Now New Subscribers 



4 September— Oct.— Nov.— December 4 



4 MONTHS FOR 25 GTS. 



18 Weeks — 16 Copies — of the American Bee Journal for but 

 25 cents ! Can you afford to miss that f 



Get Your Bee-Keepiug Friends and Neighbors 

 to Take the Old American Bee Journal. 



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

 lii'O new subscribers for the Bee Journal before October 1, 

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

 need to pay only 25 cents for the last 4 months of this 

 year, or only about 6 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 new25-ct. subscribers you send us, we 

 will mail you your choice of one of the followini; list: 



Wood Binder for the Bee JourDal 20c. 



30 copies of lenflet on " Why Eat Honey?" -'Oc. 



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



30 •■ " on " Alsike Clover" 20c. 



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



and UooUttle's " Hive I Use " I3c.i 15c. 



1 copy each Dadants' "Handling Bees" {8c.)aDd *' Bee- 

 Pa8tura»re a Necessity " (lOc.) 18o. 



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



Kohnke's " Kuul Broud " book 23c. 



Cheshire's " Foul Brood " book (10c.) and Dadants' " Hand- 

 ling Bees" [8c ] 18c. 



l)r. 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 and Capouizing 25c. 



Turkeys for Market and Profit 25c. 



Green 8 Four Books on Frult-Growlng 25c. 



Kopp Commercial Calculator No. 1 25c. 



Silo and Silage, by Prof. Cook 25c. 



Bienen-Ku Itur [German] 40c. 



Kendall's Horse- Book [English or German] Q5c. 



1 Pound White Clover Seed 23c. 



1 " Sweet '• '• 25c. 



IH •' Alsike " " 23c. 



Ii4 •• Alfalfa " " 23c. 



m •' Crimson " " 23c. 



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 25 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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Laying Queens Fighting — An Experience. 



BY J. A. GOLDESr. 



I saw Dr. Miller's question (" Whoever saw laying queens 

 fight? I never did"), and was going to write what little ex- 

 perience I had observed along that line, but let it slip by, and 

 after reading Mr. Bankston's remarks, which I thought at 

 the time were very much uncalled for in the way he exprest 



J. A. Golden. 



himself, and sure enough Dr. Miller is quite justified in writ- 

 ing his open letter on page 466. A moral lesson should be 

 learned from it, for it is getting to be a very common thing 

 for some one to up and confound some one's experience as 



