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Transient Advertisements payable in advance.—Yearly Contracts payable quarterly, in advance.

The American Bee Journal is the oldest Bee Paper in America, and has a large circulation in every State, Territory and Province, among farmers, mechanics, professional and business men, and is, therefore the best advertising medium for reliable dealers. Cases of real imposition will be exposed.

THOMAS G. NEWMAN,

974 West Madison Street, Chicago, Ill.

Contents of this Number.

Correspondence:

What is the Royal Jelly?	[89]
Putting Wires into Comb Foundation	[90]
Importing Bees from Italy	[90]
Bees and Grapes	[90]
The Use of Separators for Box Honey	[90]
Texas for Bees and Honey	[90]
Alsike Clover as a Honey Plant	[91]
The Supply and Queen Trade	[91]
Who is to Blame for the Losses?	[91]

Editorial:

Editorial Items	[92]
Frank Benton In the Far East	[92]
Circulars and Price Lists	[92]
An Excellent Suggestion	[92]

Among our Exchanges:

Bees and Grapes	[92]
Bees Dead in Box Hives	[92]
Honey for Sore Eyes	[92]
Feeding In Winter	[92]
Bees and Grapes	[92]
Feeding Rye-Meal	[92]
The Weekly Bee Journal Abroad	[92]

Selections from Our Letter Box:

But few Bees Lost	[93]
An Old Queen	[93]
Gathering Pollen	[93]
No Winter Flight Yet	[93]
Bees Confined 4½ Months	[93]
Closed Out by Fire	[93]
Bees In Good Condition	[93]
Lost 8 out of 37 in Wintering	[93]
Sweet Clover	[93]
Had a Flight in January	[93]
Nearly all Dead	[93]
Bokhara Clover	[93]
An Enthusiast	[93]
Bees all Dead	[93]
Bees Robbing	[93]
Chloroform Used in Handling Bees	[93]
Test for Honey	[93]
Three-fourths of the Bees Dead	[93]
Mortality of Bees in House and Cellar	[93]
Bees Doing Well	[94]
Dwindling in the Cellar	[94]
Contradictory Experience	[94]
Wintered Without Loss	[94]
Bees Uneasy in the Cellar	[94]
Much Better than Expected	[94]
Have Young Bees and Brood	[94]
Bees In the Cellar 135 Days	[94]
The Best Honey for Winter	[94]
Carrying in Pollen	[94]
Chaff-Packing of Bees Triumphant	[94]
Look Out for the Robbers	[94]
Two-thirds of the Bees have Died	[94]
Bees in Good Condition	[94]
Death Reigns among the Bees	[94]
No Loss in Wintering	[94]
Poor Season but Fair Profit	[94]
Planting Buckwheat for a Honey Yield	[94]

☞ We can supply but a few more of the back numbers to new subscribers. If any want them, they must be sent for soon.

☞ The Texas Bee-Keepers’ Association will hold their third annual Convention at Judge W. H. Andrews’ apiary, in McKinney, Collin Co., Texas, on the 12th and 13th days of May, 1881.

Wm. R. Howard, Sec.,
Kingston, Hunt Co., Texas.

DON’T BUY SUPPLIES

Till you have read my new price list for the spring trade. Wax is cheaper now, so I can sell you a fine article of Comb Foundation cheap, and made on the best machine. Italian and Cyprian Queens, Bees, Hives, Sections, etc. Price List free to all.

J. V. CALDWELL,
Cambridge, Henry Co., Ill.

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The Bee-Keepers Guide;

OR,

MANUAL OF THE APIARY,

By A. J. COOK,

Professor of Entomology in the Michigan State Agricultural College.

286 Pages; 112 Fine Illustrations.

Price—Bound in cloth, $1.25; in paper cover,
$1.00, by mail prepaid. For sale by

THOMAS G. NEWMAN,
974 West Madison Street, Chicago, Ill.

