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PUBLISHED BY, „ 



THOS. G.NEWMAN fc SON, 



TIIOIflAS G. NE^VBIAI*, 



EDITOR. 



Vol. mi, lay 17, 1890, No, 20. 



Ediweml 'Bmeiegs. 



We Pily one who never sees 

 The butterflies, the birds, the bees, 

 Nor hears the music of the breeze 



When zephyrs soft are blowing ; 

 Who cannot iu sweet comfort lie 

 Where clover blooms are thick and high. 

 And hear the gentle murmur nigh 



Of brooklets softly flowing. 



Accuse uot Nature, she hath done her 

 part ; do thou but thine.— il/iH(j?i. 



Heavy rains are reported all over 

 the Northwest. The fields are looking 

 gi-een, and when it gets warm again, veg- 

 etation will progress rapidly. 



Itiilletins from the State Agricultural 

 College of Michigan are received. They 

 are respectively : The English Sparrow- 

 Insecticides— and Foul Brood. The latter 

 we will give in full in our next issue. 



The Eifflilh EtUtion of our book, 

 entitled " Bees and Honey, or the Manage- 

 ment of the Apiary for Pleasure and 

 Profit," is now published, and ready for 

 delivery. This edition has been largely 

 re-written, thoroughly revised, and is 

 "fully up with the times" In all the 

 improvements and inventions in this 

 rapidly-developing pursuit, and presents 

 the apiarist with everything that can aid 

 in the successful management of an apiary, 

 and at the same time produce the most 

 honey in an attractive condition. It con- 

 tains 350 pages, and 345 illustrations— is 

 beautifully printed in the highest style of 

 the art, and bound in cloth, gold lettered. 

 Price, -Si. 00, postpaid. 



Pi-odiiotiun or Comb Honey.— To 

 secure a large crop of comb honey we must 

 have strong colonies. The hive must be 

 full to overflowing with bees. A weak 

 colony may give fair returns of extracted 

 honey, but will uot work in the sections so 

 as to be profitable. Construct the hive so 

 as to be easy of access in all parts at all 

 times, and capable of being contracted or 

 expanded at will, as circumstances may 

 demand. The surjilus cases should be easy 

 of manipulation. The colonies must be 

 kept strong during the entire year ; swarm- 

 ing must be prevented, for when bees 

 swarm they do not store as much honey as 

 those which do not swarm. — Exchaiuje. 



Bees as Oi-iisinients The Jewel- 



er^s Circular for May contains some 

 remarks on the bees being the favorite for 

 ornamentation. It says : 



Insects are introduced in many of the 

 corsage ornaments. The bee is, of course, 

 a favorite, being copied in diamonds and 

 rubies. In one, a long spray of wild roses, 

 imitated solidly in diamonds, there are at 

 least a half dozen bees. These do not rest 

 on the flower, but make a part of the com- 

 position, and can each be separated and be 

 used as a single ornament whenever de- 

 sired. 



11^ The 15th annual meeting of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen, 

 which convenes at the Park Avenue Hotel, 

 New York City, June 4, promises to be a 

 notable event. Reduced fare has been 

 secured in all railroads east of Chicago, and 

 reduced prices also at the new fire-proof 

 hotel. For particulars, address Chas. A. 

 Green, Secretary, Rochester, N. Y. 



IS" E. Drane & Son advertised in the 

 AMEBic.iN Bee Joukxal for a man to assist 

 in their apiary. They not only secured 

 such, but they say that they had abundance 

 of applications. That shows the value of 

 an announcement in our columns 



Keep sin Apiary Account, in a 



regular business way. It will be lots of 

 satisfaction at the close of the season to 

 know exactly how the bee and honey 

 account stands, without guesswork. To 

 this end, you should obtain an "Apiary 

 Register," a book gotten up for this very 

 purpose, as well as to keep track of your 

 Queens and Colonies. It devotes 2 pages 

 to each Colony, and a mere glance will give 

 you its complete history. The pages devo- 

 ted to finance are ruled for Receipts and 

 Disbursements, and being at the end of the 

 book, are always convenient for reference, 

 if properly kept. The book is strongly 

 bound in full leather, and for an Apiary of 

 100 colonies of bees, only costs $1.00, post- 

 paid. Get and use it, and you will not 

 regret it. 



The Catalogue of Martin & Macy, 

 North Manchester, Ind., is on our desk. 

 Bees, Queens, Plants and Eggs. 



.Movint; llees. — Many inquiries are 

 made by novices as to how to move the 

 bees short distances. Prof. A. J. Cook gave 

 his experience in this line in the New York 

 Tribune of April 30. He said : 



If the bee-keeper wishes to move his col- 

 onies a short distance— less than half or 

 three-ciuarters of a mile— he may do so 

 with slight inconvenience. 



While fixing our grounds last season, we 

 had to move ours twice, 8 or 10 rods. We 

 did this just at nightfall, after they were 

 done flying. The first day we moved about 

 half of them, taking each alternate colony. 

 In the new position we placed the entrance 

 facing the opposite direction from that of 

 its previous position. We also drove a 

 board into the ground just in front of the 

 entrance. 



The new position of the hive as to points 

 of the compass, and the new object in 

 front of the hive, caused nearly all the bees- 

 to mark their new position and return to it. 

 The few that went back to the old place 

 joined the colonies still there, and sti-ength- 

 ened them. After the bees first moved had 

 had a good flight, we moved the others, at 

 similar time, and iu similar manner as 

 before, only leaving 4 colonies, one in each 

 quarter of the old place, to receive any 

 bees that might return. Soon these four 

 were moved, and so far as we could see, 

 we suffered no loss or inconvenience. 



The point to be observed is so to change 

 the aspect about the hive that the bees 

 when they come out will note the new sur- 

 roundings sufficiently to charge their 

 memories; then they will come back to the 

 new home, and not to the old one. Chang- 

 ing from one open ground to a grove will 

 accomplish this. 



Bees and Forests. — Bee-keepers are 

 now voicing their protests against the 

 destruction of forests, especially in the 

 originally heavily wooded districts of the 

 older States, for the reason that it means 

 the destruction of that great honey-bearing 

 tree, the linden or basswood. In many 

 localities that tree is the chief source of the 

 best honey, and bee-keepers there view 

 with justifiable alarm its probable early 

 annihilation. —Exchange. 



1®^ George H. Knickerbocker, Piue 

 Plains, N. Y., has sent us his new Circular 

 of Italian Bees and Queens. With it comes 

 a nice little calendar for 1890. It is so 

 neat and convenient that we have it hung 

 up on our desk. No doubt that others will 

 do the same. 



Alfalfa should be sown after settled 

 weather in the Spring, in drills about 8 

 inches apart. Cultivate or hoe oace to 

 keep it free froin weeds. When ju it be- 

 ginning to fiowermow it, to keep the ste:ns 

 from being woody. It takes about 15 or 30 

 pounds to the acre. 



We want of Volume 2 of the 

 Amekican Bee JouRXAi— July, 1866, to 

 June, 1867. Any one having it for sale 

 may send us a postal card, saying what 

 he will take for it. Do not send any 

 numbers before we order them, for we only 

 need one set. 



