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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 26. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



97-4 West Madison Street., Chicago, 111. 



Contents of this Number. 



Correspondence : 



Over-Stockintr and Planting for Hooey 25 



Apiculture— What is it ? 25 



Alsike and Melilot (Movers 25 



Wintering in the Cellar 25 



My Experience in Starting an Apiary 26 



Clarke Eedivivus 26 



Stingless Bees • 26 



Notes by the Way-Side 2c; 



Selection** from Our Letter Box : 



Dying bv Wholesale 27 



Well Paid 27 



Prevention of Swarming 27 



No Honey last Season 27 



Severe Weather for Bees 27 



Tobacco Smoke for Bees 27 



Poisonous Wild Honey 27 



About Kertilization in Confinement 27 



Honey Season in Pennsylvania 27 



Bee-Keeping in Texas 27 



First Year's Experience 27 



Long Confinement 27 



Small Share of Honey 27 



Homeless Swarm 27 



Of Much Benefit 27 



Dysentery 27 



Comb Foundation Machines 27 



Editorial t 



Editorial Items 28 



Do we Want Facts? 28 



Compulsory Honesty 28 



The llasswood or Linden Tree 28 



Experience with Comb Foundation 28 



What the Press says of the Weekly 31 



Convention* : 



Austro-German Congress at Cologne 30 



Central Michigan... 30 



SPECIAL NOTICES. 



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local Associations $2 per 100. The name 

 of the Association printed in the blanks 

 for 50 cents extra. 



^° We have prepared Ribbon Badges 

 for bee-keepers, on which are printed a 

 large bee in gold. Price 10 cents each, 

 or $8.00 per hundred. 



My Annual Catalogue of Vegetable and 

 Flower Seed for 1881, rich in engravings from 

 photographs of the originals, will be sent FREE to 

 all who apply. My old customers need not write for 

 it. I offer one of the largest collections of vegeta- 

 ble seed ever sent out by any Seed House in Ameri- 

 ca, a large portion of which were grown on my six 

 seed farms. Full directions for cultivation on each 

 package. All seed warranted tobe both fresh and true 

 to name, so far, that should it prove otherwise. I wilt 

 refill the order gratis. The original introducer of the 

 Hubbard Squash. Pbinner's Melon, Marblehead Cab- 

 bages, Mexican Corn, and scores of « »t her vegetables. 

 I invite the patronage of all who ore anxious to have 

 their seed directly from the grower, fresh, true, and of 

 the very best strain. 



NEW VEGETABLES A SPEl'IALTY. 



12m5 JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead.Mass. 



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The Horse 



BY B. J. KENDALL, M. D. 



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THOMAS O. NEWMAN, 



974 West Madison Street. CHICAGO. ILL. 



THE INDEPENDENT. 



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Rev. A. Salisbury. 1881. J. V.Caldwell. 

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Italian Queens, $1.00 ; Tested Italian 

 Queens, $2.00 ; Cyprian Queens, $'-'.00 : 

 Tested Cyprian Queens, $4.00; l frame 

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IgaTAt the Chicago meeting of the Na- 

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HONEY A SPECIALTY. 



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CHA8. F. MTTTH, No. 916 



Central Av.. Cincinnati* O. 



Florida Land— 640 Acres, 



m- CHEAP FOR CASH, m 



Description, -Sec. 4, township 7. Bnuth range 7 

 west. Franklin county, Florida, situated about 50 miles 

 sooth of the Georgia line, 25 miles west or the city of 

 Tallahasse. the capital of the State, and about 2d 

 miles northeast of the city of Apalachlcola, a sea- 

 port on the Gulf of Mexico, and within 2 sections (5 

 and 6) of the Apalachicola, river ; the soil Is a rich, 

 sandy loam, covered with timber. 



It was conveyed on Dec. 31st, 1875, bv Col. Alexan- 

 der McDonald, who owned ti sections, including the 

 above, to J. M. Murphy, for |3,20li, and on Sept. 5th. 

 1877, by him conveyed to the unaersiiraed for $3,U0O. 

 The title is perfect, and it is unincumbered, as shown 

 by an abstract from the Records of the county, duly 

 attested by the County Clerk ; the taxes are all paid 

 and therecelpts are in mv possession. 



I will sell the above at a bargain for cash, or trade 

 fur a small farm, or other desirable property. An of- 

 fer for it is respectfully solicited. Address, 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 

 974 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



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