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Chicago, lU., June 18, 1884. VOL.XX.-No. 25. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



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Topics Presented in this Number. 



A Great IjOss 39.5 



Apiaries near Highways 396 



I5ees and Flowers 391 



Clipping Queens' Wings .393 



Convention Ilaud-Book .397 



Correspondence 390 



Cure for Foul IJrood 38.s- 



Damaging Floods in Texas 39-5 



Editorial Items 387, 388, 389 



Kstablisliing Apiaries 396 



Fastening Foundation in Sections 39.5 



Good Eesults in Wintering 39.) 



Good Work • 39.5 



Hail— Bloom without Nectar 390 



Haldiuiand, Ont., Convention. . . . 391 



Handling and Quieting Bees 387 



Honey and Beeswax Market 396 



Honey Dew 39-5 



Honey from White Mustard 39-5 



How to Grow Fine Celery 387 



Increasing Colonies by Division. . 394 



Local Convention Directory 39-5 



Near-sighted 389 



Priority of Location. . ." 392 



Reversible Frames Once More 391 



Selections from our Letter Box. . . 39.5 



Special Notices 397 



Statistical Report .387 



The Fertilization of Flowers 389 



The Honey Flora of Arkansas . . . 393 



Those Trembling Bees .39.5 



What aiid How 39.5 



Will Cotuity, 111., Convention 394 



Wintering Bees on Summer Stands 393 



CLUBBING LIST FOR 1884. 



t^ Tlie Southwestern Iowa Bee- 

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 Corning, June 2.8. 1884. 



W. J. Olivek, Sec. 



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Kansas Bee-Keeper 3 00.. 2 76 



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