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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 13. 





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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



974 West Madison Street., Chicago, III. 



Contents of this Number. 



I ..i'l'l'«|.innl''iir.- : 



Rev. W. F. Clarke (illustrated) 



The llonev Crop in Central New York. 



Why did Mr. A. I. Hoot's Bees Die t 



Observations about Several Things 



I). A. Jones' Report on Wintering 



How to Hear tJood Queens 



Transferring Bees from Box Hives — 



Editorial Items 



Fraternal Appreciation 



Suspended - 



Mr. Longstrotta on Glucose * 



The Northwestern Convention at Chicago 



Explorations in the Orient for Bees 



Interesting Letter from Frank Benton 



Among our Exchanges: 



California Honey Crop 



The Crops In General 



The Linden or Basswood in Bloom 



Where our Forests are Going 



Will Bees Pay in Oregon t 



Adulteration of Food 



Selection! from Our i-.-ti.-i Box : 



Dysentery and Lack of Ventilation 



Encouraging 



Honev Crop 



Bees Doing Well 



Honey Crop in Texas 



Honey Plentiful 



Well Enough 



Unusual Amount of Clover 



That Fertilizing Cage 



Chips from Sweet Home 



Alphabetical 



Large yield of Honey 



Basswood Promising 



Honey Yield in Canada 



Poor (Vop of Honey 



The Honey Crop 



New Crop of Honey 



Top us. Side-Storing 



Brushing Bees from the Combs 



Calling Things by Wrong Names 



A Month Behind '.*• 



It has Almost Kained Honey 



Loss 25 per cent 



Doubled 



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Bingham Smoker Corner. 



Sunny Side, Napa, California, .June 10, 1881. 



T F Bingham, Abronia, Mich. Dear Sir : Please 

 send me bv mail two Large, six Extra, and 4 Plain 

 Standard Bingham Smokers. Your four years' old 

 Smoker is still in use, and does good service, the 

 only trouble being it is too small. I require the 

 large size. I have a large and small Quinby 

 (huge one condemned), the other l get along with 

 by repairing often. As far as I have tried them 1 

 prefer yours above all, and shall keep them 

 stock. Yours Truly. 



27w4 



JOS. D. ENAS. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



BLTYEHS' QUOTATIONS. 



CHICAGO. 

 HONEY There isno new comb honey in market. 

 We quote extracted, 7%u»tiHfi. 

 BISESWAX-Cholceyellow,iH@22c; dark, ir»@i7. 



NEW YORK. 

 IIONEY-White extracted, EKgUOc.; dark, 7@8e. 

 BEESWAX.— Prime quality, 18&22C. 



CINCINNATI. 

 HONEY. -The market for extracted clover 

 honev is good, at 8@10C 

 BEESWAX— 18022C. C. F. Ml'TH. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 

 HONEY— A lot of 1,216 cases and 8 bbls was for- 

 warded this week on Q wheat ship to Great Britain, 

 the honev in rases being in fancy packages and 

 slopped iiv a prominent packing tirm. The visible 

 supply of old IS bubt and firmly held. Quotations 

 areentlrelj nominal. For some old extracted an 

 advance on quotations is asked, but there are no 

 buyers al our extreme figures, except inaretall 



We quote white comb, I2(ral4c: dark to go- d, 9® 

 l ic Kx traded, choice to extra white, 7(*Hc; dark 

 and candled, 5©6c BEESWAX : ■ 



Stkauns & SMITH, 423 Front Street. 



San Francisco, Gal. , June 25. 1881. 



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l$y Tlie Northwestern Illinois and 

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 Aug. 30, at Rock City,, Stephenson Co., 

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W. Z. HUTCHINSON, 



KuifcrMvllle, <Jenenee County, Mich., 



Makes a specialty of rearing fine Italian queens. 

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 the purest and best home-bred queens, and the 

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The Bee-Keeper's Guide 



OH, 



MANUAL OF THE APIARY, 



By A. J. COOK, 



Of Lansing, Professor of Entomology in the 



State Agricultural College of Michigan 



820 P«ice« ; i :t:t Fine Illustration*. 



This is a new edition of Prof. Cook's Manual of 

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 illustrated with many costly wood engravings — 

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 full desccriptions of honey-producing plants.trees, 

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This work is a masterly production, and one that 

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Is a masterly production, and one that no bee- 

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I have derived more practical knowledge from 

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This book is just what everyone interested in 

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To all who wish to engage in bee- culture, a 

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My success has been so great as to almost aston- 

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This book Is pronounced by the press and leading 

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This work is undoubtedly the most couplete 

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 of bees left untouched, and in the compilation of 

 the work Prof. Cook has had the advantage of all 

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 It is the latest book on the bee, and treats of both 

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With Cook's Manual I am more than pleased. It 

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 It is a credit to the author as well the publisher. 

