Vol. XV. 



Chicago, Illinois, November, 1879. 



No. 11. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Taole. 



Editorial Items 481 to 483 



The National Convention 482 



Swiss Honey-Cake 483 



"Yankee" Advertising in London 483 



Correspondence : 



Uniting Bees for Winter — 484 



Our Letter ISo v : 



Jno. F. Eggleston 484 



J. W. Green, Levi N. Miller, H. L. Jeffrey, 

 W. P. Johnson, P. Lattner, R. K. Moore, 

 J. B. Dines, L. M. Roberts, C. Newsom, 



Harry G. Burnet, W. D. Foote 485 



A. Malone, D. D. Palmer, J. W. Sanders, 

 H. H. Cheney, Elisha Gallup, J. T. & 3. 

 G. Williamson 486 



Conventions : 



Indiana State Convention 486 



The North American Bee-Keepers' Society. . .. 487 



President's Address 487,514 



Reports of Delegates on Honey Crop 488 



Report of Representative to Europe. . .489, 514 



The Tongue of the Honey Bee 490 



How Bees take liquid into their Stom- 

 achs 492 



Length of tongue in different races 493 



Practical Conclusions 494 



Patents as applied to Apiarian Imple- 

 ments 495 



Wintering Bees on Summer Stands 496 



Monstrosities among Bees 498 



Officers Elected for i879-80 498 



Moving Bees 499 



Bee Forage in the South 500 



Foul Brood ; Its dangers and its cure 502 



L. C. Whiting's method for cure. 504 



The Bee of the Future 505 



The next Progressive Step— Cyprian Bees. 507 

 Wintering Bees, theoretically and practi- 

 cally considered 511 



Sub-Earth Ventilation for Wintering Bees 512 

 Increasing the demand for honey— Mar- 

 keting 515 



Dysentery as a Bee Disease 517 



Fertilization in Confinement 518 



Qualities in Bees 520 



Bee Enemies the Bee-Keepers' friends 521 



Are Bees Taxable Property ? 521 



Bees in the Mails 522 



Are cheap queens the most profitable ?... . 522 



Comb Foundation 522 



National Apiary and Queen-Rearing Es- 

 tablishment 523 



How to Prevent Swarming 524 



Shall we induce people to keep bees? 525 



Introducing Virgin Queens 526 



Can Bee-Culture be made profitable ? 527 



Migratory Bee Keeping 528 



Implements on Exhibition 528 



'iW Any one having the following Nos. of the A. 

 B. J. for sale will please write to us, naming price, as 

 we wisli to purchase them, July and Aug. 1866 ; Jan. 

 1875 and Jan., Feb., Apr., May and June 1877. 



fva. Carr, Esq., (England) has our thanks for 

 copies of the Lincolnshire Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion List of Prizes for honey, hives, bees, &c. 



%max r s %mz. 



"Home again ! Home again ! 

 From a Foreign Shore 

 Oh ! How it fills our Soul with joy 

 To greet our friends once more !' 



H§° The Editor desires to greet all the 

 readers of the Bee Journal, and to 

 thank them for the many kind words of 

 greeting he has received since arriving 

 home. Many thanks to one and all. 



H^Mons. Bertrand, of Nyon, Switz- 

 erland, writes that in one of his moun- 

 tain apiaries eight hives of bees gave 

 468 lbs. of honey, or 59 lbs. per hive. 



iHPThe reports from Alsace and Lor- 

 raine indicate that the year— as far as 

 July— has been favorable to cultivators 

 of bees, especially in the way of in- 

 crease of stock. 



HifAt the South Kensington (Lon- 

 don) Bee and Honey Show, Everett's 

 was the only American Honey Extrac- 

 tor on exhibition, and was awarded the 

 second premium ; the first premium be- 

 ing awarded to one invented by T. W. 

 Cowan, Esq., a gentleman living near 

 London. We thought we had stated 

 this before, but find upon examination 

 that it was omitted. In our August 

 number page 337, we stated that four 

 American exhibits intended for the 

 Kilburn Show arrived too late for com- 

 petition but were tl much admired " by 

 those who had seen them. Among these 

 were the Everett Extractor. 



