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Battle Ground, IncL, July 33, 1877.—" I 

 now have 14 apiaries in successful opera- 

 tion, with over 1,500 stocks of bees, doing 

 quite well in the Hicks' hive. I have had 

 over 30 year's experience." J. M. Hicks. 



Eagle Lake, Minn., July 20, 1877.— "My 

 bees have done well. I have taken 1,500 tbs 

 of honey from 60 colonies, and they still 

 have enough honey to winter on. They 

 are all Italians. 1 would not have any 

 other bees at any price." 



H. A. SiMONDS. 



Carrollton, La., July 23, 1877.—" 1 am ex- 

 tracting froua two of my apiaries. I expect 

 to have 250 colonies by Sept., and pure 

 young queens for each of them, besides 

 wintering some for spring trade. I expect 

 10 pure queens soon to breed from. Our 

 second rain since April 10th, came last 

 Saturday. It has done considerable good." 

 W. B. Rush. 



Marshall Co., Ind., July 32, 1877.—" I lost 

 56 out of 86 colonies last winter. Three- 

 fourths of all the bees in this part of the 

 country died last winter— some lost all they 

 had. Bees have not done well here since 

 1874; that was the year I started with 10 

 swarms of blacks in box hives. I had them 

 transferred to the American hive, and they 

 made so mucli honey that fall, I thought 1 

 could make a fortune with them. They 

 have not more than paid expenses since. 

 Still I think there is money in bees yet— in 

 good seasons. I am a farmer and have not 

 the time to attend to my bees as I should. 

 You know how things pay half attended to. 

 1 have the Italian bee, which I think are 

 better than blacks. Have one of Hill's gas- 

 pipe extractors. I extracted about 50 gal- 

 lons last year, but it won't sell well about 

 here. They think it some composition that 

 I make myself. I tell them I will give §30 

 if they find anything in it but pure honey." 

 John W. Osborn. 



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We now renew our offer to send a choice 

 tested Italian queen as a premium to any 

 one will send us four subscribers to The 

 American Bee Jouknal, with $8.00. This 

 premium, giving a good queen for four sub- 

 scribers, will pay any one for taking some 

 trouble to extend the circulation of the 

 Journal. Premium queens will in every 

 case be tested. 



Hastings, Minn., July 25. 1877.— "Our sea- 

 son for basswood honey is over. It has 

 been extremely hot and dry. Bees have 

 been doing very well so far this season. 

 Our great honey harvest has yet to come. 

 From the wild flowers on our bottoms along 

 the river, which usually lasts from Aug. 1st 

 till frost comes, I have had swarms gather 

 over 100 lbs. often this time. One season 2 

 swarms on Aug. 38 and 29, filled their hives 

 without any assistance, and threw out the 

 first swarms the next season. I am extract- 

 ing only to give the queen plenty of room." 

 Wm. Dyek. 



GLEANED BY FRANK BENTON. 



The "A. B. J." in Europe.— Numerous 

 translations from The American Bee 

 Journal are noticeable in the European 

 journals of apiculture. 



Foul Brood.— Herr A. Lorenz says in 

 Der Bienenvater: "In localities supplied 

 with rich harvests, the bee-keeper knows 

 nothing of foul brood— a strong proof of my 

 conclusion that its cause is to be sought 

 only in a lack of pasturage." 



Javanese Bees.— Sig. Giuseppe Fiorini,^ 

 of Monselice, Italy, the proprietor of an 

 apiary containing 500 colonies, has under- 

 taken the importation of the large bee 

 known as apis dorsnta, a native of the is- 

 land of Java, first described by Herr 

 Edward Cori, of Bruex, Bohemia. UApi- 

 coltore, published in Milan, speaks very 

 highly of Sig. Fiorini and his undertaking. 



At last apiculture is to be taught in the 

 Normal schools. But, o etouffeurs ! don't 

 be alarmed, for it's beyond the seas, that is, 

 in Canada, where this is to take place.— jL'- 

 Apieulteur, Paris. 



Farmers and Bee-Keepers.— In th& 

 course of his opening address before the 

 21st convention of German and Austrian 

 bee-keepers. Dr. Settegast, the president, 

 said: "He who causes two blades of grass- 

 to grow where but one grew before, may be 

 regarded as a benefactor. And every bee- 

 culturist is such a benefactor, and should 

 be received with open arms by each farmer 

 near whose property he locates." 



From "Nostra Bella Italia."— L'- 



Aplcoltore publishes the programme of the 

 10th apistic exhibition of the Central Asso- 

 ciation for the Encouragement of Apicul- 

 ture in Italy, which is to be held at Milan 

 Dec. 4-9 inclusive, 1877. Liberal premiums- 

 for displays of apiarian products and im- 

 plements are offered. The Italians mani- 

 fest great interest in the advancement of 

 the real science of apiculture, and, judging 

 from their journals, there must be some 

 skillful apiarists among them. 



Distribution of the Honey' Bee. — . 

 Our native black bee extends as far north 

 as the northern part of Sweden and Film- 

 land; it is found in Sweden under the 

 parallel of 64° N. latitude, and in Finnland 

 under 60° to 61° N. latitude. In Siberia, 

 bee-culture is carried on as tar north as the 

 parallel of 51°. Our bee is to be found on 

 the African continient in Algiers, Guinea, 

 and at the Cape. It was taken to America 

 and has spread itself over that continent 

 with a rapidity bordering upon the wonder- 

 ful, even flourishing splendidly in the 

 tropics. The Italian bee was sent to 

 America by Dr. Dzierzon, and to Australia 

 in 1863 by the Englishman, Woodbury.— 

 Elsaesstsche Bienen-Zuechtcr. 



