RK>tr-TRorj< f\t ltforata. 
2 *hc 2 lpiarg. 
r not cultivate honey flowers? 
BfUlKn your storks bath m 
10 the spring 
For the nest two or three 
_ _ wil * **♦ wing much honey 
I wKvrv^PivK 0OM.U!- profit per colony sUrlJd^id* "hey'*J{;i'" ’' 
on bow. Wh o car, b est it? j.,f «h- r r ,. ,).»« they * 
Sti iror.Ke* >>kks ere the latest thi.,ga,> u t, | w|T,!n'" bule Tmd**!' 
an.l we would suggest that he who send* *» V e |l,. „ I , n! T. i , 
hie money for the «n/j kind will h<-&#/**»,,'to know ih-i 
nn>l Hint’s worse than to he “stung 
• fail uni! 
‘tfny a large I 
■ I 
Hitiom wsMpr 
me writ# for it, i 
The whole [wl 
> keeping the c 
•>*y n> abundant 
rapidly in the 
t npicn 
• i., . .— —^.o~.r, and r 
I tmifijr mk, u , iH™ II,.1 „„,j 
Itai-c qOMM the last of February i 
I'" ' 11 
ings; by united action you can mplinh ; '* ,fTl T'**" »««'••■ mg tom* . • , , s i 
great good. There is work for you to do o "' l,m " f ’ ' , ’’" t fl ’’ fnrward>,-». 
and it is time to bo at it. Kv-ry W I !!l\ *r ° b * >. ^ »’ r ' " 
keeper should be present at the n«-v )r ,eet 
ing, and all succeeding meetings. 
0HIP8 FBOM THE HONEY HOUSE, 
>. Hakhki: 
and if any 
\\ e consider it by far th« brst plan t 
twarm your her* artificially, 
•warming is attended with low of time , 
watching, and then more or )«■* Ium < 
swarms. 
What is termed luck with bee 
hivea with three 
J well glM, front 
>, on January 4th. 
Another year, laden with its joys and - - 
sorrows, successes and reverses, expects another name for careful and «kdd il 
lions realized and hopes deferred, has *g r,l » nt. 
passed away, and again we stand upon th. We , “ ,d r " ,,, . v f ' 
portals of a new year. and four sheets of hi,. 
I.et us, as hoc keepers, pause for a mo i *he h.', i, , i„ 
im-iit, and, looking back over the past, ex 
amino the results of uur labors for the •,«« 1 F ri here north «.f th, , t, 
year. Vales an • arly and prospermia »■«■■» 
Have we been successful ? If 
have been the preventing causes ? Can w. ,,me A day I st w ith b., r !, 
tull just why we liove succeeded in soin. 
instance* ami failed in others? I ESSAY 
aiAit nr s. i». m until it tub 
ku'm ommui’i 
The rapid progre 
Hj i-"' 1 
apiculture i 
the last few years i« remarkable. The 
crease in swarm* and the production of honey I 
lias been marvelous to say the bast of u i 
when we take into cvmaidtf ration the great 
h*«a of bee* that this country sustained in 
die years 187? and 187!); yvt apiculture .. 
loral f 
a, ami, 
i that 
1 that h 
U is easy for any person to t.dl when 
their bees arc prosperous, and It i* ju*t «» 
easy to tell when something is wrong, but 
• t is not so easy to tell what that anon* 
thing is. 
It is no longer a matter of doubt that the 
natural swarming of bee* can he con¬ 
trolled, und yet such incr-as- M-cur.-d a* 
may be ilnaimd by artificial wear,,, and.. . „ 
the sumo tune a crop of honey obtained ac ;-t.ed.U moving Hi/ H. . ,, 
l„ ll,i .-..u.h. r,, ,„ V-. 
.1.1 i T 3 * W *. r,, " , " r “ ,ho n,,mt l ,rofit - the great demand* , 
ad- but never bo n too much ha.te to h.v- 
JItWo y,,„r bo,-.. lour nilo .h„«M b. toUci i. . I... 
n, v,. r ... I hl „ 
,T, " 1,1 •> .. ... 
Irl r.T I I ,'V "■ .. ..I Ik. •... I„ oki-k 
*'" 1 kto».l Jilf.ro,t into, s, Uihrrn C.l, I,Ir„ . 
sitacr*’ * “ m "' . . .•», . .' ..• -.. - 
«.. ,. ty!;::::.::::,;,:::, 
a o h .i ill f , '“"* fBrr,Kl ,n “ M '•«” »>•'♦ ware, clim.t- that in a cM ai.d . v,: , 
S»,,e 1 •* • -Me -. Ami, bo.l III I .. ... 
the ..riot'^ fcI T L d *i Wl 55° tt * r, '* r * wl *°1 t<,,M T ‘ >wr '* *»ll •«. . , , ' 
ltl, , P ? h,cfc N u “‘"‘ the:..id, i.y a mulnal i... r ,»i,„n. 1 »V .... 
U " 1 ' . 
e n.-r t’lf l T* ? uk * n *«'*»ff-ra material!' ... elm,..-, „ . 
.r; . . , l °. a cu *'’* tempiraturw j to the interest i I all to n*ke your Journal i 
‘if 111 ,h ,“ a aurcessj and if ir.U rvvted in .U welfare. ■ 
lnJ,lw.ne! * n ,» fx>0,l 1 ct ’"’ h *- 1 That ronUlttJ by wa-onald. pat.onage, but little can N 
ing drone comb can Uo uw,| late in the sea- Lurnd ,n the war of mWki.ig .1 - I the u 
h.,’ i ^ U PPf twA,s ''- Comh •• the I br »t Lk. JtHiroala hi th- w.rld. 
noney imos capital to carry on their buai The t->e keeper* of .s > „ J it«.rn t’ah f -~ J - * 
>>CM ' I should subsetib* for it, and at the 
•ryth.ng 
vi |y lean, 
rn • dev 
lell what that i 
ger a matter of 
•nning of bees 
le, ami 
Hut 
' .'liable, b 
i divide yo 
roiiahed I prv 
- at didereut I. 
v ran spars thwi 
lural Report gtvr* 
w*r to luaey ,|u«aUi 
■ that produced a i 
*. Th* aliawcr is g 
(uatititi ts.<rna; Of 
•**1 and 
ting and 
rts 
wer* almost an an I 
toe order iiamtih, 
.1".' uiiemw, Sec It d, 1 
Wild tiwM and Mo 
