1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Contents of this Number. 



Adulteration. Doolittle on 22 



Almanacs, Fraudulent 28 



Balling, To Stop ti 



Bamboo in Switzerland 13 



Bee -keeping in Europe i) 



California, Good News from 18 



Can, Five-eallon Square -1 



Chapparal Thicket 16 



Clover, Swett. Snyder Answered 18 



Coggshall and his Out-apiary Help 21 



Colonies at the Home of Honey-bees 20 



Conventions in Austria it 



Cypress for Barrels.. 18 



Cuba, Somerford's Description 6 



Dead Brood or Foul Brood 19 



Farmer Bee-keeper, a Plea for 11) 



Frames, Size of Doolittle's 10 



Goldenrod a Failure 17 



Hive, Danz., Approved 18 



Hives, Targe, Objections 8 



Honey, Comb, Repairing 18 



Honey, Comb, Ten- cent 17 



Honey, Danz , Crane on 22 



Honey, Secret of Selling 11 



Honey in Cypress Barrels 18 



Honey in Plain Sections Ahead 17 



Honey-leaflets Not a Success 18 



Horse Killed by Bees 14 



Pure-food Laws 12 



Queen-cells, View of 22 



Queen-rearing, Doolittle's Plan 13 



Queens, Giant 1 .13 



Quoting, Excessive 13 



Rambler Baching 15 



Robbing, To Stop 18 



Roll of Honor 22 



Sect ion -cleaner Aspinwall 21 



Snow Around Entrances of Hives 22 



South Dakota 27 



Stings Fatal to Horse 11 



Veils of Horsehair 13 



Ventilation by Fences 18 



Honey Column. 



CITY MARKETS. 



New York. — The market is well supplied with 

 comb honey, especially of dark and amber. Demand 

 is but fair for white grades, and dark is being neglect- 

 ed. We quote fancy white, 12@13; No. 1 white, 10@11; 

 amber, 9(5),10; dark, 7@8. Extracted is in good de- 

 mand, and stocks are light of all kinds. We quote 

 white, 6^(5)7; amber, 6; dark,*5^4@G; southern, in 

 hbls., 00(565 per gal. Beeswax dull at 26@27. 



Hildreth Bros. & Segelken. 



Dec. 20. New York. 



Philadelphia. — Honey has declined in price on 

 account of bee-men shipping in their honey, and urg- 

 ing sale at any price. History repeats itself. Every 

 year we urge producers marketing their crop in Sep- 

 tember, but, alas ! We quote fancy comb, 14^@16; No. 

 1, 11@12; amber, 9; extracted white, 7; amber, 4@5^. 

 We are producers of honey — do not handle on com- 

 mission. Wm. A. Selser, 



Dec. 21. 10 Vine St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Cleveland. — We quote our honey market to-day as 

 follows: Fancy white, 13@14; No. 1, 12@12%; light 

 amber, 11; buckwheat, 9. Extracted, white, 7; light 

 amber, 6. A. B. Williams & Co., 



Dec. 20. 80-82 Broadway, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Albany. — Honey market steady. Fancy white 

 comb. 12@13; No. 1, 11@12: No. 2, 9(510: mixed and 

 buckwheat, 8(3,9; extracted white, 0;.4(S)7; amber, 6(5} 

 6%; dark, 5J£@6. Extracted continues in good demand 

 with light supply. MacDougal & Co., 



Successors to Chas. McCulloch & Co., 



Dec. 22 Albany, N. Y. 



Columbus.— Supplies of honey are larger than the 

 demand requires, consequently pricts are nominal, 

 with shading of figures necessary to make sales. Fan- 

 cy white, 12J£; No. 1, 10@11; amber, 8(59. 



The Columbus Commission &. Storage Co., 



Dec. 19. 409-413 N. High St., Columbus, O. 



Detroit. — Fancy white, 13; No. 1, 11^(5)12; fancy 

 dark and amber, 9(511; extracted white, 6@7; dark, 5(5), 

 5%; beeswax, 25@26. M. H. Hunt, 



Dec. 23. Bell Branch, Mich. 



Chicago.— Market is about as last quoted. Best 

 white comb brings 13, with off grades of white at 11@ 

 12; amber, 9@,10. Some lots have come on the market, 

 and are being offered at prices that would be reduced 

 if buyers could be founc. Extracttd is steady at 6(3 7 

 for white, and 5@6 for amber grades. Beeswax, 27. 

 R. A. Burnett & Co., 



Dec. 19. 103 S. Water St., Chicago, 111. 



New York. — Demand for honey has beer: very good 

 during the past few weeks, especially fir the fancy 

 grades. Receipts have been extremely heavy with us, 

 though at present we have our stock worked down 

 very well. We quote comb — fancy white, 12(5 1">; fair 

 white, 10(3)11; amber, 9(5)10; mixed, 7^@9. Extracted 

 honey finds ready sale. We quote white clover, 6!2<5 

 754 ; buckwheat, 6(5)7; amber, 6(57; Florida white, 6J£@ 

 7J4"; Florida light amber, 6K@7£j: other grades of 

 southern honey from 50:570 per gallon, according to 

 quality. Beeswax is in good demand at 20^4(527^2. 

 When shipping, mark all packages, gross, tare, and 

 net weight. Francis H. Teggett & Co., 



Dec. 27. Franklin and Varick Sts., New York. 



Wanted. — To buy quantity lots of extracted hon- 

 ey — Colorado honey preferred. In writing quote 

 price on quantity. 



Edw. Wilkinson, Madison, S. Dak. 



Wanted.— We are in the market for 5000 to 10,000 

 lbs. fine amber extracted honey in 300-lb. barrels at 5c 

 per lb. on track. 



Hubbell, Baker & Co., Marlette, Mich. 



For Sale. — To close out quickly. I have 1000 lbs. 

 white and red clover honey at 12%c; tumblers, 1-lb., 

 95c per dozen; fine light amber, 62-lb. cans, at 6}^c. 

 G. Routzahn, Menallen, Pa. 



For Sale. — 800 lbs. comb honey — 500 lbs. pure white 

 clover at lie; 300 lbs of buckwheat at 6J4c f. o. b. 



William VanAuken, Ellisburgh, N. Y. 



The Bee=keepers' 



REVIEW 



for December shows in its frontispiece "The Neatest 

 Apiary in Michigan," and the owner of this apiary, or, 

 to be more exact, his son, contributes an article upon 

 " Beauty and Neatness " in which he shows that they 

 are of more importance in the apiary than they are 

 generallv given credit for. 



Mr. Harry S. Howe, Mr. W. t,. Coggshall's " light- 

 ning operator, " tells how he reads the bee-journals — 

 what is wanted in them, and how to get the most out 

 of them. 



There is an editorial of nearly three pages upon 

 " Success." It is not a lot of dry platitudes and gener- 

 alities; it is full of freshness and vigor, and of illustra- 

 tions drawn from the editor's own .experience. The 

 reading of it may change your life from the dull com- 

 mon place to one of un 1 ounded success. 



Then there are the " Criticisms " of Mr. Taylor: the 

 "Views" of the inimitable Hasty, the "Extracted 

 Dept.," etc. 



The Review is 81.00 a year: but if you are not a sub- 

 scriber, you can. for only 81.80, have your subscription 

 co Gleanings renewedfor one year, get 12 back num- 

 bers of the Review, and then the Review for all of 

 1899. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, 

 Flint, = riichigan. 



;OR SALE.— 7000 lbs. fine white Extracted Honey. 

 Also Southern Bloodhounds. 



Ellas I* ox, Illllshoro, Wis. 



