American bee journal (1882) (18109504592)

Title: American bee journal
Identifier: americanbeejourn1882hami (find matches)
Year: 1861 (1860s)
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Subjects: Bee culture; Bees
Publisher: (Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries



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if ^ii^i^^Fp^ DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. VoL XYIII. Chicago, in., May 31,1882. No. 22. /^cuaitaiv^Q ^^rs^siG^g^^F^^ Published every Wedne^^day by THOMAS C. NEWMAN, KIHTUK AND PKOPRIETOH. 925 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL, At 3»S.OO a Tear, in Advance. X)\TOg/^^ WEEKLY—(52 numbers) 8(18 a year, in advance. Three or Six Months at the same rate. fW~ Any person sending a chib of six is entitled to an extra copy (like the club) aent to any address desired. Sample copies furnished free. Free of postajre in the United States or Canada. Postagre to Europe SO eeiite extra.. EnUred at ChicaQo post office as second class matter. TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. Editorial— Kditorial Items 337 Orniimentation of School Grounds 3:i7 Scarcity of Beeswax 337 Another case of "Glucose Meal" 338 Honey versus Glucose 338 Among Our Excliauges— Bees Wintered in a Greenhouse 339 Bees Resenting an Insult 339 Artificial I ooib Uoney 339 Oleomarcarine 339 Madeira Wine from Honey 339 For Ornament and Honey 339 Winter Ventilation 340 Behind the Times 340 Bee ManaKement 340 Curious Statistics 340 Correspondence— RearineGood Queens 341 The Glucose-Honey Question 341 Bee Stints-Blacks vs. Italians 342 The Souk of the Bee 343 Mr. Hedilon'sKeply 343 Mating of Queens 343 About " Dollar" Queens 343 A Review of the Past 344 Poor Queen, No Colony 345 Those Unkind Things 345 Convention Notes— Western Michigan 34G Planting for Honey 346 Selections from Our Letter Box— Earl y Queen-Rearing 347 Parthenoiienesis 347 Pollen Not Detrimental 347 Fastening Foundation in Sections 347 Cold in Georgia 347 The Worst has Come 348 Various Methods ". 348 Poorest for Thirty Years 348 Cold in New Vork 348 Bees in Alabama 348 Tilia Americana in London 348 Death of M. Parse 348 A Swarm in New Jersey 348 The Weatherin Scotland 348 More Encouraged 348 Destroying Drones 348 Ornamentation of School Grounds. We notice the evident tendencj' of the times to tastefully plant flowering plants and trees on the grounds of the school-houses. This has been too long neglected, but we hope it will now become the rule instead of the exception. This will, in a measure, educate the coming generation to beautify their surroundings, to plant trees for shade, flowers for beauty and shrubs for ornament. This will help the bees some, paying back cultivated bloom for the ruthless destruction of our forests, and the loss of the wild flora, which by civilization has been entirely destroyed. The J'armeis' Re- view remarks as follows on the sub- ject: The ornamentation of school-house grounds by means of tlie tasteful planting of flowering plants and trees, is a long step towards the much wished for time when the rudiments of agriculture will be taught the children who are to become the intelli- gent agriculturists of the future. The practice also helps to develop a re- fined taste, a love of tiie order and beauty of nature, and gives a glimpse of what farm life may be. The Michi- gan Ilorticultural Society was the first to lead off in this good work, and its efforts were crowned with notable success. It is hoped that others will follow in the same direction, as the Western Xew York Horticultural Society has already done. It is pleasant to note praiseworthy emulation and rivalry of the great seedsmen in works of public utility, even if their efforts are profitable ad- vertisements, as they deserve to be. Messrs. D. M. Ferry & Co., for sev- eral years have been supplementing the work of the Michigan Horticul- tural Society, in ornamenting the scliool grounds of that state. Now Mr. James Vick makes the liberal of- fer to send free, a collection of 12 va- rieties of seeds "to five districts in each county in every State that shall first apply for them," for cultivation in the school grounds. And Mr. Hiram Sibley has sent $5,000 worth of seeds to tlie sufferers from the Mis- sissippi floods. This is a way of " casting bread upon the waters," that is sure to return a many-fold re- compense. Sciircity of Beeswax,—The/uvem'te Gleanings, which has doubled its size for May, says on the beeswax ques- tion : " There is now a prospect be- fore us that the wax of the world will not nearly supply the demand for foundation....! should not be sur- prised it foundation should be up 10 cents per pound before the 1st of June. Of course no one can hold to present prices, unless they can get wax.'" (^ The Caledoniivji Apiarian Soci- ety w^ill hold its " ninth grand show of bees, hives and honey," at Glasgow, Scotland, July 24-27, 1882. Cash Pre- miums, Silver and Bronze Medals and Diplomas will be awarded. We can send an entry blank to any one wish- ing to send apiarian exhibits. For- eign exhibits are entered free. Mr. R. J. Bennett, Glasgow, is the Sec- retary. 1^ The late Mr. James Vick, of Rochester, N. Y., whose sudden death we noticed on page 333 of last week, was an Englishman and a playmate of Charles Dickens, and had also been a fellow typo of Horace Greeley, on the Knickerbocker. During the grasshop- per troubles in Kansas he sent the sufferers $20,000 worth of seed and $10,000 to the Michigan sufferers. 1^ The bee, although somewhat of a rover, thinks its first duty is to hum.