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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED IN t 

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Chicago, lU., July 16, 1884. 



VOL. XX.-No. 29. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



PUBLISHED BT 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



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Topics Presented in this Number. 



Another Bee- Paper C4oiie 4.32 



Uark-Louse Honey Injurious 459 



]5ees not Storing in Sections 4-58 



Beeswax 4.52 



Blaclvberry .Jelly made with Honey 4.59 



But Little Basswood Honey 4.59 



Carbolic Acid 459 



" Colony " or " Nation V" 460 



Comb Honey Without Separators 451 

 Convention at North Salem, Ind. . 4-54 



Correspondence 4.53 



Cyprians, Syrians, etc 451 



Death of a Bee-Keeper by Light- 

 ning 4.59 



Direct Introduction of Queens 4.56 



Editorial Items 451, 4.52 



Fastening Starters in Sections 459 



Few Swarms and tuit Little Honey 460 

 Getting Bees to Work in Sections 4-58 



Good 459 



Good Prospects for Fall Honey. . . 4.59 



Honey and Beeswax Market 460 



Honeiy-Dew and White Clover 



Honey 4.55 



Honey Harvest— Wintering, etc. . 460 



Increase by Division 459 



Local Convention Directory 4.59 



Making Honey-A'iupgar 4.52 



Marketing my Honey Crop 460 



Migratory Bee-Keeping 4.52 



Out. Bee-Keepers' Association... 4.>5 



Poor Honey Crop 4G0 



Preventing After-Swarms 4.5S 



Quantity Small, Quality Good 4.59 



Kemarkable Season 460 



Selections from Our Letter Box. . 4.59 

 Separating Bees from Surplus 



Honey 45S 



Shaking Bees 4.59 



Special Notices 461 



Storing Honey Rapidly 460 



The Real Cause of Bee-Diarrhoea 454 



The Use of CarbuHc Acid 4.57 



Unusual Honey Flow 459 



Weak Colonies 4.58 



What and How 4.58 



" What do we Know " 4.53 



Wild Bergamont 460 



CLUBBLNW LIST FOR 1884. 



We will supply the American Bee tlourna] 



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

 prices quoted in the last colnmn of figures. The 

 first column Rives the regular price of both. All 

 poetaxe prepaid. 



Price 0] both. Oli.. 



The Weekly Bee Journal »2 00. . 



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

 Bees and Honey (T.O.Newman)cloth 3 00. . 2 73 



Bees and Honey (paper covers) 2 75. . 2 51) 



Binder for Weekly Bee Journal 2 75. . 2 60 



Apiary Register tor 2ilO colonies 3 50. . 3 25 



Dzieraon's New 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 



liangstroth's Standard Work 4 00.. 3 75 



Boot's A B C of Bee Culture (cloth) 3 25. . 3 10 



Alley's Queen Rearing 3 00.. 2 75 



Scribner'8 Lumber and Log Book 2 35. . 2 25 



Fisher's Grain Tables 2 40.. 2 25 



Moore's Cniversal Assistant 4 50.. 4 25 



Honey as Food 4 Medicine.lOO Copies 4 30. . 4 25 



Blessed Bees 2 75.. 2 30 



King' TextBook 3 00.. 2 74 



The Weekly Bee Journal one year and 



and Gleanings inBee-Culture(A.I. Root) 3 00.. 2 J5 



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



Bee-Keepers' Guide (A.CJ.Hill) 2 50.. 2 36 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 300.. 2 75 



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



British Bee Journal 3 75.. 3 50 



The 7 above-named papers 8 25 . 7 00 



The Monthly Uee (Journal and any of the 

 above, (I less than the figures in the last column. 



0° The Gibson County Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, will meetat Trenton, 

 Gibson Co., Tenn., on Aug. 2, 1884. A 

 good atten(Janee is expected. 



T. J. Happell, Sec. 



J. W. Howell, Pres. 



1^ The meeting of the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association of Northeastern Ken- 

 tucky, will be held in the city of 

 Covington, Walker's Hall, on Aug. 

 13, 1884. G. W. Cree, Sec. 



I®" Constitutions and By-Laws for 

 local Associations $2.00 per 100. The 

 name of the Association printed in the 

 blanks for 50 cents extra. 



Sample Copies of theAMERiCAN Bee 

 Journal 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 ofSce. 



