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Devoted Exclusively to Bee Culture. 



Vol. XIV. 



CHicAao, Illinois, October, 1878. 



No. 10. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table : 



Editorial Items 327 to 337 



Lessons from the Statistical Table 328 



What Shall the Harvest be? 328 



Penny Packages 328 



Sundry Questions and Answers 329 



To Strangers Visiting the City 32!) 



The " Old Reliable" abroad 330 



Cans for Honey SiO 



Shuck's Bee Feeder 331 



Stings 331 



Armstrong's Centennial Hive 332 



Postal Absurdities 332 



Hill's Wax Extractor 3;« 



The I.angstroth Hive 333 



Liady Bee- Keepers 3^14 



The Best is Always Demanded 334 



Wonderful Exhibition 335 



That Floating Apiary S^V> 



Block for Frame Making 336 



California Honey Product 336 



Foreign Notes : 



Britain's Bee Show and Convention 337 to 339 



Battle between Bees and Geese 339 



German Bee-Keepers' Convention 340 



CONVENTIONS: 



Kansas State Convention 3-10 



Lancaster County (Pa.) Convention 341 



Reports 341 



Do Bees select a place for their Hive prior 



to swarming 342 



Is Honey found as a Natural Product by the 



Bees, or do they Manufacture it? 342 



Can a Locality be Overstocked by Bees ? 342 



The Best Remedy for Bee Stings 342 



The Best Way to Get Bees out of a Honey , 



Box 343 



Which is Best, Natural Swarming or Artifi- 

 cial Division of the Colony ? 343 



Preparing Colonies for Winter 343 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Another Bee Enemy 343 



What is it ? 343 



Bibliography 343 



Description 344 



Habits 344 



Verdict 345 



The Standard of Purity 345 



A CAty Besieged by Bees 346 



Establishing the Purity of Italians 347 



Chaff from Sweet Home 347 



Italian ws. Black Bees 348 



Improved Swarm Catcher 348 



Will Queens Duplicate Themselves? 348 



Alley to the Front 348 



Standard of Purity 348 



Test of Purity 349 



Color of Queens 319 



Impossible **" 



Report from Doolittle's Apiary 349 



Standa d of Purity.: 3.5O 



Apiaries in Henry County, Ohio 330 



Chips from Sweet Home 331 



Adulteration of Sweets 3o2 



Whyis It? ^ 



A Curious Incident 353 



Wire for Foundation, Extractor, &c 353 



Does Pure Honey always Candy ? 354 



Honey, Ac, at the Tri-State Fair 354 



Bees "KiUaHorse i»4 



What shall the Decision be ? 354 



Statistical Table— Fall of 1878 355 to 357 



Our Letter Box: 



Sundry Letters 358 to 362 



Editor's 'gKhU. 



i^° Salicylic acid is said to prevent 

 honey fermenting when used in the 

 proportion of one-fourth of an ounce of 

 the acid to 30 pounds of honey. 



1^ All that is necessary to create a 

 demand for honey is to place informa- 

 tion before the people. Get some pam- 

 phlets, " Honey as Food and Medicine," 

 and scatter them among your friends, 

 and a demand will, no doubt, spring up 

 that will take all your surplus honey to 

 satisfy. Try it and see. 



i^Friend Ira Wilson, of Lodi, N. Y„ 

 says that Mr. Miller, in that vicinity, 

 has patented the Quinby hive, and asks 

 if he can collect a royalty of those who 

 have been using it for years. The 

 Quinby has been before the public too 

 long to be patented at this date. 

 Friend Wilson need not hesitate to 

 make and use them, if he desires. 



i^° In shipping honey, be sure to 

 turn the top bar downwards ; this will 

 often save it from being broken down 

 and leaky. Many boxes or sections are 

 not built quite down to the bottom bar. 

 In transit these will be almost sure to 

 break down if sliipped the same way 

 up as when standing on the hive. 



