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Vol. XVIII. 



Chicago, HI., August 9, 1882. 



No. 32. 



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TOPICS PBESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editoii.ll— 



Imtest Prospect* for honey 497 



Bee-Keepinc in our UniTersity 498 



Kditorial Items 498, 500 



Kf^v. L. L. l>ani^8trotta 500 



I>enth of Mr. A. F. Moon 499 



The National Convention 499 



Among Our Exchanges— 



Bree<ilng the Best Queens soo 



Bee Pasturage 50r:» 



Still Breedlne 500 



Bees Fertilizing the Clovers 500 



The Difference 500 



Correspondence — 



Theoretical Bee-Culture 501 



St. Joseph, Mo., Inter-dtate Exposition... 501 



Premiums 50j 



Sweepstnkes "..* 501 



Special Premiums 501 



Bee Not-s from Mississippi 501 



Winter Temperature P.eqalred by Bees..! 502 



Bee Dopartment of the Tri-State Fair 503 



Premiums 503 



That Professorship ".'/." 5.3 



Comb Foundation-Making In Germany.'.'.'.' 505 



Convention Notes — 



Local Convention Directory 5^t4 



National ('(invention . 504 



Bi-e-KeepingandOtherParsnits ..!!!!...'! 505 



To Bee-Keepers in Florida 506 



Selections from Oar Letter Bos— 



Fall Transferring gof; 



Hyori'l Bees '.,'.','.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. .Vie 



B.*esln Arkansas " 5(j(5 



Bees In Colorado !.".'.'.'.'.'.'.'.!'.''.!'.'.','. figfi 



Beautiful Foundation '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'."" Hyj 



Journcyings in America '.'.'.'..'.'.'.'.'.',','.','.'. arr 



Keal KncMuraging '"" 507 



Returning Swarms 5fn 



Making L'p for Lost Time.!.'.' w? 



TheHoneyWave .' sm 



Progressive Transferring .507 



IntroducingQueens 507 



Dysenteried Nuclei ', 508 



Progressive Transferring ..! Vi8 



Which queen Goes ?....:......; 5^ 



Bees Doing No Good v« 



Breeding Tp SS 



Honey from Daisies !.'.*!!.'!.'!.'!.'" 5(» 



Maple Sugar 50q 



ProspecM Brighter !.'!.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'!.'!.'.'! 508 



Districts where but a short time 

 since only discouragement and doubt 

 prevailed, are now beginning to as- 

 sume a cheerful aspect. Kentucky, 

 perhaps, started out early in the sea- 

 son with the brightest prospects of 

 any State, but an abrubt change in 

 the wind-current, followed by snow, 

 frost and cold rains, soon destroyed all 

 hopes of an immense spring yield, but 

 left the bees generally with sufficient 

 stores for summer consumption, and 

 since that time colonies which were 

 previously strong have been but self- 

 sustaining. A few weeks ago Mr. 

 John C. Peden, of Lawrenceburg, that 

 State, wrote very discouragingly. 

 Xow, however, he writes that bees 

 are working *' on both red and white 

 clover, and that in comparison with 

 the past they are like a tornado. Sec- 

 tions that have been on the hives for 

 six weeks, in a half-finished condi- 

 tion, are being finished up, and new 

 ones started in a way that is real en- 

 couraging.'' With Kentucky's noto- 

 riety for fall flowers— asters, etc. — we 

 anticipate there will yet be a good 

 yield in that State. Last season the 

 bulk of their crop, if we remember 

 rightly, was obtained in September, 

 October and November, after all hopes 

 of a surplus had been abandoned. 



From New York, Mr. G. M. Doolit- 

 tle supplements his former gloomy 

 notes, with a postal dated July 29 : 

 " The past three days have been 

 splendid for bees. The combs which 

 showed nearly starvation for the bees 

 a few days ago, are now glistening 

 with honey, and enough has been already 

 , stored fur a winter supply. A few have 



commenced work in the boxes 



Am thankful for the winter supply 

 already obtained." Mr. G. T. Wheeler, 

 of Mexico, in the same State, writes 

 under the same date : " Blossoms 

 commenced to open, accompanied 

 with honey weather, and the bees 

 work as though they expect to make 

 up for lost time. I expect to hear 

 that Doolittle's bees have stored bass- 

 wood honey by the ton the past week.'' 

 From the other backward districts of 

 New York we expect to hear equally 

 as good reports, with the addition, 

 perhaps, of cheering prospects for a 

 heavy fall yield. Should fall frosts 

 be tardy in coming. New York, we 

 think, will generally report very large 

 fall yields. 



In the district in Iowa where pros- 

 pects were least encouraging, a com- 

 plete revulsion has taken place, and 

 the yield is almost without a parallel. 

 Mr, William Malone, Oakley, Iowa, in 

 a letter of July 27th, says : " after 

 waiting and feeding so long, the honey 

 wave struck us July 10th, and I never 

 saw such a heavy yield as from that 

 time until the present." Mr. Malone 

 hived a swarm July 15, in a 2-story 

 Langstroth hive, with 20 frames of 

 foundation. In 8 days he extracted 

 40 pounds of honey from the second 

 story, and the lower one was fuU. 



The latest advices from Messrs. Da- 

 dant & Son, at Hamilton, 111., in the 

 Mississippi Valley, report the "bees 

 still booming." In that district last 

 season the honey harvest was very 

 light, owing to the drought, and the 

 above parties were obliged to adopt 

 the migratory system with their colo- 

 nies to reach honey bloom. Mr. J. 

 Lee Anderson, at Lawrence, McHenry 

 County, 111., Aug. 4, says : " We are 

 having the largest honey crop this sec- 

 tion ever witnessed. A second crop 

 of white clover is coming on where 

 one has been cut off for hay. The in- 



