1881. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



389 



than our correspondent) is the preju- 

 dice which exists in the popular mind 

 regarding everything purporting to be 



extracted honey. In view of this fact. 



the Bee Journal has been persistent 



in its advice to build up home markets, 

 where the integrity of the producer 

 would be a guaranty of the purity of 

 the product. 



From a hygienic standpoint, extrac- 

 ted honey is "really worth the most," 

 from a commercial view, it is not ; but 

 we are convinced if the infamous 

 traffic in glucose and other adulterants 

 was stopped, except under their proper 

 names, extracted honey would be at 

 least an equal favorite with the comb, 

 at equally as good figures.— Ed.] 



Translated from "Blenen Vater." 



Items of Interest from Germany. 



BY A. It. KdllNKE. 



Extract Only Capped Honey.— Mr. 



Brun, a bee-keeper, sold to a man 

 some newly extracted honey. At'tera 

 few days the man called again bearing 

 a certificate from a chemist contain- 

 ing a statement of the results of an 

 analysis of the honey to the effect that 

 though the honey was otherwise pure 

 it had been largely diluted with water. 

 This had, of course, not been the case, 

 but the honey had been extracted be- 

 fore being capped. To convince bis 

 man of the purity of his honey he 

 took him out to the apiary, extracted 

 some of the same kind and quality, 

 which was as thin as that the man got 

 before. The man, after obtaining 

 such ocular proof of the purity of the 

 honey, apologized for his conduct, for 

 he not only demanded the return of 

 his money but threatened to expose 

 Mr. B. as a fraud; but instead of that 

 he now bought more honey of the same 

 kind, being well satisfied with it. But 

 Mr. B., the bee-keeper, was not, for 

 he could not help but admit for good 

 honey it was too thin. So he sent some 

 to another chemist to have it analyzed. 

 The verdict returned was. honey pure 

 but too thin; spec. gr. 1.39, which for 

 good honey should be at least 1 .42, but 

 generally is 1.45. Moral: Extract only 

 capped honey. 



The Secretion of Nectar by Honey 

 Plants. — How often do we hear the 

 complaint: "The clover, or buck- 

 wheat, or basswood was in full bloom, 

 but did not seem to yield any honey." 

 It is of the utmost importance for 

 every bee"-keeper to know why many 

 honey plants under apparently very 

 favorable conditions yield no nectar. 

 To discover the cause, and if possible 

 solve the problem, I have made exper- 

 iments for several years in this direc- 

 tion. Two years ago, it was about 

 the time of the rape and white clover 

 bloom, which always furnished a 

 bountiful harvest for the bees, that 

 cold rainy weather set in, so that the 

 bees were not able to gather sufficient 

 winter stores, which would have been 

 the case if the weather had been more 

 favorable. To furnish the bees a sub- 

 stitute I sowed 12 acres in buckwheat, 

 but without manuring. At the be- 

 ginning of August the buckwheat 

 looked beautiful, promising a good 

 harvest of honey, but no bees went 

 after it, nevertheless the weather was 

 all it could be wished for. The yield 

 of grain of this buckwheat, when 

 threshed, was very poor indeed. Send- 

 ing a sample of the soil of that field to 

 a chemist to have it analyzed I was 

 told that the buckwheat could not 

 possibly yield any better because the 

 soil lacked in nitrogen, etc., but es- 

 pecially in lime. This led me to sup- 

 pose that, inasmuch as every plant 

 needs a certain per cent, of nitrogen, 

 lime, etc., to grow to perfection, lime 

 may play an important part in the se- 

 cretion of nectar by enabling the plant 

 to assimilate the constituents of sugar 

 from soil and atmosphere more read- 

 ily. Acting upon this supposition I 

 have found that plants yielding nec- 

 tar at all would do so in a much larger 



degree if planted or sown in a field 



which previously had been manured 

 with lime or plaster, and in case the 

 weather was favorable yielded a most 



bountiful supply of honey. Some may 



rejoin that buckwheat yields the most 

 honey on a. poor, stony or gravelly 

 soil. That is quite natural, for such 

 soil contains the minerals, viz: lime, 

 feldspar, mica, etc.. in abundance, 

 and as buckwheat uses more of that 

 than nitrogen such fields are in the 

 best possible condition to support 

 honey yielding plants. Most com- 

 monly occur lime-feldspar and mica. 

