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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March S, 1903. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLV BY 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 COMPANY 



144 & 146 E. Erie St., Chicago, 111. 



EDITOR, 



DEPT. EDITORS, 



R, E.E. Hasty, Emma M.Wilson 



IMPORTANT NOTICES. 



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

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 Postal Union, 50 cents a year extra for post- 

 age. Sample copy f rto. 



The Wrapper-Label Date of this paper 

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 your subscription is paid. For instance, 

 "dec03" on your label shows that it is 

 paid to the end of December, 1903. 



Subscription Receipts.— We do not send 

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 tion, but change the date on your wrapper- 

 label, which shows you that the money has 

 been received and credited. 



Advertising Rates will be given upon ap- 

 plication. 



The EmersoD Binder 



This Emerson stiff-board Binder with cloth 

 back for the American Bee Journal we mail for 

 bnt 60 cents; or we will send it with the Bee 

 Journal for one year— both for only $1.40. It is 

 a fine thing to preserve the copies of the Jour- 

 nal as fast as they are received. If you have 

 this " Emerson " no further binding is neces- 



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144& 146 Erie Street. CHICAGO, ILL. 



A New Bee-Keeper's Song — 



"Buckwheat Cakes 

 and Honey" 



Words by EUGENE SECOR. 



Music by OEORQE W. YORK. 



This song was vpritten specially for 

 the Buffalo convention, and was sung 

 there. It is written for organ or piano, 

 as have been all the songs written for 

 bee-keepers. Every home should have 

 a copy of it, as well as a copy of 



"THE HUM OF THE BEES 

 in the APPLE-TREE BLOOM" 



Written by 

 EnoENE Secor and Dr. C. C. Miller. 



Pricks — Either song will be mailed 

 for 10 cents (stamps or silver), or both 

 for only IS cents. Or, for $1.00 strictly 

 in advance payment of a year's sub- 

 scription to the American Bee Journal, 

 we will mail both of these songs free, 

 if asked Jor. 



QEORQE W. YORK & CO. 

 144 & 146 Erie St.. CHICAGO, ILL. 



\ Weekly Budget. 



Editor E. R. Root is the son of his father 

 as a hobbyist, although he does not ride a 

 hobby with the reckless abandon of the elder 

 Root. On account of his health he has gone 

 back to the beef diet, confining his eating en- 

 tirely to lean meat with the accompaniment 

 of a small piece of dry toast. Along with 

 this he is somewhat enthusiastic over a set 

 form of muscular exercise under the name of 

 " Physical Culture." Whether asa beef-eater 

 or a gymnastic contortionist, or both, the 

 hearty hope is indulged in this quarter that 

 our good friend of the sprightly and able 

 Gleanings may speedily be as strong as ever — 

 and more, too. 



.ToHN H. Martin, the well-known apicul- 

 tural writer, died at the age of tj3 years, of 

 pneumonia, in the hospital at Havana, Cuba, 

 Jan. 13, 1903. Mr. Martin was perhaps first 

 known as a writer in the American Bee Jour- 

 nal oyer the nom de plume of "Scientific;" 

 and for the past 15 years, as " Rambler," he 

 has contributed regularly to Gleanings a 

 series of illustrated articles of special merit. 

 A kindly, humorous spirit seemed always 

 bubbling to the surface in his writings, and in 

 his many rambles he seemed to make friends 



wherever he went. Indeed, in the most dole- 

 ful plights, he always seemed to find a funny 

 side. 



Mr. Martin was a deacon of the Congrega- 

 tional Church, an earnest Christian, at one 

 time president of the Christian Endeavor 

 Society, and for many years superintendent 

 of the Sunday-school. He left no family, his 

 wife having died many years ago, leaving a 

 shadow on his life that seemed never entirely 

 lifted. 



In closing a beautiful tribute to Mr. Mar- 

 tin's life, Editor Root had this to say : 



Perhaps no single writer who ever wrote for 

 Gleanings ever called forth more praise from 

 our subscribers than the Rambler. His serio- 

 comic writings, filled as they were with val- 

 uable hints, and the exact portrayal of every 

 locality through which he traveled, made him 

 not merely a funny man, but a dignified cor- 

 respondent, who could and did give us much 

 of value through his writings. While Glean- 

 ings mourns his loss it mourns it no more 

 than every subscriber who has followed him 

 through these years; and when the news was 

 flashed back from Cuba that the Rambler was 

 dead, I felt as if a near and dear friend had 

 passed away ; and 1 never met any one who 

 had come in contact with the Rambler who 

 did not hold him in exactly the same high 

 esteem. 



The leaders in bee-keeping are fast passing 

 away. During the past few months a numbe: 

 of them have gone, among them being Chas. 

 Dadant and Dr. Mason ; and now the Ram- 

 bler has been called. They will all be missed 

 here by the thousands who enjoyed their pe 

 sonal acquaintance and writings. 



Dr. Miller's New Book 



SENT BY RETIRN MAIL. 



The book contains 328 pages, is bound in handsome cloth, with gold 

 letters and design : it is printed on best book-paper, and illustrated with 

 over 100 beautiful original half-tone pictures, taken by Dr. Miller himself. 

 It is unique in this regard. 



The first few pages of the new book are devoted to an interesting 

 biographical sketch of Dr. Miller, teliing 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-keep- 

 ing by one of the masters, and shows in minutest detail just how Dr. Mil- 

 ler does things with bees. 



How to Get a Copy of Dr. Miller's 

 " Forty Years Amon$ the Bees." 



The price of this new book is f 1.00, post-paid; or, if taken with the 

 WEEKLY 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 offer, and should 

 be taken advantage of at once. For many of our readers it is not only an 

 easy way to earn a copy of the book, but at the same lime they will be 

 helping to extend the subscription list of the old American Bee Journal, 

 and thus aiding also in spreading the best kind of apicultural information 

 among those who would be successful bee-keepers. 

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QEORQE W. YORK & CO. 



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