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angry bee. Mr. Doolittle can tell as soon 

 as he places the caged queen among the 

 bees what they think of her — but he cannot 

 tell me how to do it, as we have to learn 

 this by practice. October is the time for 

 the new hand to introduce queens. 



J. M. Mitchell. 

 Knobnoster, Mo., Oct. 18, 1890. 



[If you had "scratched" the cappings of 

 the honey, before putting it above the 

 brood-chamber, so as to have it lealiing, 

 the bees would have taken and stored it 

 below, realizing that it was being wastaJ. 

 As it was, they concluded that it was only 

 stores for their consumption, and they 

 appropriated them early, before the cold 

 weather came to prevent them from leav- 

 ing the cluster — -Ed.] 



50 I»«iin«Is of Honey (»er Colony. 



■ My crop of honey will be about half an 

 average. I will get 50 pounds per colony, 

 and I think that is good for this year ; 

 most of it is in oue-pound sections, and the 

 rest of it is extracted. My bees are in fine 

 condition — most of them having plenty of 

 honey to winter on. I will unite some 

 weak ones. The new colonies are light, but 

 there were only -1 swarms out of 00 colo- 

 nies. One fine colony of Italians went to 

 the woods, or some where else. I think I 

 have done well for this year. We are hav- 

 ing nice rains, and the clover looks fine, 

 what there is of it. I think it was injured 

 by the drouth somewhat. Corn is onlj^ half 

 a crop, and oats the same. The wheat crop 

 was good for this country — so, all in all, I 

 think the bees will pay a good deal better 

 than other crojis around here. Honey is 

 selling at wholesale at 15 cents per pound. 

 I am holding my best in Kansas City, for 

 20 cents per pound. Honey is too low, tor 

 this year, but we have got into theruts and 

 will have to get out. The cause of that is 

 fogyism, box-hives, etc. 



John Blodget. 

 Empire Prairie, Mo., Oct. 17, 1890. 



Wo flinrplii.H Honey. 



I have 10 colonies of bees, but I have to 

 feed them for winter stores. The surplus 

 honey was a failure in this neck o-the- 

 woods, this year. Only a few colonies have 

 stores sufficient to winter on, without feed- 

 ing, and lots of beekeepers are disgusted, 

 and say they will not do anything for the 

 bees this fall ; and that means a lot of 

 empty hives until Spring. So those that 

 feed and care tor their bees this Fall may 

 reap a good harvest next year. 



E. J. FrSSELMAX. 



North Jackson, O., Nov. 4, 1890. 



Bees must be Fed or StarfC. 



Bees have done very poorly here this 

 season, and many colonies will have to be 

 fed, or starve before spring. I have 33 

 colonies in fair condition. 



John Norway. 



Jay, Vt., Oct. 21, 1S90. 



Tm-o Sn-arins on One Tree. 



How many of the readers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee JouitXAL have seen a tree with two 

 separate colonies of bees in it. (I saw one.) 

 They were about 15 feet apart. The tree 

 was found by some boys, while out squir- 

 rel hunting, and they cut the tree down 

 and took the bees out of the lower cavity, 

 and thought that was all there was of the 

 bees they saw going in at the two entrances. 

 They returned home with their bees and a 

 little honey, and did not know they had 

 left another colony in the same tree, until 

 they passed by it two or three days after- 

 ward, when they cut the log otT, above and 

 below, the bees, and took it home with 

 them, and stood it up in the yard, and let 

 them work away. They appear to be all 

 right. C. R. Smith. 



Moorfield, Ind., Oct. 28, 1890. 



Results of tbe Past Season. 



I started in the Spring of 1890 with 19 

 colonies, all in good condition. The season 

 opened up unfavorabl}'. April and Maj' 

 were cold and rainy, but June, and until 

 the middle of July, were very good. After 

 that it turned dry until the latter part of 

 August. During that time tbe bees hardly 

 gathered, enough to live on; but after that 

 it became better, and they are all in good 

 condition for wint6r,better than I expected 

 them to be. I increased from 19 to 30 col- 

 onies, and obtained 500 pounds of comb 

 honey and 200 pounds of extracted honey. 

 My extracted honey sold for 15 cents, and 

 comb-honey for 18 cents per pound at our 

 home market. I was the onlj' successful 

 bee-keeper in this vicinity. My neighbor- 

 ing bee-keepers did not get any honey, for 

 they all keep the common black bees ; 

 mine are all Italians, from queens which 

 were reared by Mr. Doolittle. 



J.U'Olt Vanderhor-st. 



Minster, O., Oct. 37, 1890. 



Better than E.xpectecl. 



I have had better success this year than 

 last, and better than I expected. I took 

 t*s"o boxes from my two yielding hives. I 

 placed one upon the other, and started for 

 the barn, where I found my partner busy 

 with some potatoes. I said, "Please hold 

 these a minute," whereupon he reached up 

 to take what he supposed to be empty 

 boxes. He was surprised to find that one 

 contained 13 pounds and the other 7 

 pounds, making a total of 20 pounds. I 

 have now 3 good colonies, and 2 that are 

 not in as good a condition as I should wish. 

 I shall put the whole 5 into winter quarters, 

 and hope to see them all alive next spring. 

 I intend enlarging all my empty hives this 

 winter, as I find that these are the only 

 ones that pay out here ; and I have tried 

 the small ones to my sorrow. The clover 

 and golden-rod seasons were fair. Twenty 

 pounds to a colony is considered immense 

 out here, but I hope to show them what a 

 colony can do. The only tw'o apiarists 

 near me have let their apiaries go to ruin. 

