DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. 



VoL XVIII. 



Chicago, IlL, December 20. 1882. 



No. 51. 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial— 



Editorial ttpma 801 



New York Honey Market 80! 



Half-Pound Sections for Honey 802 



Clubbing List 81S 



Among Our ExclLanges — 



Bees Putting BeseiL'ers to F iKbt 803 



Bee-K'-eping as a Business 803 



Do Bees Hear ? , 803 



Honey Exhibits at Fairs 803 



Correspondence — 



The Sunflower for Honey 804 



Noti-Sw;irming Strains of Bees 804 



Honey ami Money st)5 



Another lostanoc of Old Fogyism 805 



Dry (Mover Cliatr for Packing Bees 805 



Convention Notes — 



Convention Notices 80R, 809 



Locait'onvenlii'ii Directory 8ofi 



The Re Ting of (iood Queens Hoe> 



Bee- Keeping -Past, Present and Future.. 807 



Bee and Honey Show at Toledo, Ohio 808 



:Selections from Our Letter Bos- 

 Bees on Shares, Honey Comb, etc 809 



The Season's Work 809 



From Geneva. N. Y 810 



E.Ypericncc of a Beginner 810 



Troubled with M'lthWoms HIO 



Hard on the liees 810 



Prolific, but IJarU and Cross. 810 



The Coldest Day of the Year 810 



R. Doty's Heport for 1M82 810 



More Apiaries Than One 810 



Wa.x fro[n Ciipnings. 810 



Surc.'ss tM ttie Bees 810 



C Thiclinan's Bee- House for Winter 810 



Stone Piatlurni for Hives 811 



Tile Season's Operations 811 



Best Honey Crop in 10 years 811 



Do Bees Pay? 811 



Excellent 811 



Have Done Well 811 



Progresin Bee-Keeping 811 



Packed in Chaff. 811 



Large Increase 811 



New York Honey Market. 



In the Bee-Keepers^ Magazine for De- 

 cember Mr. King inquired why the 

 quotations given by Mr. D. W.Quinby, 

 honey dealer of New York, to the 

 Magazine, did not agree with those lie 

 sent to the Beb Journal. We re- 

 plied in No. 49, page 771, that we re- 

 ceived from Mr. Quinby, the "New 

 York Price Current," every week, 

 and copied the honey quotations ver- 

 batim. We also wrote to Mr. Quinby, 

 asking him for au explanation why the 

 qnotations were so different. He re- 

 plied as follows : 



Dear Sir :— The "New York Price 

 Current " is published for the accom- 

 modation oC all marketmen ; the editor 

 goes around and gets quotations from 

 different dealers and they strike an 

 average of the whole. I give my own 

 quotation ; they (other dealers) do not 

 get the prices, and do not quote it so 

 high. 1 will mark my own quotations 

 on " Price Current" hereafter. 



D. W. Quinby. 



We have written to Mr. Quinby that 

 we want his own quotations, hereafter, 

 and he has promised us to give them, 

 in all future reports of tlie New York 

 honey market sent to usi 



Mr. King has our thanks for calling 

 attention to the matter. Relying upon 

 the quotations received every week, 

 we had not compared them with any 

 others, and liad not, therefore, noticed 

 any discrepancies. Each dealer re- 

 porting the " Honey and Beeswax 

 Market," is entirely responsible for 

 his own quotations. We will do all in 

 our power to have them correct, but 

 do not hold ourselves responsible for 

 their correctness, nor endorse either 

 the dealers or their methods of doing 

 business. 



^F One more number of theWeekly 

 Bee Journal will complete the sec- 

 ond year of ts weeklv issue, anl we 

 are assured that its readers are well 

 satisfied with it. Had we any doubts, 

 they ould be dispelled by the hun- 

 dreds of encouraging letters we are 

 receiving, with the renewal of sub- 

 scriptions for the coming year. The 

 complete volume contains 816 pages, 

 making a very large book ; and both in 

 quantity as well as quality it is enough 

 to satisfy the mo.st economical of its 

 patrons. 



1^ When writing to this oflBce on 

 business, our correspondents should 

 not write anything for publication on 

 the same sheet of paper, unless it can 

 be torn apart without interfering with 

 either portion of the letter. The edi- 

 torial and business departments are 

 separate and distinct, and when the 

 business is mixed up with items for 

 Dublication it often causes confusion. 

 They may both be sent in one envelope 

 but should be written on separate 

 pieces of paper. 



i^'May we ask you, dear reader, to 

 speak a good word for the Bee Jour- 

 nal to neighbors who keep bees, and 

 send on at least one «cto subscription 

 with your own 'f Our premium, "Bees 

 and Honey," in cloth, will pay you for 

 your trouble, besides having the satis- 

 faction of knowing that you have 

 aided the Bee Journal to a new 

 subscriber, and progressive apiculture 

 to another devotee. 



igr Attention is called to a few 

 changes in our clubbing list for 1883, 

 as given on page 813. Those inter- 

 ested will please take notice. 



i^" On account of Christmas com- 

 ing on our regular day for printing, 

 the Bee Journal will be one day 

 late, next week. 



