Vol. XIV. 



Chicago, Illinois, September, 1878. 



No. 9. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table : 



Editorial Items 289 to 305 



Beauty Spots 289 



Queens Duplicating themselves 290 



Our National Convention 291 



Bee-Keeping in England 292 



Honey Pamphlet 29:3 



Angered Bees 298 



Artificial 293 



Shipping Goods by Express 294 



Bee-Hiving Extraordinary 294 



Bees and the Mails 294 



California Honey Crop 295 



Cook's Manual of the Apiary 295 



The Paris Exposition 299 



Honey Used for Cooking Purposes 303 



Extracted vs. Strained Honey 305 



MARKETING HONEY : 



Sundry Items 296 



Foreign Notes : 



Honey Vinegar 297 



Do Queens Lay Drone or Worker Eggs at will? 2!)7 



Rotary Bee Hive 297 



Introducing Queens 297 



Comb Foundation 297 



How to get Ants out of Hives 298 



Southern Notes : 



Improvement of Bees 305 



Matters and Things in Alabama 306 



Eggs in Queen Cells 306 



Correspondence : 



The Aphides or Plant Lice 307 



Basswood— the "Off-Year' ;«7 



Lecanium Tulipifera 308 



An Old, Old Hive 309 



Wild Bees ;«9 



Catching Bees in a Rabbit Trap 30Vt 



The Wren as a Bee Protector SOIt 



Wild Onion as a Honey producer 310 



The Purity of the Queen 310 



Motherwort as a Honey Plant 310 



Standard of Purity 311, 314 



Wax Extractor 312 



Visit to Oatman's 312 



Visit to T. S. Bull's Apiary 312 



Bee Tea— a Valuable Medicine 313 



Surplus Boxes 314 



Sending Bees by Mail 313 



Chips from Sweet Home 315 



" Our Homes" in Gleanings 315 



Bee Killer 316 



How shall we Know when Italians are Pure ?. 316 



The Adulteration of Sweets 317 



Constitution of the National Society 318 



Various Items 318 



Queen Rearing 318 



Exceptions to General Rules 318 



Two Queens in One Hive 319 



Mitchell's Patents 319 



Comb Foundation 319 



ACheap Wax Extractor 319 



Honey Dew 320 



Central Kentucky Blue Grass Convention 320 



North-eastern Wisconsin Convention 320 



Beeswax Ointment 320 



Our Letter Box : 



Sundry Letters 321 to 323 



^xlitor's ^aWe. 



Beauty Spots.— From the Rev. A. Salis- 

 bury we have received a beautiful Italian 

 queen, witli tliree spots on her baclv ; tiie 

 one on the tip of the body ratlier obscure in 

 the dark rings, so common on queens. Her 

 progeny are really beautiful to look upon, 

 and she is exceedingly strong and prolific. 

 Friend Salisbury has some of the very 

 choicest stock, and this is one of his best. 



Through the kindness of Messrs. 

 Thurber & Co., of New York, we have a 

 copy of a " Manual of the Apiary," in 

 Italian, by Luigi Sartori, of Milano. It con- 

 tains 530 pages, and has many useful items 

 which we shall translate and publish in the 

 .TouRNAL from time to time. It contains, 

 among other things, many receipts for man- 

 ufacturing articles with honey, such as 

 confectionery, &c. 



Also from M. Hamit, editor of L'Apimil- 

 teur, of Paris, a Bee Dress, made of steel 

 wire and cloth ; added to our museum. 



|^°0n the night of Monday, Aug. 19, 

 some vile wretches wantonly mutilated and 

 destroyed 51 colonies of bees, belonging to 

 Mr. George Grimm, son of the late Adam 

 Grimm, of Jefferson, Wis. The hives were 

 discovered next morning tipped over, and 

 many of them smashed up, and the colonies 

 ruined. Mr. Grimm was absent from home ; 

 his uncle, Christopher Grimm, took care of 

 the bees, doing the best he could to 

 repair the damage, and offers a reward of 

 $100 for the conviction of the miscreants.— 

 It would have been well had they been 

 caught in " man traps," and left to the 

 mercy of the bees themselves. We fancy 

 they would have seen chain-lightning— lots 

 of it — and would never have wanted to 

 disturb bees again. 



