DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND HONEY PRODUCTION. 



ESTABLISHED IN t 



1861. > 



Chicago, lU., February 20, 1884. VOL. XX. No. 8. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



OF 



PrSLISHED BY 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor and proprietor. 

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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



»SS <Vent MadlsoD Street., Chicago, III. 



Topics Presented in this Number. 



Are Separators Necessary? 117 



A Warm Cellar for Bees 124 



Bee Pasturage— A Correction.. . . . 123 



Bees Banked up with Snow 124 



Bees Prospering 123 



Bees Wintering Well 123 



Catalogues for 1SB4 115 



Convention Notices 122 



Cultivate the Home Market 121 



Do Bees thin out Foundation V. . . 122 

 Do Workers Govern the Colony V. 116 



Extra Prolific Queens 116 



Getting the Statistics 118 



Good Increase 123 



Honey and Beeswax Market 124 



How Far Bees will Fly 118 



Is Extra Prolificness a Desirable 



Quality, in Queens? 120 



Making Comb Foundation 123 



Moth or Miller 123 



Moving Bees by Railroad 122 



My Success as a Beginner 123 



Northeastern Kansas Convention 117 

 Old and New Methods of Bee- 

 keeping 115 



Packed in Chaff 123 



Pollen or Farina 121 



Prospects in California 124 



Reversible Frames 117 



Separators 122 



Testing Thermometers 124 



The " German " Bees 120 



Tlie Hives I like and Use 118 



The Successful Wintering of Bees 119 

 To Bee-Keepers of Ills, and Iowa 119 



Topics of the Day 119 



Toronto Convention Report 123 



Was not Stung once, last Season.. 124 



Well Done 121 



What and How 122 



What Shall we do with Weak Col- 

 onies in the Spring ? 121 



Wintering Well .' 124 



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CLUBBING LIST FOR 1884. 



We will supply the American Bee Jonrnal 



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

 prices quoted in the last column of a^ares. The 

 first column gives the regular price of both. All 

 postage prepaid. 



Price 0/ both. Olub 



The Weekly Bee Journal $2 09.. 



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

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

 Bees and Honey (T.O.Newman)cloth 2 75. . 2 SO 



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



Binder for Weekly Bee Journal 2 75.. 2 50 



Apiary Register for 200 colonies 4 00. . 3 25 



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

 Dzierzon's New Book (paper covers) 3 50. . 2 75 



Quinby'sNew Bee-Keeping 3 50.. 3 25 



Langstroth's Standard Work 4 00- . 3 75 



Root'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 35. . 2 25 



Fisher's Grain Tables 2 40. . 2 25 



Moore's Universal As^^istant 4 50. . 4 25 



Honey as Food 4 Medicine, 100 Copies 6 00. . 5 60 



Blessed Bees 2 75.. 2 50 



King's Text Book 3 00.. 2 75 



The Weekly Bee Journal one year and 



andQleaningsinBee-Culture(A.l.Root) 3 00.. 2 75 



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



Bee-Keepers' Guide (A.e.mil) 2 60.. 2 36 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 3 00.. 2 75 



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



NewEng. Apiarian, (W.W.Merrill).. 2 75.. 2 50 



British Bee Journal 3 75.. 3 60 



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



The Hf enthly Bee Jonrnal and any of the 



above, tl less than the figures in the last column. 



Sample Copies of the American Bee 

 Journal will be sent free to any per- 

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 club can have sample copies sent to 

 the persons they desire to interview, 

 by sending the names to this office. 



^" On account of the inclement 

 weather, only a few of the Rock coun- 

 ty bee-keepers responded to the call 

 to meet at the Pember House, Janes- 

 ville. Wis., on the second Tuesday in 

 February, to organize a bee-keepers' 

 association, so we will have another 

 meeting on the first Tuesday in March 

 next, at 1 p. m., at the same place. 

 All bee-keepers are courteously in- 

 vited, and we hope there will be a 

 good attendance. L. FATZfNGBR. 



Janesville, \\'is., Feb. 13, 1884. 



