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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED IN i 

 1861. > 



Chicago. lU.. May 28, 1884. VOL. XX.-No. 22. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



PCBLISHED BY 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



KniTOR AND FROPRIKTOU. 



925 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 



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 desired. Sample copies furnished free. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



•as men Madison Street., ChlcnBOt 111- 



Topics Presented in tliis Number. 



Are Bees Taxable in Illinois 347 



Bees along the Pacific Coast 347 



Bees in Eastern Ohio 347 



Bees Storing Honey Rapidly 347 



Botanical 347 



Clipping the Queens' Wing 344 



Concerning Thermometei'S 34(; 



Convention Hand-]5ook 3.50 



Correspondence 340 



Dandelions and AVhite.Clover .347 



Diarrhoea alias Dysentery 341 



Disabled Queen 348 



Editorial Items 339 



Facts regarding Sweet Clover 34.i 



Good Results 347 



Honey and Beeswax Market 348 



IIow my Bees Wintered 347 



Introducing Fertilized Queens 348 



Keystone Convention 343 



Local Convention Directory 347 



Northern Georgia 343 



Northern Ohio Convention 342 



Northwestern Ohio Convention . . 34.5 



Not one Colony lost 348 



Packing, Feeding, Wintering, etc. 34(i 



Priority of Location 340 



Questions about Queens •. .. 348 



Reversible Frames 34.5 



Seasonable Hints 339 



Selections from our Letter Box. . . 3t7 



Special Notices 349 



Spurious California Honey 339 



Still Room for more 348 



Weather Unfavorable for Bees . . . 347 



What and How 348 



What the Bees think of it 343 



Women as Apiarists 347 



CLUBBING LIST FOR 1884. 



Preparation of Honey for the Mar- 

 ket, including the production and care 

 of both comb and extracted honey, 

 instructions on the exhibition of bees 

 and honey at Fairs, etc. This is a 

 new 10 cent pamphlet, of 32 pages. 



We will supply tbeAmerlcun Bee Journal 

 one year, and any of the followlnR Books, at tb€ 

 prices quoted in the last column of figures. The 

 first column Kiyes the regular price of both. Al 

 poBtaKe prepaid. 



Price of both. Olui 

 The Weekly Bee Journal {2 00.. 



and Cook's Manu<al, lasteditlondn cloth) 3 25. . 3 00 



Cook's Manuiil, (In paper covers)... 3 OO. . 26 



Bees andHoney(T.G.Newman)c]oth3 00.. 2 7 



Bees and Honey (paper covers) 2 76.. 2 5u 



Binder for Weekly Bee Journal 2 75. . 2 51 



Apiary Register for 200 colonies 3 50. . 3 2j 



Dzierzon's New Bee Book (cloth) 4 0©.. 3 01 



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



Quinby's New Bee-Keeping 3 50.. 3 25 



Langstroth's Standard Work 4 GO. . 3 7t 



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



Alley's (jueen Rearing 3 00.. 2 75 



Scrlbner'a 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 4; Medicine.lOO Copies 4 50. . 4 25 



Blessed Bees 2 75.. 2 50 



King's Text Book 3 00.. 2 7» 



The Weekly Bee Journal one year and ^ ^ 



and Gleanings lnBee-Culture( A. 1. Root) 3 00. . 2 75 



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



Bee-Keepers' Guide (A.G.HIU) 2 50.. 2 :« 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 300.. 2 75 



The Apiculturist, (Silas M. Locke) . . 3 00. . 2 7.i 



New Eng. Apiarian. (W.W.Merrill).. 2 75. . 2 r* 



British Bee Journal 3 73.. 3 .50 



The 8 above-named papers i) 00. . 7 75 



The Monthly Uee tJoarnut and any of li'«> 

 above, $1 less than the figures in the last column 



1^" The ninth annual session of the 

 American Association of nursery men, 

 florists, seedsmen, and kindred inti r- 

 ests, will be held at the Shern):in 

 House, Chicago, III., commencing on 

 Wednesday, June 18, 1884, atlOo'clo k 

 a. m., and continuing three davs. 



1^ Letters for publication must be 

 written on a separate piece of paper 

 from items of business. 



1^" A Canadian wishes us tostae 

 in the Bee Journal, whether we take 

 Canadian money for subscription or 

 books. We do ; and for fractions of a 

 dollar, Canadian postage stamps may 

 be sent. 



1^ Cook's Manual in cloth and the 

 Weekly Bee J(jurnal for one ye;:r 

 will be sent for $3. Manual an. I 

 Monthly, §2.00. We have no more ( .' 

 the old edition left, and, therefore, th 

 club price of tliat edition at $2.7,5 athi 

 $L7.5 IS withdrawn. 



