THE BEE-KEEERS' REVIEW. 



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but it is equally true that it is easy to s«j 

 manage as to have plenty of them v*-ithout 

 cost. When bees swarm they build from 

 half a dozen to a dozen or more queen 

 cells. The building of these cells and 

 the feeding of the embryo queens cost 

 the bees some labor, and that is all 

 that queens cost the regular honey pro- 

 ducer. When his bees swarm let him 

 hive the swarms in hives having^ no more 

 than an ordinary capacity. In other 

 words, don ' t overwork your queens. Bro. 

 Dadanl's trouble comes from expectirg 

 and getting too much out of each queen. 

 Instead of "horsewhipping" the queens. 

 I would get more queens to help them. 

 Hive vour swarms in smaller hives, give 

 fewer combs to each queen, and another 

 year you will have more qneens in pro- 

 portion to your number of combs than 

 you have now. Bro. Dadant savs to him- 

 self: ""Here I have i.ooo combs and only 

 Jjo queens. I must give these queens all 

 the room possible, so as to get just as 

 many bees as I possibly ran." My way 

 of looking at it wotild be like this: 'Here 

 I have i,ooo combs, and I want to get 

 just as many bees out of them as possible, 

 so I will have plenty of queens, and thus 

 get the combs jtist as full of ^gs as 

 I can." You see that Bro. Dadant and 

 myself are both after bees, but we go 

 at it in a different way. He tries to see 

 how far he can make each queen spread 

 herself: I get plenty of queens so that 

 I am sure each one will sorely fill all of 

 the combs given her. 



Honey Quotations. 



The foUowing nuev f. -r grhtV.-:.^ r :--7 -x--~ 

 adopted by the NortL Americai: B-»- K^:--- 

 AMociation. at its WashiQgton meetinc. aixi. so 

 fmr as pnesible. qaota:i'>ii«af« aade aocordiii« 

 to titeee rales. 



FuiCT.— :U1 aectioos to he well filled: combe 

 straiicht, of even thickness^ and firmly attached 

 to all loot eidee : both vood and eombmitiaiMd 

 bytraTvl-etaimorotberariee: all the cells emieti 

 »xc*pt the row of edl» n^xt the wood. 



No. U— .\11 seetioos wU fiDed. bat combs ob- 

 eT« or crooked, detsched at the bottaa. or 



with bat few celi^ oiuiealiBd; both wood and 

 comb ansoUed by rrarel stain or otherwise. 



In addition to this the hoopy is to be classified 

 acconiin^ to color, n^ing the terms white, amber 

 and dark. That is, ther«» will be '" fancr white."' 

 \rt. 1. ilark." etc. 



CLEVEL.\N'D. O.— Demand for white Honey is 

 ver>- firood, and market firm. We quote as ?ol- 

 ows; Fancy white. 15 to u: No. 1. while. 12 to 13: 

 Fancy amtier. 10 to it; Xo. i . amber, 9 to 10; Fancy 

 dark. S to 9: White, extracted. 7: .\mber. 6: Dark, 



Jan. 25. 



A- B. WILLIAMS & CO. 

 *> & S2 Brnadwav. Cleveland. Ohio. 



Bt'FF.^L' •- X Y. —Absolutely fancy r-lb 

 comb* are rclling well at 12 and 13 cents: and 

 other grade* dragging at 10 to 7 cents. Holiday 

 trade takes all attention from honey. Very lit- 

 tle extracted honey selling. Fancy beeswax 

 wanted at from 2^ to ?o cents: if absolntely pore. 

 BATTERSOX & CO. 



Dec 20. 167 & r-^c Scott St., Buffalo, X. Y. 



CHICAGO. ILL — The demand is fair, and sale» 

 aboat equal to receipts We quote as follows : 

 Fancy white. 15: Xo. i white. 11 to 12: amber. 10 

 to iifXo. £ amber. » to 10. Cancv liark. 9 to 10; 

 Xo. I dark. 7 to »: wnite extracted. 6 to 7: amher. 

 5 to 6: dark. 5: beeswax. 27. 



R- .K. BrRXETT & Co., 



Jan 21. 165 So. Water St-. Chicago. IlL 



BUEFALO. X- Y.— Honey has sold slowerance 



the first of Jaacary than I ever knew it to sell at 

 this time 01 the year. I quote as follows: fancy 

 white. irS to 12: Xo : white. «i to 11 ^; fancy 

 amber. 10 to ir: Xo. : amher. 9 to 10; fancy dar^ 

 3 to >=r:: white, extracted. 7 to 7«iS; amber. 6 to 7: 

 dark. 5 to 6: beeswax. 2^" to 50. 



W. C- TOWXSEXD. 

 Jan. 2^. ^ West Market St.. Buffalo. X". Y. 



Trade in comb booey after 

 t'- ~ nnasnally slow: haweTef. 



fa: . on arrival at i« cents per Ib- 



Bi]c^w=.cat Oin'- it ro cents per Ih. : other grades 

 in proportion. Oar stock of extracted honey is 

 aloaost exfaattrte-c ani -re can ose shipments to 

 goodadvantac orompc sales. Extract- 



ed sells from - -er Ih. depe ndi ng npoa 



color, qna'ity ce. 



.S. T. FiSH&CO.. 

 Tan 2.1 r*9 so Water St.. Chicago. Ills. 



XEW YORK.— <>ur 

 honey: especiaUy *o 

 have aocnmtila' -- 

 and pricrs Y.: 

 sale> torqu.-. 

 an.i the s: :< - 

 <; - 



da:^. 



5^5 u» o. beeswii. - " 



htldret:- 



inarket is quiet on comb 



n the lower grades wfaicb 



-■.z the past four weeks: 



ied in order to effect 



Xxtracted is selling well 



B<?s<:-w-ax -ufet 'Wf 



BROS. * SEOFJ.KFX 

 — =t Bmadwav v..-«- v^ 



