BEE BOOKS

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Bees and Honey, or Management of an Apiary for Pleasure and Profit, by Thos. G. Newman. 250 pages-245 illustrations. Price, in cloth, $1.00.

Bienen Kultur, by Thomas G. Newman. This is a German translation of the principal portion of the book called "Bees and Honey." 100 pages. Price, 40 cents. Per dozen, $3.00.

The Apiary Register, by Thomas G. Newman.-A Record and Account Book for the Apiary, devoting two pages to each colony. Leather binding. The price for 50 colonies is $1.00. For 100 colonies, $1.25; 200 colonies, $1.50.

Bee-Keepers' Convention HandBook, by Thomas G. Newman.-It contains the Parliamentary Law and Rules of Order for BeeConventions-also Constitution and By-Laws, with Subjects for Discussion. Price, 50 cents.

Bee-Keepers' Guide, or Manual of the Apiary, by Prof. A. J. Cook.-This book is not only instructive, but interesting and thoroughly practical. It comprises a full delineation of the anatomy and physiology of bees. Price, $1.

Leaflet, No. 1.- Why Eat Honey? Intended for FREE distribution in the bee-keepers' locality, in order to create a Local Market. Price, 100 copies, 50 cents; for 500, $2.00; for 1,000, $3.25.

If 200 or more are ordered at one time, we print on them your name and address FREE,

Leaflet, No. 2.-Alsike Clover for pastur age. Price 100 för 50c; 500 for $2.00; 1,000 for $3.25.

Leaflet, No. 3.-How to Keep Honey, and preserve its richness and flavor. Price, 100 for 50 cents; 500 for $2.00; 1,000 for $3.25.

The Preparation of Honey for the Market, including the production and care of Comb and Extracted Honey. A chapter from 'Bees and Honey." Price, 10 cents.

Bee-Pasturage a Necessity.-This book suggests what and how to plant. It is a chapter from "Bees and Honey." Price, 10 cents.

Swarming, Dividing and Feeding. Hints to beginners in Apiculture. A chapter from "Bees and Honey." Price, 5 cents.

Bees in Winter, Chaff - Packing, Bee Houses and Cellars. This is a chapter from Bees and Honey." Price, 5 cents.

The Hive I Use, by G. M. Doolittle.-It details his management of bees and methods for the production of honey. Price, 5 cents.

Dictionary of Apiculture, by Prof. John Phin. Gives the correct meaning of nearly 500 apicultural terms. Price, 50 cents.

How to Propagate and Grow Fruit, by Chas. A. Green.-It contains over 50 illustrations and two large, colored fruit plates. It tells how to propagate strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, gooseberries, grapes, quinces, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, pears and apples, with cuts showing how to bud, graft and propagate from layers, etc. Price, 25 cents.

Wintering Problem in Bee-Keeping, by G. R. Pierce.Price, 50 cents.

Bee-Keepers' Directory, by Henry Alley. Queen Rearing, etc. Price, 50 cents.

Honey-Bee; Its Natural History, Anat omy and Physiology, by T. W. Cowan. Price, $1.00. Rural Life-Bees, Poultry, Fruits, Vege tables and Household Matters. Price, 25 cents. ABC of Carp-Culture, by A. I. Root and Geo. Finley. 70 pages. Price, 40 cents. Foul-Brood, by A. R. Kohnke. -Origin, development and cure. Price, 25 cents.

Practical Hints to Bee-Keepers, by C. F. Muth, on bees and foul brood. Price, 10c. Dzierzon Theory.-The fundamental principles of apiculture. Price, 15 cents.

Advanced Bee-Culture; its methods and management, by W. Z. Hutchinson. Price, 50c. Bee-Keeping.-Translation of Dzierzon's latest German book. Price, $2.00; paper, $1.50.

Thirty Years Among the Bees, by Henry Alley. Price, 50 cents.

Grain Tables; for casting up the price of grain, produce, hay, etc. Price, 40 cents.

