1881. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



287 



SPECIAL NOTICES. 



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(^ Those who may wish to change 

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Advertisements intended for the Bee 

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Ribbon Budges, for bee-keepers, on 

 which are printed a large bee m gold, 

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Photographs of prominent Apiarists 

 — Langstroth,Dzierzon, and the Baron 

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■kb. When changing a postoffice ad- 

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new address. 



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igj* Constitutions and By-Laws for 

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Faded or Gray Hair gradually re- 

 covers its youthful color and lustre by 

 the use of Parker's Hair Balsam, an 

 elegant dressing, admired for its pur- 

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There is More Strength restoring 

 power in a 50 cent bottle of Parker's 

 Ginger Tonic than in a bushel of malt 

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A Sample Copy of the Weekly Bee 

 Journal will be sent free to any per- 

 son. 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. 



Examine the Date following your 

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 you have paid. Always send money 

 by postal order, registered letter, or 

 by draft on Chicago or New York. 

 Drafts on other cities, or local checks, 

 are not taken by the banks in this city 

 except at a discount of 25 cents, to pay 

 expense of collecting them. 



Premiums.— For a club of 2, weekly 

 we give a copy of "Bees and Iloney;" 

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

 Cook's Manual, a Bee-Keeper's Guide, 

 bound in cloth ; for a club of 6, we give 

 a copy of the Journal for a year free. 

 It will pay to devote a few hours to 

 the Bee Journal. 



®° It would save us much trouble, 

 if all would be particular to give their 

 post office address and name, when 

 writing to this office. We have letters 

 (some inclosing money) that have no 

 name, post-office, County or State.— 

 Also,ifyou li"e near one postoffice and 

 get your mail at another, be sure to 

 give the address we have on our list. 



Premiums. — Those who get up clubs 

 for the Weekly Bee Journal for 

 1882, will be entitled to the following 

 premiums : 



For a Club of 2,— a copy of " Bees and Horjey." 

 8,— an Emerson Binder for 1882. 



" " 4,— Cook's (Bee) Manual, paper. 



5,— " '" cloth. 



" " fi,— Weekly Bee Journal for 1 year. 



©•We have a SPECIAL EDITION 

 of the Weekly Bee Journal, just as 

 it will be published in 1882(16 pages), 

 for distribution at Fairs, Conventions, 

 etc. Any one who may desire to dis- 

 tribute them to bee-keepers will be 

 supplied free, in any quantity they 

 may be able to judiciously use. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



lU'VlTHS' QUOTATIONS. 



CHICAGO. 



IIONKV— New honey is coming in freely ami the 

 demand is good. 



We .linn,' light comb honey, in single comb 

 boxes, [8®20o j In larger boxes 2o. leas. Extracted 



BEESWAX Prime quality, I8@210. 



AX.. H. NEWMAN, ;»72 VV. Madison St. 

 Chicago. Sept. .".. 1881. 



NEW YORK. 



HONEY There is no settled market price yet 

 Inr ln.iicy, as there is none selling. 



We quote as follows : White comb, in small 

 boxes, l.X'iilSe ; dark, in small boxes, I _*i L > 15c. Ex- 

 tracted, white, 10@12c; dark, 7<$8o. 



BEESWAX. -Prime quality, 22®24c, 



THORN & Co., 1 1 and 13 Devoe avenue. 



New York, Auk. 18. 1881. 



CINCINNATI. 



HONEY.— Last week I paid King Cramer 17c. per 

 lb. for a lot of about 2,00U lbs. It was in the Muth 

 sections. oV^xil, without separators. Every comb 

 is perfect, which speaks well for the producer. If 

 Mr. Cramer did not succeed, this season, in estab- 

 lishing rules for queen fertilization, he succeeded 

 admirably in getting one of the Hnest lots of comli 

 honey in the country. Extracted honey is just 

 commencing to be in good demand. 



I quote : Good comb honey, in sections, isworth 

 14@16c on arrival. Extracted, 7@9C, on arrival. 



BEESWAX— 18022C. on arrival. 1 have paid 

 2.")C. per lb. for choice lots. C. F. Ml'TH. 



Cincinnati. Aug. 31. 1881. 



BOSTON. 



HONEY— The prices of honey are not regularly 

 quoted in our papers here. We quote : Honey in 

 1 pound sections retails at 25C; in 2 pound sec- 

 tions, 20c. 



BEESWAX-Pi ime quality. 25c. 



Chockek & Blake, 57 Chatham Street, 



Boston, Mass., Aug. 31, 1881. 



CLEVELAND. 



HONEY — Coin b honey continues in good demand 

 at 20c, for 1 lb. white and 19c. for 2 lb. sections. 

 Extracted honey, lo(a,i2c. 



BEESWAX— 18O20C. 



A. C. Kendel, 115 Ontario Street. 



Cleveland, O-.Sept. 3. 1881. 



BALTIMORE. 



HONEY.-Both the supply and demand are too 

 meager to report. 



