1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Honey & Beeswax Market Quotations. 



CHICAGO, III., June 7.— We have our usual 

 dull season which we look forward to and ex- 

 pect. Honey is entirely forgotten durinipr the 

 months of June. July and August. The mar- 

 ket is pretty well cleaned up of all grades of 

 honey, so the prospects are encouraging for 

 the coming season. We are getting 13@14c. 

 for tight comb. J. A. L. 



KANSAS CIT7. Mo., June 3.— We quote: 

 No. 1 white comb honey, l*lbs., 13(SH4c.; No. 

 2. ll@12c.; No. .1 amber, lOc; No. 2, 8c. 

 Extracted, white, 7c.; amber, 6c. ; dark. 5c. 



Beeswax. 22c. C. C. C & Co. 



CHICAGO. III.. May 23.— The trade in 

 comb honey is very light at this time of the 

 year— as it is between seasons. Soon we will 

 get the new crop, and it will come on a bare 

 market. Just now what little comb sells 

 brings 14c. for the best grades. Extracted, 

 5^@7c. All good grades of beeswax. 30c. 



K. A. B. &Co. 



CINCINNATI, O.. June 8.— Demand Is slow 

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

 There Is a fair demand for extracted honey at 

 4@7c. 



Beeswax is in good demand at25@3ie. for 

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



PHILADELPHIA. PA., May 18. — Comb 

 honey is in poor demand. Large stores are 

 now waiting for the new crop. Extracted is 

 in fair demand. Beeswax has declined some, 

 but good sales keep market from being over- 

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

 tracted, 4i4@6c. Beeswax. 29@30c. W. A.S. 



NEW YORK. N. Y., May 24. -White comb 

 honey is well cleaned up. Considerable buck- 

 wheat remains on the market, and, as the sea- 

 sou is about over, some of it will have to be 

 carried over. Extracted is doing fairly well, 

 with plenty of supply to meet the demand. 

 New southern is airiving quite freely. We 

 quote: Extracted, white, 6@6>4c.; amber, 5 

 @5l^c. Southern, common, 45®o0c. per gal- 

 lon: choice, 60@6oc. 



While beeswax holds firm at 31®32c., we 

 think it has reached top market and do not 

 expect it to go higher. H. B. & S. 



MUTH'S 



HONET EXTBACTOB 



PERFECTION 



Cold-Blast Smokers, 



Square Glass Honey Jars, Etc. 



For Circulars, apply to Chas. F. Muth & Son. 



Cor. Freeman & Central Aves., Cincinnati, 0. 



Send lOo for Practical Hints to Bee-Keepers. 



Mention the A.nierican Bee JounwL 



List of Honey and Beeswax Dealers, 



Most of whom Quote In this Journal. 



Cblcago, Ills. 



J. A. LamON, 43 South Water St. 



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



New York, N. Y. 



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

 HiLDKETH Bros. & Seqelken. 



120 & 122 West Broadway. 

 Chas. Israel & Bros., 486 Canal St. 

 I. J. Strinqham, 105 Park Place. 



Kansas City, mo, 



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



Buffalo, N. Y. 



Baiterson & Co., 167 & 169 Scott St. 



Hamilton, Ills. 



Chas. Dadant & Son. 



Plilladelpbia, Pa. 



Wm. A. Selser, 10 Vine St. 



Cincinnati, Oblo. 



C. F. MtlTH & Son. cor. Freeman H Central avs. 



A d-au<I Dee-Smoker is the one 



offered by W. C. R. Kemp, Orleans, Orange 

 Co., Ind. It has a 3-inch fire-barrel, burns 

 ^11 kinds of fuel, and is simple, efficient and 

 durable. Send 100 cents for a sample 

 smoker, and you will have a rare bargain. 



time until the past year I have been gain- 

 ing slowly. We seem to have had rather 

 more than our share of hard luck during 

 that time. My husband had his hand badly 

 torn to pieces In a circular saw; the barn 

 burned with 150 tons of hay, etc., and alto- 

 gether it has been pretty hard to make 

 both ends meet, and sometimes they did 

 not quite meet. But I am getting better, 

 and we are hoping for better times. I hived 

 two swarms of bees while my husband was 

 away lately. We enjoy reading the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal very much indeed. 



Mrs. J. H. Whitcomb. 

 Wacouta, Minn., June 6. 



Labrador Tea — The Kingbird. 



I send a branch from a plant that grows 

 in this country. I wish to know its name, 

 and whether it will furnish any honey for 

 the bees. 



We have here a brown bird with a small 

 top-knot that watches for and catches the 

 bees. It does not eat them, but pinches the 

 honey out of them. Do you think they 

 will do any harm ? 



Mrs. Mate Williams. 



Nimrod, Minn., May 20. 



[Prof. Burrill replies to the foregoing as 

 follows: —Editor.] 