 these undergoing a process of decom- 

 position, the result of which is car- 

 bonate of lime, but as all soil con- 

 tains sulphates this carbonate of lime 

 is changed into sulphate of lime, 

 which, being very soluble, is easily as- 

 similated by plants. Now. if a bee- 

 keeper intends to sow to furnish his 

 bees forage he must be sure that his 

 field contains a liberal supply of lime; 

 if not present in natural sources he 

 must furnish it artificially by plaster- 

 ing. White or any kind of clover 

 serves as a very good illustration and 

 proof. If clover is plastered it grows 

 most luxuriantly; if not even then it 

 will yield honey very often. Because 

 clover is a deep-rooted plant, sending 

 its roots down several feet to obtain 

 what it cannot find at the surface. 



Utah Convention. 



Mr. H. has been cured of a severe 

 attack of rheumatism by B. Schindl- 

 mair, Treasurer of the Vienna Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, by the applica- 

 tion of beestings. On the fiist day he 

 had him stung in the affected parts 

 by 8 bees, on the second by 6, after 

 which the man was soon relieved. 



Last summer a swarm of bees set- 

 tled in the ratlines of the man-of-wai 

 " Frederick Karl," stationed at Kiel 

 harbor. Sailors tried to drive them 

 away by pouring whisky on them; this 

 of course enraged the bees to such a 

 degree that they forced the sailors to 

 leave. A bee-keeper was then sent 

 for; he being absent, his wife, Mrs. 

 Andresen, went on board the ship, 

 hived the swarm and took it ashore. 

 It has been doing well since. 



The question drawer of the Bee- 

 Keepers' Association of Thuringia 

 and surrounding countries, at a late 

 meeting contained the question: 

 " What is the experience with the 

 American honey rack?" Mr. Larupe 

 said he could not recommend it. Mr. 

 Herrmann, who has introduced the 

 use of it in Germany, obtaining his 

 rack of Mr. Newman, of Chicago, on 

 his late visit to Germany, with some 

 prize sections, said that his honey 

 racks, on exposition, proved that bee- 

 keepers in Germany are just as likely 

 to obtain tine honey in prize sections 

 as they do in America, and as much 

 of it, if they only learn to be practical. 

 — Deutscher Bienenfreund. 



[There is evidently a screw loose 

 somewhere; too much theory and not 

 enough of practical application. — 

 Translator.] 



Local Convention Directory. 



1881. Time and Piace oj Meeting. 



Dec. l.">— S. E. Michigan, at Ann Arbor. Mich. 



N. E. Prudden, Sec. 

 1882. 

 Jan. 10— Cortland Union. :it Cortland. N. Y. 



C. M. Bean. Sec, McUrawville. N. V. 

 11, 12— Nebraska State, at Ashland, Neb. 



Geo. M. Hawley. Sec, Lincoln, Neb. 

 17.18— N. W. III. &S.W. Wis., at Freeport. III. 



Jonathan Stewart. Sec, Rock City, 111. 

 25— Northeastern, at Utica. N. V. 



Geo. W. House. Sec. Fayetteville, N, Y. 

 April 11— Eastern Michigan, at Detroit. Mich. 

 A B. Weed, Sec, Detroit, Mich. 

 25— Texas 8tate. at McKinuey. Texas. 



Win. R. Howard, Sec. 



May Champlain Valley, at Bristol, Vt. 



T. Brookins, Sec. 

 25— Iowa Central, at Winterset. Iowa. 



Henry Wallace, Sec. 



137~ In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— Ed. 



Met at Salt Lake, Utah, Oct. 5, 1881. 



The minutes of the previous meeting 

 read and approved. Reports for the 



last six months were called for from 

 the various counties and responded as 

 follows : 



Salt Lake county reported 2,366 col- 

 onies of bees in good condition, with 

 tin- exception of considerable foul 

 brood throughout the country. The 

 county court has appointed but one 

 bee inspector, and the amountof work 

 assigned that officer has proven to be 

 too much for one to accomplish. 118,- 

 .'500 lbs. of honey reported. 



