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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED IN ! 



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Chicago, 111., July 30, 1884. 



VOL XX.-No. 31. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



PrSLISHED BY 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



EDITOR AND PROPKIETOR. 



925 WEST MADISOK ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 

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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



»»S (Vent Madlaon Street., Chlcnico, III. 



Topics Presented in this Number. 



Accidentally 1 )isabled 491 



A Visit to G. W. Demaree's 

 Apiary 489 



Biisswood Abundant, No Honey. . 491 



Basswood a Complete Failure 490 



Bee-Keeping in Cuba 485 



Bees and Honey at the London 



Health Exhibition 48.5 



Bees Gathering Honey-Dew 491 



Bees Not Busy 491 



Bees Uncapping Honey '.. 490 



Bees with Diseased Feet 491 



Comb Honey, or Extracted ? 490 



Correspondence 487 



Editorial Items 483 to 486 



Fastening Starters in Sections 491 



Good Enough 492 



Hiving Bees 492 



Hiving Swarms of Bees 487 



Honey and Beeswax Market 494 



Honey Dearth Now 491 



Honey Dew 484 



Honey-Dew Honey 491 



Honey in Mountainouu Regions . . 492 

 " Honor to Whom Honor is Due " 483 

 How the " Queen " was Captured 486 



How to CTCt Rid of Ants 491 



Hybrids Better than Italians 492 



Introducing Virgin Queens 490 



Neither Increase nor Surplus 492 



No Basswood Honey 492 



Overstocking a Locality 489 



Production of Surplus Honey 488 



Quick Work 491 



Reversible Frames Again 488 



Satisfied 490 



Selections from Our Letter Box . 490 

 Small Black Ants in the Apiary. . 490 



Still Hunting 492 



The Use of Comb Foundation . . . 486 

 " Tree- Trimk Method of Winter- 

 ing" 492 



Transferring Bees 490 



Uncapping Knife 491 



What and How 490 



When to Sow Sweet Clover 490 



Wiring Foundation Unnecessary. 491 

 Wolf -berry 491 



CLUBBING LIST FOR 1884. 



We will supply the American Bee .Joarnal 



one year, and any of tbe foUowlnK Books, at tbe 

 prices quoted in the last column of dKures. The 

 flret column Rives the regular price of both. All 

 poataffe prepaid. 



Price of both. Oh*v 



The Weelsly Bee Journal 12 00.. 



and Cook's Manuiil.iastedltiondn cloth) 3 25.. 3 00 

 Bees and Honey (T.G.Newman)cioth 3 OO. . 2 75 



Bees and Il<.ney (paper covers) 2 75.. 2 50 



Binder for Weekly Bee Journal 2 75.. 2 60 



Apiary Reeister for 200 colonies 3 50. . 3 29 



Dzierzon's New Bee Book (cloth) 4 09.. 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 76 



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



Alley's Queen Rearing 3 00.. 2 76 



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 26 



Honey as Food it Medicine.IOO Copies 4 50. . 4 25 



Blessed Bees 2 75.. 2 50 



King' TextBook 3 00. 2 76 



The Weekly Bee Journal one year and 

 and Gleanings inBee-Culture(A.LRoot) 3 (10.. 2 75 

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



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



Kansas Bee-Keeper 3 00.. 2 76 



The Apiculturist, (Silas M. Locke) . . 3 00. . 2 76 



British Bee Journal 3 75.. 3 50 



The 7 above-named papers 8 25 . 7 00 



Tbe Monthly U ee tlournal and any of the 

 above, f 1 less than the figures in the last column. 



Sample Copies of theAMEEicAN Bee 

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 club can have sample copies sent to 

 the persons they desire to interview, 

 by sending the names to this office. 



^^ We can supply photographs of 

 Rev. L. L. Langstroth, the Baron of 

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Emerson Binders — made especially 

 for the Bee Journal, are lettered in 

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 convenient way of preserving the Bee 

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 the Weekly ; or for the Monthly, .50 

 cents. They cannot be sent by mail 

 to Canada. 



