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Chicago, in., May 31, 1882. 



No. 22. 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial — 



Kditorial Items 337 



Orniimentation of School Grounds 3:i7 



Scarcity of Beeswax 337 



Another case of "Glucose Meal" 338 



Honey versus Glucose 338 



Among Our Excliauges — 



Bees Wintered in a Greenhouse 339 



Bees Resenting an Insult 339 



Artificial I ooib Uoney 339 



Oleomarcarine 339 



Madeira Wine from Honey 339 



For Ornament and Honey 339 



Winter Ventilation 340 



Behind the Times 340 



Bee ManaKement 340 



Curious Statistics 340 



Correspondence — 



RearineGood Queens 341 



The Glucose-Honey Question 341 



Bee Stints-Blacks vs. Italians 342 



The Souk of the Bee 343 



Mr. Hedilon'sKeply 343 



Mating of Queens 343 



About " Dollar" Queens 343 



A Review of the Past 344 



Poor Queen, No Colony 345 



Those Unkind Things 345 



Convention Notes — 



Western Michigan 34G 



Planting for Honey 346 



Selections from Our Letter Box — 



Earl y Queen-Rearing 347 



Parthenoiienesis 347 



Pollen Not Detrimental 347 



Fastening Foundation in Sections 347 



Cold in Georgia 347 



The Worst has Come 348 



Various Methods ". 348 



Poorest for Thirty Years 348 



Cold in New Vork 348 



Bees in Alabama 348 



Tilia Americana in London 348 



Death of M. Parse 348 



A Swarm in New Jersey 348 



The Weatherin Scotland 348 



More Encouraged 348 



Destroying Drones 348 



Ornamentation of School Grounds. 



We notice the evident tendencj' of the 

 times to tastefully plant flowering 

 plants and trees on the grounds of the 

 school-houses. This has been too 

 long neglected, but we hope it will 

 now become the rule instead of the 

 exception. This will, in a measure, 

 educate the coming generation to 

 beautify their surroundings, to plant 

 trees for shade, flowers for beauty and 

 shrubs for ornament. This will help 

 the bees some, paying back cultivated 

 bloom for the ruthless destruction of 

 our forests, and the loss of the wild 

 flora, which by civilization has been 

 entirely destroyed. The J'armeis' Re- 

 view remarks as follows on the sub- 

 ject: 



The ornamentation of school-house 

 grounds by means of tlie tasteful 

 planting of flowering plants and trees, 

 is a long step towards the much 

 wished for time when the rudiments 

 of agriculture will be taught the 

 children who are to become the intelli- 

 gent agriculturists of the future. The 

 practice also helps to develop a re- 

 fined taste, a love of tiie order and 

 beauty of nature, and gives a glimpse 

 of what farm life may be. The Michi- 

 gan Ilorticultural Society was the 

 first to lead off in this good work, and 

 its efforts were crowned with notable 

 success. It is hoped that others will 

 follow in the same direction, as the 

 Western Xew York Horticultural 

 Society has already done. 



It is pleasant to note praiseworthy 

 emulation and rivalry of the great 

 seedsmen in works of public utility, 

 even if their efforts are profitable ad- 

 vertisements, as they deserve to be. 

 Messrs. D. M. Ferry & Co., for sev- 

 eral years have been supplementing 

 the work of the Michigan Horticul- 

 tural Society, in ornamenting the 



scliool grounds of that state. Now 

 Mr. James Vick makes the liberal of- 

 fer to send free, a collection of 12 va- 

 rieties of seeds "to five districts in 

 each county in every State that shall 

 first apply for them," for cultivation 

 in the school grounds. And Mr. 

 Hiram Sibley has sent $5,000 worth of 

 seeds to tlie sufferers from the Mis- 

 sissippi floods. This is a way of 

 " casting bread upon the waters," 

 that is sure to return a many-fold re- 

 compense. 



Sciircity of Beeswax,— The /uvem'te 

 Gleanings, which has doubled its size 

 for May, says on the beeswax ques- 

 tion : " There is now a prospect be- 

 fore us that the wax of the world will 

 not nearly supply the demand for 

 foundation....! should not be sur- 

 prised it foundation should be up 10 

 cents per pound before the 1st of June. 

 Of course no one can hold to present 

 prices, unless they can get wax.'" 



[^ The Caledoniivji Apiarian Soci- 

 ety w^ill hold its " ninth grand show 

 of bees, hives and honey," at Glasgow, 

 Scotland, July 24-27, 1882. Cash Pre- 

 miums, Silver and Bronze Medals and 

 Diplomas will be awarded. We can 

 send an entry blank to any one wish- 

 ing to send apiarian exhibits. For- 

 eign exhibits are entered free. Mr. 

 R. J. Bennett, Glasgow, is the Sec- 

 retary. 



1^ The late Mr. James Vick, of 

 Rochester, N. Y., whose sudden death 

 we noticed on page 333 of last week, 

 was an Englishman and a playmate of 

 Charles Dickens, and had also been a 

 fellow typo of Horace Greeley, on the 

 Knickerbocker. During the grasshop- 

 per troubles in Kansas he sent the 

 sufferers $20,000 worth of seed and 

 $10,000 to the Michigan sufferers. 



1^ The bee, although somewhat of 

 a rover, thinks its first duty is to hum. 



