1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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ter ? How much snow and rain in winter 

 and summer ? Does the weather get too 

 hot in summer ? Is it above DO degrees 

 much of the time ? What honey-plants 

 have you besides alfalfa ? Is alfalfa very 

 plentiful ? Does fruit pay well I Is there 

 much danger of frost killing it in the 

 spring f What is the price of land, etc. ; 

 R. S. Becktell. 



The advantages here, I suppose, are a 

 healthy and good climate, if one would call 

 it such. We have had no rain since last 

 August that would wet a man with'his coat 

 on. We had two snows about 4 inches 

 each. Our rainy season is in July and 

 August of every year. Bees do well here — 

 a sure houey-flow every year, and for about 

 six months straight along. Mesquite is 

 just beginning to bloom, and lasts about 

 two months. Alfalfa will bloom first in 

 May, about the 15th to the 30th. It will be 

 cut every -10 days, if it is handled rightly. 

 They cut it four times, and when in full 

 bloom. I have a world of catclaw for my 

 bees. I have moved from Eddy to Florence, 

 five miles srom a railroad station. This is 

 all of the flrst-elass honey-plants that are 

 worth speaking about. This is a new coun- 

 try, and there is not much fruit here yet. 

 There is one orchard within :! miles of me, 

 6 years old — about 10 acres, 5 in grapes. 

 The oldest part of the valley is at Roswell. 

 Land is selling from S30 to .t<50 per acre, 

 raw, that is, under the ditches, with a water 

 right. 



Lowest price for bees is .*5 per colony, 

 with no super on the hive, which has S 

 frames. There are no bees in box-hives 

 that I know of. The elevation here is 3,200 

 feet above sea level. The warmest days it 

 is 112 degrees in the shade. The air is dry, 

 the wind blows, and it doesn't seem to be 

 warm. The coldest is down to 4 degrees 

 below zero — but not over six nights all last 

 winter, the coldest winter we have had for 

 sometime. These are some of the advan- 

 tages. 



1 now will try and tell some of the dis- 

 advantages. This is a prairie country — not 

 a natural tree in 50 miles of here ; so dry 

 and sandy that a man cannot eat, from 

 Feb. 15 to May 15, without eating sand in 

 everything he eats. It is warm here, not 

 hot or not cold. Sometimes it blows all 

 day so you can't see 500 feet for a day at a 

 time. Your hives will blow so full of sand 

 that you will have to pour the sand out the 

 next day so the bees can get out. On the 

 5th of this month we had one of those sand- 

 storms, and I could not see my hives all 

 day long. The next morning there was ice 

 all over the ditches, and the fruit was in 

 full bloom, and did not kill it, on account 

 of no moisture in the air. 



On page 240, J, "W. S., of Dayton, Ky., 

 wants to know if we have any sudden 

 changes. Not cold ones, and no hot waves. 



E.SCOGGIN. 



Florence, New Max., April 2. 



'Wintering' Bees in the Cellar. 



Last November I placed six colonies in 

 the cellar, in Langstroth hives. I had a 

 room built very snug and tight, using 

 matched boards, and flooring over the bot- 

 tom. Size of room, 12x14. There is a 

 steam-boiler in the cellar used for heating 

 the house, within four feet of the room, so 

 that the thermometer did not vary from 5S 

 degrees all winter, but I had an opening 

 six inches square through the cellar win- 

 dow, which allowed a cold air draft all the 

 time, giving plenty of ventilation. 



I first placed a super on a bottom-board 

 on the floor of the room, then placed a hive 

 on that, allowing the whole space in the 

 super for ventilation, the opening of course 

 being the same as if the hive was out-of- 

 doors. I then took off the cover, and put 

 on a piece of old cotton cloth, then put on 

 another super to hold the cloth in place — 

 any other arrangement would do as well. 

 In this way I left them no cover on, just the 

 cloth above the bees, and the room dark. 



April 20 I took them out, and placed them 

 on the summer stands. They came out in 

 splendid condition. I could not see that 

 they moved all winter. They did not come 



out at all, and there was not a cup full of 

 dead bees left in all the bottoms after the 

 hives were removed. 



