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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



June 



New York, May 22. 19(11 —There is little if any 

 stock of eonjb-honey on this market at the present 

 moment, and the demand is very slistht. indeed. 

 Market prices rule as follows: Fancy white, 15c.: 

 No. 1 13 @ 14c.; No. 2 white, 11 @ 12e.; mixed and 

 buckwlieat 10c. Beeswax, 28c. Extracted honey 

 of all kinds is ruling at low prices wi'h little, if 

 any, demand. FraxcisH. Leggett & Co. 



Chicago, May 20. — Market is nominal in most 

 all lines. A little comb sells at l.i fe IDc. for choice 

 white, with the amber and dark grades ranging 

 from 2 to 5c. less. No movement of any conse- 

 quence in extracted. All dealers seem to be ex- 

 pecting a lower range of prices. A little fancy 

 white clover and basswood sells at 7 # 8c.. depend- 

 ing on flavor, quality and quantity taken; amber, 

 U &' Tc; dark and buckwheat, 5 @ 5'^c. Beeswa.t 

 Steady at 30c. 1{. A. Bltknett & Co. 



Buffalo, May 20. — The market is very quiet at 

 present, with light supply of fancy and fair of 

 dark. Fancy comb honey sells at 11® Itic. ; dark, 

 S(al2c. Beeswax is in fair demand, with light 

 supply. Price, fancy, 20 &, 28c. A little really 

 fancy honey would do well, but dark is not wanted. 

 Batteu.sox & Co. 



LITERARY NOTES. 



The Saturday Evexixo Post for May 25 con- 

 tains the first installment of a great seriil story by 

 Merwin-Webster, author of The :?hort Line War, 

 entitled. Calumet " K," a Romance of the Great 

 Wheat Corner. Wheat speculation, love and 

 business are the motives of this great story. 



The C0.SMOPOLITAX for June is more than usu- 

 ally strong tn fiction. Ian MacLaren, Richard Le 

 Gallienne, H. G. Wells, Tudor Jenks, Egerton 

 Castle and O'Neil Lathom are some of the writers 

 who make this number very interesting. 



OUTiXG for June is a well rounded number; be- 

 sides numerous up-to-date departments some of the 

 headings read: Theodore Roosevelt, the Sports- 

 man and the Man; The Out of Class Room Under- 

 graduate; The New Era in American Lawn Tennis; 

 Ascent of the Grand Teton; Sport of a Game Strip- 

 ped Land; The Care of a Dog; and many others 

 equally eye catching and timely. 



The L.\i>ies' Home Joubxai- for June gives an 

 attractive page of pictures about The Girls of Wel- 

 lesley and Bryn Mawr. The articles and depart- 

 ments, as well as its artistic features, are well up 

 to its standard, which is saying a great deal. 



"The whole system of modern bee-culture 

 is a transgression of nature's laws, so-called. "" 



SECURING THE HONEY CROP. 



BY I.. E. KERR. 



BEES in thi» locality have come 

 through the winter in fairly good 

 shape, and since January 28tli 

 have been finding enough honey to keep 

 them on a gradual upward tendency, as 

 regards strength and, to some extent, 

 stores. The weather has been very 

 warm, the bees hardly losing a day: and 

 in consequence the time for giving sur- 



plus room apparently is approaching 

 very rapidly. The flow begins here the 

 first of April and continues till Novem- 

 ber. It is not spasmodic, but comes in 

 a slow, steady stream for about seven 

 months, enabling a wide-awake bee- 

 keeper to secure from oue hundred to 

 three hundred pounds of comb honey, of 

 first-class quality, as an average yield 

 per colony. 



With such slack flows we find bate- 

 sections a very important factor in dispel- 

 ing the bees' objections to entering the 

 supers. We save all unfinished sections 

 for baits, but never have a suflicient 

 number of them, and resort to wide 

 frames in the brood-nests for finishing 

 our supply. The baits thus obtained 

 are far superior to empty combs and we 

 would not hesitate to fill supers entirely 

 with them if we had them. We usually 

 put first two rows of old baits and then 

 one or two rows of the new ones on one 

 side of the super only. We have seen 

 bee-keepers put one or two baits in 

 each corner of a super with only starters 

 of foundation in the center with the sup- 

 position that it would help keep the out- 

 side sections going on with the rest; but 

 we prefer putting them ill on one side 

 and generally succeed in having work 

 begin on them and then move steadily 

 through to the other side, the bees 

 filling everything solid as they proceed. 

 Whether or not it may be so, in our esti- 

 mation fresh foundation is better than 

 old. and so we forbear putting it in the 

 sections till they are ready to go on the 

 hive. Other things we di> as much as 

 possible during winter, but like the foun- 

 dation fresh. With a good machine we 

 can put in foun hition so rapidly that we 

 do not begrud,ge the little time it takes 

 even during the busy season. 



With a honey-flow lasting seven 

 months many would "naturally suppose 

 that the matter of keeping the colonies 

 in shape to do the best work would be 

 no little item ; but really all we have U> 

 do is to keep good queens and leave them 

 alone, and they remain strong them- 



