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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 23, 



Floral Offering.— Mr. E. Hoyt semis 

 us a sweet clover bouquet from High- 

 land, Madison county, 111., gathered 

 on the Kith inst., for which lie has our 

 thanks. We culled our last flowers of 

 the season on the 17th— of course, they 

 were sweet clover. We want this fact 

 borne in mind : That sweet clover can 

 be made to bloom continuously, from 

 the middle of June till as late as the 

 bees can fly, and the honey from it is 

 second to none. 



^" We are sometimes asked who 

 our authorized agents are? Every 

 subscriber is such an agent; we have 

 no others, and greatly desire that each 

 one would at least send in one new 

 subscriber with his own renewal for 

 1882. The next few weeks are the 

 time to do this. We hope every sub- 

 scriber will do his or her best to double 

 our list for 1882. 



Premiums.— Those who get up clubs 

 for the Weekly Bee Journal for 

 1882, will be entitled to the following 

 premiums. Their own subscription 

 may count in the club : 



For h Club of 38.— a copy of " Bee. and Honey." 

 8, -mi Emerson Binder for 1882. 

 " " 4.— Cook's (Beet Manual, paper. 



" 6,- " " cloth. 



" " 6,— Weekly Bee Journal for I year. 



Or they may deduct 10 per cent in cash 

 for their labor in getting up the club. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Formed an Association.— The bee- 

 keepers of Marion Co., Ind., have 

 lately formed themselves into a So- 

 ciety, as will be seen by the follow- 

 ing from the Indiana Farmer: 



A number of the prominent bee- 

 keepers of this county, met in the 

 rooms of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, pursuant to the call of C. S. 

 Schotield, Vice President of the State 

 Association, for the purpose of organ- 

 izing a County Association. Sylvester 

 Johnson was made temporary Chair- 

 man, and Frank L. Dougherty, Sec- 

 retary pro tern. An organization was 

 perfected, with the adoption of a suit- 

 able constitution, with rules and reg- 

 ulations for the government of the so- 

 ciety. The following officers were 

 elected : President, Sylvester John- 

 son ; Vice President. Mrs. Cass Rub 

 bins; Secretary, Frank L. Dougherty; 

 Treasurer. Mrs. Stout. In a promis- 

 cuous conversation, it developed thai 

 the bee-keeping industry in this pail 

 of the State is in a fair condition de- 

 spite the drouth of last summer, there 

 being quite a fair yield of honey re- 

 ported. The meeting adjourned to 

 meet on Saturday, Nov. 12, at the 

 same place, at J:3u p. in. 



Another Explorer in Search of For- 

 eign Hees.— Sig. J. Fiorini, an Italian, 

 and Messrs. D. A. Jones and Frank 

 Benton, Americans, have, at great 

 cost of money and hardships untold, 

 obtained Cyprian and Syrian bees, 

 and the latter has visited Ceylon and 

 Java in search of Apis dorsata and 

 Apisftorea, and now Mr. T. B. Blow, 

 an Englishman, is to start on a similar 

 errand as will be seen by the following 

 item from the British Bee Journal for 

 November : 



Mr. T. B. Blow, of Welwyn, Herts, 

 expert of the Hertfordshire Bee- Keep- 

 ers' Association, intends to visit the 

 East with the object of importing bees 

 of the various Eastern countries. In 

 this, Mr. Blow is animated with a pa- 

 triotic feeling, as he thinks it is not 

 desirable that English bee-keepers 

 should be behind their American cous- 

 ins. For some time past large con- 

 signments of Eastern bees have been 

 forwarded to America, and it is said 

 they are much appreciated both for 

 their working powers and their greater 

 prolilicness. Mr. Blow hopes to be 

 able to bring over a large number of 

 colonies from Albania, Dalmatia, 

 Smyrna, Cyprus and Syria, and ex- 

 pects to start very shortly. 