Spanish Fork, Utah County, lias 51.5 

 colonies in good condition. Some foul 

 brood has been destroyed by burning 

 hives and contents, and at present the 

 vicinity is about free from the disas- 

 trous pest. The amount of honey pro- 

 duced this last, season is 33,036 lbs., 

 being an average of over 00 lbs. to the 

 hive ; and at 12% cts. per lb. whole- 

 sale, would be a revenue to that set- 

 tlement of §4, 133.25. Charles Monk is 

 President. 



Payson, Utah County, reports 004 

 colonies of bees, and 31,215 lbs. of 

 honey. Bees are in good condition, 

 except some foul brood. Parley M. 

 Driggs, President. 



Pleasant Grove, Utah County, has 

 403 colonies of bees, and Lehi, Utah 

 County, has 200. 



Gunnison, San Pete County, has 20 

 colonies of bees and lias taken 1,000 

 lbs. of honey. 



Manti, San Pete County, was repres- 

 ented by Wm. Braithwaite, County 

 inspector, who said they had 700 colo- 

 nies of bees. When he inspected the 

 county he found some foul brood, and 

 destroyed about 30 hives by burning 

 or burying them. His bees will yield 

 from 75 to 00 lbs. of honey per hive. 



Cedar City, Iron County, represen- 

 ted by Richard K. Braithwaite, has 

 210 colonies of bees. No foul brood 

 there, but the hot and dry weather 

 has been against their honey harvest 

 this year. 



Cache County was represented by 

 George Millard, of Logan, County in- 

 spector. There are 153 colonies of bees 

 averaging 50 lbs. of honey to the col- 

 ony, or 7,650 lbs. total. The frosts of 

 May and June operated against the 

 bee interests, so that July 1, the work- 

 ers killed off the drones ; however, 

 after that date the bees did very well. 



Tooele County was represented by 

 T. W. Lee, Secretary of the Tooele 

 Association, who says the bees are 

 doing well. They have 130 colonies 

 of bees and no foul brood. 



Jesse Murphy reported his bees 

 doing well and having no foul brood. 

 He had about 95 colonies of his own, 

 and had taken care of some for his 

 neighbors. He had taken 7,000 lbs. of 

 honey and had yet got to take 800 lbs. 

 more and had made 100 lbs. of bees- 

 wax, lie had made a wax extractor 

 of galvanized sheet iron lined with 

 tin, and a glass frame over the top. 

 The box was made flaring at the top 

 and a wire screen placed below the 

 center for the comb and cappings to 

 rest upon. The hot rays of the sun 

 caused the waste honey to run off 

 through a tube in the bottom of the 

 box and the wax settled on the bot- 

 tom very clear. He would melt the 

 dross remaining in a kettle skimming 

 it well. French white glass in large 

 panes was best for the top of the box. 

 It cost him about $5. 



Henry Tempect, of Herriman, said 

 he had about 6 colonies of bees, and 

 was well pleased with his experience. 



David Sabin, of Payson, began 7 

 years ago with 6 colonies of bees, 

 taking them on shares for 5 years. 

 He had returned 36 to the owner and 

 now had 40 of his own. 



The total amount of bees reported 

 in Utah is 5,174 colonies, averaging 50 

 lbs. of honey to the colony would 

 make 268,700 lbs. Total amount of 

 revenue at \2% cts. per lb., wholesale, 

 S32.337.50. 



James Wrathall, of Grantsville, 

 Tooele County, spoke of foul brood, 

 and deprecated the use of hives or 

 frames having been diseased. 



Vice President Samuel McKay, said 

 he could notconsent to or encourage 

 tampering with foul brood. We have 

 a law .in the subject, but it needs re- 

 vising. Moved that a committee of 

 six be appointed to revise the law. 

 They were elected as follows : A. M. 



Musser, President; <;. 11. Bailey, Sam- 

 uel McKay, Kdward Stevenson, Win. 

