DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. 



VoL XVIII. 



Chicago, 111., October 25, 1882. 



No. 43. 





Published every Wednesday by 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor ami Fkopkietoh, 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial- 

 Editorial I terns 673 



Nurthwestern Bee-keepfra' Convention. . CtT.i 



(Vismopulitiin Convention 673 



New ForelKn Honey i*lant9 G74 



Among Our Exchanges — 



A Standard "^rame 674 



The Kternal Fitness of Thinca 674 



Beet Honey Show in Scotland 674 



ConTention Notes— 



Northwestern Bee-keepers' Society 675 



Tile Syrian Bees 675 



Piisturaup for Bees 676 



Fuel for Smokers 677 



Prevention of SwarminK 677 



Feeding Bees 67S 



Comb vs. E.x-tracted Honey 678 



How to Get the Bees off the Sections. . 678 



The Use of Separators 67y 



Tile Use of Comb Foundation 679 



Wintering Bees 678 



Statistical Table 681 



Lebanon, Ind., Convention 68() 



Saunders Cttunty, Neb., Convention 680 



Local Convention Directory 680 



Correspoudence — 



Bees and Honey Thieves 682 



How to ■\\'inter Bees 682 



Beet H"nev Show at Baltimore, Md 683 



Irritatin^r Effect of Bee Stings 683 



Selections from Our Letter Box — 



BuildlnK tip Colonies 684 



Packing Bees in Chaff 684 



Wantj* a Society 684 



Caution about Shipping Honey 684 



Business Notices— 



Mo.NTHLY Bee Journal FOR i8.'<3 6S5 



Premiums 684 



CI ur. bind List 680 



Honey as Food and Medicine 685 



Honey and Beeswax Market 685 



The Apiary KeKlster 685 



The North-western ConTention. 



We give a full report of the pro- 

 ceedings of the " Xorthwestern iiee- 

 Keepers' Association," in this week's 

 issue, and we think it will be read 

 with more than ordinary interest. 

 There were no essaj'S read ; and it 

 was solid discnssion, from first to last ; 

 and the members were so much en- 

 gaged that they could hardly wait long 

 enough to eat, drink or sleep— so in- 

 tent were they upon the sessions, of 

 which live were held. The morning 

 session of Thursday was appointed at 

 8 o'clock, and long before even that 

 early hour, the members, like bees, 

 were buzzing about the hall, and the 

 office of the 15ee Journal, busily ex- 

 tracting IDEAS from one another, in- 

 stead of honey from the flowers. 



There were about 125 bee-keepers 

 present, and this year the member- 

 ship of the Society was double that of 

 the last. The discussions took a wide 

 range, and it will, we think, repay 

 every one to read them carefully. A 

 statistical table was also made of 50 

 apiaries, which may be found on page 

 681 of this issue. 



As Chicago is a central point for a 

 Convention for those within a radius 

 of 200 miles, or more, the building up 

 of a large society, of great influence 

 and benefit, to the bee-keepers of the 

 great Northwest, is only a matter of 

 time. This Convention will increase 

 and grow, year iiy year, and will no 

 doubt, become the largest and most 

 influential on the American Continent. 

 Seven States were represented at its 

 last session. This was very encourag- 

 ing, and demonstrated the fact that 



the Convention was destined to oc- 

 cupy as a field, the whole Northwest, 

 and be a valuable educator of the peo- 

 ple, ontheproiluction and sale of pure 

 honey, and scientific bee-cnlture. 



Cosmopolitan Convention. 



Mr. Paul L. Viallon, Bayou Goula, 

 La., writes to the Bee Journal, 

 thus: "Don't you think that the 

 name Cosmo|)olitan Bee-Keepers' 

 Society would be more appropriate 

 when the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association exceeds the borders of the 

 United States to hold its meeting and 

 select its principal officer V Well, who 

 knows ? its next meeting may be in 

 England or Germany." Our corres- 

 pondent is niformed tliat the correct 

 name is " North American Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Society," and in selecting Canada 

 for its place of meeting and a Cana- 

 dian for President, it has not exceeded 

 its original design, name or authority. 

 We hope its next meeting will be one 

 of tlie best and most interesting Con- 

 ventions ever held. If enthusiasm will 

 make it so, then it will be, for its 

 President and his countrymen are 

 among the most enthusiastic bee- 

 keepers in the world. 



^" Honest discussion of every 

 theory in bee-keeping is to be desired 

 and courted, but such discussion 

 should never descend to unkind per- 

 sonal remarks. We admire the senti- 

 ment expressed in the following from 

 one of our exchanges: "Discussion 

 has for its true object to elicit truth. 

 When tills is the object sought after, 

 it is profitable to hear both sides of 

 the argument. But when the argu- 

 ment becomes interlarded with low 

 personalities, honorable men with- 

 draw from it and leave the field to the 

 hero of the hour. He stands alone in 

 his glory." 



