THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



51 



Bee and Honey Statistics in Illinois. 



In accordance with the " hint " 

 given by Mr. S. B. Atwater, on page 

 •57 of this issue of the Bee Journal, 

 we sent a letter to C. \V. Fisher, Esq., 

 Secretary of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture, asking for any statistical 

 information in his oflice on bees and 

 honey in Illinois during the past year. 

 In reply we received a very gentle- 

 manly letter, and the following table, 

 which will be found very interesting 

 to our readers : 



COUNTIES. ^"1^2^"- Poin^lHoney, 



Adams 640 2,23.5 



Alexander 460 9,528 



Bond 



Boone 178 3,111 



Brown 395 4,125 



Bureau 1,209 9,9.57 



Calhoun 435 2,210 



Carroll 298 2,034 



Cass 1,1.59 6,317 



Champaign 2,436 15,045 



Christian 1,625 8,982 



Clark 1,102 7,257 



Clay 1,370 6,.588 



Clinton 829 8,584 



Coles 1,139 9,287 



Cook 231 2,925 



Crawford 883 3,614 



Cumberland 915 9,468 



DeKalb 360 10,049 



DeVVitt 1,0.53 8,2.53 



Douglas 781 9,2.50 



DuPage 19 112 



Edgar 1,0.52 5,617 



Edwards 400 1 ,796 



Effingham 1 ,736 1 ,41 5 



Fayette 1,.568 4,601 



Ford 369 1,784 



Franklin 



Fulton 1,799 9,038 



Gallatin 412 2,517 



Greene 565 3,643 



Grundy 6.50 6,303 



Hamilton 8.59 8,537 



Hancock 1,351 11,980 



Hardin 303 1,5.55 



Henderson 187 1,696 



Henry 1,317 9,638 



Iroquois 1,6.50 12,1.59 



Jackson 738 4,763 



Jasper 1,563 9,6.31 



Jefferson 633 4,969 



Jersey 264 450 



J oDaviess 78 455 



Johnson 567 2,237 



Kane .574 3,843 



Kankakee 1.032 7,062 



Kendall 3.51 4,264 



Knox 1,073 7,661 



Lake 



LaSalle 1,.5]7 17,942 



Lawrence 797 6,236 



Le 



Livingston 1 ,487 5,350 



Logan 2,566 13,898 



Macon 1 ,.523 7,842 



Macoupin 814 3,868 



Madison 



Marion 1,965 11,824 



Marshall 431 3,684 



Mason 



Massac 2.50 1,751 



McDonough 6.59 2,316 



McHenry 675 14,298 



McLean 3,017 30,108 



Menard 978 18,722 



Mercer 793 7,088 



Monroe 2.52 722 



Montgomery 1,430 7,029 



Morgan 614 7,327 



Moultrie 441 1,032 



Ogle 366 7,592 



Peoria 845 7,193 



Perry 89 1,175 



Piatt 1,038 4,819 



Pike 784 2,695 



Pope 324 1,951 



Pulaski 



Putnam 488 7,337 



Randolph 547 1,506 



Richland 562 2,850 



Rock Island 363 2,865 



Saline 7.54 4,135 



Sangamon 2,041 8,372 



Schuyler 789 2,331 



Scott 123 4,52 



Shelby 2,314 14,720 



Stark 442 3,325 



St. Clair 1,241 4,679 



Stephenson 9.52 14,904 



Tazewell 985 5,4S2 



Union 1,662 9,2.58 



Vermillion 1,975 8,.599 



Wabash 611 4,985 



Warren 977 12,496 



Washington 896 6,667 



Wayne 1,829 11,024 



White 1,222 4,.S93 



Whiteside 1 ,146 16,0.56 



Will 415 4,640 



Williamson 806 4,.547 



Winnebago 447 12,220 



Woodford 693 3,065 



Total 86,633 618,947 



We are sorry the table is not quite 

 complete, and would suggest to the 

 Board of Agriculture that they add 

 two more columns for the coming sea- 

 son—one for " increase " of colonies, 

 and a division of the honey column, 

 giving the number of pounds each of 

 " extracted " and "comb " honey pro- 

 duced. Then it will be much more 

 valuable. 



