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THE AMERICAISr BEE JOURNAL. 



Replacing Worn-Oiit Oneens. — L. L. 

 Triem, Laporte City,© Iowa, on July 

 21, 1885, says : 



I form 3-fr<ime nuclei by placing the 

 hive containing these close beside the 

 colony containing tlie worn-out queen, 

 the entrances of botli hives facing in the 

 same direction. Ininiertiately after the 

 close of the white honey season, 1 take 

 away all the combs from the hive con- 

 taining the old queen, and give them to 

 the nuclei ; the old bees may be used up 

 by giving them one comb of honey and 

 filling the balance of the hive with wired 

 frames of foiuulatlon. The combs should 

 be stored away for the next season's use. 

 By this plan no good young queen need be 

 lost, which is of importance. This plan 

 has its faults, however, as have other 

 plans. 



Bees Have Done Well.— Wilson Sher- 

 man, Chester Center,© Iowa, on July 

 24, 1885, writes : 



My bees have done well so far this sea- 

 son. Over half of them have produced 

 over 100 pounds per colony. White clover 

 has been a good crop in this section ; it is 

 about done blossoming for this season. 

 The bees are working lively on buckwheat 

 at present. I think there will be a good 

 honey-yield here this fall, for there have 

 been large rains every 24 hours for about 

 a week. 1 have increased 8 colonies to 

 22; one colony swarmed 5 times, and they 

 were large swarms, too. I have used the 

 Heddon plan of preventing after-swarms, 

 on half of my colonies, and it has been a 

 perfect success. 1 am intending to take 

 all the natural stores awav from my bees 

 this fall, and feed them siigar syrup, as I 

 think that pollen is the cause of our win- 

 ter losses. 



Good Fall Crop Expected.— J. W. 



Clark, Clarksburg,© Mo., on July 18, 

 1885, says : 



Basswood and clover have given only a 

 small crop of honey, on account of there 

 being too much rain. The pastures were 

 white with clover, and the bees are still 

 working on them some, but tliey get very 

 little honey, as shown by a colony on 

 scales. Bees are driving out the drones 

 and robbers. They are also working on 

 catnip, mustard, and horse-mint now. 

 Carpenter's-square and buck-bushes are 

 beginning to open ; prospects are good for 

 the fall or yellow flowers. 



Queen Going to Another Hive.— 



Robert Corbett, Manhattan, <5 Kans., 

 writes : 



I had taken a black or hybrid queen 

 and started a nucleus for the sake of pre- 

 serving her lor a little while. The 

 weather being cool, I was obliged to feed 

 her a little. In the meantime 1 had taken 

 an Italian queen from a strong colony that 

 was about20 feet away from the nucleus 

 (1 think for two days! had neglected feed- 

 ing or supplying her with the necessary 

 food; be that as it may, I do not know), 

 and when the time arrived that I expected 

 queen-cells to be well developed, 1 pro- 

 ceeded to open the hive, and to my as- 

 tonishment I found the black queen in the 

 Italian colony, working with a will. But 

 then, how did she know the colony was 

 queenless? That is where the instinct 

 comes in. 



Good Season for Increase and 

 Honey.— Abe Iloke, Union City,o+ 

 Ind., on July 27, lS8o, says : 



I put into winter quarters 2o colonies in 

 good condititm, and well protected as fol- 

 lows : Fourteen in doublfd-wallcil hiick 

 hives with to 8 inches of dry sawdust on 

 tf)p of this, and of those I lost 8. 1 had 5 

 colonies in wooden hives packed all 

 around with dry sawdust, and of these 1 

 lost 3. 1 had in straw hives, and of these 

 I lost none, and they were packed as 

 above. Tlie season up to this time has 

 been pretty good for increase, and also for 

 honey— the best for years— but to-day the 

 bees are looking up honey without going 

 to the fields— not a good sign for much 

 more honey. I liave taken about 400 

 pounds of honey in two-pound sections. 

 There is no sale here for extracted honey. 

 More than one- half of the bees in this sec- 

 tion went to sleep last winter and forgot 

 to wake up. My loss was 11 out of 3.5. 1 

 now have 29, having sold 6. 



Button-Ball Bush.— G. W. Ashby, 

 Valley Station, 5 Ky., sends speci- 

 mens of a tlower and writes thus : 



I send some blossoms that grew on a 

 small bush that the bees seem to be very 

 fond of. I have seen nothing said about 

 it in any of the books enumerating the 

 honey-plants— at least no description by 

 which I can identify it. It seems to be a 

 bush filling a vacancy or dearth of honey- 

 secreting plants in July. I send a ripe 

 flower, or one commencing to wilt, one in 

 full bloom, and one not yet open, with its 

 honey-secreting tubes. It grows along 

 the margin of ponds and places that dry 

 up in summer. Please give its name and 

 value as a honey-plant. 



[This is the button-ball bush (Cephalan- 

 thus occidentalis). The flowers have a 

 considerable quantity of nectar, but the 

 noted family to which the species belongs 

 (Madder family) Is not celebrated in this 

 particular. The cofTee-tree belongs to the 

 same order.— T. J. Bureill.] 



Consumers Instead of Prodneers. — 



A. S. Goodrich, Worthington,© Ohio, 

 on July 28, 1885. says : 



The honey season is a failure here, there 

 being no surplus. My bees were very 

 weak last spring, but 1 had them built up 

 just in time to be consumers instead of 

 producers. 



The "Busy Bee." — David Rice, 

 Lebanon,^) Oreg., on July 22, 1882, 

 says : 



This season is like the last, there being 

 a poor honey yield. Quite an interest has 

 sprung up, in this vicinity, in the interest 

 of the " busy bee." 



Bees and Buckwheat, etc. — Geo. 

