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DETOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. 



VoL XVIII. 



Chicago, lU., June 28, 1882. 



No. 26. 





Published every Wednesday by 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



EDiTuu AND Proprietor. 

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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editoriiil— 



Editorial Items 401 



National Convention 401 



A New Book for Farmers 401 



Prospects More thnn Bright 401 



Drones— Are they Auxiliaries 402 



Food Poisoning 403 



Among Our Exchanges— 



Wateh Them 404 



Unused Honey Resources 404 



A Mule's Amusement 404 



Bees and Honey at Fairs 404 



Correspondeuce — 



Light versus Dark Italians 405 



Evapur:itor for Extracted Honey 405 



Specimens of Ajiis Dorsata 405 



Parthenogenesis in Bees 406 



What is a Fertile Worker? 407 



Progress of Bee-Keeping in England 407 



Hi>w to Hunt Bees in the Woods 408 



Convention Xotes— 



Comb or Extracted Honey? 408 



Northwestern Wisconsin 40:) 



Madison, Wis., Convention.. 409 



Selections from Our Letter Box— 



Motherwort 410 



Sudden Transiticm 410 



Questionable Borrowing 410 



Rearing (Queens in Utah 410 



Prospect Good far Basswood 410 



CofFee A Sugar for Winter 4lo 



Spring Dwindling 411 



Queen Shipping Cages 4li 



Enigmatical 411 



Things Look Brighter Now 411 



Difference in Location 411 



Large Yield Expected 41 1 



Osage Orange for Honey 411 



A Screen to Protect from Robbers 412 



Working on White Clover 412 



Early Swarming 412 



Satistied with Prospects 412 



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The >'atioiial Convention. 



Prof. Cook, President of the North 

 American Bee-Keepers' Society,writes 

 under date of June 19: "As I know 

 the readers of the AstERiCAN Bee 

 Journal will be glad to learn, I has- 

 ten to announce that the North 

 American Bee-Keepers' Society will, 

 without doubt, meet in Washington 

 Park Hall, just across Washington 

 Park from the Exposition Building, 

 Cincinnati, O.. during the last week 

 of the Exposition, Oct. 3d to .5th. Let 

 all bee-keepers see that excursions 

 are arranged for that week. We have 

 already one promised from Detroit. 

 Round trip only $15.00. The an- 

 nouncement will be made officially by 

 the Secretary in a few days. 



Prospects More tlian Bright.— As we 



advised our readers weeks ago, the 

 " silver lining of the clouds " is now 

 almost an assured fact. From every 

 quarter come the most encouraging 

 hopes, and every souttiern breeze is 

 burdened with the sweet perfume from' 

 white clover, which was never more 

 plentiful than now. Linden, hearts- 

 ease, horsemint, and other flowers 

 give promise of great abundance, and 

 with ordinary favorable weather for 

 the remainder of the season, in most 

 locations where were heard the fre- 

 quent groans of despair will be sung 

 the glad pagans of joys realized. The 

 prospects for an abundant honey har- 

 vest were never better than now. 



^° Articles for publication must be 

 written on a separate piece of paper 

 from items of business. 



JJew Book for Farmers.— We have 

 on our desk a new work tliat will be 

 of untold value to the farmers. It is 

 called " The Farmers' Practical En- 

 cyclopedia," and contains " a systema- 

 tic and practical treatise on every 

 subject pertaining to farm and home 

 life in America." It contains over 

 1,200 quarto pages, is elegantly bound 

 in 2 volumes, and is published by 

 Chapman Brothers, Chicago. The 

 article on bee-keeping is very 

 tliorough, and embraces every part of 

 progressive bee-culture. It extends 

 over 14 pages, and is beautifully illus- 

 trated. In recommending the encyclo- 

 pedia to the farmers of America, we 

 feel that we are doing them a kind- 

 ness, for it gives to the farmer, in his 

 own sphere, in behalf of his o*n in- 

 terests and profession, a literary work 

 of extraordinary higli character, ex- 

 haustive, complete and practical. It 

 embraces the entire scope of rural 

 life in every department. It contains 

 the gist of many tliousands of volumes, 

 prepared by the most scientilic, ex- 

 perienced and practical men on this 

 and the European continents, and 

 therefore contains a larger amount of 

 well-timed and valuable information 

 than can be found in any work of its 

 scope yet published. 



Fairs.— Any of our friends who 

 may intend to visit fairs, will be fur- 

 nished with copies of the Bee Jour- 

 nal for distribution to bee men they 

 may meet there, by sending us a re- 

 quest stating how many they can take 

 care of. We will also send two large, 

 colored Posters to enable them to get 

 up a club, if they wish to do so. 



^ We have received the Premium 

 List of the " Northwestern Industrial 

 Association " to be held at Minneapo- 

 lis, Minn., on Sept. 4th to 9th, 1882. 

 It contains no premiums for exhibits 

 of honey, bees, or beeswax. 



