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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Au^. 10, 1899. 



nies to look after now. and I produced a big 

 carload of honey in ISOS. I taught my 

 brother. W. L. Coggshall, how to keep bees, 

 and was in partnership with him several 

 years, under the name of Coggshall Bros. 

 I built the first movable-frame hives in this 

 section, and have lived to see bee-keeping 

 advance from almost nothing to what it is 

 now. D. H. CooGsnAi.i,. 



Tompkins Co., N. Y. 



As you call for names of those who have 

 been subscribers to the American Bee Jour- 

 nal for 25 years or more. I will say that I 

 commenced in the bee-business in 1S70. 

 working for and learning from a bee-keeper. 

 The following year I establisht myself with 

 bees on shares. That year (1871). if I am 

 not mistaken, I began taking the American 

 Bee Journal, and have taken it ever since. 

 I have all the numbers since the beginning 

 of my subscription, but do not have time 

 now to look up the exact date of com- 

 mencement. 



The Bee Journal has improved much since 

 you took hold of it. I am not thru learn- 

 ing yet. Wm. Muth-Rasmdssen. 



Inyo Co.. Calif. 



I have been a subscriber to the American 

 Bee Journal, without intermission, since 

 1870, and have all the numbers from then 

 to the present time. Jas. Poinde.xter. 



McLean Co., 111. 



I have taken the American Bee Journal 

 since January, 1873, or about 27 years. 

 Albany Co., N. Y. W. S. Ward. 



I have taken the American Bee Journal 

 ever since January. 1873. I have all the 

 volumes but one up to the present time. 



Ontario, Canada. W. C. Wells. 



I have taken the American Bee Journal 

 about 30 years. Geo. J. Stray. 



Branch Co., Mich. 



I have been a regular reader of the 

 American Bee Journal since 1871— over 25 

 years, and am not tired of it yet. 1 have 

 been a bee-keeper over 60 years. I was 

 born in 1828—71 years ago. 1 have learned 

 a good deal about bees, but have not 

 learned all yet. Some things I know, and 

 a h^ap of things 1 don^t know. 



Hunt Co., Tex. W. R. Graham. 



I have taken the American Bee Journal 

 ever since it was publisht in 1871, by Sam- 

 uel Wagner, and have about all the back 

 volumes since 1861, purchast from Thomas 

 G. Newman. 1 cannot do without the " Old 

 Reliable." and think it improves as the 

 years go by. It arrives here on Friday, 

 and I have never mist receiving a number 

 in the 27 years that 1 have taken it. 



Fayette Co., Pa. W. L. Kemp. 



You are not perhaps aware that I am 

 among the oldest subscribers to the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. 1 have been receiving it 

 most regularly since July 1. 1S6S. and I can 

 endorse the expression now often applied 

 to it — "The Old Reliable.'' I have been 

 reading it with great profit, as it past from 

 one editor to another, from Samuel Wag- 

 ner to the present day. We have it now, 

 instead of its visits to our homes every 

 month, coming every week, and instead of 

 paying two dollars for it, as we did at its 

 commencement, only pay the small sum of 

 one dollar for it annually, tho it contains 

 stores of excellent and interesting reading 

 connected with everything belonging to 

 bee-keeping, I hope its course will con- 

 tinue to advance in the future as in the 

 past. 1 for one feel satisfied with the Jour- 

 nal ; and wish its pushing and enthusiastic 

 editor all success. 



Rev. John Anderson. 



Tiverton, Ont. ■ 



Friend York:— I notice what you say 

 about subscribers who have taken the 

 American Bee Journal tor 25 years or more. 

 Idon'tknow whether I belong in the class 

 or not, but if 1 don't 1 am not far behind. 



I commenced taking it at the beginning of 

 1870— just 20 years ago — when Samuel Wag- 

 ner was editor. 1 took it steadily until just 

 before you took hold of it, when tor rea- 

 sons you care nothing about. I dropt it, be- 

 ginning again a few years ago. Now. 1 

 don't know what years it was 1 was out of 

 the family, nor just how many years, but I 

 think from 3 to 5. You see, no one knows 

 for certain whether I am on your roll of 

 25-year veterans or not. 



With the exception of Mr. Wagner, and 

 the one who had charge for a short time 

 after his death. I have enjoyed the personal 

 acquaintance of all its editors, and have 

 past a number of pleasant hours in its 

 sanctums. It is not probable that 1 will 

 ever again visit it in its own home, but it 

 will probably be a regular visitor in mine 

 as long as I live and am able to read it. 



What an immense advance has been ac- 

 complisht in the methods and results in 

 bee-keeping since the American Bee Jour- 

 nal first came into my home 1 and how 

 much I owe it for my own success in the 

 business is hard to estimate. Hoping the 

 end of the next 25 years will find you still 

 at the helm, and its present high character 

 sustained. I am. Very truly yours, 



Dade Co., Fla. O. O. Popi'leton. 



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 ridered, or post-aud-rail fences that satisfied 

 our fathers are fast giving- way to wire fences 

 in all sections of the country, and it has now 

 come to a point where wire is the only material 

 oonsiderd by the prog-ressive, up-to-date farmer 

 when it comes to the fence question. 



" Kvery farmer should remember that the 

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