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Vol. XIV. 



Chicago, Illinois, December, 1878. 



No. 12. 



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1^ For the contents of this number 

 see the General Indexes. 



1^ We find that the recent ruling of 

 the Post Master General does not admit 

 bees to the mails. 



1^ We expect to attend the Conven- 

 tions at Carson City, and Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., on the 3d and 4th of December, 

 and hope to see a large attendance at 

 each one. 



i^° Syrups are carried by railroads at 

 fourth class rates, but extracted honey 

 in barrels is charged first class rates— a 

 manifest injustice to honey producers 

 and consumers. 



1^ A swarm of bees at Cold Spring, 

 Conn., hived in a chimney flue,whicli 

 they stopped up with comb five and 

 half feet wide. Sixty-seven pounds of 

 honey were there found stored away. 



i^To create a demand for your 

 honey— scatter the small pamphlet on 

 " Honey as Food and Medicine " among 

 all the consumers in your vicinity. 

 See new prices on tlie third page of the 

 cover of this Journal. 



i^'The Hastings (Minn.) Gazette. hi\s 

 an excellent description of the apiary 

 of Mr. Wm. Dyer, of tliat city. Mr. 

 D. is a progressive and successful api- 

 rist, and fully entitled to the honorable 

 mention of the Gazette. 



s^'The wise weather prophets say 

 that the coming winter will in all 

 probability be one of the most severe 

 we have experienced for some time. 

 Let the bees be well prepared for such, 

 so that they may not suffer, if it comes. 



Ik Whately, Mass., Asa J. Crafts has 

 bees that have decended and been kept 

 by his father, grandfather, great grand- 

 father and g]'eat, great grandfather, 

 John Crafts, who died in Hatfield, 

 May 23, 1730. His son Benoni Crafts, 

 one of tlie earliest settlers in Whately, 

 brought them thither about 1758. 



i^°The Rev. L. L. Langstroth has, 

 during the past month, made a very 

 pleasant visit to Prof. Cook, and the 

 Michigan State Agricultural College. 

 We are glad that his health is so far 

 recovered as to allow of this visit. It 

 will no doubt be as invigorating to his 

 physical system, as it has been replete 

 with intelligent associations. 



i^We can hardly consent to close 

 the present Volume without entering 

 our most earnest protest against the 

 use of glucose for feeding bees. A 

 report has just come in where an apiary 

 of several hundred colonies has been 

 entirely destroyed by feeding them 

 glucose, or grape sugar as it is called. 

 It was i honey and f glucose ; but the 

 bees are all dead and their foolish 

 owner is a wiser but a poorer man ! A 

 clergyman had 8 colonies, and fed them 

 glucose, but they all died, leaving him 

 to mourn the loss. Let us say ^ Beware I 

 It is poison, rank and deadly I 



