GEORGE W. YORK, 

 Editor. 



Devoted Exclusively 



To Bee-Culture. 



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VOL. XXX. CHICAGO, ILL, DECEMBER 29, 1892. NO. 27. 



Do You Want to be a hero ? 



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Then step up and please renew it. 



A Happy New Year to every 

 reader of the old American Bee Jour- 

 nal, is our most earnest wish, as the 

 year 1892 ends and 1893 begins. If 

 you want to return this "wish" in a 

 very appropriate .manner, just send 

 $1.00 to us for the renewal of your 

 subscription, and we will promise to be 

 "real happy." The majority of the 

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 this number, so that in renewing imme- 

 diately you will be commencing the new 

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 put it off, but just as soon as you have 

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 dollar's worth of "happiness," which 

 we will return to you in 52 equal in- 

 stallments during the year 1893, and 

 thus make you "happy" 52 times to 

 our once. We repeat — we wish you 

 A HAPPY NEW YEAR. 



A Complete Index will be 

 found in this number. It shows in a 

 very compact form just what has been 

 done during the past six months. It is 

 a record to be proud of, and those who 

 helped to make it are worthy of all 

 honor and praise. 



Bee-literature is " marching on," and 

 its future is resplendent with glorious 

 promise, which, in its fulfillment, will 

 add still greater lustre to the already 

 well-merited fame of modern apiarian 

 periodicals. As in the practical work of 

 the apiary, there has been wonderful 

 advancement during the past few years, 

 so in the literature of bee-keeping great 

 and enduring progress has been made. 

 Having learned well the lessons of the 

 Past, we should be the better prepared 

 to discharge the duties of the Present, 

 while entertaining bright hopes for the 

 Future. 



Don't Fail to read all of page 815. 



Fifty-Three Numbers of the 



American Bee Journal have been is- 

 sued this year, so those who have been 

 fortunate enough to have been sub- 

 scribers during the year 1892, have 

 had one number more than is usually 

 given in one year. No extra charge is 

 made for this, the 53rd numder, only 

 we hope it may be appreciated, as we 

 were not in duty bound to publish more 

 than 52 numbers. We are glad, how- 

 ever, to be able to keep up the weekly 

 visits of the American Bee Journal, 

 and, as we have done this year, throw 

 hi an extra number besides. 



