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Vol. XIV. 



CmcAao, Illinois, June, 1878. 



No. 6. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table : 



Editorial Items 173 to 180 



Cook's New Manual of the Apiary 174 



Peculiar Sliding Bottom-Board 175 



Fastening Comb Foundation 175 



Honey-Boxes all in One Piece 176 



Smokers 176 



New Langstroth Hive 177 



" Heap by Cheap" Goods 178 



Davis' Swarm Hiver 178 



Melilot Clover 179 



Something about Patents 179 



Honey as Food and Medicine 180 



Humbugs and Swindles 180 



Foreign Notes : 



Migratory Bee Culture 181 



How Bees Wintered in France 182 



Springing Bees in Alsace-Lorraine 183 



Preserving Empty Combs 182 



Origin of Bell-Ringing for Bees 182 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Bees and Hive-Making in Southern California 183 



Keeping Record of an Apiary 184 



How to Prevent Swarming 185 



Items, Statistics, Questions, &c 186 



Honey-Dew 1S<J 



Patents— Answer to D. D. Palmer 188 



Furze as Forage 188 



Interesting Topics 189 



Italians fs. Blacks 189 



Importing Queens 189 



Floating Apiaries 189 



Fertilization in Confinement 189 



Conventions 190 



Box vs. Extracted Honey 190 



Wintering 190 



Foul Brood, &c 190 



Wintering— Plan of Preparation 191 



How to Raise White Clover Honey 192 



Burch TS. Novice 192 



Bee Interests in Los Angeles, Cal 192 



Smokers and Sections 193 



Chips from sweet Home 193 



Conventions: 



A piculture as a Business 194 



Marketing Honey 194 



New York City Bee-Keepers' Association 196 



Albany County (N. Y.) Association 197 



North-Eastern Wisconsin Convention 198 



Western Ills, and Eastern Iowa Convention.. 198 



Address of Welcome to Burlington 198 



Italians rs. Black Bees 199 



Natural Swarming 200 



Comb-Honey Boxes 200 



Queen Rearing 200 



Fertile Workers 200 



Moth Traps 200 



Grape Sugar for Feeding 200 



Adulteration of Honey 200 



Comb and E.xtracted Honey 200 



The Demand forComb Honey 200 



How to Prevent Robbing 201 



How to Carry Bees through Spring 202 



C( >m b P\ lundation 203 



Sections and Separators 202 



How to Italianize an Apiary 203 



Do Toads Eat Bees ? 203 



Catching Wild Swarms 203 



Bee-Houses for Honey Production 203 



Two Laying Queens in one Hive 203 



Extracting and Marketing Honey 203 



Painting the Inside of Hives 203 



Southern Kentucky Convention 203 



Marketing Honey in Best Shape 203 



The Best Honey-Producing Plants 204 



Raising and Introducing Queens 206 



Our Letter Box: 



Sundry Letters 206 to 210 



Business Department : 



Items for Correspondents 210 



Bingham's Smoker Corner 211 



Honey Markets 211 



What Ailed the Bees? 2U 



%Miov's ^aM«. 



m^" Some one, by mistake, carried off the 

 U. S. Mail hat of E. D. Godfrey, Red Oak, 

 Iowa, while at the Convention at Burling- 

 ton, Iowa. The one who found it in his 

 possession should write friend Godfrey — 

 address as above. 



New York city folks have the bee 

 fever, and a great many hives are being 

 sold there. Friend King keeps a lot of 

 colonies on the roof of his oflBce, from 

 which he makes daily sales. The Thurbers 

 have also disposed of several consignments 

 at a price ranging from $10 to $12 each. 



It^" The past month has been very dis- 

 couraging to bee-keepers all over the coun- 

 try. It has been universally cold and wet. 

 If it clears off and becomes warm now, all 

 will be well. If not, we fear the honey 

 harvest will suffer considerably. The 

 weather has retarded queen rearing, and as 

 the pleasant and promising weather of 

 April caused orders for queens to rush in 

 very fast, almost all queen breeders are 

 behind with their orders— and purcliasers 

 must have patience with tliem. The latter . 

 can no more control the weather while 

 rearing queens than can the former while 

 trying to produce honey. We must all 

 ercise pntieiice now. 



