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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



in the business." As an example of thinks he has drawn a $500 prize. 



the comparative markets at the 

 present time and twenty-six years 

 ago, we present the quotations pub 



The average bee-keeper will do quite 

 as well to raise queens from the best 

 queen he has as he will to send his 



lished in some of the bee journals, money after one of the $500 will-o- 



July, 1881, and ask the reader who the-wisps. If he has no satisfactory 



may be sufficiently interested to do queen-mother then let him buy a few 



so, to turn to the quotations printed untested queens from reliable queen 



in The Bee-Keeper last month — just raisers — not the big dealers, who buy 



twenty-six years later: 



New York — Best white single 

 combs in small sections, 14 to 17 

 cents. Extracted white clover 

 and basswood, 10 cents. Buck- 

 wheat, etc., 7 cents. Beeswax, 

 light yellow, 24 to 25 cents. Dark, 



19 to 22 cents. 



Chicago — Comb honey quotable 

 at 14 to 16 cents for choice. Bees- 

 wax quiet at 22 cents for good to 

 choice yellow and 17 cents for 

 common. 



Cincinnati — Extracted honey, 8 

 to ID cents. Choice white comb 

 honey, 15 to 17 cents. Beeswax, 



20 to 23 cents. (H.) 



and sell anything that is a queen. 

 Test the queens by putting them at 

 the heads of full colonies and carry 

 them through a complete year. From 

 the best two select one for a queen- 

 mother and the other for a drone- 

 mother. An abundance of good 

 drones is as important as good queen 

 stock. 



What may be accomplished 1'" 

 telligent observation and painstaking- 

 selection and breeding was vividly 

 shown by Mr. Loucks in his article in 

 the July number of The Bee-Keeper. 



(M.) 



REQUEEN NOW. 



perhaps more properly say. the most 

 important of things for the bee-keep 

 er to do at this time of year, is to re 



THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. 



It is said that Harrisburg, Pa., is 



to be the next place of assembly for 



One of the important, or, we might the National. It is also said that the 



"ring" interests are stronger in Penn- 

 sylvania than elsewhere. Fortunate- 

 ly the big bee men do not depend on 

 queen his colonies. Careful compari- the National for anything. Speakin;^ 

 son of different apiaries, some of of "depending on the National" re- 

 which were requeened annually, tails the following: The National, 

 others biennially and others allowed by its sponsors, is said to be always 

 to go as they pleased, has shown be- roady to furnish educational literature 

 yond question the superiority of the along such lines as will discourage 

 annual over all other plans. Having legislation adverse to bee-keeping in- 

 all queens of a uniform age has ad- terests and encourage such as w'l; 

 vantages apparent to the merest tyro help it. A recent call on the general 

 and having the queens young and manager for a score or more copies 

 vigorous ensures strong colonies, of such literature brought just i"ve 

 other things being equal. Requeening sloppy pamphlets of no possible value 

 in August enables the colonies to for the purpose. A little less wind 

 stock up with young bees for winter, and a little more "real goods" might 

 and if the requeening is done early in be a v/holesome change. If a member 

 the month it will materially help to wants to see just how valueless the 

 secure a crop of fall honey in sections National is to him, let him try to get 

 having a flow at that season. (M.) from it some of the much talked 



about benefits. 



(M.) 



IMPROVING OUR STOCK. 

 One of the clever ruses for boom 

 ing the sale of queens is to write of 



HIVES. 

 For some little time there has been 

 the bumper crops produced by some an apparent effort to promote a boom 

 individual colony and then offer a in "divisible brood chamber" hives, 

 good round price for the return of i. e., hives having two or more cham- 

 queens sent out from the mother of bers four to six inches deep for the 

 that colony. Few queens are ever brood nest. Such hives do possess 

 sold back, and every customer fondly certain advantages but the advantages 



