Chapter 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
OF
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.

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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.

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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

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=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.

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