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XIIOMAS «. WEWTJIAW, 



EDITOR, 



Voinv. FeD.2,18 



No. 5. 



liove is the Impulse which directs the world, 

 And all tbines know it and obey its power. 



Man, in the maelstrom of bis passions whirled ; 

 The bcc, that takes the pollen to the flower. 



Xlie Bee-Keepers' Advance and 



Poultryman's Journal for January is on our 

 desk. It is in new form— two columns on 

 a page, and contains 33 pages. It is well 

 printed and edited. We congratulate Bro. 

 Hason on its appearance. 



A Correspondent desires us to state 

 the price of the Australasian Bee Journal, 

 and the address of the publisher. It is a 

 sixteen-page monthly edited by I. Hopkins, 

 and published by Hopkins, Hayr & Co., 

 Auckland, New Zealand. With postage it 

 will take $3.00 a year to get it. 



Xhe Apiary of Mr. H. J. Rogers, of 

 Stannards' Corners, N. Y., is on our desk. 

 It shows about 80 hives, and was taken in 

 summer, when the trees were clothed with 

 leaves, the apiarist was at work in his shirt- 

 sleeves, and his family were out with bare 

 heads watching his movements and enjoy- 

 ing the balmy air. It is placed in our 

 Museum Album. 



Xiie Miimber and ]\aines of the 



new States shortly to be admitted into the 

 Union, is the subject of every one's 

 thoughts, and Ausburn Towner, on " Our 

 Would-be States," in Frank icsJic's Popu- 

 lar Monthly for February, gives us much 

 valuable information about Dakota, Mon- 

 tana, Idaho, Wyoming, Washington, Ari- 

 zona and New Mexico. The stories of the 

 number are excellent, and the Illustrations 

 beautiful. 



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YVIien l>. A. Jones and Frank Ben- 

 ton were looking for the Syrian bees, they 

 told us of some of their very interesting ex- 

 periences in trying to bring liives of bees 

 from Jerusalem to Joppa, there to take a 

 boat for Europe. They had to hire natives 

 to carry the liives of bees (in clay cylin- 

 ders) on their shoulders over that rocky and 

 mountainous route, beset with dangers, etc. 

 The donkey and camel drivers had it all 

 their own way then. Now, we see by the 

 news from Europe that "the Sultan has 

 just granted a concession (charter) for the 

 building of a railway from Joppa (or Jaffa) 

 to Jerusalem. This will do away with the 

 most disagreeable portion of the route for 

 western visitors to the city of Jerusalem, 

 and the land of Palestine. 



Prosrress is the order of the day. Mr. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson thus discusses in the 

 Review the progress of the present, and 

 compares it with the methods of apiculture 

 in the past : 



But it is a pleasure to note that the fix- 

 tures and methods of today are superior 

 even to those of half a dozen years ago. In 

 this matter of sections and their manage- 

 ment, we have most emphatically discarded 

 the plan of putting them on the hives and 

 taking them off one at a time ; a few bee- 

 keepers still manipulate them by the wide 

 frame full ; but the majority of bee-keepers 

 have adopted some sort of a case or super 

 by means of which 25 or 30 sections can be 

 handled at one time quicker than a wink ; 

 and " tiering-up" may be practiced. The 

 old, cumbersome, complicated, laborious, 

 side-storing system is, practically, laid upon 

 the shelf. We feel like taking it for granted 

 that "top-storing" and "tiering-up" with 

 some kind of a case, crate or rack, furnish 

 the best method now known for securing 

 comb honey ; that it is the only plan that 

 enables us to handle a "honey shower" 

 with perfect ease, " rattling" the sections 

 on and off the hives in a rapid, business- 

 like way. 



careful, intelli- 

 succeed, while 

 bee-keeper will 

 M. Doolittle, in 

 the following 

 thoroughly en- 

 careful consid- 



Xlie Apiarist who is 



gent and painstaking will 

 the negligent and careless 

 sooner or later fail. Mr. G. 

