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DEYOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED IN i 

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Chicago, lU., September 24, 1884. VOL. XX -No. 39. 



PCBLISHED BY 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. 



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Topics Presented in this Number. 



Bee .Journal for isSo 62:i 



Bee-Keepers' Meeting 021 



Bee-Keeping in Nebraska 618 



Bees and Honey at Louisville, Ky. 611 

 Bees and Honey at St. Louis Fair 612 



Best Season for Several Years <)21 



Blue ^"ervain 621 



Cash Premiums for Clubs 622 



Controlling Increase, etc 619 



Convention at Chicago 621 



Convention Iland-Book 622 



Convention Notices 612, 619, 621 



Correspondence 613 



Create a Local Honey Market. . . . 622 



Crop almost a Total Failure 621 



Delightful "Weather for Bees 621 



Editorial Items 611,612 



Extracted or Comb Honey — which "i* 618 



Goldenrod 621 



Honey and Beeswax Market 612 



" Honey-Dew— What is it V" 616 



How to Ship Extracted Honey 617 



Instructions to Correspondents 609 



International Convention 611 



Iowa State Convention 618 



Is Honey Poisonous ? 613 



Killing Bees 620 



Local Convention Directory 612 



Management of Long Hives 61o 



Marketing Honey in Small Sections 614 

 Marshall Co., Iowa, Honey Show. 621 



Not One Pound Per Colony 621 



Only One-Half a Crop 621 



Report for 1884 621 



Selections from Our Letter Box.. 621 



Somerset, Maine, Convention 615 



Special Notices 622 



St. .Joseph Bee and Honey Show. 614 



Strange Noise in a Bee-Hive 620 



The National Convention 612 



The Origin of Honey-Dew 613 



The Purity of Drones 620 



The Sting amid the Sweets 611 



"What and How 620 



Will County, 111., Convention 614 



"Winter Management of Bees 615 



W. N. Y. and N. Pa. Convention. 616 

 Worst Season for 10 Years 621 



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