Vol. XVI. 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APRIL, 1880. 



No. 4. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table. 



Editorial Items 165 to 173 



A Good Reputation 165 



Why? What evil lias he done ?.... 166 



Electricity and its Use on Bees 166 



The Langstroth Fund 167 



Honey Cookies — Receipt 167 



Unkind Personal Allusions 168 



Robber Bees 168 



Wire Cloth for Ilive Bottoms 168 



Truth is Mighty and Will Prevail... 169 



Correspondence : 



The Producer's Interest 173 



Sending Bees by Mail 175 



Just how it appears to me 176 



Given's Comb Foundation Press 177 



To the Bee-Keepers of Missouri 177 



My Experience in Wintering Bees.. 178 



Bee-Keeping in Southern Brazil 178 



Location and Over-Stocking 180 



New Queen Cages for the Mails . . . 181 



Experience with the Queen Yard. . . 183 



Centennial Exposition at Nashville. 183 



Where Honey Comes From — No. 2. 184 



Death of the Rev. J. Van Eaton. . . . 196 



Conventions : 



Increase of Colonies 185 



Causes of Failure in Bee-Keeping.. 186 



The Best Method of Increase 187 



Improvement of the Italian Bee, &c. 189 

 Cortland Union, N. Y., Convention. 191 

 Increase— Clipping Queens' Wings. 191 



North-Eastern Convention 193 



Nebraska State Convention 194 



A Neglected Field 194 



W. 111. and E. Iowa Convention 195 



British Bee-Keepers' Association . . . 195 



better Drawer : 



N. P. Allen, D. G. Webster, W. L. 



French, G. M. Doolittle, H. II. 



Brown, Harry G. Burnett, C. T. 



Smith 197 



Win. Lossing, C. F. Smith, Jr., A. J. 



Scoles, P. P. Collier, C. Laibly, C. 



E. Harrington, Isaac Sharp 198 



John Fox, A. B. Loomis, J. W. Ri- 



ker, C. W. Saxton, Wra. M. Slater, 



J.L. Harris 199 



W. J . Davis, A. A. Harrison 200 



Business Department: 



Local Convention Directory 201 



Beeswax and Honev Markets 201 



Catalogues for 1880 201 



Editor's lahlc. 



JEIP It is reported that fruit men in Cali- 

 fornia are making an effort to secure the 

 passage of a law to prohibit the keeping of 

 bees within a prescribed distance of vine- 

 yards and orchards. 



IEP" A correspondent asks if we approve 

 of 8 frames 10x18 for a hive. We prefer the 

 standard Langstroth frame, 9)bx17% out- 

 side measure. There is no use of variation 

 for so small a difference. 



fftW We attended the Bee-Keepers' Con- 

 vention at Andover, O., on Feb. 25th, and 

 though the weather was exceedingly dis- 

 agreeable, and the roads almost impassable, 

 we met quite a number of the progressive 

 apiarists of that region and had an interest- 

 ing meeting. 



5t2F"Mr. J. T. Davis, Buckland, Mass., 

 writes that he transferred a colony from a 

 box hive to a movable-frame hive on March 

 5th, which is doing nicely. He adds ; "that 

 is something that cannot be done every 

 year, here in New England ; the thermome- 

 ter indicated 66° in the shade on that day." 

 True, that was early work for that locality. 



A good name is better than riches." 

 We notice a very complimentary notice in 

 the Dowagiac Republican of March 17th, of 

 Mr. James Heddon. Two instances are 

 given showing bis high standing as an 

 honorable man at home and abroad. He 

 sold 4,000 lbs. of honey in Chicago last 

 month, and before shipping a pound of it, 

 the person who bought it gave him checks 

 for ©500— exhibiting substantial confidence 

 in his honor, as well as his standing in the 

 community. 



