THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Our Premiums for Clubs. 



A. G. Hill has sent us one of his Gas Pipe 

 Extractors to be presented to the person 

 sending in the largest elub of new subscrib- 

 ers to The Amkiucan Bek Journal be- 

 fore January 81, 1877. The Extractor is 

 light and extremely simple. We will pay 

 the express charges, so that it shall be 

 "without charge" to the recipient. 



D. A. Pike will presentone of his beauti- 

 ful Albino Queens— wliose progeny will be 

 one-half Italians and one-half Albinos— to 

 the getter up of the second largest club of 

 -subscribers. The Albino will be sent, post- 

 paid. May 1, 1877. 



"We will add the following: 



For the third largest list, we will send a 

 tested Italian (pieen in May, 1877. 



For the fourth largest list, we will send 

 500 young tulip trees (4 to 8 inches high) in 

 April or ^lay. 1877. 



For the fifth largest list, we will give a 

 copy of The American Bee Jolrnal for 

 1877, post-paid. 



For the sixth largest list we will send, 

 post-paid, a copy of Vol. I. of The Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, bound. 



See our club rates on page 272 of this is- 

 sue. Names and money can be sent in iffe 

 received, mentioning that you wish to com- 

 pete for the prizes, and we will open an ac- 

 count accordingly. Work should be com- 

 menced at once. 



We have received the catalogue of 

 Geo. Neighbor & Sons,. London, which is 

 the most complete thing of the kind we 

 have ever seen. Cuts, descriptions, and 

 prices of the dilferent hives and other 

 articles are given, making the information 

 very complete. We cannot but wonder at 

 the offering of two or three kinds of hives 

 without movable frames. 



Mr. Harbison is now at the Centennial 

 with a very handsome case of honey. The 

 case alone cost S250. He has 3,000 stands of 

 bees, and they annually produce about one 

 hundred tons of honey. 



B^~Please look over "OurClubbingList" 

 before subscribing for any paper. It will 

 pay you to avail yourself of the advantages 

 there offered. 



We will present KHi tulip trees to any 

 person sending one or more new sub- 

 scribers for 1877. See Club Kates on 

 page 272. The trees will be from 4 to b 

 inches high, and will be sent in Novem- 

 ber or May, as desired. Those desiring 

 these trees must mention them when 

 sending in subscriptions. 



Foundation Machines. 



Editor American Bee Journal: See- 

 ing a request in your August number for re- 

 ports about King's Comb Foundation Ma- 

 chine, I would say that I have seen and 

 admired some sixHuniens of the work of 

 these machines, and pronounce the work 

 just about perfect. Tlie bases of the cells 

 are exceedingly thin and the "shoulders" 

 high, and all very suiooth, well-formed and 

 regular. Nothing better in this line could 

 be desired. J.Hasbrouck. 



We have seen specimens of the founda- 

 tion from King & Slocum, but have no re- 

 port from any one who has a machine. 

 Does Mr. Hasbrouck know of any bee-keep- 

 er who has one, and if so with what success 

 has the machine been used? The practical 

 question for bee-keepers is, whether it will 

 pay for each one to have his own machine 

 so long as the foundation can be bought for 

 some 60 or 70 cents per pound? Has any 

 one bought a machine for his own use, and 

 would he advise others to do so? 



By an oversight the last "cut" on page 265 

 is printed bottom upwards, and in the 

 seventh line of second colunni, the word re- 

 main should be "retain." 



[[^"Read our list of Premiums for getting 

 up clubs. We have extended the time to 

 January 31, 1877— in order to encourage 

 agents to work for the best premiums. 



To all new subscribers for 1877, we 

 will give the remaining numbers of this 

 year free, or a work on bee-culture, as 

 they may choose. 



When writing for The American Bee 

 Journal it is just as well to write on both 

 sides of the sheet of paper and will save 

 postage. It is usual to ask to have it 

 written only on one side for a daily or 

 weekly, but for a monthly it makes no 

 difference, as we do not "cut up" any 

 article for the printers. We would ask 

 that all items of business, etc., be written 

 on a separate sheet, however, as we file 

 all such for reference. 



New Music— " Angels hover o'er our 

 Darling," by Geo. Hastings, price 40 cents, 

 with splendid lithographic title page. The 

 above song has been sung by well known 

 vocalists with great success, and it bids fair 

 to become a very popular song indeed. It 

 is not very difticult. The music is sweet 

 and plaintive, in perfect keeping with the 

 words. It certainly ought to be found upon 

 every piano forte in the land. Address, F. 

 W. rtelmick, INIusic Dealer and Publisher 

 50 W. 4th-St., Cincinnati. O. 



