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PubUsht W'eeltJy at IIS Mlcbi^an Street. 



St.OO a Year— Sample Copy I'ree, 



37th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., AUGUST 26, 1897. 



No. 34. 



Now New Subscribers 



4 September— Oct.— Nov.— December 4 



4 MONTHS FOR 25 GTS. 



1 8 Weeks — IS Copies — of the American Bee Journal for but 

 25 cents ! Can you afford to miss that ? 



The Full Report of the Great Buffalo Convention 



will be in the American Bee Journal during these 4 months. 

 This Report alone will be worth Si. 00 — but you get all for 

 just the 25 cents, besides a lot of other excellent apiarian 

 reading-matter. If not now a subscriber, hadn't you better 

 send on that 25 cents and enjoy at least a trial trip of the 

 old American Bee Journal ? 



Get Your Bee-Keeping Friends and Neighbors 

 to Take the Old American Bee Journal. 



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

 two 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 -i 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 t'wo new 2.5c. subscribers you send us, 

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



Wood Binder for the Bee Journal 20c. 



30 copies of leaflet on " Why E;a Honey?" -'Oc. 



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



50 " " on ■• Alsike Clover" 20c. 



loopy each "Preparation of Honey tor the Market "(lOo.) 



and UooUttle's " Hive I U"e " i5o i loo. 



1 copy e^ieh Dartants' "Handling Bees" (8c.) and " Bee- 

 Pasturaire a Necessity " (lOc.) 18c. 



Dr. Howard's boog on " Fiul Brood." 2oc. 



Kohnke's '■ Foul Bro d" boon 23c. 



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

 ling Bees " [8c ] 1 8c. 



Dr. '.•'oote'B 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 Caponizing 23c. 



Turkeys for Market and Profit 2oc. 



Green's Four Books on Fruit-G rowing 2oc. 



Ropp Commercial Calculator No. 1 25c. 



Silo ana Silage, by Prof. Cook 2oc. 



Bienen-Kultur [German] 40c. 



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



1 Pound White Clover Seed 23c. 



1 " Sweet " " 25o. 



1% ■• AUike •' " 23c. 



Hi ■• Alfalfa " " 23c. 



1V4 " Crimson " " 2oc. 



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 2.5 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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Preparing Honey for Market — Bee- Intelligence 



In this locality, 

 hive by the middle 

 mence to prepare i 

 may be ripening an 

 the hive, the honey 

 from 850 to 90J, if 

 honey will be thic 

 which will give it a 



BY 0. M. DOOLITTLE. 



the crop of white honey will all be off the 



of August, when we are ready to com- 

 t for market. In order that the honey 

 d growing better every day after it leaves 



room should be kept at a temperature of 



possible, for with this temperature the 



kening and growing better in the cells, 



fine appearance, instead of that watery. 



ftp '^fS 



O. M. Doolittle. 



unattractive look which will soon come to comb honey that is 

 stored in a cellar, or other damp, cool place. 



Some bee-keepers work hard all the season to secure a 

 crop of honey, then store it In such an unsuitable place that 

 when it reaches market they do not get nearly so much for 

 their labor as they would did they spend more thought on 

 having their product reach the market in attractive shape. If 

 the proper temperature in the honey-room cannot be kept up 



