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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Our New Year's Present. — We have 

 now sent out our promised Chromos to 

 all who have sent to this office two dol- 

 lars in advance for The American Bee 

 Journal from January to December, 1876. 

 We did not promise it to any others ; a 

 few club subscribers, who had not read 

 our ofler carefully, expected it, till we 

 wrote them calfing their attention to it 

 again. We must adhere to the rule, or 

 some may be dissatisfied. 



ISTow New Years' Day has passed, and 

 the Chromos are all gone. We trust that 

 these beautiful gems may awaken, in hun- 

 dreds of hearts, " Memories op Child- 

 hood" that will be abiding and pleasure- 

 able; buoying up many sinking spirits to 

 fight anew the battle of life, that at last 

 victory may rest on their brows, as they 

 enter the portals of glory. 



To all its readers. The American Bee 

 Journal sends its greeting — wishing them 

 a prosperous and HAPPY NEW YEAR. 



^^ We have received many letters of 

 congratulation since our last issue, which, 

 of course, we could neither find time to 

 answer privately nor space to print in 

 The American Bee Journal. Our 

 friends may rest assured that we fully 

 appreciate these words of commendation 

 and encouragement, and shall do all we 

 can to keep the old and reliable Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal up to its present and 

 past standard of excellence and reputation. 



Jt^" In Gleanings for December, Novice 

 claims that we should guarantee all our 

 advertisers. It is not only impracticable 

 but impossible for us to know enough 

 concerning the business capacity and in- 

 tegrity of our many advertisers to make 

 such guarantee. We suppose bee-keepers 

 have at least as much sagacity and intel- 

 ligence as any other class, and would not 

 thank us for interfering in such matters. 

 We do not aspire to be a censor of the 

 Press — nor a dictator to men of intelli- 

 gence. Caveat emptor. 



Particular attention is directed to 

 the new advertisement of Dr. J. P. H. 

 Brown, of Augusta, Ga., importer of 

 Italian Queens, which may be found on 

 another page. 



1^" During the coming year we hope 

 to make The American Bee Journal 

 more varied and interesting than ever. 

 We expect to add some new features in 

 the course of a few months, that now are 

 but partly developed. We trust that all 

 interested in the welfare of The Journal. 

 will write fresh from their own experience 

 and observation. The prospects of The 

 Journal for 1876 are very encouraging, 

 and we trust our friends will not forget 

 their kind ofl3ces at this period of the 

 year, among them that of renewing their 

 subscriptions promptly, as well as getting- 

 all the new subscribers they can for the 

 "old and reliable American Bee Jour- 

 nal." We shall neglect nothing to merit 

 the approval of all our readers. 



Jt^^ The first installment of the report 

 of the Michigan Bee-Keepers' Association! 

 appears in this issue. The Secretary furn- 

 ished only a portion of it to the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Magazine, and our friends, King & 

 Slocum, the publishers, favored us with 

 advance sheets. As this number was then 

 almost all in type, we had to omit some 

 other matter in order to admit this into the 

 present number. We regret that the Con- 

 vention allowed itself to be drawn into a 

 disagreeable position in reference to the 

 Heddon and Novice matter. The former 

 appears to be in a disagreeable mood, and 

 sees nothing right or good outside of him- 

 self. At least, tlie Secretary should not 

 have burdened the report with these mat- 

 ters. We shall defer further remarks till 

 we have the copy of the entire report. 



Z^ The date after your name on the 

 wrapper of every paper, is the date fromi 

 which a new subscription starts, after the 

 expiration of the time paid for. Thus, 

 " Jan. 76 " means that you have paid only 

 to the end of the year 1875 — and the new 

 subscription commences with this num- 

 ber — January, 1876. Some do not seem to- 

 comprehend — hence this allusion. 



The Herald and Mail, of Columbus 

 Tenn,, says that Mr. David Staples has 

 the management of 250 colonies for R. 

 G. Harris, 80 for C. C. Vaughn, 40 for 

 W. J. Andrews, 100 for L. R. Cullen— 

 making 470 altogether. 



