Vol. XV. 



Chicago, Illinois, June, 1879. 



No. 6. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table. 



Editorial Items 241 to 246 



Is it Patented ? 241 



Our Convention Trip 242 



Comb-Building 242 



Humbug 242 



London Show for Bees and Honey 243 



Bee Enemies 243 



Austro-German Exhibition 244 



Apiculture and the Census 244 



Moving Bees by Railroad 244 



Maddened Bees— Robbing 245 



Quinby's New Bee-Keeping 245 



Bees and Fruit Trees 246 



Repairing the Loss 246 



Our Letter Box : 



W. G. Walton, C. H. Dibbern, D. H. Hopkins, 

 C. Li. Sweet, V. Searles, J. T. Williamson, 

 li. A. Taber, J. W. Greene, M. E. Loehr, A. 

 Rhodes, A. S. Areson 247 



H. S. Walrath, J. S. Lord, L. Carson, M. M. 

 Baldridge, C. S. Burt, D. C. Mensing, Christ. 

 Brunke 248 



Wm. Camm, I. N. Cotton, W. O. Carpenter, C. 

 Eggleston 249 



A. Parsons, W. C. Nutt, R. Devenport, W. K. 

 Moore, T. F. Bingham. A. J. Tibbetts, J. P. 

 H. Brown, D. A. Pike, I ). S. Silver 250 



F. Hardinger, P. James, E. Pickup, T. L. Fra- 

 zer, C. R. Clough, A. . I. Cook 251 



R. R. Murphy, H. T. Fullerton.G. Goodwin, A. 

 F. Moon, J. P. Spaulding 252 



Wm. Dyer, I. V. Shepherd & Son, W. A. Mill- 

 ing, J. H. Guenther, Ira Barber, W. P. Evritt 253 



Correspondence : 



Management During June 254 



Wintering Bees in Kentucky 255 



Honey as a Staple Article 256 



Hints on Robber Bees 256 



Natural and Abnormal Swarming 257 



Plea for Pure Honey 259 



Voice from Northern Michigan 259 



Wintering Bees in Michigan 260 



Recipe for Bee Food, etc 261 



Action of Honey on Glass 261 



Alarming Diseases of Bees 262 



Bees in Albany County, N. Y 263 



White Sage— Large Yields 263 



Wintering Bees in Kansas 264 



How Bees Mark their Location 264 



Experience witli a Large Hive 265 



Cook's Division-Board Feeder 266 



Apiculture in Florida, etc 266 



Conventions : 



Central Kentucky Convention 267 



Bee-Keeping in Kentucky 267 



Improved Methods of Bee-Culture 268 



Best Manner of Wintering 270 



Success in Bee-Keeping 271 



Livingston Co., Mich., Convention 272 



Adulteration of Honey 273 



Central Michigan Convention 274 



Southern Kentucky Convention 275 



Union, Kentucky, Convention 276 



National Association 276 



Foreign JVotes : ■ 



Abnormal Winter Distension of Bees 277 



Twenty-third German Convention 278 



Foreign Items 278 



gate's gaW«. 



^°The Express Companies, as well 

 as the freight lines, have considerably 

 decreased their rates. One pound will 

 now go for 25 cents over any or all the 

 lines of the different companies. 



H^Prof. Cook's new "Manual of 

 the Apiary " is received with universal 

 approbation ; hundreds of unsolicited 

 complimentary letters and notices have 

 been received by the publishers. The 

 third edition being nearly exhausted, 

 another thousand copies have been is- 

 sued, making six thousand that have 

 been published within three years. 



HOST In the Bee-Keepers' 1 Exchange, Mr. 

 J. II. Nellis, the editor, reports a loss 

 of 30 per cent, of his bees, which he 

 says is " traceable largely to the grape 

 sugar experiment,'''' and his queen-rear- 

 ing business. This is another striking 

 commentary upon the use of such trash 

 for feeding bees. 



Is it Patented? — A correspondent 

 wishes to know if the prize honey box 

 is patented. We answer, No. It has 

 so many " fathers " that it would be 

 difficult even to decide as to its pater- 

 nity. Mr. Betsinger, of New York, 

 seems to have as much right as anyone 

 to adopt it as his child — and he, over a 

 year ago, generously gave it to the pub- 

 lic. Anyone claiming a patent right on 

 it, is a swindler. We hear that such are 

 now canvassing the country. Give 

 them a wide berth. 



