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A great deal of honey is produced in this and the adjoining counties. In Wayne County, Penn., there are several large apiaries which produce thousands of pounds every year. Probably the largest producer in Orange county, N. Y., is Mr. Wisner Utter, of Amity. In Sussex County the largest bee raiser is Mr. T. L. Babcock. While managing his large farm he finds time to devote to the bee industry, and he sells a great deal of fine honey. He it was who made the discovery about the apple blossom honey. It may interest the amateur bee-keeper to learn that the Cyprus bee is considered the best. The
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**Don't Believe It.**
**A correspondent of an Ohio paper says : If you see an advertisement agreeing for two red stamps to tell you all about bee-keeping, and how to make twenty-five dollars per colony out of your bees, don't believe it. Another thing you should see before you believe, that bees gather and store great quantities of honey from red clover. I have had bees for many years, and always saw them in red clover when they could get nothing else to work on, and would seem to be busy, but would gather very little honey. I once had the satisfaction of getting some pure red clover honey. In a dearth of honey from other flowers they were working strong on the bloom of the seed-crop of red clover ; the fields were just humming with bees. I put a strong swarm on clean, empty combs, and succeeded in extracting a few pounds from them. It was thin, of a dark red color, and had a clover taste, but I thought it was not good honey.**
**Comments on the 50e Subscription Rate.**
**I am glad you have raised the price of the Magazine to 50 cents as it is well worth the price, and gives it a a better tone.**
**Frank A. Eaton,**
**Blufton, Ohio, Nov. 24, '87.**
**I enclose some poetry, and hope this mite may help raise the price of the Magazine to where I felt it ought to have stopped when you let it down, but**
**The book is worth the money still,**
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**With notes on Api almost free.**
**Yours Respectfully,**
**John Andrews.**
**The pliers and bee-brush came to hand, also your card, but I have been very busy and only now have time to thank you for them. Would not go another season without them for $3.00. You let the bee-keepers know I said so.**
**They are worth their weight in silver. Do you know of a second-hand foot-power saw for sale?**
**Robert Kennedy.**
**Canada, Bethany, Aug., 1887.**
**[We are glad you were pleased with the goods. Perhaps some of our readers know of a second-hand foot-power saw for sale.--Ed]**
**It is hard to get fifty cents out here, but as long as I keep bees I will try and find enough to pay for the Magazine, as I cannot get along very well without it.**
**Yours with respect,**
**Mrs. White.**
**Kmax Co., III., Jan. 10, '88.**
**The eighteenth semi-annual session of the Central Michigan Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in the Pioneer Room at the Capitol, Saturday, April 21, 1888, commencing at 9 a.m. After the business meeting and the annual election of officers, the members and friends will be addressed by A. J. Cook, of the Michigan State Agricultural College. A cordial invitation is extended to all, especially those interested in bee culture, as this will be a very interesting meeting.**
**W. A. Barnes, Secretary,**
**Box 158, DeWitt, Mich.**
**Literary Note From the Century Co.**
**Mr. Kennan's Siberian papers, illustrated by Mr. G. A. Frost, who accompanied Mr. Kennan on his trip through Asiatic Russia, will begin in the May**
**The pair of
**Our Clubbing List.**
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American Agricultural,.1.50 1.65
Scientific American,.30 3.05
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American Horticultural,.1.00 1.25
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CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Planter's Guide, without
premium..50 75
There is a quiet but fair demand for honey of all kinds. Extracted honey brings $.4$.1b. on arrival. Demand exceeds arrivals. The demand for comb honey is rather tame. It brings $.4$.1b. for best in the jobbing way. Demand is good for beeswax, which brings $.20$.22 c. a lb., for good to choice yellow, on arrival.
Chas. F. Muth & Son.
Doc. 12, '87.
Lewis Roesch, Grape Vines, Fredonia, N.Y.
E. M. Bullard, Poultry and Seeds--West
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S. W. Morrison, M.D., Carnialan Queens--Oxford, Pa.
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Berlin Fruit Box Co., Sections and other Apiralian Supplies; also Berry Boxes--Berlin Heights, O.
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## 111. **Exchange Department.**
Exchanges not to exceed a lives, inserted free.
Headquarters in New York State for extra fine Golden ITALIAN QUEEN, untested, $1.00 : tested, $1.00 : tested, $1.00 : select tested, $2.00 in June. For particulars country, for a colony of Italian Bees or a zalber price list. Reference if requested,
In Lancaster, Pa.
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**WANTED-To** correspond with parties about a better hive than ever used. B. H. Franklin, Sturbridge, Mass.
