THE AMERICAl^ BEE JOURNAL. 



259 



The Coming Bee.— The following 

 very amusing sketch of the troubles 

 incident upon removing bees from 

 cellars, is from Gleanings, by Eugene 

 Secor, Forest City, Iowa. On April 

 17, 1883, he wrote as follows : 



This subject has been discussed so 

 many times that I should not touch it, 

 were it not from the fact that I have 

 seen it. I saw it yesterday. In fact, 

 I saw several of them. Tliey saw nie, 

 too — I mean some of them did, and 

 the rest felt for me, and they found 

 me. I felt them without feeling for 

 them either. My feeling so pleased 

 them that they called in their sisters, 

 cousins and aunts, fo feel of me also. 

 They came, they saw, they felt.. I 

 felt, too— in fact, I feel yet. 



This is iiow 1 came to see, 



And feel tlie points of tiie coming bee. 



They were in the cellar, where they 

 had been for only the short period of 

 1.57 days and nights, amiable, gentle 

 Italians, as I supposed when I tucked 

 them in their little beds in the fall. 

 My cellar was dark. They could not 

 see ; so I suppose they had got accus- 

 tomed to feeling. May be that ac- 

 counts for the fellow-feeling they 

 manifested for me. I carried out col- 

 ony Xo. 1, sans hat, sans coat, sans 

 gloves. The "coming bee" at once 

 dawned upon my vision. She felt of 

 my hands, felt of neck, felt of my 

 hair, and felt of my whiskers. She 

 sang a song in bee-sharp which at- 

 tracted all her female acquaintances. 

 They improvised a jubilee concert on 

 the spot. I was the only interested 

 auditor ; and as soon as I could "un- 

 load my stock," I "clapped." They 

 appreciated the cheering, and sang 

 louder. They called in some of their 

 finest Italian opera-singers and per- 

 formers. That music is not usually 

 understood in this country. The 

 clapping is generally done because it 

 is fashionable to applaud everything 

 that is foreign. I5ut 1 understood 

 every demi-semi-quaver. I clapped 

 with the spirit and with the under- 

 standing also. But I felt that they 

 were expending too much talent on 

 such a small audience, so I retired as 

 gracefully as the overwhelming at- 

 tentions being paid me would allow. 



Intermission of 15 minutes. Curtain drops. 



It is usually customary for the actors 

 to change costumes while the curtain 

 is down. In this instance, however, 

 the audience changed dress. The 

 next act begins wlien I carry the 

 second colony out of the cellar. This 

 time I am prepared for the coming 

 bee. Armed with straw hat, bee- 

 veil, and gauntlet gloves, I looked like 

 a cross between a knight-errant, a 

 sister of charity, and an honest 

 granger. With my gauntlets drawn 

 snugly around the arms witii rubber 

 cord, and the veil ditto around the 

 neck, now let 'em sing, sang I. They 

 sang again ; and as the wind gently 

 pressed the tarlsttan against my nose, 

 one of the foremost of the Italian 

 singers sat down to rest on the orna- 

 ment part of my face. As I had no 

 one to help me let go of the hive I was 

 carrying, and as I was in somewhat of 

 a hurry, I allowed the Italian miss to 



keep her seat. All at once she doubled 

 up like a boy who has eaten too many 

 green cucumbers ; and as if afraid of 

 falling off, she drilled my proboscis 

 with her little gimlet. Others of her 

 companions, hearing of her distress, 

 came to see what was the matter, and 

 sat down also. And as there was not 

 sitting room on my front porch for 

 all the sympathizing friends, some of 

 them crowded between my veil and 

 the place where my shirt collar ought 

 to have been, and came up on the in- 

 side for a closer interview. By the 

 time I had reached the yard, my neck 

 felt as if I had undergone treatment 

 for sore throat with counter-irritants. 

 Then if you ever saw a cat trying to 

 pull a mitten off its head with its fore 

 paws, you can imagine how dignified 

 I looked. Instead of being the audi- 

 ence, I was now one of the chief per- 

 formers, while my wife, sitting in the 

 bay-window, was the interested and 

 amused spectator, enjoying the show 

 as much as our boys did Barnum's 

 Hippodrome. I created as much 

 interest as a whole menagerie, when 

 the animals had just been "stirred 

 up." The performance lasted only 

 about an hour, and closed amid the 

 wildest enthusiasm. 



Don't talk to me about the Apis 

 dorsata. If their gimlets are any longer 

 than the ones I felt, I'll be excused 

 from buying any. Tell Mr. Jones he 

 had better call Frank Benton home. 

 I have lost all interest in the "coming 

 bee." 



Dzierzon's Rational Bee-Keeping. 



Oleanings, in bee-culture, gives this 

 book the following notice : 



Mr. Newman has kindly sent us a 

 work entitled " Rational Bee-keping," 

 by our old father Dzierzon, the origi- 

 nator of the theory bearing his name. 

