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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 27. 



^ & ^iEm G ^K^g FRANCES DUNHAM, 



I sTrJ/^^'GI0i^^'l^™rJ Ba\ ■a\ Inventor and Sole Manufacturer of the 



^W^^Mmmu iMiiihani Foundation 



KATES FOR ADVEKTISIXG. 



A line of ttaia type win contain about eight 

 words; fourteen unea will occupy 1 inch of space. 



Advertisement? withdrawn beforethe expiration 

 oi the contract, will he charged the full rate tor 

 the Lime the adi ertisement is inserted. 



Transient Advertisements payable in advance. 

 -—Yearly Contracts payable quarterly, in advance. 



The A mkkm'an Bee Journal is the oldest Bee 

 Paper in America, and has a large circulation in 

 every State, Territory and Province, among farm- 

 ers, mechanics, professional and businessmen, 

 and is, therefi >re, tin- 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. 



Convention Note* : 



Relation of Apiculture to Science. 233 



The Various improvements described. 2'M 



Correspondence : 



Poor Crop, Wooden Sep >rators, etc 234 



rieome as a Honey Producer 2'-i± 



Stintless Beesol South America 234 



Tin* Bee Nuisance Question 2:io 



Wintering Bees Without Lo-s 235 



The Honey Crop in California 235 



How to Build Wintering Houses 235 



editorial : 



Editorial Items 236, 237 



Hone] i- Becoming a staple 2»ti 



Encourage Pr gressive Apiculture 236 



To European Bee- Keepers 2.\S7 



Honey Premiums at the lnd. State Fair... 237 



(jetting Used to *>iueose 237 



Complimentary Notice 237 



Among our Exchanges: 



Dividing for Increase 237 



August Work 237 



The Danger of Procrastination 237 



Bees Hanging Outside the Hive 237 



Beautiful Honey 237 



Bee-Keeping in the South 237 



Selections From Our letter Box : 



Bees Doing Well 238 



The Honey Harvest 238 



Regained the Loss of -Last Winter 238 



i i omi Square Work 238 



v. ntllatlng a Cellar 23s 



Bees Doing Nothing Now 238 



Queries from Georgia 238 



N/rni Langstroth Hive 238 



Foul Brood, Honey Crop, etc 238 



Not Maid 23S 



Hnw to Winter Bees 238 



The Hone? Season in Texas 238 



Brushing Off the Bees. . 23H 



Heavy Cropol Honey 238 



Bingham Smoker Corner. 



Oxford, O., June 29, 1881. 

 Messrs. Bingham & Hetberington, Abronia, Mich. 

 Gentlemen : Your uncapping knife has been well 

 tested in the Apiary of Mr. I>. McCord, my neigh- 

 bor. In his opinion 1 and I agree with him) it is far 

 in advance oi any knife which he has ever used. 

 Yours very truly, L. L. LANGSTIiOTH. 



Sunny Side, Napa, California, .Tune 10, 18S1. 



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

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

 Standard Bingham Bmokers. Your four years' Old 

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

 onlv trouble being it is too small. I require the 

 large size. I have a large and small Quinby 

 (small on.- ...n. Inn in d'. the other I get along with 

 by repairing often. A3 Ear as I have tried them I 

 prefer yours above all, and shall keep them in 

 stock. Tours Truly, Jos. D.Enas. 



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DAVIS' PATENT HONEY CARRIAGE, 



RE1 OLVING COMB-BANGER, 



Tool Box and Recording Desk Combined. 



Carries honey from the hive to the Extractor, a set 

 of apiarian tools, motal-lined drawers for broken 

 combs and fragments of wax, revolving comb- 

 banger, which holds comb tirmly while pruning or 

 cntting out queen cells, writing desk, and wash 

 ha in ; will not i 'real, imr bruise combs ; adjusts 



to tit all slzea of extracting and brood c bs, and 



is less laborious to handle than the ordinary hand- 

 ba c kets. Write \ our address on a postal card, and 

 address it to JOHN M. DAVIS, 



SOwly Patentee and Proprietor, Spring Hill, Tenn. 



