THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 1, 1903. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



6E0RGE W. YORK 8 COMPANY 



144 & 146 E rieSt., 6hlcaoo, III. 



Entered at the Post-Oflice at Chic8.go as Second- 

 Class Mail-Matter. 



Editor — George W. York. 

 Dbpt. Editors.— Dr. C. C. Miller, E. E. Hasty, 



Emma M. Wilson. 

 Special Correspondents — G. M, Doolittle, 



Prof. A. J. Cook, C. P. Dadant, 

 R. C.Aikin, F. Greiner, A. Getaz, and others. 



' IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



The Subscription Price of this Journal 

 Is $1.00 a year, in the United States, Can- 

 ada, and Mexico ; all other countries in the 

 Postal Union, 50 cents a year extra for post- 

 age. Sample copy free. 



The Wrapper-Label Date of this paper 

 indicates the end of the month to which 

 your subscription is paid. For instance, 

 "decOl" on your label shows that it is 

 paid to the end of December, 1901. 



Subscription Receipts. — We do not send 

 a receipt for money sent us to pay subscrip 

 tion, but change the date on your wrapper- 

 label, which shows you that the money has 

 beet i-eceived and duly credited. 



A.dvertising Rates will be given UDon ap- 

 plication. 



The National Bee-Keeners' Association, 



OBJECTS: 

 To promote and protect the interests of its 

 members. 

 To prevent the adulteration of honey. 

 To prosecute dishonest honey-dealers. 

 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



Thomas G. Newman 

 G. M. Doolittle, 



E. Whitcomb, 



W. Z. Hutchinson, 



A. I. Root, 



R. C. AiKiN, 



P. H. Elwood. 



E. R. Root, 



I W. F. Mare 



I J. M. Hambadgh 



C. P. Dadant, 

 I Dr. C. C. Miller 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

 W. Z. Hhtchinson, President. 

 James U. Harris, Vice-President. 

 George W. York, Secretary, Chicago, 111. 



Eugene Secor, General Manager and Treas- 

 urer, Forest City, Iowa. 



Membership Dues, $1.00 a year. 



JBSrlf more convenient, Dues may be sent to 

 the office of the American Bee Journal, when 

 they will be forwarded to Mr. Secor, who will 

 mall individual receipts. 



A Celluloid Queen-Button is a verv 

 pretty thing for a bee-keeper or honey seller 

 to wear on his coat-lapel. It often serves to in- 

 troduce the subject of honey, 

 and frequently leads to a 

 sale. 



Note. — One reader writes; 

 ** I have every reason to be- 

 lieve that it would be a very 

 good idea forev.^ry bee-keeper 

 to wear one [of t;ie buttonsi 

 as it will cause people to ask 

 questions about the busy bee, and many a con- 

 versation thus started would wind up with the 

 sale of more or less honey; at any rate It would 

 give the bee-keeper a superior opportunity to 

 enlighten many i person in regard to honey 

 and bees." i 



The picture shown herewith is a reprouuo- 

 Hon of a motto queen-button that we are fur- 

 aishing to bee-kespers. It has a pin on the 

 underside to fasten it. 



Price, by mail, 6 cents; two for 10 cents, 

 or 6 for 25 cents. Send all orders to the office 

 et tie Americac ^e Journal. 



Forty Years 

 Among the Bees 



By DR. C. C. MILLER. 



The above is the title, and name of the 

 author, of a new bee-book which will be ready 

 some time in January, 1903, as it is now in the 

 hands of the printers. It is a book that every 

 bee-keeper in the world that can read English 

 will want to own and read. It will contain over 

 300 pages, be bound in handsome cloth, printed 

 on good book-paper, and illustrated with over 

 100 beautiful original half-tone pictures, taken 

 by Dr. Miller himself. The book will show in 

 detail how Dr. Miller does things with bees. 



The first few pages of the new book are de- 

 voted to an interesting biographical sketch of 

 Dr. Miller, which finally tells how he happened 

 to get into bee-keeping. Seventeen years ago 

 he wrote a small book, called, " A Year Among 

 the Bees," but that little work has been out of 

 print for a number of years. While some of the 

 matter used in the former book is found in the 

 new one, it all reads like a good new story of 

 successful bee-keeping by one of the masters. 



How to Get a copy of Dr. Miller's 



" Forty Years Among the Bees." 



The price of this new book is $1.00, post- 

 paid ; or, if taken with the wkeki^y American 

 Bee Journal for one year, both will be sent for 

 $1.75. 



Or, any present regular subscriber to the 

 American Bee Journal whose subscription is 

 paid in advance, can have a copy of Dr. Miller's 

 new book free as a premium for sending us Two 

 New Subscribers to the Bee Journal for one 

 year with $2.00. This is a magnificent oft'er. 

 Better send in the new subscriptions before 

 Jan. 1, so they can begin with the new year. 

 Or, if sent at once, we will throw in the rest of 

 this year's numbers of the Bee Journal free to 

 the new subscribers. 



GEORGE W. YORK S CO., 



144 & 146 East Erie Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



UK. C. C. MILLER. 



