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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1885. Time and place of Meeting. 



Oct. 15, 16.— Western, at Independence, Mo. 



C. M. Craudall, Sec, Independence. Mo. 



Oct. l-"i. — Progressive, at Macomb, Ills. 



J. G. Norton. Sec, Macomb, Ills. 



Oct. IT.—Marshall Co.. at Marshalltown, Iowa. 



J. W. Sanders, Sec, LeGrand, Iowa. 



Oct. 21.— Md., Va. & W. Va., at Haserstown. Md. 

 D. A. Pike, Pres., SmithshurE, Md. 



Oct. 22, 23.— Northern MichiKan. at Sheridan, Mich. 

 F. A. Palmer, Sec, McBride. Mich. 



Oct. 2S, 29.— Central Illinois, at Jacksonville, Ills. 



Nov. 5. e.— N. J. & Bastern. at Trenton. N. J. 



Wm. B. Treadwell, Sec, Iti Thomas St., N. Y. 



Nov. 12.— Central Michigan, at Lansing, Mich. 



E. N. Wood, Sec, N. Lansing, Mich. 



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



H. D. Cutting, Sec, (Minton.Mich. 



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

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec, RogersviUe, Mich. 



Pec. 8-10.— Northwestern, at Detroit, Mich. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec, Uogersville. Mich. 



tW~ In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetiuss.— Ei». 



stiS^SP^MRoM 



Pleasant Fall Season.— J. T. Oonn- 

 ley, Napoleon, 5 Ky.. on Oct. 2, 1884, 

 says : 



I am glad to be able to say that 

 bees are doing splendidly at present 

 on goldenrod, which will be sufficient 

 to insure a fair prospect for safe win- 

 tering. The fall season here is un- 

 usually warm and genial. 



Hiving: Swarms on Drone Comb. — 



D. W. F. propounds the following 

 question : 



Suppose a swarm, as it comes from 

 the parent colony, is hived upon a set 

 of combs containing drone comb ex- 

 clusively, what would be the results V 

 Please answer this in the Journal. 



[Some of the combs would, sooner 

 ►or later, undoubtedly be changed to 

 worker-cells. The queen would, we 

 think, deposit fecundated eggs in 

 drone-cells, and worker-bruod would 

 develop. The results would vary ; 

 locality and season having much to 

 do with it.— Edit(jr.] 



Rearing Yonnj? Bees for Winter.— J. 

 AV. Sanders, Le Grand,© Iowa, on 

 Oct. 1, 188-5, writes: 



To-day it is warm, and the bees 

 are as lively as in June. The most of 

 August and the first week of Septem- 

 ber was cool and wet, so tliat our 

 bees worked but little ; but for the 

 last three weeks or more they have 

 been making up lost time, by carrying 

 in a quantity of winter stores, and 

 rearing a large amount of young 

 brood to inlierit the old home, as their 

 ancestors i>ass away with old age. 

 This, I think, is the first great secret 

 to successful wintering, viz. : plenty 

 of young brood late in the season. 



We have had no frost yet to injure 

 anything ; this will be a great help to 

 our success for next season. So many 

 colonies were weak through this re- 

 gion last spring, and by the time they 

 were strong enough to take in the 

 honey crop, it was about gone, so our 

 yield has been light. Still, in some 

 places, where the bees worked for 

 lioney and prevented increase, a good 

 yield per colony was obtained. 



Poor Honey Season.— 16— J. M. Val- 

 entine, (165), C«rlinville,0 Ills., on 

 Oct. 2, 1885, says : 



This has been a very poor honey 

 season in this locality. There were 

 plenty of flowers, but only a little 

 iioney. My crop is 3,000 pounds of 

 extracted and l.oOO pounds of comb 

 honey in sections, with probably 1,000 

 pounds of fall honey to extract yet. 

 My bees are in good condition for 

 winter. 



Secretion of Wax.— B. F. W. writes 

 thus : 



In query No. 95 the matter of wax 

 being secreted only when it is needed 

 seems to be settled by the answers 

 given. Now, how do bees control this 

 secretion V Prof. Cook says tliat " the 

 strength it (honey) gives goes to wax 

 only when wax is needed." Is it honey 

 or strength that makes wax ? 



[What causes the stone to fall ? 

 The attraction of gravitation. What 

 is gavitation V A law. Why does 

 the male pigeon secrete a peculiar 

 food just in time to feed the young i* 

 We can only say environment, that 

 mighty molding power during all tlie 

 long past, also influences the bee. 

 The need of comb brings wax. Fill a 

 hive with combs and we look in vain 

 for wax ; take all away, and even the 

 old bees will show us their pockets 

 full of these wax scales. — A. J. Cook.] 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



Bees and Grapes, etc. — Benjamin 

 Harding, of Kent, ^ Ohio, on Oct. 5, 

 1885, writes : 



I notice on page 611 that another 

 man wants pay for damages done by 

 bees pvuicturing his grapes. I have 

 32 colonies in two rows, and about 

 midway between the rows of hives is 

 a grape arbor. The vines are hang- 

 ing full of grapes, but not one of them 

 has been injured. I do not think that 

 a bee can cut through the skin of a 

 grape, and will not toucli anything of 

 tliat kind unless something else first 

 breaks the skin. At the Portage 

 County Fair,recently held at Ravenna, 

 O., Mr. J. C. Converse, of that place, 

 exhibited two fine colonies of bees in 

 observatory liives, also a half dozen 

 beautiful Italian queens, hives and 

 fixtures, a nice lot of cOmb honey, 

 and .^O pounds of extracted honey. 

