1901 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



163 



rado, perhaps, the man that did not 

 evince a thorough acquaintance with 

 alfalfa honey would be branded as 

 very green. White clover honey is 

 deservedly popular, iadeed; but it 

 is not the "whole thing," by a lot. 

 Vei'y, very many children who have 

 had "mamma" spread saw palmetto 

 honey on their bread, have long 

 since gone down to the grave m 

 locks of gray, without having seen 

 or heard tell of white clover honey. 

 Thousands upon thousands of citi- 

 zens of the United States to-day, 

 whose hair is white, or who have 

 no hair at all, have never seen white 

 clover honey nor the plant itself. 

 While saw palmetto is a source of 

 nectar supply equally as reliable as 

 white clover, we believe it has to 

 its credit larger yields than have 

 been accorded to this latter most 

 excellent producer. As to the uni- 

 versal knowledge of its readers, it 

 is possible that our esteemed con- 

 temporary is over-exacting. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



WASHINGTON GRADING RULES. 



Fancy. — All sections to be well filled, combs 

 straight, of even thickness and firmly attached to 

 all four sides; both wood and comb unsoiled by 

 travel-stain or otherwise; all the cells sealed ex- 

 cept the row of cells next the wood. 



No. 1. — All sections well filled, but combs uneven 

 or crooked, detached at the bottom, or with but few 

 cells unsealed; both wood and comb unsoiled by 

 travel-stain or otherwise. 



In addition to this the honey is to be classified 

 according to color, using the terms white, amber 

 and dark. That is, there will be "Fancy white," 

 "No. 1, dark," etc. 



Below we give the latest and most authentic re- 

 port of the Honey and Beeswax market in different 

 trade centers: 



Chicago. July 18, 1901. — Choice white comb 

 honey is arriving rather more freely, and brings 

 fifteen cents. There is no accumulation at this 

 writing, as receipts sell within a week after arriving 

 some of them on the same day. Amber grades 

 bring about twelve cents. Extracted dull and slow 

 of sale at anything over five to five and one-half 

 cents. Beeswax steady at thirty cents, with good 

 demand. R. A. Btunett & Vo. 



Kansas Citv, Mo.; July 20.— Honey is in f;iir 

 demand at present with light supply. Comb sells 

 at 15c ; extracted t>(<ii7. Beeswax is in good de- 

 mand at .SOc, with light supply. New comb honey 

 is on the market. Ha.mbmn & Sappington. 



New York, July 22. — Just at present the market 

 is almost entirely cleaned up of all kinds of comb 

 honey. Some few lots o£ fancy white have been 



rec3ived from the South and sell readily at 14 ® 16 

 cents per pound. Extracted honey is without de- 

 mand at present and is selling at from 45^ @ (5 cts. 

 p3r pound according to grade. Beeswax is, in good 

 demand and sells promptly at 28 ® 29c. 



Francis H. Leggett & Co. 

 BrPPALo, July 19. — We have but little demand 

 for new fancy honey, and no new supply noticed. 

 Comb honey sells at 15®ltic. No extracted. Fancy 

 beeswax sells at 22 @ 28o.; small supply. We ad- 

 vise sending a moderate amount of new honey now. 

 Batterson & Co. 



LITERARY NOTES. 



The Saturday Evening Post will, in an early 

 number, begin an unusually good business story, 

 entitled 'The End of the Deal." A famous trans- 

 action on the Cihicago Board of Trade is the basis 

 upon which the author, Mr. Will Payne, has found- 

 ed this striking romance of the wheat pit. A 

 charming love story runs through the stern and 

 stirring iilot. 



The Cosmopolitan for August contains an 

 essay on "The Ideal Husband," by Lavinia Hart, 

 who, in the April number presented an essay on 

 "Tlie Ideal Wife." which was at once clever and 

 philosophic, and created a demand for a paper on 

 this subject— on which few people agree— which is 

 certain not only to prove widely interesting but to 

 cause lively discussion. In the same number .Mrs. 

 Van Rensselaer Cruger (Julien Gordon) tells the 

 story of the life of the French wife with all its 

 tragic commonplace narrowness. 



The Ladies' Home Journal will soon publish 

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 Thompson's graphic animal stories retains a deep 

 impression of the author's profound mastery of 

 wood-lore. The wonder is how he accumulated 

 such a never-failing fund of it. Some interesting 

 information about liow he lives in camp and works 

 "in the open," is given in this article. 



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