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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1917 



honey, white, per lb., 14c; light amber, in cans, 13c; 

 in barrels, 12i/^c; amber, in cans, 12c; in barrels, 

 11 %c. Gunn, Langlois & Co., Ltd. 



Montreal, Can., July 16. 



SYRACUSE. — Nothing to quote on. Old honey 

 all cleaned up and no new honey offered. 



Syracuse, N. Y. E. B. Ross. 



CLEVELAND. — Do not know of any honey in 

 our market, either comb or extracted, except small 

 lots in the hands of retailers. There is scarcely 

 any demand and there will be practically nothing 

 doing in honey until the new crop commences to 

 arrive. C. Chandler's Sons. 



Cleveland, July 21. 



DENVER. — A few cases of new-crop comb honev 

 are coming in now, which sell in a local way at 

 $4.50 for No. 1 white, and $4.00 for No. 2 white. 

 Crop promises to be light. White extracted sells 

 wholesale 16 cts. ; no light amber or amber available 

 yet. We pay 36 cts. in cash and 38 cts. in trade 

 for clean yellow beeswax delivered here. 



The Colorado Honey Producers' Ass'n, 



Denver, Col., July 21. F. Rauchfuss, Mgr. 



MATANZAS. — Light-amber extracted honey, in 

 barrels, $1.00 a gallon; amber, in barrels, $1.00 a 

 gallon; clean average yellow beeswax, per lb., 38 cts. 



Matanzas, Cuba, July 7. A. Marzol. 



LIVERPOOL. — Since our last report the market 

 has declined in consequence of the slow demand, 

 free arrivals from Chili, and the restrictions im- 

 posed by the Food Controller on the percentage of 

 sweetness allowable in confectionery. Up to date 

 1300 packages have been sold in Liverpool at the 

 following rates, the quotations here being on hun- 

 dredweights: Extra superior, $22.08 to $22.80; 

 pile 1, $21.12 to $21.60; pile 2, $19.68 to $19.92; 

 pile 3, $19.20. 1558 packages were offered at auc- 

 tion in London, but onlv 200 sold. Jamaica, set dull, 

 $21.60; liquid amber, $18.60 to $19.20. Haytian, 

 set palish, $21.00. Oulian, palish, $21.40; setting 

 dull, $19.20; fermented, $16.80 to $17.52. Call- 

 fornian, dark to amber, $20.16. Contrary to honey, 

 beeswax is firm. Up to $55.75 per cwt. has been 

 paid privately for good Jamaican, while for West 

 African from Gambia the same price is quoted. 



Liverpool, Eng., July 12. Taylor & Co. 



MEDINA. — We have no reason to change our 

 opinion on the market since we reported it for 

 July Gleanings, page 504. Since that date, 

 weather in the white-clover belt has been erratic. 

 The basswood district reports an excellent flow, 

 starting with good prospects for a crop. A consid- 

 erable volume of extracted has teen received in the 

 past 30 days from the tupelo, orange, sage, and 

 mesquite districts. Offerings from the" Pacific Coast 

 indicate a somewhat easier market there. A,s pre- 

 viously stated we think white extracted honey should 

 net producers 10 to 12 cts., and white comb "from 14 

 to 16 cts. per pound. A. I. Root Co. 



Medina, July 24. 



U. S, Government Market Report. 

 Below is printed the third semi-monthly 

 honey-market news, report issued by the Bu- 

 reau of Markets, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, date of July 18: 



New York. — Six barrels Florida, 38 barrels and 

 17 cases West Indian, arrived; no comb-honey ar- 

 rivals. Extracted stock: market active, demand 

 good, stronger; active buying for Italian export, re- 

 sulting in wide range in prices; Southern, 12 to 13c; 

 some sales reported 15c. West Indian: 12 to 14c; 

 some 15c per pound. Beeswax, arrivals unreported; 

 supplies adequate; demand light; yellow, mostly 

 45c; dark, mostly 43e per pound. 



Kansas City.- — Local receipts about 25 cases new 

 honey ; old crop, supplies practically exhausted. De- 

 mand good, movement moderate, market firm, all 

 sales in small lots. Native Missouri old stock, firsts. 

