Review of a Year's Work. 



Volume XIV of The American Bee 

 Journal is now complete ! Our work for 

 the year 1878 on tlie Journal is done ! 

 How well it is done our readers must judge. 

 It is a source of much pleasure to us to find 

 such a unanimous approval. As samples of 

 encomiums expressed in letters published 

 during the year, we give the following : To 

 these and the hundreds of others, whose 

 "kind words" were not published, let us 

 say, Thanks ! Many thanks ! We will add 

 that it is our determination to make the 

 Journal for 1879 better than ever : 



"God-speed the American Bee Jour- 

 nal."— Isaac F. Plumnier, Augusta, Maine. 



"I learn something from every copy of 

 the Bee Journal."— C. H. Dibbern, Milan, 

 111. 



" You have worked up the Bee Journal 

 almost to perfection."— Orion Siggins, West 

 Hickory, Pa. 



"I think the Bee Journal the 'Boss'! 

 It is the first paper 1 read." — J. H. Kiley, 

 Connersville, Ind. 



"I would not do without the Bee Jour- 

 nal for three times its price."— J. E. 

 Kearns, Waterloo, Pa. 



"I find the Bee Journal an excellent 

 companion and adviser." — L. M. Wain- 

 wrigiit, Noblesville, Ind. 



"I consider the Bee Journal the besi 

 bee publication— iiaving read them all." — 

 J. E. Hunter, Jones Co., Iowa. 



" I do not see how anyone can be success- 

 ful in bee-cnltiire witliout the Bee Jour- 

 nal."— D. K. Knoll, Boundary City, Ind. 



"I prize it highly. Should it fail to come 

 at the proper time. I feel as though a dear 

 friend was absent."— G. W. Jenkins, Owen, 

 Ky. 



" I would not do without the Bee Jour- 

 nal. 1 shall get up a club for it, and wish 

 it success."— E. J. Rockefellow, Farragat, 

 Iowa. 



" The Bee Journal grows better and 

 better every month. No l>ee-man can afford 

 to be without it."— John Barfoot, New Can- 

 ton, 111. 



"I could not consent to do without the 

 Bee Journal. It is so valuable to me that 

 I long for its arrival."— R. D. Utiger, Al- 

 hambra. 111. 



"I do not see how any one can do without 

 the Bee Journal. I have been handling 

 bees for 40 years."— A. M. Barnett, Valley 

 Mills, Texas. 



" I like the Bee Journal much, and the 

 better 1 become acquainted with its manage- 

 ment, the more 1 prize it."— 0. Courtney, 

 Marathon, N. Y. 



" The Journal smpasses itself ; each 

 issue is an improvement upon the last, in 

 the bright, cheerful appearance and instruc- 

 tive influence of its whole composition." — 

 W. Williamson, Lexington, Ky. 



" I have learned more from the Bee Jour- 

 nal, of how to handle bees, than from all 

 other sources, and wish it every success." — 

 E. Corbett, Maiden, 111. 



" I have read many papers, but place the 

 Bee Journal ahead. I wish it could reach 

 every energetic bee-keeper in the land."— 

 W. L. Boyer, Ashmore, 111. 



" I am much pleased with the American 

 Bee Journal. It is the largest and best 

 bee paper published in the World."— D. L. 

 Franklin, Boone, Co.; N. Y. 



"The July No. of the Bee Journal is 

 replete with instructive articles; of itself it 

 is worth to a bee-man a year's subscription." 

 — M. S. Baker, Santa Monica, Cal. 



"All progressive bee-keepers should take 

 the American Bee Journal ; read it and 

 grow wise ; they will never regret it."— G. 

 A. Walrath, West Bay City, Mich. 



" I don't see how any one who handles 

 bees can do without the Bee Journal. It 

 is the best paper I ever read, and I have read 

 many."— S. M. Oldham, Keynoldsburg, O. 



"My bees came through the winter in 

 splendid order— no loss whatever— than Us to 

 instructions in the "old reliable" Bee 

 Journal."— D. I. Beecher, White Co., Ark. 



" If you keep on improving the Bee Jour- 

 nal as you have within tiie past year, it 

 must become the?ie plusiiltraot bee liter- 

 ature, the World over."— 0. W. Spear, Eas- 

 ton. Pa. 



" The Bee Journal comes loaded Avith 

 good things. 1 can't see how it is possible 

 to make it so much better every month. It 

 is always a welcome visitor."— Thomas J. 

 Ward, St. Mary's, Ind. 



" I hail the coming of the Bee Journal 

 with joy. It is the greatest light we have on 

 bee culture, bringing ideas, not only from 

 the editor but from all the other experienced 

 bee UH'u of the land."— L. A. Taber, Holy- 

 oke, Mass. 



"The American Bee Journal has 

 saved me in clean money $5(5.25 in the mat- 

 ter of hives alone in two years, to say notli- 

 ingof the other informaticm I have gained 

 from it. Tiiose who do not take it, stand iu 

 their own light."— K. Matthews, Pontiac, 

 III. 



"I am among the many who are glad that 

 the American Bee Journal fell into the 

 hands of those who have no hobbies to ride 

 or axes to grind— to make money by— well, 

 stealing others' inventions, without giving 

 credit to whom it is due. I only express the 

 views of its many readers."— F. A. Suell. 

 Milledgeville, III. 



"The Bee Journal is pre-eminently 

 above all its competitors. It is full of lire, 

 enterprise and vim ; it discusses the various 

 questions pertaining to bee-cullure with 

 spirit and energetic thought ; it is an 

 honor to its Editor and to the interest which 

 sustains it. It has no individual axe to 

 grind, but it is the fearless champion of all 

 that is useful and good ; steadfast, unwaver- 

 ing, honest ; never vacillating or swerving, 

 but true as the needle to the pole to the 

 interest of bee-keepers. It should be taken 

 and supported by every one interested in 

 bees or honey."— American Orocer, 



