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Vol XVIII. 



Chicago, 111., July 5, 1882. 



No. 27. 





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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial — 



Ertitoriiil Items 417. 41S 



An Inip'Ttiint Hint 417 



Our Method 417 



Beesandlloney 417 



Illinois Industrial University 417 



F<»reit:n and Domestic Crop Prospects 41H 



"Almost I'ersuai^e^l " 418 



The Cultivation of Honey Locust 418 



Bees from ?^yria and Cyprus 419 



Among: Oiir Exclianges— • 



Clipping Queen's Wing 421 



Title to FiiRitive Swarms 421 



Abscondinti Swarms 421 



Antirrhinums and Bees 422 



Bee-Keepinc in Maine 422 



Honev and Bee Shows in Wales 422 



Practical Suyuestions on Bee-Culture 422 



Cook's Manual 422 



Marlteting Uoney 4-22 



Correspoiidcnoe— 



Tree Planting, Cyprian Bees, etc 423 



How to 'Pransfer Bees 42;i 



A Friendly Chat with L. ^^'. Vankirk 424 



Importance of HavineaGood Queen 424 



D. A. Jones' Jlethod of Transferring 425 



Wintering in Chaff Hives 420 



How to Introduce a New Queen 426 



Selections from Our Letter Box — 



After-Swarming 42G 



Lamp Moth Trap 428 



Stormsin Kentucky 42fi 



Ready tor Linden Bloom 427 



Bees have Prospered 42*7 



Improvement in Oisposltion 427 



Motherwort for Bees 427 



Wired Foundation 427 



A Sad Accirlent 4'27 



A Valuable Seedline 427 



L,ate Feeding 4"27 



More than Doing Well 427 



An Important Hint.— Tlie Chicago 

 Times, in an extended notice of a 

 recent publication entitled " Pood 

 Frauds,"' speal\S as follows of " glu- 

 cose mixed with a little of the honey 

 produced by the bees : Its test is one 

 of difficulty and the best way is to be- 

 ware of the neat glass jar bearing the 

 trade-mark of a New York or Chicago 

 dealer, and to buy the tin pails or 

 common fruit-cans with the name of 

 the producer on the vessel." We 

 have time-and-again advised bee- 

 keepers to label their honey packages 

 with an attractive label, giving their 

 name and address, and also simple di- 

 rections for liquefying the honey 

 when it becomes granulated. It is an 

 important matter, and in the near 

 future the name of the producer will 

 sell the honey when no assurance of 

 the dealer could do so. 



Our Method.— The clipping of the 

 queen's wing having become a matter 

 of acknowledged good policy, as we 

 knew it woulil, the question nat- 

 urally arises, What is the best method 

 for clipping it y We have tried all 

 plans, and Und the quickest, easiest, 

 and the least risk attending the fol- 

 lowing : Lift from the hive the comb 

 on which you find the queen, slant it 

 toward the hive with the lower end 

 resting on the ground and tlie upper 

 end against the hive, make no rapid 

 motions to alarm the queen, but de- 

 liberately wait till she is in a position 

 that you can grasp the end of one 

 wing between the thumb and fore- 

 finger of the left hand, then with a 

 sharp pocket-knife and an up and 

 backward motion cut off about one- 



third of tlie wing. If deliberate in 

 your movements, the queen will not 

 become nervous, nor will she be aware 

 she has been meddled with, no scent 

 of the fingers will be left on either her 

 wings or body, and no commotion 

 created in the hive. 



Bees and Honey.— We feel highly 

 gratified at the general favor our new 

 book, entitled "Bees and Honey," is 

 meeting. The following, from S. A. 

 Knapp, LL.D., Dean of the Iowa Ag- 

 ricultural College, is one among many 

 of similar import : " Your very excel- 

 lent work on bees and honey is at 

 hand. I have examined it witli some 

 care, and find it an exceedingly valu- 

 able contribution to the science of bee- 

 keeping." 



Illinois Industrial University.— We 



have received the elaborate and neatly 

 printed Catalogue and Circular of the 

 Illinois Industrial University, for 

 1881-82. This University was estab- 

 lished under the auspices of the Uni- 

 ted States, the State of Illinois, and 

 Champaign County, and ranks among 

 the best in the country, with a full 

 and able Faculty, and its corps of lec- 

 turers and instructors cannot be ex- 

 ceiled. The number matriculating as 

 students since its opening is 1 ,098. T 

 J. Bunill, M. A., Ph. D., is Professor 

 of Botany and Horticulture, and Vice 

 President. Our readers have formed 

 a pleasant acquaintance with him 

 through his instructive answers to bo- 

 tanical queries in the Bee Jouknal. 



1^" We are in receipt of the Annual 

 Catalogue of Columbia Veterinary 

 College and School of Comparative 

 Medicine, New York City. The Fac- 

 ulty embraces a list of twenty-three 

 learned professors and lecturers, some 

 of whom are scientists of national 

 reputation. 



