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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 21. 



^A^fi^m^ : ^g>y FRANCES DUNHAM, 



If l£yi ^c3i M 7*-\\ UrJCrt^ 'i\S7 Wft Jtl ' Inventor and Sole Manufacturer of the 



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 — Yearly Contracts payable quarterly, in advance, 

 reliable dealers. Cases of real imposition will be 

 exposed. 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



»74 West Madison Street., Chicago, 111. 



Contents of this Number. 



F.tlllorlal : 



Editorial Items 401 



Hints fur a Beginner 401 



Honey as Medicine 401 



How to Get the Weekly Bee Journal Free 401 



Doolittle'a Club List 401 



The Apiary Register 401 



I'orreswondeuce : 



Mr. Heddon and " That Coming Bee" 402 



Selections from Our J,etter Box : 



Honey Cough Medicine -*<>- 



Comb Honey in Sections 402 



Every Number Worth a Dollar 402 



Labeled Pure 402 



Bees in Fair Condition 402 



Four Years' Experience 402 



Feeding in Winter 402 



Good Honey Crop 402 



Better than Bee Books 402 



Alfalfa Clover 402 



Bee-Keeping In North Carolina 402 



Convention Note* : 



Michigan State Convention 403 



Purity of Italian Bees 403 



New ttacesof Bees 403 



Shall We Continue to Import? 403 



Bees and Grapes 404 



Mistakes of Bee-Keepers 404 



Rearing and Selling Queens 404 



Glucose and Adulteration 405 



Future Honey Market 405 



Foul Brood 405 



Coming Bee Hive 406 



Extracted Honey 4o« 



Selling Bees by the Pound 406 



To the Bee-Keepers of Indiana 406 



Dunham Foundation Mill, 



Patented July 28th, 1881. 



pfNew Circular and Samples free. _#J 



Ismtf FRANCES DUNHAM, DePere, Wis. 



(juinby's New Bee- Keeping. 



If you desire the 

 benefit of an ex- 



Kertence which 

 ;is enabled us to 

 secure 32.809 lbs. 

 of honey from bio 

 colonies of bees 

 during the present 

 Be&8< >n, send for 

 our book. It con- 

 tains 270 pages, 

 with 100 illustrations, and is fully 

 up to the times. Price, by mail, 

 $1.50. We sell everything used in advanced 

 bee-culture. Send for our illustrated circular. 



L. C. ROOT & BRO., 



4RsmtI MOHAWK. NEW YORK. 



$gg- We are sometimes asked who 

 our authorized agents are '{ Every 

 subscriber is such an agent ; we have 

 no others, anil greatly desire that eacli 

 one would at least send in one new 

 subscriber with his own renewal for 

 1882. The next few weeks are the 

 time to do this. We hope every sub- 

 scriber will do his or her best to double 

 our list for 1882. 



HIVES AND SECTIONS, 



i p=q n 



We are in better shape than ever to furnish Bee 

 Hives and Sections, having remodeled our ma- 

 chinery, and put everything in tip-top order for 

 the coming season. We make a specialty of our 



"BOSS" ONE-PIECE SECTION. 



We have not sold any rights to manufacture, there- 

 fore we are the sole manufacturers In the United 

 States. Send for Price List. 



JAS. F0RNCR00K & CO. 

 Watertown, Wis., Dec, 1881. 



ALFRED H. NEWMAN, 



Dealer In all kinds of 



APIARIAN SUPPLIES, 



AND 



HONEY AND BEESWAX, 



974 West Madison Street, 



CHICACO, ILL. 



NOTH'K Some persona having infringed upon 

 our Patent "One-Piece Section," we hereby 

 u'ive n.itiri', tiuit wi' shall prosecute all manufac- 

 turers. We shall not molest bee-keepers for 

 USING those p uc * ■ h : i -> • ■ • i ht-tore Dec. 1st, 1881, but 

 hereby caution them against buying any except 

 those bearing our stamp. It has been reported by 

 Borne that ItTs our Intention only to prosecute bee- 

 keepers for using those One-Plece Sections here- 

 tofore purchased : this is wholly untrue and false. 

 .1 \S I'OKX KOOK. A CO. 

 Watertown, Wis., Dec. 15, 1881. 5lsmtf 



expenses toagents, 



addxeBsP O Vlfkery 

 Maine. 36wly 



MY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 



sent FREE upon application. 



Given's FoundationPress. 



The latest improvement in Foundation. Ourthin 

 and common Foundation is not surpassed. The 

 onlv invention to make Foundation in the wired 

 frame. AH Presses warranted to give satisfaction. 

 Send for Catalogue and Samples. 



2wiy ». 8. GIVEN, Hoopeston, 111. 



Bees and Queens 



FULL COLONIES of ITALIAN BEES, 



From my Apiaries. 



QUEENS and arUCJLEl IN SEASON. 



(^^"Satisfaction guaranteed. Circular on appli- 

 cation. J. Si KOKEKTSON, 



50wtf Fewamo, Ionia Co., Mich. 



