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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



The Rev. Dr. John Dzierzon. 



Mr. C. J. H. Gravenhoist, a celebra- 

 ted German writer, has given the 

 following sketch of the life of the 

 greatest living German bee-master, 

 the Rev. Dr. John Dzierzon, in the 

 Bee and Poultry JIagazine : 



The subject of this sketch was born 

 on the 11th of January, ISll, at Lob- 

 kowitz, in Silesia. Prussia, v,'here his 

 father was a farmer. Dzierzon s 

 father was an apiculturist, and it can 

 be rightly said : Parson Dzierzon ob- 

 tained his love for bees in the milk of 

 his mother. Even in his boyhood, 

 bees fettered his soul. From 1822 to 

 1833, he studied in Breslau. In 1834 

 he took the office of the chaplain at 

 Schalkowitz. In 18.35 he was ca led as 

 a Catholic priest to Carlsniarkt, in 

 Silesia, where he worked in blessed 

 activity until the summer of 1869. 

 Since that time he has retired from 

 his clerical duties in order to devote 

 Uimself thereafter entirely to his bees. 

 He immediately founded an apiary in 

 the garden of the parsonage at Carls- 

 markt. The number of hives here 

 soon grew too large, and then he 

 erected additional apiaries in the 

 neighboring village, so that he soon 

 had 12 apiaries, occupied by 400 to ■500 

 hives, and they called him " the Duke 

 of Bees, of Calsraarkt." 



In February. 1853, he introduced the 

 Italian bee. He succeeded in propa- 

 gating this race pure, and to diftuse it 

 Sver all lands. At first he reared bees 

 in ordinary hives. He invented the 

 really most perfect habitation for bees, 

 the hive with movable combs. After 

 many attempts, Dzierzon built a hive 

 not so long and higher, to make up for 

 It, with a fixed top and floor, and a 

 door at the side. Now he could easily 

 take out and put in again the combs 

 built in chambers; the hive with 

 movable frame work was discovered. 

 and as long as bees are reared the 

 name of Dzierzon must and will re- 

 main, in honor of this discovery. 



By means of tlie hive with movable 

 frame work, tlie bee became a domes- 

 tic animal in the full sense of the 

 ■word. Dzierzon became, by means ot 

 his hive, unlimited master of his col- 

 onies, for it allowed him an insight 

 into the inmost portion of the lite ot 

 bees, and, gifted by God, with a re- 

 markable understanding, and with an 

 unusual and keen observation and 

 power of combination,- he very soon 

 perceived the wonderful life and mo- 

 tion of the bee hive. 



Dr. Dzierzon set up a new and true 

 theory of bees, which endured the fiery 

 ordeal of practice and science, and in 

 a short time became the healthy and 

 solid foundation of a care of bees 

 rational and comformable to nature. 

 With the help of the Italian bees, the 

 gifted master succeeded in silencing 

 the last doubters of his theory, or m 

 making them defenders of the same. 

 His theory is briefly this : There are 

 in a normal colony of bees, 3 kinds ot 

 creatures, queen, drones, and workers. 

 The queen is the only perfect female 

 in a colony ; is impregnated only once 

 in her life ; and lays the eggs for ail 



the forms of bees. She impregnates 

 the eggs in the very laying, or else 

 does not impregnate them at all. In 

 the first case, queens and workers are 

 hatched from them, in the other case, 

 drones. These, the males, are virgin- 

 born, i. e., they are hatched from eggs 

 that the queen lays unimpregnated, 

 which she allows to pass contact with 

 the drone sperm from her receptacu- 

 lum seminis. The workers, that are 

 hatched from impregnated eggs, are 

 imperfectly developed female beings, 

 which, in spite of these imperfectly 

 developed organs, which admit of no 

 fertilization by a drone, still under 

 certain circumstances, can lay eggs. 

 from which, without exception, drones 

 only are hatched. The parthenogene- 

 sis is the doctrine of the virgin-born 

 in the bee hive. 



Dzierzon 's name has penetrated to 

 all parts of the' earth, and he is every 

 where acknowledged a great master, 

 as is shown by the great number of 

 domestic and foreign diplomas. 



Since 1848, Galsmarkt has become 

 the goal of pilgrimages of bee-keep- 

 ers. What Dr. Dzierzon has accomp- 

 lished for the cause of apiculture, can 

 be learned from his books ; but only 

 Dr. Dzierzon himself can set the ex- 

 ample of how we must love and inves- 

 tigate the bees. In no way has he 

 done more for bee-culture than in 

 this, that he had formed scholars, in 

 whom his apicultural spirit, the spirit 

 of observation and investigation, has 

 been roused. His life remains sacred 

 to his scholars and friends. 



The National Convention. 



The National Bee - Keepers' As- 

 sociation, will hold its Annual Con- 

 vention in the City Hall and Council 

 Chamber in the city of Toronto, on 

 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 

 the 18th, 19th and 20th days of Sep- 

 tember, during the second week of 

 Canada's Great Fair. All the rail- 

 roads in Canada will issue tickets 

 during this week, good to return, up 

 to Saturday night 22d, at single fare 

 for the round trip. Special excursion 

 rates will be arranged from various 

 parts of the United States, of which 

 due notice will be given. Those who 

 intend being present may be kept 

 posted on the latest excursion rates, 

 etc., by addresssng me, and also that 

 I may arrange hotel accommodation. 

