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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Mar. 16. 



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The American Bee Jotrnal Is the oldest Bee 

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 therefore the best advertising medium for reliable 

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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



074 West Mri.1.-. hi Street.. < hleuao, III. 



Contents of this Number. 



Correspondence : 



Pure Liquid Honey In Glass Jars 



Colchlan Honey 



Combined Winter and Summer Stands 



Foul Brood and Its Causes 



History of the Early Importation of Italian 



Bees 



Good Way to Promote Bee-Keeping 



Do Bees Injure Fruit? 



Remarkable Tardiness in Fecundity 



Honey-Producing in California 



Bee Men to the Front— Adulteration 



How to Prevent Robbing 



The In-and-In-Breedlng of Beea 



Killed by Kindness 



Editorial i 



Editorial Items 



Watchman 1 Tell us of the Night 



Migratory Bee- Keeping — 



Interesting Letter from Ceylon 84 



Selection* from Our Letter Box : 



Bees Wintered Well 



Mortality Reports . 



Nineteen Weeks' Confinement. 



Wintered Safely 



A Blim Living 



Honey Sections 



Bees in Good Condition 



Wintered Without Loss 



Mourning for the Bees 



Wintering 



Selling Honey, Vexatious 



Prospects Better 



Bees All Alive 



Winter Yet in Kentucky 



No Surplus nor Increase 



Great Loss of Bees 



Dead Bees In the Cells 



Making Progress 



Not Discouraged 



Paris Green 



Bees in Prime Condition 



Progressing 



Lost but 4 out of 285 



Moldy Combs, etc 



Palestine Bees 



Honey as Medicine 



Gathering Pollen 



Anxious for Spring 



Bees Died of Disease 



Cyprian BeeB Ahead 



An Early Season 



Bees Gone Back on Him 



Snow Vine as a Honey Plant. . . 



Feeding Bees 



Introducing a Queen 



Lossof BeesHK per cent 



First Year's Experience 



Summer a Long Way Off 



A Little Discouraged 



Why Did the Bees Die? 



Wintered Without Loss 



FRANCES DUNHAM, 



Inventor and Sole Manufacturer of the 



DT7XTXXAM 



FOUNDATION 



MACHINE, 



AND DUNHAM 



COMB FOUNDATION, 



pf"New Circular and Samples free._Al 



FRANCES DUNHAM, 



IsmSm DEPEKE, BROWN CO., WIS. 



FLAT-BOTTOM COMB FOUNDATION, 



high side-walls, 4 to 16 square feet to 

 the pound. Circular and samples free. 

 J. VAN DEUSEN & SONS, 

 Sole Manufacturers, 

 Utf Sprout Brook, Mont. Co., N. V. 



BA88WOOD AND TILIP TEEES, from 

 1 to 8 feet in height, nursery grown. The 2 best 

 HONEY PRODUCING TREES KNOWN, at low 

 prices. A, BATTLES, Glrard, Pa.?. 



10w4t 



Conventions i 



Cbamplain Valley, Vt., Convention 87 



15 One-Cent Stamps 



Will pay for our exhaustive pamphlet on raising, 

 handling and marketing extracted honey. 



COLONIES 



WITH 



Imported Cyprian and Italian Queens, 



Or our own Im^rtntlon, 



GUARANTEED PURE AND GENUINE. 



OurComb Foundation was awarded the diploma 

 at the North-Eastern Bee-Keepers' Convention held 

 In February. 



Smokers, Knives, Extractors, &c. 

 Price List, with 3 samples of Comb Foundation, free. 



CHAS. DADANT&SON, 

 <temtf Hamilton, Hancock Co., 111. 



BARNES' PATENT 



Foot-Power Machinery 



CIRCULAR and 



SCROLL SAWS 



Hand, Circular Rip Saws for gen- 

 eral heavy and light ripping. 

 Lathes, &c. These machines are 

 especially adapted to Hive 

 Milking. It will payevery bee- 

 keeper to send for our 48 page 

 Illustrated Catalogue. 



W. F. & JOHN BARNES 

 Rockford, Winnebago Co.. 111. 



^ 



Given's Foundation Press. 



The latest improvement In Foundation. Our thin 

 and common Foundation is not surpassed. The only 

 Invention to make Foundation in the wired frame. 

 All Presses warranted to give satisfaction, Send for 

 Catalogue and Samples. 



Iwly D. S. CIVEN, Hoopeston. 111. 



Be SURE 



To send a postal card for our Illustrated Catalogue 

 of Apiarian Supplies before purchasing elsewhere. 

