ESTABLISHED cX/f) 

 IN 1861 "' 



DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND THE PRODUCTION AND SALE OF PURE HONEY. 



VOL. XVII. 



CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 12, 1881. 



No. 41. 



Published every Wednesday, by 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Proprietor, 

 974 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 



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The Honey Product of 1881. 



We have great pleasure in present- 

 ing to our readers a very interesting 

 Table concerning the Honey Product 

 of 1881. It is very valuable, and will 

 be exceedingly useful for reference. 

 It has entailed upon us much extra la- 

 bor and study ; but few can even im- 

 agine the amount of brain work ex- 

 pended upon such a table. It rolls up 

 into the millions. We would thank 

 those who have so kindly sent their 

 reports, and thus gave us the material 

 witli which to make the figures. 



The average amount of surplus 

 taken from the hives during the past 

 summer is about 69 pounds, and the 

 increase is about 71 per cent. Some 

 colonies have each given as much as 

 400 pounds of comb honey. -These 

 were very rare cases, and evidently 

 had the most favorable conditions. 



The increase varies all the way from 

 8 to 140 per cent. California shows 8 

 per cent, increase, while Dakota shows 

 130, and North Carolina 140, while 

 New York and Kentucky each gave 

 72, Pennsylvania presents only 19. 

 Michigan and Illinois each show 95, 

 and Wisconsin 118. The curious may 

 figure out many amusing results. 



In the production of honey, New 

 York takes the lead in quantity, fol- 

 lowed by Pennsylvania, Canada, Ohio, 

 Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and 

 Louisiana, in the order named. 



THE HONEY HARVEST OF THE YEAR 1881. 



STATE. 



Alabama 



Canada 



California 



Dakota 



Florida 



Georgia 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Iowa 



Kansas 



Kentucky 



Louisiana 



Maine 



Massachusetts . 

 Maryland . 



No. of Colonies. 



Per 



cent. 



Extracted Honey. 



InSpring In Fall, ilncr Light. 



989 

 12,251 



480 



132| 

 2,354: 

 2,480: 

 7,739, 

 2,861 

 4,577 

 1,024 

 0,106' 

 3.234 



460' 

 1.549 



925; 



Michigan 11.366 



1,568' 

 23,432 



520 



304 



4,712 



3,648! 

 15,111 



5,934' 



7,642j 



1,946 



10,515: 



4,530j 



986 



2,675| 



1,365' 



22.17:: 



4,346! 



4,321 



5,487 



652 



146! 



3,465 I 



43,593 



74 



22,262 



18,729 



878 



5,943 



679 



1,949 



1,283 



9,642 



58 

 91 

 08 



130 



100 

 49 

 95 



107 

 68 

 20 

 72 

 40 



115 

 73! 

 46 

 95 

 66, 

 33 

 51 

 57 

 49 

 55 

 7! 



140 

 70 

 19 

 17 

 51 

 55 

 21 

 52 



118 



43,876 



894,502 



30,168 



11,246 



165,458 



80,450 



151,212 



95.792 



117,946 



41,876 



16S.627 



300,641 



4.246 



40,828 



15,131 



127.926 



68,694 



61,750 



22,655 



4,825 



2,655 



45,428 



501,892 



850| 



748,229 



844,382 



2,649 



79,651 



4,681 



7,684 



33,925 



217,351 



4,511 



Comb 

 Honey. 



3,240 

 274,612 



1,24s 

 2,460 



26,343 



13,514 



57,655 



3,841 



540 



14,246 



564 



2,524 



1.464 



8,713 



2,482 



11,240 



12,350 



1.264 



564 



12,816 



143,436 



13,427 



61,605 

 9,875 



15,0X2 

 1 ,856 

 1,872 

 7,716 



97,142 



137,636235,510 71 4,946.226 530,950 3,990,446 9,467,62: 



18,455 



19,734 



42,875 



202,081 



55,063 



103,956 



40,846 



54,215 



2,456 



15,862 



78,281 



16,217 



755,375 



56,357 



19,465 



56,644 



2,686 



1,562 



24.860 



,183,705 



1,450 



206,912 



463,581 



1,565 



9,139 



27,158 



53,259 



16,405 



182,424 



Total 

 Surplus 

 Honey. 



