THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



447 



<^:|jecial gloticcs. 



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 and carefully to state what they desire 

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How to Create a Market for Honey. 



We have now published another 

 edition of the pamphlet on "Honey as 

 Food and Medicine," with more new 

 Recipes for Honey Medicines, all kinds 

 of cooking in which honey is used, and 

 healthful and pleasant beverages. 



We have put the price still lower, 

 to encourage bee-keepers to scatter 

 them far and wide. Single copy 5 

 cents, postpaid ; per dozen, 40 cents ; 

 per hundred, $2.50. 500 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). This 

 alone will pay him for all his trouble 

 and expense — enabling liim to dispose 

 of his honey at home, at a good proflt. 

 Try it, and you will be surprised. 



Subscription Credits.— We do not 



acknowledge receipt of each subscrip- 

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 date to which your subscription is 

 paid. When you send us money, if 

 the proper credit is not given you, 

 within two weeks thereafter, on your 

 label, notify us by postal card. Do 

 not wait for months or years, and 

 then claim a mistake. The subscrip- 

 tion is paid to the end of the month 

 indicated on the wrapper-label. This 

 gives a statement of account every 

 ■week. 



Trial Trip— 25 Cents. 



As the season for Fairs has arrived, 

 and wishing to be able to reach several 

 thousands of the old-fashioned bee- 

 men, and by the aid of the Bee 

 Journal to lift them up to higher 

 ground, adopting newer methods and 

 progressive ideas, we make the follow- 

 ing very liberal offer : We will send 

 the Weekly Bee Journal i/iree montlis 

 on trial, for 2.5 cents. In order to pay 

 for getting up Clubs, we will give a 

 copy of Fisher's Grain Tables, or 

 Scribner's Lumber and Log Book, to 

 any one who will send us live trial 

 subscriptions (with $1.2.5) ; for a club 

 of ten we will give a cloth copy of Bees 

 and Honey; for a club of 1.5, a cloth 

 copy of the 7th edition of Cook's Man- 

 ual of the Apiary ; for a club of 25, we 

 will present both the Manual and Bees 

 and Honey. If any one wants these 

 Books for nothing, here is on excel- 

 lent opportunity to get them for a 

 little exertion. 



The Apiary Register. 



All who intend to be systematic in 

 their work in the apiary, should get a 

 copy and commence to use it. 



For 50 colonies (120 pages) $1 00 



" 100 colonies 220 pages 1 60 



" 200 colonies (420 pages) 2 00 



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. 



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. 



1^ Do not send coins in a letter. It 

 is dangerous and increases the postage 

 unnecessarily. Always send postage 

 stamps, for fractions of a dollar, and, 

 if you can get them — one-cent stamps ; 

 if not, any denomination of postage 

 stamps will do. 



Special Notice. — We will, hereafter, 

 supply the Weekly Bee Journal 

 for one year, and the seventh edition 

 of Prof. Cook's Manual of the Apiary, 

 bound in line cloth, for $2.75, or the 

 Monthly Bee Journal, and the Manual 

 in cloth for $1.75. As this offer will 

 soon be withdrawn, those who desire 

 it should send for the book at once. 



BEES and HONEY, 



Management of an Apiary for Pleasure 

 and Profit ; by 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN. 



Editor ef the Weekly Bee Journal. 

 ass -fVent Madlnon Street, Chlcaso, III. 



Mrs. J. F. Upton gives the follow- 

 ing notice of this book in the Bath, 

 Maine, Sentinel: 



A guide to the management of the 

 apiary for profit and pleasure, by 

 Thomas G. Newman. This work is 

 designed to initiate beginners in bee- 

 keeping in all the secrets of success- 

 ful bee-culture. Beginning with the 

 different races of bees, tue author 

 takes his readers along step by step, 

 carefully explaining the different 

 kinds of bees, illustrating each kind 

 with the eggs and brood, explaining 

 the terms used, the production of wax 

 and comb, and the work done by 

 these wonderful insects. The estab- 

 lishment of an apiary is next con- 

 sidered ; the best location, time to 

 commence, how many colonies to be- 

 gin with, what kind of bees to get, 

 how to care for a first colony, keeping 

 bees on shares, changing the location, 

 all of which it is indispensable for a 

 beginner to know. It is also impor- 

 tant to know which kind of hive is 

 the best, how toprocure the best comb 

 honey, how to procure it for market, 

 how it should be marketed, what to 

 do with candied comb honey, and how 

 to extract honey. The scientific man- 

 agement of an apiary is then entered 

 into, and illustrations of all the nec- 

 essary applicances introduced. There 

 is a chapter devoted to tlie honey ex- 

 tractor and its use, and another to 

 comb foundation and its use. The 

 various honey-producing plants and 

 trees are named and illustrated. 

 Various methods for exhibiting bees 

 and honey at county and state fairs 

 are described. The best and snfest 

 plans for wintering bees ;ire discussed, 

 the book closing with some general 

 advice to beginners. The author says 

 of his book on Bees and Honey, "it 

 was not designed to supersede or sup- 

 plant any of the valuable works on 

 apiculture already published, but to| 

 supply a want for a cheap work for the 

 beginners." We most cordially rec- 

 ommend this work not only to iiegin- 

 ners. who will find it invaluable, but 

 to all who are not already familiar 

 with the lives and movenieits of 

 these industrious and intellisent 

 little workers. The iMlormntion to be 

 gained as to their habits, manner of 

 breeiliug, intelligence, energy and 

 wonderful instincts, by reading this 

 book alone, is enough to make one 

 regard the bee with admiration and 

 amazement. 



PRICE— Bound In cloth, ta cent»i In paper 

 covers, SOc**ntB, postpiitd. 



THOMAS G. KfWMAN, 



9-25 W. Madison St., Cblcago, 111. 



A. I.lberal Ulscount to Denlera by 

 tbe l>ozenor Hundred. 



