Honey & Beeswax Market Quotations CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 17.-The honey market is quite active. We are getting good prices considering the hard times, owing to the reported scarcity of crop. We quote: Fancy white, 15c.; No. 1, 14c. Extracted, 6@7c. Beeswax, 25@26c. J. A. L. CHICAGO, ILL., Oct. 25.-White clover honey continues to bring 15c. The receipts are about keeping pace with the demand. The quality is very satisfactory as a rule, being heavy and of good flavor. Extracted con in ues to sell chiefly at 6@7c., according to color, flavor and style of package. Beeswax scarce and in good demand at 27@28c. R. A. B & Co. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 25.-Comb honey arrives quite freely, our receipts up to date numbering 10,119 crates. The demand is fair. We quote: Fancy white. 1-lbs., 14c.; fair white, 12c.; buckwheat, 10c; 2-lbs., 1@2c. less, according to quality. The market for extracted is dull, with plenty of stock. We quote: Basswood and white clover, 6@6%c.; Southern, 50@55c. a gallon. Beeswax scarce and in good demand at 29c. H. B. & S. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 8.-The supply of comb and extracted is very light with only fair demand. We quote: Fancy white, 15@ 16c.; amber, 11@12c.: dark, 10c. Extracted, white, 6%@7c.; amber, 6@6c.; dark. 4%@ 5c. Beeswax, 22c. H. & B. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 10.-The market for comb and extracted honey is good, and the supply equals the demand. Fancy clover and buckwheat sells best; off grades are quite as alable; and 2-pound sections are very little called for. We quote as follows: 1-pound fancy clover. 13@14c.; 2-pound, 12@13c.; 1pound white, 12@12c.; 2-pound, 2c.; 1pound fair, 10@11c.: 2-pound, 10@11c.; 1pound buckwheat, 10@11c.; 2-pound, 9@10c. Extracted. clover and basswood, 6@6c.; buckwheat. 5@5c.; Southern, 50@60c. per gallon. Beeswax, scarce and in good demand at 29@30c. C. 1. & B. CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 8.-Demand is fair for extracted honey at 4@7c. There is a good demand for comb honey at 14@16c. for choice white. Beeswax is in good demand at 22@27c. for good to choice yellow. C. F. M. & S. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 4.-The receipt of comb honey in this market so far has not been very large, and demand is very good. We quote: No. 1 white, 1-lbs., 15c.; No. 2 white, 13@14c.; No. 1 amber, 14c.; No. 2 amber, 10@12c. Extracted, white, 6@7c.; amber, 5@6c. Beeswax, 25c. C.-M. C. CO. CHICAGO. ILL., Oct. 18.-We quote: Fancy white comb honey, 1-lbs., 15c.; No. 2 white, 13c.; buckwheat, 10c. With cooler weather, demand improving, and our stock on hand at the present time extremely light. Extracted, 5%@7c., depending upon quality and style of package. Beeswax, 28c. S. T. F. & Co. ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 21.-Honey in better demand, esp cially the high grades of white comb hone,. We quote: No. 1 white, 140 15c.; No. 2 white. 13@14c.; Mixed white. 11 @12c.: No. 1 buckwheat, 12@12c.; No. 2 buckwheat. 11011c.; common, 10011c. Extracted, white (Northern), 7@80.; amber, @exo,: buckwheat, 51⁄4@8c. Beeswax, 27@ 29c. Do not look for much of any change in these prices, and advise now to have honey on the market as early as possible for best prices. H. R. W. BUFFALO. N. Y., Oct. 17.-The demand is improved, fancy moving somewhat better st 14@15c.: choice, 12@13c.: buckwheat and other, 9@10c. B. & Co. CONVENTION DIRECTORY. Time and place of meeting. 1894. Nov. 21, 22-N.E. O. and N.W. Pa.,at Corry, Pa Geo. Spitler, Sec., Mosiertown, Pa Dec. 5.-Central California, at Hanford. J. F. Flory, Sec., Lemoore, Calif. Dec. 6.-Carolina, at Charlotte, N. C. A. L. Beach, Sec., Steel Creek, N. C. Dec. 18, 19-Northern Illinois, at Rockford, Ill B. Kennedy, Sec., New Milford, Ill 1895. Jan. 9.-Indiana State, at Indianapolis, Ind. Walter S. Pouder, Pres., Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. 21, 22-Colorada State, at Denver, Colo H. Knight, Sec., Littleton, Colo. Jan. 28.-Venango Co., at Franklin, Pa. C. S. Pizer, Sec., Franklin, Pa. Jan. 30, 31.-Vermont, at Middlebury, Vt. H. W. Scott, Sec., Barre, Vt. Feb. 8, 9.-Wisconsin, at Madison, Wis. J. W. Vance, Cor. Sec., Madison, Wis. -North American, at Toronto, Can. Frank Benton, Sec., U. S. Dept. Agriculture. Washington, D. C. In order to have this table complete. Secretaries are requested to forward full particulars of the time and the place of each future meeting.-THE EDITOR. North American Bee-Keepers' Association OFFICERS FOR 1895. PRES.-R. F. Holtermann.....Brantford, Ont. VICE-PRES.-L D Stilson. .. York, Nebr SECRETARY.-W. Z. Hutchinson...Flint, Mich. TREASURER.-J. T. Calvert...... Medina, Ohio. National Bee-Keepers' Union. PRESIDENT-Hon. R. L. Taylor.. Lapeer, Mich GEN'L MANAGER-T. G. Newman, Chicago, Ill. 147 South Western Avenue. Illinois Convention Reports.The Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association still have a good many copies of their Second Annual Report on hand, and no postage to send them out. Any one sending eight cents in stamps to pay postage and wrapping, will receive a copy of same by mail; or seven cents in stamps will pay for a copy of the First Annual Report, if any one desires it. Address, Jas. A. Stone Seo., Bradfordton, III. The Convention Report.