THE AJIERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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J>pecial glotices. 



Esaniine the Date following your 

 uame on the wrapper label of this 

 paper ; it indicates the end of the 

 month to which you have paid your 

 subscription on the Bee Journal. 



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 this office get either a post office or ex- 

 press money order, a bank draft on 

 New York or Chicago, or register the 

 letter. Postage stamps of any kind 

 mav be sent for amounts less than one 

 dollar. Local checks are subject to a 

 discount of 25 cents at Chicago banks. 

 American Express money orders for 

 $5. or less, can be obtained for 5 cents. 



We wish to impress upon every one 

 the necessity of being very specific, 

 and carefully to state what they desire 

 for the money sent. Also, if they live 

 near one post office, and get their mail 

 at another, be sure to give us the ad- 

 dress we already have on our books. 



^° When writing to this office on 

 business, our correspondents should 

 not write anything for publication on 

 the same sheet of paper, unless it can 

 be torn apart without interfering with 

 either portion of tlie letter. The edi- 

 torial and business departments are 

 separate and distinct, and when the 

 business is mixed up with items for 

 uublication it often causes confusion. 

 They may both be sent in one envelope 

 but on separate pieces of paper. 



^° It must be understood that, 

 should an advertiser desire to cancel 

 an unexpired contract, he can do so 

 only by paying regular rales for the 

 number of insertions his adverMse- 

 ment has had. 



1^" All money orders from foreign 

 countries, should be made payable at 

 Chicago, as the " Madison Street Sta- 

 tion " is not an International office. 



^T In reply to many correspondents 

 let us say that we take any kind of 

 postage stamps at their face value — 

 including the 3 cent ones. Silver 

 should never be sent by mail, as it en- 

 dangers the loss of the letter either 

 by tliieves, or else breaks through the 

 envelope and is lost in that way. 



1^ We carefully mail the Bee 

 Journal to every subscriber, but 

 should any be lost in the mails we will 

 cheerfully send another, if notified 

 before all the edition is exhausted. 



W We now club the British Bee 

 Journal and our Monthly for §2.50, or 

 it and the Weekly for So..50. 



Apiary Register— New Edition. 



All who'intend to be systematic in 

 their work in the apiary, should get a 

 copy and commence to use it. The 

 prices will hereafter be a.s follows : 



For 50 colonies (120 pages) $1 00 



" 100 colonies (220 pages) 1 25 



" 200 colonies (420 pages) 1 50 



The larger ones can be used for a 

 few colonies, give room for an increase 

 of numbers, and still keep the record 

 all together in one book, and are there- 

 fore the most desirable ones. 



GETTING UP CLUBS. 



To increase the number of readers 

 of the Bke Journal, we believe, will 

 aid progressive bee-culture and help 

 to elevate the pursuit. We,tlierefore, 

 offer the following premiums for 

 getting up clubs : 



While no subscription to the Bee 

 Journal will be taken for less than 

 the regular advertised prices (viz. : 

 Weekly, S2.00; Moutldy, $1.00),— any 

 one getting up a club of two copies, 

 or more, may select from " Our Book 

 List " anything therein named, to 

 the amount of 15 cents for every dollar 

 tJiey send direct to this office, to pay them 

 for the trouble of getting up the club ; 

 and these books will be sent, postpaid, 

 to any address desired. 



For a club of 3 Weekly or 6 Monthly 

 and $6.00, we will make an additional 

 present of a Pocket Dictionary, bound 

 in cloth, containing 320 pages. 



For a club of 5 Weekly or 10 

 Monthly, (or a mixed club of both,) 

 with $10, we will, in addition to the 

 15 per cent, present a copy of the 

 Ajierican "Popular" Dictionary, 

 comprising every word in the English 

 language that enters into speech or 

 writing ; it contains .'?2,000 words and 

 phrases, 670 illustrations and 512 pages; 

 it is nicely bound in cloth, and w-ill be 

 sent by mail, postpaid, to any address 

 desired. 



Subscriptions for two or more years 

 for one person, will count the same 

 as each year for a different person. 



igf Dzierzon's new work entitled 

 " Rational Bee-Keeping," we now 

 club with the Bee Journal as fol- 

 lows : The Weekly for one year and 

 the book, bound in cloth, for $3, or in 

 paper covers for S2.75. The Monthly 

 Bee Journal and the book, $1 less 

 than the above prices. It is an im- 

 ported book, printed in the English 

 language, and the jirice of the book is 

 SI .50 bound in paper covers, or $2.00 

 when bound in cloth. 



l^Tor $2.75 we will supply the 

 Weekly Beb Journal one year, and 

 Dzierzon's Rational Bee-Keeping, in 

 paper coves ; or the Monthly Bee 

 Journal and the book for $1.75. Or, 

 bound in cloth, witli Weekly, $3.00; 

 with the Monthly, $2.(0. 



i®" Do not let your numbers of the 

 Bee Journal for 18S4 be lost. The 

 best way to preserve them is to pro- 

 cure a binder and put them in. They 

 are very valuable for reference 



Preparation of Honey for the .Mar- 

 ket, including the production and care 

 of both comb and extracted honey, 

 instructions on the exhibition of bees 

 and honey at Fairs, etc. This is a 

 new 10 cent pamphlet, of 32 pages. 



Ribbon Badges, for bee-keepers, on 

 which are printed a large bee in gold, 

 we send for 10 cts. each, or $8 per 100. 



AdTcrtisenients intended for the Bee 

 Journal must reach this office by 

 Saturday of the previous week. 



Create a Local Honey Market. 



Now is the time to create Honey 

 Markets in every village, town and 

 city. Wide - awake honey producers 

 should get the Leaflets " Wliy eat 

 Honey," (only 50 cents per 100) or else 

 the pamphlets on " Honey as Food 

 and Medicine," and scatter them 

 plentifully all over ihe territory they 

 can supply with honey, and the result 

 will be a demand tliat will readily take 

 all of their crops at remunerative 

 prices. The pricesfor "Honey as Food 

 and Medicine " are as follows : 



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

 per hundred, $2.50. 500 will be sent 

 postpaid for $10.00 ; or 1000 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). This 

 alone will pay him for all his trouble 

 and expense— enabling him to dispose 

 of his honey at home, at a good profit. 



®° To give away a copy of " Honey 

 as Food and Medicine " to every one mho 

 buys a package of honey, will sell almost 

 any quantity of it. 



Emerson Binders — made especially 

 for the Bee Journal, are lettered in 

 gold on the back, and make a very 

 convenient way of preserving the Beb 

 Journal as fast as received. They 

 will be sent, post-paid, for 75 cents, for 

 the Weekly; or for the Monthly, 50 

 cents. They cannot be sent by mail 

 to Canada. 



Yonng Men!— Read This. 



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 on trial for thirty days, to men (young or 

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The Monte-Cristo Series.— Fore- 

 most among the best and most ab- 

 sorbing novels of the season are, "The 

 Wife of Monte-Cristo," "The Son of 

 Monte-Cristo," and "The Countess 

 of Monte-Cristo," just published by 

 T. B. Peterson .& Brotliers, Philadel- 

 phia, but already pronounced suc- 

 cesses. These fine romances, fully 

 worthy of Dumas' pen, appropriately 

 concliide that celebrated novel, " The 

 Count of Monte-Cristo." All the 

 characters figuring in Dumas' master- 

 piece, the Count himself, his Wife 

 Ilaydee, his Son Esperance, Mercedes, 

 the sweetheart of Edmond Dantes, 

 and all the rest, are introduced. These 

 books literally overflow with exciting 

 episodes. 



