Vol. XIV. 



Chicago, Illinois, August, 1878. 



No. 8. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table : 



Editorial Items 251 to 25!) 



Honey Knives 252 



Purity of Queens 252 



Melipones 252 



Horse Stuiitr by Bees 253 



The Sour- Wood Tree (illustrated) 253 



Ceresin Wax 254 



A Model Bee-Keeper 255 



Dead-Letter Office Facts 255 



The Bee and the Grasshopper 256 



Smokers— How to Operate them 256 



The Season in California 256 



The Excelsior Honey Extractor (illustrated) . 257 



Bees in Colorado 257 



Seasonable Hints— August 258 



Bee Stings a Cure for Rheumatism 258 



Scovell's Queen Cage 259 



Shuck's Bee-Feeder 259 



The Everett Extractor 259 



Honey and Wax 259 



A Substantial Basis 259 



Entrance Regulator 259 



Kretchmer's Feeder 264 



MARKETING HONEY : 



Sell Direct to Consumers 260 



How to get Bees out of Honey Boxes 260 



Increasing Use of Comb Foundation 260 



New Use for Honey 260 



To Prevent Honey from Candying 260 



Foreign notes : 



Italian Bees in Australia 269 



ACureforFoul Brood 269 



Granger Kate Keeping Bees in South Australia 270 



Foreign Items Gleaned by Frank Benton 270 



Artificial Combs 270 



Stings 271 



Male and Female Male Bees 271 



Merited Honors 271 



Hannemann's Bee Sieve 271 



Correspondence : 



Chips from Sweet Home 261, 286 



A Young Man's Experience 272 



Bright Wax Sheets 272 



The Standard of Excellence 273 



Rust's Excelsior Bee Hive Entrance 273 



Artificial Swarming 274 



A Plea in Favor of the Italian Bee 274 



Adulteration of Sweets 275 



Dadant Against Himself 275 



Swarming 276 



California Items 277 



The Honey Crop 277, 278 



Queen Laying in Boxes 277 



Extracted Honey 277 



Comb Foundation 277 



Bingham's Smoker 277 



Returning a Swarm 277 



The Bee Journal 278 



How to Strain Extracted Honey 278 



Large vs. Small Frames 278 



Cyprian Bees 278 



Italians Reproducing Themselves 278 



Valentine's Queen Stand (illustrated) 278 



Returning Queens 279 



County Bee Association 279 



The Perfection Honey Box (illustrated) 280 



The Home of the Cyprian Bee 281 



Our Letter Box: 

 Sundry Letters 282 to 285 



Southern Notes : 



Improvement of the Italian Bee 265 



Bright Italians T)s. Dark 265 



Are Bees Profitable ? 266 



Bee Pasturage in the South 267 



Standard of Purity 268 



What is Honey-Dew ? 268 



Novice and Winder 269 



Will Queen's Sting ? 269 



Business matters : 



To Correspondents 286 



Gone 285 



Bingham's Smoker Corner 286 



Special Notice 291 



Quinby's Smoker Column 286 



^tUtoK's laMc. 



i^A gallon of honey weighs about 

 12 lbs. 



i^In one county in California, a 

 hunter is said to have found or located 

 30 bee trees in a short space of time. 



i^With all its facilities, the bee 

 never takes a honeymoon. The Queen's 

 " bridal tour " lasts but a few minutes ! 

 Her spouse is made happy for the 

 instant— hilt the extatic joy is too much 

 for him, for he instantly expires ! 



1^ No disease is more fatal to bee- 

 keeping interests than that most 

 dreaded of all diseases, foul brood. It 

 does not seem to be confined to any 

 particular locality, but shows its de- 

 structive form wherever bees exist, 

 to a greater or less extent, both in 

 Europe and America. Science has 

 failed, as yet, to discover its origin, or 

 a certain and positive remedy. Some 

 experiments are now being made that 

 we hope will tlirow some light upon it 

 in a scientific way. 



