Vol. XIV. 



Chicago, Illinois, March, 1878. 



No. 3. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table: 



Editorial Items 83 to H8 



Curious History of the Oil-Beetle K5 



Oystiil Honey Fraud H6 



Letter from Bohemia, Austria W 



Honey Prospects in California 07 



The Roberts Hive 67 



The Smoker Question ti8 



Revival in Apiieulture 68 



Sending Queens by Mail 68 



Division Boards 99 



SOUTHERN Notes: 



Sketches from Tennessee 69 



Muth's Shipping Crate 69 



Correspondence : 



Trouble 70 



Patents and Smokers 71 



Hard Times 71 



Honey, the Supply and Demand 73 



Spring Dwindling of Italians 74 



Bibulous Bees 74 



Say— Open Letter to R. M. Argo 75 



Springing Bees 75 



An Amusing Incident 76 



Artificial Swarming 76 



Michigan College Apiary 77 



Chips from Sweet Home 81 



Experience of a Beginner 81 



Ulucose, or Grape Sugar 82 



Conventions: 



Honey Plants 8:i 



Scientific Bee Culture 85 



Good Queens— How to Get Them 86 



North-Eastern Conventic >n Report 89 



Comb F( jundation in Surplus Boxes 87 



Over-Stocking 88 



Grape Sugar for Feeding 90 



How to Promote Easy Breeding 90 



Our Object and Our Mission 91 



President Elwood'S Annual Address 93 



Comb Foundation— Doolittle's Report 93 



Foreign Notes: 



Sundry Items 95, 96 



Baron Von Berlepsch 95 



Paris Exposition 96 



Colonies of Bees, without Hives— Experiments 9t> 

 Apis Dorsata 96 



Our Letter Box: 

 Sundry Letters 97 to 99 



Jl^° Friend Argo (just as we are ready 

 for the press) wants us to insert a letter — 

 but as we cannot find room, at tliis late 

 date, we will give the gist of it. He has 

 received a host of letters, and neither he, 

 his wife or neighbors could read the signa- 

 tures to many of the letters. Let every one 

 write names, post office and state plainly. — 

 It will save very great annoyance to those 

 receiving the letters. 



tt^"We regret to learn that friend R. R. 

 Murphy, of Garden Plain, 111., lost his 

 beloved wife on Jan. 30, after a long and 

 painful illness. The American Bee 

 Journal extends its condolence to the 

 bereaved brother. 



1^ To save confusion and disappoint- 

 ment let all who intend to buy hives, 

 honey- boxes, crates, &c., order early. 

 Manufacturers complain of the rush 

 just before swarminpj season. A little 

 foresight in this will save disappoint- 

 ment and ill-feelinsr. 



1^ Four government vessels are to 

 be dispatched to France with full loads 

 of American "•truck" for the Paris 

 exposition. All the space allowed to 

 the United States has been already as- 

 signed by the chief commissioner, but 

 the applications are still numerous. 

 American a])iculture will be meagerly 

 represented. 



i^A swarm of bees were recently 

 discovered under the eaves of the Con- 

 gregational Church iiiBoscawen, N.II., 

 and with 69 lbs. of honey taken from 

 their hiding-place a festival was held 

 which brought the church a large sum. 



It^" Friend Palmer has sent one of his 

 double Langstroth hives to our Museum.— 

 Such were recommended by Mr. L. in 1867. 

 Friend Palmer uses them and speaks much 

 to their praise. They are nearly the same 

 as the single, with two entrances and por- 

 ticos, and more box room. We have known 

 friend Palmer for manv years, and as he 

 advertises a new Raspberry in this issue, 

 would say that he is entirely responsible 

 and honorable in his dealings. 



"Cincinnati has a Poultry and Pet 

 Stock Association. It was organized on 

 February the 14, with the following object: 

 To encourage and i)romote improvement in 

 the Breeding and Management of Poultry, 

 Pigeons, Bees, Game, and Pet Animals, by 

 means of exhibitions and the collecting and 

 disseminating of reliable and practical in- 

 formation relating thereto. Armin Tenner, 

 is Its Secretary. 



