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DEYOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED IN i 



1861. > 



Chicago, 111., April 30, 1884. 



VOL XX. -No. 18. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



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PUBLISHED BY 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Proprietor. 



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Topics Presented in tiiis Number. 



Abnormal Swarming 284 



Aged Queens 283 



ArtiHcial Comb Honey 280 



A Visitor from England 283 



Bees as Property, etc 279 



Bees in Good Condition 283 



Brown Bees vs. Italians 280 



Comb Foundation in Brood frames 276 



Convention at Franklin, Ind 277 



Convention Notices 284 



Editorial Items 27-5 



Fixed Frames 280 



Foundation in Wired Frames 278 



Honey and Beeswax Market 284 



Is the Queen Idiotic V 284 



Italian vs. Brown Bees 278 



Local Convention Directory 283 



No Diarrhoea 283 



Northeastern Mich. Convention. . 281 



Premiums on Bees and Honey 27.5 



Questions about Foundation ... . 284 

 Selections from our Letter Box. . . 283 



Selling Unripe Honey 278 



Something about Patent Rights . . 279 



Spider Plant 275 



Testing Thermometers 283 



To Iowa Bee-Keepers 277 



Unsealed Sour Honey 283 



What and How 284 



Wintering on Unsealed Honey . . . 283 

 Wintering without Loss 283 



1^ The Pike County Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its semi-annual 

 meeting at Pittsfield, Illinois, Sat- 

 nrday, May 3, 1S84, at 10 a. m. All are 

 cordially invited. Any one having 

 new apiarian implements, or any 

 thing that will advance the interest 

 of the meeting, are requested to bring 

 them for exhibition. 



T. C. Bunker, Sec. 



W. T. F. Petty, Prcs. 



^" There will be a meeting of the 

 Northeastern Kansas Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, at Hiawatha, Brown Co., 

 on May 16, 1884. A general attendance 

 of bee-keepers is expected. 



Granada, Kan. L. C. Clark, Sec. 



CLUBBING LIST FOR 1884. 



We will Bupplr tbe American Bee Journal 

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

 prices quoted in the last colamn of figures. The 

 first column gives the regular price of both. AD 

 postage prepaid. 



Price of both. OluD 

 The Weekly Bee Journal, $2 09. . 



and Cook's Manual, last edition(inclothJ 3 25, . 3 00 



Cook's Manual, (in paper covers) 300.. 2 50 



Bees and Honey (T.Q.Newman)cloth 2 75.. 3 50 



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



Binder for Weekly Bee Journal 2 75. . 2 60 



Apiary Register for 200 colonies 3 50. . 3 26 



Dzierzon's New Bee Book (cloth) .... 4 09. . 3 00 



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



Quinby's New Bee-Keeping 360.. 3 25 



Langstroth's Standard Work 4 00. . 3 76 



Boot's A B c of Bee Culture (cloth) 3 25. . 3 00 



Alley's Queen Rearing 3 OO. . 2 76 



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 26 



Honey as Food 4 Medicine.lOO Copies 4 50. . 4 25 



Blessed Bees 2 75.. 2 50 



King's Te.\t Book 3 (x).. 2 78 



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.G.Hill) 2 60.. 2 36 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 300.. 2 75 



The Apiculturlst, (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 75 



The M eathly Bee Journal and any of the 



above, 11 less than the flgures in the last column. 



^"Donot letyournumbers of the 

 Bee Journal for 1884 be lost. The 

 best way to preserve them is to pro- 

 cure a binder and put them in. They 

 are very valuable for reference. 



i®° Now is the time to plant young 

 basswood trees, for future pasturage 

 for your bees. You may see them 

 advertised in this paper. 



«^ We can supply photographs of 

 Rev. L. L. Langstroth, the Baron of 

 Berlepsch, orDzierzon, at 2.5 cts. each. 



1^ The Cortland Union Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, will hold their spring 

 meeting May 13, 1884, at Cortland 

 N. Y. M. G. Darby, Sec. 