A B C of Potato Culture, by T. B. Terry. Price, 40 cents.

Scientific Queen-Rearing, by G. M. Doolittle.-It details his experiments in the rearing of Queen-Bees. Price, $1.00.

Pocket Dictionary.-Always useful, and often indispensable. Price, 25 cents.

Kendall's Horse Book.-35 engravings -illustrating positions of sick horses, and treats on all diseases. Price, English or German, 25 cents.

Hand-Book of Health, by Dr. Foote. -Hints and information of importance concerning eating, drinking, etc. Price, 25 cents.

Turkeys for Market and Profit, by Fanny Field, the most experienced turkey-rearer in America. Price, 25 cents.

Lumber and Log Book.-It gives the measurements of all kinds of lumber, logs, planks; wages, etc. Price, 25 cents.

Silo and Silage, by Prof. A. J..Cook.It gives the method in successful operation at the Michigan Agricultural College. Price, 25 cents.

Cheshire's treatment of Foul Brood.-Its cause and Prevention. Price, 10 cents.

Honey as Food and Medicine, by Thomas G. Newman.-In French. Price, 5 cents.

Langstroth on the Honey - Bee, revised by Charles Dadant.-It is entirely re-written and fully illustrated.

Handling Bees, by Chas. Dadant & Son. A chapter from Langstroth revised. Price, 8 cts. Blessed Bees, by John Allen.-Full of practical information. Price, 75 cents.

Success in Bee-Culture, by James Heddon. Price, 50 cents.

Quinby's New Bee-Keeping, by L. C. Root. This is a new edition of Mr. M. Quinby's "Mysteries of Bee-Keeping," entirely re-written by his son-in-law, Price, $1.50.

A B C of Strawberry Culture, by Messrs. T. B Terry and A. I. Root.-It is for those beginning to grow strawberries. Price, 40 cents.

Historic.-A brief history of the North American Bee-Keepers' Association, and Reports of the first 20 Conventions. Price, 25 cents.

By-Laws. For local Associations, with name of the Organization printed. $2.00 per 100.

Ribbon Badges for Bee-Keepers, upon which is printed a large bee in gold. Price, 10 cents each. Large ones with rosette, 50 cents.

How I Produce Comb Honey, by George E. Hilton; 3d edition. Price, 5 cents. Maple Sugar and the Sugar Bush, by Prof. A. J. Cook. Price, 40 cents.

ABC of Bee Culture, by A. I. Root.A cyclopædia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. Price, $1.25.

Bee-Keeping for Profit, by Dr. G. L. Tinker.-It fully details the author's new system of producing honey. Price, 25 cents.

A Year Among the Bees, by Dr. C. C. Miller.-Chat about a season's work, Price, 50 cts.

Death of Chas. Bianconcini -The February number of l'Apicoltore, the official organ of the Central Association for the Encouragement of Apiculture in Italy, contains the following which Mr. Frank Benton has translated for the AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL:

Another distinguished and meritorious apiarist, Count Carlo Bianconcini, has departed this life. We reproduce the obituary received from Mr. Lucio Paglia, and, uniting with him in bewailing our deceased colleague, we send to the bereaved family expressions of sincere condolence.

"Furnished with the last sacraments of our Catholic religion, Cav. Count Carlo Bianconcini, engineer and former artillery captain, died at his residence in Bologna on Jan. 10, 1892.

"Endowed by nature with great ingenuity, and sustained by a good heartthe worthy seat of humane and elevated sentiments, whoever had recourse to him was made the recipient of wise counsels. Receiving all without distinction, but with innate affability, he left them satisfied and charmed with his familiar and genteel ways. He loved God, his country, and his family, and has left in tears and deepest affliction his wife-the Countess Maria, and their only child-the little Countess Editta, as well as all who knew him.

"Having retired from military life, he devoted himself wholly and indefatigably to the most important occupations, and to the study of agriculture and related industries, acquiring through his writings the esteem not alone of eminent persons versed in these matters, but even of the royal government by which he was often called to the capital and consulted on questions in viticulture and oenology.

