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quantity of good, fair, average beeswax, delivered Will pay 27c per lb. cash, or 29c in trade for any

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100 Colonies of

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Honey Column.

Under this head will be inserted, free of charge, the names of all those having honey to sell, as well as those wanting to buy. Please mention how much, what kind. and prices. as far as possible. As a general thing. I would not advise you to send your honey away to be sold on cominission. If near home. where you can look after it. itis often a very good way. By all means, develop your home market. For 25 cents we can furnish little boards to hang up in your dooryara, with the words. Honey for Sale," neatly painted. If wanted by mail, 10 cents extra for postage. Boards saying Bees and Queens for Sale, same price.

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CITY MARKETS.

CLEVELAND. Honey. - Honey has been a little dull the past two weeks, and prices about 1c. lower. But white, in 1-lb. sections, selling 20 to 21, and 19 to 20 for 2 lbs. Second quality about 2c. less. Extracted is very dull, scarcely any selling, holding at 10 to 11 in bbls., and 12 to 15 in cans and pails. Beeswax A. C. KENDEL. very scarce, 28@30.

Cleveland, O., Dec. 21, 1882.

DETROIT.-Honey.-The supply of comb honey is just about equal to the demand. It is bringing from 18@20 cts. for a good article, and from 15@16 cts. for dark; the latter sells but slowly. Beeswax is worth 25@30 cts. A. B. WEED.

Detroit, Mich., Dec. 26, 1882.

CINCINNATI.-Honey.-The demand is good for extracted honey in barrels, as well as in glass jars and tin buckets. Arrivals fair. The demand is fair for comb boney, which is not cheap enough to make trade lively. Extracted honey brings 7@ Oc on arrival; comb honey. 14@20c. CHAS. F. MUTH.

Cincinnati, O., Dec. 21, 1882.

CHICAGO.-Honey.- Prices are unchanged, but the supply is more than equal to the demand. Beeswax is scarce, and rules at 27c for bright yellow, cash on arrival; dark and off color, 17@22c.

ALFRED H. NEWMAN.

923 West Madison St., Chicago, Ill., Dec. 21, 1882.

I have some pure linn honey for sale, in 30 and 60 lb. tin cans. J. B. MURRAY.

Ada, Hardin Co., O., Dec. 17, 1882.

I have 1400 lbs. white extracted honey to sell, at ROBT QUINN. 10 cts. per lb., packages included. Shellsburg, Benton Co., Iowa, Dec. 1, 1882.

I will pay 10 cts. per lb. for white clover or linden honey, in barrels or half-barrels, or 8 to 8% for good buckwheat. Send samples before shipping. I. M. KAUFFMAN. Huntingdon, Pa., Box 290, Dec. 21, 1882.

I have 5000 lbs. of extracted honey, which I will sell at 9 cts., delivered at Cincinnati or St. Louis. Sample sent if required. Barrels thrown in. P. L. VIALLON.

Bayou Goula, La., Dec. 17, 1882. [Friend V., if this honey is as good as friend Blanton's, it ought to go quick at the above figures.]

I have 1000 lbs. in 11⁄2-lb. boxes to sell, put up in crates of 16 boxes each; outside boxes glassed, remainder not glassed. Delivered on board the cars at Decatur, Van Buren Co., Mich., at 18c per lb.

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One Barnes foot-power circular saw, with scrollsaw attachment, including rip, cross-cut, and dovetailing saw, with 24 saw-blades. Is in perfect condition; has never been used one hour. Manufacturers' price, $40.00. Will take $30.00.

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HENRY WIRTH, Borodino, Onondaga Co., N. Y.

NO. 38.