 Private lodgings will, if possible, be 

 secured for those who desire it, and 

 every effort will be made to make 

 everybody comfortable. A grand 

 meeting is anticipated. 



D. A. Jones, President. 



Kentucky Bee and Honey Show. 



The Kentucky State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its annual meet- 

 ing in Louisville, Ky., Aug. 29 and 30, 

 at the Southern Exposition building. 

 We hope to have a large attendance of 

 the bee-keepers of the State, and also 

 of other States, both North and South, 

 as the convention will be in session 

 during the week of the Honey and 

 Bee Exhibit. And premiums amount- 

 ing to S60 are offered by the commis- 

 sioners of agriculture of Kentucky, 

 for Kentucky honey, and $40 by the 

 Exposition, for the finest Italian bees 

 in Observatory hives. The premium 

 on bees is open to the world, and we 

 hope to see a fine display. 



The Bee-Keepers' Convention and 

 Honey and Bee Show will be held in 

 the same week of tlie great exhibi- 

 tion of fruit, for which over 82,000 in 

 cash premiums will be paid. 



We extend a cordial invitation to 

 all bee-keepers' societies, to editors 

 of bee publications, to honey-pro- 

 ducers, and queen breeders, and all 

 who are interested in apiculture, to 

 be with us. We hope to have the 

 father of modern bee-keeping with us, 

 the Rev. L. L. Laugstroth, to whom 

 a cordial invitation has been given. 



Reduced fair on all railroads, both 

 North and South, will be offered to 

 all who attend the Great Southern 

 Exposition. It will doubtless be the 

 grandest exposition ever held in the 

 United States, in magnitude, and 

 nearly equal to the Centennial. 



N. P. Allen, Sec. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



OFFICE OF AMEKICAN BEE JOURNAL. ) 



Monday, 10 a. m., July 23, 1883. i 



The following are the latest quota- 

 tions for honey and beeswax received 

 up to this hour : 



CINCINNATI. 



HONE V— Extracted honey commences to come 

 in freely, and a JarKe crop 13 reported from all quar- 

 ters. The demand is very eood, and keeps pace 

 witli the arrivals. For choice e.^ctracted honey 1 

 pay 7(3)loe ; the latter price for choice clover. I 

 nave received several nice lots of comb honey, for 

 whicn we paid 15@16c on arrival. 



BEESWAX.— Arrivals of beeswax are plentiful. 

 We pay 32c. for a Rood article on arrival. 



Chas. F. MnTH. 



NEW rOBK. 



HONE Y.— Best clover in 1-lb. sections (no glass) 



20@21c.; in 2-lb. sections (Rlassedl 18®20c. Fair 



quality. 1 and 2-lb. sections, 16@17c Extracted, 



white, in small barrels, lit^ lie: buckwheat, «(3H^>^c. 



BKESWAX.— Is more plentiful. Prime yellow 



sella at 36Hc. „ _ „ 



H. K. & F. B. THURBER & Co. 



CHICAGO. 



HONBY-New crop of comb honey is being of- 

 fered, and some safes of it have been made at 

 lH<<ilHcin I and I-^i frames. The receipts of ex- 

 tracted are liberal, and there Is a t'ood deal of 

 complaint about unripe honey; consumers holding 

 off. Market, u<.^l'ic tor white. Very little dark 

 left, and some Inquiry for it. 



BEESWAX— 3Uia3.ic. 



R. A. Burnett. I6I South Water St. 



SAN FKANCISCO. 

 HONEY.— New extracted is arriving freely— sell- 

 ing for 7 and 8 cts. New comb coming forward 

 slowly ; extra white, liic. 

 BEESWAX.- No beeswax In the market. 



STEARNS & SMITH. 4^3 Front Street. 



ST. LOUIS. 

 HONE Y— Some new comb jobbing at 14c, but old 

 do. nominal. Only a few barrels of extracted and 

 strained sold within quotations— 6>ft'.<s,7^c. 



BKBSWA.\ — Sold irregularly from 32@34c— 

 mainly at 32((*33c. 



W. T. AjiUERSOS & Co.. 104 N. 3d Street. 



CLEVELAND. 



HONE Y— New honey has begun to come forward 

 and witb it a demand has sprung up. New white 

 1-lb. sections sell lafiJ'ic : 2-lbs. more slow 17i«1.mc. 

 Old 1-lb. white, 18@l9c: old 2-lb., i.5t*I6c. Extrac- 

 ted has sold better lately, and all old stocks have 

 been sold out at sigiOc. 



BEESWAX— Not otferlng. 



A. C. KENDEL. 115 Ontario Street. 



BOSTON. 



HONE Y— Our market is fairly active. We -i uoie : 

 W lb. sections at 30c.; 1 lb. sections, 22(a;25c.; -Mb. 

 secUons, 2o»22c. Extracted. l"c. per lb. Good 

 lots of extracted are wanted in kegs or barrels. 



BEESWAX— Our supply is gone; we have none 



CROCKER & BLAKE, 57 Chatham Street. 



