Honey and Beeswax Market.
BUYERS' QUOTATIONS.
CHICAGO.
HONEY.—The market is plentifully supplied with honey, and sales are slow at weak, easy prices. Quotable at 18@20c. for strictly choice white comb in 1 and 2 lb. boxes; at 14@16c. for fair to good in large packages, and at 10@12c. for common dark-colored and broken lots.—Chicago Times.
BEESWAX.—Choice yellow, 20@24c; dark, 15@17c.
NEW YORK.
HONEY.—Best white comb honey, small neat packages, 17@18c.; fair do., 15@16c.; dark do., 12@13c.; large boxes sell for about 2c. under above. White extracted, 9@10c.; dark, 7@8c.; southern strained, 80@85c.
BEESWAX.—Prime quality, 20@23c.
CINCINNATI.
HONEY.—The market for extracted clover honey is very good, and in demand at 11c. for the best, and 8@9c. for basswood and dark honey. Comb honey is of slow sale at 16c. for the best.
BEESWAX.—18@24c. C. F. Muth.
SAN FRANCISCO.
HONEY.—Extracted is in large supply for the season, and purchasers for round lots difficult to find, except at extremely low prices. We quote white comb, 12@15c.; dark to good, 10@11c. Extracted, choice to extra white, 6@6½c.; dark and candied, 5@5½c.
BEESWAX.—21@22½c., as to color.
Stearns & Smith, 423 Front Street.
San Francisco, Cal., March 4, 1881.
