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loafing. Their instinct teaches them to 

 begin this loafing even before the hive 

 is over-populous. The bees seem to see 

 that the combs are filled and capped, that 

 bees are daily hatching and that they will 

 soon be crowded. A colony in such a 

 condition will never perform the wonders 

 in gathering honey that we may expect 

 from one less populous. Such a colony 

 feels instinctivel}^ that its abode will soon i 

 be too small, and the swarming fever sets | 

 in, and we know that when that is awak- 

 ened the bees will continue to loaf. At 

 the most, only as much honey will be 

 gathered as is needed for making the j 

 swarmitig preparations. A colony with i 

 the swarming fever is of little value as a i 

 honey gatherer. ' 



5. — The best honey gathering colonies 

 are not kept at home during the best hon- 

 ey flow by the nursing of too much brood. 

 If there is too much brood in proportion 

 to the working force, most of the honey 

 gathered will be consumed by the brood. 

 The bee-keeper whose bees rear a large 

 amount of brood dtiring the main honey 

 harvest, or near its close, will find, as he 

 stands before his colonies at the close of 

 the harvest, that although they are strong 

 in bees and the combs faultless, the latter 

 will be empty and will stay so. 



I am not ready to assert that large hives 

 or populous colonies are not desirable in 

 some localities or under some conditions, 

 but I am opposed to the putting on of an 

 upper story in the forepart of the sea.son, 

 just before the beginning of the main har- 

 vest, if the colony is managed for comb 

 honey. The energy and work that fill 

 this upper story with honey and brood 

 would fill the same space with section 

 honey. 



1900. An illustrated announcement of the 1899 

 volume and sample copies will . be sent free to 

 any one addressing 



THE YOUTHS COMPANION, 

 211 Columbus Ave. Boston, Mass 



Honey Quotations. 



Th" fftllowinK rules for grading honey were 

 adr.|'"H(l b.v the North American Bee Keepers' 

 .\Hsociation, at its WawliiaKton meeting, and, so 

 far as possible, quotat inns are made according 

 to these rules. 



Fanov. — \\\ sectioiiB to l)e well filled ; combs 

 straight, of even thicknisss. niid firmly attached 

 to all four sides; both wood and comb ansoiled 

 by travel-stain, or otherwise ; all the cells sealed 

 except the row of cells next the wood. 



No. 1.— .\11 sections well filled, but combs un- 

 even or crooked, detached at the bottom, or 

 with but few cells nnnea'ed ; botii wood and 

 comb unsoiled by travel stain or otherwise. 



In addition if) this the honey is to be classified 

 according to color, using the terms white, amber 

 and dark. That is, there will he " fancy white." 

 Mo. 1, dark."' '-tc. 



The Companion for the Rest of 1898. 



The principal attractions offered by The 

 Youth's Companion for the remaining weeks 

 of 1898 provide a foretaste of the good things to 

 follow m the new volume for 1899. To the first 

 issue in November Frank R. Stockton will con- 

 tribute a humorovis sketch, entitled "Some of my 

 Dogs," and in the issue for the week of Noveni- 

 ber loth will appear Rudyard Kipling's thrilling 

 story of the heroism of 'soldiers in the ranks, 

 "The Burning of the Sarah Sands." In the 

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 tions by L,ord Dufferine, William D. Howells, 

 J. E. Chamberlin, the American war correspon- 

 dent, Mary E. Wilkins, Hon. Thomas B. Reed, 

 the Marquis of L,orne, Mmc. Lillian Nordica and 

 I. Zangwill. Those who sub.'^cribe now for the 

 1899 volume will receive every November and 

 December issue of Thk Comp.\nion from the 

 time of subscription to the end of the year free, 

 the Companion Calendar for 1899 free, and then 

 the entire 52 issues of Thk Companion to Jan. i. 



KANSAS CITY.— We quote as follows : Fancy 

 white, 12 to 12^2; No. 1 white, 1 1 to 12; No.i ani- 

 ber, 10 to 11: fancy dark, 9 to 10; No. 1 dark, 9; 

 white extracted 5,'/^ to 6; amber, 3 to 554; dark, 4 

 104^2: bee.swax, 25. 



C. C. CI^EMONS CO., 



Nov. I. 521 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo. 



NEW YORK.— We quote as follows : Fancy 

 white, 13 to 14; No. i white, 12; fancy amber, 11"; 

 No. I amber, 10; fancy dark, 9; No. i dark, 8; 

 white extracted, 6^; amber, 554 to 6; dark, 5: 

 bee.swax, 27. 



HII,DRETH BROS. & SEGEI.KEN, 



Nov. I 120 West Broadway, New York. 



CHICAGO, 111.— Receipts of honey light, de- 

 mand good. Can send prompt sales. We quote as 

 follows: Fancy white. 14: No. i white, 12 to \\\ 

 Amber, 11 to 12'; Buckwheat, 10 to 11; Extracted, 

 white, 6 to 7. depending on quality. Dark, 5 to 



S. T. FISH & CO.. 

 Oct. 29. 189 So. Water St., Chicago, Ills. 



CLEVELAND. O— Demand for white Honev is 

 very good, and market firm. We quote as fol- 

 lows: Fancy white, 13 to 14; No. i. white, 12 to 13; 

 Fancy amber, 10 to 11: No. i. amber, 9 to 10; Fancy 

 dark,' 8 to 9; White, extracted, 7; Amber, 6; Dark. 



A. B. WILLIAMS & CO. 

 Nov. I. .80 & 82 Broadway, Cleveland, Ohio. 



BUFFALO, N. Y— We submit the following 

 quotations: Strictly fancy, i lb comb honey is 

 scarce and firm at 13 to 14, in fact, we have not 

 had ojie lot of strictly fancy honey out of all we 

 have received this season, and would like .some. 

 So-called No. i, i-lb. combs, 11 to 12; dark, etc.. 

 7 and 8; Fancy extracted, 5 to 6; dark, 41/2 to 5; 

 Fancy beeswax, 27 and 28. 



BATTERSON & CO. 



Oct. 28. 167 & 169 .Scott St., Buffalo, N. Y. 



