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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED IN i 

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Chicago. 111., June 11, 1884. 



YOL.XX.-No. 24. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



OF 



FTBLISHED BY 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



EniTOR anh Proprietor. 



925 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



•as Went Madison Street., Chlcaco, III. 



Topics Presented in tills Number. 



An Editor's Experience with Bees 380 



Bee-Keeping for AVomen 374 



Bee-Moth 376 



Bee-Kotes from Utah 380 



Bees and Honey at Fairs 372 



Bees Booming— Frost 379 



Bees liave received a Backset .... 379 



Considerateness of Bees. .379 



Convention Iland-Book 381 



Convention Notices 372 



Correspondence 373 



Editorial Items 371, 372 



Extermination of Foul Brood 378 



Facts about Bees 378 



Honey and Beeswax Market 380 



How to Separate Swarms 380 



Indications for Honey Harvest. . . 379 



Jack Frost's Work 379 



Large Bees— A Humorous State- 

 ment 372 



Let us deal with Facts 378 



Local Convention Hirectory 380 



More about tlie Eastern Bees 376 



Moving Bees on Horseback 379 



My Report on Wintering 377 



Nomenclatures in Bee-Keeping . . 371 



Parodies, Fixed-Frames, etc 378 



Prevention of Bee-Diarrhoea 374 



Queen Fecundated in a Cell 376 



Selections from our Letter Box . . 379 



Snow on " Decoration Day " 379 



Somerset Co. Me., Convention. . . . 375 



Specicil Notices 381 



Spreading the Brood Frames .379 



Stimulating Bees in the Spring. . . 379 



Sundry Questions 380 



Sweet Clover Honey 379 



The Honey Bee .373 



The Honey Interest in "California 37.5 



Those Six-Frame Hives 373 



Western Fair. London, Ont 375 



AV'hat and How 380 



1^" The Southwestern Iowa Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, will meet in 

 Corning, June 28. 1884. 



W. J. Olivek, Sec. 



CLCBBES'G LIST FOR 1884. 



We will supply the Amerlcnn Bee Jonrnal 

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

 prices quoted in the last column of figures. The 

 first column Rives the regular price of both. All 

 poataKe prepaid. 



Price of both. Oii*» 



The Weekly Bee Journal |;2 06. . 



and Cook's Manual, last editionCin cloth) 3 25. . 3 OO 

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

 Bees and Honey <T.G.Newman)cloth 3 00.. 2 75 



Bees and Huney (paper covers) 2 75.. 2 50 



Binder for Weeklv Bee Journal 2 T5. . 2 50 



Apiary Register for 20(j colonies 3 50.. 3 25 



Dzierzon'sNew 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 25 



Langstroth's Standard Work 4 00. . 3 75 



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



Alley's Queen Rearing 3 00. . 2 75 



Scribner'B 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 Medicine.lOO Copies 4 50. . 4 25 



Blessed Bees 2 75.. 2 50 



King's Text Book 3 00.. 2 75 



The Weekly Bee Journal one year and 

 and Gleanings inBee-Culture(A.I. Root) 3 00.. 2 75 

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



Bee-Keepers' Guide (A.G.Uill) 2 50.. 2 35 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 3 00.. 2 75 



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

 New Eng. Apiarian. {W.W.Merrill).. 2 75,. 2 50 



British Bee Journal 375.. 3 50 



The 8 above-named papers 9 00.. 7 75 



The Monthly Uee Journal and any of the 

 above, |l less than the figures in the last column. 



Sample Copies of theAMERiCAN Bee 

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1^ A Canadian wishes us to state 

 in the Bee Journal, whether we take 

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 books. We do ; and for fractions of a 

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