 It contains Illustrations and descriptions of every- 

 thing new and valuable needed In an apiary, at the 

 lowest prices. Italian, Cyprian and Holy Land 

 QuMDfl and Bees. 



J. C. A II- P. 8ATLE8, 



SeowlSt 



Hartford, Wis. 



THE CANADIAN FARMER 



TBI oxi.v 



WILBOR'S COMPOUND OF 



PURE COD LIVEE 

 OIL AND LIME. 



W i 1 1. in '-.* (i. I- l.l \ cr <>l l and Lime. — Persons 

 wli.» have been taking Cod Liver < HI will he pleased 

 to learn that Dr. Wllbor has succeeded, from direc- 

 tions ol several Professional gentlemen. In combin- 

 ing the pure Oil and Lime In such a manner that It Ib 

 pleasant to the taste, and Its effects in Lung com 



FEEDERS 



Now is the time to make preparations 

 for Spring Feeding. 



Agricultural Weekly 



IM'lU.lSHKIi IN TIIK 



DOMINION OF CANADA. 



This practical journal is now In Its Third Yenr, 

 and meeting with Immense success. The low price 

 of its subscription (f 1,00 per VMTj in its new and Im- 

 proved form ( 18 pages K^xtn"^, folded ami pasted* 

 makes It very popular. Its editors are all practical 

 men. It is the Best A d\ ert i-lntc Medium in 

 Canadu. Sample copies sent free to any address. 

 Ilw2fltx N. II. COUOCK, Wetland, Ont. 



I plaints are truly wonderful. Very many persons 

 uses were pronounced hopeless, and who had 



who 



taken the dWr Oil for a long time without marked 

 effect, have been entirely cured by using this prepa- 

 ration. He sure and get the genuine. Manufactured 

 only by A. R. Wn.noii. Chemist, Boston. Sold by all 

 druggists. llw-U 



R. A. BURNETT. 



Successor to Conner, Burnett & Co., 



165 South Water Street. Chioago, III., 



GENERAL PRODUCE COMMISSION, 



II0M:\ A 8PECIALTT. 



We ask you to correspond with us before disposing 

 of your HONE V CROP, as we can be of much serv- 

 ice, having constant intelligence from all partsof the 

 country. We would refer to Jamks Hbdpon, Dowa- 

 glac, Mich., and J. Oatma n A Sons, Dundee, 111. 



Iwly 



Shuck's Feeder may be placed at the entrance of 

 the hive, any time of the day, without danger from 

 robbers; feed much or little as may be desired; feed 

 can only be reached by the bees from the inside of 

 the hive. Price, by mall, postpaid, 30 cents. By ex- 

 press, 25 cents each, or $2.40 per dozen. Special 

 rates on large quantities. 



SEEDS I HONEY PLANTS 



A full variety of all kinds, including Melllot, Alslke 

 and White Clover, Mammoth Mignonette, Ac. For 

 prices and Instructions for planting. Bee my Illustra- 

 ted Catalogue, -sent free upon application. 

 AI.FKKII H. NEWMAN, 

 B79 West Madison St., Chicaoo, Iix. 



Novice's Simplicity Feeder is made in two sizes, at 

 the following prices: 5c. for the pint and lOc. for the 



?uart feeder, or per dozen, 50c. for the small and 

 1 .00 for the large, by express. If sent by mall, twice 

 the above prices. 



Kretchmer's. by mall 35c. 



VanDeusen's, by mail 75c. 



I will mall my Illustrated Catalogue and Price List 

 FREE, upon application, to any address. All orders 

 for Bee-Keepers' Supplies will be promptly filled. 



ALFRED H. BfEWMAK, 

 972 West Madison St., Chicago, III. 



THE ORIGINAL 



Patented Jan. 9, 1*78, and May, 1879 ; Re-issued 

 July 9, 1878. 



If you buy a Bingham 

 Smoker, or a Bingham & 

 UetheringtonHoney Knife 

 you are sure of the best 

 and cheapest, and not lia- 

 ble to prosecution for their 

 use and sale. The largest 

 bee-keepers use them ex- 

 clusively. Twenty thou- 

 sand in use— not one ever 

 retu ined, or letter of com- 



fdaint received. Ourorlg- 

 nal patent Smokers and 

 Honey Knives were the 

 only ones on exhibition at 

 the last National Bee 

 Keepers' Convention, 1880. 

 Time sifts the wheat from 

 the chaff. Pretensions are 

 short-lived. 