Now in all the accounts I have read, it 

 was stated that from 40 to 45 degrees was 

 the proper temperature, but nothing could 

 be better than the way my bees came out, 

 and apparently they consumed very little 

 of their stores, as the hives were very 

 heavy ; indeed. I could not see but they 

 were as heavy as when put into the cellar. 



O. E. DOCGLASS. 



Lewiston, Maine, April 22. 



Bee-Keeping in Central Missouri. 



Bees are a great deal scarcer here than 

 they were a few years ago, but those left are 

 being managed in a way that better results 

 are being realized. The box-hives and log- 

 gums of long ago have almost disappeared 

 with the "king bee" and other supersti- 

 tious notions. lu their stead we have 

 modern hives, smokers, honey-extractors, 

 Italian queens, bee books and papers. 



The prospect for a honey crop, at this 

 writing, is very good. Bees have built up 

 very fast since about March 25, the best 

 colonies overflowing with young bees. The 

 weather has been dry and warm. Bees be- 

 gan work on apricot bloom about April 1 ; 

 also on willow, elm and maple, in the order 

 named, and now they are just roaring on 

 plum, peach, pear, cherry, apple, goose- 

 berry and currants. As I write, I can see 

 the bees are busy, going to and coming 

 from the hundreds of trees that now are 

 clothed in robes of spotless white. 



I had 16 colonies last year, which gave 

 me a surplus of from 24 to 62 one-pound 

 sections per colony, and from present indi- 

 cations they will do better this year. 



The American Bee Journal comes to me 

 regularly, and is one of my most valued 

 friends. I read it carefully, editorials, cor- 

 respondence, advertisements and all. 



John W. Beattt. 



Excelsior Springs, Mo., April 20. 



Hea-^^ Loss in the Cellar. 



I put 65 colonies into my cellar, last fall, 

 in good conditiou. About two weeks after 

 I put them in, they commenced getting un- 

 easy, and all but two colonies left their 

 hives, and fell on the floor. I have two 

 colonies left. Mark D. Judkins. 



Osakis, Minn.. May 10. 



A Correction — Heavy Fruit-Bloom. 



I wish to correct an error in my article 

 on hive-construction, on page 296. The 

 length of end-bar as there given was 11'4 

 inches. It should read dl inches. Before I 

 bad read Mr. Chas. Dadant's article de- 

 scribing the Dadaut-Blatt hive, and recom- 

 mending a modification of it so as to use 

 lumber 12 inches in width for the brood- 

 chamber, I bad made several brood-cham- 

 bers of that depth, and had decided to make 

 mine all of that depth- hereafter, for the 

 reason that he mentions, viz. ; the ease of 

 getting lumber of the right width. W. C. 

 Frazier objects to these deeper frames on 

 account of the greater liability of the 

 combs to melt and break down in hot 

 weather. I have not learned that the users 

 of the Quiuby frames, which are deeper 

 still, have any trouble on that account. 



Fruit-bloom was very abundant here the 

 first days of May. and the weather warm 

 and pleasant, with an abnndance of mois- 

 ture. My bees came through the winter in 

 perfect conditiou, and colonies are all 

 strong. I put supers on some of the strong- 

 est to discourage swarming, but in spite of 

 the precaution I had a swarm issue the 

 morning of the tith. The weather has 

 turned cold, and 1 reckon that I shall have 

 to feed that swarm. Edwin Bevins. 



Leon, Iowa, May 11. 



Bee-Keeplna: (or ProBt, by Dr. G. L. 



Tinker.— Revised ami enlarged. It details the au- 

 thor's " new system, or how to get the largest yields 

 of comber extracted honey." 80 p.; illustrated. 25c. 



Honey k Beeswax Market Quotations. 



CHICAGO. iLt,., Apr. 18.— The supoly of 

 comb honey is very Ught and looks as thousrh 

 all would be sold, unless it be some California 

 that Is being spread upon the street. Best 

 white comb brings 14c.; dark, S@10c. Ex 

 traded, 5!4@Tc., according to quality, body, 

 flavor and package. 



