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As the colony wouM not accept ot a queen 

 she was introiluced to another stock by the 

 same process which proved a success. In 

 two weeks she commenced to lay freely and 

 has proved herself a very proliflc queen. 

 Her worker progeny are very highly colored 

 and unilormin m:irkings. She duplicates her- 

 self in her queen progeny, and not a single 

 small or inferior queen among all I have 

 reared from lier. I am higlily pleased witli 

 the results. 



In this part of the state bees have gathered 

 very little surplus honey and in many cases 

 only honey enougli lias been stored to last 

 the bees tlirough the fall. 



I have seventy-five colonies and not over 

 half dozen have honey to winter. At our 

 county fair tliere were seven entries of honey 

 and not one specimen of No. 1 honey. It 

 looks discouraging for the long winter 

 months. 



Alonzo Bradley. 



[The "puff-ball" Mr Bradley 

 speaks of, and which he used to 

 fumigate his bees, is a sort of fun- 

 gous grovvth found in old pastures 

 here in New England. It is a sort of 

 dry mushroom, the smoke of which 

 will stupefj' bees as completely as 

 chloroform. It is a dangerous sub- 

 stance and sliould not be used by 

 any but an experienced hand. 



Bees that have been queenless a 

 long time do not care for a queen 

 and will not readily accept one.] 



Hiawatha, Kansas. 

 Henky Alley : 



Tlie queen to replace dead one came all 

 right and was introduced safely. 



I got hurt and was absent from business 

 for a shoit time, lience forgot to write you; 

 thanks for queen. 



No honey flow or at least no surplus so far 

 in northeastern Kansas this year. 



We had good rains Aug, 20 and since, 

 and bees are now beginning to work as 

 though they might get enough to winter on 

 which is all we now expect. 



The API for September just to hand and 

 is interesting as usual. 



Respectfully, 



T. B. DiCKASON. 



the temptation to subscribe ; although 

 I now take two bee-papers. 

 Yours truly, 



Edwin Baldwin. 



Forest City, Iowa. 

 Hknry Allky : 



Dear Sir : I liave received sample 

 copies of tlie Api from time to time. 

 It is a credit to tlie editor and an liouor 

 to tlie pursuit. E. S. 



Mendon, III. 

 H. Allky. 



Dear Sir: I was so well pleased 

 ■with the sample copy of the " Api" 

 that you sent me, that I cannot I'esist 



MARKET REPORTS OF HONEY. 



A short time ago, I tliought, as I was going 

 to St. Louis, that I would buy a lot of both 

 extracted and comb honey, as the prices 

 quoted in Mie bee Journal woulil give me 

 a good profit, for I could readily sell comb 

 lioney for 20 cents, and extr;icteil at 12^ cents 

 l)er pound. The price of comb honey was re- 

 ported at 10 to 12 cents, and extracted in bar- 

 rels at 45 to .'j^ cents. I called, and found the 

 commission house had on hand two .■> gallon 

 cans, and six quart jars of California honey; 

 but not a i)ound of comb honey in the sliopi 

 They tliought I could not get it in the citj', as 

 honey was very scarce, and none coming in. 

 Query: How did that firm know that 10 to 12 

 cents iicr pound was all that comb honey 

 would bring in the market? 



I went to 4iearly all the dealers, and could 

 not fi i<l a pound of comb honey. A house 

 tliat has sold a great deal of honey for me 

 said that they could easily get 20 cents for 

 such as I usuallj' sent them, if they had it. 

 Valuable market I eport I 



Carlinville, Ills., Oct. 22, 18S7. 



J. V. Caldwell, in American Bee Journal. 



[We long since discovered that 

 most of the market reports of honey 

 were worthless, and we also dis- 

 covered tlie fact that some of those 

 who send in such reports do so 

 merely as an advertisement. We 

 have seen in the bee-papers a re[)ort 

 of the honey market from a lirm 

 not far from the city of Boston. 

 We sometimes visit that establish- 

 ment, and the amount of honey to 

 be seen there is less than one ton 

 at any time. This same firm always 

 quotes prices for bees-wax but once 

 only had they any for sale. Since 

 we discovered these little ti'icks, 

 such reports have been excluded 

 from the "Apiculturist." 



The Boston commission firm that 

 has handled nearly all the Vermont 

 honey for several seasons has done 

 one thing this year that is hardly 

 in keeping with strict business 

 princii)les and fair dealing. This 

 firm in order to get the advantage 