(1ALIF0RJIANS ATTENTION. 



FOR SALE VERA* CHEAP, 



a four-inch Dunham Machine, just right to make 

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DAVIS' PATENT HONEY CAltRIAtiE, 



REVOLVING COMB-HANGER, 



Tool Box and Recording Desk Combined. 



Carries honey from the hive t" the Extractor, a set 

 Of apiarian tools, metal-lined drawers tor broken 

 combs and fragment* ot wax, revolving comb- 

 hanger, which holds I'litul) firmly while pruning or 

 cutting out queen cells, writing desk, and wash 

 basin ; will not break nor bruise combs ; adjusts 

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 is less laborious to handle than the ordinary hand- 

 baskets. Write your address on a postal card, and 

 address it to JOHN M. DAVIS, 



30wly Patentee and Proprietor, Spring Hill, Tenn. 



Rev. A. SALISBURY 



Camargo, Douglas County, III. 



Warranted Italian Queens, $1.00 ; Tested Italian 

 Queens, $2 ; Cyprian Queens. f'J.OO ; 

 TeatedCyprlanQueena,$4 ; 1 frame 

 Nucleus, Italians, $4.00; 1 frame Nu- 

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 III Anguila, -vi 



Texas Agricultural Journal. 



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circulates all over the State, and Is rapidly grow- 

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BEE-KEEPERS 



All buy Dodge's Summer and Winter Top and En- 

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Per doz., via express, JWS.OO, 



u. E. DODOS, Fredonla, n. v. 



Inventor and Sole Manuta. i nier. and manufac- 

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 5 1 w3t 



Bees for Sale. 



1 will sell "»«"> Colonies of Black Bees, 



in Hives from to three years old, to be deliv- 

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©5 ENGRAVINGS* 



The Horse 



BY B. J. KENDALL, M. D. 



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Trice 35 cent*.— Sent on receipt of price, by 



Address, 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



971 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Books for Bee -Keepers. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



974 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL, 



Bee-Reeper'n Guide ; or. Cook** Mannnl 

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 The book is a masterly production, and one that no 

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Qulnby's New Bee-Keeping, by L. C. Root— 



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Novice's ABC of Bee-Culture, by A. I. Root 

 -This em braces "everything pertaining to the care 

 ot the honey-bee." and is valuable to beginners and 

 those more advanced. Cloth, $1.85; paper, 91 • 



King'« Bee-KeeperV Text-Book, by A.J. 



King.— This edition is revised and brought down to 

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Lnnfcstroth on the Hive nnd Honey Bee, 



- This is a standard scientific work. Price, 98. 



Blessed Bees, by John Allen.— A romance of 

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 contagious enthusiasm. Cloth, Si.OO. 



Bees and Honey ; or, successful manage- 

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Dzlerzon Theory ;— presents the fundamen- 

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Honey, as Food and Medicine, by Thomas 

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 and Honey as Medicine with many useful Recipes. 

 It is intended for consumers, and should be scat- 

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"Wintering: Bees. — This contains the Prize 

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— wasawarded to Prot Cook's Essay, which is here 

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The Hive I Cse— Being a description of the 

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Extracted Honey: Harvesting, Handl- 

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Practical Hints to Bee-Keepem,"by Chas. 



F. Muth: 32 pages. It gives Mr. Muth's views on 

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Food Adulteration ; What we eat and should 

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Moore's Universal Assistant, nnd Com- 

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The work contains 1.016 pages. Is a veritable 

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Kendall's Horse Book. — No book could be 

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Kopp's Easy Calculator.— These are handy 



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Chicken Cholera, by A. J. Hill,— A treatise on 

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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



974 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



TIN FAILS FOR HONEY. 



These Palls have a full cover, and are excellent 

 for marketing Candied Honey. The -gallon and 

 half gallon pails have a bail or handle, the quarts 

 and pints have none. 



Assorted samples of the four sizes, put Inside 

 one another as a nest, price 50 cents. These pails 

 are very useful for many other purposes, after be- 

 ing emptied of the honey by consumers. The fol- 

 lowing are the prices : 



Per Doz. Per 100 

 Gallon, bidding in lbs. of boney.... $1.80.... $12.00 

 Hall tiallon, " 5 " " .... 1.50.... 9.00 

 Quart, " 2^ " " ... 1.20.... 7.00 

 Pint, " l*i " " 75.... 4.00 



COLORED LABELS. 



I now have on hand two sizes of Colored Labels 

 for these tin pails (one size for pints and quarts 

 and another for half-gallons and gallons), and can 

 supply any quantity of either size, by mail, post- 

 paid, at 1 cent each. When ion or more of either 

 size is ordered, I will print your name and address 

 on them without extra charge. Prices for larger 

 quantities than 200 given upon application. 



ALFRED H. NEWMAN, 



!>T2 West Madison Street, Chicago, 111, 