NOW READY,

Our New Circular and Price List for 1881. We have something new for every bee-keeper. Remember, we are largely engaged in practical bee-keeping, and know what supplies are of practical value in an apiary. You should see a description of our feeder, you will want one. Our new

Double-Draft Smoker

is perfection. See what one of the most practical and best informed bee-keepers in the country thinks of it: “Since your great improvement in Smokers, as regards the double-blast, you undoubtedly have the inside track of all the others in the market. This, with the superior workmanship and materials used, should place your Smoker at the head of the list, and secure for it a favorable patronage for 1881.” Price of Smokers, by mail, $1.50 and $1.75. Our book,

QUINBY’S NEW BEE-KEEPING

is pronounced the most practical work published. Price, by mail, $1.50.

We furnish everything used in advanced bee-culture. Send for Illustrated Circular to

L C. ROOT & BRO.,
Mohawk, N. Y.

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Free to All.

I will send free to any address a sample of the BEST FOUNDATION made for brood frames, also sample of THIN FOUNDATION, for sections, which can be used the full size of the section, and yet will not leave any “fishbone” in the comb honey. You can get nice straight combs without tin separators. Circular, describing how foundation is made and giving prices of apiarian supplies, free.

Address, J. A. OSBORNE, Rantoul, Ill.

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BEES FOR SALE,

In Simplicity and Everett-Langstroth hives. My bees are perfectly healthy in every respect—most of them good, strong colonies. Address,

J. P. HOLLOWAY,
Monclova, Lucas County, Ohio.

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ITALIANS AND HYBRIDS—30 or 40 Colonies for sale [now]. Queens and Nuclei after May 15th. Address,

R. M. ARGO,
Lowell, Garrard County, Ky.

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WANTED—You to send for our Circular and Price list of American-Italians. Address,

JOS. M. BROOKS & BRO.,
Columbus, Ind.

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FLAT-BOTTOM COMB FOUNDATION,

high side-walls, 4 to 16 square feet to
the pound. Circular and samples free.

J. VAN DEUSEN & SONS,
Sole Manufacturers,
Sprout Brook, Mont. Co., N. Y.

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BASSWOOD AND TULIP TREES, from 1 to 8 feet in height, nursery grown. The 2 best HONEY PRODUCING TREES KNOWN, at low prices.

A. BATTLES, Girard, Pa.

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BARNES’ PATENT
Foot-Power Machinery

CIRCULAR and

SCROLL SAWS

Hand, Circular Rip Saws for general heavy and light ripping. Lathes, &c. These machines are especially adapted to Hive Making. It will pay every bee-keeper to send for our 48 page Illustrated Catalogue.

W. F. & JOHN BARNES
Rockford, Winnebago Co., Ill.

WILBOR’S COMPOUND OF PURE COD-LIVER
OIL AND LIME.

Wilbor’s Cod-Liver Oil and Lime.—Persons who have been taking Cod-Liver Oil will be pleased to learn that Dr. Wilbor has succeeded, from directions of several Professional gentlemen, in combining the pure Oil and Lime in such a manner that it is pleasant to the taste, and its effects in Lung complaints are truly wonderful. Very many persons whose cases were pronounced hopeless, and who had taken the clear Oil torn long-time without marked effect, have been entirely cured by using this preparation. Be sure and get the genuine. Manufactured only by A. B. Wilbor, Chemist, Boston. Sold by all druggists.

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THE CANADIAN FARMER

THE ONLY
Agricultural Weekly
PUBLISHED IN THE
DOMINION OF CANADA.

This practical journal is now in its Third Year, and meeting with immense success. The low price of its subscription ($1.00 per year) in its new and improved form (16 pages 13½ x 10½, folded and pasted) makes it very popular. Its editors are all practical men. It is the Best Advertising Medium in Canada. Sample copies sent free to any address.

