I^uhlisht M'e-elcly at JlS XlicUii^aii Street. 



ifi.OO a Vear— Sajnple Copy J^ree. 



37th Year. 



CHICAG-O, ILL., JULY 29, 1897. 



No. 30. 



Five lloiitlis foNiily 35 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 us 

 two neiv subscribers for the Bee Journal before Sept. 1, 

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

 need to pay only 35 cents for the last 5 months of this 

 year, 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 oSer as that. 



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



will say that for each 2 new3.5-ct. subscribers you send us, we 



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



Wood Binder.for the Bee Journal 20c. 



50 coiilesof leaflet on "Why Eat Honey?" 'Oc. 



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



50 ■' " on " Alsike Clover" 20c. 



1 copy each " Prepamtlon of Honey for the Market "(10c.) 

 and Uoolltlle'8 " Hive I Pse " i5c i 15c. 



1 copv each Dadants' "Handling Bees" (8o.)and " Bee- 



Pasturaere a Nece-slty " (lOo.) 18c. 



Dr. Howard's book ou "F)ul Brood" 25c. 



Kohnke's " Foul Bro d"booK 25c. 



CbeBblre's " Foul Brood " bookilOc.) and Dadants' " Hand- 

 ling Bees" [8c ] 18c. 



Dr. Fuote'8 Hand-Book of Health 25c. 



Rural Life Book 25c. 



Our Poultry Uoclor. by Fanny Felld 25c. 



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



Capons and Caponizing 25c. 



Turkeys for Market and Profit 2oc. 



Green's Four Books on Frul^Growlng 25c. 



ttopp Commercial Calculator No. 1 25c. 



Silo anil Silage, by Prof. Cook 25c. 



BienenKultur LGerman] 40c. 



Kenda I's Horse- Book [English or German] 25c. 



1 Pound White Clover Seed 25c. 



1 " Sweet " " 25c. 



1V4 •' Alsike " " 25c. 



1V4 " Alfalfa " " 25c. 



m " 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 35 cents 

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



G-EORGE W. YORK & CO. 

 118 Michigan St., - CHICAGO, ILL. 



WMtk 



JUSTUS V.4X DEUSE.\. 



Some time ago we recorded the death of Mr. J. Van Deu- 

 sen, which occurred March 28, 1S9T. ,We also exprest the 

 hope that we might soon present his portrait, and this week, 

 through the kindness of our esteemed contemporary — Glean- 

 ings — we show a very good picture of our departed friend. 



It was our good fortune, several times, to meet Mr. Van 

 Deusen at bee-conventions, where he was always a most in- 

 terested attendant. His very presence seemed to be an in- 

 spiration, and his bright, honest countenance ever spoke a 

 benediction. 



Mr. P. H. El wood, of New York — a life-long friend of Mr. 



J. Van Deusen. 



Van Deusen— had this to say of him, in Gleanings, about the 

 time of his death : 



J. VAN DEUSEN'S death. 



We have to record the passing from earth to a wider 



