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Vol. XYIII. 



Chicago, 111., November 29, 1882. 



No. 48. 



Published every Wednesduy by 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial- 

 Editorial Items 753 



Another New Book on Bees 753 



Throw Awiiy the Old Honey Boxes 753 



Glucose Fiictory Failures 754 



The chicHco Bee Convention 754 



Costof GettinK Those Statistics 755 



International Exhihition at Hamburg 755 



Veryt'rookeil 756 



Honey and Beeswax Market 763 



Among Our Exclianges— 



Bees in China 756 



Rever.-ible 756 



Effects of Conventions and Honev Shows 756 



t Whence Cometh Many Diseases?.' 756 



A t-^u Biblical Reward 756 



Correspondence — 



Our Railroad Apiary Car and Track 757 



How I Make Nuclei and Queen Cells 757 



Belli It Dnwn 758 



DitTiTcnt Kinds of Bee-Keepers 758 



Dutifs.jf Ui'e-Keepers in the Spring 759 



New Plan for Introducing Queens, etc 759 



Convention Notes— 



Local Convention Directory 760 



Convention Notices 76U 



Maine Bee-Keepers' Association 760 



Iowa Central Convention 761 



How to Cure Foul Brood 761 



Selections from Our Letter Box — 



Report for 1>W2 762 



A Natural Bee Hive 762 



4.'Kxi Pounds of Honev from 19 Colonies.. 762 



Ready ForWinter 762 



Care of Kmpty Combs 762 



My Season's Work 762 



Sensible Bees 762 



'Wintering Bees 762 



Report f-ir the Past Season 763 



My Bee Report 763 



Causesof Foul Brood 763 



Questions '763 



A Humbug or Swindler, Which 763 



Another Ne'w Bee Book. 



We have received the prospectus of 

 a new book by Henry Alley, Wenham, 

 Mass., entitled "Twenty-two Years 

 Experience in Rearing Queen Bees." 

 Mr. Alley says, " this work is intended 

 to teach the best, easiest, most scien- 

 tific and practical method for rearing 

 queens." The price will be $1.00. The 

 author, in his prospectus, remarks as 

 follows : 



For twenty-two years I have made 

 the business of rearing queen-bees my 

 sole occupation, and during that time 

 have probably reared more queens 

 than any otlier man in the world. I 

 have experimented largely in queen- 

 rearing, when, about four years ago, I 

 discovered a new method of building 

 queen cells, tliat does not take one- 

 half the time, labor, trouble or ex- 

 pense required by the old process. By 

 this metiiod I rear just as many or few 

 queens as I put eggs into a hive, and 

 in the exact locality in wliich I desire 

 tiiem built. The cells are all large, 

 and so evenly spaced apart, that each 

 one can be cut out without injury to 

 its neighiior cell. The queens pro- 

 duced are as large, hardy, long-lived 

 and prolific, as any reared under the 

 swarming impulse. The cells are all 

 built in full colonies, which are queen- 

 less only four days, consequently al- 

 ways have a large proportion of young 

 bees. The time of liatcliing of a given 

 lot of cells can be determined within 

 an hour of each other, as they are 

 never from one to three days apart in 

 hatching out, as by the old process. 

 By my method at least as much honey 

 can be produced by use of the ex- 

 tractor, as thoiigli the colony was not 

 engaged in cell building. My method 

 is entirely new, and has never been 

 published ; only three persons besides 

 myself have any knowledge of it, and 

 they (all old bep-keepers) assure me 

 that I have reduced tlie matter of 

 queen-breeding to a perfect science. 

 1 propose to publish my method, in 



book form, and at the same time give 

 many of tlie valuable ideas gained by 

 me during my long experience in this 

 branch of apiculture, and that have 

 never before been made public. As 

 this work will require an outlay of 

 from SloO to $200 for engravings, etc., 

 to illustrate my method, I propose to 

 charge a fair price for it. 



We can fill orders for this work as 

 soon as publislied, which will be duly 

 announced in the Bee Journal. 



Throw Away the Old Honey Boxes. 



— A bee-keeper came to Chicago last 

 week to sell his honey. In order to 

 save a lot of six-pound boxes he had 

 on hand, he used them, and conse- 

 quently depreciated his honey 5 cents 

 per pound. He said, most emphati- 

 cally, as he was leaving the Bee Jour- 

 nal office : " It would have paid me 

 much better to have burned up the 

 old boxes and bought new sections." 

 It certainly would have paid him bet- 

 ter, and been much more satisfactory 

 to all concerned to have done so. Let 

 all who may have any old large boxes 

 on hand bear this transaction in mind. 



1^ We have received a copy of Mr. 

 G. M. Doolittle's Club List of Papers 

 for tS83. It consists of 12 pages be- 

 sides the cover, and is very neatly 

 printed. Those who want to subscribe 

 for several publications should send 

 for it. They will find much in it to 

 interest them. His address is Boro- 

 dino, N. Y. 



^^ We intend to be present at the 

 Michigan State Convention, at Kala- 

 mazoo, on Dec. B, 1882, and hope there 

 wiU be a good attendance. 



[^ Many bee-keepers have done 

 well d uring the past season , and should 

 be feeling quite happy. Now it will 

 be in order to prepare for the nextsea- 

 sou's work by procuring your hives 

 and sections in proper time for use. 



