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Vol. XVIII. 



Chicago, lU., Jnly 19, 1882. 



No. 29. 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial- 

 Editorial Items 449 



Calitiirniii ILney Granulates 449 



Apiculture and B'Jtany 449 



The Naiiimiil Ciinvention 449 



Increasing Popularity of Cook's Manual.. 449 



Farmers Uejolcing 450 



Glucose in Fraudulent Uses 450 



A :>curril<ius I'amphlel 451 



Bees as Tipplers 451 



DistinKuished Visitors 451 



Bee-Culture in Florida 451 



The California Honey Crop 452 



Among Our Exchanges — 



Ancient Kesulations Concerning Bees 452 



Alter Califurnla Honej 4.5.3 



Harml ess to Dairies 453 



Bees and Clover 453 



KeepinK Bees in Texas 453 



Correspondence — 



E.vti'aordinary Vields in Texas 454 



lilass vs. ■'Tiii." so-called 454 



lli^w I Rear my Queens 454 



A Visit to Baltimore. Md 455 



Bee PiisturaKe in California 456 



The Width of Sections, etc 456 



Practical and Scientitlc Apiculture 457 



Not "More than Bright" 457 



Convention >'otes — 



\'entura County, Cal., Association 458 



Selections from Onr Letter Box — 



Drone Traps 458 



More Cheerful from New York 45^ 



That New Clover 458 



After-Swarniiri« 459 



Faith in Movable Frame Hives 469 



Done Nothing 459 



But hlttle Honey fiom Clover 4,59 



Honey at Glucose Prices 459 



Honey Prospects in Kentucky 459 



Prospects f.ir Ileniainder of Season 459 



Supers Full of Honey 459 



Statistics Wanted 460 



Just Started in the Sections 460 



Still Continues 460 



The Prospects Discouraging 460 



Bees in a Starving Condition 460 



BeeslnSouth Carolina 400 



California Honey Orannlates.— The 



editor of the California ^ncuUurist 

 says : " We have noticed that Cali- 

 fornia honey will granulate as often 

 as it does not. It depends a good 

 deal in what shape the honey was' 

 when it was extracted ; if fully ripe, 

 it is more apt to candy sooner." 



1^ Each succeeding year the uni- 

 comb sections become more popular, 

 and, so far, tlie demand for them has 

 doubled every year. Those intended 

 to hold one pound of honey are the 

 most popular for retailers of comb 

 honey, while the producers generally 

 prefer those holding two pounds. The 

 more rapid sale of the former, how- 

 ever, will probably more than repay 

 the producer for the trifle less in 

 amount that the bees may store, from 

 the fact of their small capacity. We 

 must follow the lead of the market, 

 demand what it may, if we would be 

 successful. 



The National Convention. 



Apiculture and Botany.— We observe 

 our contemporary in California has 

 adopted our special feature of com- 

 bining apiculture with botany. Many 

 bee-keepers in America owe much of 

 their success to the encouragement 

 and protection of honey-producing 

 plants, suggested by the Bee Jour- 

 nal. As the stock-raiser familiarizes 

 himself with the grasses which fur- 

 nish the best and most profitable 

 grazing for his stock, so should the 

 bee-keeper recognize and plant the 

 flowers best suited to his bees, local- 

 ity and climate. 



^° We observed a bee on sweet clo- 

 ver on Monday last. 



The following is the oflJcial call of 

 the Secretary, Dr. Parmly, for the 

 Convention of the North American 

 Bee-Keepers' Society. We hope there 

 will be a large attendance : 



The North American Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Society will hold their 13th an- 

 nual meeting at Washington Park 

 Hall, Cincinnati, O., across VVashing- 

 ton Park from the Exposition build- 

 ing. Time, Oct. 3id to 5th, 1882. 

 First session Tuesday, 10 a. m., Oct. 

 3. We are encouraged to hope that 

 this will be a very profitable meeting, 

 as we are promised papers from, and 

 the presence of, a large number of 

 our most prominent bee-keepers both 

 in the United States and Canada, and 

 essays and implements of the apiary 

 are expected from abroad to add to 

 the knowledge imparted by the re- 

 search and inventive skill and meth- 

 ods of our countrymen. 



Ehrick Parmly, See. 



New York. July 12, 1882. 



Increasing Popularity of Cook's Man- 

 ual. — So rapid has been the increasing 

 popularity of " Cook's Manual of the 

 Apiary," that we have recently been 

 obliged to issue another edition, mak- 

 ing 9,000 published to date. Apiarists 

 have been particularly fortunate in 

 the high order of talent devoted to 

 the preparation of text-books, but 

 "Cook's Manual" has rapidly taken 

 the front position, and the Professor's 

 scientific and practical education will 

 enable him easily to keep his excellent 

 book in the advance, as the frequency 

 of the editions give him opportunity 

 to anticipate the progressive steps. 



i^In the Newcomerstown, O., In- 

 dex, of July 6, 18S2, we notice a long 

 article describing the bee hive and 

 supply establishment of Mr. R. L. 

 Shoemaker, who, by an accident, lost 

 his eye a few weeks ago. We are 

 pleased to see that his establishment 

 is of such large proportions. 



