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DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND HONEY PRODUCTION. 



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Chicago, lU., March 12, 1884. VOL. XX. No. II 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



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Topics Presented in this Number. 



At what Age do bees gather honey 16S 



Bees all Right Vet 171 



Bees Gathering Honey 172 



Bees Getting Uneasy 172 



Bees Suffering by Fire and Flood. 163 



Bee Sting Remedy 172 



Bees "Wintered on Summer Stands 172 



Catalogues for 1884 163 



Cause & Prevention of Dysentery 16.5 



Creating a Market for Honey 166 



Curious Freak of Bees 170 



Double-Walled Hives 171 



Drones from.Worker Eggs 171 



Editorial Items 163 



Erroneous Conclusions 165 



Excessive Swarming 170 



Feeding Bees in Winter 169 



Foul Brood in the Mails 167 



Foundation with High Side Walls 172 



Given Foundation 172 



Good Beginning 171 



Honey and Beeswax Market 172 



How to Make Bee Gloves, etc 168 



Lifeless Bees 170 



Lime to Prevent Dampness 170 



Marketing Extracted Honey. ...... 164 



Marketing Honey in the South ... 168 

 My Management and Honey Crop 166 



Planting Honey Trees 171 



Poorest Honey. Crop in 10 Years. . 171 



Review 164 



Spring Management 170 



Straw Bee Hive 171 



Temperature of Bee Cellars 171 



The Last Number 167 



The New Races of Bees 169 



The Outlook for 1884 168 



Thermometers 172 



Two Queens in a Hive 172 



Wintering Bees in England 163 



Winter still with us 172 



CLUBBING LIST FOR 1884. 



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Cook's Manual, (in paper covers) 3 00. 



Bees and Honey(T.G.Newman)cloth2 75. 



Bees and Unney (paper covers) 2 50. 



Binder for Weekly Bee Journal 2 75. 



Apiary Register for 200 colonies 4 00. 



Dzierzon's New Bee Book (cloth) 4 06 



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Langstroth's Standard "Work 4 00- 



Koofs A B C of Bee Culture (cloth) 3 25. 



Alley's Queen Rearing 3 00. 



Scribner's Lumber and Log Book 2 35. 



Fisher's Grain Tables 2 40. 



Moore's Universal Assistant 4 SO. 



Honey as Food <t Medicine, 100 Copies 6 00. 



Blessed Bees 2 75. 



King's Text Book 3 00, 



(^ The Mahoning Valley bee-keep- 

 ers will hold their next meeting in the 

 Town Hall at Newton Falls, C, on 

 Thursday, April 10, 1884, at 10 a. m. 

 E. W. Turner, Sec. 



L. Carson, Pres. 



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Bee-Keepers' Guide (A.G.Hill) 260.. 2 36 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 3 00.. 2 75 



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British Bee Journal 3 73.. 3 50 



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



The Monthly Hee Journal and any of the 

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1^ The Progressive Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will meet for their spring 

 meeting Slay 3, 1884, at the apiary and 

 residence of J. B. Haines, Bedford, 

 Cuyhoga County. O. All interested 

 are invited. J. R. Reed, Sec. 



1^" The Union Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation of AVeatern Iowa, will meet 

 attheEmmett house, in Dexter, on 

 Saturday, March 29, at 10 a. m. sharp. 

 All who are interested in apicultnre. 

 are invited to attend. 



M. E. Darby, Sec, 



W. B. Kenyon, Pres. 



1^ The next meeting of the Bee- 

 Keepers' Association of Central Illi- 

 nois, will be held in the office of the 

 County surveyor, in Bloomingtoh, on 

 Wednesday April 9. 



W. B. Lawrence, Sec. 



