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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



REPLIES by Prominent Apiarists. 



Rearing Late Drones. 



Query, No. 103.— How do queen-breeders 

 beep dr<.»nes late in the >ummer? Do they rear 

 them when wanted, or do they teep spring drones? 

 It the latter, how ?-H. J. 



G. M. DooLiTTLB answers : "After 

 drones are being killed, I take what 

 drone-brood I can find in ray best 

 blooded colonies and place it in a 

 queenless colony, which will preserve 

 tne drones." 



G. W. Demakee says : " The 

 querist speaks of 'spring drones.' 

 Bees rear drones more or less until 

 the early honey- season is over. I keep 

 drones all summer and fall by trans- 

 ferring drone-brood to nursing colo- 

 nies that have no laying queens." 



.James Heddon replies : " Most 

 queen-breeders deem it best to cease 

 i|ueen-rearing when drones disappear. 

 During emergencies they can be kept 

 in queenless colonies." 



Dr. G. L. Tinker remarks : "They 

 are kept in queenless colonies or 

 nuclei. The life of a drone is seldom 

 more tlian three months, so that 

 spring drones cannot be kept until 

 fall. I have kept .50 to 100 as late as 

 Nov. 1, and had queens mated, but 

 they were hatched in August." 



.J. E. Pond, Jr., says : " I do not 

 know tlie methods used by others, 

 but I believe that the surer way is 

 to keep 1 or 2 colonies queenless, 

 stocking them up occasionally with 

 flames of capped brood. Of course 

 the drones should be from the best 

 queens in the yard." 



Prof. A. J. Cook answers : "Full, 

 strong colonies will not destroy their 

 drones till it is too late to breed. At 

 least they never do in our apiary." 



CnAs. Dadant & Son reply : 

 " They always have enough queen- 

 less colonies to keep all the drones 

 they need. Besides, very few queens 

 are reared late in the season." 



W. Z. IlUTCiiiNSON remarks : " I 

 usually keep a few old queens, and 

 by feeding their colonies, drones will 

 be reared quite late in the season." 



Winter Repository for Bees. 



Qtierj-, No. 104.— I want to build a winter 

 repository for my bees. 'I'here is a clay bank or 

 bilinear my bee-yurd ; if 1 build a bouse walled 

 with stone in that bank, IH «jr ijo feet lonK. 7 feet 

 hlKb, .") feet underKround and '1 feet above t:round. 

 with the front end all out, will it be too damp for 

 bees in winter ?-K. 



Dr. C. C. Miller replies : " iSTo." 



W. Z. Hutchinson replies : " I 

 think not." 



Prof. A. J. Cook answers : "Surely 

 not. if well drained. We do not 

 know that dampness is injurious to 

 bees. 1 should be much more con- 



cerned to have the temperature en- 

 tirely in my control. Give me a cellar 

 that will not vary from 45^, and good 

 stores, and I have no fear. This is 

 my opinion after many years of suc- 

 cessful wintering, and after watching 

 others who have wintered bees well." 



G. M. DOOLITTLE says : " No." 



J. E. Pond, Jr., remarks : " I know 

 nothing of wintering bees in special 

 repositories. I have always kept mine 

 on the summer stands, and I have 

 never yet lost a colony either from 

 climatic changes or disease. I do not 

 believe that cold, of itself, ever 

 causes the death of a colony ; the 

 evidence of many shows that damp- 

 ness also does not have an unfavor- 

 able effect." 



Chas. Dadant & Son say : " We 

 are inclined to think that it will 

 hardly be warm enough if you live in 

 the North. It will be dry enough, 

 unless it is not well drained." 



Dr. G. L. Tinicer answers : "No ; 

 but it may get too cold. A damp cel- 

 lar is, no doubt, the best to winter 

 bees in. A moist air is promotive of 

 health in our houses — why not in bee- 

 hives y Dampness in hives is one of 

 the agencies in causing bee-diarrhea 

 only when the temperature is so low 

 as to condense the vapor, or where 

 there is insufficient ventilation— one 

 or both. Those who have been so 

 fond of noting that since bees may 

 winter well in damp cellars, the 

 humidity theory is thereby disproved, 

 would do well to consider the differ- 

 ence in effect on animal life between 

 a warm damp atmosphere and a cool 

 damp one." 



.Tames Heddon says: "I should 

 have no fears of dampness whatever 

 with a wall so much out of ground. 

 I should fear the running down of the 

 mercury during our severest weather, 

 unless some special means for keep- 

 ing up the temperature was provided^ 

 I siiould like to have that part of the 

 wall double." 



Local Convention Directory. 



1885. Time and place oj Meeting. 



Aug. 2.^.— Southern Wisconsin, at Janesville, Wis. 

 John C. Lynch, Sec. 



Aug. 25.— Des Moines Co Iowa, at Bnrlinnton, loa. 

 John Nau, Sec. 



Aug. 25.-N. W. III. and S. W. Wis. at Uock City. 111. 

 J. Stewart, Sec, Kock City. Ills. 



Sept. 1.— Linwood, at Itock Elm Centre, Wis. 



B. J. Thompson, Sec, Waverly, Wis. 



Sept. I, 2-W. N. Y. and N. Pa., at Salamanca, N.Y. 