The Large and Extra 

 Standard have extra wide 

 shields to prevent burn- 

 ing the Angers and bel- 

 lows. A real Improve- 

 ment. 



Send postal card for tes- 

 timonials. 



Bingham & Hetherington Honey Knife... 2 in., 1 1 00 



Large Bingham Smoker S 1 ^ " I 50 



Extra Standard Bingham Smoker 2 " 1 25 



Plain Standard Bingham Smoker 2 " 1 <*> 



Little Wonder Bingham Smoker \H " 75 



If to be sent by mall, or singly by express, add 25c. 

 each, to prepay postage or express charges. 



To sell again, apply for dozen or half-dozen rates. 



Address, 



BINGHAM & HETHERINGTON, 



9wtf OTSEGO. MICH. 



W, 



#VA 



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FREE ! 



We wish to obtain 25,000 New Subscribers to 



THE FLORAL MONTHLY 



during the next few months, and we propose 

 to give to every reader of this paper 



50c. worth of Choice Flower Seed. 



Our offer Is to send Free of Cost, 5o cents* worth of 

 Choloe Flower Seeds to each and every one who will 

 send us 25 two cent poataju. stamps for the FI..O- 

 KAI, MONTHLY one year. Seeds sent free 

 by return mall. Specimen copies free. Address. 



W. E. MORTON & CO., FLORISTS, 



Oli* L'onicre«N Street, Portland, Me. 



%W Natural Flowers preserved to last for years. 



Itw-lt 



It will Pay you 



To read our forty page Catalogue of 

 Apiarian Supplies. It gives the latest 

 information about the best appliances 

 and methods pertaining to 



Profitable Bee Culture 



Sent free to all who send us their names 

 and addresses, plainly written, upon a 

 postul card. Address 



H A. BUR.CH & CO., 



flwtf. South Haven, Mich. 



Rev. A. SALisnriiY. 1881. J. v. Caldwell. 

 SALISBURY & CALDWELL, 



Camargo, Douglas County. III. 

 Warranted Italian Qut'ens, Ifl.UU ; Tested Italian 

 Queens, fJ.UU ; Cyprian Queens, *2.U0 ; 

 Tested Cyprian Queens. ?4.00 ; 1 frame 

 Nucleus, Italians. $4.00 ; I frame Nu- 

 cleus. Cyprians, $. r t.0D ; Colony of Ital- 

 ians, 8 frames, f.S.OO ; Colony of Cyp- 

 rians, 8 frames, $10.00. Wax worked 

 lOc. per lb. Pure Comb Foundation, 

 on Dunham Machine, 26 lbs. or over, 

 ""Send for Circular. Iwly 



35c. per lb. 



Florida Land-640 Acres. 



«3° CHEAP FOR CASH. ^ 



Description,— Sec. 4, townBhlp 7, south range 7 

 west, Franklin county.Florida. situated about50miles 

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

 Tallahasse, the capital of the State, and about 26 

 miles northeast of the city ot Apalachlcola, a sea- 

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

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

 sandy loam, covered with timber. 



It was conveyed on Dec. 3lst, 1875, by Col. Alexan- 

 der McDonald, who owned 6 sections, Including the 

 above, to J. M. Murphy, for $3,200, and on Sept. 6th, 

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

 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 the receipts are in my possession. 



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

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

 fer for it Is respectfully solicited. Address, 



THOMAS O. NEWMAN, 

 974 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



SUPPLIES FOR THE APIARY, 



FOR 1881. 



It Is to every person's interest, when they wish to 

 purchase anything, to go where they can get the most 

 for their money. State on a postal card just what 

 you want, and we will let you know by return mail 

 what we will furnish It for. No Circulars. Address, 



2wtf HIRAM ROOP, Carson City, Mich. 



ENGRAVINGS. 



The Horse 



BY B. J. KENDALL, M. D. 



A TREATISE givingan Index of diseases, and 

 the symptoms ; cause and treatment of each, a table 

 giving all the principal drugs used for the horse, with 

 the ordinary dose, effects and antidote when a poi- 

 son ; a table with an engraving of the horse's teeth 

 at different ages, with rules for telling the age of the 

 horse ; a valuable collection of recipes, and much 

 valuable information. 



Price 365 cent*.— Sent on receipt of price, by 

 THOMAS 6. NEWMAN, 

 974 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



PARKER'S GINGER TONIC 



Ginger, Bnchn, Mandrake, Stlllingia and 

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Remember ! This Tonic cures drunkenness, 

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 182 CLARE ST., CHICAGO. 



