THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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WEEKLY EDITION 



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BlljOTHU 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Kditob and puoprietur. 



Vol. XXI. Chicago, Jan. 7, 1885, No. 



The New and the Old Year. 



O. jolly New Year, we welcome thee ! 



But we're sorry to part from the Old. 

 Fitr tho' full many a day he pave 



That was dreary and dark and cold. 

 Yet he'B left us memories sweet and dear. 

 This good and bad, this checkered Old Year ! 



Memories kind, of beautiful days 

 When our hearts beat fast with our joy ; 



When hope was bright, and the gold sunlight 

 Shone gayly without alloy ; 



And of days when the sky was no longer clear. 



And the clouds brought up from the heart atear. 



But the joyful hours the brightest are. 



And they all sorrow outshine : 

 So the memories happy are nearer far 



Than those that would make us pine. 



So the New Year we'llwelcomewith hope's bright 

 glow. 



And the Old Year, we'll bless it and let it go. 



D. M. S. 



New Year's Greeting. 



We deem it quite appropriate, here, 

 to congratulate our thousands of 

 readers upon the fact that the Bee 

 Journal to-day enters upon its prime 

 mankood— its 21st year of age — its 

 majority — with the beginning of the 

 New Year. We shall enter upon it 

 with unexcelled strength, and as year 

 by year the patrons of the Bee Jour- 

 nal have been steadily increasing, 

 we are more tlian ever determined to 

 cater to the enlightenment and welfare 

 of our patrons by keeping abreast 

 with all the progress and improve- 

 ment of the ever-advancing age in 

 which we live. 



We are grateful for past favors, and 

 we confidently look for an increased 

 support by progressive bee-keepers 

 everywhere, in order to enable the 

 Bee Journal to retain the proud 

 position of being the best, as well as 

 the oldest bee-paper on the American 

 Continent. The Bee .Journal and 

 its able corps of correspondents have 

 contributed their full share in all the 



advance-steps of modern improve- 

 ments in bee-culture, and it has kept 

 its readers fully posted in the develop- 

 ment of every one of such, as fast as 

 they have attained a foot-hold. 



Our corps of able correspondents 

 increase with every dawning year, 

 <and thus we are enabled to furnish our 

 readers with sound and practical sen- 

 timents, every week, in all the de- 

 partments pertaining to " our pur- 

 suit," lucidly set forth by the most 

 intelligent and experienced apiarists 

 of the world. 



It is true that the past year has not 

 been one of prosperity for the apiarist, 

 but no sadness on that account should 

 be allowed to possess our hearts on 

 this— the threshold of a New Year ' 

 At this season all should be happi- 

 ness, with courageous plans for the 

 future. We are all naturally hopeful, 

 and will patiently wait and work for 

 "the good time coming;" hence if 

 the past year has not brought to us all 

 the full fruition of our hopes, we 

 must all look forward to the New 

 Year for it. 



The oft-repeated wish of " a Happy 

 New Year " we now extend to all our 

 readers, and it is born of the hope that 

 it may be so to all. Let us — 



" Ring out the Old. ring in the New. 

 Ring out the false, ring in the true." 



' Satisfaction Guaranteed." 



While many are preparing adver- 

 tisements for the new year, we^wish 

 to give them a hint. It should be the 

 aim of all supply dealers and queen- 

 breeders to give satisfaction to all 

 their customers, by giving value re- 

 ceived for every doller sent them for 

 goods— but no one can guarantee that 

 every customer will be satisfied. 

 Some will fail to give^certain particu- 

 lars in their orders, and will receive 

 the wrong goods, others iwill specify 

 one thing and mean another, by in- 

 advertance, and will not be satisfied 

 with what they get. Still others will 

 have a higher standard to judge by 

 than the dealer, and hence the queens 

 will not be thought to Jbe as good as 

 some the purchaser already has on 

 hand, or the appearance or workman- 

 ship of the goods wili;[not compare 

 favorably with those] made by some 

 other parly, orj something [or other 

 may cause a dissatisfaction, against 

 which tlie advertiser cannot give a 

 guarantee ! Will those interested 

 " take the hint," and not invite 

 trouble. We are getting] complaints 



nearly all the time from some who are 

 dissatisfied with goods obtained from 

 some dealer or other, and hence this 

 caution ! 



1^ Another of the pioneers in bee- 

 keeping has passed away— we refer to 

 Mr. W. W. Gary, of Colerain, Mass., 

 who departed tliis life on IJec. 9, 1884. 

 A suitable notice is being prepared 

 for the Bee Journal, by his old- 

 time friend and co-laborer. Dr. E. 

 Parmly of New York. 



1^" The article on " Honey as a 

 substitute for butter," on page 820 of 

 our last issue, was written by Mr. T. 

 L. Robinson, for the Philadelphia 

 Times; the "prominent member of 

 the Franklin Institute" there men- 

 tioned, was Mr. Arthur Todd, Vice- 

 President of the Philadelphia Bee- 

 Keepers' Association. Mr. Ackerman 

 credited it to another paper, and 

 hence we give this correction ; "Honor 

 to whom honor is due," being our 

 motto. We are glad to learn that Mr. 

 Todd intends to open a depot in Phil- 

 adelphia for the disposal of honey, 

 for the bee-keepers of that vicinity. 

 The fact of his being a " bee-expert," 

 of having a "bee-farm," etc., will be 

 a good recommendation to retailers, 

 as well as to give him the means of 

 creating a demand for honey in many 

 families— making a market for the 

 surrounding bee-keepers. 



Catalogues for 1885.— We have re- 

 ceived the following : 



J. T. Wilson. Nichohisvillc, Kv. 



E. L. Gookl & Co., Iirantf(>i-<l,"Ont. 



Alfi-ed H. Newman, 92:3 West Madison St.. 

 Chieaffo, 111. 



Lanrlreth's Seed Catalogues. Philadelphia. 

 Pa. ; also an eleg-antly illustrated " Compan- 

 ion for the Garden arid Farm," and Rural 

 Kegister and Almanac for 188.'>. 



i^" From an investment of $2.00, 

 every subscriber to the Weekly Bee 

 Journal for 188-5, will receive fifty- 

 two dividends. 



1^" Vick^s Illustrated Magazine for 

 December, just received, is unusually 

 interesting. Besides the usual beau- 

 tiful colored plate, which in this issue 

 is a group of Double Dahlias, there 

 are forty pages of just such reading 

 as those interested in flowers and gar- 

 dening generally will enjoy. 



®" Bayard Taylor called snow- 

 flakes the " wild white bees of win- 

 ter." When tliey swarm it is stinging 

 cold. 



1^" Sweet home— A bee-hive. 