 24-section cases, mostly $4.00 to $4.25 ; seconds, 

 supplies exhausted. New stock, first, mostly $4.25. 

 Supplies extracted stock exhausted. New crop late 

 this year, and will be very light. 



Chicago. — No carlot arrivals. ' Supplies practi- 

 cally exhausted, not enough to make a market. 

 First shipment new, few cans Minnesota; rather 

 light color, 12c. Old extracted, few sales, 12 to 13c 

 per pound. 



Cincinnati. — One car California ; 32 crates Georgia, 

 75 lbs. each, arrived. Light local receipts. Market 

 very unsettled, few sales. Comb honey, old light 

 amber, $3.60 per case; no new stock on market. 

 Extracted, old stock; dark amber, 13c; light amber, 

 15c. Nearby, new honey, few sales; small lots; 

 cash paid to beekeepers, extracted dark honey, 

 amber, SVoc. per pound. Nearby honey expected to 

 move heavily in two weeks. 



Philadelphia. — Thirty-three barrels Southern, ex- 

 tracted, no imports ; no comb honey arrived. No 

 demand, no sales. Quotations reported are merely 

 asking prices. Extracted, jobbing in barrels. South- 

 ern, 10 to 12c; California, light orange, 60-lb. tins, 

 13c per pound. Comb honey, no quotations. 



St. Louis. — No fresh arrivals. Bright amber in 

 barrels, 8i/^c; in cans, 9 to 9%c; dark amber, 

 V2 to Ic less per pound. Comb in case, amber, 10 

 to 12c per section; dark and inferior, 9 to 10c. 

 Fancy clover, 14 to 17c per section. 



Minneapolis. — No new stock arrived. Supplies 

 old stock practically cleaned up. Few sales. 



St. Paul. — No' new stock arrived. Supplies old 

 stock practically cleaned up. Few sales. 



Government Honey- Yield Estimate. 



The monthly crop report, published by 

 authority of the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 for July, estimates the yield of surplus 

 honey per colony to July 1, in the various 

 States, as follows: Maine 3 lbs., New Hamp- 

 shire 5, Vermont 3, Massachusetts 10, Rhode 

 Island 18, Connecticut 9, New York 3, New 

 Jersey 15, Pennsylvania 6, Delaware 18, 

 Maryland 29, Virginia 20, West Virginia 12, 

 North Carolina 15, South Carolina 25, 

 Georgia 29, Florida 33, Ohio 13, Indiana 9, 

 Illinois 7, Michigan 1, Wisconsin 6, Minne- 

 sota 5, Iowa 5, Missouri 9, South Dakota 5, 

 Nebraska 5, Kansas 13, Kentucky 13, Ten- 

 nessee 16, Alabama 9, Mississij^pi 22, Louisi- 

 ana 30, Texas 20, Oklahoma 9, Arkansas 35, 

 Montana 10, Colorado 4, New Mexico 10, 

 Arizona 41, Idaho 5, Washington 12, Oregon 

 2, California 33. The proportion of the full 

 crop usually produced up to July 1 is from 

 65 to 80 per cent of the total crop in the 

 Southern States, and from 7 to 50 per cent 

 of the total crop in the Northern States. 

 The average proportion of the total crop in 

 all the States produced up to July 1 is esti- 

 mated by the Government to be 50.8 per cent 

 of the total production of the year; but this 

 proportion varies from 7 per cent in Colo- 

 rado to 80 per cent in Louisiana. 



WANT HELP? 

 WANT A POSITION? 



Almost daily Glkanings receives from one to a 

 half dozen inquiries from beekeepers who want help 

 in their apiaries, or from men who want employ- 

 ment in apiaries. 



The job and the man ought to be able to get to- 

 gether — and they can. 



This is the best way we know of doing it: Put 

 an advertisement in either the " Help Wanted " or 

 "Position Wanted" department of Gleanings. It 

 will co.st you 25 cents a line (9 average-length words 

 to the line) for one insertion of such ad. 



Try it — for the job and the man ought to get 

 together. 



Address Advertising Department, Gleanings in 

 Bee Culture, Medina, O. 



