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VoL XVIII. 



Chicago, 111., Jnne 7, 1882. 



No. 23. 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial- 

 Editorial Items 353 



Crops in General 353 



Queen Trap 353 



The Weatlier in Colorado 353 



Natural vs. Forced Queens 354 



Vennor's Prognostlcutlona 354 



Among Our Exclianges— 



Adulterated Flour 355 



Humorous 355 



A German Apiary 355 



Fairs and their AdvantaKes 356 



Swarming and Dividing for Increase 356 



Correspondeuce — 



Florida as a Bee Country 356 



Keaiinti and Introducing Queens 357 



Care of (^omb Honey—Nn. -2 358 



Cultivation 'if Plants for Bees 35rt 



Managementof Bees in Spring 359 



A Peculiar Incident 359 



CouTeiitioii Notes — 



Western Michigan 360 



Italianizing an Apiary 360 



ArtiOeial Swarming 360 



Cyprian Bees 360 



Thoughts on Bee-Keeping 360 



Clipping Queens 361 



Maine State Convention 361 



Selections from Our Letter Box — 



Hunting Wild Bees 361 



AH Swarmed in May 361 



Barberry 361 



Worker Bees in Queen CpIIs 362 



The Honey Season in California 362 



Prevention or Swarming 362 



Wild Honeysuckle 362 



Use New Honey Packages 363 



Warranted Queens 363 



Duplicating Eggs 363 



In the Sweet By-and-By 363 



Winterin May 363 



JJisgusting 363 



Crops in General.— By correspon- 

 dence from all parts of the country 

 we learn that crops though backward, 

 are generally in good condition. It Is 

 stated by an exchange " that the cool, 

 wet weather has not been unfavorable 

 for wheat, and has rendered it the 

 conspicuous service of keeping back 

 the fatal chinch-bug. If it has in- 

 jured the corn it may have more than 

 compensated for it by the opportunity 

 it has afforded the young wheat of 

 getting a good start before the chinch- 

 bug was able to be out. But it is not 

 yet certain that the corn has been 

 seriously injured. It is backward; 

 large tracts that should have been 

 planted are not planted yet. In many 

 localities the plant appears rather 

 feeble. But, on the other hand, the 

 planting can be finished very rapidly 

 if a few warm days should be granted 

 just at this time. Generally where 

 the corn is up it is of good thickness, 

 and promises, with warm, dry weather, 

 to make ample amends for being be- 

 hind time." Fniit promises well — the 

 localities are but few where it has 

 been injured— it has rarely promised 

 better. As for Texas, everything 

 there is in the finest possible condi- 

 tion; cereals, cotton, fruit, everything 

 that grows out of the ground promises 

 uncommonly well. White clover and 

 pasture grasses are very thrifty every- 

 where, affording excellent grazing. 



1^" Our new location, No. 925 West 

 Madison St., is only a few doors from 

 the new branch postoffice. We have 

 a telephone and any one in the city 

 wishing to talk to us through it will 

 please call for No. 7087— that being 

 our telephone number. 



Queen Trap.- Mr.F. Funk, Beverly, 

 111., has sent us samples of his "Queen 

 Bee Trap," which he claims to be a 

 " sure and safe way to clip their wings 

 without danger of injuring them." 

 The trap consists of a small coil of 

 turned wire, the coil being much 

 larger at one end than the other. The 

 large end of the cage is intended to 

 be put down over the queen when on 

 the comb, as she enters it the cage is 

 to be lifted and both ends closed, 

 then the wing can be clipped through 

 the wire coil, without handling the 

 queen or injuring her in any way. 



The Weather in Colorado.- A letter 

 from Denver informs us that the 

 season there is very backward iis it is 

 in all the Northern States. The 

 writer says : 



" The weather is quite cool not be- 

 ing near so warm and pleasant as it 

 was in February and March, and so 

 much rain is unusual for Colorado; 

 but although we in the city are gen- 

 erally displeased with it, the value it 

 is to farmers can hardly be fully 

 estimated. It will start vegetation 

 everywhere, and make the flowers in 

 the footliills, tliat yield so much pas- 

 ture for bees, bloom in all their beauty 

 and fragrance." 



1^ Col. Pearson, President of the 

 Alsatian Bee-Keepers' Society, writes 

 on April 6th to the Bienen Zuchter, 

 published at Strassbourg, Germany, 

 as follows : " My colonies of bees 

 are in excellent condition. They have 

 never been as populous as they are 

 now. The season has not been favor- 

 able for apiculture ; the few fruit 

 trees in this vicinity are not suflTicient 

 to give the bees very much honey, at 

 this season. 



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