1902 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



229 



Putting Up Extracted lloncy for the Re- 

 tail Trade 1% 



Queens in tlie Supers 61 



C'ueen Excluders 97 



Queen, The 133 



Queen Rearing 158,173 



Rules in Swarming 14 



Red Clover a Honey Producer, Is? 134 



Rearing Good Queens 153 



Spring Feeding, Why is it Unprofitable? 12 



Stimulative Feeding 16 



Spring Feeding 26 



"Shaken" or "Brushed" Swarms.. f 211 



Spring Dwindling and its Causes 57 



Starting Bees to Work in tHe Supers 81 



Singe Organism, A 97 



Spring Desertion 98 



Swarming Conditions 117 



Section, An Improved 138 



Situation in Ireland, The 176 



Size of Swarms 199 



Sainfoin 199 



Selling Extracted Honey at Wholesale.... 200 



Starters. The Use of 201 



Transferring 99. 118 



Things Xew and Wonderful 109 



The Editor and the Bird 137 



Uniting Bees 48, 180 



Vermont Bee-Keeper, A l•^8 



Verilv, It "Do Move" 171 



White Clover 159 



Working the Rietsche Press 198 



Win Bee-Keepers Help? 13 



\\'inter Dreams 39 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 

 L. E. Kerr, 3; Bessie L. Putnam, 4: W. 

 W. McXeal, 23; Excelsior Apiary, 33: W. T. 

 Stephenson, 41; John ^L Rankin, 44; Law- 

 rence C. Miller. 62; New Comb Unmolested 

 by Moths, 78; Brood Comb Ravaged by Lar- 

 val Moth, 79; Editorial Grist-Mill, S3: Honey 

 Warehouse of Bridat, Mont' Ros & Co., 102; 

 Migratory Apiary on Indian River, 121; "We're 

 It," 122; Moving Bees to the Mangrove, 124; 

 Operations of Pat on Indian River, 13S; 

 White Clover, 160; W. Z. Hutchinson, 165; 

 Mammoth Skep at Cork. 177; Examining Ex- 

 perts, 182; Most "Promising" .\piary in the 

 World. 187; Poppleton's Landing, 194; Mr. 

 Poppleton in the Apiary, 195; Dr. G. Garcia 

 Vieta, 22-5; N. E. France, 226. 



DEPARTMENTS. 

 Editorial— 16, 35, 54, 73, 89, 106, 12S, 147; 

 168, 190, 208, 223. 



Hard scrabble Letters— 66, 83, 95, 122, 143, 162, 

 186, 205, 222. 



Bee-Keeping World— 7, 48, 67, 84, 101, 123, 

 141, 161, 184, 203, 219. 



Our Correspondents— 12, 26, 65, 82, 121, 141, 

 202, 216. 



Bee Brevities— 27, 163, 202, 217. 

 Spanish— 29, 50, 70, 87, 103, 125, 144, 166; 188; 

 206. 



I-. E. Kerr. 



F. Greiner. 

 W. E. Head. 



W. A. H. Gilstrap. 

 R. F. Whiteside. 

 M. F. Reeve. 

 J. H Andre. 

 W. T. Stephenson. 

 Adrian Getaz. 

 Lawrence C. Miller. 

 Chas. W. Cilley. 



G. M. Howard. 



E. H. Shaeflfle. 

 T. K. Massie. 

 Dr. C. C. Miller. 

 M. W. Shepherd. 

 Ambros Bierce. 

 Z. Cornell. 

 H. E. Hill. 

 J. G. Digges. 

 Kate V. Austin. 

 J. F. Mclntyre. 

 Dr. J. B. Pons. 

 Dr. A. B. Mason. 



HONEY AND BEESWAX MAR- 

 KET. 



WASHINGTON GRADING RULES. 



Fancy. — All sections to be well filled, combs 

 straight, of even thickness and firmly attached 

 to all four sides; both wood and comb unsoil- 

 cd by travel stain or otherwise; all the cellg 

 sealed except the row of cells next the wood. 



No. 1.— All sections well filled, but combs 

 uneven or crooked, detached at the bottom, or 

 with but few cells unsealed; both wood and 

 comb unsoiled by travel-stain or otherwise. 



In addition to this the honey is to be classi- 

 fied according to color, using the terms white, 

 amber and dark. That is, there will be "Fancy 

 white," "No. 1, dark," etc. 



New York, Nov. 7. — Demand for comb hon- 

 ey is good; extracted, quiet. The supply is 

 more liberal, but yet limited. We quote: Ex- 

 tra fancy comb, I6J/2 cents; fancy, 15^. New 

 York state extracted, 514 to 8 cents. Bees- 

 wax in fair demand with good supply at 27 

 cents. — Francis H. Leggett & Co. 



Buffalo, Oct. 8. — Buflfalo honey market has 

 considerably improved lately and we believe 

 moderate shipments will do well. Strictly fancy 

 1 pound comb selling at 15 and 16 cents. Com- 

 moner grades selling from 14 down to 10. Ex- 

 tracted is not wanted except in small tumblers 

 about $1.25 to $1.50 per dozen for strictly pure. 

 Beeswax wanted at from 25 to 33 cents per 

 pound as to quality. 



Batterson & Co. 



Kansas City. Nov. 11.— We quote comb 

 honey, 14 to 16 cents. Goood demand and 

 fair supply. Extracted, Wz to SV2 cents. No 

 beeswax on market, at 30 cents. — Hamblin & 

 Sappington. 



CONTRI 

 G. M. Doolittle. 

 Bessie L. Putnam. 

 Geo. H. Mobley. 

 A. E. Willcutt. 

 F. L. Powers. 

 T. E. Hand. 

 \V. W. McNeal. 

 \'. R. Wooster. 

 Henry Reddert. 

 John M. Rankin. 

 C. M. Herring. 

 John M. Davis. 

 John Hardscrabble. 



BUTORS. 

 -S. Chase. 

 IT. H. Smytke. 

 F. G. Herman. 

 I). W. Working. 

 L. O. Howard. 

 E. P. Goddard. 

 Henry Alley. 

 A. F. Porter. 

 Geo. Shiber. 

 R. C. Aiken. 

 D. C. Bacon. 

 \\'. Couse. 

 Arthur C. Miller. 



Cincinnati, Oct. 13.— The demand for extract- 

 ed honey in this market is a-ood, and finds 

 ready sale as follows: Amber, 514 to 6 cents. 

 White clover, 7 to 8 cents. Beeswax, 28 cents. 

 We are cash buyers. 



The Fred W. Muth Co. 



Chicago, Nov. 7.— Prices remain steady but 

 the dem'and is small. We are not selling the 

 quantity that we have done ordinarily at this 

 season of the year. The advance in price has 

 checked the trade in addition to which re- 

 tailers have got the impression that honey 

 is going to be verv scarce and they are not 

 pushing its sale. Fancy white comb brings 

 15 to 16 cents, with travel-stained from one to 



Putting on Sections 80 



Program of Denver Convention 140 



"Pat," The New Star 149 



Preparing for Winter 182 



