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CORRESPONDENCE:

Imported Queens and Breeders. 340 Various Matters
About Honey
64 Improvement of Italian bees, 127, 190 Ventilation

87
A Cheap Bee House
313 Inaugural Address

188 Visit to a Canadian Bee-keeper. 26
A few more Straws 232, 269, 337

Introducing Queens,.. 25, 87, 163, Visit to an Ilinois Bee-Keeper. 313
Agricultural College Apiary 18

235, 239, 30,
385 Visit to a Neighbor's Apiary

28
Agricultural Progress

61

Is Wax Wholesome?.
Am. Institute and the National. 163 Italian Bees

130, 190, 271 Weather Report in Louisiana 131
A Microscopical Question..

Which Frames to Adopt

227
An Easy cure of Foul Brood

Joint in the Leg of a Bee
176 Which is It?

27
A New Hiving Apparatus 238

Whitman's Fountain Pump
Larvae of Queens and Purity of
An Injustice
133

Wintering Bees 165, 202, 234, 300
Drones

201
A Novel Experiment
414

Wintering Nucleus Colonies 202
Letter from California

263
Answer to J. C. Newman
3

Wintering on Honey Dew 312
Letter from Kansas

20
Answer to Mr. Dadant

Wintering on Summer Stands
274, 313
Life Insurance

134
Apiarian or Apiarist?
165 Longevity of Honey Bees

Winter Transfering

128

272
A Prolific Queen

312 Lying out of Bees.
A Woman's Experience
194

EDITOR'S TABLE:
Bee-Culture and Stings

307

Management of the Apiary 383 Additions to our Museum, 13, 120,
Bee-Culture in the South

Marketing Honey
371, 416 188, 221, 257, 20...

401
Bee Hives

133, 348
Merits of Italians and Blacks

American Institute Fair..
Bee Hunt in Florida

413
Michigan Association
199 A New Discovery..

.187
Bee-Keeping as a Pursuit.

Michigan State Fair

340
Bee Lice..
Mistakes of Bee-Keepers

Barnes Foot-Power Saw.. .156
Bee Notes from lowa
Mode of Preparing for Winter . 131

Bee Stings...

402
Bee Notes from Kentucky, 30, 307

My Annual Report

66 Beeswax-A Staple Article.
Bee Smoker-H. Nesbit
My Bees

Bee Items from Louisiana..
199
28, 229

16

Bibulous Bees
Bees and Red Clover

My Queen Cage
311

402
314
Bees at Agricultural College... 67 My Report and Management... 350 Bull's Ne Plus Ultra Hive. 84
Bees of the same Colony tighting,
99, 129, 200,

Neatness in Bee-Keeping
34 California Honey..

219
Benefits of Bees and Plants 173 Nil Desperandum

403 Chinese Mustard a Honey Plant. 188
Billings, on the Honey Bee
98 Northern Minn. Apiaries

16 Clean out the Hives...

.183
Bingham Hives
128 Notes by the Way

339 Comb Foundation Machines.
Bingham Smoker
221, 235 Notes from Louisiana

237 Comb Honey Carriers..
Black vs. Italian Bees 90, 129, 235,
Notes from Tennessee

Deserved Tribute.
272.

.........364
Blasted Hopes
141 Odds and Ends

268 Editorial Items, 13, 46, 49, 50, 83, 86,
Box vs. Frame Hives
63 On Novice

119, 122, 155, 158, 185, 188, 219, 21,
Building Straight Combs
231 Open Letter to Prof. Cook

257, 260, 293, 294, 3:29, 332, 368, 386,
Organization and sale of Honey, 379 401,

.404
California Honey Crop
266 Our Honey Season

303 Egys laid in Queen Cells. .220
California Honey Interests 263 Our Interests
Care of Bees in Winter
112 Our Michigan Convention

54 Farm Prosperity

.331
Centennial Award-Extractors. 201
Our National Society

Future of the National Society.. 13
Changing Larvæ in queen cells. 337

Over-Stocking

203
Changing Queens
16

Harvest Musings..

.331
Cheap Queens
230 Pasturage

Hints to Beginners...
19

.119,262
Chickens Eating Bees
190 Patents

45
385

Honey-Producers' Interests
Chips from Sweet Home, 17, 133, 409 Plan for Getting comb honey

Honey Product of Southern Cal. 260

22

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City Bee-Keeping (Illustrated). 59 Pleasure of Bee-Keeping

House Apiaries...

411
Coe's House Apiary
57 Points for Reporters

How to go to the Convention

..332
Comb Foundations 29, 30, 63, 130, Portable Shade Covers

269
Is it Pure?..

.219
303, 304, 309, 377,

417 Preparing Brood for Winter 392
Comb Guides...
63, 133 President Andrews' Address

Mad Dogs.

119
Constitution of National Society, 91 President Bacon's Address

135
Moon's Bee World..

.317
Corn Blossoms and Honey 163 Prevention of After-Swarming. 61 Muth's Extractor..

