. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Vol. XIV. Chicago, Illinois, March, 1878. No. 3. Contents of this Number. Editor's Table: Editorial Items 83 to H8 Curious History of the Oil-Beetle K5 Oystiil Honey Fraud H6 Letter from Bohemia, Austria W Honey Prospects in California 07 The Roberts Hive 67 The Smoker Question ti8 Revival in Apiieulture 68 Sending Queens by Mail 68 Division Boards 99 SOUTHERN Notes: Sketches from Tennessee 69 Muth's Shipping Crate 69 Correspondence: Trouble 70 Patents and Smokers 71 Hard Times 71 Honey, the Supply and Demand 73 Spring Dwindling of Italians 74 Bibulou


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Vol. XIV. Chicago, Illinois, March, 1878. No. 3. Contents of this Number. Editor's Table: Editorial Items 83 to H8 Curious History of the Oil-Beetle K5 Oystiil Honey Fraud H6 Letter from Bohemia, Austria W Honey Prospects in California 07 The Roberts Hive 67 The Smoker Question ti8 Revival in Apiieulture 68 Sending Queens by Mail 68 Division Boards 99 SOUTHERN Notes: Sketches from Tennessee 69 Muth's Shipping Crate 69 Correspondence: Trouble 70 Patents and Smokers 71 Hard Times 71 Honey, the Supply and Demand 73 Spring Dwindling of Italians 74 Bibulous Bees 74 Say—Open Letter to R. M. Argo 75 Springing Bees 75 An Amusing Incident 76 Artificial Swarming 76 Michigan College Apiary 77 Chips from Sweet Home 81 Experience of a Beginner 81 Ulucose, or Grape Sugar 82 Conventions: Honey Plants 8:i Scientific Bee Culture 85 Good Queens—How to Get Them 86 North-Eastern Conventic >n Report 89 Comb F(jundation in Surplus Boxes 87 Over-Stocking 88 Grape Sugar for Feeding 90 How to Promote Easy Breeding 90 Our Object and Our Mission 91 President Elwood'S Annual Address 93 Comb Foundation—Doolittle's Report 93 Foreign Notes: Sundry Items 95, 96 Baron Von Berlepsch 95 Paris Exposition 96 Colonies of Bees, without Hives—Experiments 9t> Apis Dorsata 96 Our Letter Box: Sundry Letters 97 to 99 Jl^°Friend Argo (just as we are ready for the press) wants us to insert a letter— but as we cannot find room, at tliis late date, we will give the gist of it. He has received a host of letters, and neither he, his wife or neighbors could read the signa- tures to many of the letters. Let every one write names, post office and state plainly.— It will save very great annoyance to those receiving the letters. tt^"We regret to learn that friend R. R. Murphy, of Garden Plain, 111., lost his beloved wife on Jan. 30, after a long and painful illness. The American Bee Journal extends its condolence to the bereaved brother. 1^ To save confu


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