Vol. XVI. 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE, 1880. 



No. 6. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table: 



Editorial Items 261 to 264 



Interesting Letter from Palestine. . . 262 



Venus Fly Trap 262 



District Convention 263 



Libel Suit 263 



Another Queen Cage 263 



Honey Plant 263 



Glucose from Rags 263 



New Catalogues received 263 



Salisbury's Queen Cage 264 



Propolis 264 



Honey Dew, &c 264 



Hastings' Queen Cage 264 



Felt Blankets 264 



I^etter Drawer : 



W. Lossing, A. E. Wenzel, Geo. M. 

 Hawley, J. O. Todd, Nelson Per- 

 kins, J. H. Davis, Z. D. Scott, H. 

 Wilson Ulsh 265 



M. E. Loehr, W. It. Thompson, Bray 

 & Seacord, Claud Hopper, J r 266 



J. T. Scott & Bro., II. Klosterman, 

 A. J. Tibbetts, Geo. W. Dodder.. 267 



Wm. Dyer, G. VV. Zimmerman, W. 

 N. Craven, W. C. Nutt, E. Drane, 

 J. E. Hastings, F. A. Snell 268 



E. C. L. Larch, J. J. Quinn, H. T. 

 Rosenbaum, Wm. Camm. L. John- 

 son, J. H. McCall, E. J. Gould.... 269 



Correspondence : 



What I Know about Supply Dealing 270 

 Where Honey Conies from— No. 4. . 271 

 Queens Duplicating Themselves ... 272 



Apis Dorsata of Java, etc 272 



Nailing Machine for Frames 273 



How to get Choice Queen Cells 273 



Dysentery or Wintering Troubles . . 274 



Indiana as a Bee-Keeping State 275 



Transferring Bees from Box Hives. 276 



Conventions : 



Central Michigan Convention 277 



Foundation and its Manufacture.. 277 



Water for Bees 278 



Untested Queens 280 



Ashtabula County, O., Convention. 281 



Apiculture— Bee Hives 282 



Central Kentucky Convention 282 



Our Bee Hives 286 



The Value of Comb in the Apiary 288 



W. 111. and E. Iowa Convention .... 288 



To Make Bee-Keeping Profitable. 293 



Cortland Co., N. Y., Convention 295 



Rock River Valley, 111., Convention 296 

 Lancaster Co., Pa., Convention 297 



gdttor's JgaMje. 



HdP Tooth ache may be cured by bee 

 stings. So says the Austrian Bienenvater, 

 published by Hern Karl Gatter, in Vienna. 



IHJpThe Annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Nurserymen, Florists, 

 Seedsmen and kindred interests, will be 

 held in the Exposition Building, in the city 

 of Chicago, on June 16, 1880, and continue 

 days. 



E^*'The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition 

 will open Sept. 8 and close Oct. 9, 1880. The 

 National Bee-Keepers' Convention will be 

 held within these two dates, and the indica- 

 tions are that it will be very largely at- 

 tended. 



|WA doctor in Wisconsin thought lie 

 would try glucose for feeding his bees. He 

 fed 6 colonies with the trash, and now not 

 one bee in all the 6 are living. So one of 

 his neighbors reported a few days a'go in 

 our office. 



H^" From the most reliable accounts from 

 various parts of Los Angeles County, Cal., 

 the loss of bees is estimated to be three- 

 fourths of the stock on hand last season ; 

 leaving probably from 5,000 to 6,000 colonies 

 to commence this season's work. Much of 

 the loss was from spring dwindling. 



g^T Prof. Marcher, of Prague, Austria, 

 died on Feb. 6, 1880. He was 75 years of age, 

 and made bee culture his study for many of 

 these years. We had a very agreeable visit 

 with him while in Prague last year. He was 

 a very learned and agreeable gentleman, 

 and will be missed by his apiarian associ- 

 ates in Prague. 



