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BUSINESS MANAGER. 

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Gusiucss 3Xoticcs. 



Tvur Full Address, plainly written, 

 Is very essential in order to avoid mistakes. 



It Von Lire near one post-office and 

 get your mail at another, be sure to give the 

 address that we have on our list. 



Ciive a Copy of " Honey as Food and 

 Medicine " to every one who buys a package 

 of honey. It will sell lots of it. 



i»r. Itliller's Uoolc, "A Year Among 

 the Bees," and the American Bee Joub- 

 KAL for one year— we send both for $1.50. 



If you HUone money by carelessly en- 

 closing it in a letter, it is without excuse, 

 when a Money Order, which is perfectly 

 safe, costs but 5 cents. 



Ne\r Subscribers can obtain the full 

 numbers for 1S88 and 1889 for 81.80, if appli- 

 cation be made at once, before all the sets 

 of ISSSare gone. 



Paper Koxes — to hold a section of 

 honey for retail dealers. We have two sizes 

 on hand to carry sections 43^x43^ and 53^x5)^. 

 Price, $1.00 per 100, or S8.50 per 1,000. 



Preserve ITour Papers for futiu'e 

 reference. If you have no UirvUKR we 

 will mail you one for 60 cents ; or you can 

 have one FREE, if you will send us 3 new 

 yearly subscriptions for the Bee J oubnal. 



Please "write American Bee Journal 

 on the envelope when writuig to this office. 

 Several of our letters have already gone to 

 another firm (a commission house), causing 

 vexatious delay and trouble. 



Pure Pbenol for Foul Itrood.— 



Calvert's No. 1 phenol, mentioned in Che- 

 shire's pamphlet on pages 16 and 17, can be 

 procured at this office at 2.5 cents per ounce. 

 Not being mailable, it must go by express. 



In order to pay you forgetting 7iew 

 subscribers to send with your renewal, we 

 make you this offer. For each yearly sub- 

 scriber, with 81.00, you may order 2.5 cents 

 worth of any books or supplies that we have 

 for sale— as a premium. 



A Home Market for honey can be 

 made by judiciously distributing the 

 pamphlets, " Honey as Food and Medicine." 

 Such will create a demand in any locality at 

 remunerative prices. See list on the second 

 page of this paper. 



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■We Club the .American Bee Journal 

 for a year, with any of the following papers 

 or books, at the prices tjuoted in the liASX 

 column. The regular price of both is given 

 in the first column. One year's subscription 

 for the American Bee Journal must be sent 

 with each order for another paper or book: 



Price of both, aiub 



The American Bee Journal 1 GO... 



and Gleanings in Bee-Culture 2 00 1 75 



Bee-Keepers' Guide 150 140 



Bee-Keepers' Review 150 140 



The Apiculturist 1 75 1 65 



Bee-Keepers' Ad vance 1 50 140 



Canadian Bee Journal 2 00 180 



Canadian Honey Producer... 1 40 130 



The 8 above-named papers 5 65 5 00 



and Langstroth Revised (Dadant).3 00.... 2 75 

 Cook's Manual (old edition) 2 '23.... 'J 00 



Boolitlle on Queen-KearinK..2 00 175 



Bees and Honey (Newman)... 2 00 175 



Binder for Am. Bee Journal.. 1 60 1 50 



Dzierzon's Bee-Book(cloth)...300.... 2 00 

 Root's A B Cof Bee-Culture.. 2 25.... 2 10 



Farmer's Account Book 4 00 2 20 



Western World Guide 1 50.... 1 30 



Heddon's book, "Success,".. 1 .50.. 1 40 



A Year Among the Bees 1 75 1 50 



Convention Hand-Book 1 .50.... 1.30 



Weekly Inter-Ocean 200.... 175 



Toronto Globe (weekly) 2 00 1 70 



How to Propagate Fruit 150 125 



History of National Society.. 1 .50 1 2.5 



American Poultry Juuroal. . .2 25 1 50 



I>o not send to us for sample copies 

 of any other paper.s. Send for such to the 

 publishers of the papers you want. 



Trlple-Lense 

 magiiiaem tor 



ibe inspection of 

 bees, insects, etc. 