47,116! 

 1,173,625! 



30,168 



30,949 

 187,652 

 132,325 

 379,636 

 164,369 

 279,557 



86,563 

 223,38i 

 317,343 



20,67:" 

 121,633 



32,812 

 892,014 

 127,533 



92,455 



91,649 

 8,775 

 4,781 



83,104 



1,829,033 



2,306 



968,568 



1,369,568 



14,089 

 104,472 



33,695 



62,815 



58,046 

 496,917 



Ave. 



per 



Col'y 



48 

 96 

 63 



159 

 84 

 53 

 49 

 57 

 61 

 53 

 37 

 98 

 47 

 78 

 36 

 79 

 49 

 28 

 25 

 21 

 49 

 37 

 72 

 74 

 74 

 87 

 19 

 26 

 76 

 39 

 69 



112 



69 



Dakota gives 130 per cent, of in- 

 crease, and an average of 159 lbs. per 

 colony in the spring, but more reports 

 would, in all probabilty, greatly mod- 

 ify this result. New York shows a 

 production of over a million pounds of 

 comb honey, and is followed by other 

 States in the following order : Michi- 

 gan, Pennsylvania, Canada, Ohio, 

 Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. 



For several years past the crop has 

 averaged only 35 lbs. to the colony, 

 but this year we have neatly double 

 (69 lbs.), so that those who lost 1 2 of 

 their bees last winter, still have as 

 much honey as usual from the half 

 that remained last spring. 



The 43 persons named below, com- 

 menced the season with 2,579 weak 

 colonies. These have increased to 

 more than double the original num- 

 ber, and have given 182,243 lbs. of ex- 

 tracted honey, and 95,144 lbs. of comb 

 honey as surplus, besides leaving 100, 

 000 lbs. in the 5.209 hives for winter 

 use. 



The average per hive, of honey 

 produced is about 138 lbs., and the fall 

 crop will bring this to over 150 lbs. 

 per colony. The amount taken from 

 each hive averaging 107J£ lbs. to every 

 colony in the spring. Several of the 

 colonies counted in the spring were 

 devoted to queen rearing, and of 



course gave no surpl 

 the exact figures: 



Here are 



Name of Producer 

 and State. 



D.A.Jones, Canada 



Alderman & Robt.. Fla — 



B. F. Pratt, Illinois 



Dr. C C. Miller, Illinois.... 

 V. W. Keeney, Illinois — 



J. L. Anderson. Illinois 



J. Doyle. Illinois 



A. II. Baker. Illinois 



L. H. Scudder, Illinois 



H. S. Hackman, Illinois — 



T. S. Bull. Indiana 



J. S. Ballinger, Indiana — 

 O. O. Poppleton, Iowa 



A. Carder, Kentucky 



lj. Lindsly.Lousiana 



W. A. Towle, Michigan — 

 G. Lamoreaux. New York 



Hattie A. Heaton, N. V 



W. D. Wright, New York.. 



N. Bailey. New York 



W. L. Coggshall, N. Y 



W. S. Ward, New York 



R. Bacon. New York 



M. A. Williams & Co., N. V 



C. M. Woolver.N. Y 



.las Mai kle. New York.... 



Wm. P. Makley. N. Y 



G. H. Adams. New York. . 



G. M. Doolittle, N. Y 



C.J. Van Eaton. N. Y 



Greiner Bros.. New Y'ork. . 



P. A. Reiele.Ohio 



L. D. Ormsby, Ohio 



Smith & Smith. Ohio 



B. F.Carroll, Ohio 



Wm. Bit.er, W. Virginia... 

 H. Feathers, Wisconsin — 

 James Nipe, Wisconsin.... 