"Among agricultural industries apiculture stood first in his thoughts. He held it in high estimation, and occupied himself with it personally and with predilection, always attaining, even in the less favorable years, an adequate compensation for his assiduous care, as can be seen by the accounts which he was pleased to publish in the columns of l'Apicoltore. He had his apiary at Poggio Renatico, Province of Ferrara, formerly his home. The hive he pre

ferred was that of Sartori. An enthusiastic apiarist, he acted as an apostle of the rational system of bee-keeping by means of movable combs, and had not a few followers. A ready speaker, he

entertained his listeners in this way by the hour, and the delight-the profit which his disciples obtained from the instruction of their beloved master was only to be compared to the satisfaction and the extreme pleasure with which it was imparted. It was his personal and thoroughly radical conviction that to succeed in apiculture it was necessary to commence with one or two colonies alone, and to augment the number gradually. That this maxim was right is proved by the splendid result that he knew how to obtain.

"He is no more. Apiculture has lost in Count Bianconcini a warm and decided sustainer, an expert and intelligent operator, and we can only lament his early demise, and implore peace for his ashes."

Jackson Park will retain as one of its permanent attractions the building which Japan will erect for its headquarters at the Exposition. The building will be modeled after one of the most famous and architecturally unique of Japan's ancient temples, and with its surrounding garden will cost $70,000. About 40,000 square feet will be occupied.

The South Park commissioners have accepted the offer of S. Tegima, representative of the Mikado, to give the structure to Chicago on condition that it be kept permanent, and in repair, and that one room in it be devoted to a public exhibit of Japanese works of art, which the Japanese government agrees to replenish from time to time.

A German Scientist announces with some justifiable pride that he has discovered a way of converting the cellulose of wood into grape sugar, making thereof an appetizing comestible. In polite circles lunches of rosewood piano legs will probably be served, while toothpicks will take rank as a genuine dessert.-Chicago News.

That is no worse than to have old boot-legs made into glucose, and then have it fraudulently sold for extractedhoney.

The Chalmers Super, which we lately mentioned as having in our Museum, is thus commented upon by Mr. D. A. Jones, in the Canadian Bee Journal:

We are pleased to be able to give a description of a new super. It was invented by Mr. Chalmers, of Poole, Ont., one of our cleverest bee-keepers, who is very ingenious, and quite original in his ideas.

The super may be taken apart or put together in five or ten seconds. It is exceedingly simple in its construction, yet it combines many valuable points and important principles. Mr. Chalmers exhibited it at the annual meeting of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association, held at London, where it was examined by many, who pronounced it another step in the right direction.

It is very simple, cheap and easily manipulated, and for a close-end frame hive, we have not seen anything that we think would equal it.

It is admirably adapted for section supers, for which it was originally intended, and is made as follows:

Take two boards % of an inch thick, 44 inches wide, and 3 inches longer than is required for the inside measure of the super; then take two boards

x4 inches, the exact length of the inside measure of super; then inch from each end of this board put a sawcut across it %, and 1 1/16 of an inch deep; then cut from the end on an angle into the same cut. This makes a V-shape on one side of the board. Make all for ends this way.

Now, take four pieces 1%x%x4 inches, bevel one side from 1% down to 4; then nail these four pieces on the ends of the four sides of the super with the bevelled edge in. Turn the two bevelled edges of the end pieces out, and it just fits in the niche like a dovetail.

There is a saw cut made at each end of the side pieces % of an inch deep, and 11⁄2 inches from each end, when a Trest is closed down that just fits tight up against the end-board holding it in position. The two ends are held in position by four T-rests, which fit so tightly against them that it is impossible for them to move out of the dovetail.

Perhaps some may ask, What holds the T-rest from falling out, especially the one on the under side, heretofore stated? This super is just 44 inches, so you will observe that in order to have a bee-space, he has a rim % inch wide by 5/16 deep, on which this super is

placed.

