THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Sew Premiums for 1883. 



As tlie season foi* reading lias now 

 arrived, we hope tha^ each of our 

 subscribe\s will endeavor to send at 

 least one new subscriber for the 

 Weekly Bee Journal for 1883 and 

 thus not only help on \he cause of 

 progressive bee-culture, hfit assist in 

 sustaining the only Weekly' bee paper 

 in the world. 



i'rovideuce has smiled on the bee- 

 keepers during the past season, and as 

 a general thing they are abundantly 

 able to procure a good assortment of 

 bee-literature. 



In order to encourage every one who 

 keeps bees, be they few or many colo- 

 nies, to thoroughly read the many 

 very interesting books on bee-culture, 

 now published, we have determined 

 to make liberal offers, which will be 

 available until January 1. 1883, as 

 follows : 



To any one sending us $8 for any 

 books they may select from our ■' Book 

 List," on the last page of this paper, 

 we will present the Weekly Bee 

 JouuNAL for one year. 



To any one purchasing $4 worth of 

 books, selected from our " Book List,^ 

 on tlie last page of this paper, we will 

 present the Weekly Bee Journal 

 for six months or the Monthly for one 

 year. 



Any one sending us a club of two 

 subscribers for 1883, for the Weekly, 

 with $4, will be entitled to a copy of 

 Bees and Honey, in cloth, postpaid. 



For three subscribers, with $6, we 

 will send Cook's Manual, in paper, 

 Emerson's Binder for the Weekly, or 

 Apiary Register for 50 colonies. 



For four subscribers, with $8, we 

 will send Cook's Manual in cloth, or 

 Apiary llegister for 100 colonies. 



For five subscribers, with $10, we 

 will send the Apiary Register for 200 

 colonies, Qninby's New Bee-Keeping, 

 Roofs ABC of Bee Culture, or an 

 extra copy of the Weekly Bee Jour- 

 nal for one year. 



To get any of the above premiums 

 for the Monthly Bee Journal send 

 double the number of subscribers, and 

 the same amount of money. 



&" We will send Cook's Manual 

 in clpth, or an Apiary Register for 100 

 colonies, and Weekly Bee Journal 

 for one year, for SS.OO; or with King's 

 Text- Book, in cloth, for $2.75 ; or with 

 Bees and Honey, in cloth, $2.50. The 

 Monthly Bee Journal and either of 

 the above for one dollar less. 



The M«iitlily Bee Journal for 1883. 



At the request of many who h;ive 

 heretofore tak^i the ^iloutlily and 

 Semi-Monthly Bee Journal, we shall 

 next year inint a .Montlily consisting 

 of £t^ pages, issuing it about the 

 mic^rti'of each mouth, at Sl.OO ii year, 

 in advance; 2 copies for |f.80; 3 

 copies for $2.50 ; 5 coffies for ^UOO ; JO 

 or more copies at 75 cents e^pc An 

 extra copy to the person gettmig up a 

 club of 5 or more. 



The Weekly and Monthly Beb 

 Journals will bedistinctpapers. each 

 having its own sphere _of operatio 

 and different readers. The Week 

 will contain all that the JSIonthly does, 

 besides twice as much other matter. 



We shall aim to make the Monthly 

 Bee Journal a welcome and prolitaj 

 ble visitor to the homes of those wh 

 feel the need of a cheap, first class, 

 reliable bee paper in pamphlet form— 

 whose time is: too much occupied to 

 rtad a weekly, or whose means or i'^^ 

 quirements are more limited, and who^ 

 can dispense with the routine matter 

 more properly belonging to a wetkly. 



took the empty frame from my honey 

 room where it had been laid six or 

 seven weeks." If luon' evidence be- 

 wanted it may be found in tlie fact 

 that in many instances—] might ven- 

 ture to say in all instances of breeding 

 in supers — the bees first prepare the 

 cells for the reception of eggs ; and; 

 experienced men (m examining supers 

 can tell where the eggs will be deposit- 

 ed. Bees are the niasters and deter- 

 mine these matters then>selve3 with- 

 out consulting (jueen or (]ueen-exclu- 

 ders. It will lie well for bee-keepers 

 to remember these facts. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Bees require but little Oxygen.— A 



^iTcspondenl (jf the Omntry Genile- 

 ■II iciuarks as follows on tlie amount 

 ■ bxygen required by bees : 



The idea that a comparatively small 

 suiiply of oxygen for the healthy ex- 

 istence of the bees, is one which will 

 fielp to explain some problems in api- 

 'cnlture. It is not in a quiescent- 

 state only that they require less purer 

 air than the larger animals. Left to- 

 tlieir natural instincts tliey seal up' 

 every crevice abont their hives except 

 the entrance. A moment's reflection 

 ninst convince anyone tliat with only 

 5j:.(3^ie small external orifice, and with 

 every space between the combs filled 

 with the living, worthing, breathing 

 insects, the ipieen and her progeny 

 must be doing their ^ork in an atmos- 

 phere" which would Ue speedy death to- 

 any quadruped. Tl\^.i>i*pje, sealed up 

 in their cells in this swbieslightly ven- 

 tilated hive, afford another exampleof 

 how tlie growth and change in insect 

 life may go on with a very slight sup- 

 ply of oxygen. 



Do bees remove eggs from one cell to 

 anotlier I — This question is answered 

 by Mr. a. Pettigrew in the London 

 Journal of Horliadlure in the following 

 language : 



Yes, certainly. This I have known 

 and witnessed for fifty years. I have 

 often seen eggs, laid by queen bees 

 before being removed from their hives, 

 set in other cells after their removal, 

 and have known such eggs become 

 queens, thus proving that they were 

 not the eggs of fertile workers. Queen- 

 excluders, then, so much talked about 

 at present, cannot be of much use V 

 No, they are valueless ; for if bees de- 

 termine to breed in any part of a hive 

 iueen -excluders will not prevent them. 

 ,ast .September a correspondent of a 

 journal wrote that one of his colonies 

 losts its queen when the combs were 

 ^ filled with honey, brood, andeggs. He 

 removed the Ira'ine of honey and gave 

 them a frame of empty comb in its 

 place. The hive was examined four 

 or five days after, when there were 

 found several (pieen cells on the 

 empty sheet of comb. As it contain- 

 ed no eggs when placed in the hive, he 

 saw that the bees had taken them 

 from one comb to another. Eight 

 queen-cells were erected and filled on 

 the empty sheet. He adds, "There 

 can be no mistake about this, for I 



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 of next year will find " June 83 "after 

 their names. Those who have paid 

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<ip" Constitutions and By-I>aws for 

 local Association3"$2.00 \)ei 100. The- 

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 blanks for 50 cents extra. 



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