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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 16. 



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The American Bee Jodrxal is the oldest Bee 

 Paper in America, and has a largo circulation in 

 every State, Territory and Province, among farmers, 

 mechanics, professional and business men, and is, 

 therefore the best advertising medium for reliable 

 dealers. Cases of real imposition will be exposed. 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



974 West Madison Street., Chicago, 111. 



Contents of this Number. 



Correspondence t 



Ad alteration of Food 49 



A General Law Needed 49 



All Heave-oh-Heave ">n 



Pure Liquid Honey in Glass Jars 50 



Improvement in the Race of Bees 49 



Wintering Bees-Riding the Billows 49 



Fertilizing Queens in Confinement 50 



What Caused the Loss of Bees? 50 



One-Piecet's Dovetailed Sections 50 



My Experiments in Wintering Bees 50 



Selections from Our Letter Box : 



Doing Well 51 



Coldest for Nine Years 51 



Early Work 51 



Do Woolen Blankets Absorb ? !... 51 



Bee Pasturage, etc ">i 



How Will Bees Come Out? :>l 



Good Prospect for Basswood ;">1 



Complimentary 51 



To Prevent Robbing 51 



Hard on Bees 51 



Editorial -. 



The Eastern Conventions 52 



Apis Dorsataof Java 52 



How to get the Best Strain of Bees 52 



Length of Bees' Tongues and the Red Clover 52 



Moisture Absorbents in Bee Hives 52 



Different Methods of Wintering 52 



Spring Dwindling 52 



Lime and Sulphuric Acid as absorbents . . 53 



Law for the Suppression of Foul Brood 53 



Adulteration of Food before Congress ... 53 



Among our Exchangee : 



Importation of Bees 53 



Judicious Selection 53 



New Races of Bees 53 



The Bees of China 53 



The Weekly Bee Journal 53 



Convention* : 



Southern Michigan Convention 54 



Experiments with Adulterated Sweets 54 



The Law against Foul Brood 54 



North Eastern Convention 54 



Bill against Adulteration, before Legisla- 

 ture 54, 55 



Foul Brood— Its Cause and Cure 54 



Marketing Hone; 55 



Efforts to add Honey to the General Law 

 against Adulteration in the New York 



Leg isl ature 55 



What is an Average Yield of Honey ? 55 



SPECIAL NOTICES. 



Premiums.— For a club of 2, weekly 

 we will give a copy of "Bee-Culture ;" 

 for a club of 5, weekly, we will give a 

 copy of " Cook's Manual," bound in 

 cloth ; for a club of 6, we give a copy of 

 the Jouknal for a year free. Do not 

 forget that it will pay to devote a few 

 hours to the Bee Journal. 



(@T " What is the meaning of ' Dec. 

 SI ' after my name on the direction- 

 label of my paper ?" This question 

 has been asked by several, and to save 

 answering each one, let us here say : It 

 means that you have paid for the full 

 year, or until " Dec. 31, 1881." "June 

 81 " means that the first half of the 

 year is paid for, up to " July 1st." Any 

 other month, the same. 



<gg^ It would save us much trouble, if 

 all would be particular to give their P.O. 

 address and name, when writing to 

 this office. We have several letters 

 (some inclosing money) that have no 

 name. Many others having no Post- 

 office, County or State. Also, if you 

 live near one postoffice and get your 

 mail at another, be sure to give the ad- 

 dress we have on our list. 



<SP°At the Chicago meeting of the Na- 

 tional Society we were requested to get 

 photographs of the leading apiarists, to 

 sell to those who wanted them. We can 

 now supply the following at 25 cents 

 each: Dzierzon, the Baron of Ber- 

 lepsch, and Langstroth. The likeness 

 of Mr. Langstroth we have copied, is one 

 furnished by his daughter, who says, 

 " it is the only one ever taken when he 

 was in good health and spirits." We 

 are glad to be able to secure one of such 

 a satisfactory nature. 



lgS° We will send sample copies to any 

 who feel disposed to make up clubs for 

 1881. There are persons keeping bees 

 in every neighborhood who would be 

 benefitted by reading the Journal, 

 and by using a little of the personal in- 

 fluence possessed by almost every one, 

 a club can be gotten up in every neigh- 

 borhood in America. Farmers have 

 had large crops, high prices, and a good 

 demand for all the products of the 

 farm, therefore can well afford to add 

 the Bee Journal to their list of 

 papers for 1881. 



igg" We have filled orders for quite a 

 number of Binders for the Weekly Bee 

 Journal. We put the price low, 30 

 per cent, less than any one else could 

 afford to sell them, for we get them by 

 the quantity at wholesale and sell them 

 at just enough to cover the cost and 

 postage, the latter being 21 to 23 cents, 

 on each. We do this to induce as many 

 as possible to get them, and preserve 

 their Weekly numbers. They are ex- 

 ceedingly convenient ; the Journal 

 being always bound and handy for 

 reference. The directions for binding 

 are sent with each one. 



(ST Sample copies of the .Weekly 

 Bee Journal will be sent free to any 

 names that may he sent in. Any one 

 intending to get up a club can have 

 sample copies sent to the persons they 

 desire to interview, by sending the 

 names to this office. 



ggTnstead of sending silver money in 

 letters, procure 1, 2 or 3 cent stamps. 

 We can use them, and it is safer to send 

 such than silver. 



Ladies who Appreciate Elegance 

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 It is the best article sold for restoring gray 

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Inventor and Sole Manufacturer of the 



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974 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL. j 



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REV. A. SALISBURY. 1881. J. V. CALDWELL. 



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Italian Queens, $1.00 ; Tested Italian 

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 Tested Cyprian Queens, $4.00 ! 1 frame 

 Nucleus, Italians. £4.00 ; 1 frame Nu- 

 cleus, Cyprians, S5.O0 ; Tolony of Ital- 

 ians, 8 frames, $8.1)0 ; Colony of Cyp- 

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Florida Land— B40 Acres, 



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

 west, Franklin county, Florida, situated aboutoOmiles 

 south of Che Georgia line, 25 miles west of the city of 

 Tallahasse, the capital of the State, and about 25 

 miles northeast of the city of Apalachicola, 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, by Col. Alexan- 

 der McDonald, who owned t> sections, including the 

 above, to J. M. Murphy, for $3,200, and on Sept. 5th, 

 1877, by him conveyed to the unaersigned for $3,000. 

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

 by an abstract from the Hecords of the county, duly 

 attested by the County Clerk ; the taxes are all paid 

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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 

 974 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



TWENTY-EIGHTH TEAR. 



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\JKJ —Send postal raid, with name and address, for 

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It 1ms the largest corps of practical breeders as editors 

 of any journal of its class in Aiuerie . and is 



TH"E FINEST POULTRY JOUKNAL IJT THE WOELD. 

 Volume 12 begins January 1881. SUBSCRIPTION:— 

 K1.00 per year. Specimen Copy, in cents. 



C. J. WARD, Editor and Proprietor. 



182 CLARK ST., - CHICAGO. 



Friends, if you are in any way interested in 



BEES OR HONEY 



We will with pleasure send you a sample copy of our 



Monthly Gleanings in Bee-Culture, 



with a descriptive price-list of the latest improve- 

 ments in Hives, Hoiiey Extractor*, Artificial 

 Corah, Section Honey Boxes, all books and 

 journals, and everything pertaining to Bee Culture. 

 Nothing Patented. Simply send your address on a 

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