FOR FIVE DOLLARS 



I will send you five pounds of Italian or hybrid 

 bees, Ave worker combs and fire pounds of honey, 

 ail in a second-hand Langstroth hive. Tested 

 Queen, bought oi G. Grimm last May, for *2 addi- 

 tional. •!■ I" WOLFEA'DEN, 

 80wl I Adams, Walworth County. Wis. 



I TALI AX BEES, at very low prices, ail in the 

 ROOD frame. F. E. TOWA'SEND, 



SOwtf Hubbardston, Ionia County, Mich. 



THE ORIGINAL 



Patented Jan. P, 1878, and May, 1879 ; Re-issued 



July ! 



"New Circular and Samples free. _^J 

 FRANCES DUNHAM, DePere, Wis. 



BUY the BEST. 



The best informed bee-keepers in 

 the United States, say that our 



DOUBLE-DRAFT QUINBY 

 SMOKER 



is decidedly the BEST now made. 



1 [etherington discards all others. 



and orders two dozen for his own 



use. Doolittle says it isunequaled. 

 So say all who see and use it. Price, by mail, 

 $1. 50 and !$1.?5. 



our book:, 

 aUINBY'S NEW BEE-KEEPING, 



continues to grow in popularity, 

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published. Price, by mail, St 1. 50. 

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EverythingTJsed inAdvanced 



Bee-Culture. 



Send for Illustrated Circular to 



L. C. ROOT & BRO., 



MOHAWK, NEW TORK. 



1 BT MAEf 



I •:si.soil 



Be SURE 



To send a postal card for our Illustrated Catalogue 

 of Apiarian Supplies before purchasing elsewhere. 

 It contains illustrations and descriptions of every- 

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 lowest prices. Italian, Cyprian and Holy Land 

 Queens and Bees. 



J. C. «fc II. P. SAXI.ES. 

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OurComh Foundation was awarded the diplo- 

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Foot P£wer Machinery 



CIRCULAR and 



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Hand, Circular Rip Saws for 

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 every bee-keeper to send for 

 our 48 page Illustrated Cata- 

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W. F. & JOHN BARNES. 

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 Local Printing House, SilverCreek, N.Y. 

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FLAT-BOTTOM COMB FOUNDATION, 



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J. VAN DKUSEN * SONS, 



Sole Manufacturers, 



lltf Sprout Brook, Mont. Co., N. T. 



TIipsp kegs answer the- popular demand 

 for honey in small packages, and when 

 compared with large barrels holding from 

 300 to 500 lbs. each, they are fully as cheap 

 anil often cheaper. They need no waxing 

 hut should simply be thoroughly scalded 

 with boiling water before using. The 

 leakage so often occurring in the large 

 hard-wood barrels can be entirely pre- 

 vented by using the White Pine Kegs. 

 Considering the cost and trouble of wax- 

 ing, the loss of honey by leakage, and 

 the ease with which these kegs can be 

 handled and shipped, with an actual sav- 

 ing in original cost, it must be apparent to 

 all that they are the best. Prices: 



50 lb. Kegs, each 35c 



100 lb. Kegs, " 55c W^-^ 



160 1b. Kegs, " 65c pf 



". I.I It ill H. NEWMAN, i ^ 



972 West Madison street. CHICAGO, II. I.. 



Untested Holy Land Queens, ^ 



Sent by return mail, $l.im each. Safe arrival guar- 

 anteed. [^sw4ti I- R- GOOD, Nappanee. Ind. 



1878. 



If you buy a Bingham 

 Smoker, or a Bingham & 

 HetheringtonHoneyKnife 

 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 

 returned, or letter of com- 

 plaint received. Ourorlg- 

 mal 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 fingers and bel- 

 lows. A real improve- 

 ment. 



Send postal card for tes- 

 timonials. 



