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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[Oct., 



I filled it promptly, as I did also another order 

 for two gross one pound honey on Sept. 11 last. 

 Other parties have sent me their orders since, 

 but being too busy I have had no time to fill 

 them, besides I do not wish to wholesale all of 

 my own honey. My price is $42 a gross for one 

 pound jars Iioney, and $80 a gross for two 

 pound jars honey, this includes the boxes of 

 course. My boxes are branded and my jars 

 tinfoiled and labeled. Honey j^ut up in the 

 above style and sold at above prices brings 

 about 20c a pound exclusive of the work of 

 jarring and ])acking. 



I will i^ay at Cincinnati depot 16c a pound 

 for all choice white clover honey 1 can get, and 

 if my brother bee-keepers will do their own 

 •work and bring their honey to market in a 

 proper manner it will suit me all the better. 

 My object is to introduce machine extracted 

 honey, as it is not only the most i^rize-worthy, 

 but also the most profitable to the bee-keeper. 

 Comb honey is selling here at 15 to 3oc accord- 

 ing to the condition of the honey and the size 

 of the box or frame. I would ,i)ay 30c a pound 

 for first-class comb honey put up in small 

 frames about five inches square. 



As it may be of interest to some of our friends 

 to know the names of some good firms in our 

 city, whereat, eventually to dispose of their 

 machine extracted honey, I may here name 

 I. T. Warren & Co,, and lleis Bros. & Co., both 

 are large dealers in fancy groceries and canned 

 fruits. Wholesale confectioners are also good 

 bands to sell honey in good shape, while honey 

 pat up promiscuously can only be used by them 

 at a low rate and for manutacturing purposes. 



As bee-keepers are noted for their communi- 

 cative propensity, let me tell you, Mr. Editor, 

 that my bees averaged me this season over one 

 hundred pounds per hive, all of which was 

 collected between May 23 and June 28 and 

 all gathered from white clover. 



Chas. F. Muth. 



Cincinnati, Ohio. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



Moth-Worm Eavages.— Bee-Hives for Fifty Cents, 



On page 47, August number, Mr. Charles E. 

 Widener observes what he terms a " strange 

 freak," in some of his nucleus swarms. I ob- 

 served the same freak in my own apiary. In 

 July, I found bees cutting out whole circles of 

 brood ; meantime the young bees were strug- 

 gling to get out of their cells, but could not. 

 Upon examination I found they were securely 

 fastened to their cells by a minute miller-worm, 

 and such at the base of the cell. I also found 

 brood uncapped in all stages of growth. A 

 close examination of this also showed the 

 presence of miller-worms by the body of the 

 immature bee, being covered with the excre- 

 ment of the miller-worm. As far as my expe- 

 rience goes, I never observed miller-worms 



work in the bottom of the cells between the 

 brood; I have always found the worms on the 

 surface of the brood. 



The swarms infested were medium swarms. 

 There was bees enough to cover the combs. 

 As to how the miller deposited eggs, in whole 

 sheets of comb, I have only one tlieory to ad- 

 vance ; i. e., the miller did it herself. My full 

 swarms were not afiiicted in this manner. 



We notice, with joy, that there is at last a 

 genuine opposition in the hive business. Mr. 

 Alley has got his " dander ujj " in dead earnest. 

 We think, however, hives can be made still 

 cheaper. We will undertake to furnish movable 

 comb hives, such as we use, all ready to put 

 bees into, for fifty cents ; capacity of the hive 

 2,000 cubic inches, and warranted to give sat- 

 isfaction. Scientific. 



Hartford, N. ¥., Sept. 18, 1873. 



[Translated from the Bienenzeitung.] 



Intensive Bee-Keeping. 



Truly, the advance in cattle breeding and 

 cultivating the ground, in these latter times, 

 dates from the day when we began to feed 

 plentifully and manure heavily. I have prac- 

 ticed these principles of intensive culture with 

 my bees for some years passed, and it has 

 pleased me so much that I will never forsake 

 it. I give each stock, from the first of April 

 to the time of the blossoming of the buckwheat, 

 (when the bees, owing to the cold, are unable 

 to fiy or the yield of honey poor), every eight 

 days, at one time, about tw^o pounds of sugar 

 dissolved in water. I have fed so far this year, 

 to each swarm, fourteen pounds of sugar. It 

 already show^s that this has been advantageous. 

 I wintered the same number of swarms as my 

 neighbor. He has now twenty-five stocks, 

 which he himself declares, after he had fed 

 somewhat lightly, that they have not altogether 

 three pounds of honey. They are so weak in 

 numbers that a division of the swarm is not to 

 be thought of this summer. My hives are full 

 of brood, while those of my neighbor's have 

 very little. 



I gave each stock sugar to the amount of 

 2thlr. 24sqr. I have received ten jDounds of 

 honey, worth about 2thlr., besides I made some 

 strong, artificial swarms, which are also w^orth 

 2thlr. I thus produced from 2thlrn. and 24sqr., 

 4thlrn. Also, theoretically, it may be shown 

 how profitable this strong feeding must be. 

 The proffered food will, in part, be consumed, 

 and in part used for the brood. That which 

 w^as consumed is not lost, even in the present 

 year yielding its profit. The sugar costs 6sqr., 

 the same as honey, but one pound of sugar 

 gives more than one pound of honey. No one 

 will deny that the honey consumed in feeding 

 the brood, has not been used to advantage. 



