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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



December 22, 



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AS I have explained in 

 previous advertisements, 

 the publisher of a good 

 jonrnal can afford to make 



Another Big Offer ! 



liberal offers for the sake of getting his journal into new hands. I have in the 

 past made several such offers; but here is one that I consider especially liberal. 

 If you are not a subscriber to the Bee-Keepers' Review^, send me ^i.8o, 

 and I will have 3'-our subscription to the American Bee Journal renewed for one 

 year, send you 12 back numbers of the Review, and then the Review for all of 

 i8gg ! Remember t\\-o things : ^-ou miist be a new subscriber to the Review, 

 and the order must be sent to ^ ^ HUTCHINSON, Flint, Michigan. 



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BOYS AND GIRLS 



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You Do Not Have to Invest a Cent Everyone Will Buy. 



we are: gjving 



WATCHES, CAMERAS, RINGS, SPORTING 



GOODS, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, 



AIR RIFLES, PRINTING PRESS, 



ETC., ETC 



ABSOLUTELY FREE 



For Selling 20 Sets of Aluminum Thimbles and Tape 

 Me:',sures (60 inch) at 1 cents per set. 



Two Very Useful Articles, and of Good Quality, for Only Ten Cents. 



OUR SPECIAL CASH OFFER 



This is a reliable, straight business. Every customer gets 

 full value for their money. We do not ask you for a cent, 

 WE 1 RUST YOU. Send us your name and address and we 

 will mail the ;iO sets to you. post-paid. When you have sold 

 them, send us the Money and select your Premium. Full 

 instructions and Fine Premium List with each Outfit. 



If you prefer to sell for CASH, wc will allow you 

 50% Commission. You make ONE DOLLAR on 

 each Outfit. This is a Great Business Opportunity. 



TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT....WRflTE TO-DAY. 



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1^" The put)lishers of the American Bee Journal do not hesitate to recommend 

 the above company, and would suggest that the boys and girls in the families of 

 our readers vyrite at once. 



The Bee-Keeper' s Guide 



This 15th and latest edition of Prof. Cook's 

 magnificent book of 460 pages, in neat and 

 substantial cloth binding, we propose to give 

 away to our present subscribers, for the work 

 ol getting NEW subscribers for the American 

 Bee Journal. 



A description of the book here is quite un- 

 necessary — it is simply the most complete sci- 

 entific and practical bee-book published to- 

 day. Fully illustrated, and ail written in the 

 most fascinating style. The author Is also 

 too well-known to the whole bee-world to re- 



?uire any introduction. No bee-keeper is 

 ully equipped, or his library complete, with- 

 out" The Bee-Keeper'8 Guide." 



Given For 2 New Subscribers. 



The following offer is made to present sub- 

 scribers only, and no premium is also given 

 to the two new subscribers— simply the Bee 

 Journal for one year : 



Send us Two New Snbscribers to the Bee 

 Journal (with 82.00), and we will mall vou a 

 copy of Prof. Cook's book free as a premi- 

 um. Prof. Cook's book alone sent forJl.*36, 

 or we club it with the Bee Journal for a year 

 —both together for only tl.75. But surely 

 anybody can get only 2 new subscribers to 

 the Bee Journal for a year, and thus get the 

 boo as a premium. Let everybody try for it' 

 Will you have one ' 



GEOKGE W. YOBK & CO., 118 Michigan St., Chicago, Dl. 



stands. It may encourage the farmers to 

 use the movable-frame hive. I persuaded 

 a few last summer to get the dovetail hive, 

 but expect to do better next year. 



I used mostly tbe4'4x4i4XlJi sections with 

 separators: only a few of the 5x35^xl},o 

 with the fence. The latter gave excellent 

 satisfaction. I intend to change to the tall 

 section as fast as I use up the old ones dur- 

 ing the coming season. The cost for the 

 change will be small, as the tall section 

 brings more in our market than the square. 



At the close of the fall flow I removed the 

 wedges and supers. After taking the sec- 

 tions out of the supers, I placed the supers 

 on again so as to be ready for putting on 

 winter packing. During the first week of 

 October I put a Hill's device on the frames, 

 over this a quilt, and on this a cushion of 

 wheat chaff tuckt down very nicely. 



I can hardly wait for the weekly visits of 

 the American Bee Journal. 8ome of the 

 numbers have been worth to me the whole 

 subscription for a year. I am very much 

 interested in the report of the United States 

 Bee-Keepers' Union, of which I am a mem- 

 ber. Those papers and discussions on mar- 

 keting honey are excellent. If more of the 

 bee-keepers would work up a home trade, 

 it would be better for the bee-keepers in 

 general, and for themselves in particular. 

 The experience one gains in that line of 

 work pays well, besides the surplus in his 

 purse. 



Before I was a regular reader of bee 

 papers. I had even very little honey to eat. 

 Now. since I am the recipient of the three 

 oldest bee-papers publisht in the United 

 States, 1 have all the honey I care to eat, 

 besides a little to sell. I don't see how any 

 bee-keeper can do without a bee paper. 



Long live the American Bef Journal to 

 promote the interests of bee-keepers. 



John W. Aleektson. 



Luzerne Co., Pa., Dec. 3. 



Against the Credit System. 



I don't know bow I could get along with- 

 out the American Bee Journal now; and I 

 don't see how any man, it he represents 

 himself as a man, can take the American 

 Bee Journal any length of time without 

 paying for it. The comments on "What 

 Credit Costs," page 776, come as near my 

 sentiments as I could express it. "Pay as 

 you go, or else don't go," is a very good 

 motto. 



My opportunity for education when a boy 

 was very limited, so my object has been to 

 learn all I can in passing through this life. 

 During the time between 'til and '6.5, I dis- 

 tinctly remember the smell of burnt powder. 

 The fall and winter of '6,5'-66 I bull-whackt 

 on the plains between Omaha and Denver, 

 workt on the railroad, broke prairie with 

 an ox-team in Missouri, ran an engine in a 



