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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Our Premiums for Clubs. 



Any one sending us a club of two 

 subscribers for 1 year, for the Weekly, 

 with $4, will be entitled to a copy of 

 Bees and Honey, in cloth, postpaid. 



For three subscribers, with $6, we 

 will send Cook's Manual, in paper, 

 Emerson's Binder for the Weekly, or 

 Apiary Register for 50 colonies. 



For four subscribers, with $8, we 

 will send Cook's Manual in cloth, or 

 Apiary Register for 100 colonies. 



For Ave subscribers, with $10, we 

 will send the Apiary Register for 200 

 colonies, Quinby's New Bee-Keeping, 

 Root's A B C of Bee Culture, or an 

 extra copy of the Weekly Bee Jour- 

 nal for one year. 



To get any of the above premiums 

 for the Monthly Bee Joubnal send 

 double the number of subscribers, and 

 the same amount of money. 



1®° Our stock of back numbers of 

 this volume are now getting very low. 

 Please look over your numbers, and 

 if any are lacking, send us a postal 

 card, giving the date of those you 

 want, and we will send them, if not 

 all gone. We give this notice, be- 

 cause, last year, several left it until 

 the end of the year, and then re- 

 quested >is to send the missing num- 

 bers. Then it was too late, the num- 

 bers being all gone. Look them over 

 now, and you may get them completed. 



Foul Brood Pamphlet. — Wishing to 

 be relieved of sending out my pamph- 

 let on Foul Brood. I have made ar- 

 rangements with Mr. T. G. Newman 

 to supply them to the bee-keeping 

 fraternity desiring them. 



A. R. KOHNKE. 



Youngstown, O., April 25, 1883. 



^" Mr. Alley's new book on Queen 

 Rearing will hereafter cost $1.25 



Cyprians Conquered. 



All summer long it has been " which 

 and tother " with me and the Cyprian 

 colony of bees I have— but at last I 

 am " boss." Bingham's " Conqueror 

 Smoker " did it. If you want lots of 

 smoke just at the right time, get a 

 Conqueror Smoker of Bingham. 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



Borodino, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1883. 



18A4t 5Blt 



^g" We have a few copies of our 

 pamphlet entitled " Bee Culture " left, 

 and have reduced the price from 40 

 to 25 cents each, or $2 per dozen. 



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. 



Emerson Binders — made especially 

 for the Bee Journal, are lettered in 

 gold on the back, and make a very 

 convenient way of preserving the Bee 

 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. 



Bee Pasturage a Necessity. — We have 

 just issued a new pamphlet giving our 

 views on this important subject, with 

 suggestions what to plant, and when 

 and how. It is illustrated with 26 en- 

 gravings, and will be sent postpaid to 

 any address for 10 cents. 



Special Notice. — We will, hereafter, 

 supply the Weekly Bee Journal 

 for 1883 and Cook's Manual in cloth 

 for $2.75, or the Monthly and Manual 

 in cloth for 51.75. As this offer will 

 soon be withdrawn, those who desire 

 it should send for the book at once. 



1^" Do not let your numbers of the 

 Bee Journal for 1882 be lost. The 

 best way to preserve them is to pro- 

 cure a binder and put them in. They 

 are very valuable for reference. 



i^°May we ask you, dear reader, to 

 speak a good word for the Bee Jour- 

 nal to neighbors who keep bees, and 

 send on at least one new subscription 

 with your own ? Our premium, "Bees 

 and Honey," in cloth, for one nev) sub- 

 scriber to the Weekly, or two for the 

 Monthly, besides your own subscrip- 

 tion to either edition, will pay you for 

 your trouble, besides having the satis- 

 faction of knowing that you have 

 aided the Bee Journal to a new 

 subscriber, and progressive apiculture 

 to another devotee. 



THOSE WHO want 



Hybrid or Black Queens, 



TAKE NOTICE. 



We have bought a larpe number of Hybrid 

 a.ud Black CMlonleit of Been) which hiive fine 

 Queens. These Queens we will sell at '>0 cts. for 

 Blacks, and 7r> cts. for Hybrids. Notice our adver- 

 tisementbf ALBINO AND ITALIAN QUEENS. 

 etc., in the April or Mav numbers. 



Address S. VALENTINE ««r SOX, 



L'dC 2t HAGERSTOTVN, MD. 



THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL 



AND BEE-KEEPER'S ADVISER. 

 The British Bee Joi'UXAL is published month- 

 ly, and contains the best practical information for 

 tne time bein^. showing what to do, and when and 

 how to do it. Rev. H. K. PEEL.. Editor. 



