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DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. 



Vol. XVIIII. 



Chicago, 111., Jannary 10, 1883. 



No. 2. 



rrUMSHED BY 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



EDITOR AXl) PHOPRIETOK, 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



A Good Showiug 25 



A Question— VVby ia It? 2fi 



A Satisfactory Showlntr 26 



A Standard Frame 21 



Abundantly Satisfied 27 



An Averase of 57 lbs. Per Colony 25 



Apiary Register 28 



Bee-Keeping fur l^adies 24 



Bee-Keeping in Nebraska 23 



Bees Bnjoying Their Warm Quarters 26 



Bees in Good Condition 27 



Bees Pay Better than Stock 27 



Bees Pay Well 27 



"Blessed Bees" Criticized 20 



Centralizing the Honey Market 26 



Convenliun Notices ift 



Correction 27 



Editorial Items 17, 18, 18 



Enticed tu Take a Flight 27 



Folly of Too Small a Section 24 



Glassed or Not 25 



Good I'rospects 26 



Habits of Bees in the South 19 



Half-Pound Sections and Supers 20 



Honey as a Staple Product 22 



Honey Feast. 17 



Honey Market at Home 27 



In Good Condition 26 



Italians vs. Native Bees 25 



I^afit Season Beat in Five Years 25 



Likes to Work with Bees 26 



Local Convention Directory 19 



Maryland, Va. and W. Va. Convention 21 



Mexican Clover for Bees 26 



Mr. Heddon as a Journalist 18 



One Continued Flow of Honey 27 



Over 100 lbs. to the Colony 26 



Packed In a BeeCellar 26 



Packed in Sawdust 26 



Packed with Buckwheat Chaff 26 



Paste for Honey Labels 25 



Queen Born Without Wings 27 



Iteceipts for Cooking Fruits 25 



Satislled 26 



Size of the Ilalf-Pound Sections 27 



Small Sections for Honey IR 



Sraartweed and Hearts-ease • 24 



Strong Colonies Necessary for Success — 25 



The Cause of Success 17 



Thickness of Wood of Small Sections 26 



Two Hundred Pounds from One Colony... 27 



Wintering in Chaff Hives 25 



Wood Separators for Small Sections 2H 



A Honey Fe.ist.— A new and novel 

 way of developing a taste for honey, 

 has been introduced by Mr. Eugene 

 Secor, of Forest City, Iowa. It is 

 worth being adopted in every locality, 

 and would help wonderfully to adver- 

 tise the honey-producer of any locality. 

 To popularize its consumption should 

 be the aim and object of every pro- 

 ducer, and Mr. Secor has found a very 

 neat way of advertising that will pay 

 him well. From the Winnebago Re- 

 view we extract the following notice 

 of it : 



The ladies of the Methodist church 

 furnished something new in the way 

 of an entertainment during the tirst 

 evening of their fair last week. Eu- 

 gene Secor, the king bee-man of this 

 locality, offered to them all the honey 

 tliey could use for one evening, and 

 on ihe strength of that offer they ad- 

 vertised a Honey Feast. The bill of 

 fare included choice comb honey, 

 extracted honey, both liquid and can- 

 died, milk and honey and honey cake, 

 the latter furnished by Mrs. Secor. 

 Hot biscuit were served. The crowd 

 " got away " with a goodly amount of 

 sweets, but we did not hear of anyone 

 being made sick by it, and we are as- 

 sured that tlie supply was not ex- 

 hausted, and that tiie ladies cleared 

 a nice little sura by the arrangement. 



The Cause of Suet-ess..— Our readers 

 are well aware that Mr. E. C. Jordan 

 is one of the most successful honey- 

 producers in' Virginia. We are in 

 receipt of a copy of the Times, of 

 Winchester, Va., in which we find 

 the following notice : 



Mr. E. C. Jordan, of Jordan's 

 White Sulphur Springs, laid on our 

 table, the other day, some copies of 

 the American Bke Jouiinam, pub- 

 lished in Chicago. It treats fully of 

 everything connected with the pro- 

 duction of lioney and management 

 of bees, and we should think would 

 be invaluable to those engaged in 

 this pleasant and proHtable business. 

 Whether Mr. Jordan has profited by 

 its suggestions or not we are unable 

 to say. but we do know that he is a 

 most successful bee-man and tlie pro- 

 ducts of his apiary are not surpassed 

 by any other in the country. His 

 " bee orchard " is a source of no small 

 profit, and his honey is always in 

 demand in the city markets, at the 

 highest price. 



The Winchester JVeios remarks that 

 Mr. Jordan has been exceedingly 

 successful with his bees, and has 

 shipped large quantities of honey to 

 the large cities in the South, and that 

 it commands large prices, and is 

 eagerly souglit after. This shows 

 what energy and improved methods 

 can do, in the development of the 

 markets for honey. 



1^ We notice that the Rev. O. 

 Clute, of Iowa City, is to give a lecture 

 on "Bee-Keeping by Modern Meth- 

 ods," on Thursday, Jan. 11, before the 

 Iowa State Agricultural Society and 

 Farmers' Alliance, at Ues Moines, 

 Iowa, Mr. Clute is an eloquent speak- 

 er, as well as entliusiastic bee-keeper, 

 and it will no doubt be a very inter- 

 esting lecture. 



^" The eldest son of Dr. N. P. 

 Allen, ex-president of the North 

 American Bee-Keepers' Society, died 

 of typhoid fever, Nov. 29, 1882. 



