Vol. XVI. 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JTJLY, 1880. 



No. 7. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table : 



Editorial Items 309 to 316 



Adulterations of Food 309 



Diploma from Italy 310 



A Correction 310 



Bright Yellow Foundation 310 



Cyprian and " Holy" Bees 311 



Seasonable Hints 312 



New Inventions in England 312 



Married and Settled in Life 313 



The Dunham Comb Foundation 314 



Ants in the Apiary 314 



British Apiarists 314 



Weevil 315 



Bees in Kansas 315 



Importance of the Bee to the Ancients 315 



Extracted vs. Comb Honey 316 



Separators made of Card Board 316 



Correspondence : 



My Plan for Dividing Bees 317 



Block for Nailing Sections 317 



Wonderful Instinct of Queen Bees 318 



The Past Seven Months 319 



Queens Duplicating Themselves 320 



Queen Fertilizing Cage 320 



Getting and Caring for Box Honey 321 



Cyprian Bees— American Apiculture 322 



Rearing Queens, and Other Matters 323 



Honey Dew again 324 



Spring Feeding and Management 324 



Wintering of Bees in Missouri 325 



Pasturage or Forage for Bees 325 



Fertilization in Confinement, etc 326 



How to Italianize Black Bees 327 



Systematic Apiculture 327 



Resolutions of the Utica Convention . 328 



Feeding Back for Comb Honey 329 



Ants Troublesome in the Apiary 331 



The Manufacture of Glucose 332 



Conventions : 



Chatf Packing for Wintering 334 



Discussion on the Caucasian Bee 335 



Los Angeles, Cal., Convention 337 



Albany County, N. Y., Convention 337 



Letter Drawer : 



T. N. Marquis, A. A. Honsberger, Silas M. 



Locke, L. H. Pammell, Jr 337 



A. J. Tibbetts, J. H. Bupp, B. F. Pratt, C. S. 



Newsom, D. H. Hopkins 338 



W. S. Ward, A.J.Cook, E. T. Bogart, T. F, 



Bingham, J. H. Shimer, Jas. A. Austin, Geo. 



L. Perry, Wm. Dyer, H. S.Hardin 339 



N. Davis, L'Abbe DuBois, J. N. McColm, Jas. 



S. Lord, J. Newton, John Craycraft, David 



Thompson, C. G. Shaw 340 



John T. Mardis, A Griffes. Thos. Tracy, F. J. 



Stich. Preston J. Kline, F. W. Chapman.... 341 

 H. L. Jeffrey, S. P. Sowers, A. F. McKenrich, 



E. A.Gastman, R.Meade 342 



Wm. Boiling 343 



Mrs. Aaron Bailey, G. B. Dines, W. J. Beal, A. 



J. Cook, W. C. P.. A. B.Mason 344 



G. H. Pierce, Lewis & Parks, M. M. Stimson, 



R. V. King 345 



Business Department: 



Honey and Beeswax Market 346 



Local Convention Directory 346 



National Convention 346 



District Convention at Chicago 346 



%A\tOV f S %KUt. 



i^Mr. C. F. Muth says that the post- 

 master at Cincinnati has refused to re- 

 ceive queens in the mails. He should 

 be better posted on the rulings of the 

 Department, and is referred to page 45 

 of the Official Postal Guide for Febru- 

 ary, 1880. 



iHT We notice an interesting article 

 on bee-keeping in New York City, in 

 some of the daily papers. It refers in a 

 very complimentary manner to Mr. A. 

 J. King's apiary there, and reports an 

 " interview" made by a reporter or cor- 

 respondent with Mr. King. 



"The Adulterations of Food; What 

 We Eat and What We Should Eat," is 



the title of a new work just issued in 

 this city. It contains 200 pages, and its 

 perusal will perfectly astonish the 

 reader, who, no matter how much he 

 may have thought of the adulterations 

 going on, would hardly be prepared for 

 such wholesale fraud as is now afflicting 

 the country. Almost everything con- 

 sumed in the family is so adulterated 

 that it is hard to find a genuine and 

 pure article. A stringent law against 

 adulteration is necessary, and Ave be- 

 lieve this book will do much to work up 

 a strong feeling in favor of its enact- 

 ment at the next meeting of Congress. 

 The price of the work is 60 cents in 

 paper covers, and $1 bound in cloth. It 

 is beautifully printed, and should be in 

 every family in the country. We shall 

 add it to our list of books, and can supply 

 it at the publisher's prices, postpaid. 