 They are invalu- 

 able In the con- 

 servatory, or if 

 for only a very 

 lew plants. For 

 boys and girls, 

 they make very 

 pleasant studies, 

 and arouses in 

 them a laudable 

 enthusiasm for investigation. Price, by mail, 

 80 cents ; or the American Bee Journal lor 

 one year, and the Magnifier, lor $1.50. 



Red Isabels for Pails.— We have 



three sizes of these Labels ranging in size 



for pails to hold from one to ten pounds of 



honey. I'rice, $1 for a hundred, with the 



name and address of the bee-keeper printed 



on them. Smaller quantities at one cent 



each; but we cannot print the name and 



address on less than 100. Larger (luantities 



according to size, as follows : 



Size A. Size B. Size C. 



2.50 Labels $150 $2.00 $2.25 



500 Labels 2 00 3.00 3.50 



l.OOOLabels 3.00 4.00 5.00 



tO" Samples mailed free, upon application. 



Having: a Fe^v extra sets of the 

 American Bee Jouk.nal for the years 1887 

 and 1888, we will supply both these years, 

 and 1889 and 1800, for $3.00, until all are sold. 

 Or we will send 1888, ISS9 and 1890 for $3..50, 

 all by mail, postage paid. These are very 

 valuable, and those who have not yet read 

 them should lose no time in securing them. 



We Propose to all who subscribe now 

 for 1890, to give them all the rest of the 

 numbers of this year free- so the soonet 

 they subscribe, the more they will get for 

 their money. 



Now, in order to pay our friends to work 

 for our JouuNAi.s, we have gotten up 

 special editions of Mr. Doolittle's" Scientific 

 Queen-Kearing," (with Appendix), and Dr. 

 Miller's "Year Among the Bees," bound 

 with nice paper covers, and will present a 

 copy of either book to any one who will 

 send us two new subsciibers foreiiherof 

 our Journals (the Bee Journal, weekly, 

 or the Home Jouhnal, monthly). 



These editions are not for sale, but are 

 gotten up specially for premiums for getting 

 new subscribers. They are nicely printed, 

 and will be sent free of postage, as pay for 

 work to be done for our Journals. Clubs 

 need not be located at one post-office, and 

 may contain one " Bee Journal " and one 

 " Home Journal " to the same or different 

 addresses ; or both may be for either Jour- 

 nal, as may be desired. Dickens or 

 Wavetley may be obtained for each sub- 

 scriber in this club as offered on the last 

 page of this Journal. 



A Handsome Present.— As the 



convention season is now on hand, we will 

 make every subscriber this good otfer : Go 

 and call on your neighbor who keeps bees 

 and ought to take the Bee Journal. Get 

 his subscription and one dollar for a year; 

 send it to us, and we will present you a copy 

 of the Convention Uand-Book, by mail, post- 

 paid, for your trouble. Here is a grand 

 chance for all toget a valuable book without 

 costing them a cent ! 



Every Hand-Book contains a simple Man- 

 ual of Parliamentary Law and Rules of 

 Order for Local Bee-Conventions ; Constitu- 

 tion and By-Laws for a Local Society ; 

 Programme for a Convention, with subjects 

 for discussion. They sell at .50 cents each, 

 and are nicely bound in cloth covers. 



i^ew Posters for the American Bee 

 Journal, printed in two colors, have just 

 been printed, and will be sent free to all 

 who can use them. They are very hand- 

 some, and will "set off" an exhibit at 

 Fairs. It will tell Bee-Keepers how to 

 subscribe, for "Subscriptions Received 

 Here " is quite prominent at the bottom. 



We will also send sample copies of the 

 Bee Journal, for use at Fairs, if notified 

 a week or ten days in advance where to 

 send them. 



Prang's National Flower is the title of a 

 beautiful pumpblet which contains two colored 

 plates of the two most popular candidates for 

 selection as the National Flower ol America. 

 It also has two poems, and a postal card 

 addressed to Messrs. L. Prang & Co., Boston, 

 Mass., with a vote to be filled up for the 

 selection ol a National Hower. The pamphlet 

 costs 25 cents, and can be obtained at this 

 oflBce. 



