'^ (5 OLDEST BEE PAPER 

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DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND HONEY PRODUCTION. 



ESTABLISHED IN I 

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Chicago, 111., March 5, 1884. 



VOL. XX. No. 10. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



PUBLISHED Br 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor anh Phophietor. 



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Topics Presented in this Number. 



A Bit of Bee Surgery loO 



After-Swarms 156 



Ants" Wings 154 



Are Bees Taxable in Michigan ?. . 154 



Bee Diarrlioea 154 



Bees Confined 102 Days 153 



Bees Doing Well 154 



Bee Space 154 



Bees I'acked with Clover Chaff. . . 153 



Bees Robbing 15G 



Catalogues for 1.S.S4 147 



Cedar Valley, Iowa, Convention.. 151 



Clipping Queen's Wings 150 



Convention at Davenport, Iowa. . 147 



Diseased Bees 155 



Double- Availed Hives 154 



Economizing Wax 155 



Editorial Items 147, 148 



Educate the Customers 1.54 



Floating Apiary 154 



Home Market for Honey 152 



Honey and Beeswax Market 156 



Honey Locusts 148 



Local Convention Directory 148 



Midwinter Report 1.55 



X. E. 0.,& N. W. Pa. Convention 1.50 



Old Foundation Freshened 1.53 



Position of Frames in the Hive. . . 155 



Priority of Location 149 



Pure Beeswax 155 



Queenlessness 1.55 



Report of the National Society ... 147 



Small Honey Jars 153 



Special Notices 157 



Statistics of the Honey Crop 149 



That " Improved " Case 153 



Vocabulary of Bee-Keeping 153 



Why Abuse Half- Pound Sections? 151 

 Will Cold Kill Bees? 156 



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