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DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND HONEY PRODUCTION. 



ESTABLISHED IN ! 



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Chicago, lU., Marcli 19, 1884. 



VOL. XX. No. 12. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



OF 



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PrBLISHED BT 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



KniTOK ANn Pkopkietor. 



925 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 



Weekly, «8 a year ; Monthly. SI. 



PKEMIUM.— Any one sending one new subscrip- 

 tion for the Weekly, or two for the Monthly, for 

 one year, besides their own subscription for a year 

 for the Weekly, will be entitled to a copy of " Bees 

 And Honey,'' bound In cloth. 



I^T" The receipt for money sent us will be Riven 

 on the address label on every paper. If not given 

 in two weeks after sending tbe money, write ua a 

 Postal card, for aomethingmust be wrong about it. 



I^n Any person sending a club of six, is entitled 

 to an extra copy ( like the club), sent to any address 

 desired. Sample copies furnished /rce. 



|7* Papers are stopped at the expiration of the 

 time paid for. unless requested to.be continued. 



FOREION POSTAGE. EXTRA: 



To Europe— Weekly, 5(1 cents ; Monthly, 12 cents. 

 To Australia -Weekly. $1 ; Monthly, 24 cents. 



George Neighbour &, Sons, London. England, are 

 our authorized absents for Europe. 



Entered at the Chicago P. O. as Second Class Matter. 



ADVERTISING RATES 



20 cents per line ot space, eacb insartion, 



For either tfte Weekly or Monthly Editions. 



Topics Presented in tliis Number. 



Alsike Clover 187 



An Important Point in Wintering 182 



Bees all right yet 187 



Bees Doing Well 188 



Bees Eating Grapes 183 



Bees in Arkansas 188 



Bees in Georgia 187 



Bees Still Confined to the Hives. . 187 



Building up a Home Trade 187 



Catalogues for 1884 180 



Convention at Davenport, Iowa. . 184 



Convention Notices 186 



Cypriaii and Holy Land Bees 182 



Editorial Items 180 



Entrance to Sections over the 



Frames 187 



Educate the Customers 188 



How far will Bees go for Honey '?. 181 



Local Convention Directory 180 



Middlesex, Out., Convention 182 



Not Progressive 188 



Peculiarity of Laying Workers. . . 181 



Query 187 



Southern Wisconsin Convention.. 183 



Special Notices 189 



Specimens of Foul Brood 186 



Spring Dwindling 182 



The Vice-Presidents of the Na- 

 tional Society 179 



What and How 187 



Why did they die? 187 



Wintered Successfully for 11 Years 187 



A line of this type will contain about 8 words; 

 TWELVE lines will occupy ONE-INCH of space. 

 Transient Advertisements payable in advance. 

 Editorial Notices. SO cents per line. 



Advertisements may be inserted one, two or four 

 times a month, if so ordered, at 30 cents per line, 

 of space, for each Insertion. 



Advertisements witbdrawn before the expiration 

 of the contract, will be charged the full rate for 

 the time the advertisement is inserted. 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



•8S (Vest Madison Street.. ChlcaKO, 111. 



Ribbon Badges, for bee-keepers, on 

 which are printed a large bee in gold, 

 we send for 10 cts. each, or $8 per 100. 



®" Letters for publication must be 

 written on a separate piece of paper 

 from items of business. 



CLUBBING LIST FOR 1884. 



We will supply the American Bee Jonrnikl 



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

 prices quoted in the last column of figures. The 

 first column gives the regular price of both. All 

 postage prepaid. 



Price of both. Oluh 



The Weekly Bee Journal, $2 06.. 



and Cook's Manual, last editiondn cloth) 3 26. 



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



Bees and Honey (T.G.Newman)cloth2 "5. 



Bees and Honey (paper covers) 2 50. 



Binder for Weekly Bee Journal 2 T5. 



Apiary Register for 200 colonies — 3 50. 



Dzlerzon's New Bee Book (cloth) 4 09. 



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



Qulnby's New Bee-Keeplng 3 50. 



Langstroth's Standard Work 4 00. 



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



Alley's (jueen Hearing 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 4 Medlcine.lOO Copies 4 50. 



Blessed Bees 2 lb.. 2 5i 



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



The Weekly Bee Journal one year and 

 and Gleanings inBee-Culture(A.l.Koot) 3 00.. 2 76 

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



Bee-Keepers' Guide (A.G.UllI) 2 50.. 2 36 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 300.. 2 76 



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

 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 76 



The lUenthly Uee .Jeurnal and any of the 

 above. ¥1 less than the figures in the last column. 



i^ The Mahoning Valley bee-keep- 

 ers will hold their next meeting in the 

 Town Hall at Newton Falls, O., on 

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

 E. W. TuRNEit, Sec. 



L. Causon, Pres. 



3 00 

 2 60 

 2 50 

 2 26 



2 60 



3 26 

 300 



2 76 



3 35 



3 75 

 300 

 2 7b 

 2 25 

 2 2,» 



4 21 

 4 25 



i^ The first edition of the " Apiary 

 Register " having been exhausted, we 

 have just issued a new edition, ele- 

 gantly bound in Russia leather, with 

 a large worker bee and " Apiary Reg- 

 ister "in gold on the side. It forms 

 not only a Register of both Queens 

 and Colonies, but has also an Ac- 

 count Book at the back, in which to 

 keep a record of all the receipts and 

 expenditures of the apiary, which will 

 be found exceedingly valuable. We 

 have also reduced the prices, as will 

 be seen on another page. 



