THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS 0. NEWMAN, 



Voinill. Marcy 0,1881. No. 13. 





After the Sliower, the tranquil sun ; 



After the enow, the emerald leaves ; 

 Silver stars when the day is done ; 



Alter the harvest, golden sheaves. 



To make Alsike Bloom Ijater, the 



first growth may be cut when about 6 inches 

 high, thus delaying the blooming time until 

 about the close of the white clover honey 

 yield. It will pay to do this, lor unless it Is 

 done, the white and Alsike will bloom at the 

 same time. 



A. O. Cra\rrord has sent us a sample of 

 his "Carton," or folding bo.v for inclosing 

 sections of comb honey. On the front and 

 back of the bo.\ are nice printed labels giving 

 the name and address of the apiarist, etc. 

 The " Carton '• makes a neat and attractive 

 package, as well as keeping the honey from 

 the dust while on the grocer's shelves. 



The ProdDc-tlon of Coiub Houey as 



practiced and advised by W. Z. Hutchinson. 

 This is the title of a new pamphlet of io 

 pages, just from the press. It is very enter- 

 taining and practicaUandany one interested 

 in the production of honey in the comb will 

 be benefited by its perusal. The subjects 

 presented are : Securing Workers for the 

 Harvest— Supers — Separators — Sections — 

 Tieringup— Hiving Swarms on Empty 

 Combs, on Comb Foundation, or on Empty 

 Frames— Building Drone Comb— What Shall 

 be Used in the Sections— Wa.\-, etc. It can 

 he obtained at this office for 25 cents. 



Leaflet No. 2, entitled " Alsike Clover 

 for Pasturage and Hay," is now ready for 

 delivery. It should be scattered at once into 

 every neighborhood. In order to induce 

 farmers to plant Alsike, that the bees may 

 have the ad vantage of it for past u rage. We 

 send them by mail .50 copies for .'to cents ; 

 100 for 50 cents ; 500 for $2.25- all post- 

 paid. It will pay bee-keepers to scatter 

 these Leaflets, even if 9 out of 10 avail 

 nothing. If ten farmers out of a hundred 

 plant Alsike in any neighborhood, the bees 

 will reap a very substantial reward. 



Shipments of C'alirornla Houey.— In 



their "Annual Market Review," Messrs. 

 Schacht& Lemcke estimate the Calitciinia 

 honey crop for 18S6 at 2,000 tons ol ex- 

 tracted and .500 tons In the comb. As to 

 what became of this honey, they remark 

 thus : 



E.xports to foreign localities have i-een 

 very small compared with former year^^. and 

 are as follows : Tn England during J 886, 

 were shipped 3,475 cases fof these 1.500 

 cases were shipped before July 1, and belong 

 to the crop of 1885). To France. 588 eases 

 were shipped, and to Australia. China, 

 Honolulu, British Columbia, etc., about 1,200 

 cases. Besides these exports by sea, some 

 shipments have been made via New York 

 and New Orleans to England. France and 

 Germany, but in all they aggregate hardly 

 over 2.000 cases of honey. 



In 1885 the shipments to Europe were 

 much larger, and besides large shipments 

 via New Orleans from the Southern Coun- 

 ties, some 10.000 cases of honey were ship- 

 ped only to England from here and Wei- 

 mington by sailing vessel, and 11,000 eases 

 in 1884 during the twelve months. 



The small shipments to Europe in 1886 

 were caused by the low prices ruling there 

 in consequence of too heavy shipments in 

 the preceding years, and by no means by a 

 decreasing demand abroad, because Califor- 

 nia honey finds more and more favor every- 

 where. 



If the shipments to Europe during the past 

 year must be called small, they have been 

 unusually large to the Atlantic, Western 

 and Southern States of this country. In 1886 

 2.643,440 pounds of honey were shipped by 

 rail overland from here and Southern Sta- 

 tions against 1,270.000 pounds in 1885. 

 These large shipments were made practi- 

 cable in consequence of the low overland 

 freights, and in consequence of a small crop 

 in the Atlantic and Western States, and it is 

 to be hoped that the freights will never be 

 as high as before for honey, so that also in 

 the future a large business can be done in 

 this country with our honey. 



The supplies on hand have been consider- 

 erably reduced by these shipments over- 

 land, and in this city they are, at the present 

 time, smaller than in 1886. We estimate 

 stocks on hand in this city to be 1.000 cases 

 of extracted honey and 700 cases of comb 

 honey, and in the interior hardly over 4,000 

 cases of extracted honey and 2,000 cases of 

 comb honev will be found. 



The flooding of the Eastern and Southern 

 States with California honey during the past 

 year, has been ruinous to prices, and a very 

 great detriment to all the honey-producers 

 outside of the Paciflo Slope. The Review 

 states that the prices received by California 

 apiarists were only " from 3 to 4'/2 cents per 

 pound, according to quality." These prices 

 are ruinously low ! and, as a result, the 

 prices all over the Cnited States have been 

 lower than ever before ! I 



But now the "prospect" is brighter!! 

