. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 323 WEEKLY EDITION OF THE ^^-^.^E^S^EO^i^,^^^. PUBLISHED BY THOMAS G. NEWMAN, EniTOIl AND PHOPltlETOIt, 926 WEST MADISON-STREET, CHICAGO, ILL Weekly, t§'J£ a year ; Monthly, SO cents. Vol. XXI. May 27,1885. No. 21. APICULTURAL NEWS ITEMS. EDITORIAL AND SELECTED. C. "Weeks, Clifton, Tenn., has sent ue his spring: Price-List of queens, bees, etc. CIiafT Paekliig.—" Cyula Linswik " has again wintered her entire apiary (61 colonies) without loss. They were paclsed on the sum- mer stands. An Exoliaii^e remai'ks thus


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 323 WEEKLY EDITION OF THE ^^-^.^E^S^EO^i^,^^^. PUBLISHED BY THOMAS G. NEWMAN, EniTOIl AND PHOPltlETOIt, 926 WEST MADISON-STREET, CHICAGO, ILL Weekly, t§'J£ a year ; Monthly, SO cents. Vol. XXI. May 27,1885. No. 21. APICULTURAL NEWS ITEMS. EDITORIAL AND SELECTED. C. "Weeks, Clifton, Tenn., has sent ue his spring: Price-List of queens, bees, etc. CIiafT Paekliig.—" Cyula Linswik " has again wintered her entire apiary (61 colonies) without loss. They were paclsed on the sum- mer stands. An Exoliaii^e remai'ks thus: "The rules say; Spring is the best time to move bees. If, however, one settles on your necli in mid- summer, you need not spring before moving ; You had better not be too to remove it; you may wish you had let it tiy away of its own accord. Some- times it " leaves a sting ; Fine Work.—We have several samples of "dovetailed sections" from Dr. G. L, Tinker. They are made of white poplar, and sawed at the rate of one-hundred per min- ute, or 00,000 pieces in a day. If such " rapid sawing " and " fine work " have before been accomplished, we have not heard of it. They show su]>erb workmanship and make a fine appearance. How to Propagate and Grow Fruit, by Charles A. Green, contains over 50 illus- trations and two colored fruit plates. A ti4-page book, price 50 cents, telling how to propagate and multiply strawberries, rasp- berries, blackberries, currants, gooseberries, grapes, quince, peach, apricot, plum, cherry, pear and apple. It tells how to lay out a garden or fruit farm—how to plant, culti- vate, trim, etc. For sale at this office. Humble Bees are being exported to New Zealand, in order to fertilize the red clover there. A correspondent in the ScicDtiflc American remarks : "This is not the first shipment of bumble bees ; the same experi- ment was tried with .\ustralia some y


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