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Chicago, lU., September 3, 1884. VOL. XX -No. 36. 



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Topics Presentedjn this Number. 



An Average Season 571 



A New Estimate of the " Busy 



Bee" 565 



Ants, Moths, Keeping Honey, etc 568 



Bee-Keeping in England 564 



Bee-Keeping in Scotland 571 



Best Honey Season for 6 Years. . . 571 



Convention Hand-Book 573 



Convention Notices 564, 565 



Correspondence 566 



Editorial Items 564 to 565 



Extracted vs. Comb Honey 564 



Honey and Beeswax Market 565 



Honey Cappings 572 



Honey Show-Case 569 



Hiving Swarms of Bees 570 



Introducing Queens 571 



Is Honey Poisonous? 567 



Killing Bees 572 



Local Convention Directory 565 



Local Market for Honey 573 



Mignonette Described 572 



Motherwort 571 



Moving Bees .572 



My Report for 18S4 571 



New Zealand Comb Foundation. . 570 

 N. W. 111. and S. W. Wis. Conven- 

 tion .567 



Bipening Honey .572 



Selections from Our Letter Box . . 571 



Sending Queens by Mail -568 



Special Notices .573 



The Bee Journal for 1885 563 



The Origin of Honey-Dew .568 



The Season a Poor One .571 



Thoroughwort 571 



Those Virgin Queens 566 



Was it Foul Brood ? 572 



What and How 572 



" Whatisit?" 567 



1^- The Illinois State Fair for 1884 

 will be held at Chicago, upon the 

 extensive and finely improved grounds 

 of the Chicago Jockey Club, adjoining 

 Garfield Park. The Fair will be held 

 from September 8 to 13. A show of Fat 

 Stock will be held in the Exposition 

 Building, Chicago, Nov. 11-20, under 

 the auspices of the Board. 



Bee-Keepers' Badges at Fairs. 



We have some ELEGANT 

 RIBBON BADGES, having 

 a rosette and gold I5ee, for 

 bee-keepers' use at Fairs, 

 Conventions, etc. Price 

 50 cents each, by mail, postpaid. 



To Kentucky Bee-Keepers. 



i^" Since Secretary Allen's notice on 

 page 542, relating to the display of bees and 

 honey at the Exposition in Louisville, from 

 Sept. 4 to (), I have conferred with Col. .John 

 F. Davis, Commissioner of Agriculture of 

 Kentucky, and he lias promised to give the 

 following prizes, to encourage the display 

 of Bees and Honey among the products of 

 the State : Hest comb honej', not less than 

 24 lbs., S.^.OO ; best extracted honey, not less 

 than 24 lbs., iS.'j.OO ; best display of honey, 

 $10.00 ; best colony of Italian bees and queen 

 in observatory hive, $5.00 ; best display of 

 bees and (jueens, .¥10.00; best collection of 

 honey-prochicin^' jilants and trees, cut speci- 

 mens, $5.0(1. I may not have the listentirel.y 

 correct, as I received it verbal I.v from the 

 Commissioner. We hope to meet many of 

 the friends of bee-culture from other States, 

 as well as from o\n' own State, at our State 

 convention at Eminence, Ky., on Sept. 2 and 

 ■3, and also at Louisville. G. W. Demaree. 



Christiansburg, Ky., Aug. 21, 1884. 



1^ The Progressive Bee-Keepers' 

 Association meets on the first Satur- 

 day in October, 1884, at Bedford, O. 

 A general invitation is given. 



J. R. Reed, Sec. 



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