 A. I). Jacobs. Sec. Jamestown, N. Y. 



Sept. 3.— Eastern Indiana, at Richmond. 



M. G. Reynolds, Sec. 



Sept. 8— 12.— Iowa State, at DesMoines, Iowa. 



Wm. (iocs. Sec, Davenport, Iowa. 



Sept. 10.— Patsalaga, at Ramer, Alabama. 



M. G. KuBbton, Sec, Itaif Branch, Ala. 



Oct. 10.— Wabash County, at N. Manchester, Ind. 

 J. J. Martin, Sec, N. Manchester, ind. 



Dec. 8— 10.— Michigan State, at Detroit, Mich. 



U. D. Cutting, Sec, (;iinton,Mich. 



Dec. 8— 10.- North American, at Detroit, Mich. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec, Kogei sville, Mich. 

 I 

 1^" In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— Ku. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



Office of the American Bee Journal, > 

 Monday, 10 a. m., Aug. 24, 1885. f 



The following are the latest quota- 

 tions for honey and beeswax received 

 up to this hour : 



CHICAQO. 



HONEY— Receipts of comb honey are coming 

 more freely, and the demand is about equal to it. 

 Yet 15c per pound is all that can be t)btained. 

 Extracted honey ranges from 5(ft8c for the differ- 

 ent grades and styles of packages. 



BEES"WAX-22®23C 



R. A. BtiRNKTT. 161 South Water 8t. 



BOSTON. 



HONEY.— There is no change in the market, to 

 speak of. We have had some new Vermont white 

 clover honey in I-lb. sections, which Is very tine. 

 There is a large crop in that State. Prices remain 

 as follows : Kur 1-lb. seclions, 16@I8C. ; for2-lbs., 

 I4(«.]6c. There is little or no sale for extracted. 



BEESWAX.-30 CIS. per lb. 



Blake & Riplet, 57 Chatham Street. 



NEW YORK. 



nONEY— 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 t»t new comb lioney arriving. Soutliern 

 extracted honey is coming in very freely. (Quota- 

 tions are as follows for comb honey : Fancy white 

 in 1-lb. sections, 14(3.15c: fair to good in 1-lb. sec- 

 tions. I2Cgjl3c: fancy white in 2-lb. sections, 13^14; 

 fair to good in 2-lb. sections, 1 l@;12c; fancy buck- 

 wheat in 1-lb. sections. 9@10c: fancy buckwheatin 

 2-lb. secti-ms. 7(a,Hc. Extracted white clover. 6Cs)7; 

 buckwheat, .">'a6c: Southern, per gallon, 55(g,65c. 



BEESWAX— Prime yellow, 2.5(928c 



MCCAUL & HlLDRETH BROS.. 34 Hudson St. 



CINCINNATI. 



HONBY—The market is quiet with fair demand 

 for extracted, and an abundance of offerings from 

 commission houses and producers. Prices range 

 between 4(smc on arrival. There ia but little new 

 comb honey in the market, with an occasional de- 

 mand. Prices nominal. 



BEES W AX— Is in fair demand with liberal offer- 

 ings, and brings 2(Hai24c on arrival. 



C. F. MUTH. Freeman & Central Ave. 



SAN rRANCISCO. 



HONEY.— New comb lioney sells slowly because 

 of last year's crop now on hand. We now quote- 

 Extracted, old dark 41t>c: new white, 5!.b<<('» c ; 

 dark. 4?iS5c No extra white coming forward. 



BEES WAX— (Quotable at 23c.— wholesale. 



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



CLEVELAND. 



HONEY. -The new crop is beginning to arrive 

 and is selling at Uidl.", cts. per lb. for choice 1-lb. 

 sections. Old honey is very dull— none selling al- 

 though freely otfered at I0(*12cts. Extracted, as 

 usual is not in demand in our market, 



BEESWA-X.— 20(3.22 cts. per lb. 



A. c. KBNDBL. 115 Ontario Street. 



KANSAS CITY. 



HONEY— Trade in this article is very quiet just 

 now. Nothing sells at this time of year except ex- 

 tracted honey, in bulk and small glasses and tin.** 

 of honev. Some large sales of extracted this week 

 at .'I'wiicfor southern, an dO(a 7c for clover and sage. 

 Comb honey nominal, at 12(yjI3c for choice white 

 2- lb. sections, and 13(«)I4C for 1-lb, 



BBBSWAX-Weak at 2o@2.'ic. 



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



il2^~ To create Honey Markets In every 

 viilagc, town and city, wide-awake honey 

 producers should get the Leaflets " Why Eat 

 Honey" (only .">0 cents per 100), or else the 

 pamphlets on "Honey as Food and Medicine," 

 and scatter them plentifully, and the result 

 will be a demand for all of their crops at 

 remunerative prices. " Honey as Food arid 

 Medicine " are sold at the following prices : 



Single copy, 5 cts. ; per doz., 40 cts. ; per 

 hundred, $4.50. Five hundi-ed will be sent 

 postpaid for $10.00; or 1,000 for §15,00. 

 On orders of 100 or more, we will print, if 

 desired, on the cover-page, " Presented by," 

 etc. (giving the name and address of the bee- 

 keeper who scatters them). 



