1919 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



169 



there is nothing very romantic about 

 turning an extractor, but neither is 

 scraping bee-glue off sections, with 

 the sticky dust flying, anything so 

 very enchanting. It must be con- 

 fessed that when the finished crop 

 is ready for market, the sections pre- 



sent the finer appearance, but it takes 

 more skill to produce them. After 

 all, the deciding factor for each one 

 depends upon which is the more 

 profitable, and that each one must 

 decide for herself. — Ed.) 



Sales direct to retailers : Comb — 

 Western fancy white, $7.50 per case. 

 Extracted: Western, 60-lb. cans, 

 fancy, 25-28c per pound. 



Cure for Yellow Jackets 



On page 98 of the March number of 

 the American Bee Journal, under Dr. 

 Miller's answers, I find some one 

 from Washington asking about yel- 

 low jackets. Here is a sure, not too 

 hard, cure. 



Get, fresh from the butcher shop, 

 a couple of pounds of beef liver 

 (fresh meat) and cut into pieces two 

 and one-half or three inches long by 

 one inch thick. Work into this liver 

 with a knife about one-quarter ounce 

 of either arsenic or Paris green to 

 the pieces. The latter is best, and 

 hang up out of the reach of cats and 

 dogs, by a wire, somewhere around 

 the apiary, or near the honey-house. 

 The yellow jackets do the rest, and, 

 as a rule here, do not bother for a 

 couple of years; then another dose. 

 It seems to clean out both the flying 

 and embryo jackets, as they are 

 meat eaters and will work for nearly 

 a week on one baiting. 



CHAS. F. SCHNACK, 

 Escondido, Calif. 



Paste to Stick Labels to Tin or 

 Glass 



The following formula by W. C. 

 Raymond, in Gleanings, will do it: 



Half an ounce of silicate of soda 

 (or, rather, common water glass), 1 

 ounce coin starch, \ l / 2 pints of water. 

 Add the starch and silicate of soda 

 to the water and stir till uniform; 

 then place the dish in another vessel 

 of water and heat till the starch is 

 gelatinous. 



LEROY FLOYD, 

 Caywood, N. Y. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT 

 OF AGRICULTURE 



Bureau of Markets 

 Honey Arrivals Since Last Report 



Medina O. : 2,180 pounds Michigan, 

 2,898 pounds Florida. 



Shipping Point Information 



San Francisco : Too few sales to 

 establish market. 



Los Angeles: Warm, clear. Sup- 

 plies very !ight and practically all 

 held by exchange. Demand slow; no 

 sales reported. 



Note: Arrivals include receipts dur- 

 ing preceding two weeks. Prices rep- 

 resent current quotations. 



Cincinnati: No carlot arrivals. 

 Supplies heavy. Practically no de- 

 mand or movement; no sales re- 

 ported. Beeswax: Demand and move- 

 ment moderate ; market steady. Sales 

 to jobbers — pure wax, dark to light, 

 40-44c per pound. 



Kansas City: 1 Colorado and ap- 

 proximately SO packages freight ar- 

 rived. Supplies moderate. Demand 

 slow, movement draggy. Sales to job- 

 bers — Comb: 24-section flat cases, 

 Colorado No. 1 light, $7.25; Missouris, 

 $8.00-8.50. Extracted— Colorado, 60-lb. 

 cans, 20-22c per pound. Beeswax: 35- 

 40c per pound. 



Chicago: No carlot arrivals, but 

 liberal receipts from Illinois, Idaho, 

 Colorado, California and Wisconsin 

 in small lots. Demand and movement 

 good for extracted; demand and 

 movement slow for comb. Sales to 

 Jobbers — Extracted: per pound, all 

 sections, white 20-22c, light amber 19- 

 21c. Comb: 24-section cases, West- 

 ern No. 1, $6.50-7.00; dark broken, 

 $4.50 up. Beeswax: Demand and 

 movement moderate, light 45-50c ; 

 dark 40-43c per pound. 



Cleveland : No demand. No job- 

 bing sales. 



Denver: Receipts very light. De- 

 mand and movement very slow. Sales 

 to jobbers— Extracted: White, 19c 

 per pound. Beeswax: Cash to pro- 

 ducer : Light, 38c per pound. 



Minneapolis: Supplies liberal. De- 

 mand and movement slow. Sales di- 

 rect to retailers — Comb : Little change 

 in prices; fancy western white, $7.50- 

 8.00 per case. Extracted: Prices 

 lower. Western, 60-lb. cans, fancy, 

 20-23c per pound. 



New York: Arrivals, 395 barrels 

 West Indies, 1,140 cases Central 

 America, 80 barrels South Pacific 

 ports. Exported: 590 barrels, 445 

 cases to France; 500 cases to Eng- 

 land, 2,680 cases to Sweden, 600 cases 

 to Denmark. Demand slow, few sales 

 to jobbers — Porto Rican and Cuban, 

 $1.85-2 per gallon. New York, per lb., 

 buckwheat 12-16c, clover 18-20c. Bees- 

 wax : Arrivals, 200 bags, 79 seroons, 

 27 cases West Indies; 168 bags South 

 America. Exported : 60 bags to 

 Sweden. Demand and movement 

 slow, market weaker. Per pound, 

 dark 35-37c, light 38-39c. 



Philadelphia: No receipts. Demand 

 and movement very light, practically 

 no movement; very few sales. Sales 

 direct to retailers: Comb— California 

 30-32c per pound. New Yorks, $5.50- 

 6.00 per 24-section case. 



St. Louis : Supplies light. Demand 

 and movement slow. Sales to job- 

 bers — very few sales. Southern Ex- 

 tracted, per pound in barrels, 18c; 

 in cans, 20c. Comb; Practically 

 no supplies on market. No sales re- 

 ported. Beeswax: Prime 35c per 

 pound. 



St. Paul: Supplies liberal. Demand 

 and movement slow; very few sales. 



Telescoping Covers 



For some time I have made my own 

 telescoping covers and under covers 

 for my hives from store boxes. I get 

 some pieces 2 inches wide by seven- 

 eighths inch thick sawed out at the 

 mill and cut them three-quarters of 

 an inch longer than the width of 

 hives. I cover them with three- 

 eighths or half-inch lumber from the 

 store boxes. Then I cover them with 

 asphalt roofing, reaching down over 

 the 2-inch sides of covers. 



I give ihem a coat of asphalt paint 

 every year or two in early spring and 

 leave them out in the weather to dry 



F. Rankin, painting doubl 



some time before I take my bees out 

 of winter cases. 



I find my combs never melt down 

 under such covers and my bees are 

 all without any other shade. 



Enclosed is a picture taken when I 

 was painting the covers. 



D. F. RANKIN 

 Brownstown, Indiana. 



A Missouri Association 



On March 13 the Chariton County 

 Beekeepers' Association was organ- 

 ized at Brunswick, Mo. The follow- 

 ing were elected as officers : 



President — W. L. Williams. 



Vice President— Dr. W. D. West. 



Secretary-Treasurer — H. E. Bartz. 



Prolific Bees 



Thirty-five years ago, when I was 

 17 years old, I secured a swarm of 

 bees which were the gentlest and 

 best honey-getters I ever saw. I 

 made a hive of about eight frames, 

 but about 30 inches long, three stories 

 and a super. The first year I got 

 about 300 pounds of the whitest and 

 finest honey. After that from 30 to 

 100 pounds, with never a failure in 

 the poorest seasons. They were larger 

 than the largest Italians I ever saw, 



