DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND HONEY PRODUCTION. 



ESTABLISHED IN ' 



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Chicago, 111., January 16, 1884. VOL. XX. No. 3. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



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Topics Presented in this Number. 



A Critic Critic-ised 43 



Hanked up witli Snow 44 



]5ees Buried under Snow 43 



lieginning with Frame Hives 44 



Button Busli Honey 37 



Cause of Dysentery 43 



Cause of Moisture in Hives, etc, . . 37 



Cold in Nebraslca 43 



Convention Notices 36, 39, 41 



Dysentery witliout Pollen 40 



Editorial Items 35 



Essentials in Comb Honey Racks. . 39 

 Experience witli Cellar Wintering. 41 

 Foundation, Winter Fliglits, etc . . 42 



Home ^Market for Honey 43 



Honey and Beeswax Market 36 



How far will bees go for Honey ?. . 36 

 Is Comb Foundation Valuable V. . . 44 



Local Convention Directory 41 



My Report for 1883 43 



New Races of Bees 38 



Xo Honey from Buckwheat 44 



Nomenclature of Bee-Keeping 43 



Out-Door Cellar 44 



Packed in Clover, Chaff and Leaves 42 



Packed on the Summer Stands 44 



Pasturage Overstocked 43 



Prefers the Cellar for AVintering.. . 44 

 Premium List for Bees and Honey 39 

 Premiums at the Iowa State Fair. 44 



Producing Dysentery 44 



Prospects in California 43 



Report for the Season 44 



Satisfactory Results 44 



Sections, Brood Frames, etc 42 



Selections from our Letter Box 42 



Some Conundrums 36 



Six Years' Experience 42 



Special Notices 45 



Stings and their Poison 40 



Syrian Bees 43 



Test for Purity in Honey 35 



The Season's Work 44 



Warm Cellars 43 



What and How 42 



Wintering Bees in Canada 42 



Wintering in the Cellar 42 



CLUBBING LIST FOR 1884. 



We win supply the American See Journal 

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 prices quoted in the last column of figures. The 

 first column gives the regular price of both. All 



postage prepaid. 



Price of both. Club 

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Cook's Manual, (In paper covers) 3 00.. 2 50 



Bees and Honey CT.G.Newman)cIoth 2 75. . 2 50 



Bees and Honey (paper covers) 2 50.. 2 25 



Binderfor Weeklv Bee Journal 2 75. . 2 50 



Apiary Register for 2(M.t colonies 4 00. . 3 25 



Dzierzon'sNew Bee Book (cloth).... 4 09.. 3 00 

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Quinby's New Bee-Keeping 3.^.. 3 26 



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Root's A B C of Bee Culture (cloth) 3 25.. 3 00 



Alley's Queen Rearing 3 00.. 2 76 



Scribner's Lumber and Log Book 2 35. . 2 25 



Fisher's Grain Tables 2 40.. 2 25 



Moore's Universal Assistant 4 50.. 4 26 



Honey as Food (tMedicine.lOO Copies 6 00. . 5 50 



Blessed Bees 2 75.. 2 50 



King's Text Book 3 00.. 2 7S 



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Bee-Keepers' Guide (A.G.Hill) 2 50.. 2 35 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 3 00.. 2 75 



The Apiculturist, (Silas M. Locke) . . 3 00. . 2 76 

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