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37tli Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., JULY 8, 1897. 



No. 27. 



Six Months for Oiilv 40 Cents ! 



NOW FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS. 



Get Your Bee-Keeping Friends and Neighbors 

 to Take the Old American Bee Journal. 



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

 lea,st one new subscriber for the Bee Journal before Aug. 1, 

 1897. That surely will not be hard to do, when they will 

 need to pay only 40 cents for the rest of this year. That is 

 6 months, or only about 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 -tO-cent subscriber you send us, we 



will mail you your choic6 of one of the following list: 



Wood Binder for the Bee Jouraal 20c. 



50 copies of leiflet on "Whj- Eat Honey ?" •20c. 



50 •' " on •'How to Keep Honey " 20c. 



50 •' " on '■ Alsike Clover" 20c. 



Icopyeach " Preparsitlon of Hnney for the Market "(10c.) 

 and UooUttle's " Hive T 088 " (oc.i 15,;. 



1 copy each Dadants' ••Handling Bees" (8c.) and " Bee- 

 Pasturage a Necessity " (lOc.) 18c. 



Dr. Howard's book on " F)ul Brood" 2oc. 



Kohnke's " Foul Broi d" book 2oc. 



Cheshire's " Foul Brood " book ilOc.) and Dadants' " Hand- 

 ling Bees" [8c ] 18c. 



Ur. Foote's Hand-Book of Health 25c. 



Rural Life Book 25c. 



Our Poultry Doctor, by Fanny Felld 25c. 



Poultry for Market and Profit, by Fanny Field 25c. 



Capons and Capouizlng 25c. 



Turkeys for Market and Profit 25c. 



Green's Four Books on Frult-G rowing 25c. 



Kopp Commercial Calculator No. 1 25c. 



Silo and Silage, by Prof. Cook 2oc. 



Bienen-Kultur [German] 40c. 



Kendall's Horse-Book [Baglisb or German] 25c. 



I Pound White Clover Seed 2.5c. 



1 " Sweet " '■ 25c. 



1% " Alsike " " 25c. 



IH •• Alfalfa " •• 25c, 



1% " Crimson " ' 25c. 



The Horse— How to Break and Handle 20c. 



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

 scribers ; in other words, no one sending in his own 40 cents 

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



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 

 118 Michigan St., - CHICAGO, ILL. 





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A Mexican Apiary. 



Mr. F. Bussler is one of the rising young bee-keepers of 

 Old Mexico, who is rapidly adopting modern methods and 

 fixtures. He has very kindly sent us a photograph of his old 

 bee-bouse. At the right end is a six-story Dzlerzon hive ; 

 the 20 others are a modified Langstroth — some with supers 

 and some without. 



The top is from an old car, the roof-shade extended with 

 long shingles. The big leaves shown are from the banana 

 tree, and underneath them are coffee and cocoanut trees. The 



Mr. F. Busulcr and His Apiary in Mexico. 



mountain in the rear is Borego. A delightful place for an 

 apiary ! 



Mr. Bussler himself appears on the scene. He is hopeful 

 of getting bee-keeping well started In Mexico. We bespeak 

 for him much success, and trust that as he leads, others may 

 follow, until the land of the ancients may, as did another 

 land of ye olden time, " flow with milk and honey." 



Mr. B. is about to translate portions of a standard work 

 on bees into the language used most generally in Mexico — 



