THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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It^" Moon's Bee World has been incor- 

 porated with the Bee-Keepers' Magazine, 

 of New Yorli, Mr. Moon acting as corres- 

 ponding editor. Tlie Magazine announces 

 that those who have paid for both papers 

 will have their time extended on the 

 Magav.ine to cover the amount due on the 

 World. On account of failing health, Mr. 

 Moon offered us the World last fall, but we 

 declined— for if the A. B. J. "possessed the 

 whole World,'' it nught loose its own self, 

 you know ! Here is our J!^" friend King; 

 "Success to you." 



More Premiums.— Friend Murphy sends 

 the following: " I offer a No. 1 Extractor 

 <the wood part of black walnut) for the one 

 sending the largest number of subscribers 

 to The American Bee Journal, between 

 March 1st and Dec. 31, 1877. The publisher 

 to be the judge." 



Friend Hardin Haines offers an Italian 

 queen to the one sending the largest num- 

 ber of subscribers to the A. B. J., between 

 March 1 and August 1, 1877. 



These are all in addition to our premiums. 

 It will pay well to spend a few hours can- 

 vassing for the A. B. J. 



'Circumstances having transpired that 

 will indefinitely prolong friend Clarke's 

 stay in Canada, we shall not have the pleas- 

 ure of his company, or be able to carry out 

 our original plans in connection therewith. 

 Such is life ! 



"A friend sends us a clipping from 

 the St. Nicholas (now going the rounds of 

 the papers), stating that bees go 40 miles for 

 clover. That story was probably written 

 by " Old Nick," for the next edition of "Ex- 

 travaganza Americana !" 



"We are now getting up a beautifully 

 Illustrated Catalogue of everything used in 

 the apiary, with Prices Current, and much 

 other information, which we will send 

 FREE to all who desire them. As we wish 

 to get one into the hands of every bee-keep- 

 er in the United States and Canada, we will 

 supply them FREE in any quantity to 

 those who will kindly distribute them. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown offers as a premium to 

 the person sending the greatest number of 

 subscribers to The American Bee Jour- 

 nal, between now and the first of July, a 

 tested queen of imported mother. The 

 queen to be sent upon presentation of cer- 

 tificate from the publisher, certifying to the 

 number of subscribers sent. 



Secure a Choice Queen. 



We now renew our offer to send a choice 

 tested Italian queen as a premium to any 

 one will send us four subscribers to The 

 American Bee Journal with $8.00. This 

 premium, giving a good queen for four sub- 

 scribers, will pay any one for taking some 

 trouble to extend the circulation of the 

 Journal. Premium queens will in every 

 case be warranted. 



Centennial Award. 



The following letter from England will 

 explain itself : 



London, England, Feb. 2nd, 1877.— Many 

 were surprised at the small collection of 

 apiarian apparatus at the Centennial. Our 

 display consisted of bar-frame hives of 

 different descriptions, our improved cottage 

 hive with bell glasses, the divisional super, 

 zinc adapters with perforations to admit 

 workers, but small enough to exclude the 

 queen or drones; stereotype plates for mak- 

 ing impressed wax sheets, Cheshire's ap- 

 paratus for making wax guides, the ob- 

 servatory Unicomb hive with Venetian 

 blinds, honey extractor, bee feeders of 

 various kinds, comprising bottle feeder, 

 new, round wood feeder, zinc feeder, etc.; 

 fumigators, honey glasses, bee veils, india- 

 rubber gloves, and all appliances for the 

 apiary. We have just received through the 

 British Commission a certificate of award 

 with reasons for giving same, as follows: 



Report of Awards, Philadelphia, I 

 Dec. 12, 1876. i 



For a large and varied collection of econo- 

 mical hives, so arranged that the honey 

 can be taken without the desti-uction of the 

 bees. Special attention is directed to the 

 Unicomb hive with Venetian blinds to 

 allow the bees to be exposed to liglit whilst 

 the sun's rays are excluded. Also for a 

 honey extractor by centrifugal force which 

 removes the honey from the combs without 

 injuring the latter, which can be returned 

 to the hives. John Coleman, 



On behalf of theJiulges; and approved by 

 "Group of Judges," with five signatures at- 

 tached. 



I shall preserve it as a moment© of the 

 great Centennial Exhibition of 1876. 



Alfred Neighbour. 



I^" Having devised a new and valuable 

 implement in the management of bees, 

 which I will sell as cheaply as it can be af- 

 forded, if well made, I ask bee-keepers: If 

 said implement proves a valuable help in 

 their hands and a benefit to the bee-keepers 

 of the world, to give the inventor the credit 

 of said Invention, and, last but not least, 

 their orders, as a reasonable reward of well 

 doing. T. F. Bingham. 



1^" We can supply Comb Foundation, or 

 machines to make it, early tested Queens or 

 Colonies, all kinds of Smokers, Hives or 

 Extractors, Seeds or anything wanted by 

 bee-keepers at the lowest prices. 



