Vol. XIV. 



Chicago, Illinois, July, 1878. 



No. 7. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table : 



Editorial Items 209 to 217 



Standard of Excellence 212 



Adulteration of Sweets 211 



The Chicago Atomizer 212 



Surplus Boxes W Years Ago 210 



Excelsior Bee Smoker 213 



Bees in Southern Wisconsin 213 



Sending Honey to Commission Men 213 



Smoker. Tin Corners, &c 214 



California Honey 215 



Scovell's and Novice's Queen Cages 215 



Coating for Honey Barrels 215 



Land Flowing with Milk and Honey 216 



Bee-Keeping in Colorado 217 



A Frog Eating Bees 217 



Rats and Mice 217 



FOBEIGX NOTES : 



The Paris Exposition 21S 



Cure for Rheumatism 21S 



The Wax Tree 21S 



Notes and Queries : 

 Sundry Questions and Answers 21S to 220 



CONVENTIOXS: 



North-Western Illinois Convention 221 



Uniting Colonies 221 



Why Bees Desert their Hives in Spring 22] 



Mouldy Combs 221 



Los Angeles Convention .• 221 



Ventilation 222 



Lancaster County, Pa., Convention 224 



Chips from Sweet Home 225 



Central Kentucky Convention 226 



Origin of Co-Operative Effort 226 



Bee-Keeping a Source of Wealth 229 



Honey and Marketing It 231 



CORRESPOXDEXCE : 



The Langstroth Hive 232 



Preparing Barrels for Shipping Honey 233 



Chips from Sweet Home 233 



Kretehmer's Metal Frame-Bearings 234 



Comb Foundation, Marketing, &c 235 



Things in (Jeneral 236 



Sad History Repeated 236 



Moc^ire's Section Boxes 236 



Wiring Comb Foundation 237 



Cyprian Bees 237 



Floating Apiaries 238 



Bee Notes from Georgia 238 



Bee Culture in Northern Michigan 2oSl 



Honey Kack and Separators 239 



Itemsfrom California 240 



Spring Feeding of Bees 241 



Foul Brood 241 



OUK LETTER Box: 



Sundry Letters 242 to 245 



Business Matters : 



To Correspondents 245 



Prof. Cook's New Work 246 



Bingham's Smoker Corner "247 



New Quinby Smoker Column 248 



1^" Tlie Texas Horticultural and Po- 

 mological Association hold their fourth 

 annual exhibition on July 17 to li», at 

 Houston, Texas. 



liditov's Tabic. 



1^" Lemonade made "with honey, and 

 used freely, is an efficient remedy for 

 dyspepsia.' 



i^The unfavorable weather during 

 the early part of June, caused the de- 

 struction of many youuii queens, who 

 were ready for fertilization about that 

 time. 



i^° Comb Foundation is being used 

 very generally this season, if we may 

 judge by the quantities called for at 

 this office, amounting to between three 

 and four thousand pounds, already. 



i^°A snow storm in Perthshire, 

 Scotland, on June 11th, seems to indi- 

 cate that the cool weather which pre- 

 vailed in this locality was not excep- 

 tional. If a snow storm in June is 

 disgusting to the human family, it must 

 be doubly so to the tiny bees, who then 

 reasonably expect to revel in the bloom 

 of thousands of fruit trees and millions 

 of flowers ! ! 



^^^ We have received a nice litho- 

 graphic view of the residence and bee- 

 yard of the Hon. H. S. Van Anglen, 

 near Waverly, LaFayette Co.. Mo. He 

 calls it "Orchard Place," and we should 

 think it rightly named, from the many 

 trees there exhibited. It is a perfect 

 minature "'paradise," where the bees 

 as well as the honorable family ought 

 to be, and no doubt are, as happy as it 

 is averred our primogenitors were in the 

 original " Garden of Eden." It also 

 adorns our museum. 