It is amusing to know that this jour- 

 ney is instigated by a " patriotic feel- 

 ing," for " it is not desirable that 

 English bee-keepers should be behind 

 their American cousins ! " As they 

 were not in advance of Americans in 

 this affair, where else could they be, 

 "but behind?" 



®° A Liverpool circular says that 

 nearly 900,000 barrels of American ap- 

 ples have been landed this fall, and 

 that good fruit is always salable and 

 the demand without limit. The de- 

 mand for American honey is also al- 

 most " without limit." 



plete, indeed, the editor claims that 

 they do not represent more than a 12th 

 of the season's crop. Yet the surplus 

 honey accounted for by actual pro- 

 ducers was no less than 0,407,022 lbs., 

 worth at a low valuation over a mi II ion 

 and a half of dollars. Canada stands 

 third on the list, with a production of 

 1,173,625 lbs. 



Regarding the profit of bee-keep- 

 ing, there can be no doubt. The av- 

 erage rate of increase over the whole 

 continent was 71 per cent., that of 

 Canada being 91 per cent., while the 

 amount produced by each colony of 

 bees was 09 lbs. in the United States, 

 and 90 lbs. in Canada. The splendid 

 display of honey in all shapes at the 

 Toronto Industrial Exhibition, called 

 the attention of thousands of people 

 to the subject of bee-keeping, who had 

 hitherto not given it a thought, and 

 the result will probably be a great in- 

 crease in the number of apiarists 

 next year. The surplus honey is now 

 almost all exported, there being a 

 constantly growing foreign demand. 

 The home market is but scantily sup- 

 plied, as it is with the best grades of 

 butter and cheese, but there are few 

 persons who have not a sweet tooth, 

 and who would not buy honey in con- 

 siderable quantities if it were presen- 

 ted to them in neat packages and in 

 nice condition. The demand is even 

 now far greater than the supply, and 

 could be increased almost to an indeli- 

 uite extent. 



ijjg" Subscriptions may commence 

 with the first number of any month in 

 the year. 



Detecting Glucose in Honey. — Prof. 

 A. J. Cook, writes to the New York 

 Tribune concerning some tests ot 

 adulterated honey : 



I then tried the lime test as given 

 by Dr. B C. Kedzie, in his valuable 

 report (see Slate Board of Health Re- 

 port of Michigan, 1874, page 33). The 

 behavior was in every case alike, as 

 1 added the oxalic acid. Evidently, 

 the glucose manufacturers had suc- 

 ceeded in removing all the lime. 1 

 next tested for that most hurtful sub- 

 stance, sulphuric acid. Every sample 

 of honey remained perfectly clear as 1 

 added the nitrate of baryta, but every 

 sample of glucose hung out a flag ot 

 truce. Each called for quarter by 

 throwing down a white precipitate. 

 We have here two points of interest : 

 first, the presence of the poisonous sul 

 phuricacid in these samples, which to 

 all appearance was very line. Surely, 

 these are no lit food for man or bees. 

 Secondly, we have an easy test for 

 sulphuric acid, which, if not always 

 present, is one of the most injurious 

 substances when present, to be found 

 in this abominable stuff, glucose. 

 We have only to take a little nitrate 

 of baryta, and add to the suspected 

 honey. If it remains clear, we surely 

 know that there is no sulphuric acid 

 present, and probably it is pure 

 honey. But if it turns milky, it is to 

 be thrown aside as containing glucose, 

 which in turn contains the justly 

 dreaded sulphuric acid. 



