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Vol. XVIII. Chicago, lU., November 15, 1882. 



No. 46. 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial- 

 Editorial Items 721 



The Coming Winter 721 



Instincts of Bees 721 



Statistical Information— Suggestions 722 



Bees and Honey at Virginia State Fair 722 



Weather Predicttons for 1883 723 



Swarming vs. Dividing 723 



Subscription Credits 723 



New Premiums for 1883 724 



OurCIubbing List 733 



Among Our Exchanges — 



strained vs. Extracted Honey 724 



Honey Production in PennBylTanla 724 



Systematic Labor will Win 724 



Correspondence — 



How and Why I Clip Queens' Wings? 725 



How I Winter My Bees 725 



Bee-Keepers' Visits to One Another 726 



Comments on the Chicago Convention 726 



Wintering Problem Solved by Lime 727 



Sowing Honey Plant Seeds 727 



Effectof Dampness on Bees in Winter 728 



Convention Notes— 



Local Convention Directory 729 



Haidlmand, Out., Convention '72M 



Convention Notices 729 



Texas Convention 730 



Selections from Our Letter Box — 



My Season's Work 731 



My Report for 1882 731 



Packing Bees in Chaff 732 



Satisfactory 732 



Whatlsit? 732 



A Partial Keport 732 



Averaged UK) lbs. of Honey per Colony. . . 732 



To Prof. A. J. Cook 732 



The Coming Winter. 



We are all very much interested in 

 the question now so often asked, viz.: 

 " What is to be the general character 

 of the ensuing five winter months ? " 

 An exchange very truthfully remarks 

 that whether the comet is causing us 

 trouble or not, certain it is that this 

 planet of ours is very much disturbed 

 of late. Our own cyclone period had 

 scarcely subsided in the West when 

 the eastern States were visited with 

 wind storms and flooded with heavy 

 rains. Then the weather took a jump 

 to the Phillipine Islands, where 60,000 

 persons were rendered homeless in 

 less than an hour ; then another jump 

 to Cuba. Kow, the Spanish domin- 

 ions are again visited, this time by a 

 gale on the southern coast, which has 

 done much damage to shipping and 

 caused the death of several flshermen. 

 In England, the inundations of the 

 Thames valley have flooded the sub- 

 urbs of many towns, impeded traffic 

 and done immense damage to prop- 

 erty. In France the river Seine is 

 rapidly rising. Floods have stopped 

 traffic between Marseilles and Cannes 

 on the Mediterranean, and the Aus- 

 trian empire is also to be counted a 

 severe sufferer from these convulsions 

 of nature. 



On another page we have quoted 

 the weather predictions of Mr. R. 

 Mansill, of Kock Island, 111., as given 

 by him in his " Perhelia Crisis," a new 

 work on meteorology, which will be 

 read with interest. 



According to Mansill, the winter 

 will be an unusually mild one, but the 

 spring will be backward and cold. 

 June will open the summer with fine 



weather, but from July to September 

 it will be cold, below the average 

 temperature. These predictions are 

 given for what they are worth, but 

 should serve to warn bee-keepers gen- 

 erally to prevent the spring dwindling 

 of bees, by their careful and wise pro- 

 tection, and be ready with populous 

 colonies for the honey-flow in June ; 

 then, whether they get much more or 

 not, they will be sure of so much 

 honey, and can cheerfully take the 

 risk for the future. 



Up to the present time the weather 

 generally has been warm, with but 

 little wind or anything to indicate 

 winter, while by this time, two years 

 ago, everything was frozen up, and 

 winter had come in good earnest. 



Instincts of Bees. — At a meeting of 

 the British Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 held at London, Oct. 18, 1882, after 

 the routine business, Mr. G. D. Ilavi- 

 land read an interesting paper on 

 "The Social Instincts of Bees : Their 

 Origin by Natural Selection." Mr. 

 Haviland treated his subject in a 

 masterly manner, and was heartily 

 applauded at its close. There was a 

 large attendance of members, includ- 

 ing several ladies. The Rev. F. T. 

 Scott presided. The Honorary Sec- 

 retary announced that Sir John Lub- 

 bock would have taken the chair on 

 this occasion, but a prior engagement 

 prevented him from doing so. 



^" Mr. C. H. Lake has sent us a 

 photographic view of his bee tent, used 

 at the various Bee and Honey Shows 

 during the past summer. We have 

 given it a place in the Bee Journal 

 Album. 



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