- Last week we explained that we had to omit the St. Joseph convention report, for the simple reason that Secretary Benton had not sent us any more "copy" after the part of the report that we had published in the "Bee Journal" for Nov. 8. We have the same excuse to offer this week-no "copy' was received from Secretary Benton in time for this number. We cannot account for the delay in forwarding the report to us, as at this writing (Nov. 16) we have not learned the cause. A Year With Bees is the title of a Special Bulletin issued in October, 1894, by the Apiary Department of the Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station. It is written by Hon. R. L. Taylor, superintendent of the experiment apiary, and consists of the various monthly reports which have been published in the Bee-Keepers' Review" the past year or SO. It has 28 pages about the size of this page, and, like all that comes from the hand and brain of Mr. Taylor, is most excellent. There is no more careful, painstaking and accomplished bee-keeper in America to-day than Hon. R. L. Taylor, of Lapeer, Mich. He's "the right man in the right place "-and should be kept there as long as he will consent to stay. Mr. J. W. Young, of Kingman, Kans., sends us a beautiful picture of his very neat apiary. We have never seen a cleaner looking bee-yard. It is indeed a model in neatness and arrangement. Have You Honey to Sell?-If you have more than you can dispose of in your home market, why not advertise it for sale in the "American Bee Journal," and help out some other bee-keeper who may have had a short crop? Surely, those bee-keepers who have not enough to supply a good local trade already worked up, would much prefer to get honey from another beekeeper than to get it elsewhere. Then, besides, there is in it the idea of helping each other. Also, a better price would probably be obtained in this way, for your honey now on hand, as almost any one would prefer to buy from some one whom they could rely upon, and thus be able to guarantee to their retail customers the honey they buy from a bee-keeper that they knew wouldn't sell anything but the straight article. We believe that no bee-keeper, who has a local trade in honey, can afford to get out of honey at any time of the year, if he can at all purchase it from some one and be able to guarantee its purity. We know many bee-keepers whose honey we would as soon guarantee as if we had produced it in our own apiary. And why not? We think that bee-keepers should help each other, and their industry in general, by aiding in evening up the honey crop as much as possible, and seeing to it that all their neighbors and friends everywhere have all the honey they want to eat. The Illinois Convention met at Springfield, on Nov. 13 and 14. We learned from the daily newspapers on Nov. 15, that the following were elected as officers for the ensuing year: President J. T. Smith, of Lincoln. Vice-Presidents-S. N. Black, of Clayton; George W. York, of Chicago; Mrs. L. Harrison, of Peoria; W. J. Finch, Jr., of Springfield; and James Poindexter, of Bloomington. Secretary-James A. Stone, of Bradford ton. Treasurer-Dr. C. C. Miller, of Marengo. A code of rules or standards for judging honey at Fairs was adopted. The points are graded as follows on a scale of 100: Quantity, 40; quality, 40; style of display 20, for comb honey. For extracted honey, quantity, 40; quality, 45; display, 15. The Executive Committee of the association was constituted a committee on legislation to secure the passage of laws to prevent adulteration of honey and the sale of bogus articles as honey. We expect, of course, to publish a full report of the proceedings shortly. tion of honey more profitable, why not describe them in the "American Bee Journal" during the coming reading season of the year? An "even exchange" of ideas among bee-keepers would be "no robbery," and by so doing all would be greatly benefited. Bee-keeping is quite unlike many other kinds of business. There is no necessity for secrets in the production of honey, while in some lines "the secret" is the principal part of the capital invested. By revealing what some bee-keeper may consider as his "secret," he may in return get a suggestion from another who had followed the same line a little further and succeeded infinitely better; thus the first bee keeper's secret" would be given in exchange for something which he probably would never have found out himself, and which may equal the difference between failure and 66 success. The winter season is the time to "trot out" and examine all the new "kinks" or improved old ones, and prepare for another year's campaign among the bees. What do you know? Or what would you like to know? Either question will serve as a good starting-point for you to write. Mrs. A. C. Hill, of Moon Run, Pa., died on Oct. 14, leaving Bro. Hill with a little boy 7 years old, and twin babies. He writes with great tenderness, and a sorrowing heart, that they had "spent ten very happy years together," and that life seems a burden now without her." Bro. Hill writes as one having the "blessed assurance" that in some sunnier clime they'll meet again, never more to be separated. What great consolation in so sad bereavement comes from such a trust! Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the sorrow. stricken father and his three dear little ones. Sample Copies of the "American Bee Journal" will be mailed free to all who ask for them. The next three or four months will be just the time for getting new subscribers, and if any of our friends can use sample copies among their beekeeping neighbors, in order to get them as new subscribers, we will be glad to mail the samples, if the names and addresses are sent to us. Better educated bee-keepers will mean better things for all. |