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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL, 



Jan. 17, 1901 



YELLOW OR WHITE 



Sweet Clover Seed 



Free as a Premium 



For Sending us One New Subscriber for a Year. 



There has been so much written 

 about both the white and the yellow 

 variety of sweet clover, that we will 

 simply say here that if one of our pres- 

 ent regular subscribers will send us $1 

 with a new name for this year, we will 

 mail, postpaid, to the one sending 

 the new name and the dollar, either 

 one pound of yellow sweet clover seed, 

 or two pounds of the white sweet clo- 

 ver. This is a good chance to get a 

 start of both kinds of these honey clo- 

 vers. Better send two new subscribers 

 (with $2.00) and get the three pounds 

 of seed. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 118 Michigan St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



'®(i).(i.(i.A-i)-(i-##(D-#(D-i)-S)-#i)' 





BEST: 





Exiraciefl ttoneu For Sale 



ALL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. 



ALFALFA 

 HONEY*..... ♦ 



This is the famous White 

 Extracted Homey fathered in 

 the great Alfalfa regions o( 

 the Central West. It is a 

 splendid honey, and nearly 

 everybody who cares to eat 

 honey at all can't sret enough 

 the Alfalfa extracted. 



BASSWOOD 

 HONEY....... 



This is the well - known 

 lig-ht-colored honey g-alhered 

 from the rich, nectar-ladeu 

 basswood. blossoms in Wis- 

 consin. It has a stronger 

 flavor than Alfalfa, and is 

 preferred by those who like a 

 distinct flavor in their honey. 





Prices of Either Alfalfa or Basswood Honey : 



A sample of either, by mail, 8 cents ; samples of both, IS cents — 

 to pay for package and postage. By freight— one 60-pound can, 9)^ 

 cents per pound ; two cans, 9 cents per pound ; four or more cans, 

 S'/z cents per pound. Cash must accompany each order. If ordering 

 two or more cans you can have half of each kind of honey, if you so 

 desire. The cans are boxt. This is all 



KBSQiimELJ PURE BEES' EOSEJ, 



The finest of their kinds pKHliiced in this couiUiy. 



Read Dr. Miller's Testimony on Alfalfa Honey : 



I've just sampled the honey you sent, and it's prime. Thank you. I feel that 

 I'm somelhin? of a heretic, to sell several thousand pounds of honey of my own pro- 

 duction and then buy honey of vou for my own use. But however loyal one ought to 

 be to the honev of his own region, there's no denying the fact that for use in any 

 kind of hot drink, where one prefers the more wholesome honey to sugar, the very 

 excellent qualitv of alfalfa honey I have received from you is better suited than the 

 honeys of more markt flavor, according to my taste. C. C. Miller. 



McHenry Co., 111. 



Order the Above Honey and then Sell It. 



We would suggest that those bee-keepers who did not produce 

 enough honey for their home demand this year, just order some of 

 the above, and sell it. And others, who want to earn some money, ^ 

 can get this honey and work up a demand for it almost anywhere. ^^ 

 Address, J^ 



QEORQE W. YORK & CO., ii8 Michigan St., Chicago, III. ^ 







I Weekly Budget 



"?iisfTr'> 



Mr. J. A. Golden has an advertisement on 

 page 46, offering his stock of Golden combi- 

 nation Hives for sale. Better write him at 

 once it you want to try his system of produc- 

 ing comb honey. 



.JiiHN H. Martin, better known as Ram- 

 bler, has been keeping bees for some time in 

 Fresno Co., Calif. He is now in Los Angeles 

 county again, and wrote us as follows, Dec. 

 '29th: 



" I have returned to the south after a suc- 

 cessful season in central California. There 

 was a grand rain here about Nov. 20th, but 

 since then the skies have Vieen clear. Bee- 

 men who smiled broadly then now look sober. 

 It is time tor another rain, and if it does not 

 come soon there will be a lot of blue bee- 

 keepers. It is the old, old story— the bee-men 

 here never know ' where they are at ' respect- 

 ing a honey season till well towards spring. 

 After nine months absence from my old api 

 aries I find them flourishing, and the bees are 

 anxious tor a good honey season. And for 

 which ^ve all devoutly hope." 



Walter S. Povder, of Indianapolis, Ind., 

 writing us .Ian. 4th, had this to say; 



'■ I regret exceedingly that you have been 

 S.I uTifcirtunate as to have afire in your es- 

 tablishment. You have my sympathy, and I 

 hoiie tin- loss and inconvenience will be less 

 than expected. I have often wondered what 

 I would do in case o£ fire here, but in your 

 case, with the Bee Journal on your hands, I 

 know the situation must be very serious and 

 troublesome. 



•' I have had no bill for my last quarter's 

 advertising, but think the little amount might 

 do you more good right now than later. Find 

 clieck enclosed." 



Thank you, Mr. Ponder, for your kind 

 words of sympathy for us in our " flood " of 

 troubles. We hope you may never be visited 

 as we were; but, as the saying is, "a bad be- 

 ginning makes a good ending," we may eiid 

 the '20th century all right— tho we will nofc 

 likely see its end. 



O. L. Hershiser, superintendent of the 

 Pan-American Exposition, wrote us as follows 

 .Jan. Stli : 



My Dear Mr. York:— A letter from E. R. 

 Root has informed me of your loss, by fire, of 

 the offices of the American Bee .Journal. No 

 particulars were stated, but I trust you had 

 insurance protection, and that the only loss 

 to the readers of the American Bee .Journal 

 will be some necessary delay. I regret the in- 

 convenience you will be occasioned, but I 

 have no doubt of the future of your excellent 

 publication, even against the scourge of fire. 

 It would be quite un-Chieago-like for any- 

 thing in your enterprising city to be subdued 

 by that or any other calamity. The enterprise- 

 of the .\merican Bee Journal is well shown 

 from the fact that, altho the ottice was. 

 burned on the cveninj,' <it Jan. Ut. a> I am in- 

 formed, we hud the initial number of the 

 new century before learning of tlie disaster. 



Wishing the American Bee Journal a pros- 

 )>i-r(ius century in the hands of its present 

 pmiirietur, and his successors, believe me. 

 Yours very truly, 



Orel L. Hershiser. 



As noted in last week's Bee Journal, our- 

 loss was occasioned by water, that was thrown 

 on the fire which was above us. It was almost 

 n miracle that we wer« not burned out also. 



We wish to tliank Mr. Hershiser for his. 

 kiii.l letter. 



