DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. 



Vol. XVIII. 



Chicago, 111., November 22, 1882. 



No. 47. 





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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial — 



Editorial Items 737 



Another Editorial Chanfre 737 



Sir John Lubbock's New Book on Bees 738 



Bees Finding Honey 738 



HowTheyFind Their Way 738 



Bees ReconnizinR One Another 73y 



Bees LosinK their Stlnj; 73a 



Evidence of Affection in Bees 739 



Bees Sense ot lIcarinK 73i» 



The Color Sense ut Bees 739 



Amou^ Our Exclianges— 



Bee-keepinc in Maine 740 



Food Adulterators 740 



Correspondence — 



How I Built My Cellar 741 



Wlnterini; Bees in Chaff 741 



Syrian or Holy-Land Bees 742 



Bees for Business— A Report 742 



Development of "The Coming Bees" 743 



Bee Notes from Iowa 744 



Revolving Frame Holder 744 



Convention Notes — 



TiOCal Convention nirectory 745 



Conventitin Notices 745 



West Texas Convention 745 



Queen Rearing and Honoy Producing 745 



Selections from Our Letter Bos— 



AIIomeMarket 745 



That I'MKi lbs. of Honey from 1 Colony 745 



Cold Wave 745 



And still Sweet Clover is Blooming 746 



Bee-Keepine in ('anada 746 



Comb Foundation 746 



My Little Report 746 



Packing Mv Rees 74i^ 



Small Wire Worms In Pollen 746 



Moving Bees, etc 747 



<^uick Work 747 



Auotlier Editorial Change.— On the 



first of JanuHiy next, the British Bee 

 Journal is to change hands. The pres- 

 ent editor, Mr. C. N. Abbott, wlio has 

 done very much to encourage and ad- 

 vance the interests of bee-lceepers in 

 Great Britain, will retire, and the Rev. 

 Herbert R. Peel, the honorary secre- 

 tary of the Britisli Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, will l)e duly installed as its 

 editor. While extending our congrat- 

 ulations to Mr. Abbott for his able 

 management in the past, we welcome 

 the new editor, Mr. Peel, througli 

 whose exertions the British 15ee-Keep- 

 ers' Association has been made so 

 much of a success. 



^W Mr. James Anderson, the api- 

 arist from Scotland, who is on his way 

 home now, after a tour of this coun- 

 try for the past 4 months, called at the 

 Bee Journal office last Thursday. 

 He goes to New York, and thence to 

 Glasgow, where he will, no doubt, be 

 welcomed home by the Caledonian 

 bee-keepers, among whom he is one of 

 the most progressive and successful. 



^- Mr. GeorgeUoolittle, of Bridge- 

 port, Conn., has sent us some fasteners 

 for holding the wires in frames, which 

 he desires us to place in the Bee 

 Journal Museum, for the inspection 

 of visitors, which we have cheerfully 

 done. They consist of small links of 

 a metal chain cut in two so as to form 

 little staples. 



1^ We had a pleasant call from Mr. 

 O. O. Poppleton, of Williamstown, 

 Iowa, on Friday last. He was on his 

 way to Florida, to spend the winter. 



i^° Jordan's White Sulphur Springs, 

 we notice by the Buliimorean, is to 

 undergo many valuable improvements 

 during the winter. Mr. Jordan, who 

 is one of the most thorough and pro- 

 gressive apiarists in Virginia, is also 

 the very popular proprietor of the 

 "Springs," which is one of the lead- 

 ing summer resorts of the Southeast. 

 We have received an invitation to 

 spend a few weeks there next summer, 

 and should be delighted to accept, 

 could we leave the office for so long. 



ipr We notice a very complimentary 

 item in the Union City, Ind., Eayle, 

 showing a correspondent's apprecia- 

 tion of the Bee Journal, and the 

 benefit it has been to him in the man- 

 agement of his bees. 



W The Quarterly Report of the 

 Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 

 for the quarter ending September 30, 

 has just been issued. 



The report contains the acres and 

 product of principal crops, by coun- 

 ties, accompanied by market quota- 

 tions of the Kansas City market for 

 each month from January, 1877, to 

 September, 1882, for the crops of wheat 

 and corn and can be obtained by ad- 

 dressing the Secretary, Wm. Sims, 

 Topeka, Kansas, and inclosing the 

 necessary postage, three cents. 



1^ Honey, according to A. Vogel, 

 says the Scientific American, contains 

 on an average one per cent of formic 

 acid. Obsei-ving that crude honey 

 keeps better than that whioli has been 

 clarified, E. Mylius has tried the ad- 

 dition of formic acid, and found that 

 it prevents fermentation without im- 

 pairing the flavor of the honey. 



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