1881. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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bloom that produced it and the pro- 

 ducer's name and address. These 

 should be placed in a neat crate, proba- 

 bly ten or twelve in each crate. In or- 

 der to expose the contents to the eye, 

 and thus cause our careless " freight- 

 lifters " to " Handle with Care," the 

 crates should be so constructed that 

 they may be glassed, then with a larger 

 label on the lid of the crate, we have 

 an attractive package which can be 

 shipped almost any distance, or will 

 look neat on a grocer's counter. 



Should it be the pure nectar without 

 unctuous, indigestible secretion, that 

 tinds the most ready sale, put it up in 

 one-pound glass jars, cork them, cap 

 them nicely with tin-foil and label them 

 with the name of the kind of bloom 

 that produced it and the producer's 

 name and address. Or for shipping long 

 distances it should be put up in rive or 

 ten pound cans or titty pound spruce 

 kegs. 



In every case label with the producer's 

 name, for then the names of those per- 

 sons whose reputation becomes estab- 

 lished by honesty will serve as a guar- 

 antee of purity, the others will be 

 shunned. It is well to put a small label 

 on the jars stating that pure honey will 

 granulate on the approach of cold 

 weather, and that placing the jars in 

 water and heating it gradually will re- 

 duce it to a liquid without injury to its 

 quality or favor. 



Have everything neat and clean, no 

 broken combs, no leaking jars and no 

 soiled labels. Try to have the whole 

 look like it had been put up by some 

 very particular New England house- 

 keeper, and I warrant it will lqpk nice 

 and attractive. 



Now for marketing this tempting and 

 delicious sweet. With comb honey in 

 your own town or city, take a sample, a 

 fair sample of what you have for sale, 

 and go from house to house, do not miss 

 " one, and show to each lady of the house 

 your honey and if necessary let her taste 

 it, take her order for one or more pounds 

 if possible, and at a reasonable price, 

 and I warrant you will in a short time 

 have a sufficient demand for your honey 

 * to pay you many-fold for you trouble in 

 introducing it. 



In placing the extracted honey before 

 the people one is met with more oppo- 

 sition than with that in the combs, for 

 persons in general are not aware, that 

 the latter can be adulterated as well as 

 extracted honey and at a much greater 

 profit to the adulterator, and it is neces- 

 sary to explain to them the fact and 

 . also to show them that extracted honey 

 will granulate, and by so doing proves 

 its purity. Take a sample jar of this 

 honey for exhibition and one to open 

 and let the lady of each house taste the 

 contents, or which is still better, do as 

 Mr. Heddon did— get small wide- 

 mouthed bottles like the small morphia 

 bottles and fill them w r ith honey and 

 send one to each house-keeper in town, 

 with your compliments, and the price 

 per pound, also where it may be ob- 

 tained. This is the proper and only 

 way of advertising a town for the sale 

 of honey, and it will pay in every case. 

 The women folks are the ones most 

 generally who cause the sale of honey. 

 One never loses anything by consistent 

 generosity and a little makes a material 

 difference in one's financial receipts. 



The distribution of friend Newman's 

 " Honey as Food and Medicine " serves 

 as a good advertisement. 



The mere placing of your honey on 

 sale at some grocery will not advertise 

 sufficiently, you must sell by sample and 

 by sample only, until you have estab- 

 lished a demand for your honey then 

 you may have a headquarters, or put 

 it on sale at each grocery store. If this 

 is done see that each grocer places your 

 article in a conspicuous place, and that 

 he " talks it up." Try to keep your 

 town and vicinity stocked at a reason- 

 able uniform price will do it, provided, 

 you advertise sufficiently. 



(If shipped away to market there 

 should be no chaff packing used around 

 the honey. Crates holding a single tier 

 of sections, with top-bar down, are the 

 best, as they are less liable to break and 

 not so heavy as to be inconvenient to 

 handle. Ship by freight, and attend to 

 the loading yourself. Load the combs 

 lengthwise to the car or If wagons are 

 used, place them crosswise to the tongue 

 Jars should be shipped in crates with 



no packing, but if to any great distance 

 it is preferable to ship extracted honey 

 in the spruce or pine ke^s. 



These methods of marketing honey 

 have been used with great success by 

 numbers of ambitious producers and il 

 is evident that a method after this style, 

 along with honesty, is our base for mak- 

 ing what we all wish— honey a staple 

 article. 



Noblesville, Ind., Jan. 31, 1884. 



l@T We will send sample copies to any 

 who feel disposed to make up clubs for 

 1881. There are persons keeping bees 

 in every neighborhood who would be 

 benefitted by reading the Journal. 

 and by using a little of the personal in- 

 fluence possessed by almost every one, 

 a club can be gotten up in every neigh- 

 borhood in America. Farmers have 

 had large crops, high prices, and a good 

 demand for all the products of the 

 farm, therefore can well afford to add 

 the Bee Journal to their list of 

 papers for 1881. 



