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DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO BEE CULTURE. 



Vol. XIII. 



Chicago, Illinois, September, 1877. 



No. 9. 



%mofs laMe. 



1^ Don't force sales of honey now, 

 and tlius depress the market. A little 

 delay will be very beneficial. 



1^ See the new prices on foundation 

 in this issue. As it has proved a suc- 

 cess, tlie demand will be large and the 

 prices correspondingly small. 



1^ Friend M. Sorrick has sent us the 

 Catalogue of the Iowa Industrial Ex- 

 position, which will open in Des 

 Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 26th, and close 

 Oct. 31, 1877. 



" The Locust Plague " is the title 

 of a new work on the Grasshopper or 

 Kocky Mountain Locust, by Prof. C. V. 

 Riley. It is nicely gotten up and illus- 

 trated. The matter is very interesting 

 and exhaustive. The Professor gives 

 some valuable hints as to its destruc- 

 tion. 



The crops in this country are simply 

 enormous, but in Europe they are in 

 gloomy contrast. In America the pres- 

 ent crop has but seldom been equalled, 

 in either quality or quantity. The 

 crops of the north-west will this year 

 bring two thousand millions of dollars 

 into the hands of the producers. Good 

 enough I ! 



1^ Friend C. O. Perrine has gone to 

 Europe in the interest of bees, honey, 

 and— C. O. Perrine. He intends to 

 visit England, France, Germany, and 

 Italy. He says he shall try to deter- 

 mine the question of the existence of 

 black bees in Italy, see whether bees 

 work as well there as in this country, 

 etc. He intends to buy some queens, 

 and try the experiment of '' importing 

 on his own hook." When he returns 

 our readers will learn the resvilts of his 

 investigations and experiments. 



1^ Friend Baldwin of Lake County, 

 Indiana, says that he and friend Keller 

 always winters without loss by packing 

 their hives some 3 inches all around 

 with oak leaves. 



i^=H. K. &F. B. Thurber, have pur- 

 chased the entire honey crops of 

 friends oST. IsT. Betsinger and G. M. 

 Doolittle, of New York. These crops 

 are large, and we congratulate them on 

 their early sale. 



^°Those who send honey to be exhi- 

 bited in ISTew York at the National 

 Convention should see that it is nicely 

 put up and properly labeled, stating the 

 kind of honey and the bee-keeper's 

 name and address. 



m'A copy of J. M. Hicks' "North 

 American Bee-Keepers' Guide " is on 

 our table. It contains much that is in- 

 teresting to novices; and had the little 

 work been nicely printed it would have 

 been more acceptable generally. Of 

 course it is intended chiefly to intro- 

 duce Mr. Hick's hive. 



DziERZON Theory. — Referring to 

 the new issue of this excellent and 

 valuable work, Novice remarks as fol- 

 lows: 



"We congratulate friend Newman 

 on having struck upon the bright idea 

 of giving us the Dzierzon theory in a 

 neat little pamphlet. This tlieory has 

 been attacked from all sides for many 

 years, yet like the Copeniican theory 

 of old, it stands as tirm as the hills. 

 Some of our young friends who are so 

 hasty in deciding that the drone pro- 

 geny is affected by the fertilization of 

 the queen, had better give it a careful 

 reading. It is a good thing for us all 

 to read over carefullv, even if we have 

 once been over it in the first vohmie of 

 the A. B. J. If there is anything you 

 do not get hold of, in regard to queens, 

 drones, and fertile workers, you had 

 better read it. If thoroughly studied, 

 it would save many a column of queries 

 and long stories in all our bee papers." 