N. B. COLCOCK, Welland, Ont.

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I HAVE NOW OVER

300 COLONIES

of Pure Italian Bees, in good condition, in 10 frame Langstroth hives. Orders for

ITALIAN QUEENS,

Nuclei and Full Colonies,

are now being booked and will be filled in rotation as received, commencing about June 1st., at the following prices:

Tested Queens,	each	$2 50
" "	per half-dozen	13 50
1 frame Nucleus,	with Tested Queen	5 00
2 " "	" " "	5 50
3 " "	" " "	6 00
4 " "	" " "	6 50
Full Colonies,	each	12 00
" "	in lots of 5, each	10 00
" "	" 10, each	9 00

I will use all possible care in preparing the above for shipment, but cannot guarantee safe arrival, except on queens any distance less than 1,000 miles.

ALSO

100 COLONIES

BLACK AND HYBRID BEES,

In Langstroth hives, in quantities of not less than 5 colonies at $8.00 each, which I will ship direct from the South.

ALFRED H. NEWMAN,

972 West Madison St., Chicago, Ill.

THE ORIGINAL

Patented Jan. 9, 1878, and May, 1879; Re-issued July 9, 1878.

If you buy a Bingham Smoker, or a Bingham & Hetherington Honey Knife you are sure of the best and cheapest, and not liable to prosecution for their use and sale. The largest bee-keepers use them exclusively. Twenty thousand in use—not one ever returned, or letter of complaint received. Our original patent Smokers and Honey Knives were the only ones on exhibition at the last National Bee-Keepers’ Convention, 1880. Time sifts the wheat from the chaff. Pretensions are short-lived.

The Large and Extra Standard have extra wide shields to prevent burning the fingers and bellows. A real improvement.

Send postal card for testimonials.

Bingham & Hetherington Honey Knife	2	in.,	$1 00
Large Bingham Smoker	2½	"	1 50
Extra Standard Bingham Smoker	2	"	1 25
Plain Standard Bingham Smoker	2	"	1 00
Little Wonder Bingham Smoker	1¾	"	75

If to be sent by mail, or singly by express, add 25c. each, to prepay postage or express charges.

To sell again, apply for dozen or half-dozen rates.

Address,

BINGHAM & HETHERINGTON,

OTSEGO, MICH.

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FREE!

We wish to obtain 25,000 New Subscribers to

THE FLORAL MONTHLY

during the next few months, and we propose
to give to every reader of this paper

50c. worth of Choice Flower Seed.

Our offer is to send Free of Cost, 50 cents’ worth of Choice Flower Seeds to each and every one who will send us 25 two cent postage stamps for the FLORAL MONTHLY one year. Seeds sent free by return mail. Specimen copies free. Address,

W. E. MORTON & CO., FLORISTS,
615 Congress Street, Portland, Me.

☞ Natural Flowers preserved to last for years.
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It will Pay you

To read our forty page Catalogue of Apiarian Supplies. It gives the latest information about the best appliances and methods pertaining to

Profitable Bee Culture

Sent free to all who send us their names and addresses, plainly written, upon a postal card. Address

H. A. BURCH & CO.,
South Haven, Mich.

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R. A. BURNETT.

Successor to Conner, Burnett & Co.,

165 South Water Street, Chicago, Ill.,

GENERAL PRODUCE COMMISSION,

HONEY A SPECIALTY.

We ask you to correspond with us before disposing of your HONEY CROP, as we can be of much service, having constant intelligence from all parts of the country. We would refer to James Heddon, Dowagiac, Mich., and J. Oatman & Sons, Dundee, Ill.

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GOOD WORK
AT FAIR PRICES.
HALLOCK & CHANDLER
WOOD ENGRAVERS
& Electrotypers
167 Dearborn St.
CHICAGO

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Rev. A. Salisbury. 1881. J. V. Caldwell.

SALISBURY & CALDWELL,

Camargo, Douglas County. Ill.

