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Chicago, lU., July 9, 1884. VOL. XX -No. 28. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Proprietor. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



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Topics Presented in this Number. 



Another Falsehoorl Exposed 435 



Apiarist or Apiator V 444 



Bee-Keeping tor Profit 440 



Bee-Keeping in New York 443 



Bees Doing Nicely 444 



Bnt Few Swarms 444 



Candibd Honey in Kegs 443 



Collecting Honey I'laTits 437 



Comb Honey Rack Again 440 



Convention Hand Book 446 



Correspondence 437 



Eccentricities in Queen .Breeding 443 



Fastening Starters, etc 436 



Good Honey Yield 444 



Hiving Swarms of Bees 437 



Honey and Beeswax Market 444 



Honey Candying, etc 443 



How to Clean Barrels for Honey. 442 



Large Honey Flow 444 



Local Convention Directory 443 



Maltine T 443 



Marketing Extracted Honey 441 



Natural Swarming 436 



Norfolk, Ont., Convention 442 



Perplexing Be.ginners 436 



Prospects for Honey in California 444 



Reply to W. F. Clarke 441 



Reversible Frames 439 



Seasonable Hints 436 



Special Notices .....' 445 



Swarming Fever 442 



That Deep-Celled Foundation 444 



Tiering up Sections 443 



Transferring Bees 444 



Tree-Trunk Method of Wintering 

 Bees on the Summer Stands. . 438 



Wax Production 443 



What and How 442 



Why do the Bees do so y 442 



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