Mar 21, 1907 



American ISee Journal 



Lan^stroth on the 

 ^^^ Honey-Bee 



Revised by Dadant— Latest Edition. 



This is one of the standard books on 

 bee-culture, and ought to be in the 

 library of every bee-keeper. It is bound 

 substantially in cloth, and contains 

 nearly 600 pages, being revised by that 

 large, practical bee-keeper, so well- 

 known to all the readers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal — Mr. C. P. Dadant. 

 Bach subject is clearly and thoroughly 

 explained, 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 $1.20, or club 

 It with the American Bee Journal for 

 one year — both for S2.00 ; 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 a 

 grand bee-book for a very little money 

 or work. 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO. 



334 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO, ILL. 



SAVE YOUR 

 QUEENLESS COLONIES 



Introduce a vigorous Tested Queen ; we can 

 furnish them by return mail, from our fine 

 strain of 3-band Italians; Queens reared last 

 fall, and wintered in 4frame nuclei. None 

 better. 



Choice Tested Queens, by return mail, $1 

 each. Untested Queens ready to mail March 

 15, 75c; IS per doz. No disease, and satisfac- 

 tion guaranteed 



J. W. K. SHAW & CO. 



12A4t Loreauville, Iberia Co., Louisiana. 



46 Percent 



EQUIVALENT 



Not a Fish Story but a FACT. 



Annual cash dividend to bee-keepers 



on Supplies bought during 



March 



New Qoods, Best Quality. To-morrow 

 will be too late. Write TO-DAY. 



PUTNAM & PEflKE, RiverFalls.Wis. 



12Atf Mention Bee Journal when writing. 



QUEENS FOR YOU 



Golden, Carniolan, Caucasian, and 3-band 

 Italians— your choice. Prices: Untested,?!; 

 Tested, SI. 25. Prices on large quantities oron 

 Bees given on application. Address, 

 NEW CENTURY QUEEN-REARING GO. 



JOHN W. PHARR, Prop., Berclalr. Texas. 

 12Atf Please mention the Bee Jonmal. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Texas. — The Northern Texas Bee-Keepers' 



Association will hold its annual meeting at 

 Ladonia, Tex., on April 3 and 4, 1907. All 

 bee-keepers are invited to attend. No hotel 

 bills to pay. W. H. Weitb, Sec. 

 Blossom, Tex. 



Michigan. — The Northern Michigan Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will hold its next annual 

 convention at East Jordan, Mich., on April 

 10 and II, 1907. Headquarters will be at the 

 Russell House, where a $1.00 per day rate has 

 been secured. Iba D. Bartlett, Sec. 



East Jordan, Mich. 



Utah. — The Utah Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its spring convention in the 

 Mayor's office in the City and County Build- 

 ing, April 5, at 10 a.m. A revision of the bee- 

 protection law, reports on the smelter settle- 

 ment, and other questions of interest will be 

 taken up. All are cordially invited. 



E. a. LovEST, Pres. A. Fawson, Sec. 



CarDiolans! ItaliaDs! 



FOR SALE 



No disease. 3-comb Nucleus, with Queen, 

 f3, f.o.b. express oflice here. 



A. L. AMOS, Comstock, Nebr. 

 12Atf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Bi^r-Miipplit^w and Berrv-Koxes 



Lewis B ware at Factory Prices. Bee-keepers, club 

 logetber. send me list of goods wanted. :inrt iet me 



Suote you prices, I give tbe regular discounts, 

 eeswax wanted. Send for I'atalog. 

 6Etf W. J. McCARTV, Emmetsburg, Iowa. 



Please mention Bee Journal 

 when writing advertisers. 



While the Present Stock of these BEE=HIVE CLOCKS 



them at only $2.00 ea.C]l, by express ; or $2.50 for the Clock 

 American Bee Journal one year. " 



lasts, we will sell 

 ss ; or ?>4.:5U lor tue v_.iock and the Weekly 

 Better order at once, before all are gone. 



The Bee-Hive Clock 



With the 



A $4.00 CLOCK FOR $2.50 

 American Bee Journal ioth^foT Only $3.00 



We have originated and had made specially 

 for our readers, a bronzed-metal Clock, called 

 "The Bee-Hive Clock." It is 10^^ inches 

 'wide at the base, 9y^ inches high, and deep 

 enough at the base to stand firmly on a man- 

 tel or elsewhere. It is a beautiful piece of 

 worlj, and would be both ornamental and 

 very useful in any house, and particularly in 

 a bee-keeper's home. 



The Clock part itself is warranted for 3 

 years to keep good time. So it is no play- 

 thing, but a beautiful and needful article for 

 everyday use. 



Clocks like " The Bee-Hive Clock " usually 

 sell in the stores at from ?4.00 to $5.00 each, 

 but having them made for us in quantities 

 enables us to offer them at $2.50 each by ex- 

 press, or with the American Bee Journal a 

 year— both for only 63.00. Either Clock or 

 Journal would make an ideal gift. 



How to set "The Bee-Hive Clock" 

 FREE 



Send us 5 New Subscribers to the 



Weekly American Bee Journal for one year, 

 at $1.00 each, and we will send you this beau- 

 tiful " Bee-Hive Clock " FREE (excepting 

 express charges). Or, send us 4 New Sub" 

 scribers Cat $1.00 each) and 50 cents— $4.50 

 in all. Or, 3 New Subscribers (at $1.00 

 each) and $1.00— $4.00 in all. Or. 3 New 

 Subscribers (at $1.00 each) and $1.50— 

 $3.50 in all. 



^i^M^^-, 



Only $2..50. f.o.b. Chicago, by Express. 



Weight, with packing, about 4 pounds. 



What Dr. Miller Thinks of the 

 Bee Hive Clock 



Busily ticking away, in the room where I 

 am sitting, stands a genuine bee-keeper's 

 clock (please understand that the word "gen- 

 uine " belongs to the clock and not to the 

 bee-keeper) .or, as the legend upon the clock 

 has it, " The Bee-Hive Clock." I don't know 



whether the idea of getting up such a clock 

 was conceived in the brain of the Editor of 

 the American Bee Journal, or whether he got 

 it elsewhere, but the wonder is that such a 

 thing was not thought of long before. 



Setting aside all idea of its association with 

 the business of a bee-keeper, there is a pecu- 

 liar appropriateness in having the minutes 

 aud the hours " told off " in a case represent- 

 ing the home of the busy little workers. The 

 glance at the clock, with its ceaseless tick, 

 tick, tick, tick, can not fail to remind one 

 that the flying moments must be improved 

 now or be forever lost, and that suggestion is 

 reinforced by the thought of the never ceas- 

 ing activity of the little denizens of the hive, 

 always busy, busy, busy, working from morn 

 till night and from night till morn, working 

 unselfishly for the generations to come, and 

 literally dying in the harness. 



Let us be thankful that the form of the old- 

 fashioned straw hive or skep was adopted, and 

 not that of any modern affair, patented or 

 unpatented. The latter smacks of commer- 

 cialism, but the former of solid comfort, for 

 no other form of hive has ever been devised 

 that contributes so fully to the comfort and 

 welfare of a colony of bees as does the old- 

 fashioned straw-hive. It appeals, too, to one's 

 artistic sense as can no angular affair of more 

 modern times. As an emblem of industry, 

 artists have always used — probably always 

 will use — the old straw skep. 



Thanks, Mr. Editor, for furnishing us a 

 time-keeper so appropriate for all, and espe- 

 cially for bee-keepers. C. C. Miller. 



Address all orders to GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 334 Dcarbom St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



