(^ (j OLDEST BEE PAPER 

 -^^ '1 AMERICA 



DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED IN '. 

 1861. > 



Chicago, lU., August 27, 1884. VOL. XX.-No. 35. 



THE WEEKLY EDITION 



PrBLISHED BT 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Proprietor. 



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THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



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Topics Presented in tliis Number, 



Absolutely no lSmi)lns Honey o.5o 



A Good Fall Iloney-Crop Ex- 

 pected 5.54 



Bee-1'asturage, Fall Honey, etc. . 552 

 Bees Did Well on Basswood. .-... 55B 

 Bees in Northwestern Nebraska. o55 



Bees in September 548 



Bees on the Nebraska Prairies 554 



Botanical 554 



Correspondence 549 



Davenport Bee-Keepers' Picnic. . 548 



Diseased Bees • 555 



Editorial Items 547, 548 



Enjoying a Good IIoney-Flow 5.55 



Experience with Sweet Clover 554 



Hibernation of Bees .550 



Hints to Bee-Keepers 552 



Honey and Beeswax Market 556 



Honey Crop Below the Average . 555 



Honey-Plant for Hedges 5.54 



Honey Season almost a Failure. . . 5.54 



How to Build a Bee-House 553 



Is it "Honey -Dew ?" .553 



Killing Young Bees 553 



Lake Shore, X. Y., Convention. . . 551 



Let the Bees Swarm 551 



Local Convention Directory .548 



Local Market for Honey 5.57 



Xortheastern Kentucky Conven- 

 tion 5.50 



N. Indiana and S. ^Michigan Con- 

 vention 5,52 



No Surplus Honey 5.55 



Not More than Half a Crop 556 



Only Half a Crop of Honey .5.56 



Preventing After-Swarms 5.55 



Bed-Colored Honey 554 



Report for the Past Two Years. . . 5.55 

 Selections from Our Letter Box. . .554 



Special Notices .557 



The Hibernation Theory .549 



The Michigan Fruit-Belt 553 



The National Convention ,547 



The " Pollen Theory " [ 554 



The World's Exposition .547 



Tree-Trunk Method of Wintering .556 



What and How ,553 



What isitV 555 



CLUBBING LIST FOR 1884. 



We mil supply the American Bee aonrnnl 

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

 prices quoted in the last colnmn of Sgures. The 

 arst column Rives the reeular price of both. All 

 postage prepaid. 



Price of both. Club 

 The Weekly Bee Journal 12 00. . 



and Cook's Manual, latest edition .... .1 2.1 3 00 



Bees and Honey (T.tt.Newman)cloth 3 oo!! 2 75 



bees and Honey (paper covers) 2 76.. 2 50 



Binder for Weeklv Bee Journal 2 75 2 60 



Apiary Register for2iKlcolonie8 .... 3 50" 3 26 



Dzierzon's New Hee Book (cloth).... 4 OO ' 3 00 



Diierzon-s New Book (paper covers) 3 50.. 2 76 



Quinby's New Bee-Keeping. ... 350 326 



Lanpstroth's Standard Work.. 4 00'" 3 76 



Koofs A BCof Bee Culture (cloth) 3 25:! 3 10 



Alley's Queen Rearing 300 275 



bcribner'sLumberandLogBook...! 2 35" 2 25 



Fisher s(irain Tables 2 40 2 S 



Moore's Universal Assistant....! I!!' 4 50" 4 26 



Honey as Food A Medicine.lOO Copies 4 50'! 4 35 



Blessed Bees 2 75 2 50 



King's Bee-Keepers' Text Book ■.'!!! 3 00.'.' 2 78 



The Weekly Bee Journal one year and 



and Gleanings InBee-Culture(A.I.Root) 3 00 2 75 



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



Bee-Keepers'Guide (A.G.Hill)... '. 2 50 2 35 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 3 OO 2 7? 



J'he \plculturist, (Silas M. Locke) .! 3 00.'.' 2 75 



British Bee Journal 375 3 gn 



The 7 apove-named papers. .'..'..' 8 2b.'. 7 OO 



Bee-Keepers' Badges at Fairs. 



A\'e have some ELEGANT 

 RIBBON BADGES, having 

 a rosette and gold Bee, for 

 ;]^^'<^\^"'^'-^^'^vers' use at Fairs, 

 / ▼ \ Conventions, etc. Price 

 50 cents each, by mail, postpaid. 



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^ The first Price List for 1885, re- 

 ceived at this office, is that of J. W 

 K. Shaw & Co., of Loreauville, La., 

 for early queens. 



^° The summer meeting of the 

 Mahoning Valley, O., Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will be held at Newton 

 Falls, O., on Friday, Aug. 29, 1884. 

 All niterested are requested to be 

 present. C. R. Page, Sec. Pro tern. 



W We have just received from the 

 Publishers, .7. S. Ogilvie & Co., 31 

 Kose Street, New York, a copy of a 

 little book entitled, "Seven Hundred 

 Album Verses," containing 128 pages 

 of choice selections of prose and 

 poetry, suitable for writing in auto- 

 graphalbums. 15cents; clothSOcents. 