 Mr. Converse secured some S20 in 

 premiums on his various exhibits. 



1^~ We want one number each of the Bee 

 Journal of August, 18U(i— February, Wi'i 



Oflice of the American Bee Journal, i 

 Monday. 10 a. m., Oct. 12, 1885. ( 



The following are the latest quota- 

 tions for honey and beeswax received 

 up to this hour : 



CHICAGO. 



HONEY.— White comb honey is in good demand 

 at IT) cents per lb . when put up in the best shape. 

 Keceipts are liKht. Dark comb honey is in light 

 demand. E.xtracted honey goes slowly at 5(s8 cts. 



BEESWAX.-2:i®-.'5c. 



K. A. Burnett. 161 South Water Bt. 



BOSTON. 



IIONKY".— We have received quite a large stock 

 of honey, mostly trom Vermont, and thequality is 

 very tine. We are doing the best we can to keep 

 the price up where bee-keepers can get something 

 for their honey. One of the largest producers of 

 honey sold his entire crop at a very low price, and 

 honey is being sold here so that it will leave bee- 

 keepers nothing. We still hold our prices at 16@18 

 cts. for l-Ib sections, and 14@16c. for 2-lb8. Ex- 

 tracted is HfS'Hc. per lb. 



BEESWAX.-3II cts. per lb. 



Blake & Ripley. 57 Chatham Street. 



NEW rORK. 



HONEY.— There is not much change in the 

 market. The new crop is coming in quite freely, 

 and IS selling readily at the following prices: 

 Pancy white clover, in I-lb. sections, 14(*15 cents ; 

 the same in :2-lb. sections, I2(gjl3c. ; fair to good, 

 in 1 and 2 lb. sections, HKgiiic; lancy buckwheat, 

 in 1-lb. sections. iKiiU'c; the same in 2-lb. sec- 

 tions, y(g>iuc. Extracted, wliite clover, Q^lc.', 

 buckwheat, ."iCaec. 



BEBSWAX-Prime yellow. 25@28c. 



McCAUL & HiLDRETH BROS.. 34 Hudson St. 



CINCINNATI. 



HONE Y.— No change has taken placein the gen- 

 eral feature of the market. Demand is slow for 

 extracted honey with almndance on the market. 

 Extracted lumey brings 4(5,8c on arrival, and 

 choice comb honey ir>(«jUlc in a jobbing way. 



BEESWAX— Is in fair demand, and arrivals are 

 good. AVe pay 2i.»®-4c for good yellow. 



P. S. The following explanation in regard to 

 markets seems to be in order to post some bee- 

 keepers and save tliem from disappointments. 

 When qu'.iting prices "on arrival," I mean to say 

 that iioney will bring about the price quoted, or 

 that a hgure within the range given, will appear 

 reasonable or acceptable to a purchaser. I quote 

 as nearly as possible tile price at which I am buy- 

 ing and selling. I do Tiot mean to say that pur- 

 chasers are waiting for the arrival of honey and 

 are anxious to buy at those prices quoted, nor 

 that I am witling to pay those prices on arrival for 

 all the honey that may be shipped here. This 

 latter would require a larger capital than I and 

 two more of t^te largest dealers in America pos- 

 sess. It is unpleasant for us to be over-run with 

 honey for which I will not pay on arrival, unless 

 agreement has been made previous to shipment. 

 C. F. MUTU. Freeman & Central Ave. 



BAN FRANCISCO. 



HONEV.— Arrivals are quite light, with a proba- 

 bility of so continuing through tlie balance of the 

 season. 'I'here is sfmie inquiry for best qualities, 

 with a firm market for the same. (Quotations are 

 as follows: Wr.ite to extra white comb, sifaullc.: 

 dark to good, 5(« He. Extracted, white liquid,. ^)®5^ 

 cts.: light amber colored, 4^({i'5c.; aniberand can- 

 died. ^\iC. 



BEESWAX. -Qutjtable at 23@J.5c.. wiiolesale. 

 O. B. Smith & Co.. 42:1 Front Street. 



CLEVELAND. 



HONEY. -The new crop is beginning to arrive 

 and is sellina at 14-tl.'> cts. per lb. for choice 1-lb. 

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

 though freely offered at 10(gil2 cts. Extracted, as 

 usual i-* not in demand in our market. 



BEESWAX.— 20(922 cts. per lb. 



A. C. KKNDEL. 115 Ontario Street. 



KANSAS CITY. 



HONEY.— We now report a very firm market 

 with some advance in prices, though the trade 

 take hold very slowly as yet, and complain terri- 

 bly when the advance is quoted to them. Weare 

 now holding for 16!<i.I7c. for fancy white Iioney in 

 lib. sections, l.'>f<tiioc. for 2 lbs., and 12'5'i:tc. for 

 Calif. Fancy 1-Ib. sections, if marketed soon, will 

 bring a good price. Extracted is a little firmer at 

 about the same prices, viz: Miss., La. and Texas, 

 4®nc.. and white clover and Calif.. TfeHc. 



BEESWAX.— Unchanged, 2U&26C., according to 



quality. , 



ci.emonb.Cloon 4 Co,, cor. ■tth fiTValnut. 



