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BEFORE PURCHASING 



Supplies for your Apiary, send a postal card with your 

 name (and if you will do us the kindness, those of 

 bee-keeping neighbors) for our illustrated circular of 

 Apiarist's Supplies, of every description ; sample 

 Sectional Box, and Comb Foundation made on the 



Dunham Foundation 



machine, which is the latest improvement in that 

 line. We wish to place these samples before 



EVERY HEADER 



of this Journal, and hence offer them FREE. 

 Just send your name at once. Special attention given 

 to rearing Italian Queens and Bees. 



S^~ We have secured the general agency of the 

 above machine. 



The highest price paid for Beeswax. 



1-tf J. C. & H. P. SAYLES, Hartford, Wis. 



THE BLESSED BEES, 



BY JOHN AX.LEKT. 



Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 182 Fifth Ave- 

 nue, New YORK. 



Price, post-paid, $1.00. 



This Romance of Bee-keeping has received wide 

 commendation for its literary excellence and its con- 

 tagious enthusiasm. 



I scarcely looked up from the volume before I had 

 scanned all its fascinating pages.— Prof. A. J. Cook. 



It possesses such a fluent style that its perusal was 

 a great pleasure. Its contents cover all the ground in 

 bee-keeing, from "Beginning" to "Marketing."— 

 American Bee Journal. 



The book is beautifully written, and commanded 

 my undivided attention from the beginning to the 

 end. In justice to your inexperienced readers, I 

 think you ought to have called it " The Romance of 

 the Blessed Bees."— Rev. L. L. Langstroth. 



It has the fascination of a novel. Its English is so 

 simple, terse, and good, that it has given me real de- 

 light.— Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson (" H. H.") 



Mr. Allen's book is a very clear and precise account 

 of the way in which he succeeded in bee-keeping.— 

 Atlantic Monthly. 



The subject is deprived of all dryness and made as 

 interesting as a story, by an accompanying narrative 

 of personal effort, investigation, and industrious ap- 

 plication.— Harper's Magazine. 



His method of procedure is told in simple, beauti- 

 ful language, and the story is more fascinating than 

 many a novelette with greater pretensions.— Chris- 

 tian Register. 



* * * These chapters cannot fail to aid in diffus- 

 ing a knowledge of bee-culture, and they will give, 

 moreover, great pleasure to many readers who have 

 not the remotest anticipation of undertaking bee- 

 culture.— Denver Tribune. 



The book is written in a clear, concise manner, and 

 will hold the reader spell-bound until he has perused 

 the last page.— Bee-Keepers' Exchange. 



It is not only valuable, but interesting as a story.— 

 Detroit Post and Tribune. 



Conveys a good deal of information in a pleasant 

 way.— Cultivator and Country Gentleman. 



So delightfully written that no one can fail t» enjoy 

 it.— JV. F. Churchman. 



For sale at the Bee Journal Office. 



ITALIAN QUEENS AND BEES. 



Send for price-list of Queens, full colonies, four- 

 frame nuclei, comb foundation, and apiarian sup- 

 plies. Satisfaction and safe arrival guaranteed. All 

 Queens reared from Imported Mothers. 



4 H. H. BROWN, Light Street, Col. Co., Pa. 



Golden Italians. 



We have them iu their purity. Circulars and prices 

 free. J. M. BROOKS & BRO., 



4-9 Box 64, Columbus, Ind. 



Good Extractors, Cheap ! 



Send me TEBT DOLLARS, and the size of your 

 frames, and I'll send you the best Extractor made (a 

 premium machine), and a curved-pointed honey 

 knife with it. I want to sell out. 



6-tf F. W. CHAPMAN, Morrison, 111. 



ITALIAN QTTEENS-A11 bred from Imported 

 Mothers of my own importation. Dollar and Tested 

 Queens from 1st April to 1st November. Full Colo- 

 nies and Nuclei ; Bee-Keepers Supplies of all kinds ; 

 Comb Foundation, etc. 



6-tf PAUL L. VIALLON, Bayou Goula, La. 



FOR IOWA AND MINNESOTA. 



Purchase your tickets via THE IOWA ROUTE, 

 composed of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North- 

 ern, and Minneapolis & St. Louis Railways. The only 

 line running Through Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars 

 between St. Louis, Burlington, and all points on the 

 line of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern 

 Railway and Minneapolis. 



A full line of Excursion Tickets will be sold at 

 principal stations for the noted summer resorts of 

 MINNESOTA, from June 1st to October 15th, at a 

 LARGE REDUCTION from regular rates. Tickets 

 good for 60 days from date of sale, but in no case 

 longer than October 31st, following date of sale. The 

 Minnetonka Lake Park Association have bought and 

 improved 225 acres of land, in which are located fine 

 hotels, which will accommodate 3000 people. Besides 

 the sources of amusement incidental to the lake, the 

 Park Association will hold a Musical Convention 

 July 28th to August 1st ; Grand Temperance Congress 

 of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, August2d to 5th; 

 Sabbath School Assembly, August 6th to 20th. 



Don't fail to go and enjoy the attractions offered by 

 Minnesota. B. F. MILLS, Ass't G. T. Agent. 



C. J. IVES, Superintendent. 



BEFORE 



purchasing colonies with imported queens, or home- 

 bred queens, Italian Queens, COMB FOUNDATION, 

 and implements in bee-culture, write for circular 

 with prices, and sample of comb foundation free. 



Our foundation for beauty and purity caunot be 

 excelled. 



TESTIMONIALS. 



The sample of foundation is the nicest that I have 

 ever seen, take all points together. 



G. M. Doolittle, Borodino, N. Y. 

 Your foundation Is O. K.— it looks brightest of them 

 all. Send me 200 lbs. more. 



CHAS. F. Muth, Cincinnati, O. 

 We have scoros of similar praises. 



CHAS. DADAIVT & SON, 



Hamilton, 111. 