The plant is called Labrador Tea (Ledmn 

 hdifoUmti). It is nearly related to the rho- 

 dodendrons and azaleas of the eastern por- 

 tions of our country. I know nothing of 

 its honey-producing qualities. 



The bird is probably the kingbird, well 

 known for its habit of killing bees and 

 chasing large birds, like hawks and crows. 

 There is no doubt but that the bird does in- 

 jure the bee-keepers business. — T. J. BnH- 



RILL. 



Wintered First-Rate. 



I have 10 colonies of bees in Chautauqua 

 double-walled hives, and they wintered 

 first-rate, only one being lost during the 

 winter. I run for comb honey, only it was 

 so dry that I did not get much surplus last 

 year. The Bee Journal is a welcome visitor. 



Jamestown, N. Y. Edwin Ward. 



Cold Weather Injured Clover. 



My bees came through the winter with a 

 loss of 6 colonies (went into winter weak), 

 leaving 37 that were all right. They built 

 up finely on fruit-bloom, and began swarm- 

 ing. They were booming strong May 1, 

 with clover beginning to bloom, and the 

 bees beginning to pay their respects to it 

 nicely up to May 7, when the cold, frosty 

 weather gave it all a clean "knock out." 



W. E. BURMETT. 



Harrisburg, 111., June 3. 



False Indigo— Cold Weather. 



I send you a sample of flower which was 

 brought to this country by the floods of 

 1883-84. No one seems to know what it is, 

 and as the bees are working on it now very 

 busily. I thought 1 would ask you to inform 

 me through the Bee Journal what the 

 flower is. It grows on a bush about 6 feet 

 high, very much like a hazel bush, free 

 from thorns. The leaves resemble black 

 locust a great deal, but I hardly think it is 

 a locust, as there are no thorns. 



Bees in this county were doing finely 



until this cold spell, which has been very 

 hard on them. P. F. Kanzler. 



Rock port, Ind., May 23. 



[Prof. Burrill, of the Illinois State Uni- 

 versity, to whom I forwarded the plant 

 specimen, says this of it:— Editor.] 



This is False-Indigo {AmurphafrutimsH), a 

 shrub of not very uncommon occurrence in 

 our western country. It belongs to the 

 Leguminosa? family, hence is related to the 

 locusts and red buds.— T. J. Burrill. 



Northern Illinois Convention. 



The spring meeting of the Northern 

 Illinois Bee-Keepers' Association was held 

 at the apiary of H. W. Lee, in Pecatonica, 

 111., May 31. There was a good attendance, 

 and a pleasant day was spent in examining 

 Mr. Lee's bees and fixtures, as he is one of 

 the largest apiarists in this part of the 

 State. The winter and spring losses are 

 reported quite heavy by members cf the 

 association, and white clover not very 

 plentiful this spring. 



As the spring meeting is more of a visit- 

 ing meeting, to see the methods others use, 

 there were not many questions discussed. 

 Resolutions of respect were passed upon 

 the deaths of Edmund Whittlesey, of Peca- 

 tonica, and John Swanzey, of Freeport, 

 who died April 24. B. Kennedy, Stc. 



New Milford, 111. 



Bees Wintered All Bight. 



I wintered 6 colonies all right, and now 

 have 14. Some of my bees are in box-hives, 

 and swarm as they please. I started in 

 two years ago with one colony of Italian 

 bees that I found on a mesquite bush. I 

 knew nothing whatever about bees at that 

 time, but hope to "get there " all right in 

 time. J. W. Knafp. 



Water Valley, Tex., June 4. 



Wintering Bees in Box-Hives, Etc. 



1 started with a colony of Italians in a 

 hive with movable frames, and bought two 

 old box-hives with fair colonies, from a 

 neighbor who had let the bees " look out 

 for themselves;" these 1 transferred into 

 S-frame Simplicity hives on May 7— each 

 box-hive making four good frames of brood 

 and honey, to which I added four full 

 frames of foundation. On May 11 I ex- 

 amined them, removed the fastening strips, 

 and found, to my surprise, that the founda- 

 tion would average about half drawn out, 

 and from two to four pounds of honey in 

 each new frame. I had about eight pounds 

 of honey from the old hives. The exceed- 

 ing warm weather of the week, from May 

 G to 11, had forced the pear and apple bloom 

 two weeks ahead of its usual time. 



I noticed that the combs in the box-hives 

 were rounded at the bottoms, and were at 

 least two inches from the bottom at their 

 nearest point, with imperfect, unused cells 

 four inches from that point. The inference 

 I draw from this is that naturally the bees 

 want an air-space below the brood ; hence, 

 would it not be a good plan to place a sec- 

 tion-ease under the hive for wintering ? 



I see so many complaints of bees dying 

 during the winter in apiaries conducted 

 with movable-frame hives, while my neigh- 



