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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



974 West Madison Street.. Chicago, Hi. 



Contents of this Number. 



Editorial : 



Editorial Items :il :*, 314 



Thi_- Boney Crop for 1*81 313 



Colorado for Honey Production 313 



Attractive Packages for Honey 313 



The Bee Journal in Canada 313 



Live Oak Honey Dew 314 



Among mil' Exchanges: 



The Sense of Color in Bees 314 



Colorado Bee and Honey Show 314 



Seasonable Hints :i 14 



< orrespondeoce : 



Ten-Dollar Award for Best Queen 315 



The Disposal of Honey 315 



Improvement in Bees, Albinos, etc 315 



Bees, Glucose and Honey Comb 315 



More about Fertile Workers 316 



Dadants' Report of Honey Crop 3ifi 



Palestine or Holy Lund Keen 3m 



The First Movable- Frame Hive 316 



The Purity of Drones 316 



I'mni'iiliiiii Not>— : 



Ontario Convention 316 



Selection* from Our Letter Box : 



More Honey Than. Ever 318 



No Surplus 318 



Sample for Next Year 318 



California Honey Crop 318 



About 33ii lbs. oi Honey from Une Colony 318 



Bingham's Bee Report 318 



Virginia Honey Yield 318 



Av erage of Nearly no lbs. to the Colony.. 318- 



Chaff Hives 31H 



The Fall Honey Crop ». 3|S 



Drones from an Unfertile Queen ...... 318 



Hardly an Indorsement 3l« 



A Lady's Experience 318 



The Weekly, One Good Meal 318 



A Correction 318 



No Honey at Toledo Fair 318 



Remedy for Ants in the Apiary 318 



Honey Season in Massachusetts 318 



But Little Surplus Honey 318 



fliT Many will be glad to know that 

 Prof. Cook intends to be at the Na- 

 tional Convention. Ifis friends in the 

 Southern and Middle States will be 

 glad to make his acquaintance. 



flgT It will pay to devote a few hours 

 in getting up a club f irthe Bee Jour- 

 nal. Bead the list of premiums on 



another page, and tike advantage of 

 the fall gatherings to get up clubs. 



iggr Subscriptions may commence 

 with the first number of any month in 

 the year. 



FOK SALE- 150 Colonies of Italian Bees in 

 Unproved Qulnby hives, In prime condition. 



39wly L. C. A.Vl ELL. Uo-eville, Warren Co., III. 



TTflWT TO MAKE MONEY. For particulars 

 tlU VV enclose 10 cents to Lock Box :tl«, 

 Kalamazoo. Mich, 34wi3t 



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, 



i)72 West Madison St., CHICAGO, I1X. 



$777 



A YEAR and expenses to agents, 

 outfit frecaddressP O Vlekery 

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FLAT- BOTTOM 



COMB FOUNDATION, 



high side-walls,! to lti square feet to 

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J. VAN DEUSEN A SONS, 



Bole Manufacturers, 



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



Rev. A. SALISBURY 



Camargo, Douglas County, 111. 



Warranted Italian Queens. $1.00 ; Tested Italian 

 Queens, $2 ; Cyprian Queens, $'-'.00 ; 

 Tested Cyprian Queens, $4 ; 1 frame 

 Nucleus, Italians, $4.00; 1 frame Nu- 

 cleus, Cyprians, $5 ; Colony of Ital- 

 ians, 8 frames. $9-00 ; Colony of Cyp- 

 rians, 8 frames, $10.00. Wax worked 

 j^illOc. per lb. Pure Comb Foundation, 

 on Dunham Machine, 25 lbs. or over, 



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 details about the 

 care of bees, and 

 how to get the most H 



rll.is F. MCTII, No. »7 

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ELECTROTYPES 



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Warranted $1.00 , Tested 81.50. lo frame Colonies 

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ITALIAN BEES 



All standard colonies have eight frames, l~H 

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

 inc. long and I0M inc. deep. Single full colonies, 

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

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

 frame Nucleus, Tested Queen (June), S3.50; 2- 

 frame do., M; :t-frame do., $."> ; 4-frame do.. $5 SO ; 

 July, August and September, 5- frame Nucleus, 

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 terminus! Ol every order from my yards. Ship- 

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 ;*n years' experience in the propagation and hand- 

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.1. II- ROBERTSON, 



25wtf Pewamo, Ionia Co., Mich. 



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W. F. & JOHN BARNES 

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FARM FOR SALE. 



290 ACRES, 



well calculated for a Stock and Bee Farm ; 10 

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ITATJANBEES 



Seventy-Five Colonics for Sale. 



All bred from Imported Mothers. Simplicity 

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