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THT AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Issued every Wednesday by 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN & SON, 



PmiPHIETOKS. 



923& 925 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 

 At Cue Dollar a If car. 



ALFRED H, NEWMAN. 



Business Manageb. 



flpxcial Notices, 



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To Correspondents. — It would save 

 us much trouble, if all would be particular 

 U) give their P. O. address and name, when 

 writing to this office. We have several letters 

 {some inclosing money) that have no name: 

 many others having no Post-OfBce, County 

 or State. Also, if you live near one post- 

 office and get your mail at another, be sure 

 to give the address we have on our list. 



Dr. Miller's Book, "A Year Among 

 the Bees," and the Bee JouknjIl, for one 

 year, we will club for $1.50. 



A Ne¥» Crate to hold one dozen one-pound 

 sections of honey.— It has a strip of glass on 

 each side, to allow the honey to be seen. It 

 Is a light and attractive package. As it holds 

 but one tier of sections, no damage from the 

 drippings from an upper tier can occur. We 

 can furnish the material, ready to nail, for 

 9 cts. per crate. Glass 13ic. per light, extra. 



Bees for Sale.— We offer to sell a few 

 strong coloniesof Italian bees, in ten-frame 

 Simplicity hives, at $6.00 each. 



Red Labels for one-pound pails of 

 honey, size 3xi\i inches. — We have just 

 gotten up a lot of these Labels, and can 

 supply them at the following prices : 100 

 for $1.00 ; 250 forSl..jO ; 500 for $2.00 ; 1,000 

 for $:'.00 ; all with name and address of 

 apiarist printed on them— by mail, postpaid. 



Yncca Brnslies are employed for re- 

 moving bees from the combs. They are a 

 soft, vegetable flher, and do not irritate the 

 bees. As each separate fiber extends the 

 whole length of the handle as well as the 

 brush, they are almost indestructable. 

 When they become sticky with honey, they 

 can be washed, and when dry, are as good 

 as ever. The low price at which they are 

 sold, enables any bee-keeper to have six or 

 more of them, so as to always have one 

 handy. We can supply them at 5 cents 

 each, or 50 cents a dozen ; if sent by mail, 

 add 1 cent each for postage. 



System and Success. 



^^ All who intend to be systematic in 

 their work in the apiary, should get a copy of 

 the Apiary Register and commence to use it. 

 the prices are reduced, as follows : 



For 50 colonies (120 pages) $1 00 



'• 100 colonies (220 pages) 125 



" 200 colonies (420 pages) 1 50 



The larger ones can be used for a few col- 

 onies, give room for an increase of numbers, 

 and still keep the record all together in one 

 book, and are therefore the most desirable. 



Siniiitiiis' Noii«S\variiiiiij2: Systeiu is 



the title of a new English bee-book. The 

 author claims that it will inaugurate a " new 

 era in modern bee-keeping," and states that 

 "it is based upon purelj' natural principles, 

 and is the only system that can ever be 

 relied upon, because no other condition 

 exists in the economy of the hive that can 

 be applied to bring about the desired result 

 — a total absence of any desire to swarm." 

 It contains 64 pages ; is well printed aod 

 illustrated. Price 50 cents. It can now be 

 obtained at this office. 



When Renewing: your subscription 

 please try to get your neighbor who keeps 

 bees to join with you in taking the Bek 

 Journal. It is now so cheap that no one 

 can afford to do without it. We will present 

 a Binder for the Bee Jouhnal to any one 

 sending us four subsci-iptions — with $4.00— 

 direct to this otlice. It will pay any one to 

 devote a few hours, to get subscribers. 



i^~ Sweet CloTer, or Melilotus Alba, is 

 almost the only resource for honey now, 

 on account of the late severe July drouth. 

 If the seed is planted in September, it will 

 come up this Fall and bloom ne.xt year, in 

 its second season. 



We have a large lot of this seed on hand, 

 and offer it at the following Reduced 

 Prices, by express or freight : 



One pound $0 20 



" peck— 151bs 2 25 



" bushel— 00 lbs 7 00 



" sack— 80 lbs 8 00 



It will pay to buy it by the sack and sell it 

 again in smaller quantities. 



1^~ If you want a chance to make some 

 money, and provide pasturage for the bees 

 during the Fall months, this is your oppor- 

 tunity I 



Italian Queens.— We have a few un- 

 tested queens which we can send by return 

 mail. Three for $2.75 ; six for $5.00 ; twelve 

 for $0.00. For Tested, double the prices. 



When Marketing Extracted Honey, 



t is a sad blunder to use barrels holding 

 from .300 to 500 pounds— the.v are too large 

 ito be desirable for the trade, too bulky to be 

 handled with care in transportation, and too 

 dear to be lucrative to the producer, for 

 honey put up in such large barrels is subject 

 to a discount of one cent per pound, because 

 of the difficulty in disposing of it without 

 repacking and dividing into smaller lots. 



