July S, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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all cut off, so that I am afraid we shall 

 have to cut down our bee-yard to about 

 one-third of its present size. 



I don't find anything- better for bee- 

 sting-s than cold water, for man or 

 beast. L. G. Blaik. 



Grant Co., Wis., June 23. 



Poor Prospect for Honey. 



Bees in Tulare County are doing 

 very poorly this year. Our main honey- 

 plant — alfalfa — has not bloomed yet. 

 I think the honey crop in this locality 

 will be light. Bees now are bringing 

 in just enough to live on. We g^en- 

 erally have 3'i months of honey-flow 

 in June, July and August — and the 

 first half of September. We have now 

 lost the first part of June, and a very 

 poor outlook for the rest of June. 



Dan Ci^ubb. ' 



Tulare Co., Calif., June 19. 



Honey Crop to Be Short. 



My bees wintered well, and have 

 swarmed very freely since Maj' 4. I 

 have about 100 colonies now. The 

 honey crop will be short this season in 

 my section of the county. 



J. P. Orcutt. 



Hardin Co., Iowa, June 22. 



What Will the Harvest Be? 



My first swarm of bees issued June 

 14th. There is plenty of clover bloom, 

 but only three good honey days thus 

 far. Yellow sweet clover (Mellilotus 

 officinalis) has been in bloom for a 

 month, and the white Variety has just 

 begun to bloom. White clover bloom 

 is quite plentiful, but has failed to give 

 down the precious nectar. What will 

 the harvest be? Mrs. I/. Harrison. 



Peoria Co., 111., June 21. 



Drouth— Fastening Foundation in 

 Sections. 



Owing- to a drouth, which is quite 

 general in the north half of this State, 

 and vast areas of the Dakotas, the out- 

 look for profit here is very poor this 

 season. Most of the cereal grains — 

 wheat, oats and barley — are almost 

 past being helpt by rain. What is true 

 of the crops is to a great extent true of 

 the honey-flora. Altho in the more 

 sha'ded places — the timber and brush — 

 white clover is producing some, but so 

 little that the swarming-impulse is 

 very low, and no surplus honey is be- 

 ing stored. 



Our early spring with unusually fine 

 weather brought the wild fruit-bloom 

 into its fullest glory ; and the bees 

 started with a boom, but their begin- 

 nings for increase and stores of sur- 

 plus honey faded away with the last 

 of the bloom. Drouths like this are 

 uncommon here. With a sufficiency of 

 rain white clover and basswood may 

 give us a good honey crop yet. 



About fastening starters in sec- 

 tions : If Mr. Lathrop (page 373) will 

 come over I think I can soon convince 

 him that putting foundation in sec- 

 tions is very easy and pleasant work. 

 I have a little apparatus arranged to 

 fit in and over the lamp chimney. On 

 this is fastened a little pan to hold 

 beeswax which is heated by the lamp. 

 The pan is a little to one side, leaving 

 about one-fourth of the open space of 

 the chimney for heating the sections. 



Two horizontal projections arc ar- 

 ranged to hang the sections on. 



When all is ready, hang on a sec- 

 tion, leave its edge side against the 

 pan. In five seconds remove and re- 

 place with anotlier. Now turn the first 

 with the heated side downward in your 

 hand. Dip one edge of the foundation 

 in the heated wax and apply quickly 

 to the place it is desired to be fastened. 

 If all has been of the proper tempera- 

 ture, and the work done well, it may 

 now be carefully turned and placed for 

 cooling. The next section may now 

 be replaced and used in the same way. 



As for speed with small starters, I 

 can put them in at the rate of eight 

 per minute, and doit right. With full- 

 sized sheets the speed is not so rapid, 

 but is quite gratifying. Certainly, it 

 can be "delegated to cheap help." 

 Only get those who take pride in doing 

 their work well. 



To use the above plan gives full sat- 

 isfaction ; to others it may serve only 

 as a suggestion to be improved upon. 

 E. S. RoK. 



Todd Co., Minn., June 21. 



Texas.— The Central Texas Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation convenes in seventh annual conven- 

 tion, at Hutto, Tex., July 12 and 13, 1900. All are 

 cordially invited to attend. Excursion rates, 

 and no hotel bills to pay. 



Hunter, Tex. LODIS Scholl, Sec. 



Italian Queens. 



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Untested Queens fO.'Xl $2.50 S4.50 



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TestedOueens 1.2S 3.50 7.00 



Select Tested Queens 2.00 S.OO 0.00 



These Queens are reared from honey-g-ather- 

 ers. Orders filled in rotation. Nothing sent 

 out but beautiful Queens. 



27ASt D. J. BLOCHER, Pearl City, IM. 



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 where it is said to furnish larg-e quantities of 

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I MONEY AND BEESWAX | 



MARKET QUOTATIONS. 



Chicago, J line 1''. — Not any new comb honey 

 on the market wiih the exception of a little 

 sweet clover, wiiich, owing- to the scarcity of 

 comb honey, has sold at lo cents. Extracted is 

 slow of sale with 7 cents about highest price 

 that can be obtained for white; <>%(^'!c for best 

 ambers, and 5^4*" (>c for dark grades Beeswax, 

 27fai2Mc. R. A. Burnett & Co. 



Kansas City, June 20. — We quote: No. 1 white 

 comb, l-ifgil5c; No. 1 amber, ISfrj^Hc; No. 2 white 

 and amber, 13fa'13^c. Extracted, white, 7;4(fi>8c; 

 amber, 7c. No beeswax in the market. 



We have a shipment of new comb honey in 

 transit from Florida. The supply of old comb 

 honey is very light, mostly candied. 



C. C. Clemons &. Co, 



Detroit, May 24.— Fancy white comb, 15fa^l6c; 

 No 1, white, 14fatl5c; amber and dark, 10@12c. 

 Extracted, white, 7c; amber and dark, 5Cgt6c. 

 Beeswax, 25(g+2f)C. 



Supply and demand for honey both limited. 

 M. H. Hunt & Son. 



New York, May 21.— Our market is practi- 

 cally bare of comb honey, and there is a g-ood 

 demand for while at from l3(&lSc per pound, ac- 

 cording- 1o quality and style of packag-e. The 

 market on extracted is rather quiet, and inact- 

 ive. New crop is slow in coming in, and prices 

 have not vet been establtsht. Beeswax holds 

 firm at 27@2Xc. Hildretu & Segelken. 



San Francisco, June 6.— White comb, 11>^@ 

 12J^c; amber, 8f0lOc. Extracted, white,6>^(a.7c. 

 li^ht amber, 6@6J^c; amber, 5(g^55^c; Beesway, 

 26fai27c. 



There is not much honey on market, either 

 old or new. Small quantities of new comb and 

 extracted are going to local trade at compara- 

 tively stiff values. In some instances, espe- 

 cially for comb, an advance on best figures 

 warranted as a quotation are being realized. To 

 secure export orders, however, of anything like 

 wholesale proportions, prices above noted would 

 have to be materially shaded. 



WANTED-HONEY AND BEESWAX. 



We have a tremendous and growing trade in 

 this line, and would like to hear from all who 

 have such goods to sell in any part of the coun- 

 try, with ([ualit}-, description, and lowest cash 

 price. Thos. C. Stanley & Sox, Fairfield, III. 



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