DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIYE BEE CULTURE. 



VoL XVIII. Chicago, IlL, January 11, 1882. 



No. 2. 



Topics Presented This Ml rM&f^^^^STp FRANCES DDNHAM, 



Editorial— 



The Honey Crop of 1881 19 



Items : 20 



Changes Among Bee Pupera 20 



Glucose— Grape Sugar 20 



Notes from Sun land 20 



Sweet Clover in Colorado 20 



Comoetitive Apiaries 20 



Mortality in Winter 20 



Clubbing I^ist lor 188:; 28 



Among Our Exchaiie:es — 



Inventor and Sole Manufacturer of 



THE DUNHAM 



Wax-Boiling in England 



Glucose and the Michigan Convention . 



Signing Notes 



Survival of the Fittest 



Published every Wednesday by 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor ant> Proprietok. 



974 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 



At $2.00 a T'ear, la Advance. 



Correspoudeuce — 



Yellow and Leather-Colored Bees 22 



The Coming Bee again 22 



A Talk on Sundry Bee Matters 23 



A Bee Company 23 



Jones' New Departure 23 



Doolit tie's Cataloge 23 



Are there Tou Many Bee Papers 24 



Bee Stings 24 



Bee G hives 24 



Li. C. Root A Bro.'s Report 24 



Bee-Keepers' Supplies 24 



Peccadillos of Bee-Keepers 24 



Pollen in the Hive in Winter , 25 



Drones and Drone- Workers 26 



Damage done by Skunks to Bees 27 



Couveiition Notes — 



Local Convention Directory 27 



Los Angeles County. Cal., Convention 27 



Colorado State Convention 27 



Convention Notices 28 



Selections from Our Letter Box — 



Removing Bees in "Winter 29 



Packed in Sawdust 29 



Poor Summer for Bees 29 



Taking a Notion to Bees 29 



Bees and Grapes 29 



Remedy for Ants 29 



Reportof the Season 29 



Will Trv Again 29 



Cold Spell 2H 



Favorable Winter 2h 



Worth *."..! M.I to him 29 



A (iood Showing 29 



Thymy 29 



Remedy for Whooping-Cough 30 



Queen Stopped Breeding 30 



A Beginner 30 



Preparing Bees for Winter 30 



Production and Sale of Honey 30 



Repairing Losses 30 



A Good Honev Crop 30 



Bees Doing Well 30 



Linseed Oil as a Medicine 30 



Queen E ::cluder8 30 



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