258, 25
Cyprian and Carniolian Bees

Prevention of Increase
370 My Plan for Registering.

.259
Cyprian Bees

313 Price of Queens and Colonies 164,202

Progress in Bee-Culture ........ 60 New York Honey House... .260
Desirable Combs-How Secured 194
Discussion in Germany
23 Queens laying in queen cells, 267, 273

October Management..
Does Bee-Culture pay?
88 Queries

23 Prizes for Essays..

.402
Dollar Queens .197, 231, 263, 305
Dollar Queens vs. Imported
308 Read This
304 Quinby's Clamps...

.121
Doolittle's Report

416 Rearing Italian Queens. 305, 214, 381
Dysentery
133 Recipe for Bite of Mad Dogs.... 190 Railroad Strike and Riot

.258
Renewing Combs
268 Rates of Postage.

210
Explanation from Benedict 229 Report from G. M. Doolittle 347 Registering Slates

219, 259
Facts for the Public

Removal of Office.
379 Scraps from Illinois

233
Falsification of Honey

.331, 403

Royal Bee Funeral...
350 Sending Bees by Mail 238, 308
Feeding Bees, and Feeders 349 Shall Farmers keep Bees? 172 Seasonable Hints..

294
Foreign Races of Bees

39) Shall Women Keep Bees? .. 170, 197 Sectional Honey Boxes..
Foul Brood
196 Shipping Bees

413 Sending Bees by Mail. .186, 187
Future of the National Society. 90 Slate Registers

268, 303 Separating Honey from Wax
Strange Things in Bee-dom 312 Something New....

.186
Hardin Haines Ventilated 233 Surplus Honey

58,63 Stevenson's Extractor.

187
Hives in Rows
15

Surplus Frames..

.225
Honesty the best Policy
89 The Barnes Foot-Power Saw 203 Sweet Clover.....

.368
Honey à Luxury
140 The Bee's Physiology

177
Honey and Pollen Resources.. 128 The Candying of Honey 51 Tennant's Honey Box.

107
Honey o an Article of Food 191 The Composition of Honey 172 The Festive 'Hoj er.

186
Honey Dealers
374 The Deborah Hive
198 The Finn Hive..

.260
Honey-Dew
273 The Express Companies

403 | The First Curved Honey Knife. . 188
Honey in Frames
17 The Honey Market
376 The Honey Market...

206
Honey Market, Crop & Prices 303 The Kalamazoo Convention 66 The National Convention. ...294, 402
How I winter my Bees
54 The Michigan B. K. Association (5 The Season of 1876-7..

45
How may we Improve Bees? 269 The National Convention 310 | The War in Europe

188
How to Destroy Moth-Millers 30 The Purity of the Italian Bee 136 Thurber Gold Medal..
How to Double-up Hives
21 That Queen Bee

201 To our Southern Subscribers.....186
How to Fasten Foundation 2012 The Science of Bee-Keeping Tremontani Queens...
How to Italianize Blacks, &c 134 Thoughs on Bee-Keeping 413
How to Prevent Increase

. 188, 219
Important Points in Bee Hives, 17 | Union Apiary

. 122

DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO BEE CULTURE.

VOL. XIII.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JANUARY, 1877.

No. 1.

The Wisdom of the Past.

not always necessary, yet it will be pru

dent to be prepared against the worst, Resuming our notice of the old bee

especially for the inexperienced. For a

foot may slip, or an accident happen, that book to which a brief article was devoted no hunian foresight could be apprised in the November number, we propose

of." to specify a few things in regard to which

We have not found that our observathe intelligent bec-keeper was apparent- tion sustains the following bit of advice ly as well posted in 1814, as he is in this however;—“Great care should be taken Centennial year 1876. Taking the order

after the dress is off, of coming near the of topics as pursued by our author, we bees, as they will be eager to sting for come first to

three or four days, though the person be STINGING.

at a considerable distance." Mr. Keyes insists as we do now, that

ON THE APIARY. bees are not little winged devils going

This is sound:-" The properest situaabout seeking whom they may sting;

tion for an apiary is one exposed to the that their habit is to mind their own busi- wind as little as possible: it being detriness; that they seldom sting unless pro

mental, and proving often fatal to numvoked or injured; that they have a special

bers of bees by blowing them down, or dislike of some people; that their venoin into the water, or overturning the hives." is more potent at some times than at oth

This also is good :-“It is very wrong to ers; that patience, quiet movements, re

place hives on benches, which is always treat, thrusting the head among bushes, the source of mistakes, quarrels, and oftand the like, are the best precautions. en slaughter, by their interference with If they are excited, he advises, "let water one another. A still worse contrivance, be thrown among them, or blow them

is that of little cots or sheds, with shelves forth with a bellows." We thought the

therein, one above another, affording a use of smoke as a means of quieting bees

harbor for their enemies, and very incona modern invention, but here it is in print

venient for their management generally. more than sixty years ago :-"The smoke The arrangement I would recommend, is of damp straw or rags will drive them

that of SEPARATE STANDS FOR EACH HIVE," away soon.”

