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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 16. 



Frances dunham, Italian bees Books for Bee-Keepers 



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Contents of this Number. 



Editorial : 



Editorial Items 361, 362 



No vice and Glucose 361 



The Queen- Breeders of Italy 362 



Controversial 3G2 



Vennur's Weather Predictions 362 



Fragrant 36:2 



Among our Exchanges : 



Good Fall Crop Of Honey 362 



Bees in Navarro County, Texas 362 



Well Turned 362 



Avoid lift- .Murder 362 



Curiosities uf Bee Stings 362 



l'orre*|ion«lcnce : 



That "Coming Bee" 363 



Bees and Honey in California 363 



The Business of Supply Dealers 363 



The Best Out Door Protection 363 



Bacteria and Bee-Bread 364 



Three- Bund Test for Italian Bees 364 



How 1 Winter My Bees 365 



Convention Notes : 



Canadian Convention 3G5 



Saunders County, N b., Convention 365 



Selection* from Our l>etter Box : 



Best Hive for Comb Honey 366 



Po-t Honey Season 366 



Kntirelv Satisfied 366 



Honey from Aisike Clover 366 



The National Convention 366 



Sprint: and Summer Honey Plant- 



Using Drone Foundation 366 



Italian Beea are (food Enough 366 



Hone v rake Recipes. 366 



Mid Queens 366 



Why the Difference? 366 



New Courage for Next Seasen 366 



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1882, will be entitled to the following 

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 may count in the club : 



For a Club of 35,— a copy of " Bees and Honey." 

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" *• 5,— " " cloth. 



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Or they may deduct 10 per cent in cash 

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A Farmer's Paper.— Attention is 

 culled to the advertisement of the 

 Ohio Farmer, of Cleveland, O., in this 

 issue of our paper. It is one of the 

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C. Olm's Comb Foundation Machine. 



jy Send for Sample and Circular. 



lBmtf C OLM, Fond du Lac, Wis. 



For the pant few years I have made this excellent 

 food niy leading article. Having the best *-stab- 

 llshed i eputatlon In tins city aa a dealer In PURL 

 HONEY direct irom the Apiaries, enables me to 

 obtain the highest market prices. Your consign- 

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K. A. BUENETT, Commission Merchant, 



Successor to Conner, Burnett A Co., 

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ELECTROTYPES 



Of Enpravings used in the Bee Journal for sale at 

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 than50C THOMAS O. NEWMAN, 



974: WeBt Madison Street, Chicago, 111. 



Dunham Foundation Mill, 



Patented An?. 23th, 1881. 



jy New Circular and Samples free. .JEJ 



lsmtf FRANCES DUNHAM, DePere, Wis. 



(juinby's New Bee -Keeping. 



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Half Gallon, " 5 " " .... 1.50..., 9.00 

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 on D unham Machine, 25 lbs. or over. 

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J. VAN DEUSEN & SONS, 

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All standard colonies have eight framfs, l"Hj 

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 each $m : single pure Tested Queen, *L'.~>o ; l- 

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

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 July, August and September, 5-fran e Nucleus. 

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Address all communications to 



J. H. ROBERTSON, 



2">wtf Pewamo, Ionia Co., Mich. 



I will buy a few tons of Extracted 

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Correspondence solicited. 



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972 West Madison street. CHICAGO, 11,1-. 



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