DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED INt 

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Chicago, 111., June 25, 1884. 



VOL. XX.-No. 26. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



Lls^ M W V *J'U^8!^l 



PPBLISHED Br 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



EDITOR ANr> Proprietor. 

 «26 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



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Topics Presented in this Number. 



Bees are Busy 411 



Building up Colonies in the Spring 407 

 Call Things l)y their Right Names 404 



Chickens and Bees 412 



Convention Iland-Book 413 



Correspondence 40.5 



Docility of Cyprian & Syrian Bees 403 



Docility of Syrian Bees 409 



Editorial Items 403 



Heavy Bloom 411 



Honey and Beeswax Market 412 



Honey and Digestion 403 



Increased Experience 411 



Introducing ^'irgin Queens 407 



Local Convention Directory 412 



Overstocking a Locality 410 



Prevention of Bee-Diarrhcea 409 



Prevention of Swarming 412 



Profitable use of Comb Foundation][409 



Putting Honey on tlie Market 404 



Queen Rearing 411 



Reversing the Frames 412 



Selections from Our Letter Box. . 411 



Special Notices 413 



Swarm Separators 411 



The Bees are Swarming 405 



Tlie Honey Season in Cuba 403 



The Principles of Protection 406 



The Season in England 404 



Transferring Bees 412 



Unripe Extracted Honey 411 



Use of Comb Foundation 411 



Use of Honey from Diseased Bees 412 



Very Small Bees 412 



What and IIow 412 



"What do we Know V 411 



Wintering— Bee-Duirrhoea 408 



Wintering Bees in Cellars 40S 



Winter of 1SS3-1MS4 405 



Ribbou Badg'es, for bee-keepers, on 

 which are printed a large bee in gold, 

 we send for 10 cts. each, or $8 per 100. 



1^ The KentuckyBee-Keepers'Con- 

 vention meets in Louisville, Ky., dur- 

 ing the opening of the Exposition (day 

 not fixed). X. P. Allen, ISec. 



CLUBBINO LIST FOR 1884. 



We will supply tbe American Bee Jonrnal 

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

 prices quoted In the last colnmn of figures. The 

 flrst column Kives the regular price of both. All 

 postaKe prepaid. 



Price 0/ both. Oiu« 



The Weekly Bee Journal *2 08. . 



and Cook's Manual, last edltionCIn cloth) 3 25. . 3 00 

 Cook's Manu^il, (In paper covers) ... 3 00. . 2 50 

 Bees and Honey (T.Q.Newman)cloth 3 00.. 2 T5 



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



Binder for Weekly Bee Journal 2 To.. 2 50 



Apiary Register for 200 colonies .... 3 50. . 3 25 



Dzierzon'8 New Bee Book (cloth) 4 00.. 3 00 



Dzierzon's New Book (paper covers) 3 50. . 2 V5 



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



Langstroth's Standard Work 4 00.. 3 75 



Koot's ABC of Bee Culture (cloth) 3 25. . 3 00 



Alley "s'Queen Hearing 3 00. . 3 75 



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 25 



HoneyasFoodiMedicine.lOOCopies 4 50.. 4 23 



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.Koot) 3 00.. 2 75 

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



Bee-Keepers' Guide (A.Q.Hlll) 2 60.. 2 35 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 3 00.. 2 75 



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

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



British Bee Journal 3 75.. 3 50 



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



The Monthly Ifee Journal and any of the 

 above, II less than the figures inthe last column. 



Sample Copies of theAMERicAN Bee 

 .JouuNAL will be sent free to any per- 

 son. Any one intending to get up a 

 club can have sample copies sent to 

 the persons they desire to interview, 

 by sending the names to this office. 



Euiersoii Binders— made especially 

 for the Bee Journal, are lettered in 

 gold on the back, and make a very 

 convenient way of preserving the Bee 

 Journal as fast as received. They 

 will be sent, post-paid, for 75 cents, for 

 the Weekly ; or for the Monthly, ,50 

 cents. They cannot be sent by mail 

 to Canada. 



c^ The Gibson County Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, will meet at Trenton, 

 Gibson Co., Tenn., on July 5, 1884. A 

 good attendance is expected. 



T. J. Happell, Sec. 



J. W. Howell, Pres. 



