. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Vol. XV. Chicago, Illinois, December, 1879. No. 12. Contents of this Number. Editor's Table. Editorial Items 531 to 535 Lady Bee-Keepers 532 Dollar Queens 532 Honey Yield 533 Queen Bees by Mail 533 Langstroth Testimonial 534 New Smokers 535 Dysentery as a Bee Disease 535 Number of Eggs laid in a day 564 Our Letter Box : Wm. M. Slater, G. A. Walrath, J. W. Eckmau, H. Spengler, J. L. Smith, H. 536 W. H. Green, A. J. Monroe, Frank Rix, H. S. Hackman, W. D. Wright, S. E. O'Neel, W. J. S. S. Butler, M. D., S. R. Mason, T. E. Turner, C. 1


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Vol. XV. Chicago, Illinois, December, 1879. No. 12. Contents of this Number. Editor's Table. Editorial Items 531 to 535 Lady Bee-Keepers 532 Dollar Queens 532 Honey Yield 533 Queen Bees by Mail 533 Langstroth Testimonial 534 New Smokers 535 Dysentery as a Bee Disease 535 Number of Eggs laid in a day 564 Our Letter Box : Wm. M. Slater, G. A. Walrath, J. W. Eckmau, H. Spengler, J. L. Smith, H. 536 W. H. Green, A. J. Monroe, Frank Rix, H. S. Hackman, W. D. Wright, S. E. O'Neel, W. J. S. S. Butler, M. D., S. R. Mason, T. E. Turner, C. 1. Stevens, J. B. Murray, G. A. Willis, E. R. Wright 538 H. W., S. B. Borden, R. S. Osborn, G. L. Perry, D. S. Burbank, John Crowfoot 539 W. S. Barclay, J. P. H. Brown, Mrs. L. Harrison, L. H. Pammel, J. V. Caldwell, I. Flagg 540 Correspondence: Dysentery and Wintering 541 The sting of the Worker Bee 542 A Good Bee Country 543 The National Apiary 544 My Plan for Wintering Bees 545 Bee Items from Mississippi 545 To Find a Black Queen 546 Items from North Carolina 547 Comb vs. Extracted Honey 547 Spring Dwindling 548 Queens Duplicating themselves 548 How to Secure the Largest Bee-Keeping in Idaho 551 Hints to Beginners 564 Conventions: Central Kentucky 552 West Virginia 554 Northwestern Ohio 555 Central Ohio 555 Western Illinois and Eastern .556 Humanity to the Bees 562 Nebraska State 564 gditur's ^aM*. «ii° Our usual Foreign Department is crowded out this month. We shall have it full of very interesting matter in our next month's issue. $g§T The Editor expects to attend the Michigan State Convention to be held at Jackson, Dec. 10th, and the Indiana State Convention, to be held at Indian- apolis, January 13th. i^Be sure to see that the bees have enough honey to winter on. If they have not, they must be given either combs from other hives or fed with honey or sugar syrup. ijgfCapt. J. E. Hetherington, of Cherry Valley,N. Y., the greatesthoney producer in the w


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