

 bloom, but the bees did not gather much 

 honey from clover. The linden flow lasted 

 here about one week. It got too dry all at 

 once, and we did not have any rain until 

 November. I extracted from C5 colonies, 

 during the linden flow, 1,600 pounds of 

 honey; 8 colonies gave me 200 pounds of 

 comb honey in sections, not very well flUed. 



After the basswood bloom dried up the 

 bees did not get a drop of honey in the fall. 

 The latter part of August I examined my 

 bees, and found my best colonies had only 

 from 5 to 10 pounds of honey. That started 

 me to feeding right off. My feeder holds 25 

 pounds, and sets over the brood-chamber, 

 like the Miller feeder. In two weeks I had 

 my 35 colonies ready for winter, and up to 

 date they have wintered well on the nice 

 basswood honey. Henry Bohlmann. 



Defiance, Ohio, Dee. Itj, 1895. 



List of Honey and Beeswax Dealers. 



Most of whom Quote In this Journal. 



Cblcago, Ills. 



R. A. Burnett & Co.. 163 South Water Street. 

 New York, N. ¥. 



F. I. Sage & Son, 183 Reade Street. 

 HtiiDRETH Bros. & Seqelken, 



120 & 122 West Broadway. 

 Chas. Israel & Bros., 486 Canal St. 



Kansas City, Mo. 



C. C. Clemoms & Co., 423 Walnut St. 

 Bnfialo, N. Y. 



Batterson & Co., 167 & 169 Scott St. 



Hamilton, Ills. 



Chas. Dadant & Son. 



Plilladelphla, Fa. 



Wm, A. Selser, 10 Vine St. 



Cincinnati, Oblo. 



C. F. MUTH & SON.cor, Freeman & Central av8. 



l>r. P. C Ciress, of Atchinson, Kans., 

 would like to communicate, confidentially, 

 with all persons who have consigned honey 

 to C. R. Horrie & Co., of Chicago, 111., with 

 unsatisfactory results. 



Honey & Beeswax Market Quotations. 



CHICAGO, III., Dec. 10.— White clover and 

 linden, in 1-puund secilons, sells at 14@loc., 

 but other kinds of white honey sell at 12® 

 13c.; dark andamber grades, 9@10c , of which 

 there is a very liberal supply. Extracted, 

 white, 3!4@"c.; amber, 4H@5c.; dark. 4@5c.. 

 difference in price ot each grade being in ac- 

 cord with its quality, flue flavor always beinpc 

 at a premium. Beeswax, 2S@30c,. and sellinjf 

 upon arrival. R. A. B. & Co. 



PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Jan. 3 —Honey has 

 declined In this market during: the holidays. 

 Large lots of Calltornia honey arriving, and 

 selling at 5o. in 60-lb. cans. We quote: Comb 

 honey, fancy, ICc; f;iir to good. 8@14c. Ex- 

 tracted, 4@5!4c.; white clover, 10c. 



Beeswax, 30c. W. A. S. 



KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 8.— The demand 

 for comb and extracted honey is fair. We 

 quote: No. 1 white comb, 1-lbs.. 13(iail4c.; 

 No.2,12@13c.; No. 1 amber, ll@12c ; No. 2, 

 10c. Extracted, white, 6(gi6!4c, ; amber, 5® 

 5'/aC.; dark. 4@4Hc. 



Beeswa.\, 22®25c, 



C. C. C. & Co. 



Demand is elow for all kinds of honey. Best 

 white comb honey sells at 12@14c. in the job- 

 bing way. Extracted. 4@7c. on arrival. 



Beeswax is in goud demand at 22@27c. for 

 good to choice yellow. C. F. M.&S. 



NEW YORK. N. Y.. Dec. 18 —The market 

 on comb and extracted honey is a little dull 

 at the present time, and we do not expect to 

 have a very great demand until after the holi- 

 days. Then we ma.v look for a little better 

 sale, but the bulk of trade is done for the sea- 

 son. That is for comb honey; extracted we 

 expect quite a sale of after Feb. 1. 1896. We 

 quote: Fancy clover, 1-lbs., 15@16c,; white 

 clover. 13@14c.; fair white. ll@12c.; buck- 

 wheat. 9@9!4o. Extracted clover. 6@6!4c. ; 

 basswood. 6 i4@7c. ; buckwheat. 5c. Beeswax 

 Arm and in good demand at 29@32c. 



C. I.&B. 



CoiiTeiitfoii Notices. 



Wisconsin.— The annual meeting of the 

 Wisconsin State Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held Thursday and Friday, Feb. 6 and 7. 

 1895, in the capltol building at Madison. The 

 program will appear in due time. 



pratteville. Wis. N. E. FR.4NCE. Sec. 



