

PubHslit \Veekly at IIS A//c-Ji»«an Street. 



SflMO a Veai — Sample Copj' Free. 



37tli Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., AUGUST 12, 1897. 



No. 32. 



Five ffloiiths jorjiiily 55 Cents 



NOW FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS. 



Get Your Bee-Keepiug Friends aud Neighbors 

 to Take the Old American Bee Journal. 



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

 two new siihscribers for the Bee Journal before Sept. 1, 

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

 need to pay only 35 caits 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 offer as that. 



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

 will say that for each 2 new35-ct. subscribers you send us, we 

 win mail you your choice of one of the foUowinj? list : 



Wood Binder for the Bee Journal 20c. 



50 copies of leaflet on "Why Eat Honey?" 50c. 



50 '■ " on "How to Keep Honey " 20c. 



50 " " on " Alsike Clover" 20c. 



1 copy each " Preparation of Honey for the Market "{10c. ) 



and UooUttle'B " Hive I Use " (5c.i 15o. 



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

 Pasturage a Necessity " (10c.) 18o. 



Dr. Howard's book on "Foul Brood" 25c. 



Kohnke's " Foul Brood" book 25c. 



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

 ling Bees •• [8c ] 1 8c. 



Dr. Foote'8 Hand-Bookof Health 25c. 



Rural Life Book 25c. 



Our Poultry Doctor, by Fanny Felld 25c. 



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



Capons aud Caponizlng 25c. 



Tu rkeys for Market and Profit 25c. 



Green's Four Books on Frult-Growlng 25c. 



Kopp Commercial Calculator No. 1 25c. 



SUoand Silage, by Prof. Cook 25c. 



Bienen-Kultur LGerman] 40c. 



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



1 Pound White Clover Seed 25c. 



1 " Sweet " " 25c. 



114 " Alsike " " 25c. 



1!4 •• Alfalfa " " 25c. 



1V4 " Crimson " " 25c. 



The Horse— How to Break and Handle 20c. 



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

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 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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Honey-Prices — Some *• Fool Capers" Described 



BY EDWIN KEVINS. 



Just look at the honey-prices in late issues of the bee- 

 papers, Mr. Bee-Keeper, and say how you like them. Looks 

 as if the man who will spend time and money to build up an 

 apiary for the production of honey to sell at these prices 

 might be a fool. To add to my disgust and discouragement 

 with the business, there comes a man calling himself " New 



Edi«i»i Bci'uis. 



York," asking beekeepers to go into the work of lengthening 

 the tongues of bees. 



Now it seems to me that if the head end of the bee is to 

 be leDgthened, the tail end will be correspondingly lengthened, 



