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DEYOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO PROGRESSIVE BEE CULTURE. 



VoL XVIII. 



Chicago, 111., December 6, 1882. 



No. 49. 



Published every Wednesday by 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Phopkietok, 



025 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 

 At KS.OO A ITenr* In Advance. 



U^ Any person sendlnR a club of six is entitled 

 to an extra copy (like the club) sent Ui any address 

 desired. Sample copies fmaished free. 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial- 



Editorial Items 



The Ignorance of the Past AKes 



National Agricultural Convention. 



A Conundrum 



riurjbint! Liat 



7IW 

 77<l 



771 

 771 



Amoug Our Exchanges — 



What Bees Accomplish 



Fallow Some Well-DlBested Plan 



Curious Observations of an Earlv Writer. 

 ThcLiiborof Obtaining Correct Statistics. 

 Feedlne Bees. 



Correspondence — 



A Charge to the Bees 



The "Coining Bee" for Business 



Comb vs. Extracted Honey 



How I Introduce Queens 



Statistical Report lor Maine 



The Cheap Queen Traffic 



Gonvention Notes- 



Local Convention Directory 



Oregon Convention 



Southern Cal. District Convention. 



Courtesy in .lournalistn 



Convention Notices 



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 77:) 

 773 

 774 

 77.1 

 775 



776 

 77C 

 77fi 

 777 



778 



Selections from Our Letter Box — 



Swarming, Moving Bees. Etc 778 



Report 77rt 



No Honey Except from White Clover 77« 



It Pays to I'liint for Honey 778 



$2H.|.'S Per Colony 779 



The Past Season in Scotland 779 



Business Notices — 



Honev and Beeswax Marl<et 779 



Monthly Bkk Journal POH 1883 7ho 



Few Premiums for 188.3 780 



Subscription Credits "80 



Apiarv Register 78i 



Honey as Food and Medicine 781 



1^" We regrfit to learn that Mr. 

 William Williamson, of Lexington, 

 Ky., who has been, for 2 years. Secre- 

 tary of the Kentucky State Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, lias been in very poor 

 health during the past summer. lie 

 is a progressive bee-keeper and a lover 

 of the artof bee-culture, and, we hope, 

 will soon be restored to his usual good 

 healtli. 



^^ Messrs. J. Oatman & Sons have 

 sold all their very line and magnificent 

 crop of honey in the comb to Messrs. 

 Thurber & Co., of New York, at 20 

 cents per pound, delivered at the depot 

 at Dundee, 111. This is an excellent 

 sale and speaks well for the producers 

 who are some of the most progressive 

 and successful honey producers of 

 of America. 



^' Mr. B. J. Bennett, of Glasgow, 

 Scotland, the very efficient honorary 

 secretary of the Caledonian Apiarian 

 Society, is now on a visit to Syria, and 

 intends to make a call on Mr. Frank 

 Benton, in Palestine, before returning 

 to Scotland. We expect he will kindly 

 give our readers an account of his trip 

 when he returns. We shall all be glad 

 to liear anything of public interest 

 concerning our fellow-countryman in 

 that far-off land of the rising sun. 



1^ Mr. W. J. Andrews, ex-Presi- 

 dent of the North American Bee- 

 Keepers' Society, has just been re- 

 elected Mayor of Columbia, Tenn. 

 This is Mr. Andrews' tliird term as 

 mayor of that city, and we congratu- 

 late him. He is very popular at home, 

 as shown by the handsome majority 

 given him. 



1^" This year there is a very marked 

 improvement in the style and artistic 

 character of Christmas cards. These 

 go into thousands of homes, every 

 year, and should be a means of ele- 

 vating, if possible, the innate love for 

 that which is beautiful in art. The 

 bees love to visit and revel in the 

 beautiful bloom provided so lavishly 

 by nature, and bee-keepers should all 

 aspire to be lovers of the beautiful, 

 both in nature and art. This leads us 

 to say that we have received some very 

 beautiful samples of these cards for 

 Christmas from L. Prang & Co., Bos- 

 ton, Mass., wliich excel anything we 

 ever have seen before. 



^" Mr. D. Higbee, Avoca, Iowa, 

 after saying that he could not get 

 along without the Bee JouRNAL,says: 

 " By following its instructions this 

 year, from 5 colonies, spring count, I 

 obtained over 800 pounds of comb 

 honey, the most of which I have al- 

 ready sold at 25 cents per lb., thus 

 giving me S200, or $40 per colony 

 (spring count) besides an increase of 

 12 colonies; in all now 17, to go into 

 winter quarters." Mr. Higby is a 

 progressive apiarist and has done very 

 well. 



1^ On account of resuming the 

 publication of the Monthly Bee Jour- 

 nal for next year, we have found it 

 necessary to adopt a new scale of 

 charges for large advertisements or 

 those that are to be inserted for a 

 long time. We liave, therefore, pre- 

 pared a Table wliich gives liberal rates 

 on advertisements by the inch in depth 

 of column, when inserted in the 

 Weekly as well as the Monthly edi- 

 tions. We feel sure that it will pay 

 advertisers to employ both papers, and 

 thus reach the many new subscribers 

 that are now coming in for the new 

 j Monthly for next year. 