 Duffy, Austin,©, Minn., writes : 



I have read some in regard to the suit 

 about bees doing damage to sheep. This 

 seems even more absurd than the idea 

 that bees damage buckwheat or fruit of 

 any kind while in blossom, and this, I 

 think, is the most unreasonable of all un- 

 reasonableness. My experience in raising 

 crops of buckwheat is, that I have har- 

 vested and threshed just as great a 

 quantity, and just as good a quality (all 

 other things being equal), in proportion to 

 the amount of ground sown, from crops 

 that they have worked on, and that was 

 literally alive with them while in blossom, 

 as I have from crops on which I never 

 saw a honey-bee. The same is true in 

 my experience with small fruit, plums, 

 apples, etc. My opinion is that such a 

 case as the Powers-Freeborn, will never 

 be tried in any court of equity in this free 

 country ; if it is not withdrawn, it surely 

 will be dismissed. There can be no cause 

 of action ; for as Mr. G. M. Doolittle 

 truthfully says on page 40.5, to furnish the 

 required proof of whose bees did the 

 damage foolishly claimed to have been 

 done, seems utterly impossible. However, 

 if such a case is carried on (as they say 

 wonders will never cease), I woulil not 

 like to be counted out as one not willing 

 to contribute the .f 1.25 to such a cause. 



Basswood and Whitewood. — K. O, 



asks for information as follows : 



For a number of years I have tried to 

 raise basswood trees from the seed, but I 

 signally failed each time. I once sent 

 away for some whitewood seed, and in- 

 structions came, but no seed at all. It 

 may be cheaper to buy the trees, but there 

 is great satisfaction to plant the seed one's 

 self. Will some one who has had experi- 

 ence in raising these trees, please inform 

 me how to save and grow the seed from 

 these two varieties of trees ? 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



Offlce of the American Bee Jocbnai,, i 

 Monday, 10 a. m., Aug. 3, 1885. f 



The following are the latest quota- 

 tions for honey and beeswax received 

 up to this hour : 



CHICAGO. 



HONE V— This week has broueht on the market 

 some of the new crop, which is being held at 15c. 



ger lb. for white comb. There is not any comb 

 oney of the crop of iss-l worth mentioning here 

 now. Extracted offerings are rather free; prices 

 are unchanged— r>H 7c per lb. 

 BBESW AX-22C. for yellow. 



K. A. BOKNETT. 161 South Water Bt. 



BOSTON. 



HONEY.— We quote the following prices : Fancy 

 white comb in l-lb. sections, lt-:(§il8c. ; the same In 

 2-Ib. sections. Htojisc; fancy whiteCalifornia'J-lbs., 

 12@14c. Extracted weak, 6^8c. Sales very slow. 



BEBSWAX.-30 CIS. per lb. 



Blake & hiplet. 57 ChattaBm Street. 



NEW YORK. 



HONBY-The honey market is very quiet, and 

 will continue so until fall trade opens up. Some 

 old stock is on the market yet, with small ship- 

 ments ot new comb honey arriving. Southern 

 extracted honey is coming in very freely. Quota- 

 tions are as fol lows for comb honey : Fancy white 

 in 1-lb. sections, I4^15c: fair to good in l-lb. sec- 

 tions, i2(*i:ic: fancy white in 2-lb. sections, I3(uii4: 

 fair to good in I'-Ib. sections, ll(ml2c: fancy buck- 

 wheat in l-lb. sections, y@lOc: fancy buckwbeatin 

 2-lb. sections, 7@.sc. Extracted white clover, 6@7: 

 buckwheat, 5's6e; Southern, per gallon, 55@65c, 



BEBSWAX-Prime yellow. 25(8)28c, 



McCaul & HiLDRETH BROS., 34 Hudson St. 



CINCINNATI. 



HONEY— The market is quiet with fair demand 

 for extracted, and an abundance of offerings from 

 commission houses and producers. Prices range 

 between 4^Hc nn arrival. There is but little new 

 comb honey in the market, with an occasional de- 

 mand. Prices nominal. 



BEESWAX— Is in fair demand with liberal offer- 

 ings, and brings 2n@24c on arrival. 



C. r. MPTH, Freeman & Central Ave. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



HONEY— The market Is quiet, there being no 

 shipping deman d and not much local trade. 'I'here 

 are receipts of both old and new. One lot of 20<;) 

 cases of old extracted arrived from San Jose. 

 White to extra white comb, 7(s.9e; dark to good, 

 4@6c: extracted, choice to extra white, ■iX<3i^H : 

 amber colored, 4(r44M>. 



BEESWAX-CJuotable at 24<»25c— wholesale. 

 O. B. S.MITH & Co., 423 Front Street. 



CLBVBLAND. 



HONEY- Is very dull just now during strawberry 

 time, and although we hold at 14(nj].'jc per lb. best 

 white l-lb. sections, it Is merely nominal, as there 

 are no transiictions. As soon as our people have 

 satisfied their craving for acid fruits, they take 

 very kindly to nice white honey, and we may look 

 with confidence to a good demand in July, August 

 and September. 



BEESWAX.— Scarce at 2.S@30. 



A. c. EBNi>EL. 1 IS Ontario Street. 



KANSAS CITY. 



HONE Y— No Changs In prices to note. Shippers 

 and buyers both holding off, with some concessions 

 In favor of buyers. Nothwithstanding the short 

 crop reported in California, sales are stUl being 

 made there at about the same prices as In the 

 spring, and some new honey is quoted there at 4c., 

 for extracted. We quote choice white 2-lb. sec- 

 tions comb at I2c; l-lb., 13(ai4. Extracted, 5@7c. 



BEKSWAX-Weak at 2IK925C. 



Clkmons.Cloon & Co., cor. 4th & Walnut. 