 The author is not only a thoroughly 

 scientific bee-keeper, but a naturalist. 

 lie has probably made greater strides 

 in scientific apiculture than any one 

 man. His book contains his many 

 discoveries, together with his valua- 

 ble experience and research. In ad- 

 dition to this are foot-notes by C. N. 

 Abbott, the former editor of the 

 British Bee Journal. We thus have 

 the opportunity of direct comparison 

 and verification. As regards the na- 

 ture, the distinctive characteristics 

 and explanation of some of the pecu- 

 liar phenomena noticed in bees, the 

 book seems to stand among the fore- 

 most, if not in the front ranks. I 

 hardly think the implements of the 

 apiary would be at all suited to Ameri- 

 can bee- keepers ; but as for real scien- 

 tific value, it would well repay any 

 bee-keeper whose attention is at all 

 inclined to scientific research, to pur- 

 chase a copy. It contains 350 pages, 

 fully illustrated. 



We can mail it to any address for $2, 

 bound in cloth, or $1.75 in paper 

 covers. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



OFFICE OF AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, J 



Monday, 10 a. m., May 21, 1882. ( 



The following are the latest quota- 

 tions for honey and beeswax received 

 up to this hour : 



Quotations of Cash Bnyera. 



CHICAGO. 



nONEY— The nominal price of extracted is 7c. 

 for dark and uc. for IlKht— here. The supply is 

 abundant and sales are slow. 



BBESWAX-None in the market. 



AL. H. Newman. a23 W. Madison St. 



CINCINNATI. 



HONEY.— The demand for extracted honey i& 

 very f.'nod, and arrivals are slow. We pay 7@l0c. 

 on arrival. We sold, sint e last October, more than 

 6(H.l barrels, and our stock is exhausted, while our 

 customers are rely ing on us for supplies. Hope our 

 friends will supply us. No demand for comb 

 honev. and prices nominal. 



BEESWA.X.— Arrivals of beeswax are good, and 

 prices range from 3U{Si35c. for a good article. 



Chas. F. Muth. 



t^ Articles for publication must be 

 vnritten on a separate piece of paper 

 from items of business. 



Quotations of Commission Merchants. 



CHICAGO. 



HONEY— The demand is light and it is not now 

 probable that all of tiie comb honey can be sold 

 before a new crop comes. Prices a re very irregular 

 and generally low: l5(*16c.for white, and dark un- 

 salable. Extracted, very little trade is being done 

 in it. 7@9c. is about the market. 



BEESWAX-SSCiiafic. 



R. A. Burnett. I61 South Water St. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



HONEY-Stocks and tbe demand are both light. 

 More or less difilculty would be experienced in 

 fllling a large order for a straight lot. 



White comb. 14@17c.: dark to good. ll@I3c.; ex- 

 tracted, choice to extra white, 8^@9^c. ; dark and 

 candied, 5(gt7^c. 



BEBSWAX-Wholesale, 27®28c. 



Stearns & Smith. 423 Front Street. 



ST. 1.01118. 



HONEY— Dull: light jobbing sales only. Comb 

 at Kt@14c.— Strained and extracted at 7@7^c. 

 Couple lots of poor Comb sold at 10c. 



BBESWAJC— Sold lightly at 35@36c. 



W. T. ANDEKSON & CO., 1 17 N. Main Street. 



CL,KVELAND. 



HONEY— Stocks of honey are running low with 

 us. l-lb. sections are all sold and there is a very 

 light inquiry for such: would probably sell at 

 18(gi20c. 2-lb. sections are not In demand, and no 

 sales to quote, asking 17®18c. Extracted no sale 

 at 9w)10c. 



BEESWAX— Not offering. 



A. C. KENDEL. 115 Ontario Street. 



BOSTON. 



HONEY— Our market is fairly active. We quote: 

 H lb. sections at 30C.: 1 lb. sections, 22(S25c.; 2 1b. 

 sections, 20@22c. Extracted, loc. per lb. Good 

 lots of extracted are wanted in kegs or barrels. 



BEESWAX— Our supply is gone: we have none 

 to quote. 



CROCKER & BLAKE, 57 Chatham Street. 



t^ The Southwestern Iowa Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold its 

 annual meeting at the apiary of L. E. 

 Mercer, Lenox, Taylor county, Iowa, 

 May 26, 1883. Meeting called at 10 

 o'clock sharp. Forenoon : Election 

 of officers. Afternoon : Work in the 

 apiary, when any question, with re- 

 gard to handling bees, will be practi- 

 cally explained. Accommodations will 

 be provided for visitors from a dis- 

 tance. W. J. Oliver, Sec. 



Bee Pasturage a Necessity.— We have 



just issued a new pamphlet giving our 

 views on this important subject, with 

 suggestions what to plant, and when 

 and how. It is illustrated with 26 en- 

 gravings, and will be sent postpaid to 

 any address for 10 cents. 