 the Rural Home, makes 

 statement, which we would 

 dorse and commend to the 

 eration of all : 



If any person expects to realize a large 

 income from his bees and never look after 

 tlieir condition (simply hive them and put 

 on the sections), he will find himself greatly 

 mistaken. How many that read this know 

 the exact condition of their bees at all 

 times ? If you do not, my friend, you are 

 not caring for them as well as you would 

 for your horse or cow, neither can you ex- 

 pect any more profit from them than you 

 would trom a cow or hor.se if you never 

 looked after them. Bee-keeping only pays 

 when our pets are properly looked after, 

 and if any one cannot spend the amount of 

 time on them which they require, he had 

 better keep out of the business, for sooner 

 or later he will turn away from it in disgust. 



Xlie Kortieiilliiral Society for 



Lucas County, Ohio, has elected Dr. A. B. 

 Mason as its President for the coming year. 

 He will fill the office with honor to the 

 society. 



M'inler Morlc should now be at- 

 tended to. It is no time to told your hands 

 and dream of the future. Concerning the 

 work which should now be given attention, 

 Mr. C. U. Dibhern remarks as follows in 

 the Western Plowman : 



This is the time to do some heavy think- 

 ing and studying. A good deal of work can 

 also be done now in tlie work shop, makiug 

 hives, eases, and other fixtures that will be 

 needed next summer. Sections can be put 

 together, foundation put in them, and 

 placed in cases ready to go on the hives. 

 These are generally found very handy when 

 the busy time comes. It is also a good time 

 to look back over the past season's opera- 

 tions, and determine wherein we can im- 

 prove in the future. 



Increasing an Apiary.— Jacob H. 

 Warner, Middleburg, N. Y., on Jan. 16, 1889, 

 asks for advice on increasing his apiary : 



I am a middle-aged man, with declining 

 health, I have owned a few colonies of 

 bees for the last year, and I thought that it 

 paid me fairly, and I would like to own a 

 larger stock. Some have advised me to send 

 to the South, and get a few nuclei. Others 

 think that it is best to buy the native bees. 

 Do you think that it is best to increase my 

 apiary from the colonies I have ? Which of 

 the three ways would you advise me to 

 take ? 



The safest plan will be to increase the 

 colonies you have, and if they are black 

 bees, buy some Italian queens and introduce 

 them. This will give you experience as 

 well as increase. 



XIic British Bee Journal is now 



publishing articles on queen rearing by 

 Henry Alley, simultaneously with their ap- 

 pearance in the Aplculturlst. Dr. C. C. 

 Miller, and his methods, are also receiving 

 illustrated attention in that paper. Ameri- 

 cans are now "having their day" in our 

 British cotemporary. British honey im- 

 ports during December, 1888, amounted to 

 3,033 pounds. 



Catalog-lies for 1889 are on our desk 

 from — 



A. D. Cozad, Kremis, Pa,— 4 pages— Bee- 

 Keepers' Supplies and Plants. 



Cole's Garden, Farm and Flower Seeds, 

 Pella, Iowa— 50 pages— Seeds, Garden Tools, 

 etc. 



Landreth's Vegetable Garden Seeds— .50 

 pages— Kitchen Garden Calendar, Price 

 List, etc, Philadelphia, Pa. 



F. E. Myers & Bro,, Ashland, 0.— Poster 

 and Calendar— Myers Pumps and Hay Tools. 



Al^vays mention your Post-Office, 

 County and State when writing to this 

 ofBce. No matter where you may happen 

 to be for the hour when actually writing— 

 never mention anything but your perma- 

 nent address. To do otherwise leads to 

 confusion, unless you desire your address 

 changed. In that case state the old as well 

 as the new address. 



Your Full .Address, plainly written, 

 Is very essential in order to avoid mistakes. 