 H. Newhaus, Wisconsin. ... 



C. A. Hatch. Wisconsin — 

 Smith & Hatch, Wisconsin 



B. F. Davenport, Wis 



M. Blanchard, Wisconsin. . 



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 30 

 30 

 41 

 70 

 2 

 30 

 30 

 20 

 42 



42 



43 



1,000 

 330 



44 

 179 

 40 

 34 

 37 

 45 

 40 

 71 



231 1 

 34 



131 

 38 



400 



50 



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54 



210 



24 



208 



120 



120 



• 89 



150 



115 



12li 



107 



80 



125 



140 



31.700 400 

 10,300 1,850 

 3,000 100 

 1,316 R,4N8 

 1,200 1,100 

 1.000 

 1.5UO 



2,600 



1 ,< H H 1 

 200 

 7O0 



325 



l.OOO 

 8,150 

 1,700 

 14,100 



2,500 



26,500 1 ,< m 10 



250 2,214 



625 1,695 



60 3,700 



14,000 



1,100 



15,100 4,500 



7 ...'■' 



I, h, :,,:,, n, 



4,200 851 



5,700 800 



10,850 800 



7,500 500 



1.000 2,000 

 Tiki 3,200 

 400 5,000 



9,100 



3o2 201 



700 1,800 



2,500 



1.500 200 



2,785 1,300 



100 3,200 



5,300 400 



3,107 2,027 



5.1 UK, 893 

 5,000 



i,m, 5,400 



6,500 100 



2,579 5,209182,243 95,144 



There are in Americaabout 3,000,000 

 colonies of bees, but our reports are 

 from less than a quarter of a million, 

 or one-twelfth of the whole. If the 



one-twelfth that are reported are a 

 fair average of the whole, then the 

 crop of American honey for 1881 

 amounts to 120,000,000 of pounds. If 

 we call it only a hundred millions, it is 

 worth $1,500,000,0.00.. Surely the in- 

 dustry is of sufficient magnitude to 

 satisfy the most enthusiastic of its de- 

 votees. 



The National Convention. 



We devote much of our space this 

 week to the first instalment of the 

 proceedings of the National Conven- 

 tion, held last week. The Convention 

 embraced much talent, and its delib- 

 erations were marked with dignity 

 and harmony, and will be productive 

 of much good. 



Prominent among those in attend- 

 ance were : Prof. A. J. Cook and T. 

 F. Bingham, Mich.; Hon. W. H. An- 

 drews, Texas; G. W. Baker and A. 

 W. Windhorst, Mo.; Geo. A. Vincent, 

 La.; Dr. J. P. II. Brown and lady, 

 Ga.; Mrs. L. Harrison, 111.; Mrs. F. 

 Dunham, Wis.; F. Delia Torre, Md.; 

 D. A. Jones, Ontario; Nelson Perkins, 

 Ala.; D. S. England, Tenn.; O. O. 

 Poppleton, Iowa, Dr. E. Parrnly, N. 

 Y., and a host of Kentuckians. 



Much of the success of the Conven- 

 tion is due to the unceasing labors of 

 Mr. and Mrs. William Williamson, 

 and Mr. J. R. Williamson, whose un- 

 bounded hospitality will not soon be 

 forgotten. That they may prosper as 

 they deserve, is the wish of all with 

 whom they came in contact. 



l^° A mild winter, says the Cincin- 

 nati Commercial, is predicted by me- 

 teorologists. As the excessive heat 

 of this summer is attributed to the in- 

 crease of solar radiation, and that in- 

 crease is due to violent disturbances 

 in the sun's cromosphere, where spots 

 of vast magnitude, following a period 

 of quiescence, began to show them- 

 selves in May and have continued 

 since, it is argued that the tempera- 

 ture in Arctic latitudes is, and will 

 continue to be, above the average, and 

 that comparatively mild currents of 

 air will be wafted down upon us during 

 the winter months. 



^T We regret to announce that 

 Signor Lucio Paglia, an extensive 

 breeder of Italian bees, who has ex- 

 ported many of them to -other coun- 

 tries of Europe as well as to America, 

 died at Gaiana, of an alfection of the 

 lungs, on the morning of Sept. 15, 

 1881. 



