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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Our Home. — On the cover of this issue 

 is a view of the building on the corner of 

 Clark and Monroe Streets, which contains 

 The American Bee Journal office. An 

 idea of the location and building will be 

 obtained by those who cannot give us a 

 call, and to those coming to Chicago it 

 will serve as a guide to direct their steps 

 to a familiar place — our office. We ex- 

 pect to keep on liand, for exhibition to our 

 friends who call on us, all the new, as 

 well as the older appliances for apicultural 

 labor. We are gathering some in now, and 

 in the course of a few weeks shall have 

 quite a display. To all, therefore, when 

 coming to this city, we extend a cordial 

 invitation — " Come and see us." 



" Eureka." — That means " I have found 

 it." Well, what is it? J. L. Smith, Te- 

 cumseh, Mich., tells us he has found the 

 Bee Hive! We asked him to send a sam- 

 ple one to this office with description. 

 Here is the description — our readers must 

 call and see the hive, if they are not sat- 

 isfied with the following: 



"It is simply a hive in a nice little Bee 

 House, with surrounding air spaces, (pat- 

 ented) with a queen nursery, so arranged 

 that four nuclei can be wintered with their 

 queens, immediately over the lull colony. 

 The main colony can be removed at will, 

 without disturbing the nuclei, or visa versa. 

 But for honey-gathering use two boxes, 

 holding about 10 pounds each; those 

 boxes are constructed of ten small frames 

 each, makinu- a very convenient sized box 

 for shipping, and just the thing for the 

 retail trade; each frame holding, on an 

 average, about IJ^ pounds. I build all 

 my hives with the honey boxes unles oth- 

 erwise ordered." 



E. S. Stow, Fort Dickinson, N. Y. 

 writes us that he finds the Double pointed 

 Shade Tacks very useful for bracing frame 

 corners. They can be obtained at any 

 hardware store. The 

 following represents 

 the exact size of tliem. 

 He has sent us a section of frame, show- 

 ing its use, which is on exhibition in this 

 office. He says that six cents worth will 

 furnish enougli for ten frames. 



p^ In March No. you give the wrong 

 size of the bottom bar of my frame — it 

 should be 133^ inches in length. 



S. K. Marsh. 



Splendid. — E. C. Jordan, of the " Bee 

 Cottage Apiary," Frederick Co., Va., has 

 forwarded to us by express some of his 

 superfine Comb Honey, as a sample. It 

 was sent in one of his newly invented tin 

 boxes, which we will describe more fully 

 in a future number of The Bee Journal. 

 For safe shipment it has great advantage 

 over wooden boxes, and his honey looks 

 so nice and tempting in it that Mr. Jordan 

 finds ready sale for it at from 30 to 40 

 cents per pound. 



(E^'Many thanks to those who have re- 

 mitted the amount of their arrearages 

 during the past month — but there are 

 hundreds yet to be heard from, and we 

 would urge upon them the necessity of 

 liquidating at once — as we greatly need 

 the mone}^ to pay for our folly in placing 

 too much confidence in " crooked " hu- 

 manity. 



A private letter from Rudolf Mayer- 

 hceffer, Esq., editor of Der Bieiienvater, 

 Prague, Austria, informs us that from May 

 13 to 17, there will be an International 

 Agricultural Fair in Prague (Oesterreich) 

 Newstadt, Breite, Gasse No. 747. He re- 

 marks that bee hives and honey will- find 

 ready sale there — but that honey in boxes 

 is yet unknown to Austria. 



To Poultry Men. — For two subscrib- 

 ers and $4, in advance, we will send post 

 paid a copy of A. J. Hill's work on 

 " Chicken Cholera," as a premium. See 

 his advertisement in this number. Those 

 wishing this premium must mention it 

 when sending their subscriptions. 



Wm. S. Barclay, Beaver, Pa., has sent 

 to this office, for exhibition, one of his 

 machines for cutting winter passages in 

 combs. It is doubtless a very handy con- 

 trivance. 



Henry Deahle, Winchester, Va., has 

 mailed to us one of his 5 pound sample 

 boxes. His claim is that they never break 

 in shipping, and sell with the honey in 

 gross. They are cut, ready to nail to- 

 gether, grooved for two glass sides. They 

 are light and smoothly finished. See his 

 advertisement in this issue. 



