Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-02
BEES FOX THE Il
Novel Industry Carried On
YORK City.
Queen Bees Reared In the
South Are Disposed o.
Buyers in the West
Indies.

Of the many orders for queer th
ceived by New York exporter
various quarters of the globe,
none is more interesting than a
SIGNAL request for queen bees. S
ders come principally from thl
Indies, and inasmuch as the e5
sion merchant is generally call
to handle the honey and Wo
there by the progeny Of Il
he finds a safe business in<
shipping the bees, even TIL
form no source of profit in
says the New York Post.
Queen bees are reared in I'll
south, in the districts wheri
abundant, and the industry
means insignificant. Ohio
breeding center. There is 81
Medina which has 900 coloni3
to the rearing Of high-clas
queens, besides a factory in
manufactured the hundred
things used by the up-to-
keeper.
There are many grades of quj
and the breeder must thorou
derstand the highly organize
if he expects to produce
healthy stock that can be depe
to gather honey in large quanti
this end he selects for mothers
honey queens USUALLY imp(
queens whose progeny have exc
others in the apiary. In placinsy
der the buyer is requested to
whether he desires a red Glove
"honey" queen. The first me-
stock is bred for red clover, whT
last named will show up well du}
ordinary honey flow from cloverI
wood and other flowers. The
vary according to the grades. A
tested queen costs one dollar, q
queen two dollars, and those call
lect tested, three dollars. Bre
queens and select breeding queens
five dollars and $3.50. respectivell
an extra select" one year old, IS
$40. Imported Italian queens, furr
by the best breeders of that countr
the ones usually sent to the West /
and they are thoroughly tested il
western apiaries before Shipment.
cost from three to five dollars leac
common Italian queens, bred i
country from pure imported stoe
be bought at lower figures.
Bees canont be supplied befol
nor later than November 15
travel in a certain amount of 1uI
ing shipped in ventilated boxes,
ing one or more roomy apartme1
thNyBstage to is
States and Canada is ond
cages, as they are called, AN
with special bee candy, sol
queen may never go hungry. al
export cages, in addition. with q
portion of sealed honey. The hons
the prepared food make a satisf3
combination, and so to rs per cent
queens III delivered alive, no
=.
what length the journey may bd
for export travel in cages lard
the ordinary size, and cometo n
through the mails or by EXPIRE
ward going to their West Indi
nation, not in a mailbag, but
care of the steamers purser.
are marked Queen beef
quick!" and postmen, expires
ships officers follow the in
faithfully.
Cuba, Jamaica and Santo
are the islands to which the
number Of queens r sent,
from there that New York rel
bulk of its imported honey.
more than 10000 packages-tie
rels and tins-were received
| as a fierce will hold 100 gallo
rel so and a tin something LEI
| gallons, it may be seen that the
/ is amply repaid for the trouble
in supplying the orders for queei
There are various grades OH
| honey, the quality depending i
kind of flowers from which 1t is "a
ed. Where bees feed on the flow
the tobacco plant, honey is darl
contains a slight flavor of Tobacco
in some parts of Cuba the apiarist
fields of a certain flower-prod
| plants. and from these the tiny w
extract an excellent strip. All
however, contains dead bees and
foreign matter. and must be eli
after it's arrival. 1t goes throut
hands of the broker here to large 81
houses, jobbers and confectioner'
when the New York market is II
surplus is shipped in bond to Gel
and Holland, as these countries col
even more per capita, than the
States. In Germany sh0ney cake
a well-known article Of food. NJ
Holland honey often takes the p]
butter among the poorer classes.
Forgot Himself.
Master Frank. like many o
boys, is not particularly noted
nnnr and Lwhan he Answered