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OLDEST 

 ,^_^ IN AMERICA 





TABLISHED 



1861 



DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HONEY PRODUCERS. 



ESTABLISHED IN i 

 1861. f 



Chicago, lU., November 26, 1884. VOL. XX.-No. 48. 



PrBLlSHED BT 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Proprietor. 

 925 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAOO, ILL. 



Weekly, SS a year : Monthly, SO cents. 



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



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



The Subscription Price of the Weekly 

 Bee Journal is ?2.00 a year ; and of 

 the Monthly, 50 cents a year in advance. 

 New Subscriptions can begin at any time. 



Club Rates lor the Weekly are : $.3.80 

 for two copies (to the same or different 

 post-offices) ; $5.50 for three copies ; 

 |7.20 for four copies ; and for &ve or 

 more copies, $1.75 each. 



Club Rates for the Tlonthly are : two 



copies (to the same or different post- 

 oflices) for 90 cents ; three copies for 

 SL.'IO ; four copies for $1.70 : five copies 

 for $2,00 ; more than five copies for 40 

 cents each. 



Sending Money — Remit by Express, Post 

 Office Order, Postal Note, or Bank Draft 

 on New York or Chicago. If neither of 

 these can be obtained. Register your 

 Letter, affixing stamps both for postage 

 and registry, and take a receipt for it ; 

 or send it by Express. Money, sent as 

 above described, is at our ki.sk, other- 

 wise, it is not. Do not send checks on 

 local banks, which cost us 25 cents each, 

 at the banks here, to get them cashed. 



Silver should never be sent in Letters. It 

 will either be stolen, or lost by wearing 

 holes in the envelope. 



Postage Stamps of any denomination 

 may be sent for fractions of a dojJar : or 

 where Money Orders, cannot be omained, 

 stamps for any amount may be sent. 



Subscription Credits — 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 

 money, write to us, for something must 

 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. 



liost Numbers.— We carefully mail the 

 Bee Jot'RN.ii, to every subscriber, but 

 should any be lost in the mails, we will 

 cheerfully replace them it 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 club can have 

 sample copies sent to the persons they 

 desire to interview, by sending the names 

 to this office. 



Topics Presented in tliis Number. 



About One-Third of a Crop 764 



A Cbristmas Present 766 



Bee Journal for 1.SS5 766 



Bee-Keeping in Alabama 764 



Cash Premiums for Clubs 766 



Convention Hand-Book 764 



Convention Notices 764 



Correspondence 756 



Dodder— a Parasitic Honey-Plant 755 



Editorial Items 755 



Good Yield of Beeswax 764 



Honey and Beeswax Market 765 



Introducing Queens 763 



Local Convention Directory 765 



Local Market for Honey 765 



Moving Bees, etc 765 



New Jersey & Eastern Convention 7-57 



Oil-Cloth Covering 76.5 



Origin of Honey-Dew 763 



Premium for Club of 10 Subscribers 755 



Report from Fairview Apiary 764 



Selections from Our Letter Box. . 764 

 That Wonderful Yield of Honey. 762 



The Apicultural Outlook 7.56 



The Best Frame for all Purposes. 763 

 The Carbonic-Acid Gas Question. 7.56 

 Those Continuous Passageways.. 761 



Use of Foundation, etc 764 



VVhat and How 7a5 



Wintering Bees 7,58 



Women as Bee- Keepers 762 



World's Exposition Honey Show. 755 



^" We have received the " Second 

 Annual Price List of the Victor Hive, 

 Syrio-Albino Queens, and Apiarian 

 Supplies, of Dr. G. L. Tinker, New 

 Philadelphia, O. ;" 24 pages. This is 

 the first catalogue for 18*5 we have 

 received. 



I®" To Canadian subscribers let us 

 say that we have made arrangements 

 so that we can supply the Farmer's 

 Advocate of London, Out., and the 

 Monthly Bee Journal for one year 

 at $1.25 for the two. This is a rare 

 chance to obtain two good papers for 

 about the price of one. 



ADVERTISING RATES. 



20 cents per line of space, each Insertion, 



For tither the Weekly or Monthly EMtient. 



A line of this type will admit about 7 words. 

 ONE INCH will contain TWELVE lines. 



Transient Advertisements must be paid 

 for in advance. 



Editorial Notices will be inserted at the 

 rate of 50 cents per line. 



Time Discounts on advertisements will 

 be made as follows : On lo lines and 

 upward, 3 insertions, 5 ^ cent.; 6 inser- 

 tions, 10 ^ cent.; 9 insertions, 15 ^ cent.; 

 12 insertions, 20 ^ cent.; 26 insertions, 

 25 ^ cent. ; 53 insertions, 40 ^ cent. 



On 50 lines and upward, 1 time, 5 ^ cent.; 

 3 insertions, 10 |?cent.; 6 insertions, 15 ^ 

 cent.; 9 insertions, 20^ cent.; 12 inser- 

 tions, 25 ^ cent. ; 26 insertions, .30 ^ cent. ; 

 52 insertions, 50 per cent. 



On 100 lines and upward, 1 time, 10^ cent. ; 

 3 insertions, 15 ^ cent.; 6 insertions. 30 ^ 

 cent.; 9 insertions, 25 ^ cent. ; 12 inser- 

 tions, 30 ^ cent. ; 26 insertions, 40 ^ cent. ; 

 52 insertions, 60 per cent. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Advertisements for the next Weekly Bee 

 Journal must reach this office by the 

 Saturday of the previous week. 



Books lor Bee-Keepers.— For prices and 

 descriiitions of bee-books, see the second 

 page of this paper. 



All Papers are Stopped at the expiration 

 of the tinle paid for, unless requested to 

 be continued. 



Tl^en writing to this office on Business, 

 correspondents must not write anything 

 for publication on the same sheet of 

 paper, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering ivith either part of the letter. 

 The editorial 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. 



Always give tlie name of the Post-Office 

 to which your paper is addressed. Your 

 name cannot be found on our List, unless 

 this is done. 



Emerson Binders, made especially for 

 tiie Bee Journal, are lettered in gold 

 on the back, and make a very convenient 

 way of preserving the Bee Journal as 

 fast as received. They will be sent, post- 

 paid, for 75 cents each. Tbey cannot be 

 sent by mail to Canada. 



To Canadians.— We take Canadian money 

 tor subscription or books ; and Canadian, 

 postage stamps may be sent for fractions, 

 of a dollar. 



FOREIQN H08TAOE,' EXT«A « 



To Barope-Weekly, -in cents ; Monthly lOcpn.. 



To Australia -Weekly, ti : IMontSly, siienta 

 George Nelithbour i Sons. London. Bneland i,« 

 oar authorized agents forEuTope ' 