**WANTED-To** exchange, Bees and Queens for pruning press and outfit or offers. Circulars free. G. D. Black, Brandons, Iowa.
**WANTED-To** exchange or sell Chaff Hives painted, with ten standing Quimby frames with good clean combs, very cheap. Also one -frame honey Extractor, new. Simplicity, Chaff, or single wall Hives, Mrs. Oliver Cole, Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y.
**WANTED-A** purchaser for pure Italian Bees in best lives, double-walled in winter, eight frames $1.00 : size, $45 per colony; or some in light, strong shipping boxes, $2.5, less. Liberal discount on large lots. Dr. G. W. Young, Lexington, Mo.
**WANTED-**to** exchange or sell Chaff Hives painted, with ten standing Quimby frames with good clean combs, very cheap. Also one -frame honey Extractor, new. Simplicity, Chaff, or single wall Hives, Mrs. Oliver Cole, Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y.
**WANTED-**a purchaser for pure Italian Bees in best lives, double-walled in winter, eight frames $1.00 : size, $1.
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Editorials, etc
Scientific Department--
Mr. Thomas William Cowan
Mollie Heath's Venture, by Julia Allyn
The Honey Ants
Comb Foundation, by Will. M. Kellogg
Color, by C. M. Goodspeed
The Hiving of Swarms, by R. L. Taylor
Ekracting Honey, by E. France
Beginners' Department
The Drone, by L. L. Langstroth
What to do with Old Comb Candied
Adulteration of Honey
Protection is Wanted against the Adultera-
The Mail Bag
tion of Honey, by Dr. Wm, Leers
Flat Bottom Foundation--Question for July
Increase, by J. M. Young
The Honey Bee--1888
Foul Brood Not the Fault of the Queen--A
Successful Cure
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of opening of new channels for the sale of honey cannot be over estimated. This work cannot be done by an individual, but must be participated in by all.
Some time back we received from Messrs. Schacht & Lemke their annual market review of the honey and bees-wax business of California, for 1887. They give as their recepts of honey for 1887 1,300,000 lbs, 900,000 lbs, which was produced in 1886 as against 2,500,000 lbs. received in 1886, in other words the facts they give would show that five times more honey was produced in 1886 than in 1887. They also state that no complaints have been received of adulteration, claiming that for California honey the prices have been so low that no money would be made in such a process, and besides apiarists and dealers would not attempt to destroy the increasing demand for our pure California honey. Perhaps after a time such pointed facts may pierce the thick hide of our eastern dealers and they will see how beautifully they are ruining their own prospects, as well as those of the bee-keepers, by adulterating extracted honey. But bee-keepers are also to blame for the state of things among our dealers. They refuse to combine and form a strong organization, and expect that "expensive meetings" are going to accomplish great wonders. What is really wanted is a business organization having strength enough to handle these rascals without gloves.
In an editorial in the _Briush Bee Yournal_, which we republish in this number, this sentence occurs : " By referring to Nos. 57, 58 and 60, it will be seen that these are all comb honey yet they are adulterated." We think it only justice to American bee-keeping and American comb honey :
The next section is devoted to the _Boston Bee Journal_.
We are glad to note that the Honey Producers' Exchange is running along smoothly, and that its reports are arranged better and are more comprehensive than any system of reports now published. A man who loses the chance of knowing the _inside_ of the market for $1 will surely lose ten times that amount by either marketing his honey too early or too late, or else below what he ought to get. Send one dollar to Mr. Geo. H. Knickerbocker, Pine Plains, N. Y., and become a member at once. Remember this is a secret organization and no one but those who are members know what are in the reports, so you see a member has the advantage over those who do not belong to the exchange. Become a member without delay.
Agricultural and other papers delight in composing wonderful articles on the bee. An article clipped from one of these enterprising papers is credited to the _Boston Bee Journal_. No such bee paper exists. We believe we have read part of this article in the _Briush Bee Journal_. The first part contains some absurd statements. Many papers seem to delight in "improving" articles to delight the uninitiated.
Your " Beginners' Department" is of valuable service to me. O. H.
**MOLLY HEATH'S VENTURE.**
**A Serial Story.**
**BY JULIA ALLYN.**
**PART SECOND.**
**(Continued,)**
One bright Saturday morning in November we find Robert and Molly Heath busy over their apiary accounts. Rob has faithfully kept the various items of expense and profit in his cash book, and to-day he is summing up the amounts and the other members of the family are eagerly waiting to learn the results.
