THE AMERICAN APICULTURLST. 



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CORRESPONDENCE. 



the honey market. 

 Messrs. Editors : 



In the August numner of the 

 Beekeepers' Magazine is an arti- 

 cle entitled " The Honey Market," 

 in which the author alludes to our 

 firm in rather disparaging terms. 

 Said article charges us with misrep- 

 resentation in order to induce pro- 

 ducers to ship us their honey, which 

 cliarge we most emphatically deny, 

 and which seems to us to have origi- 

 nated solely in the fertile imagination 

 of the writer, without facts to sustain 

 his assertion. A few facts, however, 

 may act as a solace to his affected 

 brain. 



We have, at the solicitation of pub- 

 lishers of numerous magazines, given 

 quotations the year round, as we 

 have a market for honey every day 

 in the year, Sundays and holidays 

 excepted ; and when the author as- 

 serts that there has been absolutely 

 no demand for honey since May i, 

 he says that which is not true, as 

 there has not been a week nor a day 

 since May ist to present date that 

 we have not sold more or less honey. 

 We sold out our entire stock of 

 white comb honey about the ist of 

 April, and since that time have had 

 to go on the market here and pur- 

 chase of other dealers to supply our 

 trade, a fact to which some dealers in 

 our city will testify. We had a lot of 

 thirty-eight barrels of honey turned 

 over to us June 12, which had lain on 

 the market over six months, which 

 we disposed of and sent the owners a 

 check June 29. Since May i, we 

 have had a better trade in honey 

 than we ever had at this season of 

 the year. We have received a few 

 small lots of this year's crop comb 

 honey, which has sold readily at our 

 quotations, and returns have been 

 made to shippers. We have re- 

 cendy received numerous letters 

 from producers, inquiring as to the 

 state of the honey market, prices. 



etc., to which we have replied in 

 nearly every instance that it is too 

 early in the season to give tiuotations 

 on the coming crop, and too early 

 to commence shipping com!) lioney. 

 We mention these items not as an 

 adverdsement, but to prove to the 

 author of said article, that he has 

 done us an injustice and should make 

 due reparation. 



We have always endeavored to 

 hold prices up rather than to depress 

 them, as our experience teaches us 

 it is easier to lower prices than to 

 raise them, while it seems to us uur 

 frier.d seeks to keep them down 

 rather than to elevate them. 



McCaul cS: HiLDRErH Bros. 



New York. 



A VISIT TO THE liEK FARM AND 

 OTHER MiVri'ERS. 



Friend Locke : 



About two weeks have now 

 passed since my pleasant and prof- 

 itable visit to your bee farm to 

 which I shall always look back with 

 pleasure. I hope soon to hear that 

 your factory is in active operation, 

 and that you are on the road to 

 prosperity with your pets, the busy 

 bees. 



I received the " Apiculturist " a 

 short time since (July 29) and 

 deem that number worth more than 

 one year's on account of the informa- 

 tion contained therein. What bee- 

 keepers want are the minute details 

 to aid them in caring for their bees, 

 and it is essential that these instruc- 

 tions be given in the most plain and 

 simple manner possible, so that the\- 

 can be easily understood. 



What beekeeper can afford to be 

 without this journal if he wishes to 

 be successtul? 



My Cyprian bees led out a swarm 

 on July 28, and returned to their 

 hive again. I could not get them 

 to work properly. Swarm they must 

 and swarm they did. I divided them, 

 gave them one good queen cell and 



