DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND HONEY PRODUCTION. 



VOL. XX. No. 6. 



ESTABLISHED IN '. 

 1861. > 



Chicago, lU., February 6, 1884. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



OF 

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Topics Presented in this Number. 



Bee-Keeping in Middle Texas 90 



Bees Doing Nicely— No Dysentery 90 



Bees Flying 90 



Bees winter as safely as. Sheep 90 



Comb Foundation 91 



Comb Honey reported as being 



made without the'aid of bees. . 87 



Convention Notices 92 



Dysentery 89 



Eastern New York Convention Bi 



Elgin, Out.. Convention 88 



Experience in AVintering 88 



Home JNIarket for Honey 89 



Honey and Beeswax Market 92 



How far Bees'go forlloney 89 



How to Wear a Bee Veil 91 



Locating and Occupying aJField. . . 86 

 Michigan State Fair Premium List 



for Bees and Honey 84 



Middlesex, Ont., Honey Crop 89 



Mild Winter in England 89 



Moving Bees in Winter 91 



My Critics 87 



My Report for the past Season 88 



Xo Signs of Dysentery Yet 90 



Preparing Bees for Winter 90 



Profitable Increase 92 



Register for the Apiary 90 



Remedy for Dysentery 92 



Report of the National Society 83 



Section Racks and Bee Spaces 87 



Special Notices 93 



Test for Purity of Beeswax 84 



The Conventions in New York 83 



The Old Plague 90 



Thermometers, Straight Combs, etc 91 

 To Bee- Keepers of His. and;iowa. . 89 



Troubled with Moths 92 



Who are the Xk-e Presidents? S3 



Will County, 111. Convention 90 



Wintering in Three Ways 89 



1^ We have a few photographs 

 (cabinet size) just taken, of the Rev. 

 L. L. Langstroth, which we can send 

 to those desiring them for 50 cts. each, 

 postage prepaid. 



CLUBBING LIST FOR 1884. 



We will supply the American Bee cJouraal 



one year, and any of the following Books, at the 

 prices quoted In the last column of tlgrures. The 

 first column gives the regular price of both. All 

 postage prepaid. 



Price of both. Club 



The Weekly Bee Journal $2 09. . 



and Cook's Manual, 7th editiondn cloth) 3 25. . 2 76 



Cook's Manuiil, (In paper covers) 300.. 2 60 



Bees and Honey (T.G.Newman)cloth 2 75. . 2 58 



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



Binder for Weekly Bee Journal 2 75. . 2 50 



Apiary Register for 3Kl colonies 4 00. . 3 25 



Diierzon's New Bee Book (cloth) 4 08.. 3 00 



Dzierzon'B New Book (paper covers) 3 50. . 2 76 



Quinby's New Bee-Keeping 3 50.. 3 25 



Langstroth's Standard Work 4 00. . 3 75 



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



Alley's Queen Bearing 3 00.. 2 75 



Scribner's Lumber and Log Book — 2 a^. . 2 25 



Fisher's Grain Tables 2 40. . 2 25 



Moore's Universal Assistant 4 50. . 4 26 



Honey as Food 4 Medicine.lOO Copies 6 00.. 5 60 



Blessed Bees 2 75.. 2 50 



King's Text Book 3 00.. 2 76 



The Weekly Bee Journal one year and 

 and Gleanings inBee-Culture(A.I. Root) 3 00. . 2 76 

 Bee-Keepers' Magazine (A.J.King). 3 00.. 2 75 



Bee-Keepers' Guide (A.G.Hlll) 2 60.. 2 36 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 3 00.. 2 75 



The Aplculturist, (Silas M. Locke) . . 3 00. . 2 75 

 New Bng. Apiarian. (W.W.Merrill).. 2 75.. 2 50 



British Bee Journal 3 75.. 3 50 



The 8 above-named papers 9 00. . 7 75 



The Menthly Bee Jeurnal and any of the 

 above, $i less than the figures in the last column. 



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