QUEENS for SALE or EXCHANGE. 



" Jerseyville. Ills.. Julv 23. I88fi.— Mr. James T 

 Wiigon : Dear Sir-The5o Italiao Queens that I 

 bought of you last year were all purely mated 

 except une. The most of them were Choice 

 Queens, and just as good as higher priced ones, 

 for general purposes.— E. Armstrony." 



OneQneen.VGc; u for |;4.ihi. Will work as well 

 on red clover as anybody's Queens. I will ex- 

 change Queens for Uoney, Alsike Clover Seed or 

 Poland-China Hogs. 



1^^ Atl Queens sent by Return Mail, unless 

 notified to the contrary. Address. 



35Alt J. T. WILSON, Nicholasville, Ky. 



THE CHAPMAN HQNEY-PLANT. 



IT has not been my aim to say much about, or 

 offer any seed oT my Hor.ev-Pljint for sale, till 

 after the rep<^irt of tlie cnmmittee appointed by 

 the North American Bee-Keepers' ^uciety to 

 examine and detfrruine its value as a Honey- 

 Plant. The committee met at my place on July 28 

 (all but Mr. Manum. of Vt., who was prevented 

 by unforeseen circumstances). The committee 

 present was A. I Root, of Medina, ()., L. C. hoot, 

 of Mohawk, N. -V-.and N.W.Meljain, of Aurora, 

 Ills. They will reprtrt to the annual meeting of 

 the Society at Indianapolis, Ind.. < ct. 12—14, 1SS6. 

 Since the meeting of the committee at my place, 

 members of it have written so favorably of the 

 Plant in the bee-papers that I have received a 

 large number of letters of Inquiry, requiring 

 much of my time to answe-r. I now wish to say thaV 

 I have no seed but the present season's growth, 

 which will not be ready 1 1 send out until about 

 Oct. 20. After the repnrt of the committee at 

 Indianapolis, I will advertise the seed for sale in 

 all the leading bee-papers. It will be sold in half- 

 ounce, ounce, I'-tiunce and four^-ounce packages. 

 The prices will then be determined. 



35 A It 



VERSAILLES, Catt. Co., N. Y. 



Dadant'sFoundatiou Factory, wholesale 



and retail. 8e« Advertisement In another column. 



THE HORSE, 



Ey B. J. KENDALL, M. D. 



A TKEATISK giving an index of diseaaeB, 

 and the symptoms ; cause and treatment of each, ft 

 table giving all the principal drugs used for the 

 horse, with the ordinary dose, effects and antidote 

 when a poison ; a table with an engraving of the 

 horse's teeth at different ages, with rules for telling 

 the age of the h. .rse : a valuable col lection of re- 

 cipes, and much valuable information. 



Price 86 cent*— in English or German. 

 THOS. <i. INKU'MAN A: SON, 

 923 & ^-2') West Madison Street CHICAGO, ILJu- 



Dadaiit'sFoundatioii Factory, wholesale 



and letail. See Advertisement in another column. 



BEE HiTes and Sections —Send to HEKR & 

 BEULE, manufacturers, Beaver Dam,\Vis..for 

 price lists. Good materials. J..ow prices. UiA26t 



BEESWAX. 



We pay SOc. per lb., delivered here, for yellow 

 Beeswax. To avoid mistakes, tne shipper's name 

 should always be on each package. 



TH08. O. JVE^^'MAN A SON, 



923 & 925 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL- 



FLAT - KOTTOM 



COMB FOUNDATION, 



^ g.__ ^^^j^ high side-wslls.4 to 16 square feet to 

 (i^^^^^^ tbe pound. Circular and samples freet' 



fe^>S^^'^ J. VAN DHUSEN & SONS, 



fi^^M^ S-^tle Manufacturers, 



a— .iTTit, -^ Sprout Brook, Mont. rift. V, V, 



f3^ The next annual meeting of the Michigan 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association will be held In 

 Ypallantl. Mich., on Dec. 1 and 2. 1886. 



H. D. Cutting, S«. 



THE AMERICAN APIGULTURIST 



SENT one year, and a Tesled ItaliaU' 

 <lueeii, to each snUscribcr— all for $1..5(X 

 Sample copies free, .\ddress, 

 SOAtf HENRY ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. 



THE BRITISH BEE JOIKNAL 



AND BEE-KEEPER'S ADVISER. 



The British Bee Joitunai. is published every 

 Week, at Ten ShilJinKS and lnd. per annum, and 

 contains the best practical information for th& 

 time beinp, stit^wine what to do. and when and 

 how to do it. It is edited by T. W. Cowan, Ksq. 



The British Bee Journal and the American 

 Bee Journal, one .year, for tC.75. 