What a Honey Show has Done for 

 Canada. — The Stratford, Out., Bea- 

 con, remarks as follows on the result 

 of the honey show at Toronto : 



The busy bee occupies a larger place 



among the wealth producers of the 

 countrymen than is generally sup- 

 posed. Bee keepers are invariably 

 looked on as eulhusiasties, and their 

 pursuit smiled at as a sort of hobby 

 that pleases them and don't do any- 

 body any harm, except the unfortu- 

 nates wiio happen to get stung. Vet 

 the honey crop is an important item 

 in the material wealth of this conti- 

 nent, and the total production aggre- 

 gates an enormous amount. Glancing 

 through a number of the Amehican 

 Bee Journal, a lively paper pub- 

 lished in Chicago, we found a tabula- 

 ted statement of the honey product 

 for 1881, which fairly astonished us. 

 The ligures were admittedly incom- 



fore the white clover comes into 

 flower. 



We are glad that 1S81 has given 

 English bee-keepers some very good 

 honey and great encouragement to 

 look 'hopefully forward to future years. 



Popularity of Comb Foundation.— 



Prof. A. J. Cook, in the New York 

 Tribune, remarks as follows : 



The use of comb foundation is find- 

 ing favor abroad as well as at home. 

 A British writer says, from experience 

 the past season, that, "as a rule, col- 

 onies left to build their own comb, 

 failed to more than half fill the hives, 

 while even late August colonies on 

 foundation, are as good as any."' I 

 tried the foundation in 1875, when 

 first sent out by John hong, and then 

 said it was a great discovery, and 

 would revolutionize our methods in 

 the apiary. Comb foundation has be- 

 come a commercial staple in the 

 United Stales, and the enterprising 

 apiarist does not think of doing with- 

 out it. Like many other recent in- 

 ventions, it is of very great use, and is 

 doing its part to accelerate the pro- 

 gress of this, perhaps, the most pro- 

 gressive of manual labor pursuits. 



The Honey Season in England, Scot- 

 land and Ireland.— The London Horti- 

 cullurul Journal, gives the following 

 summary of the honey season in Great 



Britain for the year 1881. 



In the south of England and in the 

 East Riding of Yorkshire, in Lincoln- 

 shire, and other parts bordering the 

 German Ocean, bees on the whole 

 have done well, and, so far as 1 can 

 learn, the bee-keepers in those parts 

 are satisfied with their harvest of 

 honey. The beeand honey exhibitions 

 in Loudon and at Louth, Lincolnshire, 

 were considered good and satisfactory. 

 In many other parts of England, bees, 

 during the hot weather in June, gath- 

 ered great stores of honey, and thereby 

 created great interest in apiarian cir- 

 cles and expectations of large profits ; 

 but in the flush and glut of honey 

 from white clover, the weather be- 

 came bad and did not improve till the 

 clover season ended; and as hives 

 were then full of bees, and as bees in 

 summer need and consume much food, 

 their large stores were soon made less. 

 During the last half of July and all 

 August, bees lost weight very fast. 

 Though the season has been encour- 

 aging from some pointsof view, it can- 

 not be considered a first-rate one for 

 honey in some of the midland and 

 northern counties of England. The 

 quality of the honey taken, however, 

 has been excellent. 



The Scottish bee-keepers, who, dur- 

 ing the last dozen of years have been 

 favored with some good seasons for 

 honey, while the English have had to 

 contend against some very unfavora- 

 ble ones, have this year been more un- 

 fortunate than we. for the honey sea- 

 son in the north has been a failure. 

 Even on the moors in Scotland this 

 year, bees gathered little, if any honey 

 at all. In the north of England no 

 heather honey has been obtained this 

 year. 



From Ireland, I have not had any 

 particulars as to the success or non- 

 success of bee-keepers there this year. 

 I have seen some Irish honey Of this 

 season good enough of its kind, evi- 

 dently gathered from the yellow weed 

 of cornfields, known by the name of 

 Ketlock or lield-inustard. This plant 

 yields rather clear honey, with a 

 greenish or yellowish tint, and does 

 not taste well beside honey gathered 

 from fruit trees and clover fields. 

