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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED IN t 

 1861. * 



Chicago, lU., May 7, 1884. 



VOLXX.-No. 19. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



PrBLISHID BT 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Phopribtor. 



925 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAOO, ILL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



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Topics Presentedjn this Number. 



Anti-Monopoly 293 



Bee- House IJurned 292 



Bees and Peaches 300 



Bees Separated all Right 292 



Cane Sugar for Winter Stores 29.S 



Cold Spring 292 



Dearth of Honey in Cuba 292 



Dry Sugar for Bees 292 



Essentials in Queens 300 



Foul Brood and the Nebraska Con- 

 vention 291 



Honey and Beeswax Market 300 



How to Begin Bee-Keeping 297 



Improved Bees — CombFoundation 299 

 Improved Foimdation Fastener . . 296 



Italianizing, etc .300 



Local Convention Directory 300 



My Bees are Booming 292 



New Races of Bees — Fertile 



"Workers 294 



Pollen in Abundance 300 



Production of Comb Honey 298 



Special Notices 301 



Students in Apiculture 297 



Supers for Siuplus Comb Honey. . 29.5 



The Best Strain of Bees '. . . 299 



"Wabash Co., Ind., Convention 299 



Western ^lichigan Association. . . 299 

 Wintered without Loss 292 



1^ " Home Science " is the title 

 of a new serial, published by S. E. 

 Hopkins, 29 Warren St., New York, 

 and by Sir Partridge & Co., London, 

 at 2.5 cents a number. The first num- 

 ber is on our desk, and contains arti- 

 cles from the pen of Eev. T. DeWitt 

 Talmage, D. D. ; Rev. Robert Collyer, 

 D. D. ; Prof. E. P. Thwing, Ph. D. ; 

 Dio Lewis, M. D., and others. It is 

 beautifully printed, well edited, well 

 worth the price, and we wish it much 

 success. 



1^ The Keystone Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, will meet in Scranton, Pa., 

 on Tuesday, Aprli 13, at 10 a. m. 



Geo. C. Green, Sec. 



CLUBBLNU LIST FOR 1884. 



We will supply the American Bee Jonrnal 

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

 prices quoted in the last column of figures. The 

 flrat colnmn (fives the remilar price of both. All 

 postage prepaid. 



Price of both. Olub 

 The Weekly Bee Journal.. $2 08. . 



and Cook*8 Manual, last edition(in cloth) 3 25. . 3 00 



Cook's Manual, (In paper covers) 3 00.. 2 50 



Bees and Honey (T.Q.Newman)cloth2 75. . 2 50 



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



Binder for Weekly Bee Journal 2 75. . 2 60 



Apiary Register f or 2iJ0 colonies .... 3 50. . 3 25 



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



Dzierzon's New Book (paper covers) 3 58. . 2 75 



Qulnby'sNew Bee-Keeping 3 50.. 3 26 



liangstroth's Standard Work 4 60 3 7S 



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



Alley's Queen Rearing 3 00.. 2 76 



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



Fisher's Grain Tables 2 40. . 2 25 



Moore's Universal Assistant 4 SO.. 4 26 



Honey as Food 4: Mediclne.lOO Copies 4 50. . 4 25 



Blessed Bees 2 75. . 2 50 



King's Text Book 3 00.. 2 74 



The Weekly Bee Journal one year and 



and Gleanings lnBee-Culture(A.I.Koot) 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 3 0O.. 2 75 



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



NewEng. 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 Monthly Bee tJenrnal and any of the 

 above, $1 less than the figures In the last column. 



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 notice so that all may get every 

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 any break, and no papers will be 

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