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A JOURNAL FOR THE NOVICE AND EXPERT IN BEEKEEPING. 



Published Monthly. Subscription Price, 75 cts. per Annum. 



HENRY ALLEY, 



Editor. 



VOL. VIII. 



.WENHAM, MASS., NOVEMBER 1,1890. 



NO. II. 



Entered, at I*ost-otH.ce as second-class matter. 



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Apiciiltural Points. 



Rev. L. L. Langstroth is improv- 

 ius: in health. 



A. I. Root has purchased two car- 

 loads of honey from L. E. Mercer & 

 Sou of Ventura, Cal. As Mercer & 

 Son pnrchase a good many queens of 

 us, we understand how it is that they 

 have honey to sell by the carload. 



Honey is getting scarce. We are 

 not sure that this is not a good year 

 to hold fine honey for a fancy price. 

 Honey is retailing at from 25 to 30 

 cents per pound in Boston. 



We saw some California honey in 

 one-pound sections that was of an ex- 

 ceedingly poor quality. The dealer 

 would sell that for 19 cents per pound 

 by the case. 



Forty delegates to Beekeepers' Congress 

 stricken with fever. 



Berlin, Srpt. 21, 1800. 



Fort}' (lelf'g.'ites of the l)e('keepprs' con- 

 gress, now beina,- held at KuUIa, have been 

 stricken wilh typhoid lever, and four of 

 tliem are nlready dead. 



The doctors allege that the disease is to 

 be traced to their eating canned American 

 lobsters. 



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