Premiums.— For a club of 2, weekly 

 we will give a copy of "Bee-Culture ;" 

 for a club of 5, weekly, we will give a 

 copy of " Cook's Manual," bound in 

 cloth ; for a club of 6, we give a copy of 

 the Journal for a year free. Do not 

 forget that it will pay to devote a few 

 hours to the Bee Journal. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1881. Time and Place oj Meeting. 



March 12— Mills Co., Iowa, at Qlenwooti, Iowa. 

 April 2— S. W. Iowa, at CornlriK, Iowa. 



5— Central Kentucky, at Winchester, Ky. 



Win. Williamson, See.. Lexington, Ky. 



7 — Union Association, at Imminence, Ky. 



10. Diane, Sec. pro tein.. Eminence, Ky. 

 May 1 Tuscarawas and Muskiimum Valley, at Cam 

 brklKe. (iuernsev Co.. <>. 



J. A. Bnoklew, See, chirks, o. 



U— Central Mlehican, tit Lansing, Mich. 

 10— Cortland Union, at Cortland, N. V. 



• C. M. Bean, Sec., McOrawvllle, N. Y. 

 11— S. W. Wisconsin, at Darlington, Wis. 



N. E. France, Sec. Platteville. Wis. 



Sept. National, at LexinKton. Ky. 



■-Kentucky State, at Louisville, Ky. 

 Oct. 18 -Ky. State. In Exposition B'd'K. I.ouisville.Ky. 

 W. Williamson, Sec, Lexington, Ky. 



ry In order to have this Table complete. Secreta- 

 ries are requested to forward full particulars of time 

 and place of future meetings.— El). 



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We supply the Weekly American Bee Jonrmil 

 and any of the following periodicals, for 1881, at the 

 prices quoted in the last column of figures. The 

 first column gives the regular price of both : 



Publishers' Price. Club. 



The Weekly Bee Journal (T. G. Newman) . ,*2 00 



and Gleaningsin Bee-Culture < A.I. Rooti 3 CO.. 'I 75 



Bee-Keepers' Magazine (A..). King). . 'A 00 2 HO 



Bee-Keepers' Exchange < J. H.Nellis). 2 75. . 2 50 



The 4 above-named papers 4 75.. 3 7a 



Bee-Keepers' Instructor < W. Thomas! 2 !i0. . 2 85 



Bee-Keepers' Guide (A.G.Hill) 2 50.. 2 35 



The above-named papers 5 75.. 5 00 



Prof. Cook's Manual (bound in cloth) 3 25.. 3 00 



Bee-Culture (T,G.Newman> 2 40.. 2 25 



For Semi-monthly Bee Journal, $1.00 less. 

 For Monthly Bee Journal, $1.50 less. 



Professor of Entomology in the Michigan Agricultural College. 



316 pages large 12roo. ; 133 Illustrations. 



This is a new edition of Prof. Cook's Manual of the Apiary, entirely re-written, 

 greatly enlarged and elegantly illustrated. The tlrst edition of 3,000 copies was ex- 

 hausted in about 18 months-a sale unprecedented in the annals of bee-culture. A 

 new edition having been demanded, the present work has been produced with great 

 care, patient study and persistent research. It comprises a full delineation of the 

 anatomy and physiology of the honey bee, illustrated with costly wood engravings— 

 the Products of the Honey Bee ; the Races of Bees ; full descriptions OT honey- 

 producing plants, trees, shrubs, etc., splendidly illustrated— and last, though not least, 

 detailed instructions for the various manipulations necessary in the apiary. 



This work is a masterly production, and one that no bee-keeper, however limited 

 his means, can afford to do without. It is fully up with the times on every conceivable 

 subject that interests the apiarist. It is not only instructive, but intensely interesting 

 and thoroughly practical. 



The following are among the many commendations received by the publisher : 



APPRECIATIVE TSTOTICES : 



All agree that it is the work of a master and is of 

 ■al value.— V Apiculture, Paris. 



I think Cook's Manual is the best of our Ameri- 

 un works.— Lewis T. Colbv, Enfield, N. H. 



It appears to have cut the ground from under 

 uture hook-makers for some time to come.— 

 British Bee Journal. 



Is a masterly production, and one that no hee- 

 eeper, however limited his means, can afford to do 

 vithout.— Nebraska Farmer. 



