DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND HONEY PRODUCTION. 



ESTABLISHED IN I 

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Chicago, 111., April 9, 1884. 



VOL. XX. No. 15. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



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Topics Presented in this Number, 



Adulteration 229 



An Early Bee I'lant 227 



Are Bees Property ? 236 



Bee DiarrhcEa 231 



Bees and Honey in Kentucky 229 



Bees in Utah 23-5 



Call Things by their Right Names 230 



Canse and Cure of Foul Brood 231 



Convention at Davenport. Iowa.. 227 



Convention Notices .- 236 



Editorial Items 227 



Experiments with Bees 228 



Feeding Bees, etc 234 



Gathering Pollen 23.5 



How My Bees are Doing 332 



Xew Price Lists 227 



No Bee Cholera 23.5 



No Loss in Wintering 23.5 



Not Lost a Colony 23.5 



Open-A ir Wintering 23.5 



Pollen and Bee 1 )iarrlifpa 2,33 



Preparing Bees for Wintering. . . . 232 



Preparing Honey for Market 23-1 



Priority of Location 228 



Queens, Dampness, etc 2,34 



Bearing Queens 234 



Reversible Frames 233 



Special Notices 237 



.Statistics of the Honey Crop 229 



Successful Wintering 236 



Overstocking the Location 230 



Too Many Bees in one Cellar 23.5 



LTuion Ass'n. of Western Iowa . . . 233 



Unripe Honey 234 



Warm Cellar for Wintering Bees. 236 



Wax Comb Guides 230 



White Clover Promises Well 236 



Why Eat Honey? 236 



Wintering Bees in Cellars 236 



Wired Combs, etc 234 



Young Bees A'enturing out in the 

 Cold 234 



CLUBBING LIST FOR 1884, 



We will supply the American Bee Journal' 



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

 prices quoted in the last column of flRures. The 

 Qrst column Rives the regular price of botti. All 

 postage prepaid. 



Prict 0/ both. Olui 

 TheWeeklyBee.lournal 1208.. 



and Cook's Manual, last editiondn cloth) 3 25. . 3 00 

 Cook'sManual, (In papercovers)... 3 00.. 2 50 

 Bees and Honey (T.G.Newman)cloth 2 75. . 2 50 



Bees and Ilnney (paper covers) 250.. 2 25 



Binder for Weekly Bee Journal. ... 2T5.. 2 50 

 Apiary I^Kister fur 2r«) colonies .... 3 .50. . 3 25 



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



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



Quinby's New Bee-Keeping. 3 50.. 3 26 



Ijangstroth's Standard Work 4 00 . 3 75 



Root's A B C of Bee Culture (Cloth) 3 25. . 3 00 



Alley's Queen Rearing 3 00.. 3 75 



Scribner's Lumber and Log Book 2 35.. 2 25 



Fisher's Grain Tables 2 40.. 2 25 



Moore's Universal Assistant 4 50.. 4 25 



Honey as Food A- Mediclne.lOO Copies 4 50. . 4 25 



Blessed Bees 2 75. . 2 50 



King's Text Book 3 OO. 2 75 



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.Q.Hill) 2 50.. 2 36 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 300.. 2 75 



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

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



British Bee Journal 3 75. . 3 50 



The S above-named papers ',» OO. , 7 75 



The Monthly Mee Jearnal and any of the 



above, 1 1 less than the agures in the last column. 



1^ The sixth annual convention of 

 Texas bee-keepers -nill be lield at the 

 " Bee Garden " of Judge W. H. An- 

 drews at McKinney, Collin Co., Tex., 

 on April 24 and 2-5, 1&S4. A larger 

 number of leading bee masters tlian 

 ever assembled on a similar occasion 

 in the South, is anticipated. 



Wm. R. Howard. Sec. 



Kingston, Tex.. Jan. 16, 1884. 



1^ The bee-keepers of Tuscarawas 

 Countv will meet in the Town Hall at 

 Port Washington, O., on Thursday. 

 May 1.5, 1&S4, to organize a bee-keepers 

 convention. All are earnestly invited 

 to attend. A. A. Fradenburo. 



l^° We have a few photographs 

 (cabinet size) just taken, of the Rev. 

 L. L. Langstrotli. which we can send 

 to those desiring them, for 50ets.each 

 postage prepaid. 



i^° The Nortlieni Ohio Bee-Keep- 

 ers" Association will hold its annual 

 meeting in tlie City Council Cliambez 

 atNorwalk. (X.April 24. 1S.S4, com- 

 mencing at 10 a. m. A full attendanc? 

 is requested. S. F. Newman. Sec. 



