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son's report is as follows, and I am 

 satisfied : Spring count, 35 colonies ; 

 in winter quarters, 57 colonies ; coiub 

 honey, 2,008 lbs. ; extracted lioney, 

 1,114 lbs.; total, 3,122 lbs. I hope to 

 be able to attend the Chicago Conven- 

 tion. 



Geo. E. Hiltok. 

 Fremont, Mich., Oct. 3, 1883. 



Fall Honey from the Asters. 



Please lind enclosed a Mower that is 

 just in full bloom now. It has been in 

 bloom for about ten days ; the frost 

 does not seem to injure it. Bees are 

 working on it very lively, and they 

 are storing honey in good style yet. 

 Please give it a name through your 

 welcome Bkk Journal. 



D. B. Bko'vvn. 



Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 27, 1883. 



[It is one of the asters— all are ex- 

 cellent honey producers. — Ed.] 



Bee and Honey Exhibit. 



We had quite a nice honey exhibit 

 at the Portage County Fair. Jilr. 

 Page, of Streetsborougli, and Mr. 

 Converse, of Ravenna, were the ex- 

 hibitors. Mr. Page had a tent made 

 of wire screen covering his bees. Mr. 

 Converse took out the side of his hive 

 and put in glass, so that they could 

 see the bees. He took the prize for 

 a hive ; also, on the best colony of 

 bees ; also on some honey. 



B. Harding. 



Kent, Ohio, Oct. 1, 1883. 



Bee Killer. 



I send a specimen of fly caught 

 with a bee in its forceps. They are 

 exceedingly swift on the wing, and 

 cannot be kept sight of more than a 

 couple of rods away. Are they the 

 " bee killers " spoken of in the Bee 

 Journal y 



.Jas. Poindexter. 



Bloomington, 111. 



[Yes ; it is the Asilus Missouriensis, 

 or bee killer. — Ed.] 



t^ The sixth annual meeting of 

 the Northern Michigan Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will be held at Stone's 

 Opera Hall, Sheridan, Montcalm 

 county, Mich., on Tuesday and Wed- 

 nesday, Oct. 9 and 10, to open at JO a. 

 m. of the first day. Evening sessions 

 will be held, which will be interest- 

 ing. At our last meeting it was re- 

 quested tliat all interested in apicul- 

 ture attend, and all who would, and 

 could, furnish for exhibition apiarian 

 supplies in the way of hives, extrac- 

 tors, implements used in the apiary, 

 honey, honey-producing plants, and 

 anything that would be interesting to 

 a bee-keeper. Ample arrangements 

 have been made to entertain all who 

 will come. Let us have a general 

 turn out, and see what we can learn 

 one of the other. It will be a dull 

 scholar wlio cannot profit by such a 

 gathering. Feel assured we shall 

 have an interesting time. 



Geo. W . Stanton, Pres. 



O. R. Goodno, tSec. 



Special ^aticcs. 



Examine the Date following your 

 name on the wrapper label of this 

 paper; it indicates the end of the 

 month to which you have paid your 

 subscription on the Bee Journal. 



For safety, when sending money to 

 this ottice get either a post office or ex- 

 press money order, a bank draft on 

 New York or Chicago, or register the 

 letter. Postage stamps of any kind 

 may be sent for amounts less than one 

 dollar. Local checks are subject to a 

 discount of 25 cents at Chicago banks. 

 American Express money orders for 

 $5, or less, can be obtained for 5 cents. 



W e wish to impress upon every one 

 the necessity of being very specific, 

 and carefully to state what they desire 

 for the money sent. Also, if tlaey live 

 near one post office, and get their mail 

 at another, be sure to give us the ad- 

 dress we already have on our books. 



How to Create a Market for Honey. 



We have now published another 

 edition of the pamphlet on "Honey as 

 Food and Medicine," with more neio 

 Recipes for Honey Medicines, all kinds 

 of cooking in which honey is used, and 

 healthful and pleasant beverages. 



We have put the price still lower, 

 to encourage bee-keepers to scatter 

 them far and wide. Single copy 5 

 cents, postpaid ; per dozen, 40 cents; 

 per hundred, $2.50. 500 will be sent 

 postpaid for $10.00, or 1,000 for 

 $15.00- On orders of 100 or more, 

 we will print, if desired, on the 

 cover-page, "Presented by," etc., 

 (giving the name and address of the 

 bee-keeper who scatters them). This 

 alone will pay him for all his trouble 

 and expense— enabling him to dispose 

 of his honey at home, at a good profit. 

 Try it, and you will be surprised. 



Subscription Credits. — We do not 

 acknowledge receipt of each subscrip- 

 tion by letter. The label on your 

 paper, or on the wrapper, shows the 

 date > to which your subscription is 

 paid. When you send ns money, if 

 the proper credit is not given you, 

 within tv.'o weeks thereafter, on your 

 label, notify us by postal card. Do 

 not wait for months or years, and 

 then claim a mistake. The subscrip- 

 tion is paid to the end of the month 

 indicated on the wrapper-label. This 

 gives a statement of account every 

 week. 



Trial Trip-25 Cents. 



As the season for Fairs has arrived, 

 and wishing to be able to reach several 

 thousands of the old-fashioned bee- 

 men, and by the aid of the Bee 

 Journal to lift them up to higher 

 ground, adopting newer metliods and 

 progressive ideas, we make the follow- 

 ing very liberal offer : We will send 

 the Weekly Bee Journal till Dec. 31, 

 on trial, for 25 cents. In order to pay 

 for getting up Clubs, we will give a 

 copy of Fisher's Grain Tables, or 

 Scribner's Lumber and Log Book, to 

 any one who wdll send us five trial 

 subscriptions (with $1.25) ; for a club 

 of ten we will give a cloth copy of Bees 

 and Honey ; for a club of 15, a cloth 

 copy of the 7th edition of Cook's Man- 

 ual of the Apiary ; for a club of 25, we 

 will present both the Manual and Beea 

 and Honey. If any one wants these 

 Books for nothing, here is on excel- 

 lent opportunity to get them for a, 

 little exertion. 



The Apiary Register. 



All who intend to be systematic iij 

 their work in the apiary, should get a 

 copy and commence to use it. 



For 50 colonies (120 pages) $1 00 



" 100 colonies 220 pages 1 50 



" 200 colonies (420 pages) 2 00 



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. 



Bee Pastu rage a Necessity. — We have 

 just issued a new pamphlet giving our 

 views on this important subject, with 

 suggestions what to plant, and when 

 and how. It is illustrated with 26 en- 

 gravings, and will be sent postpaid te 

 any address for 10 cents. 



(^ When writing to this office on 

 business, our correspondents should 

 not write anything for publication on 

 the same sheet of paper, unless it can 

 be torn apart vvithout interfering with 

 either portion of the letter. The edi- 

 torial and business departments are 

 separate and distinct, and wlien the 

 business is mixed up with items for 

 publication it often causes confusion. 

 They may botli be sent in one envelope 

 but on separate pieces of paper. 



1^ To give away a copy of " Honey 

 as Food and Medicine " to eve-ry one who 

 buys a package of honey at Fairs, will 

 sell almost a fabulous quantity of it. 