Bingham & Rctherington Honey Knife. ..2 in., $1 00 



Large Bingham Smoker 2*$ •' 1 50 



Evtra Standard Bingham Smoker 2 " 1 25 



Plain Standard Bingham Smoker 2 " 1 00 



Little Wonder Bingham Smoker \9i " 75 



IX to be sent by mail, 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 & HETHERINGT0N, 



9wtf ABRONIA. MH'H. 



iiiLLocii mmm 



BSgJgy* 



C)4\Cf\GO 



H. A. BURCH & CO., 



South Haven, Mich., 



General Dealers in 



APIARIAN SUPPLIES. 



Comb Foundation a Specialty. 



^"Catalogues Free. 2r>wtf 



CYPRIAN QUEENS. 



^Cyprians Only..^ 



GOOD ONES, from Full Colonies. 



T5r?T7T^ for iiimm:»«, 

 JDrVIliJJ FOK PUKITT, 



From the Jones Importation. Safely delivered at 

 $:j.00 each. JS^Anil Ready. _&| 

 iflwtt DR. WM. M. ROGERS, Sbelbyville, Ky. 



ITAHAJf O! I l:\s. Full Colonies, Nuclei 

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Published Monthly at Columbus, Kan,, 



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<M "r: i:\« AT VI. oo. 



TESTED QUEENS, $2.00 EACH. 



tySend for Catalogue of Supplies. 



A. D. BENHAM, 



Rev. A. SALISBURY. 



Camargo, Douglas County, 111. 

 Warranted Italian Queens, '11.00 ; 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, 8 frames, $h,ihj ; Colony of Cyp- 

 ■-■;- rians, 8 frames, $10.00. Wax worked 

 •tfjIOc. per lb. Pure Comb Foundation, 

 > on Dunham Machine, 25 lbs. or over, 

 35c. per lb. K3^*Send for Circular. lwly 



THE Headquarters in the South 



for ITALIAN and CYPRIAN REE8 and 

 Ql'KEXS, FOt'M>ATION 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 shares and 

 bought for cash. Address. 

 9mfit Br. J. P. H. ItKOWV Augusta, Ga. 



ANTED— You to send for our Circular and 

 Price list of Amerteaii-ItallanN. Address, 

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I3wfim Columbus, Ind. 



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Olivet, Eaton Co., Mi eh. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, 



Rogersvllte, Genesee County, Mich., 



Makes a specialty of rearing tine Italian queens. 

 All queens bred from imported queens, and from 

 the purest and best home-bred queens, and the 

 cells builtin full colonies. No black bees tn the 

 vicinity. Single queen, $1. no ; six queens for |5 00; 

 twelve or more, 75c. each. Tested queens. $2,00 

 each. Safe arrival by mail guaranteed. Send 

 money by draft, registered letter, or by monev or- 

 der drawn on Flint, Mich. He has a stock of queens 

 on hand, and can till orders promptly. 28eowtf 



Given's Foundation Press. 



The latest improvement in Founaation. Our thin 

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lwly ». S. OIVEN, Hoopeston, III. 



ITALIAN BEES. 



All standard colonies have eight frames, l7J^i inc. 

 long and ll ine. deep. All Nuclei, frames HJ-itnc. 

 long and iii 3 ^ inc. deep. Single full colonies, $l<i ; tn 

 lots of five, each $!• ; in lots of tenor more, each $8 ; 

 single pure Tested Queen, $2.50; 1-frame Nucleus, 

 Tested Queen (June), $3,50; 2- frame do., $4; y-frame 

 do., Jo ; 4-frame do., $."...">o ; Julv, August and Sep- 

 tember, 5- frame Nucleus, Tested Italian Queen, fir*. 

 No Dollar Queens handled. Will guarantee safe de- 

 livery iat express terminus) ot every order from my 

 yards. Shipping facilities, six times daily to all 

 points. With Lio years' experience in the propagation 

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

 most fastidious. 



To secure prompt attention, money should be sent 

 by New York draft or post office money order. 



Ni • discount from above schedule. 



Address all communications to 



J. H. ROBERTSON, 



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



