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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 14. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



074 West Madison Street., Chicago, 111. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editorial Items 



Foreign Demand for Honey 



Centralizing the Honey Tr flic. 



St. Joseph, Mo., Exposition 



The Honey Harvest 



288 

 289 



r«i'i-t'»i>ini«ii-ii« i «' : 



Origin of Drones— Parthenogenesis 



Visit tu Mr. Jones' Bee Islands 



September Work in the Apiary 



Co-operation Necessary 



R..cky Mountain Bee Plant 



Management for September 



Ants in the Apiary 



Improving Huney Plants 



Convention Note* : 



Kentucky State Convention 



Convention Notices 



Selection* from Our Letter Box : 



Bees Doing Well on Fall Flowers 



Cheap Foundation Machines 



California Honey Crop 



k:i 2 Pages for *2.00 



Dried to a Crisp 



Hopes Revived 



My Experience with Bees 



Extracted . .oney in Canada 



Dwindling 



Tue Drouth 



Explanation of Mailing Label 



130 Pounds i»f Surplus Honey per Colony. 



Getting Hid of Fertile Workers 



Honey Season in Florida 



Meliiot and Spider Plant 



Poor Honey Season 



Size for Nucleus Hives 



Abnut Winter Temp> rature 



Fair Increase, but Little Surplus 



Seeds for Honey Plants 



Rev. Mr. Langs troth's Promise 



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 page 15. Every bee-keeper should 

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FOR SALE, 



Forty Colonies of PURE TALI AN BEES. Must 

 be sold within SO days. For particulars, address 

 L. WEITZEL, Yorkville, Dearborn Co., Ind. 

 37wit p - 



Double-Boarded Langstroth Hives. 



A few good colonies of Cyprian. Holy Land, Hun- 

 garian and Italian bees for sale in the above hives. 

 They require the least lumber and labor in their 

 construction of any hive in use— best hive for win- 

 ter. Send lor price iist. 



37w3t M. ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. 



1IAW TO MAKE MONEY. For particulars 

 i I V7 it enclose 10 cents to Lock Box 318, 

 Kalamazoo. Mich, 34wl3t 



FREE 



| A sample copy of theNewEnglaiidBee 

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



$777™! 



YEAR and expenses toagents, 

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\XTED-You to send for our Circular and 

 Price list of American-Italian*. 

 Address, JOS. >! . KUOUKS A RRO., 



13wt;m Columbus, lnd. 



DAVIS' PATENT HONEY CARRIAGE, 



REVOLVING COMB-HANGER, 



Tool Box and Recoi ding Desk Combined. 



Carries honey from the hive to the Extractor, a set 

 of apiarian tools, metal-lined drawers for broken 

 combs and fragments of wax, revolving comb- 

 hanger, which holds comb firmly while pruning or 

 cutting out queen cells, writing desk, and wash 

 ba In ; wilt nut break nor bruise combs ; adjusts 

 to fit ail sizes of extracting and brood c Hi bs, and 

 Is less laborious to handle than the ordinary hand- 

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 address It to JOHN M. OYVIS, 



30wiy Patentee and Proprietor, Spring Hill, Tenn. 



SEEDS FOR 



Honey Plants. 



I keep at all times a full supply of 

 Seeds for Honey Plants, including 



Melilot Clover, 



White Clover, 



Alsike Clover, 



Mammoth Mignonette, &c. 



Send for my catalogue which gives 

 prices and instructions for planting- 

 sent free upon application. 



ALFRED H. NEWMAN. 



972 West Madison St.. 



(HICAftO, 111 



QUEENS ! QUEENS ! 



One Dollar will buy onp of our beautifnl Italian, 

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 select ttie very best, from 200 queens, for (1.50 

 each, all warranted pure and safe arrival by mail 

 guaranteed. Send for i!0th circular. 



JE3L. ALLEY, 



33w3t Weill am, Mann. 



THE Mm BEEKEEPER, 



Published Monthly at Columbus, Kan,, 



A new sixteen-coiumn 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 



. -^y Queens, *2 ; Cyprian Queens, J2.00 ; 



tUBj . Tested Cyprian Queens, $4 ; l frame 



VTVjjrV' Nucleus, Italians, $L0O; 1 frame Nu- 



x ffliff^ \ eleus, Cyprians, fa ; Colony of Ital- 



<'■<> CT aW ilins ' 8 frames, $8.00 ; Colony of Cyp- 



r>'.- "'* FatfV ' \ riana, 8 frames, $10.00. Wax worked 



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HONEY A SPECIALTY. 



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Late of Conner, Burnett & Co., 



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We ask vou to correspond with us before dispos- 

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 of the country. 



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6@ ENGRAVINGS 



The Horse 



BY B. J. KENDALL, M. D. 



A TREATISE giving an index of diseases, 

 and the symptoms ; cause and treatment of each, a 

 table giving all the principal drugs used for the 

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Address, 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



97) West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



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A Good Foundation Machine 



FOR ONLY FIVE DOLLARS! 



and one that works with 



RAPIDITY AND SATISFACTION. 



Having been persuaded to get up several for my 

 immediate friends. 1 have on hand the patterns. 

 etc., to make any number. Therefore, send in your 

 orders, laiwtf J W. G. PHELPS, Galena, Md. 



ITALIAN BEES 



All standard colonies have, eight frames, 17HJ 

 inc. long and 1 1 inc. deep. All Nuclei, frames 1 IJ4 

 inc. long and K$i inc. deep. Single full colonies, 

 *lo; in lots of five, each $!> ; in lots of ten or more, 

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

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

 frame do., *4; y-frame do., $5 ; 4-frame 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) oi 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. H. ROBERTSON, 



25wtf Pewamo, Ionia Co., Mich. 



For the past few years 1 have made this excellent 

 food my leading article, (laving the best i-siab- 

 lished reputation in this city as a dealer in PUKE 

 HONEY direct irom the Apiaries, enables me to 

 obtain the highest market prices. Your consign- 

 ments and correspondence respectfully solkited. 



R. A. BURNETT, Commission Merchant, 



Successor to Conner, Burnett & Co., 

 34wi:it 165 So. Water Street, Chicago, 111. 



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 Considering the cost and trouble of wax- 

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