Bee-keepers here are generally going 

 to attend the Cincinnati Convention. 



We feel glad that interminable dis- 

 cussion about queens duplicating them- 

 selves is at an end. 



We hope Prof. Cook will give the Cyp- 

 rian bees a trial, and then report as to 

 their qualities — good, bad and indiffer- 

 ent. A report from him would carry 

 more weight with it to the bee-keeping 

 fraternity than a dozen reports from 

 supply dealers or persons interested in 

 the sale of these bees. 



We hope the Convention at Cincinnati 

 may be a perfect success, and I have no 

 doubt it will, in spite of that Northeast- 

 ern breeze. 



Lagonda, O., Aug. 3, 1880. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Honey Show and Markets in England. 



w. M. HOGE. 



Forty-three miles from London, on 

 the right bank of the Thames, in one of 

 the most beautiful parts of the county 

 of Berks, is situated the ancient town 

 of Windsor, where Queen Victoria lives 

 when she is "at home." During his 

 life the late Prince Consort established 

 the " Windsor Association for Improv- 

 ing the Condition of the Working 

 Classes." It is expressly stated that 

 this is not an eleemosynary institution, 

 nor does it purpose to relieve the dis- 

 tressed ; its object is to stimulate and 

 cherish the spirit of industry, and thus 

 to raise the social condition of the labor- 

 ing classes, and it gives rewards for past 

 and encouragement to future exertions. 



The association arose from a desire 

 expressed by II, 11. H. the Prince Con- 

 sort, to bestow some mark of favor on 

 cottagers in and around Windsor who 

 are diligent in keeping their homes tidy 

 and cultivating their gardens well. The 

 association also provides encourage- 

 ment for the cultivation of any honest 

 skill or useful talent. For this purpose 

 an exhibition is held at the annual meet- 

 ings for garden produce of every kind, 

 and handicraft, whether in works of 

 taste or usefulness, executed by cotta- 

 gers, are awarded prizes for the best 

 specimens. The Queen, who fosters 

 with great affection all such institutions 

 which were inaugurated by the great 

 and good Prince, continues to be the 

 Liberal supporter of this association. 



This week the British bee-keepers, 

 under the distinguished patronage of 

 II. Pi. II. the Princess Christian, held 

 an exhibition in the enclosure of the 

 Prince Consort's Association, of bees, 

 hives, honey and bee-keepers' applian- 

 ces. A military band was in attend- 



ance, and prizes to the amount of $80, a 

 silver medal, a bronze medal, and a cer- 

 tificate, were distributed by H. R. II. 

 the Duke of Connaught. 



The bee-tent was raised, in which the 

 usual interesting manipulations oc- 

 curred, and practical lectures were 

 given. It is a wonder to me some en- 

 terprising American ha snot constructed 

 one of these bee-tents, and attended the 

 various fairs and bee conventions in the 

 United States, delivering lectures upon 

 bee-keeping. I am sure there will be a 

 harvest of money for whoever goes into 

 such an enterprise. I could make no 

 display of American honey, because the 

 rules permitted only this year's produc- 

 tion to be shown for competition. This 

 being a very favorable season, the show 

 of English honey was much better than 

 those last season. 



The markets are rather barren of good 

 extracted honey ; there is no California 

 to be had, except some dark stuff in a 

 sort of semi-candied, fermented condi- 

 tion. In London, this week, 38 brls. 

 Chili honey, pile x(i. e., extra white) sold 

 at public sales, brought 9^0. per lb., 

 while 120 brls. and kegs West India, pile 

 1 (i. e., about the color of goldenrod), 

 sold at S^'c. In Liverpool, this week, 

 Chilian met a ready sale. About 1,000 

 brls. sold at 10c. per lb. for the pile x (or 

 extra white), amber or pile 1 brought 9 

 to 93^c, and pile 2 (a grade darker in 

 color"), sold at 7}4 C - American beeswax- 

 is selling at 26to29c., according to color. 

 Extracted honey and wax are offered 

 regularly once a week — on Tuesdays — at 

 the public sales in Liverpool and' Lon- 

 don. These articles are sold for cash in 

 one month, or if paid for within 11 days 

 a discount of 2% per cent, is made. 

 The prices are regulated, of course, by 

 the supply and demand. There is no 

 demand here for dark honey ; but so far 

 as the lighter grades of extracted are 

 concerned, this is a better market than 

 the United States or the Continent. 

 During the past winter and spring sev- 

 eral consignments of California honey, 

 originally sent to Hamburg, had to be 

 brought here to be sold. 



Windsor, England, July 13, 1880. 



[The bee-keepers of the United States, 

 as a class, are too intelligent and too 

 progressive to place it within the power 

 of any one man, traveling with a bee- 

 tent and making a specialty of lectures 

 on bee -culture, to realize a proper remu- 

 neration in return. On the library shelf 

 of nearly every one interested in bee 

 matters, can be seen a text-book devoted 

 to bee-culture : besides, among his pe- 



