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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 7. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN. 



074 West Madison Street., Chicago, III. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editorial : 



Editorial Items 281 



The Honev Season of 1881 281 



Unfortunate 281 



Plan for an Apiary 281 



The Old. old Story 282 



Another Disln meat Dealer 282 



The Bridal Eve 286 



Anionic our Exchange* : 



Large Crop of Honey in Canada 282 



The Late Editor of the Bienen Zeitung.. . 282 



Handling Bees Without Smoke .. 282 



Both Sides of the Question 282 



Bees in Southern California 282 



Correspondence : 



Honey- Producing Plants 283 



Pollen Detrimental to Wintering 283 



My Early Experience with Bees 283 



The Origin or Drones 284 



Are the New Races of Bees Superior?.... 284 



Methods of Obtaining Surplus Honey 284 



Bee-Cu iture fi >r the South 284 



Fertilization in Confinement 284 



The Three-Band Teat for Italian Bees 285 



Convention Note-. : 



Preparing Bees for Winter 285 



Selection* from Our Letter Box : 



Over n xi Pounds per Colony 286 



The Coming Bee 286 



The Bee Journal Worth $1" a year 286 



Royal J elly, etc 286 



Drouth in Texas 286 



Dry and Hot 286 



Lycium Barbarum 288 



The Nicest Honey for Years 288 



A Terror 286 



Meliloton Timbered Land 288 



Two Queens in One Hive... 286 



A Good Honev Plimt 286 



Eggs that Will Not Hatch 286 



H. A. Burch Again 286 



Rolling in Honey 286 



Vennor's Predictions 286 



Mv Report 286 



The Bogus Dunham Foundation / 286 



Notice to Vice Presidents. 

 I desire to say to the Vice Presidents of 

 the North American Bee-Keepers 1 Society, 

 that I wish each one would send me a re- 

 port of bees and honey in their respective 

 Stales, as it is customary for the Vice 

 Presidents to make such reports at the 

 annual meeting of our Society. I hope 

 that none of them will fail to do so. 1 

 would be glad to meet them at the Conven- 

 tion, and become personally acquainted 

 with them. Programmes will be sent to 

 them for distribution to the bee-keepers of 

 their States. N. P. Allen, Pres. 



ilJCllTew ANTED to sell Dr.Chase's 2,000 Recipe 



Hut-Pi 10 Book. Sells at Sight, Double your money 



AddressDr.Chase'sPrintingHouse,A.nnArbor,Micb 



36m ly 



WAXTRD-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, We thersileld, Conn. 



HOW T ° MAKE M0NKY - For particulars 



Kalamazoo, Mich, 



10 cents to Lock Box »18, 

 3_Wl3t 



FREE 



| A sample copy of theNew England Bee 

 ■ Journal. H.Poole, Mechanic Falls, Me. 



Be SURE 



To send a postal card for OUT Illustrated Catalogue 

 Of Apiarian Supplies before purchasing elsewhere. 

 It contains Illustrations ami descriptions of every- 

 thing new and valuable needed in an apiary, at the 

 lowest prices. Italian, Cyprian and Holy Land 

 Queens ami Bees. 



.1. < . .V II. P. x \ 1 l,i;s. 

 2eowl5t Hartford, Wis. 



QUEENS! QUEENS T 



One Dollar will buy one of our beautifnl Italian, 

 Cyprian, Holy Land or Hungarian Queens; will 

 select the very bent, from 200 queens, for $1,50 

 each, all warranted pure and safe arrival by mall 

 guaranteed. Send for 20th circular. 



H. ALLEY, 



35wlt Wenhum, Muso. 



$777 



A YEAKand expenses to agents, 

 outfit free.addressP.O.VIekery 

 AngiiNla, Maine. MGwly 



Excelsior Honey 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 lOO pound* per hour. 

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

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



Truly yours, J. M SHUCK. 



Des Moines, Iowa, July 30, 1881. 



