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THE AMERICAN BEE- KEEPER. 



Seasonable Sayings. 



When two or more prime swarms 

 -•Mine out and cluster, together, and are 

 allowed to hang awhile, the queens 

 will usually all be balled and drop to 

 the ground with their balls of bees, 

 when the queens can be secured and 

 returned to their hives by caging, or 

 without if you can tell where each one 

 conies from. 



If you would like to know where 

 a .-warm comes from, take away the 

 queen and sprinkle the bees with flour, 

 then smoke them off, and you can soon 

 see where to return' your queen. 



If you wish to avoid the openings 

 between the sections made by the T 

 tins, holding the sections apart, turn 

 your tins over, put a saw cut through 

 the rest made for the tin to lie on, 

 then with a follower and wedge you 

 can press your sections up tight, sav- 

 ing much time for the bees, (as to fill 

 these craeks between the sections will 

 be their first work on them), and save 

 vmi much time scraping sections. 

 Patten's Mills, X Y. John Andrews. 



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 : 



New York, April 20.— The demand for honey of 

 all kinds is very quiet. There is no comb but a 

 sufficient supply of extracted on the market. 

 Prices of extracted honey: California 7'" 7 ' ■_»<>. 

 Florida, 7}4@^ l Ac: Cuban, 90c per gal. Beeswax 

 is in fair demand but a very small supply. Prices 

 are firm at 28(5 31c per pound. 



P. G. SXROHMEYER <fc Co 



New York, April 19.— There is a good demand 



for honey with a limited supply No com! i the 



market. Price of extracted California 7@7%c. 

 Very good demand for beeswax with short supply. 

 Prices .isi-oic, as to color and quality. 



Hildreth Br- s. & Segklken. 



Albany. N. Y.. April. 21.— The demand for both 

 comb and extracted honey is very good, while the 

 -apply is small. 1'ricesof comb 12@15c: extracted 

 ?@9c. Beeswax is in good demand with a small 

 supply, and prices are 28 to 30c. There is more 

 demand for buckwheat in pound and \y 2 lb. than 

 any other grade sit present. 



Chas. W. McCui.louh A- Co. 



Albany. N. Y.. April 20— Condi and extracted 

 honey in Rood demand with no stock. Price of 

 comb 13 and 15c. Beeswax in good demand at 28 

 and 3flc. There will be no coinb honey carried 

 over this season. II It. Weight. 



Chicago, Tll.. April 18.— Demand for both coinfa 

 and extracted honey ^increasing and stock light. 

 Can use shipments to advantage. I'rices of I lb. 

 sections 16@18c. 2 lb- I4@15c. Extracted 7@8c. 

 Beeswax in good demand at 30c. 



S. T. Fish & Co., 189 S. Water St. 



Chicago, Til., April Hi.— The demand for honey 

 is light and only for best quality with small supply. 

 Price of comb I7@18c. Extracted 7@8c A very 

 good demand for beeswax at 27c, with fair supply. 

 The season for sale of crop of '90 is at a close, and 

 is quite satisfactory, as all of it will be sold before 

 new crop c mi's in. 



161 south Water St. It. A. Bubnett. 



Boston, Mass., April 21 — Honey is in good de- 

 mand and small supply. Price of comb 18@20c. 

 Extracted 7%@9c. Beeswax in good demand with 

 no supply. Blake & Ripley, 57 Chatham St. 



Kansas City, April 18.— The demand for honey 

 is fair for comb and light for extracted. There is 

 a large supply of the latter with but a small stock 

 of the former. Price of comb 16(5 18c: extracted 

 i>' ' Je. 1 here is no beesWMX ill the market but a 

 good demand, Prices range from 22 to 25c, One 

 pound comb will be cleaned up before the new 

 crop comes in. Clemon'Si Masom A Co., 



St. Louis. April 17.— There is a fair demand only 

 for comb honey. Prices 13@15c for choice white 

 clover; 10@12e for dark, choice white clover ex- 

 tracted in cans 7@7^c; in barrels 6}^@7c. In- 

 quiries are numerous for strained and extracted in 

 barrels. Beeswax prime, 27] •_•>■. 



0. G. Tutt Geo. Co. 



Cincinnati, 0., April 20— 'the demand for honey 

 is good with a fair supply. Price of comb 14@17c; 

 extracted 6@8c. Beeswax in good demand with 

 scanty supply. Prices 25@30<.* for good to choice 

 yellow. t has. F. jMith cy Son. 



Kansas City - , Mo , April 18. — There is a fair 

 demand for honey and a good supply. Price of 

 one pound combs 14'" 15c; two pound l3e: extract 

 ed (i(S>7c. The demand for beeswax is good with a 

 light supply. The price is 2-c, Prices of honey 

 arc lower in order to close out before new crop 

 comes in. Prospects for new crop are good. Very 

 few losses of bees in this section the past Winter, 

 HaMBLIN & Bearss, 514 Walnut St. 



Our New Outside Winter Case 



and Thin Hive. 



For some time past there has been 

 considerable discussion concerning the 

 advantages of using an outside case that 

 could be set over an ordinary summer 

 hive to protect it during the winter and 

 early spring. Theories were advanced 

 and as rapidly exploded, yet no one 

 really knew uutil very recently how 

 much merit the outside case or shell idea 

 had. During the past winter a large 

 numherof experimentshave been made 

 both in this country and in England 

 with such a case, and as far as we can 

 learn the results have been very favor- 

 able. Mr. A. I. Root is one of the many 

 who has been testing it along with chaff 



