1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



205 



in the third story, obliging me to place it 

 down and put an outside comb from the 

 lower story in its place. Bee-zinc would 

 prevent this trouble, but to my notion this 

 is not nearly so much work for me as 

 crawling through the zinc for the bees. 

 Then I do not believe that more than one 

 out of ten will want more than two stories 

 to lay and rear brood in. Two of them 

 swarmed very much, and both at the same 

 time. Old queens proved to be the cause, 

 or at least seemed to be. 

 E. St. Louis, 111. H. E. Leveling. 



Wintering' All Right. 



Bees were wintering all right in the cellar 

 in this vicinity up to Feb. IS. I have 30 

 colonies in good condition, and if we can 

 have some rain in May we may have some 

 clover honey. We had a lot of rain before 

 Christmas, and there is about 10 inches of 

 snow now, with very cold weather. There 

 are about 100 acres of Alsike clover within 

 one mile of my apiary. I did not get any 

 clover honey in 180.5 — it was too dry in the 

 spring. I got a„500 pounds last year, 

 mostly from buckwheat and black-heart 

 weed. 1 am sowing sweet clover along the 

 roadside and on waste-places, for 1 think it 

 is the best honey-plant I have. 



I have taken the American Bee Journal 

 ever since I began to keep bees ( four years) , 

 and would not get along without it If it 

 cost $3.00 a year. Jacob Wikth. 



Rickel, Dls., Feb. 31. 



Feeding Bees — Bees Starved. 



February was a nice month, warm and 

 springlike here. The bees could fly and 

 eat whenever they felt like it, and I rather 

 guess they worked too hard at it, for there 

 are lots of them that will fly no more. Out 

 of 35 colonies there are only 34 left, and I 

 have been feeding all the syrup they would 

 take the last week of February. I fed in 

 the open air; 10 pounds of granulated 

 sugar, 10 pounds of boiling water; put the 

 sugar into a tin pail, pour in the water, 

 and stir with the mush-paddle until all is 

 dissolved, then set away to cool. When 

 lukewarm pour into milk-pans, or bread- 

 pans, or any shallow vessel, and cover with 

 cheese-cloth, and set out in the apiary. If 

 you do not have the cheese-cloth, fill with 

 clean corn-cobs, then pour in your syrup. 



February 38 and 39 the bees worked 

 strong on soft-maple bloom. March 1 was 

 cloudy and cold ; the '2nd cloudy and colder ; 

 the 3rd it snowed until noon, and is still 

 cloudy and cold. 



There have been more bees that died of 

 starvation this winter than I ever knew in 

 one winter before. J. C. Balch. 



Bronson, Kans. , March 3. 



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Crimson Clover Growing. 



I have seen Dr. Miller's comment on page 

 98, in regard to what I said on page TS 

 about my 4 acres of crimson clover. The 

 piece is apart of a 0-acre field that I in- 

 tended to sow to buckwheat next season, 

 so it will not be disturbed until time to sow 

 buckwheat. By that time it will show 

 plainly whether it is going to be worth 

 leaving or not. If it is, I will leave it for 

 the seed to ripen ; if not, I will plow it up 

 and sow to buckwheat, as originally in- 

 tended. 



My idea was that if it was sowed in the 

 fall, and blossomed in May, as they tell 

 about, I could get the crop off (or plow it 

 under for a fertilizer) in time to sow a crop 

 of buckwheat, and thereby improve the 

 land and still not miss a crop. If crimson 

 clover will work here as they tell about, it 

 is just what I want. The blossoms for the 

 bees, the clover as a fertilizer, followed 

 with buckwheat for the bees, and still get a 

 crop off the land; and if this piece should 

 be a failure, I will try again, but next time 

 I will know more about when to sow it, as 

 I have a brother-in-law that is foreman at 

 our State Experiment Station, and he 



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Uuuey & Beeswax Market Quotations. 



CHICAGO. III.. Mar. 20.— White clover and 

 basswood comb is sought after In preference 

 to any other, and commands a better price 

 and now sells at Inc. for clover and 13@14c. 

 for basswood. Other white comb honey sells 

 atll@12c.; dark, 8@9c. amber. 9@10c., and 

 very slow of sale. Extracted is unusually 

 dull, with large amounts on sale. White clo- 

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Beeswax. 28@30c. R. A. B. & Co. 



KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Mar. 18.— The demand 

 for comb and e.xtraoted is fair. We quote: 

 No. 1 white, l-lbs., 13(3il4c.; No. 2, 10@llo.; 

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CINCINNATI, 0., Mar. 19.— Demand is fair 

 for best white comb honey, at 12@14c. ina 

 jobbing way. Extracted is fair at ■l@7c. Sup- 

 plies of both are fair. 



Beeswax is in good demand at 25@30o. for 

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PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Mar. 6.— Honey has 

 been sluing freely, there being considerable 

 call for comn honey, and the war in Cuba has 

 made extracted honey sell to the baking trade 

 who previously used Cuba honey. We quote: 

 Fancy comb. 15c. ; fair to good, 11® 1 3.; fair, 

 9c. Extracted. 4!4@514c.; pure white clover, 

 10c. Beeswax, 30o. W. A. S. 



NEW YORK. N. Y.. Feb. '24.— Market quiet. 

 White comb in fair demand at ll@14c. very 

 little demand lor buckwheat comb at S@9c. 

 Extracted selling fairly well, principally Cal- 

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 moving at 4@4i4c. ; Southern, 50@5.5c. per 

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