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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



$W° Being so much crowded this month, 

 we shall defer publishing the rest of the 

 Statistical Table till our next issue. 



B^" A club for the Bee Journal may be 

 sent all to one post office or to as many post 

 offices as there are names in the club. 



IgiF° Our new Illustrated Catalogue of 

 " Implements for the Apiary " has been de- 

 layed, but will be issued in a few days, and 

 will be sent to any address, on application. 



IW We have a long article on Glucose 

 which being received late in the month we 

 were unable to find room for it. W ill appear 

 in our next issue. 



JE^* Those wishing a Premium Queen for 

 getting up Clubs will now please sendee 

 subscriptions and $7.50, and we will send 

 them a choice queen in July. 



|^°E. Wilkin, of California, has sent 

 honey to Europe via Cape Horn, and passed 

 through this city on his way to Europe to 

 look after it, about a month ago. 



BEIT Should any forget our address when 

 on a visit to Chicago, they can easily pro- 

 cure it by consulting the City Directory to 

 be found in almost every hotel and store. 



IdT'The Convention Eeports in this issue 

 take up much of the space, but they are very 

 interesting. Many articles written for this 

 issue of the Journal are thereby crowded 

 out. They will appear in our next. 



ESi 5 " Some complain that honey is selling 

 low. Still it is not as low in proportion as 

 pork, which only brings now 2>£ cents per 

 pound, when a year ago it brought 6 cents. 

 Everything has depreciated in price, honey 

 with the rest. 



HEP" Every man must support himself and 

 his family by the business in which he is 

 engaged. Therefore when any one offers 

 his goods at prices that will not allow a 

 margin sufficient to pay for his time, &c, it 

 is evident that something is wrong. Pur- 

 chasers will be safe in making it a rule to 

 always deal with reliable parties, and pay a 

 fair price for what they want " Something 

 for nothing " generally proves a disappoint- 

 ment to the one who expects it, and usually 

 brings trouble and perplexity. One who 

 offers $5.00 worth of goods for 25 cents, or 

 anything like it, should be put down as a 

 fraud, at once ! 



JEIF* Mr. Henry Alley wishes to state to 

 correspondents that he has been prevented 

 by sickness in his family, from answering 

 the many letters lately received. He will 

 give attention to such at the earliest moment 

 possible. 



J@f Mr. H. Scovell has sent us another 

 smoker as he has made it— but, alas, it is 

 not only no improvement over the last one, 

 but it is far inferior to it. He says there 

 are 4 more kinds to follow. His persistency 

 must be admired, even if the tools are use- 

 less, when produced. 



Vick's Floral Guide.— Of the many 

 Guide and Seed and Plant Catalogues sent 

 out by our Seedsmen and Nurserymen, and 

 that are doing so much to inform the people 

 and beautify and enrich our country, none 

 are so beautiful, none so instructive as 

 " Vick's Floral Guide." Its paper is the 

 choicest, its illustrations handsome, and 

 given by the hundred, while its Colored 

 Plate is a gem. This work, although cost- 

 ing but 5 cents, is handsome enough for a 

 Gift Book, or a place on the parlor table. 

 Published by James Vick, Rochester, 



New York. 



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|J3^~ A coiTespondent wishes to know who 

 invented the "Excelsior" Extractor, and 

 asks if the Bee Journal is interested in 

 it. We answer, No! A bee-keeper of this 

 city, Mr. Coffinberry, fathers that Extractor, 

 but not wishing to deal in " supplies," did 

 not deem it necessary to attach his name to 

 it ; but as this question now comes up, has 

 done so in this issue of the Bee Journal. 

 Everything upon the market is kept for sale 

 at this office, including all the Extractors 

 made, merely for the accommodation of 

 bee-keepers in general. We have no 

 interest in anything that we sell, as expressly 

 stated in our Catalogue for last year, and 

 when we express an opinion upon any tool 

 offered for sale to bee-keepers, it is, and ever 

 will remain, in every sense of the word, an 

 unbiased one ! For this reason, we have 

 refused an interest in scores of inventions, 

 offered to us within the past few years. See 

 pages 100, 135 and 172 of the Journal for 

 last year. 



Printed Envelopes.— We have gotten 

 up some neatly printed envelopes containing 

 the card of the American Bee Journal. 

 On these we will print a card of honey pro- 

 ducers, and furnish them by mail postpaid 

 for 50 cents per 100 ; $1.00 for 250; $1.75 for 

 500 ; or $3.00 for 1,000. Samples furnished 

 free upon application. 



