Personal to Our Subscribers! 



Chicago, III., Oct. 6, 1903. 



We have just been informed by the Post-Office Department that expired 

 subscriptions to a newspaper or magazine do not constitute legitimate sub- 

 scriptions so as to maintain the second-class rate of postage, but if such are 

 mailed with paid-in-advance subscriptions it places the whole edition under the 

 third-class rate, which, in the case of the American Bee Journal, is about 14 

 times higher than the second-class rate. In other words, if the third-class 

 rate of postage were enforced on the Bee Journal, we would have to raise the 

 subscription price to $1.50 a year at once. This we do not want to do. But 

 we are compelled to show that every subscriber who gets the American Bee 

 Journal is a paid=in=advance subscriber, in order that all may be mailed 

 under the second-class rate. And the only way we can do that is for each one 

 now in arrears to pay his or her subscription, not only what is past due, but 

 also an advance subscription. 



In order that ALL who are in arrears may put their subscription credit 

 in advance right away, we wish to make the following offers : 



We will credit any subscription sent us — 1 year for $1.00 ; 



2 \tm tor «l.l» : i Vean for ttM:w!) ttm tor itM. 



^•^ LOOK AT YOUR WRAPPER- LABEL! 



^ Of course, these prices are not limited to those who are m arrears, but 



r^ if any others wish to take advantage of them they may do so. 



^ ffiS- P S —If vour wrapper label reads "dec02" it means that your subscription expired with Decem- 



mL ber, 19ra ; if'it "reads " jun02,'' it expired with the end of June, 1902. And so with any other month and 

 ' W year that may be shown on your wrapper-label. 



Very Special fiotice to lliose in Arrears. 



In order to comply with the requirements of the Post-Office Depart- 

 ment, we will be obliged 'to discontinue sending the Bee Journal to all who are 

 now in arrears on their subscription. We know this is a very sudden notice, 

 but it is not our fault, as this is the first chance we have had to say anything 

 about it since we learned of it from the Post-Office Department. 



But all who are in arrears can easily start a remittance to us in time so 

 that it shall arrive at our office before the end of this month, and thus it will 

 not be necessary to miss a single copy of the old American Bee Journal. 



We are planning some great things for our readers for 1904, any one of 

 which will well be worth the yearly subscription price of the Bee Journal. But 

 by paying for 5 years at one time, it will cost you only 80 cents a year. That 

 is only a trifle over Wz cents per copy ! 



Let us have i. prompt response from all who are in arrears, and also 

 from those who will soon be in arrears, so that all our readers may continue 

 right along without a single break. 



It may be that some can also send along the names of one or more new 

 subscribers with their own renewals, and thus help increase our list of readers. 

 We are offering some handsome premiums for such work. 



Trusting that all our readers had a good year with the bees, and hoping 

 that we shall be favored with a general response by way of paid-in-advance 



subscriptions, we remain. Yours for the best bee-literature, 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



144 & 146 E. Erie Street, CHICAGO, ILL. • 