 California will have only half-a-crop this 

 year, and prices in San Francisco have 

 already advanced 25 per cent., with a " ris- 

 ing" tendency I In Europe, the large stocks 

 of last year have been greatly reduced, and 

 there will be a lively demand in that quarter 

 —this will also enhance prices I The quan- 

 tities of extracted honey now held in all great 

 Martsof Trade should not be saariflced— for 

 now the prospect of an advance in price Is 

 better than it has been for a year. Those 

 who have honey in the hands of commission 

 men should hold it "firm" at fair figures, 

 and thus sustain and "bull " the market 1 ! 



The "gloom" on the honey market is 

 passing away, and the " fog" is being lifted 

 by the bright sun of " rising values," which 

 even now begins to arise on the East hori- 

 zon I Very soon will it bring joy and glad- 

 ness to the apiarists all over the country ! I 



Good Advice to beginners Is given by F. 

 L. Dougherty in the Indiana Farmer, in the 

 following lines ; 



In beginning bee-culture do not spend too 

 much money— be contented with small 

 things— supply yourself freely with bee- 

 books and literature— do not be economical 

 on this point ; then get a few colonies of 

 black bees to be Italianized afterward ; read, 

 observe, and make good use of your obser- 

 vations. 



Hon. C. F. Greening, of Grand Meadow, 

 Minn., has great confidence In Italian bees. 

 He says he knows them to be good, and that 

 they will gather honey and multiply when 

 black bees will starve. He has demonstrated 

 that they are earlier and later at work, are 

 stronger, and moth-proof. 



Swarming is at its height here about the 

 last of June and the first of July. During 

 this time it is essential for the beekeeperto 

 be constantly on the watch for issuing 

 swarms, unless he practices dividing, and 

 knows their condition from constant asso- 

 ciation. 



Koom for storing honey must be abun- 

 dantly furnished at a time when it Is being 

 gathered. If not supplied, idleness will he 

 encouraged, and perhaps loss from swarm- 

 ing incurred. 



Another lying newspaper item about 

 comb honey has already appeared in the 

 Milwaukee Sentinel and other papers, which 

 reads thus : 



The artificial honey now made in New 

 York, is so close to the genuine that only 

 the experts can detect the difference. It is 

 in " racks " the same as the natural product, 

 and then the wings and legs of a few dead 

 bees are to be found to further the decep- 

 tion. It can be sold at a profit for 10 cents 

 per pound, and the honey-bee may go. 



That "racket" must have "racked" the 

 brain of the writer— for the " natural pro- 

 duct" of comb honey is put up In "sec- 

 tions," not racks ; and it does not contain 

 the " wings and legs " of dead bees !" There 

 Is not a truthful setitenee in the whole para- 

 graph I 



Catalogues for 1887.— 'I'hose on our 

 desk are from 



George Neighbour & Sons, London Eng- 

 land— 70 pages— Bee-Appliances. 



Martin & Macy, North Manchester, Ind.— 

 24 pages— Bees, Queens, and Bee-Keepers' 

 Supplies. 



J. B. Mason cS: Sons. Mechanic Falls, Maine 

 —24 pages— 13ee- Keepers' Supplies. 



Geo. H. Knickerbocker, Pine Plains, N. Y. 

 (Silas M. Locke, Manager of Bee-Farm) — 4 

 pages— Bees, Queens and Smokers. 



Chequasset Kennels, Lancaster, Mass.— 6 

 pages— Dogs. 



Levering Brothers, Wiota, Iowa— 8 pages— 

 Bee-Keepers' Supplies. 



S. H. Blosser, Dayton, Va.— 8 pages- 

 Queens and Supplies. 



A. O. Crawford. South Weymouth, Mass — 

 8 pages— Bee-Keeping Specialties, Cartons, 

 etc. 



Rev. R. H. Fisher, Oshkosh, Wis.— 14 pages 

 —Silk- Worms and Silk-Culture. 



C. D. Diivall. Spencerville, Md.— 16 pages- 

 Queens, Bees and Poultry. 



For aPubllcOTan, who has served the 

 country in the Cabinet and the Diplomatic 

 service as Minister at the greatest European 

 courts, and as her ablest and most philo- 

 sophic historian. George Bancrolt is little 

 known to the majority of readers, so far as 

 his personality is concerned. The opening 

 article in Frank Leslie'is Popular Monthly for 

 April, presents him to us as he is. and the 

 sketch bv Ansburn Towner is extremelv 

 clover. The Voyage Down the Red Sea iV 

 cleverly told by Col. C. Chaillc Long, whose 

 knowledge of Egyptian matters is so wide, 

 and who shows great personal observation 

 and skill in describing. The stories, of 

 which there are several, are extremely good 

 reading. 



