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DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. 



VoL XVIII. 



Chicago, III., October 18, 1882. 



No. 42. 



Published every Wedneaday by 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN. 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial— 



Editorial Items 657 



Enthusiastic 657 



Another Bee Paper Dead 658 



Amon^ Our Exelianges— 



ApicuItOre in Palestine 658 



The Honey Harvest in Switzerland 658 



Fraudulent Uses for Glucose 658 



Correspondence — 



Winterins Bees Successfully 659 



Bee-Keepers Visiting One Another 660 



ShippinB Bees to Australia nnn 



Bee and Honey Show at St. Louis 6(^1 



How I Managed my Bees 661 



Useof Onions when Wintering Bees niii 



Bee-Keeping In Utah 6t!i 



Convention Notes— 



Local Convention Directory 66*' 



The National Convention "" 66^ 



Convention Notices 665 



Visit tu Mr. J. S. Hill's Apiary '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 6(;r. 



Selections from Our Letter Box— 



A Land KlowlnK with Uoney 065 



Bees in Kentucky 665 



A Large Yield 6H5 



Few Bee Men There '. ]'.. 66*5 



Anothpr<Iood Report .... ' m;'-, 



Very Well Paid "!....'.!/."! 6f;r. 



Food Tor Shipping Queens 6r.il 



Yellnw Variety of SweetCIover 6iii; 



No s>urpius Honey 6r.r> 



Botanical _ 6(;(i 



Wonderful Success .........'..'.'.'.'.'." t-MM] 



Almost a Failure " c,^ 



Bee und Honey Show at St. Joseph. Mo."! 6<;h 



An Excellent Report iSi-.6 



Well Done ;.; 6(^; 



Sections. Frames, etc !."."....!!." fnx, 



IjHdy Bee-Keepers lUi? 



An Extraordlnav Season 667 



A Heavy Day's Work 6fi7 



Doniittle's Opinion of the Monthly 667 



W ell Pleased 607 



Honey Season in the Southern States !.'.'.'. (i<>7 



No l- all Honey Yet 6f)7 



Sweet Clover, etc " 667 



468c> lbs. of Surplus from 23 Colonies 667 







Enthusiasts.— Tlie Cincinnati, O., 

 Daily Gazette, speaking of tlie Na- 

 tional Convention of Bee-Keepers, 

 lately held in that city, says : " It 

 would be difficult to find a body of men 

 more enthusiastic than the North 

 American Bee- Keepers' Society, as it 

 assembled in Washington Park Hall, 

 at 9 o'clock, yesterday morning, for 

 the closing exercises of the Convention 

 of 1882. So enthusiastic were they, 

 indeed, that when a vote upon the 

 subject was taken, it was unanimously 

 decided not to adjourn for dinner, but 

 to take a recess of ten minutes only." 

 If they suffer with dyspepsia hereafter, 

 they should charge it to enthusiasm ! 

 Ten minutes for dinner is worse than 

 the railroads treat their passengers. 

 Let us have more time and less enthu- 

 siasm hereafter. The Gazette then gets 

 enthusiastic and says : " That the 

 growth of bee-culture has been enor- 

 mous is shown by the fact that in 1870 

 barely $1,000,000 was invested in the 

 pursuit, while in 1S79 the profits were 

 estimated at $16,000,000 in the United 

 States alone." 



^" We had a call from Mrs. A. J. 

 West, of Paxton, Ford Co., 111., on 

 Friday last. She is intelligent and 

 very lady-like, and says Mr. West 

 started in the spring with 9 colonies, 

 which gave an average increase of 3 

 swarms. From 1 colony he has taken 

 241 pounds of honey, and it has enough 

 left for winter. The total product of 

 the 9 colonies, spring count, has been 

 over 1,400 pounds. The season has 

 been very favorable and, with Mr. 

 West, bee culture has met with its full 

 reward. 



i^Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Collins, of 

 Houston, Texas, made us a pleasant 

 visit on Saturday last. Mr. Collins 

 says he is so much engaged with his 

 manufacturing business that he can 

 now pay but little attention to his 

 bees. He has about 100 colonies, but 

 his brother is taking care of them for 

 him. Mr. Collins is an enthusiast on 

 bees and regrets his inability to be 

 with them more. 



^- Mr. W. F. Clarke, late editor of 

 this paper, has gone to Winnipeg, 

 Manitoba, to take editorial charge of 

 the Wivni]}eg Sun. He thus wrote to 

 us concerning his leaving his former 

 home at Listowel, Ontario : 



My friends in Listowel gave me a 

 good send-oS. A surprise party head- 

 ed by the Mayor, visited me the night 

 before my departure and presented 

 me with a farewell address, and a 

 beautiful gold hunting - case Elgin 

 watch, engraved on one side, '' Pre- 

 sented to W. F. Clarke, by his Listo- 

 well friends, on his departure for 

 Winnipeg, Sept. 25, 1882," and on the 

 other, with the letters, W. F. C, in 

 large and handsome monogram. 



1^" We learn, with regret, that Mr. 

 Frank Benton, who is now in Beyrout, 

 Syria, has been quite sick during the 

 past summer, and has been unable to 

 rear as many queens as he anticipated, 

 on account of the extremely unfavor- 

 able weather. 



^" Mr. James Heddon's essay for 

 the National Convention was lost in 

 the mails. This explanation is due to 

 him, as it was not there produced. 



1^ As the time for the usual 

 winter rush of correspondence is near- 

 ing, let us try to impress on our cor- 

 respondents the necessity of being 

 careful when writing to this office. If 

 they live near one postoffice and get 

 their mail at another, be sure to give 

 the address we have on our list. 



