THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN & SON, 



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For the convenience of bee-keepers, we have made 

 arragements to supply, at the lowest market prices, 

 Imported or tested Italian Queens, Full Colonies, 

 Hives, Extractors and anything required about the 

 Apiary. Our Illustrated Catalogue and Price List 

 will be sent free, on application. 



We have gotten up a "Constitution and By-Laws," 

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Our answer to all who ask credit is this : We sell on 

 •mall margins, and cannot afford to take the risks of 

 doing a credit business. If we did such a business, 

 we should be obliged to add at least 10 to 20 per cent, 

 more to our prices, to make up for those who would 

 never pay, and to pay the expenses of keeping book- 

 accounts with our customers— this we know our Cash 

 customers would not think to their advantage.— 

 This rule we must make general in order not to do 

 injustice to any one. The cash system gives all the 

 advantage to cash customers, while the credit sys- 

 tem works to their injury. In justice to all we must 

 therefore require Cash witn the order. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editor's Table : 



Compliments of the Season. 3 



Octagon Bee Hive 3 



Rev. W. F. Clarke's Lectures 3 



The Eucalyptus as a Honey Tree 4 



Adulteration and Confiscation 4 



"The Coming War"— Glucose 5 



Untested Queens-undesirable 5 



Comb Foundation— the new and the old 6 



D. A. Pike's Fancy Drones 6 



What Does it Mean ? 7 



The Blessed Bees 7 



Self-Accusations of Novice 7 



Foreign Notes : 



Bees in China 8 



Apiaries in Cuba 8 



Bees Feeding on Oil Cake Paste 8 



St. Ambrose and Apiculture 8 



Movable Combs in France 8 



Glucose as Bee Food 8 



Our Letter Box: 



E. F. Sibley, J. W. Greene, Wm. C. Pelham, 



Christopher Grimm, R. Dart, E. H. Wyn- 

 koop, R. M. Argo, J. M. Putnam and 



A.J.Cook 9 



J. W. Hudson, M. D., Jos. M. Brooks, W. Clem- 

 ents, J. W. Porter, W. W. Hipolite, M. 

 D., and F. W. Chapman 10 



Correspondence : 



A Criticism— Comb Foundation 11 



How to make Comb Foundation 12 



Improvement of the Race of Bees 13 



The Adulteration of Sweets 14 



Comb Building 15 



Queen-Rearing 15 



Variableness of Queen Progeny 15 



Influence of Male on Progeny 15 



A Letter from Kansas 16 



Creating a Honey Market 16 



Moving Bees 17 



Extracting, Swarming, &c 17 



Does Pure Honey always Granulate ? 18 



Selling Extracted Honey 19 



CONVENTIONS: 



Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa 20 



Preparing Comb Honey for the Market.... 20 



Price of Comb and Extracted Honey 21 



How to Raise the most Honey 21 



The Best location for an Apiary 2l 



Natural or Artificial Increase 21 



The Rearing of Superfluous Drones 21 



Preparing Colonies for Winter 22 



The Use of Comb Foundation 22, 23 



How to Safely Ship Bees 22, 24 



Pollen in Boxes 22 



To Prevent Combs f r< im Melting Down .... 22 



Suitable Stand for a Hive 23 



When to Sow White Clover 23 



Placing Hives near together 23 



A Bee-Dress and Stings 23 



Separators— Can they be used more than 



once? 23 



Clipping Queen's wings 23 



Do Bees Force the Queen to Swarm ? 23 



Floating Apiary of Mr. Perrine 24 



Lancaster County, Pa., Convention 24 



Wintering Bees 25 



Do Bees Destroy Fruit? 26 



Will Bees Freeze to Death? 26 



Advantages of Comb Foundation 26 



Southern Kentucky convention 26 



Introducing Queens 26 



Bee-Keeping as a Science 27 



Over-Stocking Bee pastures 27 



Invention of Comb Foundation 28 



Cedar Valley, Iowa, Convention 28 



Wintering of Bees 28 



North-Eastern Wisconsin Convention 29 



Wintering of Bees 29 



Swarming vs. Division 29 



Hives and Boxes 30 



Wintering Bees 30 



Best Time and Mode of Increase 31 



Production of Comb Honey 31 



Bee Forage of Wisconsin 31 



Home Market for Honey 32 



A Year's Management 32 



Central Ohio Convention 33 



Statistics of Bee-Keeping 33 



Michigan State Convention 33 



Establishing an Apiary 33 



The Use of Comb Foundation 34 



Untested Dollar Queens 34 



Honey as Food 37 



Honey Plants 37 



Marketing Honey 37 



Wintering Bees 38 