 Though the honey of Ketlock is not 

 first or second-rate, yet fields of Ket- 

 lock in the neighborhood of an apiary 

 are of great value to bees, for they 

 yield much honey and pollen when 

 the fruit blossoms disappear, and be- 



W The Texas State Bee- Keepers' 

 Convention will be held at McKinney, 

 Texas, on Tuesday. April 25, 1882. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



BUYERS' yl'OTATIONS. 



OFFICE OF AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, ( 

 Monday. 10 a. m„ Nov. 21, 1881. ) 



The following are the latest quota- 

 tions for honey and beeswax received 

 up to this hour : 



CHICAGO. 



HONEY— The market is lively and prices steady. 



We quote liKht comb honey, in single comb 

 boxes, lsiis^lc ; In larger boxes 20. less. Extracted 

 g@uc. 



BEESWAX -Prime quality, lHdi22<\ 



AL. H. Newman. 972 W. Madison St. 



NEW YOKK. 



HONEY— The supply Is full, and trade Is lively. 



We quote as follows: White coiuo, in small 

 boxes, l8(i»J2c; dark, in small boxes, lii<3il7c. Ex- 

 tracted, white, lOOIlc; dark. 7t«!'C. 



BEESWAX.— Prime quality. 21)6(4230. 



THokn A Co.. 1 1 and l:j Devoe avenue. 



CINCINNATI. 



HONEY— Is In good demand here now. 



I quote: Good comb honey, in sections, Is worth 

 ISi«20c.. on arrival. Extracted, 7i"jMc. on arrival. 



BEESWAX.— IK(422c.. on ar.ival. 1 have paid 

 25C. per lb. for choice lots. C. F. MUTli. 



BOSTON. 



HONEY.— 1-pound combs area desirable pack- 

 age in our market, and a large quantity could be 

 sold at 2tKg22c„ according to quality. 



BEESWAX— l J line quality, 2r>o. 



CUUCUER & BI.AKE. 37 Chatham Street 



BALTIMORE. 



HONEY. -But little on the market, and prices 

 are not quoted. 



BEESWAX.— Southern, pure, 2lr5l2:lc. ; Western, 

 pure,21@ 22c; grease wax, lie— Baltimore Marktl 

 Journal. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



HONEY.— New. in 1 or 2 lb. sections, 22@25c— 

 IndUtmtpults Stack Review. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



HONEY.— The supply and demand are alike 

 nominal. 



BEESWAX -Best light ■2d-@-2Sc.-PMladclphla 

 .lit-rthunte' Guide. 



BAN FRANCISCO. 



HONE Y— A sale of about 120 cases of choice ex- 

 tracted Is reported atHKc. for export, an . this may 

 be said to very closely represent the extreme 

 views of shippers. In a retail way 9® IOC Is real" 

 Ized. but sell, rs are more numerous than buyers. 



We quote while comb, I Rld2l>c; dark to KO d,ni@ 

 14c. Extracted, choice to extra wnite, k^iajIOc.! 

 darkaud candied, 7@8o. beeswax— -jiiis-j.-.c. 

 Steakns & S.MITH, 128 Front Street. 



ST. LOUIS. 



HONEY.— Steady, with sale for all offered nt 

 quotations: comb at i»(i>922c.; strained and ex- 

 tracted, B®l2Hc— top rates for choice put up In 

 small packages suitable for retailing, 



BEESWAX-Selllng It.htly at Ili(ai2nc. 



K. C. Greek & Co.. 1 17 N. Main Street. 



CLEVELAND. 



HONEY— We report the market quite active ; 

 ali our sales tills week of comb honey In I pound 

 sections have been made at 220.. and two pound 

 sectb'ns at -Joe. Extracted lias taken a start, and 

 we report trade quite active In small packages. 80* 

 pnuno tin cans, especially, at 12c. per lb. Extrac- 

 ted in bhls. continuesdull 



BEESWAX-2o<!*22c. 



A. C. K.ENDEI.. 115 Ontario Street. 



