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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



WANTED— To buy 3000 lbs to a car 

 load of Comb and Extracted honey. 

 Iowa, Wisconsin or Michigan preferred. 

 Quote prices. W. H. HYDE. New Can- 

 ton, 111. 



COMB HONEY WANTED— Send your 

 samples, prices, quantities and how put 

 up and packed. We will oay 32c per 

 pound for nice, clean, bright yellow 

 Beeswax. Chas. Israel Bros. Co., 486 

 Canal St., New York. Established in 

 1875. 



FOR SALE — 3000 lbs. extra fine clov- 

 er and basswood blend of extracted 

 honey, ripened on the hives and stored 

 in new 60 lb. net tin cans. This hon- 

 ey is at my home in Bay City, Mich. 

 Write for free sample and price sta- 

 ting- amount you can use. Address O. 

 H. Schmidt, 914 Court St., Reading, 

 Pa. 



FOR SALE — Light amber extracted 

 honey of excellent quality for table use 

 at only 7c per pound on car. Well sealed 

 and good body. A sample will convince 

 you. We have five tons of it and to 

 close it out soon we are offering it at 

 this very close price. In 60 lb. net tin 

 cans, two ina case for shipment. E. D. 

 TOWNSEND & SONS, Northstar, Mich- 

 igan. 



FOK SALE— An extra-fine quality of 

 white extracted honey put up in new 

 60-lb. net tin cans, two in a case for 

 shipment. Our crop of honey this year 

 is a blend of about half each of clover 

 and basswood, thoroughly cured on the 

 hives by the bees before extracting. 

 The fact is, not a single pound of the 

 crop was extracted until some time 

 after the close of the honey-flow. Rich, 

 ripe, ropy goods, worth twice as much 

 as thin unripe honey extracted during 

 the flow. For this exquisite stock we 

 are asking 10 cts. per pound on car 

 here. Do not be deceived by cheap un- 

 ripe stock when a trifle more buys this 

 superior white clover-basswood blend 

 that your customers will want more of 

 from time to time. Ten yards. One 

 thousand colonies. Liberal sample free. 

 Address 



E. D. TOWNSEND & SONS, 

 Northstar, Mich. 



BEES AND QUEENS 



FOR SALE — Ninety-four colonies of 

 bees in nine frame hives. Also about 

 200 supers and other equipment for 

 working them. Address A. S. CROTZER, 

 Lena, 111. 



FOR SALE — 15 colonies bees. Also 

 15 new 8 frame hives and a quantity 

 of foundation. Clyde Cobb, Belleville, 

 Ark. 



FOR SALE— One 20 and one 87 Mi 

 acre farm, 200 colonies of Italian bees, 

 equipped for extracted honey, best of 

 soil and good bee locality. Address L. 

 R. Beebe, Mosinee, Wis., Route No. 1. 



Secretion of Nectar 



(Contniued from page 419) 

 tember! 



The chief honey plant on the 

 chalky uplands in the southeast of 

 England is "giant" Sainfoin, a var- 

 iety of Onobrychis sativa. The 

 farmers grow it for fodder, sheep 

 pasturage and seed. It is cut twice, 

 sometimes three times in the seas- 

 on. It first comes into bloom about 

 June 10 and then yields a crop of 

 honey if the weather has not been 

 very wet and is fairly warm. It is 

 cut when in full bloom and blooms 

 again in the middle of July. From 

 this blooming comes the main hon- 

 ey crop of the season. The weather 

 conditions are more favorable, the 

 plant is shorter and less succulent 

 and the flovv^ers are more abundant 

 than during the first blooming. 

 There is often a third flowering in 

 Mid-August. Weather conditions are 

 then generally as good as in July 

 and the bloom is sometimes as 

 abundant, the fields being frequent- 

 ly pink with it. But no honey crop 

 has ever been obtained from this 

 third flowering. In England Sain- 

 foin is sown in May, usually in a 

 young grain crop, and sometimes 

 produces a few flowers in August 

 of the same year, but these flowers 

 attract very few bees. 



But we must not hastily cor 

 elude that in every species of 

 plant, other conditions being equal, 

 the mature plant secretes more nec- 

 tar when it first comes into bloom 

 than later. Last summer, at Ottawa, 

 I watched with keen interest the 

 opening of the golden-rods and 

 asters, two groups of honey yield- 

 ing plants that are absent from 

 Britain. During the first two weeks 

 of flowering hardly a bee was seen 

 on them. The weather was dry and 

 I concluded that moisture must be 

 the missing factor, but I was sur- 

 prised to find that the bees began 

 to work a little on the golden rod 

 during the third week of blooming 

 though there had been no rain. At 

 this time the goldenrod v/as in 

 full bloom and the earliest flowers 

 on most plants had withered. 



These considerations are of 

 practical value for they bear on 

 such a question as, when is the 

 best time for a beekeeper who is 

 surrounded with sweet clover to cut 

 a portion of it so as to get a crop 