BEESWAX.— Southern, pure,21@23c; Western, 

 pure, 22c; grease wax, 12(yil3c— Baltimore Marktl 

 Journal. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



HONEY.— A sale of 50 cases of old extracted, 

 clear, is noted at loc, an extreme figure with 

 wholesale buyers. Some new extracted is offering 

 at Pc, whole other lots are limited at lie, but the 

 latter price is beyond anything now obtainable, 

 notwithstanding the light supply. 



We quote white comb, I4@16o.; dark togO"d,ll@ 

 13c. Extracted, choice to extra white, !n.'loi„c.; 

 dark and candied. 7iu*c BEESWAX— 23@25c 

 Stearns & Smith, 123 Front Street. 



San Francisco. Cal.. Aug. 27. 1881. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 

 HONEY.— New, in 1 or 2 lb. sections, 22@25c— 

 Indianapolis stock Renew. 



ST. LOUIS. 

 HONEY.— Demand improving slightly ; prices 

 unchanged. 



We quote: New, strained, 7@8c; extracted, in 

 cans,8®10c; comb, 13i- 14c. 

 BEESWAX — Prime yellow sells at 20@21e. 



K. C. Greek a Co., 1 17 N. Main Street. 

 St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 3, 1881. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1881. Time and Place o] Meeting. 



Sept. 13-15— Ontario Bee-Keepers, Toronto, Ont. 

 27— Eastern N. Y. Union, Knowersville. N. Y. 

 N. D. West, Sec. Middleburg. N. Y. 

 Oct. 4— Eastern Michigan, at Detroit, Mich. 



A. B. Wetd, Sec, Detroit, Mich. 

 5— Southeastern Mich., at Ann Arbor, Mich. 

 5-7— National. atLexington, Ky. 



Dr. E. Parmly, Sec, New York City. 

 12— Kentucky State, at Louisville, Ky. 

 11, 12— Northern Michigan, at Maple Rapids. 

 O. R. Goodno. Sec, Carson City. Mich. 

 II, 12— Northeastern Wis., at Pewaukee, Wis. 



Frances Dunham, Sec, DePere. Wis. 

 12— Central Ky., in Exp. B'd'g, Louisville. Ky. 



W. Williamson. Sec, Lexington, Ky. 

 2C— Union Kentucky, at Shelbyville, Ky. 



G. W. Demaree, Sec, Christiansburg, Ky. 

 25, 26— Northwestern District, at Chicago, III. 



C. C. Cofnnberry, Sec, Chicago, 111. 

 27— Central Michigan, at Lansing, Mich. 



George L. Perry, Sec. 

 27— Western Mich., at Berlin, Mich. 

 Wm. M. S. Dodge, Sec, Coopersville, Micb. 

 Nov. 30— S. W. Wisconsin, at Plattevllle. Wis. 



N. E. France, Sec, Platteville, Wis. 

 1882. 

 Jan. 10— Cortland Union, at Cortland. N. Y. 



C. M. Bean, Sec, McGrawville, N. Y. 

 25— Northeastern, at Utica, N. Y. 



Geo. W. House, Sec, Fayetteville, N, Y. 

 April 11— Eastern Michigan, at Detroit, Mich. 

 A B. Weed, Sec, Detroit, Mich. 

 27— Texas State, at McKinney, Texas. 



Wm. R. Howard, Sec. 



May Champlain Valley, at Bristol, Vt. 



T. Brookins, Sec 



t&~ In order to have this table complete, Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— ED. 



CLOSING OUT FOR 1881. 



Six Italian Queens for !$.». Puritv, safe ar- 

 rival mid aatisfai tion guaranteed. Address, 

 anwltp REV. J. E. KEARNS, Morning Sun, Iowa. 



SPECIAL SALE OF QUEENS. 



To close out my present stock of Hue ITALIAN 

 QUEENS,! will B eii im Dollar Queens at 65c. each 

 or *7.uu per doz. Also, 'J~> Tested at $i.<>oeacb. 



sewitp E. A. THOMAS, Coleraine, Mass. 



FRANCES DUNHAM, 



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Every Bee-keeper 



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 how to get the most Honey 



Dunham Foundation Mill, 



Patented Aug. 23th, 1881. 



C#~ New Circular and Samples free, ^t 



lsmtf FRANCES DUNHAM, DePere, Wis. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, 



Roger* vllie, Genesee County, Mich., 



Makes a specialty of rearing fine Italian queens. 

 All queens bred from imported queens, ana from 

 the purest and best home-bred queens, and the 

 cells built in full colonies. No black bees in the 

 vicinity. Single queen, $1.00 ; six queens for $5.00; 

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

 each. Safe arrival by mail guaranteed. Send 

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

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Bees for Sale. 



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For particulars and circular of General Supplies, 

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Our Comb Foundation was awarded the diplo- 

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W. F. & JOHN BARNES. 

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Italian Queens Only 80 Cents. 



Warranted $l.ili). Tested $1.50. 10 frame Culonies 

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 umHt K. A. THOMAS, Coleraine. Mass. 



END for MY CIRCVLiS and PRICE 

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