Vol. XIV. 



Chicago, Illinois, November, 1878. 



No. 11. 



Contonts of this NumJ)er. 



Editor's Table : 



Editorial Items 365 to 372 



Seasonable Hints ;*Ki 



Profjressive Ideas 3K(! 



New Post Office Ruling 3(iH 



The Floating Apiary 307 



Local Convention Directory 367 



Southern Kentucky Bee-Keepers' Convention 367 



OurClubbing Price List 367 



Untested Queens 368 



SellinK and Shipping Honey ;W8 



Wintield's Pillar of Honey 368 



Honey Sections all in One Piece 368 



Glucose for Feeding Bees 369 



A Curiosity— Comb on Trees 369 



Items Caught on the Wing 370 



Tons of Honey 370 



Care of Extracted Honey 370 



Honey for Manufacturing Purposes 371 



One Pound Sections -!>}(. Prize Boxes 371 



Austro-Gerraan Congress 372 



Kind Words 372 



Petrified Honey Comb 372 



Notes and Queries : 



Golden Rods 373 



The Tailor- Bee— Insect 373 



Asters, Partridge-Pea and Golden Rod 373 



Alstke Clover 373 



FOREIGN NOTES : 



Sixty Tons of Beeswax Sold In Lisbon 374 



New Langstrotli Hive in France 374 



Comb Foundation in Germany 374 



Bees with Wasp-like Bodies 374 



Bee Conventions in Germany, Italy, France. . 374 



Bee-Keeping in Russia 374 



Bees and Honey in Greece 374 



Correspondence : 



Glucose for Feeding Bees 375 



Pure Bees UK. Good Working Qualities 3r6 



Light-Colored Drones 376 



Conventions: 



National Convention Report 377 



Bise and Progress of Bee Culture 379 



Fertilization in Confinement 384 



Bee Pasturage 387, 395 



Rational System of Wintering Bees 389 



Our Honey Markets 391 



Glucose for Feeding Bees 392 



Comb Foundation 393 



To Honey Producers and Consumers 394 



Standard of Purity for Bees. 395 



Foreign Races of Bees 396 



Untested Queens not approved 396 



Petition to Congress against Adulteration. . 397 



Miscellaneous Business 397 



Stray Thoughts— Kansas Convention 397 



Prevention of Increase— North Mo. Conv'n .. 398 



North- Western Ohi(j Convention Report 399 



Albany Co., N. Y., Convention Report 400 



Central Kentucky Convention Report 401 



Our Letter Box: 



Bun dry Letters 402 to 403 



Business Depakt.ment 



To Correspondents 403 



I^ Honey Markets 404 



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(litor^s ^aWc. 



i^H. G. Heckman, Constantine, 

 Mich., has placed an excellent sample 

 of his white clover honey on our table. 

 It is beautifully clear and white. 



i^The North-Eastern Wis. Associa- 

 tion have printed their proceedings in 

 a 12 page pamphlet. Those wanting 

 copies should send to the secretary, 

 Mrs. F. A. Dunham, De Pere, Wis., 

 for them. 



i^The island of Cyprus at one time 

 contained nine different kingdoms, and 

 more than a million inhabitants. Ow- 

 ing to the alleged peculiar temperament 

 of its people, it was called "the home 

 of love and beauty." 



i^The Louisburg, Kansas, Herald. 

 has over two columns devoted to a des- 

 cription of Mr. Paul Dunkin's apiary. 

 Mr. D., is a successful and scientitic 

 apiarist, and well deserves the compli- 

 ments given by the Herald. 



i^Mr. J. E. Moore has sent us a 

 sample of his new crop of honey in his 

 style of box. It is very fine. Also 

 samples of liis manner of marketing. 

 He makes those caps for 1, 2. 6 and 12 

 boxes, and furnishes a wood bottom 

 for them, so that they can be marketed 

 without crating — though they must be 

 crated or boxed when shipped. Friend 

 Moore is a genius, and makes market- 

 ing a study, and we are glad of it. Such 

 persons are always a benefit to society. 



