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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept 9, 



Tl?e Weekly Budget. 



Mr. J. C. Hicks, of Marshall Co., Ky., writing us Aug. 

 31, said : " We are having an enormous crop of aster and 

 Koiden-rod honey now." 



Mb. Frank McNay, of Wisconsin, gave us a short call 

 last weelc. He reports only a fair crop of honey this year in 

 his State, the basswood having been alnaost an entire failure. 



Mb. Leboy Highbarqee, of OaleCo., was elected Presi- 

 dent of the Northern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Association at its 

 annual meeting In Freeport last month ; S. H. Herrick, Vice- 

 President; B. Kennedy, Secretary; and O. J. Cummlngs, 

 Treasurer. !Next week we will publish a short report of the 

 proceedings. 



Mr. J. H. Martin— Gleanings' California Rambler — com- 

 pleted his continued story, entitled, " Bee-Keeper Fred Ander- 

 son ; or the Mystery of Crystal Mountain," In the issue for 

 Aug. 15. We understand it was very interesting as well as 

 mysterious. We did not have time to read It, but are willing 

 to accept the verdict of others as to its readableness. 



Mr. Lucian C. Jackson, 273 Pennsylvania St., Buffalo, 

 N. Y., is the photographer who " took " the convention group. 

 He cau furnish the photographs by mall at oo cents each. He 

 also has a number of different views of the G. A. E. arches 

 and the " Living Shield"— composed of 1,000 children drest 

 io red, white and blue — at the same price as the bee-conven- 

 tion picture, we presume. This latter photograph is very 

 good indeed. 



Mb. L. a. Hammond, of Washington Co., Md., sent us 

 last week a bushel of the very finest peaches. We don't get 

 anything so luscious In the peach line in this Western coun- 

 try. We wish to thank Mr. Hammond for his kindness and 

 generosity. Mrs. York was greatly pleased with them, for, 

 like some other people, she "knows a good thing when she 

 sees it"— especially in the line of fruits. And Maryland 

 peaches — um, um ! 



Mb. C. p. Dadant, of Chas. Dadant & Son, in Hancock 

 Co., III., dropt in to see us Monday, Aug. 23, when on his 

 way home from accompanying his aged father to his annual 

 retreat in Wisconsin, to escape the hay-fever allliction. Mr. 

 Dadant reported a good season both as to their honey crop 

 and the comb foundation business. He regretted not being 

 able to take in the Buffalo convention, but it was impossible 

 for him to attend. 



Mr. M. H. Mendleson, of Ventura county, Calif., " re- 

 cently lost about three tons of honey through a defective 

 faucet in a honey-tank. This amount of sweetness made 

 quite a respectable stream down the canyon. ButMr. M. is 

 not dead broke by the loss, for he has over 50 tons left. We 

 would suggest that these honey faucets be provided with a 

 small padlock as a safeguard against accidental opening. The 

 writer knows of an instance where a dog, by rubbing around 

 the faucet of a honey-tank, lifted the lever, and run off the 

 contents, which, in this case, was water, valuable of course, 

 but not so valuable as honey." So writes J. H. Martin, in 

 August Rural Califoruian. 



Editor W. Z. Hutchinson, of the Bee-Keepers' Review, 

 has been called upon to pass through the deep waters of 

 atUlctlon since the Buffalo convention. For about two years 

 his good wife and a daughter, named Ivy, have been suffering 

 with mental derangenients, necessitating their staying at a 

 sanitarian for treatment a part of the time. But on Saturday, 



Aug. 28, both being at home, the mother must have been 

 seized with a severe attack, for she chloroformed to her death 

 the youngest child — Fern — who was five years old, and also 

 attempted to take the life of Ivy by shooting Altho In a 

 dangerous condition, it was thought, Aug. 30, that Ivy would 

 recover, but the funeral of little Fern was held that day. Mrs. 

 Hutchinson was again taken to the sanitarian the day before. 

 We know that the tenderest sympathies of bee-keepers 

 everywhere will be extended, with ours, to our brother editor 

 in his great sorrows. Those of us who have not had to pass 

 through like afllictions visited upon him the past few years, can 

 hardly realize what Mr. Hutchinson has had to endure, and is 

 enduring now. May sweet Hope, the ever-brightening angel 

 in all our human affairs, be near hlin, and lead him safely 

 through the well-nigh overwhelming distresses which just 

 now surround him. 



Now New Subscribers 



4 September— Oct. Nov.— December 4 



4 MONTHS FOR 25 CTS. 



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

 2.5 cents ! Can you afford to miss thai ? 



The Report of the Buiralo Convention 



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

 This Rnpnrt alone will be worth $1.00— 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 2.5 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 like to have each of our present readers send us 

 two new snijscribcrs for the Bee Journal before October 1, 

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

 need to pay only 2o cents for the last -1 months of this 

 year, or only about <> 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 ynu to work for us for nothing, but 

 will say that for each t'W^O new 25c. subscribers you send us, 

 we will mail you your choice of o7ie of the following list : 



Wood Binder for the Bee Jouraal 20o. 



50 coiiles of le'flet on '•Why B;ii Honey ?" Oo. 



50 ■■ '• on •■ How to Keep Huney " 20o. 



50 " " OQ '■ Alsika f^lover" 20o. 



1 copy each " Prepar «tl(>D nf Honev forlheMaiket"(10o.) 



and Doollttle's " Hive I ll-^e " loc > loo. 



1 copy e.ich Dadauts* "Handling Bees" iSc.jand " I3ee- 

 Pasturaire a Neue-sitv " ( lOf.) 18o. 



Dr. Howard's booh on " F )ul Brood " 2.)C. 



Koh tike's '• H'oiil II ri) d " hoo^ 25c. 



Cht'shlre's '■ Koul llrood *' boob ilOj.) and Dadaots' '" Hand- 

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Dr. Koiite'e H;inO-Bookof Health 23o. 



Kura' Life Honk 25c. 



Our F lullry Unci or. by Fanny Felld 25o. 



Poultry for Market and Proflt, by Fanny Field 2.no. 



Oapjuis and Caponizing 2.tc, 



Turkfvs lor Market and Proflt 2nc. 



Green s Four Kooks on Fruit- Growing v5o. 



Kopp Coniniercial CaUuUior No. I 25o. 



Silo an" SllaKO. hv Pror. (Jook 25c. 



Bient^n-Kultur LGermanl 4nc. 



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m ■■ Alfalfa " " 25i;. 



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The Horse— How to Break and Handle 20o. 



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. 



