DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. 



YoL XVIII. 



Chicago, 111., March 1, 1882. 



No. 9. 





Published every Wednesday by 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



EDITOR AND Proprietor. 



974 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 



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t^ Remtt by money-order, registered letter, ex- 

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 on local banks cost us 25 cents for collectinc. 



Free of postage in the United States or Canada. 

 Postage to Europe SO cents extra. 



Entered at Chicago post office as second class matter. 



TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial- 



Good rich's Foundation Fastener. . 



New Publications 



Bees and Fruit 



Manum'a Section Gluer 



Gone to the Liand of Flowers 



Items 



Anion? Onr Exchanges— 



The Use of Crowders 



Sestsonable Hints 



The Little Pets 



Bees as Fertilizers of Flowers. 



Keeping Bees in Paris 



Items 



Couveution Sotes — 



Eastern N. Y. Union 



Local Convention Directory. 



Correspondence- 



Producing Comb Honey— No. 2 



Bee- Keepers' Compass 



Talk about Sundry Bee-Matters 



E.vperience witli Cyprians 



Salicylic Acid and Foul Brood 



Bee Items froni Mississippi 



<1jie-Piece Section Boxes 



Do Swarms Pursue a Straight Line ?. 

 The New Bees. Queen-Rearing, etc.. 

 Another Partial Iteview 



Selections from Our Letter Box- 



Sweet Clover 



Successful Wintering 



Bee-Keeplng for Profit 



A Bee Cellar 



Poultry in the Apiary 



Bees Breeding and Gathering Pollen. 



Hill's Winter Bee-Hive 



To Cleanse Wa.x 



Marking Location Anew , 



Bees in West Tennessee 



Dysentery and Wintering 



Dead Brood 



Winter Feeding 



Lots of Pollen, but no Brood 



Wintering Bees 



The Patent on One-Piece Sections . . . 

 Superseding Queens 



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GoodrlcU's Foundation Fastener. 



We stated last week we had received 

 one of the above machines for a place 

 in the Bee Journal Museum. The 

 following is an account of its incep- 

 tion and completion, as furnislied us 

 by Mr. S. Goodrich. The cut will 

 convey a very accurate impression of 

 the appearance of the machine: 



I have been lool<ing in the columns 

 of the Journal for the last two years 

 for some practical method of fasten- 

 ing foundation comb in the frames, 

 but so far have seen nothing very 

 satisfactory. Last spring I concluded 

 there could be a machine made that 

 would fasten it, and do it much more 

 rapidly tlian by any of the old ways, 

 of rubbing down with a stick, or 

 fastening with hot wax. I had one 

 machine made, but when I came to 



Goodrich's Fuiindatlon Fastener. 



put it to practical use, I found it 

 defective in some points (as the first 

 experiments generally are), yet it 

 fully met my most sanguine expecta- 

 tions, as far as fastening to tlie top- 

 bar, but I wanted the comb fast to the 

 ends, as well as the top. This it 

 would not do, so I took the old plan of 

 fastening the comb to the end pieces 

 by therubbing-dovvn-process. I found 

 that I could put a full, large swarm 

 upon these frames withoutany trouble 

 from breaking or getting out of shape, 

 not having one fall during the season 

 out of about 65 colonies that I used 

 them in. 



Not being entirely satisfied with 

 what I had, I took a model and called 

 on Rev. Salisbury, and between us we 

 have made a machine carrying out 

 my plans for fastening the founda- 

 tion to the top-bar and ends of the 



frame with only two motions, and 



?ressing the wax tirmly to tlie frame, 

 cannot tell how many sheets can be 

 put in per minute, from the fact of 

 its being too cold to work wax, unless 

 we have a very warm room, which we 

 did not have; but judging frolu the 

 machine I worked last summer, 

 fastening only to the top-bar, I think 

 I am safe in saying that when the, 

 wax is cut ready for the frame, that I 

 can put in 3 or i per minute. We do 

 not know wliether there is anything 

 of the kind in use or not. 



The machine deposited in the Bee 

 Journal Museum, is without the at- 

 tachment for fastening foundation iu 

 sections. Mr. Goodrich informs us by 

 letter that the latter has been added, 

 and works perfectly satisfactory. 



Sew Publications. 



The following new seed catalogues 

 are received : 



F. E. Fassett & Bro., Ashtabula, O. 



E. B. Underhill, Poughkeepsie,X.Y. 



Jas. J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, 

 Mass. 



Of apiarian price lists for 1SS2, we 

 have the following : 



Edward B. Beebe, Oneida, N. Y. 

 J. A. Osborne, Rautoul, 111. 



Mr. G. T. Athern, Latrobe, Pa., has 

 sent us the initial number of The 



Beveille, a semi-monthly devoted to the 

 interests of tlie G. A. R. 



1^ A subscriber in Ontario, sends 

 us a sample of iron wire, and inquires 

 if it will answer for wiring frames for 

 foundation ? It will not ; use only 

 plated or tinned wire, No. 30 to 36. 

 We have several samples of foundation 

 with plain iron wire, and in every in- 

 stance corrosion has taken place. 



W W. C. R. Kemp, Orleans, Ind., 

 has sent us a new smoker. It has the 

 usual bellows ; the fire-pot is conical 

 in shape, about 3}4 inches diameter at 

 the base, and a syphon connected with 

 the bellows makes of it a cold-blast. 