Mr. Keyes advises that these stands be In regard to remedies for stinging, our

built "sixteen inches above the earth,”author says, “I have generally experi

we should say "six” onnitting the "teen.” enced my own saliva (spittle) to be more

The necessity of water being kept in beneficial than pompous chemicals or the vicinage of an apiary was well undergalenicals.” Various remedies commonly stood; “put it,” says Keyes, “ in a broad resorted to now-a-days are mentioned in

dish, covered with small stones or duckthis old bee-book.

weed, to assist the bees in drinking, withWEARING A BEE-DRESS.

out wetting their wings, or getting There is nothing particularly different

drowned." from the modern styles of bee-dress in

HIVES. the attire described by Mr. Keyes, but

Mr. Keyes describes and illustrates with painful experience constrains us to com- | old-fashioned wood-cuts both straw and mend the wisdom of the following

board hives, the latter looking externally "rule:''—

very much like a common Langstroth "To put on the bee-dress whenever an

hive. His directions for making straw operation is to be performed; for although hives are admirable. It is remarkable

LARGE STOCKS.

tbat the gerin of the modern movable- both old and young." He pleads for the frame appears in this old book, only the “salvation of bees” as the more profitable frame was a fixture. His straw hives plan, going at great length into the argueven, were provided with wooden tops' ment, giving facts and figures, a la Jasmade with a board the width of the hive, per Hazen, and concludes a full chapter half an inch thick, free from knobs." on the subject by saying :-"The old Seven spaces or openings were cut in this practice of suffocation, must be conboard, half an inch wide. If preferred, demned as impolitic, and highly disad“a cheaper top may be made of narrow vantageous; for they must be very weak slips of wood, which I name Bars, six in ' who pursue a plan of conduct of small number designed to be laid across the profit, when a better is offered of double or top of the hive, at half an inch distance treble advantage. The italics are his own. from each other; the outermost bars to be COMB VERSUS LIQUID HONEY. one inch and a quarter wide, and the Though the extractor was unknown in others one inch and a half." Our author those days, the honey market was insays that some hive-makers complained jured then as now by the impure honey of difficulty in making hives of the sort that found its way into it. Hence the prescribed by him, but without grounds. following most respectful advice :-“With The person employeil by him, after a lit- | submission I would recommend to the tle practice, could make them as expedi

nobility and gentry to purchase none but tiously and easily as those of the conimon

combs of honey, to be drained at home. sort. His ideas about hives were emi

Sophistications and impurities would nently simple and practical, no “fancy

then be avoided, and such combs might fixings" of any kind being employed,

be selected as are fine. or according to their own fancy. Were this condition in

sisted upon, the markets would soon Our author believed in putting two and even three stocks together for the pur

abound with combs of honey instead of

pots. The introduction of such a custom pose of obtaining a larger proportionate

must depend on the patronage of the yield of honey than could be got from single stocks. This method he called

gentry.”

MISCELLANEOUS. * storifying." i. e. making two or three

Mr. Keyes was alive to the advantage stories, by placing one or two hives above

of feeding bees in Spring even though a lower one. His hives were so made as

they still had stores. He says. ". It enlivto admit of this. Our friend, Hosmer of

ens and strengthens them, and stimulates Minnesota, can hardly advance an idea

their activity, causing them to breed the on this subject which Keyes had not ven

earlier.” IIe is very sensible on the distilated more than half a century ahead

cases of bees, giving the cause and cure of him. Indeed, we half suspect Rosmer

of dysentery about as correctly as Novice of having obtained old Keyes' book some

or any other high, modern authority where on the sly, and kept all its wisdom

could do. He well says:— The failure in his own head, dealing it out in very of stocks has in inost countries been atfew words, at Conventions, as original. tributed to witchcraft, or other superstiWe are confirmed in our suspicions by tious notions, instead of attributing them finding that old Keyes considers “a

to their true cause, - badness of weather, quart” of bees about enough to winter in or rather their owner's neglect or want a single hive. Hosmer has been supposed

of skill.” The chapters on hiving, drivto hold a kind of patent on the “ quart”

ing. artificial swarming, deprivation, and theory, but here it is as far back as 1814. the monthly calender of operations, in“SALVATION OF BEES."

i dicate an amount of practical knowledge Keyes argues for this. The above and skill, we were not prepared to find is his own phrase. He advocates the in a bee-keeper of more than half a cenplan of “ storifying" for this, among tury ago. other reasons, that by its means, • the Lovers of the new and original, will family is perpetuated to any length of doubtless be ready to say, “enough of time, without the cruel necessity and this old bee-book, let us have something trouble of destroying indiscriminately of to-day." All right. But however