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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 17. 



FRANCES DUNHAM, 



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The American 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 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. 



('orre»pondence : 



Preparing Bees for Win' er 2.~>7 



Biographical- Dr. N. P. Allen 257 



Getting Bee-* off toe Combs 257 



The Hearing and Mating ot Queens 258 



Insect Life During Winter 258 



Top Storing, Separators, etc 258 



Convention \"« •— : 



Barren County, Ky.. Convention 259 



Best Method of Protecting Bees 259 



When and How to Feed Bees 259 



How to Prevent Drone Brood 259 



How to Destroy Moth Worms 259 



North American Bee-Keepers' Society — 259 



Programme of 12th Annual Session... 259 



Arrangements for 259 



Editorial : 



Editorial Items 260 



Maple Sugar 2» 



Local Fairs 260 



Marketing Extracted Honey , 260 



Unbusinesslike Transactions 2b0 



Among our Exchanges ; 



Bees and Cider 2«1 



Use for Propol is 261 



Good Report from Texas 2fii 



Honey Snow for Canada 261 



Superiority ot Italian Bees 261 



A House Full of Honey 261 



Importing Queens 261 



Prospect for Fall Honey - hl 



Honey and Bee Show in Canada 261 



Selections from Our Letter Box t 



The Cyprian Bees 262 



Causes of Loss in Winter 262 



Kingbirds *62 



Half a Crop of Honey 262 



Our Experience wltti Cyprian Bees 262 



Short Crop of Honey 262 



The Mint Family - b - 



Honey Crop in California 262 



Cyprian Bees Handsome and Gentle 262 



The Homy Harvest 262 



Basswood, Bee-House, etc - f >- 



Robbing.a Fine Art -• 262 



Immense Yield of Honey from Basswood. 2h2 



Honey Crop Flush *82 



Short Crop of Honey in California 2b2 



Bees Booming 262 



Queen's Marriage Flight '-<>- 



Bee-Keeping Pays Better than Farming. . 262 



Cheap Fares ^*_ 



Too Wet or Too Dry 2t>2 



i^T The Northern Michigan Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold its 

 fourth Annual Convention at Maple 

 Rapids, Clinton Co., Mich., Oct. 11 

 and 12, 1881. O.R. GooDNo.Sec. 



Dunham Foundation Mill, 



Patented Jnly 28th, 1881. 



l&~ New Circular and Samples free. _M1 



lsmtf FRANCES DUNHAM. DePere, Wis. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, 



Bogernvllle, Oeiiesee Connty, Mich., 



Makes a speciality of rearing fine Italian queens. 

 All queens bred from imported queens, and from 

 the purest and best home-bred queens, and the 

 cells built in full colonies. No black bees in the 

 vicinity. Single queen, $i .no ; six queens for $5-00; 

 twelve or more, 7Sc. each. Tested queens, $2.00 

 each. Safe arrival by mail guaranteed. Send 

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

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

 on hand, and can All orders promptly. 28eowtr 



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MOHAWK, NEW YOKK. 



DAVIS' PATENT HONEY CARRIAGE, 



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30wiy Patentee and Proprietor, Spring Hill, Tenn. 



WANTED— You to send for our Circular and 

 Price list of American-Italian*. 

 AddresB, JOS. M. BROOKS <fc IE it 



I3w»im Columbus, Ind. 



ITALIAN BEES, at very low prices, ail In the 

 Rood frame. F. E. TOWA'SKND, 



30wtf Hubbardston, Ionia County, Mich. 



QUEEN BEES. 



Tested Queens JS2.00 



Untested Queens (In August 1 ttOe. 



*« " (in September) 75c. 



33wltp tiEO. W. BAKER, Lewisville, Ind. 



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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 ljand 

 Queens and Bees. 



P. t . A II- IV 8AYLE8. 

 2eowl5t Hartford, Wis. 



Excelsior Hooey Extractors. 



The following letter explains itself : 



A. H. Newman, Esq., Dear Sir : No. 4 Excelsior 

 Honey Extractor (with three-sided comb basket », 

 received to day and tested. I find it EXCELLENT. 

 I can take from my hives, extract, and return 

 frames at the rate of IOO pounds per hour. 

 Do not know how long I could keep up at that rate. 

 It this isn't work, it resembles it very much. 



Truly yours. J. M SHUCK. 



Des Moines, Iowa, July 30, 1881. 



15 One-Cent Stamps 



Will pay for our exhaustive pamphlet on raising, 

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Hsmtf Hamilton, Hancock Co., 111. 