Prof. Cook's valuable Manual has been mv con- 

 stant guide in my operations and successful manage- 

 nentof the apiary.— J. P. West, Wells, Minn. 



I have derived more practical knowledge from 

 Prof. Cook's New Manual of the Apiary than from 

 iny other book.— K. H. WVNKOOP, Catskill, N. Y. 



This book is just what every one interested in bees 

 mght to have, and which, no one who obtains it, will 

 *ver regret having purchased.— Michigan Farmer. 



To all who wish to engage in bee-culture, a 

 manual is a necessity. Prof. Cook's New Manual sup- 

 plies this need, as it is an exhaustive work.— Herald, 

 Monticello. III. 



My success has been so great as to almost astonish 

 myself, and much of it is due to the clear, dis- 

 interested information containedin Cook's Manual. 

 -WM. Van Antwerp, M. D., Mt. Sterling, Ky. 



This book Is pronounced by the press and leading 

 bee men to be the most complete and practical 

 treatise on bee culture in Europe or America ; a 

 scientific work on modern bee management that 

 every experienced bee man will welcome, and it is 

 essential to every amateur in bee-culture. It is 

 handsomely printed, neatly bound and is a credit to 

 the Westto publishsuch a book.— Western Agricul- 

 turist. 



This work is undoubtedly the most complete 

 manual for the instruction of bee-keepers which has 

 ever been published. It gives a full explanation 

 regarding the care and management of the apiary. 

 There is no subject relating to the culture of bees 

 left untouched, and in the compilation of the work 

 P of. Cook has had the advantage of all the previous 

 knowledge of apiarists, which he uses admirably to 

 promote and make popular this most interesting of 

 all occupations.— A merican Inventor. 



It is the latest book on the bee, and treats of both 

 the bee and hives, with their implements. It is of 

 value to all bee raisers.— Ky. Live Stock Record. 



With Cook's Manual I am more than pleased. It is 

 fully up with the times in every particular. I hope 

 the richest reward awaits its author.— A. E. Wen- 

 ZEL, Callicoon, N. Y. 



It is a credit to the author as well as to the pub- 

 lishers. I have never yet met with a work, either 

 French or foreign, which I like so much.— L'Abbe Du 

 Bois, editor of the Bulletin D'Apiculteur, France. 



It not only gives the natural history of these in- 

 dustrious insects, but also a thorough, practical, and 

 clearly expressed series of directions for their 

 management ; also a botanical description of honey 

 producing plants, and an extended account of the 

 enemies of bees.— Democrat, Pulaski, N, Y. 



We have perused with great pleasure this vade 

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 information on everything belonging to apiculture. 

 To all taking an interest in the subject, we say, ob- 

 tain this valuable work, read it carefully, and 

 practice as advised.— Agriculturist, Quebec, Canada. 



It may safely bepronounced the most complete and 

 comprehensive of the several manuals which h;iv< 

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 handling in apiaries. The studies of the structure ol 

 the bee, the different varieties, the various bee pre 

 ducts, and following these the points of inaimge- 

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 high and practical value. Prof. Cook has presentee 1 

 the very latest phases of progressive bee-kect :ii: 

 and writes of the themes discussed in the lieni 

 his own experience with them.— Pacific A' unit Press 



Of the many excellent works which we have ex- 

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increasiiiL' terest which is being taken in the man- 

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 The author addresses himself to the work with a 

 decree of enthusiasm which carries his reader along 

 with him to the end.— Kansas Farmer. 



It is printed In the best style of the art. on fine book paper. Price, bound in cloth, $1.25 ; in paper, 

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Cook'i Mmiiini of the Apiary. Entirely re- 

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LaiiKNlruth on the Hive unci Honey Bee. 



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Blessed Bees, by John Allen.— A romance of 

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ol* the Apiary, by Thomas G. Newman.— This 

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Pool! Adulteration ; What we eat and should 

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The Dzierzon Theory (—presents the funda- 

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Honey, as Pood and Medicine, by Thomas G. 

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W inter! ner Bees.— This pamphlet contains all 

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THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL, 



AND BEE-KEEPERS ADVISER. 



The British Bee Journalis published monthly at 

 » 1.75, and contains the best practical information for 

 the time being, showing what to do. and when and 

 how to do do it. C.N.ABBOTT, Bee Master, 



School of Apiculture, Falrlawn.Southall, London. 



THOMAS <i. NEWMAN, Publisher, 974 West Madison Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



HONEY WANTEB.-I desire to purchase sev- 

 eral barrels of dark extracted honey, and a few 

 of light ; also. Comb Honey. Those having any for 

 sale are invited to correspond, giving particulars. 

 ALFRED H. NEWMAN 

 972 West Madison street, CHICAGO ILL. 