 Kgan, Jesse Murphy and Horace 

 Drake. 



Horace Drake, of Salt Lake City, 

 had no foul brood in his apiary ; his 

 bees bail done well Ibis year. 



Edward Stevenson had taken 5 col- 

 onies into a new locality where he in- 

 creased them to 9, and had taken 515 

 lbs. of honey from them. His bees 

 had done quite well this season; he 

 had destroyed some hivesof foul brood 

 that came under his observation. He 

 moved that every bee-keeper in Utah 

 resolve himself as a bee-inspector un- 

 til our country is cleared of the pest. 

 Carried unanimously. 



George B. Bailey had taken care of 

 230 colonies of bees that were in good 

 condition ; had destroyed some foul 

 brood, and had taken about 8,770 lbs. 

 of honey. Moved that the minutes of 

 the meeting be published. 



Edward Stevenson, Sec. 



l®°The annual meeting of the N. 

 W. Illinois and S. W. Wisconsin Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, will be held in 

 Temperance Hall, Freeport, Stephen- 

 son Co., 111., on Jan. 17 and 18, 1882. 

 Jonathan Stewart, See. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



BUYERS' QUOTATIONS. 



OFFICE OF AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 1 

 Monday, lo a. m., Dec. 5, 1881. i 



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 light comb honey, in single comb 

 boxes, 18<yi22c ; in larger bi ixes 2c. less. Extracted 

 S®9& 



BEKSWAX-Prime quality, iw;,22e. 



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



NEW YORK. 



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



We quote as follows : White comb, in small 

 boxes, ls(ct22c ; dark, in small boxes, 15<gil7c Ex- 

 tracted, white, liHiullc; dark. 7fd9c, 



BEESWAX. — Prime quality, 21^r#23c. 



Thorn & Co.. 1 1 and 13 Devoe avenue. 



CINCINNATI. 



HONE Y— Is in good demand here now. 



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

 Is,., _•<>,.., on arrival. Extracted, 7i",!ie. on arrival. 



BEESWAX.— 18@22c, on an ival. I have paid 

 25c. per lb. for choice lots. C K. Mt'TH. 



BOSTON. 



HONEY.— 1-pound combs area desirable pack- 

 age in our market, and a large quantity could be 

 soli! ;it -'" ■ .'.v.. according l" quality. 



BEESWAX— Pi inie quality. 25c. 



Crocker & Blake, 57 Chatham Street. 



BALTIMORE. 



HONEY.- But little on the market, and prices 

 ~'t quoted. 

 SWAX.- 



are not quoted. 

 BEESWAX.— Southern, pure. 2|i»23c. ; Western. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



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

 Indiunapolis Stock Review. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



HONEY.— The supply and demand are alike 

 nominal. 

 BEESWAX -Best light 23®2ic— Philadelphia 



Mercliunts' Guide. 



ST. LOUIS. 



HONEY.— Steady, with sale for all offered at 

 quotations: comb at 18<a22c; strained and ex- 

 tracted, 8(a>12t4>c— top rates for choice put up in 

 small packages suitable for retailing, 



BEESWAX-Selling lightly at I9@20c. 



R. C. Greer & Co.. 117N. Main Street. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



HONEY— A sale of choice white extracted in 

 barrels is reported at M^4c. A shipment of I u; ca- 

 ses was made this week to Sydney. Consignments 

 arrive with sufficient frequency and insufficient 

 quantity to prevent any great reduction in stocks. 



We quote white comb, I6@20c; dark togood.lo® 

 He. Extracted, choice to extra white, s.'V- 10c | 

 dark and candied, 7i-i.se. BEESWAX— 23(«25e. 

 Stearns & Smith, 423 Front Street. 



CLEVELAND. 



HONE Y— Our market for choice white honey in 

 1 lb. unglussed sections continues very active at 

 22c; 2 lb. unglass^d at 201-ilMc.: buckwheat rather 

 slow at 18c. Glassed sections would have to be 

 sold 3<s.4c. per lb. less. Extracted selling slowly at 

 12c per I b. 



BEESWAX-lS@2llc 



A. C. Kendel, 115 Ontario Street. 