Sizes and Prices of Extractors : 



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



No. 2— for 2 American frames, 13x13 inc 8 00 



No. 3— for 2 frames of any size, 13x30 inc — 12 00 

 No. 4— for 3 frames of any size, 12^x220 inc. 12 OO 

 No. 5— for 4 frames of any size, 1 3x20 inc. ... 14 00 



ALFRED H. NEWMAN, 



3itf 972 West Madison Street, Chicago, 111. 



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 

 Asmostall the DollarQueens I sold 

 last year were pure. I will warrant 

 them this year. J.T.WILSON, 

 Mortonsville, Woodford Co., Ky. 



THE KANSAS BEE-KEEPER, 



Published Monthly at Columbus, Kan., 



A new sixteen-column bee paper, devoted entirely 

 to the best interests of honey producers ; dealers 

 in Supplies and breeders of Queens and Bees. 

 Will be sent to any address one year for only thirty 

 cents. We club with the Weekly American Bee 

 Journal for only $2.15. Sample copies free. Ad- 

 dress, SCOVELL & ANDERSON, 

 28wtf Columbus, Kansas. 



Rev. A. SALISBURY 



Camargo, Douglas County, 111. 



Warranted Italian Queens, $1.00; 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- 

 ians, 8 frames. $8. 00 ; Colony of Cyp- 

 rians, 8 frames, $10.00. Wax worked 

 10c. per lb. Pure Comb Foundation, 

 on Dunham Machine, 25 lbs. or over, 



35c. per lb. B3fSend forCircular. lwly 



HONEY AJJPECIALTY. 



■W. F. COITITBE., 



Late of Conner, Burnett & Co., 



161 So. Water Street, Chicago, 



PRODUCE COMMISSION. 



We aBk you to correspond with us before dispos- 

 ing of your HONEY CROP, as we can be of much 

 Bervice, having constant Intelligence from all parts 

 of the country. 



We would refer to James Hkddon, Dowagiac, 

 Mich., and J.Oatman & Sons, Dundee, 111. 31wly 



FLAT - BOTTOM 



COMB FOUNDATION. 



high side-walls,! to 16 square feet to 

 the pound. Circular and samples free. 



J. VAN DEUSEN & SONS, 

 Sole Manufacturers, 

 Sprout Brook, Mont. Co., N. Y. 



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 satis- 

 faction, Send for Catalogue and SampleB. 



lwly ». S. GIVEN, Hoopeston, 111. 



Italian bees Books for Bee -Keepers. 



All standard colonies have eight frames, 17!^ 

 inc. long and n inc. deep. All Nuclei, frames 1 1H 

 inc. long and 10M inc. deep. Single full colonies, 

 $10; in lots of Uve, each $9 ; in lots of ten or more, 

 each $h : single pure Tested Queen. $2.50; )- 

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

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

 July, August and September, 5-frame Nucleus, 

 Tested Italian Queen, $5.00. No Dollar Queens 

 handled. Will guarantee safe delivery (at express 

 terminus) ol every order from my yards. Ship- 

 ping facilities, six times daily to all points. With 

 20 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. II. ROBERTSON, 



25wtf Pewamo, Ionia Co., Mich. 



For the past few years I have made this excellent 

 food my leading article. Having the best estab- 

 lished reputation in this city as a dealer in PURE 

 HONEY direct from the Apiaries, enables me to 

 obtain the highest market prices. Your consign- 

 ments and correspondence respectfully solicited. 



K. A. BURNETT, Commission Merchant, 



Successor to Conner, Burnett & Co., 

 34wl3t 1«5 So. Water Street, Chicago, HI. 



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BINGHAM & HETHERINGT0N, 



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JUST WHAT YOU HAVE WANTED ! 



A Good Foundation Machine 



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Having been persuaded to get up several for my 

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WANTED— You to send for our Circular and 

 Price list of American-Italian*. 

 Address, JOS. ML BKOUKS A KRO., 



13wtim Columbus, lnd. 



THE m\\)M FARMER, 



THE OM."»" 



Agricultural Weekly 



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