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AMERICAN BEE jOURNAL 



May 8, 1902. 



Why Not Start Now? 



Spring is at hand and you will need supplies of all kinds. 

 If you are a progressive, up^to^date buyer, go slow and place 

 your order where you will get biggest returns for your dollar. 



HAVE YOU EVER TllIED MONTGOMERY WARD £r CO. 



of Chicago ? Perhaps you have long intended to, but never.knew how 

 to begin. Why not start now? Our Catalogue No. 70, revised for 

 Spring and Summer, is just out, our building is piled from basement to 

 roof with good things — the very best our active buyer could gather in 

 the best markets; every employe in our big establishment is ready and 

 waiting to serve you to the best of his or her ability— just as though you 

 were shopping over our counters. We've been preparing for this event 

 all winter, and believe that there never was a better opportunity for 

 shrewd, active buyers to start purchasing on our wholesale prices — no 

 middlemen — one profit plan. The Spring and Summer edition of 



CJtTMLOGUE NO. 70 IS NOW REJIDY. Over WOO pages packed with the good things of 

 life — everything you use — gathered by our buyers from the markets of the world. Page after 

 page of high grade merchandise, all illustrated and honestly described. 



SEEMS TO us THJtT YOU OUGHT TO HJtVE Jt COVY. We want you to have one— so much so that we 

 Witt furnish the book free and pay one=half the postage if you wilt pay the rest^ fifteen cents. There are so 

 many peopte in this country bubbling over with curiosity^ or trying to get something for nothing, that we are 

 compelled to make this trivial charge. It is only fifteen cents but it assures us that you are acting in good faith 

 and are interested in our business. Why not ask for it today, before you forget it? 



Montgomery Ward Sr Co., • Chicago 



This is our Famous Catalogue. 

 It can be found in over tujo 

 million homes of thinking peoe 

 pie. Is it in yours? 



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Revised by Dadant — 1900 Edition. 



This is one of the standard books on 

 bee-culture, and oug-ht to be in the 

 library of every bee-keeper. It is bound 

 substantially in cloth, and contains 

 over 500 pages, being- revised by those 

 large, practical bee-keepers, so well- 

 known to all the readers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal — Chas. Dadant & Son. 

 Each subject is clearly and thoroly ex- 

 plained, so that by following the in- 

 structions of this book one cannot fail 

 to be wonderfully helped on the way to 

 success with bees. 



The book we mail for $1.25, or club 

 it with the American Bee Journal for 

 one year — both for $1.75 ; or, we will 

 mail it as a premium for sending us 

 THREE NEW subscribers to the Bee 

 Journal for one year, with $3.00. 



This is a splendid chance to get 

 grand bee-book for a very little money 

 or work. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



144 & 146 Erie Street, - CHICAGO, ILI, 



Please mention Bee Journal 

 when writing advertisers. 



FOR GETTING NEW SUBSCRIBERS. 



Red Clover Queens 



FOR 1902 FREE! 



Long'-Tong'ue Variety — Warranted Purely Mated 



We have arranged with the queen-breeder who furnished Long-Tonfrue Red Clover Queen 

 for us during the season of 1901, to fill our orders this season. Although fully 95 percent of 

 the untested queens he sent out were purely mated, this season all that he mails for us will be 

 warranted purely mated. 



We want every one of our present subscribers to have one or more of these money-maker 

 Queens. We have received most excellent reports from the queens we supplied last season. 

 And this year our queen-breeder says he expects to be able to send out even better Queens, if 

 that is possible. He is one of the very oldest and best queen-breeders. His bees average quite 

 a good deal the longest tongues of any yet measured. The Breeder he will use is direct from 

 Italy, having imported her himself. Her worker-bees are large, of beautiful color, very gentle, 

 scarcely requiring veil or smoke. 



Orders for these fine, "long-reach " Warranted Queens will be filled in rotation — "first 

 come first served " — beginning as early in .June as possible. It is expected that orders can be 

 filled quite promptly (even better than Ihspast season), as a much larger numberof queen-rear- 

 ing nuclei will be run. (But never remove the old queen from the colony until you have re- 

 ceived the new one, no matter from whom you order a queen). 



All Queens will be guaranteed to arrive in good condition, and will be clipped,uuless other- 

 wise ordered. 



A Warranted Queen for Sending us only TWO NEW 

 YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS. 



In order that every one of our subscribers who wants one of these Warranted Queens this 

 season can easily earn it, we will book your order for one queen for sending us the names and 

 addresses of two new subscribers to the American Bee .Journal and $3.00; or for sending 

 us ij7(C «."!« subscription and 30 cents more (or .$1.30), we will mail you a queen; or send us 

 $1.60 and we will credit your own subscription for one year, and mail you a warranted queen. 



This indeed is an opportunity to get a superior Queen, and at the same time helplswell the 

 list of readers of the old American Bee Journal. 



We are now ready to book the Queen orders, and also' to enroll the new subscriptions. Re- 

 member, the sooner you get in your order the earlier you will get your (^ueen. We hope that 

 every one of our present readers will decide to have at least one of these Queens. Address, 



GEORG-E W. YORK & CO., 



144 & 146 Erie Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



