1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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A Few of the Oood Things to Appear in tiie 

 Bee Journal Yet This Year: 



Fifteen Years' Experience in Bee-Keeping. 



Mrs. Sallie E. Sherman, of Texas, began, in the first 

 number for July, a full account of her 15 years of bee- 

 keeping in Texas. An article from her will appear each 

 weel{ for a number of weeks. They will be of much inter- 

 est to all, and especially so to Southern bee-keepers. 



A Dozen Articles by " The Dadants." 



Chas. Dadant & Son, of Illinois, are the leading extracted 

 honey producers of this part of the country. One year 

 they had 48,000 pounds. They will contribute during 

 the next six months, at least a dozen articles, drawn from 

 their experience of a third of a century of bee-keeping. 



A Dozen Articles by Mr. Doolittle. 



G. M. Doolittle is unquestionably one of the very ablest 

 bee-keepers in this country, and his writings on practical 

 bee-culture have made him famous. With his 27 years' 

 experience, he is well equipped to write profitably for 

 the beginner or even the expert bee-keeper. 



A Half-Dozen Articles by Prof. Cook. 



Prof. A. J. Cook, of California, author of "The Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Guide," will contribute at least six good articles be- 

 fore Jan. 1, 1897. He is always interesting and helpful. 



A Fnll Report of the North American Convention 



will be published in this paper immediately after the 

 annual meeting, which will be held in September or Octo- 

 ber next, at Lincoln, Nebr. The Secretary — Dr. A. B. 

 Mason — is now at work on the program, which promises 

 to be the best ever gotten up by the Association. Every 

 American bee-keeper will be interested in the many valu- 

 able essays and discussious found in the proceedings of 

 their great annual convention. 



A Variety of Contributions by Many Others, 



who are well qualified to teach modern bee-culture, will 

 also appear during the next six months. All the fore- 

 going in addition to the 



Several Special or Regular Departments 



will make the American Bee Journal almost priceless to 

 the man or woman who desires to make a genuine success 

 of bee-culture, and keep informed about the doings of the 

 apiarian world. 



Seme Liberal Premiums to Regular Subscribers. 



We want every regular reader of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal to go to work to secure new subscribers, which we 

 will accept at 



40 Gents for the Next Six Months. 



Yes, sir; we will mail the American Bee Journal from 

 July 1, 1896, to Jan. 1, 1897--26 numbers in all — to 

 any one not now a subscriber, for just 40 cents. And to 

 those of our present subscribers who will work to get the 

 new names, we make these 



Generous Premium Offers : 



For sending us One New Six-Months' Subscription (with 

 40 cents), we will mail the sender his or her choice of one of 

 the following list of pamphlets : 



Foul Brood, bv Dr. Howard. IJr. Foote's Hand-Book of Health. 



Kendall's Horse-Book. Poultry for Market and Profit. 



Rural Life. Our Poultry Doctor. 



SUo and Silage, by Prof. Cook. Turkeys for Market and Profit. 



Foul Brood, by Kohnke. Capons and Caponizlnjf. 



For sending Two New Six-Months' Subscriptions (with 80 

 cents), your choice of one of the following : 



Monette Queen-Cllpplng Device. Winter Problem, by Pierce. 

 Bienen-Kultur. Alley's 30 Years Among the Bees. 



Bees and Honey (paper cover). Queenie Jeanette (a Song.) 



For sending Six New Six-Months' Subscriptions (with 

 $2.40), your choice of one of the following : 

 Novelty Pocket-Knife (with name). Prof. Cook's Bee-Keeper's Guide 



$25.00 Gash, in Addition to the Above. 



Besides all the foregoing premiums, we will distribute, on 

 Sept. 1, 1896, $2.5.00 in cash to the nine having sent in 

 the highest number of new 40-cent subscriptions before 

 that date, (but only those having sent 10 or more new sub- 

 scriptions can compete for the extra cash premiums) in 

 these amounts : To the one sending the highest number, 

 $10.00. The 2nd highest, $5.00; 3rd, 4th and 5th 

 highest, $2.00 each ; and to the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th 

 highest, $1.00 each. 



Let Every One Begin aiOW to Work. 



We will be glad to mail free sample copies, upon re- 

 quest, either to a club-raiser, or direct to those you desire 

 to solicit, if you will send in the names and addresses. 



1^" All subscriptions will begin with the first number in July. 



Yours for a two-months' campaign, 

 GEO. W. YORK & CO., 118 Mich. St., Chicago. 



" Samantba at the 'W^orld's Fair."— We want 

 to make our present readers one of the best offers ever made. 

 All know the excellent books written by " Samantha, Josiah 

 Allen's Wife." Well, "Samantha at the World's Fair" is" 

 probably her best, and we are enabled to offer this hook aiid a 

 year's subscription to the New York "T'oice" (the greatest 

 $1.00 weekly temperance paper published to-day), for sending 

 us mily three neiv subscribers to the American Bee Journal 

 (with $3,00), provided you are ?iot now a subscriber to the 

 "Voice." Thiuk of it — a grand book and a grand weekly 

 temperance newspaper given simply /or sencU7i(7 us three new 

 subscribers to the Bee Journal for a year ! The Samantha 

 book is exactly the same as the $2.50 one, only the binding is 

 of heavy manilla instead of cloth. It is a special 100,000- 

 copy edition, and when they are all gone, the offer will be 

 withdrawn by the publishers. Of course, no premium will 

 also be given to the new subscribers — simply the American 

 Bee Journal for one year. 



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Only One Cent a Copy for copies of the American 

 Bee Journal before Jan. 1, 1896. We have them running 

 back for about 10 years. But you must let us select them, as 

 we cannot furnish them in regular order, and probably not 

 any particular copies. Just send us as many one-cent stamps 

 as you may want old copies, and we will mail them to you. 



Honey as rood and Medicine.— A new and revised 

 edition of this 3'2-page pamphlet is now issued. It has 5 blank 

 pages on which to write or paste recipes taken from other sources. 

 It is just what its name indicates, and should be liberally dis- 

 tributed among the people everywhere to create a demand for 

 honey. It contains a number of recipes on the use of horey as 

 food and as medicine, besides much other interesting and vhrnable 

 information. Prices, postpaid, are: Single copy, 5 cts. : 10 copies 

 30 cts. ; .50 for $1.1X); lUU for $1.7.5. Better give them a trial. Send 

 I all orders to the Bee Journal ofHce. 



