Vol. XV. 



Chicago, Illinois, December, 1879. 



No. 12. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table. 



Editorial Items 531 to 535 



Lady Bee-Keepers 532 



Dollar Queens 532 



Honey Yield 533 



Queen Bees by Mail 533 



Langstroth Testimonial 534 



New Smokers 535 



Dysentery as a Bee Disease 535 



Number of Eggs laid in a day 564 



Our Letter Box : 



Wm. M. Slater, G. A. Walrath, J. W. 



Eckmau, H. Spengler, J. L. 



Smith, H. L.Jeffrey 536 



W. H. Green, A. J. Monroe, Frank 



Rix, H. S. Hackman, W. D. 



Wright, S. E. O'Neel, W. J. Beal.537 

 S. S. Butler, M. D., S. R. Mason, T. 



E. Turner, C. 1. Stevens, J. B. 



Murray, G. A. Willis, E. R. 



Wright 538 



H. W., S. B. Borden, R. S. Osborn, G. 



L. Perry, D. S. Burbank, John 



Crowfoot 539 



W. S. Barclay, J. P. H. Brown, Mrs. 



L. Harrison, L. H. Pammel, J. V. 



Caldwell, I. Flagg 540 



Correspondence : 



Dysentery and Wintering 541 



The sting of the Worker Bee 542 



A Good Bee Country 543 



The National Apiary 544 



My Plan for Wintering Bees 545 



Bee Items from Mississippi 545 



To Find a Black Queen 546 



Items from North Carolina 547 



Comb vs. Extracted Honey 547 



Spring Dwindling 548 



Queens Duplicating themselves 548 



How to Secure the Largest Income.. 549 



Bee-Keeping in Idaho 551 



Hints to Beginners 564 



Conventions : 



Central Kentucky 552 



West Virginia 554 



Northwestern Ohio 555 



Central Ohio 555 



Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa.. .556 



Humanity to the Bees 562 



Nebraska State 564 



gditur's ^aM*. 



«ii° Our usual Foreign Department is 

 crowded out this month. We shall have 

 it full of very interesting matter in our 

 next month's issue. 



$g§T The Editor expects to attend the 

 Michigan State Convention to be held 

 at Jackson, Dec. 10th, and the Indiana 

 State Convention, to be held at Indian- 

 apolis, January 13th. 



i^Be sure to see that the bees have 

 enough honey to winter on. If they 

 have not, they must be given either 

 combs from other hives or fed with 

 honey or sugar syrup. 



ijgfCapt. J. E. Hetherington, of 

 Cherry Valley, N. Y., the greatesthoney 

 producer in the world, was married on 

 Thursday Nov. 20th 1879, to a lady of 

 South Norwalk, Conn. May his future 

 be as sweet as the honey, the immense 

 yield of which has made his apiary 

 notorious, the world over. 



igg° We have bestowed a great amount 

 of labor on the very complete annual 

 Indexes to be found in this number. 

 They will be found exceedingly valu- 

 able by those who keep the Bee Jour- 

 nal, for reference. Those who pro- 

 vide themselves with a Binder, will be 

 astonished at the great convenience it 

 gives them for consulting back numbers 

 of the Bee Journal. Read again 

 what Mr. Heddon says of these Bind- 

 ers, on page 352 of the August number. 



