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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[Nov., 



and regard. The firm is under the management 

 of a well known lady, formerly Mrs. C. O. 

 Perrine, favorably known to most bee-keepers 

 in the west. 



Mr. Grimm thinks that he will be able to ship 

 at least 50,000 pounds of honey to this market 

 during the next season. 



Clark & Harbison, of San Diego, Cal., 

 have made quite an extensive shipment of honey 

 to this city. They sent one car-load containing 

 21,000 pounds comb honey, which is the largest 

 shipment ever made at any one time to this 

 market. They realized 28c per pound for the 

 whole amount, which may be considered a good 

 sale for so large a quantity. 



This firm is located in southern California, 

 about 500 miles south of San Francisco. They 

 have 1500 colonies scattered over quite a dis- 

 trict of country. Mr. Harbison informed us 

 that they had obtained over 60,000 pounds comb 

 honey this season from their southern apiaries 

 alone. 



Honey Localities; 



While there are few places where a stock of 

 bees will not manage to get a living, we believe 

 that in order to make bee-keeping a profitable 

 pursuit, attention must be paid to choice of 

 localities It is so in other departments of ru- 

 ral industry. Some districts are specially 

 good tor grain growing, others for dairying, 

 others for sheep husbandry. As a matter of 

 interest, a sort of pastime in natural science, 

 it may do to keep bees in towns and cities, but 

 they will not reward the apiarian with much 

 surplus honey, and there will be times when 

 the grocery and confectionery shopkeepers and 

 their customers will vote them a nuisance, espe- 

 cially if they are Italians, for if so, they will 

 forage wherever any sweets attract them. 



To test the diflerence between keeping bees 

 near a town of about 8000 inhabitants, and 

 having them wholly in the country, we last 

 season took an average stock to board with a 

 farming friend, and it gathered just four times 

 as much honey as the best of our in-tovm stocks. 

 We have a bee-keeping acquaintance who lives 

 on the edge of an extensive cranberry swamp, 

 and his bees do better than those of any other 

 apiary in the whole region. In very early 



spring, and even late in the fall, the bees ap- 

 pear to find something to do in the swamp. 

 Our Minnesota friends owe their extraordinary 

 success to the vast stretches of basswood near 

 which they live. We would say to all who con- 

 template going into bee-keeping as a business, 

 choose your locality wisely. It will pay on a 

 small scale to keep bees in many places, where 

 it would hardly be advisable to keep them ex- 

 tensively. 



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The Ohicago Honey Market. 



We give below the receipts of three of the 

 principal honey-dealing houses in Chicago 

 since August 1, 1873. Large as have been 

 these receipts, they do not include butta portion 

 of the honey which has been received in this 

 city during the period of time indicated, and 

 do not comprise the extensive sales of the 

 commodity in the city by grocers, farmers and 

 commission merchants. The great demand tor 

 the staple this season shows an almost unpar- 

 alleled activity in the local market, and the de- 

 mand is largely in excess of the supply. The 

 quotations of sales in this market for the past 

 three months tend to indicate that Chicago is 

 the greatest honey market in the whole West, 

 if not in the United States. 



From August 1 to November 1, the receipts 

 were as follows : 



G. Baumeister & Co., No. 231 W. Randolph St., re- 

 ceived 29,000 Bbs. of honey. 



In comb, 9,666 as. @ 27c ... .'.T $2,609 82 



Extracted, 19,334 fcs. @ UJ^c 2,803 4S 



Total $5,413 25 



Chicago Honey Company, No, 360 Wabash Ave., 

 received (from Oct. 13) 37,272 fi>s. of boney. 



In comb, 22,100 5)8. @ 28c $8,988 00 



Extracted, 5,172 lbs. @ 15c 775 80 



Total $9,763 80 



C. O. Perrine & Co., S. E. Cor. of Market and 

 Lake Sts., received (from Aug. 1) 90,000 S>3. of 

 honey. 



Ib comb, 75,000 lbs. @ 27c $20,250 00 



Extracted, 15,000 as. @ 14c 2,100 00 



Total $22,350 00 



Total number of tts. of honey 156,273 



Grand total amount paid for same $37,527 05 