Only a Crape on The Door. — We 



have "just received a copy of a new 

 motto song and chorus, called " Only 

 a Crape on the Door," composed by 

 Edward J. Abraham, a most touching 

 and affective song. It is very easy, 

 and can be played on piano or organ. 



Of the many gad scenes in the city, you see, 



Of the poor who are wantinp for bread ; 

 Of the homeless who wander so sadly about, 



Of the mourners who watch o'er their dead. 

 Of all these sad scenes, the saddest of all, 



Should you travel this wide world all o'er; 

 Just pause in your journey should you chance to 

 see. 



Only a Crape on the Door. 



CHORtJS.—Only a Crape on the Door— 



A friend or a loved one no more : 

 Just pause for awhile should you happen 

 to see 

 Only a Crape on the Door. 



Price, 40 cents per copy, or three 

 copies for $1.00. Published by F. W. 

 Helmick, Music Publisher, 180 Elm 

 St., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Feeding Bees in Winter.— A cor- 

 respondent in the Gerniantown Tele- 

 graph, thus describes his method of 

 feeding bees in winter : 



In the first place let me say that I 

 would prepare the feed in the shape 

 of a syrup, thus :— Take of pure clean 

 water two pounds to four pounds of 

 sugar ; A coffee or extra C is best. 

 Bring the water to a boiling heat and 

 then add the sugar ; stir well until it 

 again boils, and skim off all impuri- 

 ties ; then let it cool and tiU up glass 

 tumblers and tie cotton cloth over 

 each, and turn them upside down over 

 holes in the top of the hives, if of the 

 old-fashioned box or gum log, and you 

 will have the satisfaction of seeing 

 the tumblers soon emptied and stored 

 in the brood combs. If you are using 

 a good movable frame hive you can 

 feed your syrup in the top of it in the 

 following way : Take some old bits 

 of combs and lay in the surplus 

 chambers, and pour the syrup over 

 them, and the bees will take it all 

 down. Feed as fast as they empty 

 the glasses or combs referred to. We 

 should feed all weak colonies late in 

 an evening, which will prevent rob- 

 bing in a great degree. If you use 

 the glass tumblers to feed from, I 

 would recommend boxes to be turned 

 over them so as to keep robber bees 

 out. 



1^ Referring to the lecture by the 

 Rev. O. Clute, of Iowa City, Iowa, on 

 " Bee-Keeping by Modern Methods," 

 delivered before the " Iowa State Agri- 

 cultural Society," at Des Moines, last 

 week, the Iowa State Register remarks 

 as follows : " He gave an address of 

 considerable length, going extensively 

 into the minutie of the fascinating 

 subject, and having a bee-hive at his 

 side to help elucidate his idea. When 

 he had concluded, he was subjected to 

 a long fusilade of questions from his 

 interested hearers, and his ready an- 

 swers proved even more instructive 

 than his address proper. The address 

 and subsequent discussion will be 

 printed in tlie forthcoming report of 

 the Society." 



1^ We have a few copies of our 

 pamphlet entitled " Bee Culture " left, 

 and have reduced the price from 40 

 to 25 cents each, or $2 per dozen. 



m" The Springfield, Mass., Weekly 

 Republican gives the following notice 

 of the Bee Journal : 



If there are bee-keepers in the Re- 

 publican's constituency or those who 

 would like intelligently to make a 

 venture in apiculture, rio more val- 

 uable source of instruction can be 

 recommended to them than the 

 American Bee Journal, published 

 both weekly and monthly at Chicago 

 by Thomas G. Newman. Mr. New- 

 man is an enthusiast in bee-culture, 

 and has a happy knack of drawing 

 out all the other bee-keeping enthu- 

 siasts of the country, who contribute 

 to his journal the fruits of their ob- 

 servation and experience. 