HOW 3 COLONIES WERE INCREASED TO 30. CORRESPONDENT wishes me to tell how I increased 3 colonies to 30. The plan pursued was simply this: As soon as the three colonies were strong in numbers, and the combs full of brood, enough combs with the adhering bees were obtained by taking 3 or 4 from each of the three colonies, to fill a hive. Although taken from different colonies, the bees never quarreled; and after the newly formed colony had remained queenless a day or two, it was given a queen. As soon as the colonies were strong enough, another colony was made in the same manner, and this course was followed the season through, or, rather, until lack of hives put an end to the experiment. As often as a sufficient number of frames of brood could be spared from any of the hives, then a new colony was formed and given a queen. The vacancies caused in the old colonies, by taking frames to form new ones, were always filled with frames of empty comb or fdn. My greatest objection to the above method of increase is, that considerable time must be spent in finding queens before removing frames of brood, when making up new colonies.

A CLAMP FOR WINTERING BEES. Nov. 18.-I buried 32 colonies in one clamp. The arrangement was as follows: Upon a dry sandy knoll was dug a pit 7 feet wide, 15 long, and about 4 feet deep. The walls were given a slant of about 45°. In order that no water should ever stand in the

part. Fence-posts were placed, one foot apart, crosswise of the pit, their ends being imbedded in the sides of the pit until their upper sides were about 18 inches below the surface level. The space underneath the fence-posts was filled with straw, then the hives were placed in a double row, upon the posts. Each row of hives contained 8 hives, making 16 hives in the first two rows, then upon the top of these two rows were placed two more rows of hives. Each of these two upper rows contained ? hives of a smaller pattern than those in the lower rows. Two of the hives contained two colonies each. Straw was thrown over the hives until a pyramidalshaped pile was formed, then fence-posts were placed in an upright position, about 8 inches apart, all around the mound of straw inclosing the hives. The lower ends of the posts rested upon the earth; their upper ends leaning against the upper rows of hives. Over the fence-posts was placed another coating of straw about one foot thick, and over this was thrown a covering of earth about 18 inches thick. There were no openings for ventilation,

MEETING PROF. A. J. COOK.

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Nov. 25, or thereabouts, I received a card that read something as follows: "Shall be in Flint Dec. 4th and 5th, attending the State Horticultural meeting, and should be glad to meet you there. yours, A. J. Cook." Of course, I was on hand; but friend C. did not arrive until the evening of the 4th, and I had no opportunity of speaking to him until after I had listened to that interesting lecture of his upon the subject of Evolution. As soon as possible after he had ceased speaking, I pressed forward and

grasped his hand; and if ever I received a hearty hand-shake it was from kind-hearted, whole-souled, enthusiastic Prof. Cook. But others gathered around, and they kept gathering around; not only that evening, but the next day; and it was not until friend C. and myself took the train Wednesday morning, and were on our way to Kalamazoo to attend the convention, that we really had an opportunity for a good, long, friendly chat. What did we talk about, do you ask? Oh! lots of things. About

DOLLAR QUEENS?

Yes, we talked about dollar queens, and friend C. was surprised to learn that we queen-breeders had regular customers who bought queens by the dozen year after year-the breeder, with his experience, implements, and extensive manner of conducting the business, being enabled to rear queens cheaper than they. He also admitted, that there was probably no difference in quality between the so-called dollar queens and the so-called tested ones; and, with the care given the matter by most of the breeders, he thought that the chances for dollar queens to be impurely mated were small indeed; yet, taken as a whole, he thought that the cheap-queen traffic discouraged breeders from putting forth their best efforts toward an improvement of their bees, and cited the case of friend D. A. Jones as an illustration. He said, that friend Jones had spent large sums of money in importing new strains, or varieties of bees, but had not received an adequate return, because queens of the variety that he had imported were soon offered, all over the country, at one dollar each. Now, the cheap-queen traffic did not prevent friend Jones from selling the first queens that he imported and reared at a good round price; but, of course, as soon as other breeders obtained some of the queens to breed from, they could sell queens of that variety as cheaply as they could Italians. When new and good varieties of vegetables or grain, or imported breeds of stock or poultry, are first introduced they bring very large prices; but as soon as widely disseminated, the prices fall; and with any thing that increases so rapidly as do bees, the fall in prices soon comes. I told friend Cook that I did not think the cheap-queen traffic would hinder a bee-keeper from getting good prices for queens, if he succeeded in developing a really superior strain of bees; but, at the time of our conversation, I could give him no illustration; but now, since attending the convention, I think I can give him one. Many of us know that friend Heddon has taken a new departure, and has demonstrated to his own satisfaction that a cross between the brown German bee and the dark leather-colored Italian is superior to either variety. At the convention he said that, as soon as the good qualities of this cross were made known, he was overwhelmed with orders for queens; that customers would often just roll up a five-dollar bill, send it along, and say: "Send me a queen, the best you can for the money. I don't care for color nor for the cost, but I want a queen tested for business." Dr. Miller also said, in private conversation, that he would willingly pay $3.00 each for queens for his whole apiary, if he could be sure that he would thereby get queens as good as the best that he now has. Don't you see, friend Cook, that the people are willing to pay high prices for queens, if they can be assured that they will receive the worth of their money, but that they do object to paying $5.00, or even $2.00, for a queen that, in all probability, is no better than one that can

