Vol. XVI. 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST, 1880. 



No. 8. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table : 



Editorial Items 355 to 3(15 



Mitchell Heard From Una 



Experiments with Foundation 350 



That Section Controversy 357 



Feeding Bees 357 



Bee Convention at LaCrosse 358 



"Oh! What Shall the Harvest be?" 35S 



Cyprian and Syrian Bees 358 



The National Convention 359 



The Foreign Market for Honey 360 



Does it Pay to Plant for Honey ? 3(!1 



Recipe for Candy 362 



Adulterations with Glucose 302 



Nectar; its Nature, Occurrence and Uses 362 



Austro-German Congress ::o:; 



Localities for Apiaries in the South 363 



Where to Use the Extractor 363 



Death of Mr. John Hunter 364 



Help for Foundation Machines 365 



New Postal Arrangements 365 



Letter Drawer : 



Another Bee-Keeper Gone 365 



i in o- third of a Crop of Honey 305 



District Convention at Chicago 365 



Poor Prospect for Honey 305 



Bees almost Starved in June 366 



l Corse-mint as a Honey Plant 366 



Bee-Catching Spider 366 



Vice Presi dent for Dakota 366 



Smallest Crop of Honey since 1S72 366 



Honey Season a Complete failure 366 



Good Fall Crop Expected 367 



Thick Foundation Does Not Sag 367 



Only ( Ine- third of a Crop 307 



Best Honey Season in Many Years 367 



Not a Pound of Surplus Honey 367 



More about Ants 307 



Report of Crop— Two Queens in a Hive 308 



Lengthening the cell-walls of Foundation ... 308 



Good Prospect for Honey 308 



Light Crop of Honey 368 



Foundation Compared 368 



Mi Ik- weed and Horse- mint 368 



Catching Swarms 308 



Spider Plant 368 



Honey Crop an Entire Failure 309 



introducing Virgin Queens 369 



Spring Feeding and Honey Crop 369 



Fertile Workers 369 



Bees Working on Red riover 369 



Crop Reports— Appreciates the Journal 370 



Plenty of Bees but No Honey 370 



Good Prospect for Honey 370 



Queen Cage— Albino Bees 370 



Poor Prospect for Honey 370 



Correspondence : 



Hiving Swarms and Various Matters 371 



New Method for Preventing Sagging 372 



Journey to Cyprus and the East 373 



Comb Foundation made on Wood 377, 379 



A Cure for the Weevil 1177 



Do Bees Injure Fruit? :;rs 



I low to Hear the Best Queens 379 



How to Obtain Purely Mated Queens 380 



Comb or Extracted Honev— Which ? 381 



When and How to Feed Bees 381 



My Method of Introducing Queens 382 



Experiments with Comb Foundation 383 



The Queen-Duplication Trial 385 



Absconding Queens 385 



Where Honey Comes From— No. 5 386 



Those Egg-Bound Queens 387 



One-Piece Section Controversy 3S7 



Observations about Bees 388 



Natural Swarms— Comb Honey 389 



Sending Queens in the Mails 389 



Feeding Back f < ir Comb Honev 390 



More About Bee Pasturage 390 



Fertile Worker Caught in the Act 391 



Honey Crop— Feeding and Wintering 391 



Bee Notes from California 391 



Conventions : 



Tuscarawas and Muskingum, 392 



Marshall County, Iowa 393 



Editor's 2£aMc. 



Mitchell Heard From. — A little paper 

 published in Missouri, devoted to poul- 

 try and bees, contains a letter from N. 

 C. Mitchell, in which, among other 

 things, he says that he incurred the hos- 

 tility of Gleanings and the American 

 Bee Journal in this way: "They 

 brought suit against me for infringing 

 on their patent, and they never dared 

 to try the case." The editor of that 

 paper remarks as follows: "If the 

 American Bee Journal and Glean- 

 ings brought suit against you for in- 

 fringing on their rights, and they did 

 not dare to force the suit, it showed a 

 piece of cowardice on their part, 1 ' etc. 



There is not a word of truth in all 

 these assertions. We never had a pat- 

 ent on which Mitchell " or any man " 

 could infringe. It is a falsehood made 

 up out of whole cloth, without the 

 slightest thread of truth to hang on. 

 But this is a fair specimen of many such 

 that are contained in every issue of that 

 paper — all of which are not worth the 

 repetition necessary to refute them. 

 Truth only will stand the test — 



" The eternal years of God are hers." 



