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Vol. XVI. 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER, 1880. 



No. 12. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Taole : 



Editorial Items, 549 to 554 



Tht 1 International Food Exhibition,.. 551 



Poisonous Wild Honey 552 



Shipping Bees to New Zealand 552 



End of the Volume, 553 



The Honey Season in Scotland, 554 



Correspondence : 



The English Honey Markets, 555 



Honor J ustly Bestowed, 556 



Preparation for Winter Quarters, . . 556 



Origin of the Albino Bees, 557 



The Bee- keepers' Conventions, 557 



Overstocking a Locality, 559 



E. A. Morgan's Report for 1880, 560 



The Sagging of Comb Foundation, . . . 561 



Systematic Bee-Keeping, 561 



Fertilization in Confinement, 563 



Bee Pasturage, etc., 563 



Chaff Packing on Summer Stands, 564 



Plenty of Bees ; Plenty of Honey, . . 565 



Tool for Glassing Sections, 566 



Cyprian and "Holy" Bees, &c, 566 



How Bees are kept in Cyprus, 567 



Bee-Keeping the south, 568 



Do Queens lay Eggs in Queen Cells ? 568 

 A Visit to Mr. J. S. Hill's Apiary,. . . . 569 



Hard wood Barrels for Honey, 570 



Exhibitions of Honey, etc.. at Fairs, . . 570 



Convention* : 



Cortland Union, N.Y., 571 



About Wintering Bees, 572 



Bee Pasturage of Western Wisconsin, 573 



Western 111. and Eastern Iowa, 574 



Why a small crop of Honey, 574 



Separators— Comb Foundation,... 575 

 Central Michigan, 577 



Letter Drawer : 



Best Honey Gatherers, 578 



Melilot Clover, 578, 581 



Heavy Losses, 578 



National Convention, 578 



Prairie Hay for Winter Packing, 579 



Size of Entrance to a Hive, 579 



Bees that have not done well, 579 



A prediction for next year, 579 



Packed with Chaff, 580 



A fair Crop, 580, 581 



Rocky-mountain Bee Plant, 580 



Weekly Bee Journal, 579, 580 



Late Breeding, 581 



Bees in New York, 581 



Spider Plant and Sweet Clover, 581 



The Honey Crop of four States, 581 



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"giXitov's iaMe. 



igl° Those who remove from one lo- 

 cality to another, should notify us be- 

 fore moving, and have their Bee Jour- 

 nal at the new post office by the time 

 they arrive there. Delays in this mat- 

 ter may lose several numbers of the 

 Journal,. 



We shall next year give a resume of 

 all the matters of interest contained in 

 the monthly bee papers, as soon as they 

 are received. Our readers will thereby 

 obtain all the cream of the current 

 articles, no matter where they are first 

 published. Of course we shall give due 

 credit, and shall kindly criticise the 

 articles to the best of our ability. 



i^° By a private letter just received 

 from the Census Bureau, we are in- 

 formed that the Tenth Census Report 

 when published will contain full de- 

 tails of the production of honey and 

 beeswax in the United States. This 

 was by us suggested to the Bureau a 

 year ago, and will be very valuable to 

 bee-keepers and others. 



(gg' Our Index to Correspondents con- 

 tains 541 new names which were not in 

 the Index for last year. These have 

 nobly assisted in making the Bee Jour- 

 nal so interesting during the past year, 

 and show its increasing patronage and 

 usefulness. Now let all take fresh 

 courage and endeavor to make the next 

 volume still more useful, interesting and 

 instructive. 