be bought for $1 00? Now, if I have made any misstatements in the above, or have given a different shade of meaning than he intended to convey, I beg friend Cook's pardon, and hope he will correct me.

AT THE CONVENTION.

How pleasant it was to meet, and grasp the hands, and look in the faces, and listen to the words of wisdom that fell from the lips of those whose writings I had read so many years, and whom I had so longed to see! The discussions at the convention were upon practical subjects, and right to the point; but none the less interesting and instructive was the exchange of ideas when "congenial spirits" gathered morning, noon, and evening, around well-supplied tables; collected here and there in nooks and corners, and out-of-the-way places, in little knots of two or three, or groups of half a dozen, or bed-fellows lay awake and “talked" far into the "small hours." Then there were the chats among friends at the railroad depots, while some of their numbers were waiting for a belated train. Taken all in all the convention at Kalamazoo was a very happy and profitable affair.

A VISIT TO LAPEER.

On the way home I was fortunate in having for a traveling companion Mr. K. L. Taylor, a bee-keeper of Lapeer, Mich. About 7 o'clock in the evening, when perhaps about 15 miles west of Flint, the train began to run slower and slower and slower, and finally it stopped; then it went on a little further, and stopped again. Upon looking out there could be seen, a short distance ahead, the headlight of another locomotive. We soon learned that there was a freight train ahead, a part of which was off the track, and four long hours dragged themselves along before every thing was righted and we moved on. As it was so late, friend Taylor thought that I had better go home with him, and, as I could come back to Flint the next day, and reach home just as soon as though I did not go, I accepted his invitation. I am very glad that I went with him. Had I known that there was so progressive a bee-keeper living within 20 miles of myself, I should-well, I might have made a nuisance of myself by visiting him too often. Friend T. has an Adams' horse-power (by the way, these horse-powers are manufactured in Kalamazoo, Mich.), which he sets up upon his barn floor and runs a buzz-saw with which he cuts up stuff for hives. He has a Given press for making fdn., and as I had never seen a machine of any kind for making fdn., I felt that the sight of that alone had paid me for my trip to Lapeer. Friend T.'s method of measuring and cutting off the wire for wiring frames is different from any thing I have seen described. He winds the wire lengthwise around a strip of board 4 or 5 inches wide, and of such a length that, when it passes over one end of it, the pieces are just the right length for wiring a frame. In order to be certain that I am understood, let me say, that, when the board is wound with wire, it might be compared to one of the little boards from which rubber cord is retailed in stores. Before cutting the wire at one end of the board, friend T. wraps a piece of paper around the board, near the end upon which the wire is to be cut, then winds a string around outside of the paper, draws it up tignt, and ties it securely; thus, after the wire is cut, it remains upon the board, and one piece at a time can be drawn out when wanted. A large share, if not the whole, of friend T.'s bees are in an apart