1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPEB. 



55 



•_ iTEIiJ or 1NTERE5T. 



The Belgian market is taking some of 

 California's amber grade of extracted 

 honey. 



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Any one who has never seen a case 

 of foul bood ought to send for the De- 

 cember number of the Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 view. A specimen therein presented 

 lacks only the smell. 

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Lewis Leighton, of Nebraska, in A. 

 B. J., finds the white variety of sweet 

 clover a most excellent forage plant 

 for bees, but a complete failure as fod- 

 der for stock of any kind. 

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The Wisconsin State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association has formally indorsed the 

 United States Bee-Keepers' Union. 

 Amalgamation of the two unions was 

 also favored by the convention. 



Letters patent uave recently been 

 granted to one E. Arringtou, on "a bee 

 catcher." The report fails to desig- 

 nate whether the apparatus is designed 

 to "catch" queens, drones or whole 

 swarms. We may hear more of it in 

 the future. But we don't expect to. 

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"What is the best tree to plant or 

 the best seed to sow for bee pasturage?" 

 continues to be asked by the novice, 

 and the veteran repeats over, and 

 over again, the answer, 'Tt will not 

 pay to cultivate any known plant ex- 

 clusively for honey." 

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The recent elections of the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Union, resulted in hand- 

 some majorities for all the former of- 

 ficers. The resolution that Manager 

 Newman be allowed 20 cents on each 

 membership, as compensation for his 

 services, carried "with a rush." 



A resolution presented at the Cali- 

 fornia State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 "That the new United States Bee- 

 Keepers' Union should absorb the Na- 

 tional Union," carried by 43 to 0. 

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Extracted heney warehouse receipts 

 of the California Bee-Keepers' Ex- 

 change for 1897, were 484,287 pounds. 

 Twenty car-loads were sold through 

 the exchange during the last three 

 months. 



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"There are about 53,000 bee-keepers 

 in the British Isles. They will average 

 five colonies each; in favorable loca- 

 tions the yield is from 100 to 150 lbs. 

 per colony, but the general yield is 

 from 50 to 60 lbs." 



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"The wholesale price of comb honey 

 in the British Isles is from 14 to 20 

 cents; extracted, 12 cents. The value 

 of the annual product is about $750,000. 

 Besides the home production there is a 

 monthly import of from 10,000 to 15,- 

 000 lbs, the greater portion of it from 

 the United States and Canada." 



The thirteenth annual report of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Union for 1897, 

 by General Manager T. G. Newman, of 

 San Francisco, shows the past year to 

 have been one of useful activity for 

 that organization; and the treasury is 

 still in a very healthy condition. 

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Harry Lathrop, in Gleanings, pre- 

 dicts no clover honey in Wisconsin this 

 year. The basis of his prophecy is the 

 fact, so stated, that it takes two years 

 to produce a good crop of honey, f;om 

 the time the seed is deposited in the 

 ground, and the unfavorable con- 

 ditions for germinating the seed, that 

 followed the deposit of '96. 

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Wm. A. Selser, of Philadelphia, who 

 is an "old hand" at the honey busi- 

 ness, through the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, urges eastern producers to market 

 their product not later than November, 

 before the arrival of car-load ship- 

 ments from California, which, he says, 

 come every year and are dumped at 

 ruinous prices on an over-burdened 

 market, during the winter. 