 One had 29 colonies, and he now has about 

 7 ; the other had 8, and he has now only 

 one. O. R. Hawkins. 



Bellport, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1890. 



Penny i-oyal. 



Bee-keeping has been a failure here for 

 several years, on account of the stockmen 

 burning the woods each year just as penny- 

 royal, our main honey supply, is coming 

 into bloom. H. G. Burnet. 



Alva, Fla.,Oct. 23, 1890. 



June 29 ; after that they seemed to be pos- 

 sessed with a mania to swarm. I found 

 that I could not keep up with them, so I 

 examined a part of the hives, and cut off 

 all of the queen-cells, first making sure 

 they had a queen. These colonies gathered 

 nearly double the amount of honey, and 

 are in good condition for winter. I do not 

 approve of clipping the queens' wings 

 where fowls are running, as they will pick 

 them up. I have a bee-house 14x^2 feet, 

 and 8 feet in the clear, partially under 

 ground, and otherwise protected from 

 frosts. Some of my colonies came out last 

 spring with combs (]uite moldy, while 

 others were as clean as a whistle. 



I. W. Kees. 

 Chippewa Falls, Wis., Oct. 24, 1890. 



HONEY AND BEESWAX MARKET. 



Satisfactory Increase and Crop. 



I commenced the last spring with 33 col- 

 onies. They increased to 77. I lost one 

 by moths, and 4 were robbed. Not feeling 

 very well in June and July, from the eflfects 

 of La Grippe last winter, I did not get my 

 supers on in time to catch very much of the 

 basswood and white clover honey flow, but 

 my bees have done well on buckwheat, 

 wild sunflower, golden rod, and other wild 

 flowers, and are well stocked with winter 

 supplies. I did not get any swarms until 



DENVER, Oct. 13.— We quote: 1-lbs., first 

 grade, 16@18e. Ext, 7®8c. Beeswa.x, 20@2oc 

 J. M. CLARK COM. CO.. 1517 Blake St. 



DETROIT, Got. 1.3.— No white honey in the 

 ma,rket; dark or fall honey sells at 14@13c.— 

 Extracted, 7@8c. Beeswax. 27@28c. 



M H. HUNT. BeU Branch, Mich. 



NEW YORK. Oct. 24.— We quote: Fancy 1- 

 Ibs., white, lB@18c.; 2-lbs., white, 14®l5c. 

 Off grades, 1-lbs., 14(!/'15c.: 2-lbs.. 12@13c. 

 Duckwheat. 1-lbs., 12(5'l.'!o.; 2-lbs., 10@llc.— 

 Extracted, white clover and basswood, 8@8',4c 

 buckwheat. 7c.; Califoruiii,6',J(ai7 cents per lb. 

 Southern, 70c per g-allou. 



HILDRETH BROS. & SEGELKEN, 

 28-30 West Broadway. 



CHICAGO, Oct. 11.— Best grades of honey 

 sell at 17®18c. For brown and dark in un- 

 cleaued sections there is a light demand, the 

 prices having to be shaded to meet the views 

 of the lew buyers there are lor that grade.— 

 E.\tracted, steady at 7@i8c.— demand is good. 

 Beeswax, 27@28c. 



R. A. BURNETT, 161 S. Water St. 



CHICAGO, Oct. 11. — New honey arriving 

 very slowly, demand active, and all receipts 

 are taken promptly. We quote: White clover 

 1-U)s., 16@18c.; 2-lbs., 14®13c.; dark 1-lbs., 

 11(2)1 2c; 2-lbs., 9@10e. Extracted meets with 

 quick sale, values ranging from 6'/2®7J4 cts., 

 (iepeudiug upon quality aud style of package. 

 Beeswax, 286i30c. 



S. T. FISH & CO.. 189 S. Water St. 



KANSAS CITY, Nov. 8.— We quote 1-lb. 

 white comb, lt)@18c: 1-lb. darkcomlj, 12@14c; 

 extracted, j@,~c. California 1-lb. white comb, 

 16(!i;17c; 1-lb. extra C & C. 16c: 2-lb. extra 

 C & C, 14e; 2-lb. white, l.)C; extracted,6;s@7c. 

 CLEMONS, MASON & CO.. 



Cor. 4th and Walnut Sts. 



CINCINNATI, Nov. 3.— Nothing new in tbe 

 market. Comb honey is scarce. A choice ar- 

 ticle would bring 16@17c a lb. in the shipping 

 way. There is a good demand for extracted 

 houey at 3i4@8c a lb. on arrival. The arrivals 

 are good. 



Beeswax is in good demand at 24@26c.. for 

 good to choice yellow. C. F. MUTH & SON, 

 Corjier Freeman & Central Avea. 



BOSTON. Oct. 24.— Houey is selling very 

 freely. Demand fully equal to the supply. 

 We quote best 1-lb.. 18(Sa9c; 2-lb., 16@17c. 

 No beeswa.x on hand. 



BLAKE & RIPLEY, 37 ChalJham Street. 



MILWAUKEE, Oct. 11.— Market is in good 

 condition for honej-; demand is steady and 

 good values maintained, while the supply is 

 tuir to meet the current demands. We quote: 

 Choice white 1-lbs., 17@18c.; good white 1-lbs. 

 10(Sil7c. Dark and old 1-lbs.. 10@12c. Ex- 

 tracted, white In barrels, 8H®!lc.; in kegs or 

 tin, 8@9V4c. : dark, in barrels or kegs, 6@7c.— 

 Beeswax, 26®30c. 



A. V. BISHOP, 142 W. Water St. 



