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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



WASHINGTON, MAY, 1869. 



E2F"TnE American Bee Journal is now 

 published monthly, in the City of Washington, 

 (D. C.,) at $2 per annum in advance. All com- 

 munications should be addressed to the Editor, 

 at that place. 



HgrWc have added four pages to this number 

 of the Journal, without being able to insert 

 all the articles now in hand. Regarding the 

 favors of our correspondents as evidence that 

 the interest felt and frequently expressed by 

 them for the success of the Bee Journal, is 

 sustained and growing, we make every effort 

 in our power to present their communications 

 to our readers without undue delay, but find 

 that we cannot always accomplish what Ave 

 constantly desire. 



ner : On the 7th of August he removed the 

 queens from two colonies of black bees, A and 

 B. After feeding each colony with a wine- 

 ! glassful of diluted honey scented with grated 

 I nutmeg, he dipped each queen repeatedly in 

 the liquid, and gave the queen from colony Ato 

 colony B, and that from colony B to colony A, 

 setting each at liberty directly among the bees. 

 Next morning he found each queen hale and 

 hearty in her new home, and engaged in laying 

 eggs. He then caught and killed both, and sub- 

 stituted for them two Italian queens dippedinthe 

 scented liquid and immediately liberated them 

 among the bees, as before. This second experi- 

 ment was quite as successful as the first. The 

 process may thus be tested, without risking 

 the life of a valuable queen. 



)ur readers will find in this number of 

 the Bee Journal, interesting communications 

 from correspondents in Germany, England, and 

 the Canadas ; besides the usual number and 

 variety of contributions from practical bee- 

 keepers in almost every part of the United 

 States. 



^°If the process of securing the pure fertil- 

 ization of queen bees announced by Dr. Preuss, 

 as detailed in the present number of the Bee 

 Journal, proves efficient, as we presume it will, 

 another important advance in operations essen- 

 tial to successful bee-culture, will have been 

 achieved. It comes in season to be availed of 

 by those engaged in queen-raising, who, we 

 trust, will communicate the result of any trials 

 they may make. 



tSfln our present issue we give a further 

 sketch of the debates in the German Bee-keep- 

 ers' Convention at Darmstadt, last fall. 



The process for introducing queen bees 

 promptly and safely, used and recommended by 

 Mr. Uhle, deserves trial as that of a bee-keeper 

 of large experience. The Bienenzeitung of 

 March 15, contains an extract of a letter to Mr. 

 U., in which the writer states that he had tested 

 the process, with success, in the following man- 



Ef Wc have received several numbers of the 

 "Journal des Femes et des Chateaux,' 1 '' a new 

 periodical recently commenced in Paris, and 

 largely devoted to improved and rational bee- 

 culture. It is well edited, and cannot fail to 

 be serviceable to the accessory branches of rural 

 economy which fall within its plan. 



We have received a specimen of "L' Apicol- 

 tore," an Italian Bee Journal, published 

 monthly at Milan, by the Central Association 

 for the Encouragement of Beeculture in Italy. 

 It advocates the introduction of movable comb 

 hives, and the advancement of beeculture by 

 the adoption of a rational, scientific, and syste- 

 matic mode of managing bees. 



No. VI of Dr. Packard's " Guide to the 

 Study of Insects,'" has been published, con- 

 cluding the account of the Lepidoptera (butter- 

 flies, moths, &c.) and the beginning of the Dip- 

 tera, including the various species of flies of this 

 country. This number contains a full page 

 steel plate and numerous illustrations on wood, 

 well executed. Four numbers more will com- 

 plete the work. It is published in parts, at 

 fifty cents each. Send orders to Dr. A. S. Pack- 

 ard, Jr., Salem, Massachusetts. 



The "itemizers" sometimes misapprehend 

 matters strangely, and present their misconcep- 

 tions very absurdly— as witness the following, 

 now "going the rounds:" — 



"It is stated that a swarm of bees to the num- 