Warranted Italian Queens, $1.00; Tested Italian Queens, $2.00; Cyprian Queens, $2.00; Tested Cyprian Queens, $4.00; 1 frame Nucleus, Italians, $4.00; 1 frame Nucleus, Cyprians, $5.00; Colony of Italians, 8 frames, $5.00; Colony of Cyprians, 8 frames, $10.00. Wax worked 10c. per lb. Pure Comb Foundation, on Dunham Machine, 25 lbs. or over, 35c. per lb. ☞ Send for Circular.

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Florida Land—640 Acres.

☞ CHEAP FOR CASH. ☜

Description.—Sec. 4, township 7, south range 7 west, Franklin county, Florida, situated about 50 miles south of the Georgia line, 25 miles west of the city of Tallahasse, the capital of the State, and about 25 miles northeast of the city of Apalachicola, a seaport on the Gulf of Mexico, and within 2 sections (5 and 6) of the Apalachicola river; the soil is a rich, sandy loam, covered with timber.

It was conveyed on Dec. 31st. 1875, by Col. Alexander McDonald, who owned 6 sections, including the above, to J. M. Murphy, for $3,200, and on Sept. 5th. 1877, by him conveyed to the undersigned for $3,000. The title is perfect, and it is unincumbered, as shown by an abstract from the Records of the county, duly attested by the County Clerk; the taxes are all paid and the receipts are in my possession.

I will sell the above at a bargain for cash, or trade for a small farm, or other desirable property. An offer for it is respectfully solicited. Address,

THOMAS G. NEWMAN,

974 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL.

Given’s Foundation Press.

The latest improvement in Foundation. Our thin and common Foundation is not surpassed. The only invention to make Foundation in the wired frame. All Presses warranted to give satisfaction. Send for Catalogue and Samples.

D. S. GIVEN, Hoopeston, Ill.

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PARKER’S GINGER TONIC

Ginger, Buchu, Mandrake, Stillingia and many other of the best medicines known are combined so skillfully in Parker’s Ginger Tonic as to make it the greatest Blood Purifier and the Best Health and Strength Restorer ever used.

It cures Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, and all diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, Lungs, Liver, Kidneys, Urinary Organs and all Female Complaints.

If you are wasting away with Consumption or any disease, use the Tonic to-day. No matter what your symptoms may be, it will surely help you.

Remember! This Tonic cures drunkenness, is the Best Family Medicine ever made, entirely different from Bitters, Ginger Preparations and other Tonics, and combines the best curative properties of all. Buy a 50c. bottle of your druggist. None genuine without our signature on outside wrapper. Hiscox & Co., Chemists, New York.

PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM The best and most economical Hair Dressing

65 ENGRAVINGS.

The Horse

BY B. J. KENDALL, M. D.

A TREATISE giving an index of diseases, and the symptoms; cause and treatment of each, a table giving all the principal drugs used for the horse, with the ordinary dose, effects and antidote when a poison; a table with an engraving of the horse’s teeth at different ages, with rules for telling the age of the horse; a valuable collection of recipes, and much valuable information.

Price 25 cents.—Sent on receipt of price, by

THOMAS G. NEWMAN,
974 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL.

ITALIAN QUEENS, Full Colonies, Nuclei and Bee Hives specialties. Our new Illustrated Catalogue of Bees, Supplies, Fine Poultry, Small Fruits, &c., Free. ☞ Send for it and save money.

J. T. SCOTT & BRO., Crawfish Springs, Ga.

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the American
Poultry Journal.

Is a 32–page beautifully Illustrated Monthly Magazine devoted to

POULTRY, PIGEONS AND PET STOCK.

It has the largest corps of practical breeders as editors of any journal of its class in America, and is

THE FINEST POULTRY JOURNAL IN THE WORLD.

Volume 12 begins January 1881. SUBSCRIPTION:— $1.00 per year. Specimen Copy, 10 cents.

C. J. WARD, Editor and Proprietor.
182 CLARK ST., CHICAGO.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

1. ITALIANS AND HYBRIDS “—30 or 40 Colonies for sale low.” “low” changed to [“now”].

2. Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors have been silently corrected.