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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 



CITT MARKETS. 



Cincinnati.— Jlojiej/.— Comb honey is of slow sale, 

 and brings 16c on arrival. There is an active de- 

 mand for extracted honey, which brins'S 8@10c on 

 arrival. Choice clover honey scarce. J have paid 

 lie per lb. in several instances. 



Beesicax— is fjuoted from 18@22c. 



Cincinnati, O., Dec. 23, '80. C. F. Muth. 



Writing on the 24th inst.. friend Muth 

 says:— 



Market for comb honey is dull, supply about out. 

 We have refused to paj- 16 cts. per lb. for best. De- 

 mand for and sales of extracted clover honey is very 

 lively, in barrels and small packages. We pay 8 to 11 

 for extracted honey. Our trade in 1-lb jar honey is 

 iocreasing. I predict, that before many years roll 

 around, extracted clover honey will bring a better 

 price than comb honey. 



Thanks, friend M. I have for some time 

 been coming to your opinion in regard to ex- 

 tracted lioney, and our little lunch-room is 

 giving me an opportunity to watch the ver- 

 dict of a large number of people. At first. 

 they take comb honey, at 20 cents per lb. ; 

 but after they have tasted both a few times, 

 they almost without exception decide in fa- 

 vor of the extracted, at 14 cents. This is 

 largely owing to the fact that our extracted 

 honey is good clover and basswood Califor- 

 nia honey. For convenience of the clerk, we 

 have all kinds ])ut up in 2-lb. cans and pails, 

 at a uniform price of 14 cents per lb., can in- 

 cluded. If the honey is to be taken in the 

 hand, a pail is chosen ; but if to be carried a 

 distance, or packed with other goods, the 

 " soldered-up-tight "' cans are taken. We 

 also keep it in 1-lb. tumblers at 20 cents, tum- 

 bler and all, and then give five cents for the 

 tumbler when it is returned. As we buy 

 most of the honey we use now, and we want 

 to tell the full truth about it, Ave have a label 

 printed for our 2-lb. cans and pails as follows: 



TWO POUNDS 



CAIAFORyiA MOUNTAIN-SAGE HONEY, 



FKOM THE APIARY OF 



It. WiUvin, San Diego, Cal. . 



AND PUT VF BY 



A. I. K o o T, Medina, O. 



If this honey does not please in every iiarticular. cu.stoni- 

 eis will confer a favor bj' I'etui-ning it. 



We will furnish the same with source and 

 address left blank, for 25 c. per 100. If you 

 take a whole thousand, we will put in the 

 source and address ; but as they are made 

 large enough to go clear around the cans, 

 you will have to pay 10 cts. per 1000 extra, if 

 wanted by mail. Instead of gumming them, 

 we brush them on with a solution of dex- 

 trine, brushing over the front as well as back 

 of the label. The labels should be thrown 

 right into the gum, and picked out and 

 brushed on, one at a time. 



Chicago. — Honey.— There is plenty of honey in 

 this market to supply the demand, and prices re- 

 main the same on comb honey — 20@2-'c for choice 

 light lots in small boxes, and i2@Uc for dark. Ex- 

 tracted honev, 8f5.10c. 



Beeswax.— 20^3c for light, and 15@lTc for dark. 

 Alfred H. Newman. 



972 West Madison St., Chicago, lU., Dec. 22, '80. 



Under date of .Jan. 21th, Mr. Newman 

 says:— 



The quotations on honey and beeswax for this mar- 

 ket are unchanged. Light comb honey is a little un- 

 steady, and the supply is equal to the demand. 



St. Louis.— iIo?iey.— We have but little change to 

 note in our market to-day. The stock of good white 

 comb honey is light, and all offering is readily taken ; 

 extracted is wanted, and finds ready sale in both 

 small and large packages. We quote comb, choice 

 white in sections, 18@20c; larger packages, 15@lTc; 

 dark comb, as to shape, 15'(|.17c; extracted, small 

 packages, 10® 12' ic; in barrels, 8@l0c. 



Cole Bros. 



No. 213 North Second Street, St. Louis, Mo. 



New York.— Hodcy.— In reply to your favor of 

 22d, permit us to give you the following quotations: 

 Best white clover, put up in neat packages, 17@18c; 

 fair clover, 15®16c; dark buckwheat, 12@13c; light 

 strained, 9@,10V2C; dark strained, V@*^c. 



Trusting that this will be satisfactory, we remain 

 Yours truly, H. K. & F. B. Thurber & Co. 



New York, Jan. 24, 1881. 





fpIERE is quite a number among you, my 

 friends, who are making it a study to 

 ■ — ' live with economy ; not only economy 

 in cash out, but economy in labor, for the 

 housekeeper of the family usually has the 

 hardest lot, in the way of work, of any one 

 of you. In view of tliis. I know you will be 

 interested in our experiments here in the 

 problem of living cheaply, ^lost of our 

 hands carry their dinners, and I have tried 

 to see if we could not furnish them a dinner 

 at less expense than they could take the 

 time to carry it from home. Bread and but- 

 ter seems to" be the staff of life; but as we 

 have not trained our steam as yet to do bak- 

 ing, we took a short cut something like this: 

 Bread at the baker's costs not less than 5c 

 per lb., while wheat is worth at the ware- 

 house across the way, only about If c ; be- 

 sides, 1 lb. of wlieat will make a great deal 

 more than 1 lb. of bread. AVell, you can buy 

 cracked wheat, with the hulls taken off, at 

 your groceries, for about 5c per lb. One 

 pound of this wheat, with 4 lbs. of water, 

 boiled in our 2oc farina kettles, makes 5 lbs. 

 of excellent wheat pudding, at a cost of only 

 ic per lb. Just set it on the stove, and it re- 

 quires no care whatever ; and, when done, 

 pour it into ten of those little half-pint pans 

 that we sell at the rate of 2 for 5c. When it 

 gets cold, it will turn out nicely, making ten 

 little loaves, as it were. Turn them out on 

 plates, set them in tae oven until they are 

 warm enough to melt butter ; butter them 

 nicely, and then put on your clover, bass- 

 Avood, or California honey, as you choose. 

 One of these little loaves makes a pretty fair 

 lunch ; and if you ever ate a more delicious 

 dessert, you ought to give God thanks after 

 your meal, as well as before. Now, I haven't 

 told it all yet. If you get some nice clean 

 wheat and grind it in a coffee-mill, you will 

 find it just about aS good, unless you are fas- 

 tidious about a little bran, and the expense 

 is only about 2c per lb. instead of 5. Now, 

 let us go a little further. Butter is just now 

 pretty expensive, and honey may be also, for 

 some of you. Dispense with both, and in 

 place spread your loaf with the 7i-cent Am- 

 ber sugar that I have mentioned elsewhere, 

 and pour on a little milk. I am so fond of 

 the Amber sugar, that I really prefer this 



