THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



613 



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Examine the Date following your 

 name 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. 



For safety, when sending money to 

 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 

 may be sent for amounts less than one 

 dollar. Local checks are subject to a 

 discount of 2.5 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. 



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 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 honie, at a good profit. 

 Try it, and you will be surprised. 



Our ^ew List of Premiums. 



Subscription Credits. — We do not 

 acknowledge receipt of each subscrip- 

 tion by letter. The label on your 

 paper, or on the wrapper, shows the 

 date to which your subscription is 

 paid. When you send us money, if 

 the proper credit is not given you, 

 within tv o 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. 



Getting up Clubs for 1884. 



To increase the number of readers 

 of the Bee Journal, we believe, will 

 aid progressive bee-culture and help 

 to elevate the pursuit. We, therefore, 

 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, $;2.00; Monthly, $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 

 tliey 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 

 American "Popular" Dictionary, 

 comprising every word in the English 

 language that enters into speech or 

 writing ; it contains 32,000 words and 

 phrases, 670 illustrations and 512pages; 

 it is nicely bound in cloth, and will be 

 sent by mail, postpaid, to any address 

 desired. . 



For a club of $20, for 10 Weeklies, or 

 an equivalent in Monthlies, we will 

 present, besides the 15 per cent, in 

 books, a tested Italian queen, by mail, 

 postpaid. 



Announcements for larger clubs 

 will be made hereafter. 



Subscriptions tor two or more years 

 for one person, will count the same 

 as each year for a different person. 



®° To give away a copy of " Honey 

 as Food and Medicine " to every one who 

 buys a package of honey, will sell almost 

 any quantity of it. 



Bee Pasturage a Necessity. — We have 

 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 

 anyaddress tor ten cents. 



Ribbon Badges, for bee-keepers, on 

 which are printed a large bee in gold, 

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



A Chance for Fun.— The " latest 

 thing out " in the way of something 

 to afford home amusement for winter 

 evenings, or a side show for church 

 fairs, consists of a sort of Magic Lan- 

 tern that does not require pictures on 

 glass. The Polyopticon, as it is 

 called, because it will show up so 

 many different things, makes use of 

 ordinary newspaper pictures, family 

 photographs, chromo cards, home- 

 made sketches, etc., and thus affords 

 a new use for the collections of pretty 

 cards, which so many have been in- 

 dustriously making. Though pat- 

 ented, it can be made and sold at one- 

 fourth the price of a good Magic 

 Lantern. 



Descriptive circulars can be ob- 

 tained of the Murray Hill Publishing 

 Co., 12f» East 2Sth St., New York City. 



t^ It would be a great convenience 

 to us, if those sending us Postal Notes 

 or Money Orders, would get the issu- 

 ing Post-master to make them pay- 

 able at the " Madison Street Station, 

 Chicago, m.," instead of' simply 

 "Chicago." If they are drawn on 

 Chicago, they go to the general office, 

 and we have to make a trip of six 

 miles to get them cashed ; but if they 

 are drawn on the Station as above, 

 it is only a few steps from our office. 

 When sending us money, if you will 

 please remember this, you will much 

 oblige the publisher. 



®" Constitutions and By-Laws for 

 local Associations $2.00 per 100. The 

 name of the Association printed in the 

 blanks for 50 cents extra 



(^ We need the numbers of the 

 Bee Journal for August, 1866, and 

 April, 1876. Any one having them to 

 spare, are requested to send us a Pos- 

 tal Card. We will give 25 cents for 

 each. Do not send them without 

 writing, for we want only one of each ; 

 and, if we are not already supplied, 

 we will take them. 



i^Speak a word for the Bee Jour- 

 nal to neighbors who keep bees, and 

 send on at least one new subscription- 

 with your own V Our premium, " Bees 

 and Honey," in cloth, for one new 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. 



^° It must be understood that, 

 should an advertiser desire to cancel 

 an unexpired oontract, he can do so 

 only by paying regular rales for the 

 number of insertions his advertise- 

 ment has had. 



