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VOL. XIX. 



CHICAGO, ILL., SEPTEMBER 5, 1883. 



No. 36. 



Published every Wednesday, by 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Editok and Pbophibtok, 



W The Editor of the Bee Jour- 

 nal was prevented from attending 

 the Kentucky State Convention, last 

 week, by an attack of nervous pros- 

 tration. His pliysician prescribes 

 rest from brain labors as much as pos- 

 sible, for a few weeks, in order to effect 

 a complete restoration. 



i^ The Rev. L. L. Langstroth has 

 been invited to attend the North- 

 western Bee-Keepers' Convention to 

 be held at Chicago, Oct. 17 and 18, and 

 accepts in the following language : 



" About the invitation to attend the 

 Convention at Chicago, and your very 

 kind invitation to me to share your 

 hospitalities, friend Newman, allow 

 me to say, I accept both with great 

 pleasure, and if nothing unforeseen 

 should prevent, 1 will be glad to make 

 the personal acquaintance of the 

 Northwestern bee-keepers. 



L. L. Langstroth." 



1^ Conventions and Bee and 

 Honey Shows are now the order of 

 the day, and every bee-keeper should 

 arrange to attend these helps to our 

 pursuit, and thus aid in every way 

 possible the advancement of the art. 

 By looking over the columns of the 

 Bee Journal the times and places of 

 such meetings can be ascertained, and 

 arrangements made ahead, so that all 

 may attend them. 



^" The new two cent rate of, pos 

 tage for letters goes into effect on 

 October 1. Three cent postage stamps 

 will then be but little used. For all 

 fractions of a dollar sent to us here- 

 after we should prefer either one-cent, 

 or else Ave or ten-cent postage stamps. 

 Do not send coins in any letter. 



Honey Yield in Wisconsin. 



The following items are from the 

 Milwaukee Sentinel of last week : 



Mr. Crain, the owner of a large 

 number of bees at Tyron, in Dunn 

 county, reports an extraordinary yield 

 of honey this season, owing to the 

 unlimited stretches of clover fields. 

 The apiarists of Eau Galla, Waubeck, 

 in that county, are also highly grati- 

 fied with the results of the season. 



James Nipe, at Spring Prairie, says 

 his bees have stored over 10,000 pounds 

 of honey so far this season. It has 

 been a very good year for white 

 honey, as clover was in blossom much 

 longer than usual. 



E, A. Morgan, of Columbus, shipped 

 1 ,000 pounds of honey to Eau Claire 

 last week, his third shipment to that 

 point, this season. The price received 

 was 20 cents a pound. 



T. L. Wolfenden, of Lake Geneva, 

 recently sold 6,000 pounds of honey to 

 a Cincinnati firm. 



1^ Excursion tickets from Cin- 

 cinnati to Niagara Falls, good until 

 Oct. 28, can be bought for $15. Ex- 

 cursion tickets from any part of the 

 South or Southwest to the Louisville 

 Southern Exposition can be had, or 

 from Louisiville or Cincinnati Expo- 

 sition. In this way, if in no other, 

 Toronto, which is only 30 miles from 

 Niagara Falls, may be reached 

 cheaply. 



^" The Summer and Fall Cata- 

 logue of E. P. Roe, Newburgh, N. Y., 

 is received. It consists of 20 pages, 

 and describes small fruit plants and 

 grape vines. 



1^ We carefully mail the Bee 

 Journal to every subscriber, but 

 should any be lost in the mails we will 

 cheerfully send another, if notified 

 before all the edition is exhausted. 



(^ To give away a copy of " Honey 

 as Food and Medicine " to every one who 

 buys a package of honey at Fairs, will 

 sell almost a fabulous quantity of it. 



Bee-Eeeping in Arkansas. 



The Little Rock, Ark., Gazette con- 

 tains the following : 



Apiculture or bee raising has be- 

 come a great business in Devall's 

 Bluff, and Dr. W. W. Ilipolite, who 

 is accredited with being the pioneer 

 apiculturist in the State, carries it on 

 extensively. Not the Doctor exactly, 

 but by his son, Walter H. The Doc- 

 tor supervises matters, however, and 

 there are few who are better versed 

 in the natural history of the bee than 

 he. He has 58 colonies, or as they are 

 sometimes called, hives, and although 

 the season does not close until No- 

 vember, he has gathered 3,000 pounds 

 of honey, a great part of which he 

 sends to Little Rock and Hot Springs. 

 The Doctor intends to send some flne 

 specimens of honey in the comb and 

 extracted honey to the Louisville Ex- 

 position. A. W. Sory, another api- 

 culturist, has gathered 5,000 pounds 

 this season, and carries on an exten- 

 sive business. It has been stated by 

 good authority that Arkansas honey 

 stands second to none, and that the 

 State is one of the best locations in 

 the Union for successful operations in 

 apiculture. 



1^ A fight recently occurred in 

 Virginia City between a cat and a 

 hive of bees, in which the bees got 

 decidedly the best of it. The cat's 

 attention was attracted by the bees, 

 and thinking them some new kind of 

 game, dabbed viciously at them as 

 they passed in and out of the hive. 

 At last, one day the bees got angry 

 and poured out of the hive by the 

 hundred, and darted for the fur of 

 tabby. Thecal rolled herself into a 

 ball, and bit, sputtered, and clawed 

 with all her might, but with no effect, 

 ■as the bees kept stinging as diligently 

 as ever. After a time she was taken 

 away, and was a week recovering 

 from the effects of the stings. She 

 cannot be persuaded to go near the 

 hive any more. 



Fairs.— To any one exhibiting at 

 Fairs, we will send samples of the 

 Bee Journal aud a (colored Poster, 

 to aid in getting up a club. The 

 Premiums we offer will pay them for 

 so doing. For a club of s subscribers 

 to the Monthly Bee Journal, or 4 

 Weekly, we will present Dzierzon's 

 Rational Bee-Keeping. price $2.00. 



