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DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. 



Vol XVIII. 



Chicago, 111., Angnst 30, 1882. 



No. 35. 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial— 



Eclitunal Uems 545. 34B 



I'hinriim I. ir Bee Pasturage 545 



Siii'fL'!^sIul Hdiiey show 545 



I'rnctical (.\>-operutlon 546 



Anion? Our Exclinnges — 



Ilitney aiKl TleP Shows 547 



Driviiij.' Awiiy Ilerl Ants 547 



'I'oiifls rt'id Hoes 547 



Miinutaoliiriiiy Sujjplies 547 



Corrospoiideiice — 



Sale of Comb Honey— No, 1 548 



This Season's Honey Crop, ete 548 



Philadelphia. Pa., Association .54H 



CJtven vs. Any Foundation 549 



No "(.Jap" Here in Honey Flow 5.M) 



•Queen Sliipping Canes 550 



'I'lie Velluw Race of Bees 551 



Convention >'otes — 



Caledonian Apiarian Society 5.53 



(Convention Notices 553 



Lncal Convention Directory 554 



Selections from Our Letter Box — 



Clipping Queens 5.>1 



Preference forCatnip 554 



Bees and Amber Syrup 554 



Bees Booming 554 



Less than an Average .554 



Seedioj: an Orchard 555 



E.vcessive Swarminjr 555 



Cypriana Beat all the Uest 455 



Never Saw a Better Honey Harvest 5.55 



Recappinu a Queen Cei I 555 



Best Honey How of the Season .555 



gwarnjini! l'erplexilie« 3.55 



Honey-Uew 55(j 



Eleven Colonies fromOne 5.5H 



C(jrn 'I'asrtei Honey 556 



■Not Doinj; Well 556 



Cellar for Winter 55fi 



A Slight Mistake 556 



JS'otSo Bad 556 



tjretion for Bees 556 



iSweet Clover 550 



•Cro9.-*ln(( Stock 5.56 



•Cleome 5.5b 



sowing for Honey 556 



Planting for Bee Pasturage. 



Two of our correspondents propound 

 the following questions in regard to 

 planting for bee pasturage : 



1. Wliat time of year is best to sow 

 sweet clover, and liow much per acre ? 



2. Can I sow it this fall witli grain V 



3. Is it of any use for hay V 4. Where 

 can I get some seed of tlie Simpson 

 honey plant ? 



1. In early fall is best, then you will 

 get some bloom tlie next season. If 

 sown in early spring, catnip, cleome, 

 motherwort, or mignonette can be 

 sown with it to give a honey bloom 

 the first season, after which the sweet 

 clover will take care of itself. If 

 sown alone, we would prefer about 8 

 to 10 pounds per acre ; if with some- 

 thing else, i to 6 pounds per acre. It 

 should be sown early enough to get a 

 good freezing, wliich will not hurt 

 catnip or motlierwort. Cleome must 

 be sown in the fall. 



2. Yes. 



3. We have heard the question an- 

 swered both aflinnatively and nega- 

 tively ; but thinlc if cut early it would 

 make excellent hay, certainly equal to 

 red clover. We know it makes good 

 stock pasture. 



4. We do not know, but suppose it 

 will be advertised in our columns by 

 those who may have it for sale. 



i^We have received compliment- 

 ary tickets to the St. Joseph, Mo., In- 

 ter-State Exposition, to be held Sept. 

 4 to 9, 1882. We shall not be able to 

 be present, but hope the apiarian de- 

 partment will be a very interesting 

 and attractive feature of the Exposi- 

 tion. 



Successful Honey Show.— In a pri- 

 vate letter, Mr. John D. Hutchison, of 

 Glasgow, Scotland, says their Cale- 

 donian Honey Show was a complete 

 success in everything except the 

 weather. The entry receipts amount- 

 ed to £05 (S3i;o) for tlie four days, and 

 lie thinks had the weather been favora- 

 ble, tlie receipts would have been 

 largely augmented. He reports, on 

 Aug. 10th, splendid weather, and a 

 large number of the bees are away to 

 the heatlier. He says : " Should the 

 weather continue line, w-e expect to 

 have a large surplus of heather honey." 



!^" We have received the 28th 

 Annual Premium List of the Knox 

 County (111.) Fair. In Class J, of 

 which Mr. C. W.McKown is Superin- 

 tendent, there is quite a liberal list of 

 premiums for the best display of 

 honey, bees, implements, etc., and we 

 predict Mr. McKown will make his 

 Class one of the most attractive and 

 successful at the Fair, even if com- 

 pelled to make most of tlie exhibits 

 liimself. It is very encouraging to 

 observe the interest being awakened 

 in apiarian matters among the mana- 

 gers of fairs and expositions ; but a 

 few years, and no premium list vi'ill 

 be complete without a liberal recogni- 

 tion of apiculture as one of the lead- 

 ing rural occupations. 



i^At the recent Bee and Honey 

 Show of the Caledonian Apiarian So- 

 ciety, at Glasgow, several entries were 

 made for the premium for best colony 

 of foreign bees, but tlie judges made 

 no award, as none were deemed per- 

 fectly pure. This, we suppose, in- 

 cluded Italians, Cyprians and Syrians. 

 We can hardly imagine what could 

 have been the standard by which 

 judgment was rendered, if none of 

 the eminent exhibitors could show a 

 perfectly pure colony of foreign bees. 



