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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPEB. 



Januaryi 



GREAT OFFER ! We have made ar- 

 raugemeuts by which we will furnish a copy 

 of the latest editiou of A. H. (J. of Bee Cul- 

 ture (paper cover) with Gleanings and the 

 American Bee Keeper one year for only 

 $1.75, or the A. B. C. and Bee Keeper for 

 90 cents. If cloth binding is wanted, same 

 will be furnished for 25c extra. This 

 offer only good until Jan. 1st. 



The above oflEer appeared in our Decem- 

 ber number. We have made arrangements 

 to keep the offer open until February 1st. 



The trade discount on orders until Febru- 

 ary 1st is 3 per cent. 



LITERARY ITEMS, 



the finest olive oil. 

 Curiously enough the crudest and most 

 barbarous process of all produces the very 

 finest grade of oil, a grade so tine and rare, 

 indeed, that it is seldom used, in America, 

 at any rate, except for the lubrication of 

 watches and delicate machinery, and in 

 surgery. A stone vat is built with a small 

 internal depression. Over this is erected a 

 heavy frame of untrimmed timber support- 

 ing at its center, which is also the center of 

 the vat, a vertical spindle which supports a 

 horizontal rod upon which is athxed a heavy 

 roller of hard wood, in the Oran district of 

 Algiers, or of porous stone in Morocco and 

 in the hill region of Tunis. In some of 

 these regions ihe women are the oil makei'S, 

 and may be seen tramping round and round 

 the vat, tugging the pole in pairs, while 

 another woman stirs the mass in the stone 

 trough, the children, generally in a state of 

 Adamic simplicity of attire, standing or 

 squatting about watching the proceeuings 

 with infantine interest. When the pulp has 

 been sufficiently masiied. the women scoop 

 it up in small quantiiies into biigs which are 

 wrung into stone jars and pots. These lat- 

 ter are sealed willi clnths coated with wax, 

 and in this shape are tliipped to Europe, 

 where the contents are carefully decanted 

 into flasks and vials contJtining a few ounces 

 each, and bringing a high price in the large 

 cities of the wor d, chiefly, as bus be< n said, 

 for extra fine mechanical purposes, though, 

 like the ■• tiutHesof Avignon,'' it also reach 

 es the table of the epicure. — Fiom ^'The 

 Olive and Olive Oil," in Demorest's Alaguzine 

 for January. 



where ducks breed. 

 The breeding-jilHces of the Chesajieake 

 ducks are in Canndn, where they are being 

 destroyed in v^tst luuubers by the cutting 

 away of the forests which shelter the lakes 

 anl pools where they harbor, and by the 

 use and sale of their eggs. ■ Thousands of 

 these eggs are annually marketed, and by 



these methods, rather than by the numbers 

 actually shot, they have been greatly dimin- 

 ished. This condition of things seems to be 

 beyond remedy, since a State cannot make a 

 treaty with a foreign power ; and the gen- 

 eral government is not likely to interfere on 

 behalf of what is practically a Maryland in- 

 dustery, or to provide such compensation as 

 Canada might see tit to ask if a proposal 

 were made to her to protect the ducks in 

 their native habitant. !So the prospect is 

 that fifty years will see the extermination of 

 the finest wild fowl in the world, and one of 

 the most prized delicacies of the table. 



The range of the wild duck reaches al- 

 most from the Arctic to the Antarctic circle. 

 It lives through the summer in the faj 

 north, in Greenland, in Iceland, Lapland, 

 Siberia, and, as we have shown, in Canada, 

 until the time when the waters in those 

 regions become frozen, so that it can no 

 longer obtain its food. Then begins its 

 flight southward, sometimes reaching as far 

 as India and Egypt, and, in this iiemis- 

 phere, the Isthmus of Panama. — Calvin Dill 

 Wilson, in January Lippiucott's. 



Honey and Beeswax Market Report. 



Below we give the latest and most authen- 

 tic report of the Honey and Beeswax market 

 in different trade centers : 



Kansas City, Mo.. Dec. "'0. 1894.— Good demand 

 for honey. Large supiily. Price of white comb 

 15o. per lb. ; Amber 12c per lb. ; Extracted, 

 white 7c per lb. ; amber o(g!6c per lb. Market is 

 well stocked with tine white comb honey and will 

 sell low. 



Hamblin ife Bearss, 514 Walnut St. 



DicTRorr, Mich., Dec. 31, 1894.— Fair demand 

 for honey. Supply better than expected. Price of 

 comb 14@-15c per lb. Extracted (3@.7c per lb. 

 Fair demand for beeswax, tiood supply. Prices 

 24@2;ic per lb. There seems to be more honey 

 thanwas looked for and the market is well supplied. 

 xVl. H. Hunt, Bell Branch, Mich. 



Albany, N. Y., Dec. 21, 1S94.— Steady demand 

 for honey. Good supply. Price of comb 9@14c 

 per lb Extracted 5(g.0}4((;.7c per lb. Good de- 

 mand f'lr beeswax at 2iS@iiOc per pound. Light 

 supply- Owing to the warm weather the honey 

 demand has been good, and think it will con- 

 tinue so until after she holidays. 



H. R. Wright. 



Alba.nv, N. Y., Dec. 20, ls;i4.— Fair demand for 

 honey. .Ample supply^ Price of comb 10@14c. 

 per lb l',xtracted 5i^(a>7c per lb. Demand very 

 good. Sui ply light. Prices of beeswax 2tic to 2'Sc 

 per lb. Light supply. The trade is now quite 

 generally .-upplied with honey and the demand 

 not so gieat. 



Chas. .VIoCulloch ifc Co. 



Boston'. .Mass., Dec. 20, 1S94.— Fair demand for 

 honey. iM)od supply. I'rice of comb 14c per lb. 

 Extracifd ri to tic per lb. 



E. E. Blake A Co., 



57 Chatham St. 

 CiNCi.NNATi, 0.. Dec. 20. 1N94. — Fair demand for- 

 honey r'air supply- Price of comb 14 to 16c per 

 lb. ft)i best white, hxtracted 4 to 7c per lb. 



Chas. F. Muth Ji S'in, 

 Cor. Freeman and Central Aves. 



