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Keeping- Insects Out of Honey.— Prof. Cook 

 tells in Gleanings how those troubled with insects getting into 

 comb honey might prevent it. He says : 



" I think that, in most cases, simply wrapping such pack- 

 ages in paper will prevent insect attack. The thing to bo 

 sought is to keep the odor of the honey from passing through 

 the paper so as to attract the insects. This might make it 

 necessary to seal the package hermetically. To do this the 

 bee-keeper has an easy uielhod right at his hand. He has 

 only to dip the paper in Lot melted wa.v, petting just as little 

 wax as possible on it. Then if he wraps the section while the 

 wax is a little warm, he will so seal the package that no odor 

 of honey can es-cape, and so the insects will not be attracted. 

 I should have great confidence that this would work, but of 

 course it would have to be tried before we would warrant it. 

 1 should also have great faith if we used parafline instead of 

 the beeswax." 



Prof. Cook says further that as California is such " a per- 

 fect paradise for Insect life," the production of extracted 

 honey is more suitable there than comb honey. You see, 

 when extracted honey is once in screw-cap cans, there isn't 

 very much danger of insects getting into it. 



Fouudation-lMills and Exractors.— Editor 

 Root, in speaking of patents on comb foundation-mills and 

 honey-extractors, said this in a recen't issue of Gleanings : 



A short time ago Mr. Bingham exprest himself as believ- 

 ing there were no patents on foundation-mills. Something 

 like a dozen, I believe, have been issued. The most important 

 were from the following named parties: W. C. Pelham, Mrs. 

 Frances Dunham, E. B. Weed, and last, but not least, the 

 lamented Samuel Wagner. The latter obtained the first 

 patent. For two years his assignee, Mr. Perrine, prevented 

 us from making foundation-mills and foundation, there being 

 two years more life to the patent. 



Something like 100 patents have been taken out on honey 

 extractors, in the United States — at least, we have on tile in 

 our offline that number. It seems now as if no patent that 

 might be issued would be worth anything to the inventor. 



Encyclopedia for Bees-wax. — Some time ago we 

 offered a splendid work of eight large volumes, called "The 

 New Standard American Encyclopedia," having nearly -4,000 

 pages, and over fciOO colored maps, charts, and diagrams. 

 Size of volume. 2 inches thick, S'^ wids, and W)i long. As 

 per that offer, last publisht on page ISti, the eight volumes 

 were offered by frtigbt for only.'jLy cash. We can furnish 

 a set or two at that price, bound in half morroco ; or will ex- 

 change a set for 7. J pounds of yellow beeswax, delivered at 

 our office. You would be more than satisfied with the En- 

 cyclopedia, and a set of such books ought to be in every 

 family for reference. 



The Horse— How to Break and Handle.— 



This is a pamphlet of 32 pages, giving complete instructions 

 for breaking and educating colts, teaching horses to drive, 

 and for use under the saddle, together with many instructions 

 which have never before been publisht, and which are the re- 

 sult of the author's experience covering a period of 20 years. 

 By Prof. Wui. Mullen, with whom the editor of the Bee Jour- 

 nal is personally acquainted. Price, postpaid, 20 cents ; or 

 given as a premium for sending us one new subscriber to the 

 Bee Journal for tlie rest of the year at 60 cents. 



Xlie Combination Offer, on page 314, is excep- 

 tionally desirable. Why not get that bee-keeping neighbor or 

 friend of yours to let you send in his dollar for a year's sub- 

 scription to the Bee Journal, and then you add 25 cents to it 

 and secure for yourself the Ladies Home Companion and the 

 book, " Samantha at Saratoga ?" Or, pay your own subscrip- 

 tion for a year in advance and for the extra 2.") cents get the 

 Home Companion aiid the book. We do not expect to be able 

 to continue this liberal offer much longer, so if you want to 

 take advantage of it, it will be well to do so now. 



Beeswax 'Wanted.— If you want to get cash for 

 your beeswax //)om;<(.'j/ ship it lo the publishers of the Bee 

 Journal. We are now pa)ii:g 25 cents per pound for good 

 yellow beeswax delivered at our office. Address, George W. 

 York i Co., IIS Michigan St., Chicago, III. 



Tl?e Weekly Budget 



ME88R8. Leiningeb Bros , of Putnam Co., Ohio, writing 

 May 12, said : "The season hero is opening very encourag- 

 ingly. We expect a large crop of honey." 



