Oct. 24, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



683 



FOR GETTING NEW SUBSCRIBERS. 



Red Glover Queens L°s1 902 Free 



Long-Tongue Variety — Warranted Purely Mated. 



We have already arrang-ed with the queen-breeder who furnished Long--Tong-ue Red Clover Queens 

 for us during the past season, to fill our orders next season. Althoug'h fully 95 percent of the untested 

 queens he sent out were purely mated, next season all that he mails for us will be warranted purely mated. 



We want every one of our present subscribers to have one or more of these money-maker Queens. We 

 have received most excellent reports from the queens we supplied during- the past season. And nest year 

 our queen-breeder says he expects to be able to send out even better Queens, if that is possible. He is one 

 of the very oldest and best queen-breeders. His bees average quite a good deal the longest tongues of any 

 yet measured. The Breeder he will use is direct from Italy, having imported her himself. Her worker-bees 

 are large, of beautiful color, very gentle, scarcely requiring veil or smoke. 



Orders for these fine, " long-reach " Warranted Queens will be filled in rotation — " first come, first 

 served" — beginning as early in June as possible. It is expected that orders can be filled quite promptly 

 (even better than the past season), as a much larger number of queen-rearing nuclei will be run. (But never 

 remove the old queen from the colony until you have received the new one, no matter from whom you order 

 a queen). 



All Queens will be guaranteed to arrive in good condition, and will be clipped, unless otherwise 

 ordered. 



A Warranted Queen for sending us Only 2 New Yearly Subscribers 



In order that every one of our subscribers who wants one of these Warranted Queens next season can 

 easily earn it, we will book your order for one queen for sending us the names and addresses of two new 

 subscribers to the American Bee Journal and $2.00. Furthermore, we will begin to send the Bee Journal 

 to the new subscribers just as soon as they are received here (with the $2.00), and continue to send it until 

 the end of next year, igo2). So, forward the new subscriptions soon — the sooner sent in the more weekly 

 c6pies they will receive. 



This indeed is an opportunity to get a superior Queen, and at the same time help swell the list of 

 readers of the old American Bee Journal. 



We are now ready to book the Queen orders, and also to enroll the new subscriptions. Remember, the 

 sooner you get in your order the earlier you will get your Queen next season, and the more copies of the Bee 

 Journal will the new subscribers receive that you send in. We hope that every one of our present readers 

 will decide to have at least one of these Queens. Address, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 &:i46 ERIE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. 



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Had Good Honey-Flows. 



My bees hare done well this year. We had 

 a good honey-tluw the last of .June and the 

 first part of .luly from mesquite, catclaw, and 

 alfalfa, and now have a good How from 

 alfalfa and wild flowers. 



The American Bee Journal has been a great 

 help to uie in my bee-business. I do not see 

 how I could have done without it. 



J. S. Britjenstixe. 



Maricopa To.. Ariz.. Sept. 4. 



Hairy Vetch as a Honey-Plant. 



In response to the request for information 

 regarding the hairy vetch as a honey-plant, 1 

 can say this: 



.Miout six years ago I received from the 

 .Agricultural Department at Washington a 

 imckage labeled, '• Sand or Hairy Vetch." I 

 sowed a small plot with the seed, and it has 

 grown there ever since, coming up every 

 spring from seed grown there the year before, 

 1 suppose. It yields a tine forage, and blooms 

 :ill summer — beautiful blossoms — but I never 

 saw a honey-bee on one of the blossoms in 

 nil these years. Bumble-bees and butterllies 



