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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Specimen Copies. 



In order to assist our friends in procuring 

 new subscribers, we will send specimen 

 copies to tliose tbat they intend to call upon, 

 if they will send us their names and addres- 

 ses. It will take but a little time to get 

 parties to subscribe when they see our 

 paper. There. are thousands of bee-keepers 

 all over the country who take no bee jour- 

 nal and consequently are uninformed con- 

 cerning scientific bee-keeping. These 

 should all be solicited to take The Ameri- 

 can Bee Journ^al, and the thousands who 

 now read and prize the Journal can easily 

 reach them. Will they not do it ? Every 

 one who reads this is specially solicited to 

 act as an agent, and present the claims of 

 The American Bee Journal. We feel 

 assured that they will do it. A few hours 

 time from each, devoted to the interests of 

 The Journal will add thousands to our 

 list. 



To any person sending us a club of ten, 

 with $14,we will send a copy of The Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal one year free, and 

 also the Chromo. To any one sending us a 

 club of twenty with $25 we will send a copy 

 of Worcester's Unabridged Dctionary in 

 addition to a free copy of The American 

 Bee Journal and Chromo. 



The Bee-Keepers'' Magazine of last 

 month said it contained the only report of 

 the late meeting at Pittsburgh, Pa. A postal 

 card from the publisher, states that it 

 was an error to say " the only report." Our 

 report last month was a fuller report of the 

 proceedings than any other paper contain- 

 ed. ^ ,.^.. , 



The offer of premium queens is now with- 

 drawn, as we cannot supply Spr ing queens 

 for that purpose. 



Our New Club Rates. 



We will send the American Bee Jour- 

 nal and the following periodicals for one 

 year, for the prices named below : 



The American Bee Journal and 



Novice's Gleanings for ^^3.35. 



King's Bee-Keepers' Magazine 3.00 



Moon's Bee World 3.25 



All four Bee publications 5.00 



Swine and Poultry Journal 3.50 



The Chicago Weekly Tribune 3.20 



The " Weekly Inter-Ocean 3.20 



The " Weekly Journal 3.20 



The " Weekly Post and Mail.... 3.20 



The Western Rural 3.70 



The Young Folks' Monthly 3.00 



The Prairie Farmer 3.70 



Purdy's Fruit Recorder 2.25 



Mr. J. J. H. Gregory of Marblehead, 

 Mass., has his annual advertisement in 

 our columns. He was the original in- 

 troducer of some of the best vegetables 

 now found on every table. He comes 

 Ibis year with a new squash, and a num- 

 ber of tempting specialties, some of which 

 are finely illustrated from engravings 

 taken from photographs. The fact that 

 so many of his varieties of seed are of 

 his own growing, is a golden fact for 

 farmers and gardeners. 



Books for Bee-Keepers may be obtained at 

 this olfice. 



Not one letter in ten thousand is lost by 

 mail if rightly directed. 



Newspaper Decisions. 



1. Any person who takes a paper regu- 

 larly from the post-office— whether directed 

 to his name or another's, or whether he has 

 subscribed or not— is responsible for the 

 payment. 



2. If any person orders his paper discon- 

 tinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the 

 publisher may continue to send it, until pay- 

 ment is made, and collect the whole amount 

 —whether the paper is taken from the office 



or not. .,,,,, J, . 



3. The courts have decided that refusing 

 to take newspapers and periodicals from the 

 post-offie, or removing and leaving them un- 

 called for, is prima facie evidence of inten- 

 tional fraud. 



It^" It will be a source of gratification to 

 us if all those in arrears for the American 

 Bee Journal will settle the same as soon as 

 possible. Our increasing circulation vastly 

 increases our regular monthly expenses for 

 paper and printing. "A word to the wise is 

 suficient." 



Single copiesof the American Bee Jouk- 

 NAL are worth 20 cents each. 



Upon the wrapper of every copy of the 

 Journal will be found the date at which 

 subscriptions expire. 



Any numbers that fail to reach subscribers 

 by fault of mail, we are at all times ready to 

 send, on application, free of charge. 



Our subscribers in Europe, can now procure 

 Postal Money Orders on Chicago. This plan 

 of sending money is safe and economical. 



Subscribers wishing to change their post- 

 office address, should mention their old ad- 

 dress, as well as the one to which they wish 

 it changed. 



Persons writing to this office should either 

 write their Name, Post-office, County and 

 State plainly, or else cut otT the label from 

 the wrapper of their paper and enclose it. 



Journals are forwarded until an exjilicit 

 order is received by the i»ublishers for the 

 discontinuance, uud until payment of all ar- 

 rearages is made as retiuired by law. 



