Vol. XV. 



Chicago, Illinois, February, 1879. 



No. 2. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor'* Table. 



Editorial Items 49-54 



About that Honey Confiscation 50 



Petitions on Adulteration 51 



Large Yield of Mr. D. Gardner 52 



How to Exhibit Bees 52 



How to Protect an Apiary 53 



Selling Bee Receipts 54 



New Comb Foundation 54 



New Hives at our Museum 54 



Statistical Table— continuation of 55 



Foreign Notes : 



German and Austrian Convention 56 



Foreign Items Gleaned by Frank Benton 55 



Swallows and Bees 56 



Melilot Clover in Alsace-Lorrain 56 



Honey Adulteration in France 56 



Correspondence : 



Something about Bees 57 



Clethra Alnifolia, or Sweet Pepper 58 



Block for nailing Prize Boxes 60 



Careful Handling of the Bees 60 



Untested Queens 60 



Improvement of Italian Bees 61 



Adulteration— Pure Italians, &c 62 



Fertilization in Confinement 62 



Italians vs. Black Bees 63 



Standard of Purity for Italians 63 



Glucose— Imported Queens, &c 63 



Shade for Hives 64 



Imported Italian Queens 64 



Will Honey Cure Consumption ? 65 



Dealers in Apiarian Supplies 66 



Marketing Honey 67 



Sundry Items of Interest 68 



National Convention 68 



Standard Italian Queens 69 



Adulteration of Sweets 69 



Business a Pleasure— Bingham's Eastern Visit, 70 



Glucose or Grape Sugar 71 



Cleome as a Honey Plant 72 



Conventions : 



Merits of the different Varieties of Bees 73 



Mustard as a Honey Plant 75 



Comb Foundation 76 



The Grape Sugar Controversy 76 



Wintering Bees Successfully 77 



Bee-Keeping in Southern California 78 



Carson City. Mich.. Convention 79 



Muscatine, Iowa, District Convention 80 



Our Letter Box : 



M. J. Wagner, J. T. Williamson, H. H. Brown. . 80 

 W. E. McBride, Isaac Sharp, Moses Bailey, Lee 

 Emerick, F. Searles, L. M. Wainwright, Job 



Huestes, Chas. S. Burt 81 



G. W. Piper, R. L. Aylor. W. T. Parham, J. J. 

 Whitson, P. J. Kline, F. C. Eldred, W. C. 



Leonard 82 



E. Pickup, H. S. Hastings, W. A. Schofleld, H. 

 R. Boardman, Win. Camm, Bittenbender 



Bros., J. P. H. Brown, H. A Simonds 83 



John M. Putnam, (has. J. Fox, J. L. Smith, 

 Mrs. Mollie O. Large, E. Rood, A. Wilder, 



Cosmo 84 



John Fox, J. D. Enos, G. W. Brown, S. P. Tracy, 



Wm. Clements, D. Clifton 85 



John Fox, Cosmo, G. M. Doolittle, A. E. Wen- 



zel, A.J.Cook 86 



Business Department : 



" Facts are Stubborn Things" 87 



fetor's QMt. 



HgUr 5 Now is the time to procure 

 hives, and boxes, for the next season. 



§W The late cold weather has been 

 very destructive to many colonies that 

 were left unprotected on their summer 

 stands, but those that were properly 

 cared for, either by packing or being 

 carried to winter repositories are all right. 



HSF^'Are separators necessary?" 

 asks one. We say emphatically. Yes ! 

 That is if it is desired to have the sec- 

 tions so that they will pack nicely in 

 crates, and carry without leaking about 

 everything. If not used, the combs 

 will be built uneven, and one will crowd 

 on to the other, and mash down, making 

 bad work alike for the shipper, the 

 dealer and the consumer ! 



§W° The very interesting article des- 

 criptive of the different races of bees, by 

 Frank Benton, as given on page 73 of 

 this Journal, will be read with con- 

 siderable interest by all. 



tilP'The Michigan Farmer, remarks 

 that " the use of glucose has resulted in 

 great damage to the apiarian interest of 

 the country, and Mr. Chas. Dadant, Dr. 

 K C. Kedzie, Prof. A. J. Cook, Mr. C. 

 F. Muth, and the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, are all deserving of great credit 

 for their efforts against the practice, and 

 towards the securing of proper legisla- 

 tion to suppress the adulteration of 

 honey." 