**" Well, Molly, what do you think we have gained this year?" says Rob, after half an hour of silent figuring. "Lots of experience to begin with, and that is worth considerable," said Molly. "A good measure of health, which is the best kind of wealth," said Mrs. Heath. "Quantities of useful information," said Nan. "Much sweet honey," said Ted. "Some good hard cash, I hope," said Tom. "Let us have the round sum, Rob." Well, here are the principal items. I may have forgotten to set them all down :
**Sold 1z 1bs. of comb honey to Mrs. Fry at 30 cts. $ 360**
**Sold 24 1bs. of comb honey on Fourth of July, at 30 cts. $ 720**
**Sold 2 hives of bees, fully equipped, to Mr. French, for**
**Sold 1z 0bs. of extracted honey at 25c. 300**
**" 3 hives of bees, fully equipped, (one ornamented hive) to Mr, Fry. 400**
**Sold 50 1bs. of comb honey at 30 cts. $ 150**
**S119 80**
**On hand 9 strong colonies at $12. 108**
**" 44 material for hives, foundation, etc., $25**
**S25 80**
**Expended for materials, etc. $ 100**
**Balance on hand $242**
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**is over the worker bees drive them forth to die?" said Molly.**
**" Well, the drones have an easy time of it during the summer months, but it seems rather hard on them to turn them out of doors like that in the fall," said Tom.**
**" It happens not only in the fall, but in other parts of the year when honey is scarce. I think it is a wise provision of nature and an economical arrangement, for certainly the queen and workers deserve to be cared for first of all," said Rob.**
**" Now, boys, let us go into the work-shop and plan our winter's work," said Molly. "What a pile of materials we have. Well, we will probably use them all. We shall want nine extra hives for our own use and a dozen or so for our customers in the spring, and this work will keep you quite busy Saturdays."**
**" I just enjoy putting the hives together and making the frames and surplus boxes," said Tom.**
**" And I can help in wiring the frames," said Nan.**
**" Molly, you remember we were to get up a "'lecture on apiculture," said Rob.**
**" Yes, and this is the way I wish to do it," said Molly. "I want each of you to write out a short essay on beeeeping, and I will look them all over, and taking out the important items of each, condense them into one paper and Rob can read it at his lyceum meeting in December. Tom, you can draw nicely and must furnish illustrations for the essay, and in order to have it ready in time, we must begin next week and work on it evenings."**
**" All right, we will try and do the best we can," said they all unitedly, much pleased with Molly's suggestion, and feeling a certain pride in contributing to the success of the "lecture."**
**Poison from bees, hornets, spider bites, etc., is instantly arrested by the application of equal parts of common salt and bicarbonate of soda, well rubbed in on the place bitten or stung.**
**" Working for both comb and extracted honey, as I do I find it very handy, when a short crop comes to do but little at producing comb honey, letting the bees do their best filling the extracted combs that are already built. When but very little honey is coming168 THE BEE-KEEPERS' MAGAZINE.
in, for foundation placed in sections then and given to the bees will be nicely drawn out and a small comb built on it, leaving them clean and dry for the next season's work. I find that bees will more readily go into sections with only top starters when given climbers, that is, fasten a part of the strips of foundation into the sections at top and bottom, up which the bees climb and work before they would begin without them.
Oneida, III.
From the Bee-Keepers' Review.
The Hiving of Swarms.
R. L. TAYLOR.
In preparation for the hiving of swarms when the time for their issuing comes, while making an examination of the several colonies in my apiary in in the spring, I seek out each queen and clip one of her wings if one be not already clipped. I find it quite an advantage to do this before young bees begin to hatch largely because then the bees are comparatively few and the queen is generally easily discovered.
Then in anticipation of the advent of the swarming season other preparations must be diligently attended to. Hives must be all ready for immediate use and in a cool shady place as convenient as possible to the apiary. If the apiary be large, three or four baskets will be necessary and a good supply of cages for the queens as they issue with swarms is indispensable. The cages I use differ from anything I have seen described and may be made thus: Take a piece of soft wood \(\%\)x i inch \(4\%\) inches long \(\cdot\)and with a \(3\%\) or \(3\%\) inch bit bore a hole through it from side to side so near one end as to leave at that end \(\%\)i inch of solid wood and cut the stick carefully and squarely in two through the center of the hole. Then enlarge the half circle in the larger piece by boring through it, (the stick) one or two holes with a smaller bit and smooth out with a knife. Also form a piece of wire cloth, four inches long and about three and a half inches wide, around a piece of wood \(\%\)x i inch, beat with a mallet and weave
Before this one is fully hived, another swarm is in the air, and by the time I have caged its queen it discovers her absence and is already returning as I place their new hive in position. I hasten the return by placing the queen at the entrance, and as soon as the bees are rapidly alighting I release and run her in.
