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VoL XVIII. 



Chicago, lU., July 26, 1882. 



No. 30. 





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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editoriiil— 



Apiculture in the State University 4S5 



Ttie St. Louis 1^'air 465 



Lecture on Pniotical Botany 466 



Editorial Items 466 



Drones and tlieir Worlt 466 



N irnial E.vfretions of Bees 467 



< incinnati Industrial Exposition 467 



Sniolter Fuel 467 



Selling Honey at Fairs 467 



Among' Our Exchanges — 



The Smoker Useless with Cyprian Bees... 467 



Had EnoukTh of Cyprian Bees 468 



Kuniiyatinf; B>.*es 4(ift 



Equalizing Col' inies 46S 



Bees iiathering Pollen 468 



Convention Notes — 



l>ocal Convention Directory 468 



Convention Notices 468 



Correspondence— 



A Day with Mr. Ueddon 469 



Apiarian Exhi-bit^ at Fairs 470 



Apicultural Professorship, etc 471 



Queens. Drones, "VVorkerB 472 



Increasing Bees by Division 472 



Bee- Keeping, and What? 473 



Ouestions about Honey Plants 473 



Practical nints in Apiculture 474 



Do Bees Void Dry Excreta? 474 



Selections from Our Letter Box- 

 Bees cioing Into Other Hives 47.5 



Behind Time 47.5 



Queen Ceil from Fertile Worker 475 



Mr. Shuck's Problem 4'75 



Hearing Drones 475 



Fertile Worker 476 



Anticipations Realized 476 



Exasperated 476 



Only P'air Weather Needed 476 



Pasturage for Bees 476 



The Honey Harvest 476 



Silver Linings 476 



Prospect Very Poor 476 



Still Hoping 476 



Coin b Foundation 476 



A Large Honey Harrest 476 



A Peculiar Season 476 



Apiculture in tlie State University. 



On page 471, Mr. James Heddon 

 very frankly gives his views regard- 

 ing an apicultural chair in our Illinois 

 Industrial University, but we are 

 forced to differ slightly with him re- 

 garding the objects sought to be at- 

 tained, and the qualifications of the 

 Professor. We fear it would be as 

 difficult a task to teach any person 

 practical apiculture, as it would be to 

 instruct any person in practical farm- 

 ing, practical house-building, practi- 

 cal banking, or practical dry goods 

 vending. Practical apiculture, as 

 with every otlier practical pursuit, 

 requires much practical experience 

 and a combination of many qualifica- 

 tions to make it successful as a spe- 

 cialty. Who would claim for a moment 

 that the best law university In the 

 United States can impart an educa- 

 tion sufficient to insure a national 

 reputation for its graduates '? All the 

 University or College can do is to pre- 

 pare its graduates to receive the prac- 

 tical education. 



In our State University -we want a 

 Professor or Chair of Apiculture, 

 where the student can be instructed 

 in the natural and physiological his- 

 tory of the honey bee ; -where the 

 State will encourage the solution of 

 many very important and vital prob- 

 lems, which now stand in the way of 

 successful and special apiculture ; 

 where men of eminent talent will be 

 set apart and given facilities for care- 

 fully and scientilically investigating 

 causes of disease, and evasions of 

 natural results. What specialist, if 

 any, has the necessary time and facili- 



ties for determining many questions 

 daily arising, and wliich require the 

 nicest scientific education to properly 

 conduct ttieir investigation. The 

 very fact of tliere being a multiplicity 

 of hives, tlieories as numerous as the 

 bee-keepers themselves, and errors 

 and hobbies as ridiculous as supersti- 

 tion, prove ttie wantof more thorough 

 education, and tlie lack of reliable 

 authorities. With our present bril- 

 liant array of practical talent, such 

 as can be found in every National, 

 District, State and Local Conven- 

 tion, wliich meet periodically, and the 

 several bee-papers to publish their 

 frequent interchange of ideas, prac- 

 tices, successes and failures, the prac- 

 tical education will rapidly inculcate 

 itself. But scientific, theoretical, 

 positive education we lack, and mere 

 individual, casual observation will not 

 supply the want. Iil our introductory 

 article on tliis subject we suggested 

 the Illinois Industrial University, be- 

 cause we know of no institution so 

 central, with such eminent talent for 

 the purpose, and we mentioned the 

 name of Prof. Burrill in connection 

 with the department, because he pos- 

 sesses in a remarkable degree all the 

 qualifications required to conduct the 

 experiment to a happy success. In 

 the one man is combined to a rare de- 

 gree the botanist, entomologist, 

 microscopist, philosopher, and scienti- 

 fic gentleman. 



St. Louis Fair.— We have recieved 

 the Premium List of the twenty- 

 second St. Louis Fair, which opens 

 Oct. 2, and closes Oct. 7, 1882. The 

 premiums appropriated amount to 

 $•50,000, of which best display of Ital- 

 ian bees receives S20, black native 

 bees $20. imported queen $10. comb 

 honey diploma and $10, crate of comb 

 lioney silver medal, crate of apiarian 

 implements diploma and $10, best bee 

 hive, honey extractor, wax extractor, 

 bee smoker, lioney knife, and bee 

 veil, each a diploma. 