BEESforSALK 



I have 35 Colonies of Bees that I will sell by the 

 pound, or in full colonies. 1 will sell Italians at 

 $1.25 per pound ; Blacks at $1.00 per pound ; Ital- 

 ian Queens— $ 1. 00 for Untested, reared from choice 

 mother; r> lbs. of Bees, wifh Untested Queen, for 

 95.00; Full Colonies of Italians, $H.nn ; Full Col- 

 ony of Blacks, with Untested Queen, $7.nn ; same, 

 with Black Queen, $tf.on. Bees are in well painted 

 Langstroth and Gallup hives, well stocked with 

 bees, brood and honev. I— E. WELCH, 



33wit Box 144, Linden, Genesee Co., Mich. 



Size* and Prices of Extractors : 



No. 1— for 2 Lanastroth frames, 10x18 Inc.... $8 00 



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ALFRED H. NEWMAN, 



31tf 972 West Madison Street. Chicago, 111. 



ITALIAN QUEENS, Full Colonies, Nuclei 

 and Bee Hives specialties. Our new Illustrated 

 Catalogue of Bees, Supplies. Fine Poultry, Small 

 Fruits, &c. Free. J^~Send for it and save money. 

 J. T. SCOTT & BRO„ Crawfish Springs, Ga. 2w32tx 



ITALIAN QUEENS. 



I can now furnish ITALIAN QUEENS, BY 

 RETURN MAIL, at the following prices: 



Tested Queens $ 1 50 



Warranted Queens 1 00 



Cyprian Queens, untested — 1 00 

 As most all the DollarQueens I sold 

 last year were pure, I will warrant 

 them this year. J.T.WILSON, 

 Mortonsville, Woodford Co., Ky. 



Read! Read! 



What our Customers say about our Queens : 



The best Italian Queens I ever purchased came 

 from you. W. MCKAY DOUGAN, M. D. 



Independence. Kas. 



Queen was received all right. Her progeny is 

 as well marked as herself, and she is the handsom- 

 est queen 1 ever received from any dealer. 



MARY E. SMEATON, Cbesaning, Mich. 



The colony of bees vou forwarded me last June 

 turned out very well, and such a colony of bees as 

 1 had at the close of summer was worth looking at. 

 J. MATTHEW JONES, Halifax, N. S. 



A thousand thanks for the two Cyprian Queens. 

 They are both hiving at the rate of 3.<hx> eggs per 

 day. C. A. STEVENS, St. Liboire, Ont., Canada, 



I have some of your light Italian stock. They 

 arc simply beautiful, and as for their honey-gath- 

 ering qualities, they cannot be excelled. 



J. P. REEVE, M. D., Blanco. Tex. 



We have the four races of bees : 



ITALIAN, CYPRIAN, 



Holy Land and Hungarian. 



All sent out thus far give general satisfaction. 

 The race of Hungarian- are very hardy, queens 

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 honey-gatherers and very gentle ; color dark ; no 

 pure queens of this race for sale, all are crossed 

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 race of bees in the world. All our DollarQueens 

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 Full colonies, in Standard Langstroth Hive, $12,00. 

 Nuclei and B^es by the pound. 



HENRY ALLEY, 

 3lsmtf Wenham, Essex Co., Mass. 



WANTED— A few tons of York State COMB 

 HONEY. State probable amount, how soon 

 it can be put in shipping order, and address 

 32w4tp F. I. SAGE, Wethersfleld, Conn. 



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BINGHAM & HETHEKINGT0N, 



OTSEGO, MICH. 



Rev. A. SALISBURY 



Camargo, Douglas County, III. 

 Warranted Italian Queens, $100; Tested Italian 

 Queens, $2 ; Cyprian Queens, $2.00 ; 

 Tested Cyprian Queens, $4 ; 1 frame 

 Nucleus, Italians. $4.00; 1 frame Nu- 

 cleus, Cyprians, $5 ; Colony of Ital- 

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ITALIAN BEES 



All standard colonies have eight frames, 17V6 

 inc. Ions and 1 1 inc. deep. All Nuclei, frames \iH 

 inc. long and lOK inc. deep. Single full colonies, 

 $ m ; in lots of five, each $9 ; in lots of ten or more, 

 each $8: single pure Tested Queen, $2.50; 1- 

 frame Nucleus, Tested Queen (June), $3.50; 2- 

 frame do., $4; 3-frame do., $5 ; 4-frame do., $5.50 ; 

 July, August and September, 5- frame Nucleus, 

 Tested Italian Queen, $o.no. No Dollar Queens 

 handled. Will guarantee safe delivery lat express 

 terminus) ot every order from my yards. Ship- 

 ping facilities, six times daily to all points. With 



•n years' experience in the propagation and hand- 

 ling 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. 

 No discount from above schedule. 

 Address all communications to 



J. H. ROBERTSON, 



Pewamo, Ionia Co.. Mich. 



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The Horse 



BY B. J. KENDALL, M. D. 



A TREATISE giving an index of diseases, 

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Price 25 cents.— Sent on receipt of price, by 



Address, 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



U74 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, IIJj. 