A second rim may be laid on top of the super.

When you wish to reverse it, hold the two rims tight down to the T-rests, then reverse the super.

When the sections are to be taken out of the super, simply remove the T-rest at the ends, which allows the end-board to slip out, and the sections may be emptied out.

For closed-end frames these section rests at the ends would be necessary, while there would be none in the center.

Another point is, that the tin coming over the end of the frame would prevent it from being glued fast with propolis, as is sometimes the case.

No Exchange is more welcome than "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly." It has this week all the improvements which have been gradually taking place in its pages. In make-up and pictures it ranks not only with the best American weeklies, but with the foreign ones as well. But the most interesting thing in the paper is the contribution by Capt. R. Kelso Carter, on the coming transformation of the earth, written in a popular style, the first of a series to be presented, which will be interesting to all. Price, 10

cents.

Honey for Food and Medicine, were its health-producing properties more familiarly known, would be appropriated to a much greater extent than is found at the present time.

That this valuable information is not more extensively disseminated, and a consequent increased demand felt, for the sweet product of the bees, is largely due to the apathy existing among those who produce honey-by their failure to take it upon themselves to inform their neighbors of the facts concerning the health-giving and health-keeping qualities of this "nectar of the gods."

When all appreciate the benefits to be derived from its regular and constant use, then will honey-producers begin to realize the nobility of their pursuit, and exert themselves to supply a demand that will at once arise.

The following paragraphs, taken from the Chicago Daily News of recent date, endeavor to show something of the value of honey as an article of diet and remedial agent:

But few people are cognizant of the benefits to be derived from a moderate use of honey as food. Saccharine matter, as a rule, is apt to affect the system injuriously, but if taken in the form of honey, it at once becomes a valuable food and medicine. Instead of having it given to us in combination with bulk foods, as in the cane and beet, it is, in the case of honey, mingled with fruit juices derived from flowers highly charged with medicinal properties.

Honey taken as food becomes a powerful medicine to the sugar-fed and half diseased, and many people must begin on small quantities and acquire an appetite for it. Foul air, improper ventilation, coal gas and sudden changes of temperature, and exposure of lungs and throats to sudden chill are the source of no end to throat and bronchial troubles. A free, regular and constant use of honey is probably the best medicine for throat troubles known, and its regular use is largely corrective.

The Foreign participation in the World's Columbian Fair, up to the present, embraces 72 Nations and Provinces.

English horticultural papers are renewing their attack on American apples, on the ground that they contain arsenic, and the attacks are being generally copied in the daily press. The charge is that growers sprinkle arsenic on their trees to prevent the ravages of a moth which eats nothing but apples and pears. The editor of the Horticul

tural Times is the author of the "arsenic scare," as it is called. Immense quantities of American apples are sold in England, and bring high prices, which, perhaps, explains the reason for the attack.

Spraying fruit trees, plants and vines for the prevention of the ravages of insects and fungus diseases, is no longer an experiment, but a necessity, in order to get large crops of perfect fruit. Of course the spraying must not be done while the trees are in bloom-but just as the fruit is "set."

For full information on this subject, address William Stahl, manufacturer of Excelsior Spraying Outfits, Quincy, Ills., who will send free a full and complete treatise on this subject.

We are glad to be able to state that Mr. Stahl gives proper directions for the time of spraying, so that no damage will result to the bees. He says:

Apple trees should be sprayed twicewhen the apples are the size of peas, and again in a week or ten days. Plum trees should be sprayed three or four times, at intervals of a week or ten days, beginning as soon as the blossoms have fallen. To spray an orchard will cost, per spraying, for material and labor of applying the mixture as well as preparing it, from 15 to 25 cents per

acre.

Very Fine samples of thin foundation are received from W. W. Cary, of Colerain, Mass.; two of them being of white wax, and all show excellent workmanship.

The Amateur Bee-Keeper, by J. W. Rouse; 52 pages. Price, 25c. For sale at this office.