Vol. XVI. 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JANUARY, 1880. 



No. 1. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table. 



Editorial Items 9 to 19 



New Year's G reeting 10 



Apis Americana— the Coming Bee 11 



New Arrivals at our Museum 12 



The Strength of Unity 14 



Dunham Comb Foundation Machine 17 



Too Much Honey 17 



Glucose for Adulteration 18 



Advantages of Bees 19 



The National Convention 19 



CorrexpoiMlence : 



Death of Rev. Wm. C. Cotton 20 



Ladies and the National Convention 21 



Wintering, Dysentery, &c 21 



Fertilization iu Confinement 22 



Preparing Bees for Winter 22 



Bee Notes from Missouri. 23 



Removing Propolis from Glass 24 



Market Quotations for Honey 24 



My Worst Bee Enemies 25 



Last Season in Argyleshire, Scotland 26 



The Age of Drones 28 



American Honey in Europe 28- 



Honey season in Florida 29 



Wintering and Transferring 29 



How to Place Sections on Hive 30 



Receipts for Honey Wine and Mead 31 



Hope for the Depressed 32 



The Improvement of Bees 32 



Dysentery and Spring Dwindling 33 



Experiments with Ether on Bees 33 



Bee-Culture vs. Farming 34 



How to obtain Cash for Honey 34 



Honey Season of 18T9 in Denmark 35 



Extracting Honey from Brood Combs 36 



Something New about Honey-Dew 36 



Queens Duplicating themselves 37 



Removing Bee-Glue from the Hands 37 



How I wash out Drone Brood 37 



Conventions : 



Lancaster Co., Pa., Convention 38 



Reports of Past Season 38 



Hints to Beginners 39 



Comb Foundation 39 



Southern Kentucky Convention m 40 



What Hive is Best? 40 



Best Time for Transferring 40 



Best Feed for Bees 40 



Moving Bees 40 



Profits of Bee-Keeping 40 



Central Ohio Convention 41 



Michigan State Convention 41 



Prospects of Bee-Keeping 41 



Wintering Bees in Large Hives 42 



House Apiaries and Cellar Wintering 43 



The Best Race of Bees 44 



Close Breeding not Detrimental 44 



Best Paying Method of Securing Honey 45 



Bee-Keeping in Northern Michigan 46 



Wintering Bees on the Summer Stands 48 



I«etter Drawer : 



Wm. B. Burgett, Rufns Morgan, R. L. Mead... 49 

 E. F. Bogart, Jos. A. Dirwanger, P. W. McKat- 

 ridge & Son, C. R. Isham, F. Lee, J. M. Hib- 

 bard.Jr-.IThos. H. Hunter, Dr. N. P. Allen, 



Thos. H. Durham 50 



Mrs. A. S. Keyes. B. B. Lumbeck. D. S. Way, A. 

 D. Stocking, John Boerstler, Wm. Macart- 

 ney, H. Brown, John Barfoot, Wm. Dyer 51 



Frank Benton, J. M. Parshall, C. F. Smith, Jr., 



W. T. Hohenshell, David Walpert 52 



E.Pickup,W.Emerick,F.M.GIasgow,C.E.McRay53 



Kditov's gable. 



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iH° " jSTo place like comb," as the bee 

 said to the honey. 



WIT The Editor expects to attend the 

 Indiana State Convention at Indianap- 

 olis, on Tuesday, the 13th inst. 



iggf We have added a few extra pages 

 to this number of the Journal, for the 

 purpose of giving our Illustrated Cata- 

 logue of Implements for the Apiary. 

 with prices for 1880. 



i^In a letter from Glasgow, Scot- 

 land, dated Dec. 5th, 1879, Mr. John D. 

 Hutchinson remarks that " the ther- 

 mometer stands one degree below zero." 

 They are having very cold weather and 

 lots of snow in Great Britain. 



fg° Mr. W. M. Kellogg, Secretary of 

 the ^V T estern 111. and Eastern Iowa Bee- 

 Keepers' Society, gives us the following 

 as the united report of 12 members for 

 the past season: w 'No. of colonies last 

 spring, 855; in the fall, 1051; comb 

 honey, 11,311 lbs.; extracted, 3,9241bs.; 

 wax, 1783^ lbs. ; average lbs. of honey 

 for each, 1,269^ ; ditto of wax, 15. All 

 unite in the opinion that the season was 

 the poorest for years." 



I^T The bee-keepers of Cortland Co., 

 N. Y., had a preliminary meeting Dec. 

 2d, and adjourned to Feb. 3d, for the pur- 

 pose of perfecting a county organiza- 

 tion ; all the bee-keepers of that section 

 are requested to attend 