Beeswax, a8@30c. R. A. B. & Co. 



KANSAS CITY, Mo.. May 8.— The demand 

 for comb honey is light. We quote: No. I 

 white 1-lbs.. 1.5@1 4c. ; No. 2, I2@l3c.: No. 1 

 amber, ll@12e. ; No. 2, lOo. Extracted. 5 ^@7c. 



Beeswax, 25c, C. C. C. & Co. 



CINCINNATI, 0.,May 11.— Demand is quiet 

 for comb honey at 12@16c. for best white, 

 and quiet for extracted at 4@7c. 



Beeswax is in good demand at 2.5®.'ilc. for 

 good to choice yellow. C. F. M. & S. 



CHICAGO. li,L., Mar. 18.— Demand is good 

 for all grades of honey e.xcepting dark comb. 

 We quote: Fancy comb, loc. ; No. 1, 14c. Ex- 

 tracted. 5@6 14c. J. A. Ii. 



PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 18. — Comb 

 honey is in poor demand. Large stores are 

 now waiting for the new crop. Extracted is 

 in fall- demand. Beeswa.x has declined some, 

 but good sales keep market from being over- 

 stocked. We quote: Comb honey. 9c. Ex- 

 tracted, 4 J-^iaec. Beeswax. 29@:i0c. W. A.S. 



NEW YORK. N. Y., May 6.— The market for 

 comb honey is over. We cleaned out all of 

 our stock of white but have some buckwheat 

 yet on hand. Market on extracted is quiet, 

 with sufficient supply to meet the demand. 

 Wequote: White comb, ll@12c.; dark, 8@9c. 

 Extracted, white. 5>4@6c.', Southern. 50@55c. 

 per gallon. Beeswax firm and in good deirand 

 at32@33c. H. B. &S. 



CouTentJon l^otices. 



Ontario.— The midsummer meeting of the 

 Russell County Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held on May 29, 1895. at the apiary of A. 

 Edwards, Rockland. Out. All interested in 

 the production of honey are cordially invited, 

 to attend. W. J. BitowN. Sec. 



Chard, Ont. 



Kansas.— There will be a meeting of the 

 Southeastern Kansas Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, to be held in the city of Ft. Scott, on 

 Thursday, Juue 6. 1895, Evetyboly is in- 

 vited and all bee-keepars are urged to come. 



Bronson. Kans. J. C. Balch, Sec. 



RUDY'S PILE SUPPOSITORY 



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 or money refunded. 50 cents per box. Send 

 two stamps for circular and free Sample to 

 MAKTIN RUDY. Registered Pharmacist, Lan- 

 caster, Pa. No Postals Answered. For 

 sale b.v all first-class druggists everywhere. 

 Peter Van Schaaek & Sons. Robt. Stevenson 

 & Co.. Morrison. Plummer & Co.. and Lord. 

 Owen & Co., Wholesale Agents, Chicago. Ills. 

 Please mention the Bee Journal. Novlo 



List of lloney and Beeswax Dealers, 



Most of whom Quote In this Journal. 



Cblcago, Ills. 



J. A. Lamon, 43 South Water St. 



K. A. Burnett & Co.. 163 South Water Street. 



New Vork, N. V. 



F. I. Sage & Son, 183 Reade Street. 

 HiLDRETH Bros. &Segelken. 



120 & 1-22 West Broadway. 

 Cbas. ISR.AEL & Bros.. 110 Hudson St. 

 I. J. Stringham. 105 Park Place. 



Kansas City, Iflo. 



C. C. Clemoms & Co., 423 Walnut St. 



BuSalo, N. V. 



Batterson & Co., 167 & 169 Scott St. 



Hamilton, Ills. 



Cbas. Dadant & Son. 



Plilladelplika, Pa. 



Wm. a. Selsei!, 10 'Vine St. 



Cincinnati, Otaio. 



C. F. Mute & Son, cor. Freeman & Central ays. 