Mr. a. a. Anderson, of Ontario, Canada, says: " I am 

 very much pleased with the Bee Journal. I have kept tees 

 on a small scale for over 20 years (since I was 15 years old), 

 and have made them quite a study." 



Dr. Miller says in Gleanings that It is just as much fun 

 for him to watch the bees get to work this spring as it was 35 

 years ago. Strange what a lasting fascination there is about 

 bee-keeping. It also seems to keep its devotees young in both 

 heart and body. Hurrah for the blessed bees ! 



Mr. J. W. "Van Allen, of the firm of Van Alien & 

 Williams, in Crawford Co., Wis., reported, May 7, that Mr. 

 Williams was very sick with lung fever; also, that Mr. Van 

 Allen's 1 2-year-old son was just recovering from a similar 

 attack. We hope both afflicted ones may soon be fully re- 

 stored to health again. 



Mr. Frank McNay, of Wisconsin, when sending his dol- 

 lar for another year, said : " You should raise the price of 

 the American Bee Journal soon. If you keep on improving it." 

 Yes, you are quite right, Mr. McNay, but at present we shall 

 try to continue to give the best we can get up for only Si. 00 

 a year. Two cents is surely a low price for one number of 

 the Bee Journal. 



Mb. Wm. S. Barclay, of Beaver Co., Pa., wrote us May 

 12 that on Nov. 1. 1896, he suffered from a stroke of paraly- 

 sis which affected his right side and particularly the right 

 arm. We are very sorry to learn this, as Mr. Barclay is one 

 of our oldest subscribers. We trust he may continue to re- 

 cover from the effects of that stroke. He wisht us to make 

 this announcement so that those whom he owes letters may 

 know why he has failed to reply. 



No-w for New Subscribers for the rest of 1897 : 

 We would like to have each of our present readers send us at 

 least o?ie new SMbscribcr for the Bee Journal before June 1, 

 1S97. That surely will not be hard to do, when they will 

 need to pay o?ify 60 cents for the rest of this year. That is 

 about 8 months, or only 7}^ cents a month for the weekly 

 American Bee Journal. Any one with only a colony or two 

 of bees should jump at such an offer as that. 



Now, we don't ask you to work for us for nothing, but 

 will say that for each new 60-cent subscriber you send us, we 

 will mail you your choice of one of the following list : 



Wood Binder for the Bee Journal 



50 copies of letflet on -Why Eat Honey'/" 



50 •• '• on ■' How to Keep Honey " 



50 ■' " on ■' Alsil^e Clover" 



6 copies "Honey as Food and Medicine" 



loopy each " Preparmlon of Hnnev for the Market "(10c.) 

 and Doolittle's " Hive I U»e " (5c i 



1 copy e^ch Dadants' -Handling Bees" (Soand •' Bee- 



Pasturage a Nece-isity " (10c. I ... 



Dr. Howard's book on " F )ul Urood " 



Kohnke's " Foul Bro d " l)oo'^ 



Cheshire's " Koul P.rooi " book dOc.) and Dadants - lland- 



ling Bees" [Sc ] 



Dr. Foote's Hand- Book of Health 



Hurai Life Bonk 



Our Poultry Ductor. by Fanny FelM 



Poultry for Market and Proflt, by Fanny Field 



Capons and Caponizlng 



Turkeys for Market and Profit 



Green's Four Books on Frult-G rowing 



Kopp Commercial Calculator No- I 



Silo and Sdage. by Prof. Couk 



Bienen-Kultur IGerraan] 



Kendall's Horse Book [Rnirlifh or German] 



1 Pound White Clover Seird 



1 ■• Sweet •■ '■ 



1(4 •■ Al-ike " '• 



14 •■ Alfalfa " '• 



1 »4 '• Crimson " " 



Queen-CUppinp Device 



The Horse— How to Break and Handle 



20c. 

 •'Oc. 

 20c. 

 20c. 

 20c. 



15j. 



18c. 

 2.)C. 

 25c. 



18c. 

 23c. 

 •?5c. 

 23c. 

 2.10. 

 25C. 

 2.ic. 

 ?3o. 

 23c. 

 2.-)C. 

 4nc. 

 One. 

 25;. 

 2.5o. 

 25c. 

 25c. 

 25c. 



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200. 



We make the above offers only lo those who are now sub- 

 scribers ; In other words, no one sending in his own 60 cents 

 as a new subscriber can also claim a choice of the above list. 