 I have never vet met with a work, either French 

 or foreign, which 1 like so much.— L'Abbe I>u 

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 enemies of bees.— Democrat, Pulaski, N. V. 



We have perused with great pleasure this vade 

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 best information on everything belonging to api 

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It may safely be pronounced the most complete 

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 their handling in apiaries. The studies of the 

 structure of the bee, the different varieties, the 

 various bee products, and following these the 

 points of management, extending to the smallest 

 details, are all of high and practical value. Prof. 

 Cook has presented the latest phases of progressive 

 bee keeping, and writes of the themes discussed in 

 the light of his own experience.— Pa ciflc liural. 



Of the many excellent works which we have ex- 

 amined on bee-cullure, we consider Prof. Cook's 

 the most valuable for the study of those who con- 

 template going into the business or are already 

 keeping bees. If thoroughly studied, and its teach- 

 ings ron formed to. by the apiarist, who exercises a 

 reasonable degree of. common sense, he or she can- 

 not fall to achieve at least u reasonable degree of 

 BUCC6B8. The author addresses himself to the 

 work with a degree of enthusiasm which carries 

 the reader with him to the end.- Kansas Farmer. 



Cook's Manual of the Apiary holds in America 

 the same high rank, that is accorded In German; 

 to the hook Of which Dzierzoii is the author ; the 

 only difference being that Prof. Cook's Manual 

 combine* the profoundness of the (Jeriuan pastor 



with the superiority of the practical American, 



He refers in several instances to Darwin ; and 

 does niit belong to that class which hales every- 

 thing that is foreign, for he speaks of German nat- 

 uralists with great reverence. -German Freidmkt r, 

 Milwaukee, Wis. 



Price— Bound in cloth, tfl.2.** ; in paper cover, 

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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 

 974 West Madison Street. CHICAGO, II,L. 



THE ORIGINAL 



1S7H, and May, is7:t ; 

 July y, 187H. 



He- issued 



If you buy a Bingham 

 Smoker, or a Bingham & 

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 you are sure of the best 

 and cheapest, and not lia- 

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 use and sale. The largest 

 bee-keepers use them ex- 

 clusively. Twenty thou- 

 sand in use— not one ever 

 returned, or letter of com- 

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Rev. A. SALISBURY, 



Camargo, Douglas County, 111. 

 Warranted Italian Queens, ($1.00 ; Tested Italian 

 Queens. $2.00 ; Cyprian Queens. $'2.00 ; 

 Tested Cyprian Queens, $4.00 ; 1 frame 

 Nucleus, Italians, $4.00 ; 1 frame Nu- 

 cleus, Cyprians, $5.00 ; Colony of Ital- 

 ians, H frames, $8.00 ; Colony of Cyp- 

 : W\~£W\ Brians, 8 frames, $10.00. Wax worked 

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THE Headquarters in the South 



for ITALIAN and CYPRIAN REES and 

 QVKENS. FOUNDATION and APIARIAN 



SUPPLIES. If you want Early Queens, from 

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 at moderate prices, send for my new Illustrated 

 Price List. Pure Beeswax worked on shareB and 

 bought for cash. Address. 

 :■!"■ i Dr. -I P. II. BROWN, Augusta, Ga. 



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ANTED— You to send for our Circular and 

 Price list of AmerU-aii-Itallani, Address, 

 JOS. M. BROOKS A BRG., 



13w6m Columbus, Ind. 



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ITALIAN BEES. 



All standard colonies have eight frames, 17Ht Inc. 

 long and n inc. deep. All Nuclei, frames limine, 

 long and 1(^4 inc. deep. Single full colonies, $lo ; in 

 hits of ffve. each (9 ; in Iota ol ten or more, each $s ; 

 single pure Tested Queen, $2. "io ; I -frame Nucleus, 

 Tested Queen (.lunei, $3.50; 2-frame do., $4; 3-franie 

 do., $.'» ; 4-frume do., $5.50 \\ July, August and Sep- 

 tember, 5- frame Nucleus, Tested Italian Queen, $r>. 

 No Dollar Queens handled. Will guarantee safe de- 

 livery (at express terminus' 01 every order from my 

 yards. Shipping facilities, si\ times daily to all 

 points. With 20 years' experience in the propagation 

 and handling of Italian bees, I think I can suit the 

 most fastidious. 



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No discount from above schedule. 



Address all communications to 



J. H. ROBERTSON, 



2,">wtf Pewamo, Ionia Co., Mich. 



