Vol. XVI. 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER, 1880. 



No. 9. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table: 



Editorial Items 404 to 109 



What the Harvest U and Will Be 4(ii; 



Associations and Conventions 407 



Crusade against the Bees 108 



1 Dgratitude 11 18" 



Comb Foundation Experiments 403 



Melilots as Weeds 409 



Prince Arthur Hive 409 



Conventions : 



Lancaster County, Pa 410 



Northeastern Wisconsin 411 



LaCrosse, Wisconsin 412 



Northern Indiana 412 



.Northwestern Jllinois and Southwestern Wis. 412 



Letter Drawer : 



Swarm Catcher 413 



A Welcome Visitor 413 



Satisfactory Honey Yield 413 



Honey from Red Clover 413 



Mitchell's Patent— Persistent Swarming 413 



The Curculio 414 



Making Foundation 414 



Goldenrods, etc 414 



Wired Foundation 414 



Shade Trees for Hives 4 1 r, 



Good Yield of Honey 4ir> 



Best Season for Many Years 415 



Queries answered 415 



BeeKiller 415 



A Freak 415 



Correspondence : 



One Day's W T ork Extracting 41(1 



Duplicating Queens. 4 Hi 



The Cyprian— The Coining Bee 41H 



Ode to the Honey Bee 417 



The Several Kaces of Bees 417 



Fertilization in Confinement 418 



Honey Show and Markets in England 410 



Comb Foundation— A Review 120 



K. L. Meade and Supply Dealers 422 



Where Honey Comes From— No. ti 422 



Extraordinary Work on Foundation 423 



(Hie More Spool of Cotton 423 



i"iub Foundation again 424 



Lt mdon Honey and Bee Show 441 



Honey Harvest : 



The Present and Prospective Crop 425 to 440 



Business Department : 



Kentucky State Convention 442 



Central Iowa Convention 442 



Canada Convention 442 



Southern California Convention 442 



Nebraska Honey Show 442 



Programme of the National Convention 443 



District Conventional Chicago 444 



Honey and Beeswax Market 444 



Local Convention Directory 444 



Died.-On July 14. 1880, Dr. E. Penx WORRALL, of 

 West Chester, Pa., in the «uth year of his age. 



Dr. Worrall was the patentee of the Centennial 

 observatory Hive, and has been a bee-keeper for 

 many years. Me was a kind and genial companion, 

 and leaves a wife and son to mourn his loss. 



Sditov's Tabic. 



i^Mr. O. J. Hetherington gave us a 

 short call, and brought a sample of a re- 

 versible frame for our Museum. 



<^*Mr. J. D. Enos says : " Our post- 

 master now admits queens in the mails 

 —thanks to the Journal for July." 



iglT We have received several Premium 

 Lists of Fairs, nearly all of which have 

 premiums for bees and honey. 



i^Prof. Cook says: "One of my 

 ' holy' queens has laid 4.000 eggs in one 

 day." That settles one point— they 

 must be prolific. 



^ Thirty thousand Knights Templar 

 were at Chicago last month, and had a 

 grand parade and triennial meeting — 

 among them were several bee-keepers, 

 who made it lively at the office of the 

 Bee Journal. 



Hgf The Cincinnati Gazette has a long 

 article concerning bee-keepers in and 

 around that city. We intended to have 

 republished it, but it is crowded out by 

 other matters. 



1^° We notice that Dr. Hipolite, Vice 

 President of the National Society, is 

 one of the Board of Directors of the Ar- 

 kansas State Fair. He has done excel- 

 lent work in arranging the matter of 

 premiums for bees and honey. The 

 Doctor reports a short crop of honey in 

 Arkansas. 