We send the Weekly American Bee Journal 

 and tUe British Bee Joutiia] Lhoth forlS-Oo a year. 



1000 



^ 



COLONIES of Italian and 

 Hybrid bees for sale in 

 Langstroth and Simplicity 

 hives. 



Three-Frame Nuclei 



a specialty. Safe delivery euarantfpii. T\rite 

 for particulars and special lates to 



■FLANAGAN & ILLINSKI, 



Box 819. 

 17A4t 5B2t 



BEI.LEVILLE, St.Cliilr Lu., ILL. 



A NEW BEE BOOK! 



BEES and HONEY, 



OK THE ' 



Management of an Apiary for Fleasnre 

 and Profit ; by 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor of the Weekly Bee Journal. 

 935 ^Vest Af adleon Street, Chicago, 111. 



It contains 160 profusely illustrated pages, is 

 " fully up with the times" in'*11 the improvements 

 and inventions in this rapidly developing pursuit, 

 and presents the apiarist with everything that can 

 aid in the successful manaKement of the Honey 

 Bee, and at the same time produce the most honey 

 in its best and most attractive condition. 



Appreciative Notloes. 



A neat and abundantly illustrated hand-boolt of 

 apiculture.— American Agrriculturist, N. Y. 



Its chapter on marketing honey is worth many 

 times its cost.— Citizen. Pulaski, Tenn. 



Contains all the information needed to make 

 bee-culture successful.— Eagle, Union City. Ind. 



Just such a work as should be in the hands of 

 every beginner with bees.— News, Keithsburg, III. 



Valuable for all who are interested in the care 

 and mana^'ement of bees.— Dem., Allegan, Mich. 



Engravings are fine, (iotten up in the best Btyle> 

 and is cheap at the price.— Farmer. Cleveland, O. 

 . It comprises all that is necessary for successful 

 nee-culture, save experience and good Judgment. 

 —Daily Republican. IJtica. N. Y. 



Written in an interesting and attractive manner, 

 and contains valuable information for all readers, 

 even though they be nut directly interested in the 

 care of bees.— Sentinel, Kome, N. Y. 



It is a valuable and practical book, and contains 

 a complete resume of the natural history of the- 

 little busy bee, as well as of all that one needs to 

 know in their care and management.— Chicago 

 Herald. 



Contains a vast fund of information in regard to 

 bee-culture. He whn would keep abreast of the- 

 times must keep posted in all the improvements in 

 Bis line. We advise all interested to get a copy of 

 this book.— Daily Times, San Bernardino, Cal. 



It embraces every subject ihat will interest the 

 beginner. It describes all the newest discoveries- 

 in the art by which the production of delicious and 

 health-giving honey is obtained, as well as how to 

 prepare it for the market in the most attractive 

 form. It is embellished with beautiful engravings,. 

 and is the most perfect work of the kind, for the- 

 price, that has ever come under ournotice.- Far- 

 mer. Lancaster, Pa. 



PRICE— Bound in cloth, tS cents ; in paper 

 covers. SO cents, postpaid. 



THOMAS O. NElpVMAJr, 



;er> AV. Madison St.. Chicago, HI. 



1S83. 188S. 



YOU GET VALUE RECEIVED ! 



QUEENS,BEES AND SUPPLIES 



If you want EAKI-Y QUEENS from the 

 best improved srenulne stock for business; or if 

 you want Imported Italian Queens or bees, in full 

 colonies or nuclei, with tested or untested queens; 

 if you want Dunham or Vandervort como founda- 

 tion, made from pure beeswax; or if you want 

 hives or apiarian suppliesof any kind, send for my 

 new catalogue. It tells you about introducing 

 queens, new " Races of Bees," etc. Cash paid for 

 clean beeswax. Address, 



a. p. H. BKOW^N. 



5BDl5t Augusta. Georgia. 



BE SURE 



To send a postal card for our Illustrated Catalogue 

 of Apiarian Supplies before purchasing elsewhere. 

 It contains II lustrations and descriptions of every- 

 thiny new and valuable needed in an apiay. at tlie 

 lowe I prices. Italian Queens and Bees. Parties- 

 intencingto purchase bees in lots of lo Colonies or 

 more are invited to correspond. 



J. c. sayi.es, 



5lDlr>tB'.t Hartford. Wis. 



ELECTROTYPES 



Of Engravings used in the Bee Journal for sale at 

 2.=. cents per square inch— no single cut sold for less 

 than 60C. THOMAS G. KE"WMAN, 



9Z5 West Madison Street Chicago. III. 



