DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. 



VoL XVIII. 



Chicago, 111., Angnst 16, 1882. 



No. 33. 





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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



KditoriHl Items 513, 514 



A Disturljimce iti Cyprus Sly 



DBiith of .lessee. Estliick 513 



The " Gnp" in the Honey Season 514 



The Labors of the D«ones 515 



'Convention Notes— 



Ijccnl Conventittn Directory 515 



Njitimuil Convention 515 



Anions Onr Exdiunges — 



Tlio Honey Yield, and Taxing Bees 516 



Attn Iterations 516 



Svriitn Hees 516 



Jliuullinu' llees 516 



Tlie LcriKih of Life of Worker Bees 516 



"Correspondence — 



Tliat I.I mt£, Ijonj; Day with Mr. Clarlie 517 



Sv-'ndinj: Queens hv Mail to Canada 517 



Noteson Hiiney Plants 517 



H"W I tixtract Honey from Combs 518 



Ciiltiv;iliuiinf Simpson Houey I'lant 518 



Tlielloue'v Harvest 519 



The Common Sense Bee Hive 519 



Increase ttf Colonies 519 



The Utility <if Untested Queens 520 



Punhani vs. ciiven Koundation 52() 



How to Exl.ihllatthe Fair 521 



Tlie National Cimvention 521 



Selections from Our Letter Box — 



Foul Brood 522 



Customs Duties 522 



Gttod Season in Utah 522 



A Honey Plant 522 



Width of Sectiims 522 



All Swarms and No Honey 522 



Cleaning Wax Extractors 523 



My Keport to Date 523 



Apis Mellilica 523 



Sweet Clover the Only Hope 523 



Divitlint: and Introducing 523 



Fertile Worker 523 



Ground is Baked I.,ike a Brick 523 



Mr. Shuck's Problem 523 



.Juneau County, Wis 523 



Knt<mit)logicaI 524 



Golden Dollars vs. Golden Bands 524 



Whose Loss is it ? 524 



My Hcmey Crop 524 



Honey Enough to Winter On 524 



Iron Luk's for Hanging Broad Frames 524 



Afraid of Uobbing 524 



A (iood Season 524 



_A Fair Yield Anticipated 524 



A Disturbance in Cyprus. 



We learn by a dispatch dated at 

 Larnaca, Cyprus, Aug. 10, that a great 

 anti-Christian demonstration has oc- 

 curred. At the funeral of a Moslem 

 who was found murdered, and whose 

 death was attributed to the Chris- 

 tians, the outlireak occurred. The 

 police are in full sympathy with the 

 mob, iind all is in a state of anarchy. 

 A score of Christians were arrested, 

 one was killed, and many fled to the 

 mountains for safety. At the time of 

 this writing (Aug. 11) further disturb- 

 ances are feared. The brevity of the 

 dispatcli may give rise to apprehen- 

 sions all over the world for the safety 

 of Mr. Frank Benton and wife, who 

 are residents of Laraaca, and from 

 whence their correspondence has here- 

 tofore been dated. We think all fears 

 for his safety are needless, because 

 Mr. Benton is a man who is most 

 likely to ingratiate himself in the 

 favor of any community in wliich he 

 may reside, and in Cyprus, as in fact 

 in all countries of the Old World, 

 Americans are in great favor. AVith 

 the business and higher classes, they 

 have become especially popular on 

 account of their intelligence and ener- 

 gy ; and with the lower classes, on 

 account of tlieir liberal views and 

 peculiar form of government at home. 

 Europeans, especially those of East- 

 ern Europe, liave a marked prefer- 

 ence for the American people and the 

 United States government, regarding 

 them as the true exponents of na- 

 tional freedom. Any mishap to Mr. 

 Benton might well be considered a 

 national calamity, and would be re- 

 gretted by the bee-keepers of the 



wliole world, who cannot but recognize 

 his self-sacrilicing labors in attempt- 

 ing to introiluce Ains dorsata to the 

 public. We think there is no reason 

 for apprehension. 



Death of Jesse C. Estlack.— Jlr. I. 



N. Whitely, writes us from Denver, 

 Col., of the death of Jesse C. Estlack, 

 which occurred at Littleton, Col., 

 Aug. 5, ISSii. Mr. Whitely says : 



Mr. Estlack was born in Kew Jer- 

 sey, Dec. (i, 1818, and removed to Col- 

 orado in 18o9. lie was an energetic 

 and enterprising farmer and bee- 

 keeper, and through industry and 

 economy has accumulated a large 

 property, lie leaves a wife and 

 family to mourn the loss of a kind 

 husband and father, and the com- 

 munity the loss of a worthy citizen. 



i^We have received from Mr. 

 James Heddon, Dowagiac, Mich., one 

 of his queens vi'hich produces the 

 "long, leather-colored, docile work- 

 ers," sent here to be tested upon her 

 comparative merits. The workers ac- 

 companying her were fine, large, well- 

 developed bees, and though not as 

 yellow as some Italians we have, nor 

 as " frisky " as our Syrians, yet they 

 are perfect beauties. The queen is a 

 tine specimen of regality, and when 

 released from her introductory prison, 

 marched down among her Syrian sub- 

 .iects with a royal, dignitied move- 

 ment that seemed to command the re- 

 spect and devotion she undoubtedly 

 deserves. We expect to render no 

 disparaging report concerning her 

 progeny. 



i@° We regret to learn that on the 

 night of Aug. 5th, the residence of 

 Mayor W. J. Andrews, ex-President 

 X. A. B. K. Society, at Columbia, 

 Tenn., with contents, and several col- 

 onies of bees, were destroyed by Hre. 

 Loss over S5,000, on wliich there was 

 an insurance of only $2,500. 



