Aug. 24, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



543 



melon, but it will be thin and dark, aud I 

 never thought it very good to winter bees 

 on. But the bees would be of great value 

 to the melon-growers, to fertilize the blos- 

 soms so the melons will set. We get ,-;/ 

 more cantaloupes now than we did before 

 we bad bees; and the same with water 

 melons. G. W. Swink. 



Otero Co., Colo. 



White Honey Crop Short. 



The crop of white honey is very short in 

 this vicinity this season, but the prospects 

 are favorable for a good crop of dark 

 honey. A. \V. Smith. 



Sullivan Co., N. Y., Aug. 5. 



Gatheping Some Surplus Honey. 



Lately the best colonies of bees have been 

 gathering some surplus — and fair quality, 

 not black stuff like last year. I just bear 

 that Earl Baker, a young apiarist in the 

 edge of the city, has been harvesting quite 

 a lot — presumably sweet clover, which is 

 plenty down there, and scattering this far 

 out. E. E. H.\STY. 



Lucas Co.. Ohio, Aug. 7. 



A Correction and Report. 



Kindly correct the mistake in my fifth 

 paragraph on page 515, where it reads, 

 "The surface retains the beat,'' etc. It 

 should read: The atmosphere above re- 

 tains the heat, etc., and the warm atmos- 

 phere coming in contact with objects ofithe 

 earth's surface, contract and give off mois- 

 ture, etc. 



Bees reduced from OU colonies to '.I, sell- 

 ing S80 worth ; '25 colonies froze during the 

 severe winter, and 9 rousing colonies re- 

 main in 3-story lOframe dovetail hives, 

 full of honey and brood from top to bottom. 

 A. B, Bates. 



Franklin Co., Mo., Aug. IS. 



Laying Worliers with Sealed Cells. 



We had a laying-worker experience in 

 our apiary this summer, that was very 

 peculiar, and also very interesting. It oc- 

 curred thus: 



Two colonies cast a small after-swarm, 

 one a black and one a beautiful hybrid, but 

 no queen accompanied the blacks. The 

 two were hived together. The young queen 

 became fertilized and laid profusely for 

 more than a month, but for some reason 

 she suddenly disappeared, and some of the 

 nicest queen-cells I ever saw were started. 

 The strange part of the case was this: 

 After the cells were sealed, laying workers 

 made their appearance. As there were few 

 or no drones in the hive. I thought perhaps 

 those workers were laying to produce 

 drones to fertilize the young queen, but, of 

 course, as the eggs were not laid until after 

 the queen-cells were sealed, the queen 

 would perhaps be laying before the drones 

 hatcht. As I have said before. I thought 



]ierJi(ip.'i those workers were laying to pro- 

 duce drones to fertilize the queen, for I 

 have no positive proof of it. Altho it does 

 look doubtful that those would-be queens 

 would know what their eggs would de- 

 velop into when they were laying them, 

 yet that is the conclusion I came to. 



I was ivry much surprised also to find the 

 bees starting cell cups when they had as 

 nicecells as they could wish. It has been 

 stated by one of the most prominent bee- 

 keepers in the United States, that laying 

 workers will never appear in a colony that 

 has brood at the right stage for queen-rear- 

 ing; this is, however, an exception to that 

 rule. But what rule is there that does not 

 have exceptions ? 



Later. — Yesterday {July 29) I exam- 

 ined the hive. What i/rent changes had 

 taken place ! The young queen had begun 

 to lay, the laying workers had disappeared, 

 and no trace of their work left except the 

 corpse-like pupa? which were dragged from 

 the cells, and the milky juices being greed- 

 ily devoured by the bees. Now. what do 

 the readers of the Bee Journal think of 

 such a colony of bees ? 



Willie T. Stephenson. 

 Massac Co., 111.. July 30. 



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Chicago, Auj,*-. 10, — A few consig-nnieuts ot 

 CDiub houey received this week, some cases of - 

 fancy in jjlain sections sold at 15 cents, other 

 lots at 13(u 14 cents, while No. 1 sold at 12(" 13c: 

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Kansas Citv, Aug. 10.— The receipts of honey 

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New York, Au^. *).— Old stock is entirely 

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 amber, lie; No. 1, 10c. Extracted in g-ood de- 

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San Francisco, Aug-. 9. — White comb, 11*^@ 

 12^c; amber, 8(gAl0c. Extracted, white,7J<@7"3:;. 

 lig-ht amber, 6^@7c. Beeswax, 26'.^#27c. 



There is not much offering', either here or at 

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 jobbing- character. 



Cleveland, Aug. 18. — New honey scarce and 

 in good demand. Fancy white, 15c: No. 1 white, 

 13(q'l4c; fancy amber, 12c; No. 1 amber. lOfollc. 

 A. B. Williams & Co. 



Boston, Aug. IS.— Fancy white comb, 1-pound 

 sections, 15^«( 16c; A No. 1, 14c; No. 1, 12@43c: 

 No. 2, 10c. Light amber extracted, 7c. Bees- 

 wax, 27c. 



The demand for houey is very light, as is 

 usual this time of year. While stocks are ex- 

 tremely lig'ht, the old being practically gone, 

 and no new as yet. Owing to poor crop pros- 

 pects prices are firm, and it lofiks as if they 

 would remain so. Blake, Scott & Lee. 



Buffalo, Aug. 4.— The honey season has 



opened In a moderate way, a few small lots of 



new arriving. Extra fancy 1-pound combs, 13(5 



14c; fair to good, H@12c; dark. poor, etc., 8(fl'9c. 



Batterson & Co. 



Omaha, Aug. 16.— Still very little doing and 

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 not been establish!. Little lots of choice new 

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 order to place larger quantities at this time a 

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 Peycke Bros. 



Detroit, Aug. 19. — There has beeunooifer- 

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 extracted, 7'" 8c; uo dark to quote. Beeswax in 

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