1911 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Extracted 



Honey 



Wanted 



We are always in the 

 market. 



If you have any to sell, mail 

 small average sample to 



NATIONAL 

 BISCUIT COMPANY 



Purchasing Department 



Washington Blvd. and Morgan St. 



Chicago, Ills. 



Honey Markets continued from page 2. 



Indianapolis. — There is a good and steady de- 

 mand here for best grades of white-clover comb and 

 extracted honey. Jobbing houses are well supplied, 

 but practically none is now being offered by pro- 

 ducers, and it is evident that there will be a short- 

 age before the new crop can arrive. Fancy white 

 comb is being offered at 18 cts.: No. 1, white, 17: ex- 

 tracted, 11, with some slight reductions on quantity 

 lots. It is presumed that producers are being paid 

 about 2 cents less than above quotations. Produ- 

 cers of beeswax are being paid 29 cents cash or 31 in 

 trade. 



Indianapolis, May 9. Walter S. Pouder. 



St. liOUis. — The stocks of comb honey are very 

 light at present, and extracted honey is exhausted. 

 No shipments of this year's crop have arrived thus 

 far. There is no urgent demand for either comb or 

 extracted honey. \Ve quote fancy white comb hon- 

 ey at 16 to 16J4: Xo. 1. 15 to 15 J4: choice amber, 14 to 

 15; dark, 10 to 11. Broken and leaking honey sells 

 at less. There is no extracted honey on the market 

 now, and consequently no quotations can be given. 

 Choice Southern light amber in barrels would 

 probably sell at VA: in cans, 8 to 8/4. Beeswax is 

 scarce, and in demand at 29 to 30 fcr prime: impure 

 and inferior, less. 



R. Hartmann Produce Co. 



St. Louis. Mo., May 9. 



I have decided to drop back to your bee-supplies 

 again. Your prices are right for quality of goods 

 and fair dealing. I know that any one wishing for 

 goods that are right, and places an order for Root's 

 goods, will find satisfaction is nailed in the same 

 box with the goods. Such has been my experience. 

 You never sent me No. 2 goods when the order read 

 No. 1. I do not buy No. 2 goods, but have been 

 stuns clscwhcrG- 



Hopkins, Mich., March 20. Geo. Tishhouse. 



THE NATIONAL BEE - KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



OBJECTS 



1. To promote the interests of bee-keepers. 



2. To protect and defend its members in their 

 lawful rights as to keeping bees. 



3. To enforce laws against adulteration of honey 



MEMBERSHIP DUES 



One dollar a year. 



OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



President. — George W. York, Chicago, Ills. 



Vice-president.— W. D. Wright, Altamont, N. Y. 



Secretary.— E. B. Tyrrell, Detroit, Mich. 



Treasurer and General Manager.— N. E. 

 France, Platteville, Wis. 



Are you a member? If not, why not send the 

 annual dues of 81.00 at once to Treasurer France 7 

 Every progressive bee-keeper should be a member 

 of this, the greatest bee-keepers' organization In 

 America. 



BEES AND SUPPLIES! 



Now is the time you are in a hurry 

 for those bee goods. We have them 

 waiting for you. . Italian queens, 

 >1.00: full colony in a hive, S9.50. ' . 



I.J STRINCHAM, 105 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK 



Apiaries, Clen Cove, L. I. 



The A B C of Bee Culture 



A complete treatise on the subject; fully illustrated. 

 A text-book for the beginner and advanced bee-keeper. 

 Cloth-bound, $1.50 postpaid; leather edition, $2.50. 



THE A. I. ROOT CO., Medina, Ohio. 



The Purity of the 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED 



Sold by The A. I. Root Co. is Attested to by the 

 U. S. Government 



READ THIS LETTER: 



Brooksvllle, Ky., March 13, 1911. 

 The A. 1. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. 



Uentltme7i:—Some time ago I sent to you for a 

 sample of your white and yellow sweet-clover seed. 

 After receiving the samples I sent them to Washing- 

 ton, D. C. The yellow hulled tested 99.71 per cent of 

 pure seed; the onhulled white tested 99.11 per cent of 

 pure seed. I think that Is fine. I inclose you the sam- 

 ple that you sent me, and want you to send me 80 lbs. 

 of the same lot that this sample is out of, or some 

 equally good. Send the seed by freight. 



Yours truly, H. A. Jett. 



We have a booklet, published for free distribu- 

 tion, which tells THE TRUTH ABOUT 

 SWEET CLOVER. Ask lor your copy. 

 PRICES 



In lots of— 1 lb. 10 lb. 25 lb. 100 lb. 



Hulled Yellow Annual 



{Melilotusliidica), Ih. 17c 15c 14c 13c 

 Hulled YellowBiennial 

 (Meiilotus officinalis) . 20c 



Hulled White 25c 



Unhulled White i Meii- 

 lotus alba) iter Vo 17c 



The prices are all subject to market changes. 

 As to the comparative value of the different 

 varieties, we will say that the white, or Meli- 

 lotu.t alba, is most common, and therefore the 

 best known. The yellow is desirable because 

 it begins blooming usually from two to four 

 weeks earlier than the white. As to the two 

 varieties of yellow, one of the experiment 

 stations has said there was a distinction with- 

 out a difference. 



The A. I. Root Company, Medina, O. 



18c 

 22c 



17c 

 21c 



16c 

 20c 



15c 14c 13c 



