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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAl.. 



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Home Market for Honey. 



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Issued every Wednebday hy 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN & SON, 



PKOPRIETOIIS, 



923 £.925 WEST MADISON ST.,CHICAGO, ILL. 

 At One Dollar a Year. 



ALFRED H. NEWMAN. 



Business Manaoek. 



^♦pccial Notices. 



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To Correspondents. — It would save 

 us much trouble, it all would be particular 

 to give their P. O. address and name, when 

 writiufT to this ollice. We have several letters 

 (some inclosing- money) that have no name; 

 manj- others having no Post>OfIice, County 

 or State. Also, if you live near one post: 

 office and get your mail at another, be sure 

 to give the address we have on our list. 

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Dr. Miller's Book, " A Year Among 

 the Bees," and the Bee Journal for one 

 year, we will club for $1.50. 



A New Crate to hold one dozen one-pound 

 sections of honey.— It has a strip of glass on 

 each side, to allow the honey to be seen. It 

 Is a light and attractive package. As it holds 

 but one tier of sections, no damage from the 

 drippiiijrs from an upper tier can occur. We 

 can furnish the material, ready to nail, for 

 9 cts. per crate. Glass IJic. per light, extra. 



Yucca Brushes are employed for re- 

 moving bees from the combs. They area 

 soft, vegetable fiber, and do not irritate the 

 bees. As each separate fiber extends the 

 whole length of the handle as well as the 



brush, they are almost iudt-sij cniiilile. 

 When they become stickj^ with honey, they 

 can be washed, and when dry, are as good 

 as ever. The low price at which they are 

 sold, enables any bee-keeper to have six or 

 more of them, so as to always have one 

 handy. We can supply them at 5 cents 

 each, or .iO cents a dozen ; if sent by mail, 

 add I cent each for postage 



FiTe Thousand new subscribers to the 

 Bee Johrnal is what we have made our 

 calculations for ; they will come iu clubs 

 between now and next spring. Installments 

 are coming every day. 



{S^ To create Honey Markets in every 

 village, town and city, wide-awake honey 

 producers should get the Leaflets " Why Eat 

 Honey" (only nO cents per 100), or else the 

 pamphlets on "Honey as Food and Medicine," 

 and scatter them plentifully, and the result 

 will be a demand for all of their crops at 

 remunerative prices. '* Honey as Food and 

 Medicine " are sold at the following prices : 



Single copy, 5 cts. ; per doz., 40 cts. ; per 

 hundred. $2.50. Five hundred will be sent 

 postpaid for $10.00; or 1,000 for $15,00. 

 On orders of 100 or more, we will print, if 

 desired, on the cover-page, "Presented by," 

 etc. {giving the name and address of the bee- 

 keeper who scatters them). 



To give away a copy of " Honey as Food 

 and Medicine " to every one who buys a 

 package of honey, will sell almost any quan- 

 tity of it. 



System and Success. 



^F" All who intend to be systematic in 

 their work in the apiary, should get a copy of 

 the Apiary Register and commence to use it. 

 the prices are reduced, as follows : 



For 30 colonies (120 pages) V 00 



" 100 colonies (220 pages) 1 2i5 



" 200 colonies (420 pages) 1 50 



The larger ones can be used for a few col- 

 onies, give room for an increase of numbers, 

 and still keep the record all together in one 

 book, and are therefore the most desirable. 



Red Isabels for one-pound pails of 

 honey, size .3x4!2 inches. — We have just 

 gotten up a lot of these Labels, and can 

 supply them at the following prices : 100 

 for $1.00 ; 2.50 for ^l.-M ; 500 for *3.00 ; 1,000 

 tor $.'^.00 ; all with name and address of 

 apiaiist printed on them— by mail, postpaid. 



tS~ Sweet Clover, or MelUotus Alba, is 

 almost the only resource for honey now, 

 on account of the late severe July drouth. 

 If the seed is planted in September, it will 

 come up this Fall and bloom ne.xt year, in 

 Us second season. 



We have a large lot of this seed on hand, 

 and offer it at the following Reduced 

 Prices, by express or freight : 



One pound $0 20 



" peck— ISlbs 2 23 



" bushel— eoihs 7 00 



" sack— 80 lbs 8 00 



It will pay to buy it by the sack and sell it 

 again in smaller quantities. 



t^" If you want a chance to make some 

 money, and provide pasturage for the bees 

 during the Fall months, this is your oppor- 

 tunity I 



The Conveutiou History of America 



and the American Bee Journal for one 

 year, will be clubbed for $1.15. 



As there is Anotlier firm in Chicago by 

 the name of " Newman & Son," we wish our 

 correspondents would write " American Bee 

 Journal " on the envelope when writing to 

 this office. Several letters of ours have 

 already gone to the other firm (a commis- 

 sion house), causing vexatious delay and 

 trouble. 



Our Book Premiums. — To encourage 

 all our present readers to get one or more 

 additional subscribers we will present 25 

 cents' worth of books for every new sub- 

 scriber (accompanied with $1 for one year's 

 subscription), sent direct to this office. Thus 

 for five new subscribers with S3, the getter 

 up of a club gets $1.25 in valuable reading 

 matter, to be selected by himself from our 

 list on the second page of this paper. It 

 will pay you to devote a few hours to the 

 interests of the Hee Journal. Every one 

 who keeps bees ought to take it. We will 

 furnish sample copies free in any quantity 

 to those who intend to get up clubs. We 

 expect to get 3,000 iiew subscribers before 

 Jan. 1, 1887. 



" Cash in Advance " is the rule, but no 

 longer than six months of grace can be 

 allowed on the small sum of one dollar. 

 Subscriptions may commence at any time, 

 and discontinuances may be ordered at any 

 time when arrearages are paid up. 



When narketiug Extracted Honey, 



it is a sad blunder to use barrels holding 

 from .300 to .500 pounds— they are too large 

 to be desirable for the trade, too bulky to be 

 handled with care in transportation, and too 

 dear to be lucrative to the producer, for 

 honey put up in such large barrels is subject 

 to a discount of one cent per pound, because 

 of the dilfieulty in disposing of it without 

 repacking and dividing into smaller lots. 



We have made arrangements by which 

 we can supply the Weekly American Bee 

 Journal and the Monthly Dee-Kecper»' 

 Magazine for IS><7 , both periodicals for the 

 very small price of $1.25, or the above and 

 Qlcanings for $2. Three bee-periodicals for 

 the usual price of one I 



^e~ Sample Copies of the Bee Journal 

 will be sent free upon application. Any one 

 intending to get up a club can have sample 

 copies sent to the persons they desire to in- 

 terview, by sending the names to this oflice. 

 or we will send them all to the agent. 



Colored Posters for putting up over 

 honey exhibits at Fairs are quite attractive, 

 as well as useful. We have prepared some 

 for the Bee Journal, and will send two or 

 more free of cost to any one who will use 

 them, and try to get up a club. 



When Reneiving your subscription 

 please try to get your neighbor who keeps 

 bees to join with you in taking the Rek 

 Journal. It is now so eh-eap that no one 

 can afford to do without it. We will present 

 a Binder for the Bee Journal to any one 

 sending us four subscriptions — with $4.(^(* — 

 direct to this office. It wtU pay any one to 

 devote a few hours, to get subscribers. 



To any One sending us one ripio sub- 

 scriber with his own renewal (with $2.00), 

 we will present a copy of the new- " Con- 

 vention History of America." 



