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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED IN i 

 1861. * 



Chicago, lU., August 20, 1884. VOL.XX.-No. 34. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



EDITOR Axn PHOPHIKTOR. 



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Topics Presented in this Number. 



A Message to tlie Bees 538 



A Swarm of Bees Loose on a Train 531 

 Bee and Honey Show in Scotland. •'531 



Convention Hand-Book 541 



Convention Notices. 532, -539, 540, .542 



Correspondence 533 



Create a Local Honey Market 541 



Crop all that conld be Desired. . . . 540 



Desiring Progress 540 



Editorial Items 531 to 532 



Hints about the Mich. State Fair 539 

 Hiving Swarms— Overstocking. .. 534 



Honey and Beeswax Market 542 



Honey Crop a Failure Plere 540 



Honey-Dew— What is it ? 536 



" Honor to Whom Honor is Due " 535 



How to Winter Bees 540 



Immense Honey Crop in California 540 

 Large Crop of Basswood Honey. . 540 



Local Convention Directory 529 



Loosestrife 540 



Marketing Honey 532 



Marshall Co., Iowa, Convention.. 5.38 



My Plan of Transferring Bees 535 



Philadelphia Picnic 537 



Kequirements in Modern Bee- 



Keeping 538 



Reversible Frames Again 533 



Sending Queens by Mail 533 



Selections from Our Letter Box.. 540 



Song of the Bee 537 



Special Notices 541 



The Book, " Bees and Honey "... 531 

 The Necessities of Modern Bee- 



Keeping 538 



The Qualities of Honey-Dew 537 



The Worst Honey Season, so Far. 540 



To Kentucky Bee- Keepers -542 



Transferring Bees 540 



What and How 540 



Wild Sensitive-Plant 540 



®" The Cortland Union Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will hold its mid- 

 summer meeting at Cortland, N. Y., 

 on Aug. 26, 1884, in the rooms of the 

 Y. M. C. A. M. G. Dakby, Sec. 



CLUBBIMJ LIST FOR 1884. 



We will supply the Amerlciin lSe«* •Journii* 

 .one year, and any of the follnwint B..ubs. at It e 

 prices quoted in the last column of daures. Tre 

 flrstcolumn gives the regular price of both. Al 

 poatase prepaid. 



Price of both. Club 

 The Weekly Bee Journal, ?2 ou 



and Cook's Manual, latest edition '^2^ 3 00 



Bees and Honey (T.G.NewmaniclothS 00.. 2 75 



Bees and Huney (paper covers) 2 76. '/ fuj 



Binder for Weeklv Boe Journal 2 7^ 2 50 



Apiary Retiister for JHi colonies S r>0 . 3 25 



Dzierzon's New liee Boob (cloth) 4 iw.. .100 



Dzierz<m"8 New Book (piiper ct-vers) 3 .50. . 2 75 



Qulnby's New Bee-Keepintr S 50. . H 25 



IjanKStroth's Standard Work 4 00 3 7^ 



Root's A BCot Bee <'ulture (cloth) :i 25.. 3 10 



Alley's Queen KeariuB 3 OH. , tit 



Scribner's Lumtier and Log Boob 2 3fi.. 2 25 



Fisher's (irair^ 'J'ables 2 40.. 2 2.*; 



Moore's Universal As>istant 4 5ti.. 4 26 



Honey as Kood <t Medicine,IUii Copies 4 50. . 4 25 



Blessed Bees 2 ?5.. 2 .lo 



King's Bee-Keepers' Text Boob 3 00.. 2 78 



The Weekly Bee Journal one year and 



andGleaningsinBee-CuIturei A.I.Root) 3 00. 2 75 



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



Bee-Keepers' Guide (A.ti.Hillj 2 5U.. 2 36 



Kansas Bee-Keoper ;i liO 2 76 



The Apiculturist. (Silas M. Locke) . . :i 00. . 2 75 



British Bee Journal ,. H 75.. 3 50 



The 7 above-named papers 8 25 7 00 



Local Convention Directory. 



1884. Time and place of Meeting. 



Aug. 2rt.— Cortland Union, at Cortland, N. Y. 



M.G. Darby. Sec. 

 Aug. 29.— Mahoning Valley, O.. at Newton Falls, O. 



C R, Page. 8ec. Pro (fni. 

 Sept.1.2.— W.N.Y.and N.W.Pa.,at Jamestown, N.Y. 



W. A. Shewman. Sec. 

 Sept. 1, 5.— Ohio State, at Columbus, O. 



C M. Kingsbury, Sec, 

 Sept. 2, 3.— Kentucky State, at Eminence. Ky. 



N. P. Allen, Sec. 

 Sept. 4.— Southern Indiana, at Madison. Ind. 



Dr. Firth, Sec. 

 Sept. 9.— Fayette Cnunty, lowa,at Brush Creek, la. 



B. F. Little. Sec. 



Sept. 13.— Union. Western Iowa, at Dexter, Iowa. 



M.E. Darby, Sec. 



Sept. 17, 18, 19.— Western, at Independence, Mo. 



C. M.Crandall. Sec. 



Oct. 1, 2.— Cedar Valley. Iowa, at Waterloo, Iowa. 



H. O. McElhany; Sec. 



Oct. 4.— Marshall Co., Iowa, at Marshalltown. la. 



J. W. Sanders, Sec. 



Oct. II. 12.— Northern Mich., at Alma. Mich. 



F. A. Palmer, Sec. McBride, M'C 

 Oct. 1,5, 1(1.— Northwestern, at Chicago. HI. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. Sec. 

 Oct. 28, 30.— North American at Rochester. N, Y. 

 Dr. C. C. Miller, Sec. Marengo. III. 

 Nov. 25.— Western Mich., at Fremont. Mich. 



Geo. E. Hilton. Sec. 

 Dec. 3.— Southeastern Mich., at Adrian, Mich. 



A. M. Cander. Sec. 

 Dec. 10, 11.— Michigan State, at Lansing. 



H. D. Cutting, Sec. Clinton, Mich. 



I^r- In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetings.— En. 