It is now ten o'clock and swarming has fairly begun. Two swarms now come out almost at the same moment and unite in the air. I cage their queens but notice that the swarms are attracted by the commotion at the hive into which the last swarm was put and are already beginning to alight there. I push the queens into my pocket, snatch a sheet and the smoker, and spreading the former over the hive threatened with invasion, with a few puffs of smoke from the latter I drive away the flying swarms, when they begin to cluster on a neighboring branch of an apple tree. I at once put each queen in a basket by herself and hang the baskets together where the cluster is forming. Soon one basket has its share of the bees and I steal it away and hang it out of sight in thick foliage or set it in the bee cellar.
Now other swarms come out--five in pretty quick succession--so I take the other basket with the swarm and hang it in plain sight on a branch favorable for holding a large cluster of bees and convenient for shaking them off. Here, attracted by the swarm in the basket, all swarms will for the present congregate. I now proceed first to cage all the queens out, and all others as they come out, and put them in baskets hung near the cluster or out of the way in the shade till wanted. Then as I have time I arrange the hives and hive swarms taken from the general cluster, giving each a queen till all the bees are distributed.
It would make a long story to recount all the expedients at times resorted to to induce the bees to assist in making their hiving easy, but the foregoing indicates the general method pursued. Sometimes a swarm will cluster out of reach from the ground. In such cases, if practicable, a basket with the queen is hung under the cluster near the ground and with a little shaking the cluster drops down, the queen is soon discovered and the swarm gathers in the basket, or, if more convenient, a pole is used with a hook for the basket, say twenty inches from the upper end. The basket is raised with the pole and held under the cluster while the latter is jarred off with the upper end of the pole.
With unclipped queens on a good day for swarms I should be almost in despair. I never had but one queen superseded that I thought was superseded on account of clipping, and she had all four wings cut off short. My queens are not superseded soon enough to please me. I find too many that are approaching three years in age.
I am looking for a better way of managing swarming. Will the queen trap help? Who can give us new light?
_Lapeter, Mich., May 5, '88._
From Gleanings.
EXTRACTING HONEY.
E. France Gives His Method, and Also How He Grades it for Market.
E. France.
I am asked to give some thoughts on how to get the best extracted honey. First, have a location well supplied with the best honey producing flowers, which, in my location, is, first, white c'over ; then second best, basswood timber. But there is nothing here that equals the white clover honey. It is important to get as much of that as possible in its very best condition. In order to do that we must have every thing ready that may be wanted to work with, that no time be lost by the bees. We want plenty of good clean combs for the bees to store their honey in. To get these we must see to it that the dark honey that is in the combs, left from their winter stores, and what is gathered in the spring time from dandelions and fruit blossoms, etc., which is dark, is all emptied out of the combs, so as not to be mixed with our nice white clover honey, just as soon as our bees commence on the white clover, and are making a living. Then we commence to extract, and whirl out all the honey we can get from every comb in the hive that has the least bit of dark honey in it. A very little of this dark honey will stain or darken a whole barrel of white honey. The cleaner we get out this first extracting, the whiter the second extracting will be. The first extracting with us is very dark, and is usually sold at the cracker factories for about two cents less on a pound than the best honey.
If the weather is not too wet, one week's time after we extracted the first time we can extract again. But if we are having wet weather, it is better to wait two or three days longer, for the honey to get thick and ripe. But unless the weather is very wet, we get good thick honey when we extract once in a week. Do the best we can when we take out the first extracting, there will be enough of the dark honey left in the combs to darken the second extracting considerably.
The second extracting usually sells for about one cent less on a pound than the best honey. In good average seasons we extract four or five times, depending somewhat on the weather as to moisture. If the weather is dry, and yet moist enough to favor a good honey flow, the honey will be first-rate if taken out as often as once a week. In wet weather it is best to wait ten or twelve days, or long enough for the honey to get thick and ripe. If two-thirds of the honey is capped over, the honey is all right ; don't wait any longer.
Our third extracting is the best quality of any that we get. It is strictly pure white clover, and commands the highest price. The fourth extracting is as good as the third, if we get it all out before the basswood blossoms open ; still I can usually sell mixed clover and basswood at the same price as clear clover. The basswood usually begins to blossom before we get all of the fourth extracting out, so that the fifth extracting with us is pure basswood honey. We leave enough of the basswood honey in the hives for the bees to winter on, as, after the basswood we don't have honey producing flowers to more than give the bees their daily living.