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AMERICAN BEE jOUKNAL, 



Feb. 20, 1902. 



PUBLISHED ■^•EEKLy BY 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 COMPANY 



144 & 146 E rie St., Chicago, III. 



Entered at the Post-Offlce at Chicago as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



EDITORIAL STAFF. 



George W. Tore, - - Editor-in-Chief. 



E^s'^kASTY '■''''''' i Department 

 PROF.'i'.'rCooK, \ Editors. 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



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Advertising Rates will be given upon ap- 

 plication. 



National Bee Keepers' Association 



OBJECTS: 

 To promote and protect the interests of its 

 members. 

 To prevent the adulteration of honey. 

 To prosecute dishonest honey-dealers. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



E. Whitcomb, 

 W: Z. Hutchinson, 

 A. I. Root, 

 E. T. Abbott, 

 P. H. Elwood, 

 E. R. Root, 



Thos. G. Newman, 

 g. m. doolittle, 

 W. F. Marks, 

 J. M. Hambaugh, 

 C. P. Dadant, 

 Dk. C. C. Miller. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 Ernest R. Root, President. 

 R. C. AlKlN, Vice-President. 

 Dr. a. B. Mason, Secretary, Toledo, Ohio. 



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



J^" If more convenient. Dues may be sent 

 to the office of the American Bee Journal, 

 when they will be forwarded to Mr. Secor, 

 who will mail individual receipts. 



A Celluloid Queen-Button is a very 

 pretty thing for a bee-keeper or honey-seller 

 to wear on his coat-lapel. It often serves to in- 

 troduce the subject of honey, 

 and frequently leads to a 

 sale. 



Note.— One reader writes: 

 " I have every reason to be- 

 lieve that it would be a very 

 ^ood idea for every bee-keeper 

 to wear one [of the buttonsj 

 as it will cause people to ask 

 questions about the busy bee, and many a con- 

 versation thus started would wind up with the 

 sale of more or less honey; at any rate it would 

 give the bee-keeper a superior opportunity to 

 enlighten many a person in regard to honey 

 and bees." 



The picture shown herewith is a reproduc- 

 Bou of a motto queen-butt«n that we are fur- 

 nishing to bee-keepers. It has a pin on the 

 underside to fasten it. 



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I fiON&y AND BEESWAX | 



MARKET QUOTATIONS. 



Chicago, Feb. 7.— Hope of February bringing 

 a good demand for honey is so far disappoint- 

 ing. The weather is extremely cold, yet this 

 should not curtail the demand, for honey is a 

 cold-weather luxury, and to most people more 

 inviting when cold than when it is hot. Per- 

 haps one of the causes (for there are many) was 

 the holding back of the crop by producers in 

 the early autumn, on the supposition that the 

 yield was light taking the country as a whole; 

 the result was consumers reasoned that it was 

 going to be scarce and substituted other things 

 in lieu thereof. Comb is freely offered with 

 prices weak at 14fai5c for choice to fancy; 

 13(ai4c for No. 1; lU<i I2c for amber and buck- 

 wheat. Extracted slow at former prices. Bees- 

 wax strong at 29c. R. A. Burnett & Co. 



Albany, N. Y., Feb. 7.— Honey market firm 

 for all grades of comb honey, of which there is 

 a very light stock here. White comb is selling 

 at I5@16c; No. 2, 14@15c; buckwheat and amber, 

 13(gil4c. Extracted slow at 6(gi7c for white; but 

 buckwheat extracted is selling best at 6 cents. 

 Beeswax scarce, 28^30c. H. R. Wright. 



Cincinnati, Feb. 7.— The honey market has 

 been rather dull this year. Comb honey is sell- 

 ing fairly, and brings as follows: White clover, 

 15c; lower grades from 12^@14c. Extracted 

 honey sells very slow, the lower grades bring- 

 ing 5(*i6c, and fancy, ti^(s*7J4c. Beeswax, 28@30c. 

 C. H. W. Webhr. 



Boston, Jan. 20.— Strictly iancy comb honey 

 in cartons, ISJ^c; A No. 1, 15c; No. 1, 14i^c; very 

 little No. 2 to offer; stock nominally funning 

 No. 1 and A No. 1. Extracted, light amber, 

 75^c; amber, 7c; Florida honey. t\^((v1c. 



Our market continues somewhat dull in the 

 demand for honey, while stocks are ample for 

 the balance of the season, unless there should 

 be a much larger demand than we at this mo- 

 ment anticipate. Blake, Scott & Ukk. 



New York, Feb. 8.— There has been very lit- 

 tle movement of late in comb honey, and while 

 there is no buckwheat on the market to amount 

 to anything, there is sufficient quantity of the 

 different grades of white honey. The demand 

 having been slow of late, prices have had a 

 downward tendency and are likely to remain 

 so during the spring. 



We quote: Fancy white, 14c, and exception- 

 ally fine stock at perhaps 15c; No. 1 white at 

 13c; amber at ll@12c. Extracted remains dull 

 at unchanged prices. Arrivals of late are quite 

 plentiful of all the different grades. Beeswax 

 firm at 28@2SJ^c. Hildreth & Seoelkbn. 



San Francisco, Feb. 5.— White comb, 11® 

 1254 cents; amber, 8@10c; dark, 6@7 cents. Ex- 

 tracted, white, SM(§6c; light amber, 4^(8i5c; 

 amber, 4@ — . Beeswax, good to choice, light, 

 26fa'2Sc; dark, 24@25c. 



There is not much offeriner in this center from 

 either first or second hands. The market is 

 firm at the quotations, although business is of a 

 light order. To purchase freely, higher prices 

 than are warranted as quotations would "very 

 likely have to be paid. 



CONVENTION NOTICE. 



Utah.— The Utah State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its annual convention in the City 

 and County Building, Salt Lake City, April 5, 

 1902, at 10 a.m. This promises to be an interest- 

 ing convention. All are invited. It is desired 

 to form an exchange for the protection and ben- 

 efit of our bee-keepers. Come and aid a good 

 cause. It is expected that every county will be 

 represented. J. B. Fagg, Sec. 



E. S. LovESY, Pres. 



Went Like Hotcakes 



A Nebraska customer when ordering a new 

 supply of our fine Alfalfa honey in 60-pouncl 

 cans, said: "The last I got went like hot- 

 cakes." So it does. 



More people might do well if they would 

 order this honey, or basswood, and sell it. It 

 not only goes off " like hotcakes," but it is 

 mighty good on hot cakes. 



See honey-offers on page 98. 



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