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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED IN i 



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Chicago, 111., October 8, 1884. 



VOLXX.-No. 41. 





PrBLISHKD Br 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Pkoprietok. 



925 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 



Weekly. *» a year : Monthly. 50 cents. 



Entered at the P.O. as Second-Glass matter. 



TO CORRESPONDENXS. 



Tlie Subscription Price of the Weekly 

 Ree .loiKNAL is $2.00 a j-ear ; and of 

 the Monthly, 50 cent;* a year in advance. 

 New Subscriptions can l)eg'in at anytime. 



Club Rales for tlie "Weekly are : *.'l 80 

 for two copies (to the same or different 

 post-offices); $5.."}0 for three copies; 

 $7.'20 for four cojiies ; and for five or 

 more copies, §1.75 each. 



Club Rates lor tlie IVIoiitlily are : two 

 copies (to the same or ditlerent post- 

 otJicesi for 90 cents ; three copies for 

 S1.."J0 : four copies for $1.70 : five copies 

 for $-.00 ; more than five copies for 40 

 cents each. 



Sending Money.— Remit by Express. Post 

 Office Order. Postal Note, or Bunk Draft 

 on New York or Chieag-o. If neither of 

 these can be olitained, Key-ister your 

 Letter, affixing stamps both for postag-e 

 and registry, and take a receipt for it; 

 or send it by Kxpress. Money, sent as 

 above described, is at our f^isk, other- 

 wise, it is not. Do not send checks on 

 local banks, which cost us '2[t cents each, 

 at the banks here, to get them cashed. 



Silver should never be sent in Letters. Tt 

 wiH either be stolen, or lost by wearing 

 holes in the envelope. 



Postajice Stanip^i of any denomination 

 may be sent for fractions of a dollar : or 

 where Money Orders, cannot be obtained, 

 stamps for any amount may be sent. 



Subscription Credit^.— The receipt for 

 money sent us will be given on the 

 address-label of every paper. If not 

 given in two weeks after sending the 

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 be wrong about it. Do not wait for 

 months or years, and then claim a 

 mistake. The subscription is paid to the 

 END OF THE MONTH indicated on the 

 wrapper-label. This gives a continual 

 statement of account. 



Lost Numbers.— We carefully mail the 

 Bee .loi'RNAL to every subscriber, but 

 should any be lost in the mails, we will 

 cheerfully replace them if notified before 

 all the edition is exhausted. 



Sample Copies of the Bee Journal will 

 be sent free upon application. Any one 

 intending to get up a eluti can have 

 sample copies sent to the persons they 

 desire to interview, by sending the names 

 to this office. 



Topics Presented in this Number. 



Apiarian Display at New Orleans 652 



A Poor Season 652 



Bee-Diarrhoja— Hot Weather 651 



Bee Journal for 188.5 &54 



Bees and Honey at London, Ont. . 651 



Cash Premiuuis for Clubs 654 



Cellar Ventilation 6.53 



Convention at Chicago 653 



Convention Notices 653 



Correspondence 649 



Create a Local Honey Market 654 



Editorial Items 643—648 



Foul Brood, its Propagation and 



Cure 644 



Honey and Beeswax Market 654 



Honey-Dew for Winter Stores 643 



Honey for Bees in Winter 653 



Kentucky State Conventionn 651 



Local Convention Directory 653 



JSIy Report for 1884 652 



National Bee-Keepers' Ass'n 653 



Report for the Season 652 



Report for 1884 652 



Season Almost an Entire Failure. 652 

 Selections from Our Letter Box.. 652 

 Southern Wisconsin Convention. . 650 



Special Notices 6.54 



Statistics of the Honey Crop 649 



Strange Noise in a Bee-Hive 6.52 



St. Joseph Co., Ind., Convention. . 6.52 

 That Strange Noise— Shiny Bees. 650 



Trial Subscribers 654 



What and How &53 



Apiary Register— New Edition. 



All who intend to be systematic in 

 their work in the apiary, siiould get a 

 copy and commence to use it. The 

 prices will hereafter be a.i follows : 



For 50 colonies (120 pages) $1 00 



" 100 colonies (220 pages 12-5 



" 200 colonies (420 pages) 1 60 



The larger ones can be used for a 

 few colonies, give room for an increase 

 of numbers, and still keep the record 

 all together in one book, and are there- 

 fore the most desirable ones. 



ADVERTISING RATES. 



20 cents per line oi space, each insertion, 



For either the Weekly or Monthly Editi(ms. 



A line of this type will contain about t words; 

 TWELVE lineB will occupy ONE-INCH of space. 

 Transient Advertisements payable in advance. 

 iCdltorial Notices. 50 cents per line. 



Advertisemenls may be inserted one, two or four 

 times a month, if so ordered, at 30 cents per line, 

 of space, for each Insertion. 



Advertisements withdrawn before the expiration 

 of the contract, will be chari^ed the full rate for 

 the time the advertisement is inserted. 



THO.MAS G. NEWMAN, 



•es Went Ma<ll!<on Street.. Chlcaco, III. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



AavertiM<>iiic.|it« for the next Weekly Bee 

 JOUKNAI, must reach this offlce by the 

 Saturday of the previous weeli. 



Books lor Bee-Keepers.— For prices and 

 descriptions of liee-booljs, see the second 

 page of this paper. 



All Papers are Stopped at the expiration 

 of the time piild for, unless requested to 

 be continued. 



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 correspondents must not write anything 

 for publication on the same sheet of 

 paper, u rilcss it can be torn apart without 

 interfiTirii;- with either part of the letter. 

 The (ililorial and business departments 

 are separate and distinct, and when the 

 business is mixed up with items for 

 publication it often causes confusion. 

 They both may be sent in one envelope, 

 but on separate pieces of paper. 



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 to which your paper is addressed. Your 

 name cannot be found on our List, unless 

 this is done. 



Emerson Binders, made especially for 

 the Bek .It)URN.\r., are lettered in gold 

 on the back, and make a very convenient 

 way of preser\'ing- the Bee Jouunal as 

 fast as received. They will be sent, post- 

 paid, for 7.') cents each. They cannot be 

 sent by mail to Canada. 



To Canadians — We take Canadian money 

 for subscription or books ; and Canadian 

 postage stamps may be sent for fractions 

 of a dollar. 



FOKEIQN POSTASE, EXTRA: 



To Europe-Weekly, .50 cenia ; Monthly, lu cents. 



To Australia -Weekly, »l ; Montbly. aicents. 



OeorKe NeiKhbour * Sons, London, Enuland are 



our authorized aKents for Europe. 