C0L0R.4DO.— The 16th annual convention of 

 the Colorado State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held Jan. 20, 21 and 22, 1896. in the 

 Horticultural Kooms ot the Capitol Building, 

 in Denver. Every bee-keeper is invited to be 

 present and join the society. 



Duff. Colo. Frank Racchfuss, Sec. 



PATENT GARDEN HOB LNo. 522.872] to 

 let on royalty, or will sell for $3,000; or 

 will give agent fllty per cent, commission to 

 sell. One person will perform more work 

 with one ot the hoes than three with other 

 tools. Very easy to work. Extra blades to 

 replace worn ones. Mention this paper. 



J. H. AINDKR, Lockwood, N. Y. 



COMB FOUNDATION 



and RETA^IL. 



Are you going" to buy Foundation for Cash, or 

 have you Wax to sell or trade lor Foundation 

 and other Supplies ? Have you 'ih lbs or more 

 ot Wax that you want made into Foundation ? 

 If so, do not fail to write me for samples and 

 prices. 1 make a specialty of working up Wax 

 by the lb., and do it very cheap during the 

 winter. Beeswax wanted at all times. 



GUS DITTMEK, AUGUSTA. WIS. 

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Pbrsomel Memtiqe, 



Mr. Jacob Alpacgh and family landed 

 at North Ontario, Calif., Nov. IS, 1895, 

 where they will make their home. Canada's 

 loss is somebody else's gain. 



Prof. Cooic writes: "You are making 

 the American Bee Journal very excellent/' 

 Thank you. Professor. We're trying to 

 make it worth all any one pays for it. 



Mr. George D. Littooy, a prominent 

 bee-keeper of Tacoma, Wash., was married 

 Nov. 20. 1S95. He says he has "the best 

 ' queen ' in Washington " for his wife. " By 

 George." that's the way to look at her. 

 Best wishes to our far-way friends. 



Mr. H. W. Scott, of Barre, Vt., the 

 young and popular President of the Ver- 

 mont Bee-Keepers' Association, is shown 

 by picture and biographical sketch in 

 Gleanings for Dee. 15. Mr. A. E. Manum 

 prepared the surprise for Mr. Scott. 



Will Ward Mitchell — the Progressive 

 Bee-Keepers' own poet — is as fine looking 

 as his poems are fine reading. His portrait 

 appears in the January number of the 

 paper mentioned. We won't object if he 

 some day is called " The Second Long- 

 fellow." 



Mrs. L. C. Axtell, of Roseville, 111., has 

 taken to writing on bees again. An article 

 appears in Gleanings from her pen. She 

 has lost none of her old-time enthusiasm 

 for bee-keeping, though the seasons have 

 been very poor in recent years in her 

 locality. 



Rev. W. E. Bogardus, of Brookdale, N. 

 J., said this in a letter dated Dec. 24, 1895: 



"The American Bee Journal was never 

 so alive and ably conducted, so instructive 

 and interesting, so progressive and stimu- 

 lating, as now, since 18S4, when I began to 

 take and read it." 



Mr. L. Eastwood, of Waterville, Ohio, 

 when renewing his subscription for 1896, 

 wrote thus ; " My S7th anniversary occurs 

 Jan. 26. I still claim to be the oldest prac- 

 tical bee-keeper in the country. I was in- 

 terested from boyhood in the bees, and 

 have owned them for 61 years." 



Mrs. Luct C. Slease, of Rosewell, New 

 Mex., when sending her dollar for 1896, 

 said: "The American Bee Journal does 

 n ot keep its ' wraps ' on long when it gets 

 here. As a little boy said the other day, 

 ' I have been here so much that I feel like I 

 was at home.' So we feel like the Bee 

 Journal has just got home each week." 



Mr. J. C. WalleN-meter, of EvansvUIe, 

 Ind., last Christmas Eve., helped to or- 

 ganize a local " bee-keepers' union " which 

 promises to be a great success. There were 

 two "charter members" — Miss Jeanette 

 Lois Millard and Mr. W. The wedding in- 

 vitation sent to us is a beauty. Miss Mil- 

 lard was the "Queenie Jeannette " our 

 good bee-keeping friend has been singing 

 about the past few years. Long may they 

 live, and happy may they be (e). 



Mr. J. C. Balch, of Bronson, Kans.. we 

 are sorry to learn, has been burned out of 

 house and home. On Dec. 26, 1895, he wrote 

 thus: 



"My house was burned with everything 

 that was in it, on Dec, 8. Also about 250 

 pounds of nice mint honey. I was away 

 from home; wife and two little girls were 

 at home alone. The cause was a defective 

 flue, which they did not see till the roof was 

 dropping through on the upper floor. We 

 saved nothing but one feather-bed, a stand- 

 table and a few books. We are homeless 

 in the dead of winter, with ten inches of 

 snow." 



