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DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND HONEY PRODUCTION. 



ESTABLISHED IN ' 

 1861. ' 



Chicago, 111., January 2, 1884. 



) VOLUME XX. 



' No. 1. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



&UK1I 





PTBLISHEU BY 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



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Topics Presented in tliis Number. 



Amatem's Report 11 



Bee-Idyl 5 



Bee-Keeping in France 5 



Best Hive for Comb Honey 11 



Book Notices 4, 14 



Black Bees as Honey Gatherers. . . 11 



Button-Bush Honey 12 



Cause of Bee Diarrhoea 10 



Cause or' Moisture in Hives 8 



Oold, Wet Season 12 



Convention Notices 10, 13 



Correct use of Apicultural Terms. . 9 



Correspondence 5 



Did the Sugar kill the Bees V 11 



Essentials of the Coming Engine. . 9 



Excellent Report 11 



Good Yield of Honey 11 



Honey and Beeswax Market 4 



Honey Crop and Fertile Workers. . 12 



Hives in Use in the AVest 11 



Italian and German Bees 6 



Local Convention Directory 4 



Marketing Honey at Home 3 



Mons. De Lay ens' Apiary 5 



My Season's Work vpith Bees 12 



Planning for next Season's Work.. 3 

 Prophesying about the Weather. . . 12 



Rack for Sections 11 



Report for 1883 12 



Report of a Beginner 12 



Section Rack Comment 7 



Selections from our Letter Box 11 



The Opening Year— 1884 3 



Transferring, etc 11 



Well Done 11 



What and How 11 



Wide Frames for Holding Sections 4 

 Will all Pure Honey Granulate V. . 8 



Wintered in a Warm Cellar 11 



Winter Repository for Bees 6 



JIahoning Valley Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Assdciation, will be held in the 

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 day, Jan. 24, 1884. As this is the 

 meeting to elect officers, every mem- 

 ber and all interested in the produc- 

 tion and sale of honey, are requested 

 to be present. E. W. Tuenek, Sec. 



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