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protracted drouth set in, which " done up " 

 everything brown. Bees here are very 

 light in stores. 



I worked a part of my colonies for ex- 

 tracted honey the past season. I used up 

 all my empty combs that were vacated the 

 past winter and spring. It was my first 

 experience with extracted honey. I think 

 it is just the way when the bees are not up 

 to the required pressure for comb honey. 

 If the farmers who keep bees would use the 

 extractor, and give their bees plenty of 

 combs at the right time, they would get 

 more from their bees than they do. It re- 

 quires a specialist to make a success at 

 comb honey. 



My best colony gave me 150 pounds of 

 extracted honey, and my average of comb 

 and extracted was about 20 pounds per col- 

 ony, spring count. The increase was about 

 25 per cent. 



I have some of the extra-light colored 

 bees, and I like them. My queens are pro- 

 lific, their colonies are just as populous as 

 any of my dark ones — they are rustlers to 

 work. If honey is left exposed, they will 

 find it first, and get the lion's share, too. I 

 think they are just a little inclined to steal 

 from the blacks. They are very easy to 

 handle, stick right to the combs, and pro- 

 tect them from robbers. If they prove to 

 be hardy to winter, I will requeen all my 

 colonies in the spring. 



C. P. McKlNNON. 



Bangor, Iowa, Nov. 30, 1893. 



A Beginner 65 Years Old. 



I am 65 years old, though a young bee- 

 keeper, and have never happened to be 

 where many bees were kept. I have had a 

 great deal of bad luck the last two or three 

 years. I had my safe blown open, and 

 robbed of nearly $2,000 of the town's 

 money, which used me up financially. But 

 I believe my little busy bees are going to 

 help me out soon. 



I traded my watch, last winter, for 3 col- 

 onies of bees, and I think they have done 

 well this season. After cleaning the sec- 

 tions and sorting the partly-filled ones. I 

 had 330 sections of honey, 7 new colonies of 

 bees, making me 10 to put into winter 

 quarters on Nov. 25th, with plenty of honey 

 to winter, with the exception of one small 

 colony that I fed for a week ; it had not 

 very many bees, but it may come out all 

 right in the spring. 



I think the above is doing pretty well for 

 a greenhorn ; and I also think I should have 

 made a grand failure of bee-keeping if I 

 had not subscribed for the American Bee 

 Journal. I traded for the bees last winter 

 — aV)out a year ago — and subscribed for the 

 Bee Journal, and became a little posted 

 by spring. It paid me ten times the 

 amount of the subscription price. I wish 

 we had another Mrs. Jennie Atchley here 

 in the northwest. Daniel Smbthurst. 



Seneca, Wis., Dec. 4,1893. 



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Honey & Keeswax Market Quotations. 



Rules for Orading^. 



The following rules for grading- honey were 

 adopted by the North American Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, in Washington, and, so far as 

 possible, quotations are made according to 

 these rules: 



Fancy.— All sections to be well filled; combs 

 straight, of even thickness, and firmly at- 

 tached to all four sides; both wood and comb 

 unsoiled by travel-stain, or otlierwise; all the 

 cells sealed except 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 other- 

 wise. 



In addition to this the honey is to be classi- 

 fied according to color, using the terms white, 

 amber and dark. That is, there will be '" fan- 

 cy white.'' •• No. 1 dark," etc. 



CHICAGO, III.. Bee. 4, 1893.-There were 

 but few shipmeuls of honey to this market 

 last week. The cold we ither started business 

 up, and honey moved some bettt r than here- 

 tofore. Fancy and No. 1 is getting scarce, 

 and prices are on the upward tendency. Fan- 

 cy. 16c.; No. 1 white, 15c.; fair, 14c. Ex- 

 tracted is moving slowly with plenty to 

 satisfy demand. Beeswax, 20®22c. J. A. L. 



ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 22.— Honey market is 

 very quiet and dull. All prices are nominal 

 and demand very light. We look for a better 

 demand after the Holidays, but the past 

 month has been t he slowest honey trade we 

 ever saw in this market. H. R. W. 



CINCINNATI, O.. Dec. 19.— There is a good 

 demand for honey in the small way, while de- 

 mand from manufacturers is still slow. Ex- 

 tracted honey brings 5@8c. Comb honey, 12 

 @l6c. in a jobbing way for fair to best'white. 



Beeswax is in fair demand at 20®&23c, for 

 good to choice yellow. C. F. M. ii S. 



NEW YORK. N. Y.. Dec. 22.— Our market 

 for comb honey is uuusally dull and shows no 

 activity whatever. The supply has been 

 large, while the demand has been very light, 

 hence the stocks have accumulated. We 

 quote: Fancy white. 1-lb., 12@loc.; ott' grades, 

 lie; buckwheat, 10c. It is necessary to 

 shade even these prices to effect calls lor 

 round lots. Extracted is in fair demand with 

 plenty of supply of »11 grades. We quote: 

 White clover and basswood. 6c.: California, 

 5'/2®6c. ; Southern. 55@60c per gal.; buck- 

 wJiCat. no demand. 



Beeswax, is iu very good demand at 25®26c. 

 for good average quality. H. B. & f^. 



CHICAGO. III.. Nov. 2;?. — The Chicago 

 market has plenty of honey, and 14c. seems 

 to he the outside i)iice obtainable. Anything 

 that will not grade strictly No, 1 must be sold 

 at I2@i:ii\ Large quantities have teen sold, 

 but the supply is at present in excess of the 

 demand. Kxtracled finds ready sale at 6@ 

 bV4c, tor Northern honey; Southern, in bar- 

 rels. 5c. Beeswax, 22@24c. S. T. F. & Co. 



KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 21.— The demand 

 for comb and e.vtracted honey is not as good 

 as we would like to see it. We quote: No. 1 

 white 1-lb. comb, 14@15c. ; No. 2 white, 13® 

 14c.; No. 1 amber, 13@13i4c. ; No. 2 amber 

 10@12c. Extracted, white, 6@7c. ; amber, 5® 

 554c. C.-M. C. Co. 



