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BUSINESS MANAGER. 



^xxsmtss Notices, 



If You I>ive near one postofBce and 

 get your mail at another, be sure to give the 

 address that we have on our list. 



Hilton's new pamphlet on Comb Honey 

 Production has been reduced in price to 5 

 cents. For sale at this office. 



Give a, Copy of " Honey as Food and 

 Medicine" to everyone who buys a package 

 of honey. It will sell lots of it. 



If yon Lose Money by carelessly en- 

 closing it in a letter, it is without excuse, 

 when a Money Order, which is perfectly 

 safe, costs but 5 cents. 



Please to get your !Neig;Ii1>or, 



who keeps bees, to also take the Amekicax 

 Bee JouijNAL. It is now so cheap that 

 no one can afford to do without it. 



Presene Your Papers for future 

 reference. If you liave no ItII\'l>ER we 

 will mail you one for 60 cents ; or you can 

 have one FREE, if you will send us 3 new 

 yearly subscriptions for tlie Bee Journai.. 



Please -wTite American Bee Journal 

 on the envelope when writing to this office. 

 Several of our letters have already gone to 

 another firm (a commission house), causing 

 vexatious delay and trouble. 



Xlie Convention. — The pamphlet 

 containing the report of the proceedings of 

 the Union Convention in Chicago, is now 

 published, and can be obtained at this office 

 for 2.5 cents. Or bound up with the history 

 of the International Society, and a full re- 

 port of the Detroit and Indianapolis conven- 

 tions, for no cents, postpaid. 



Home Msirltets for honey can be 

 made by judiciously distributing the 

 pamphlets, " Honey as Food and Medicine." 

 Such will create a demand in any locality at 

 remunerative prices. See list on the second 

 page of this paper. 



Al>vays Mention your Post-Office, 

 County and State when writing to this 

 office. No matter where you may liappen 

 to be for the hour when actually writing— 

 never mention anything but your perma- 

 nent address. To do otherwise leads to 

 confusion, unless you desire your address 

 changed. In that case state the old as well 

 as the new address. 



CL,i;UBIi^'Ci I.ISX. 



■We Club tlie American Bee Joivmal 

 for a year, witli any of the following papers 

 or books, at the prices (juoted in the I^ASX 

 colunui. The regular jirice of botli is given 

 in the first column. One year's subscription 

 for the American Bee Journal must be sent 

 with each order for anotlier paper or book: 



Price of both. Club 

 The American Bee Journal 1 00 . . . 



and Gleanings in Bee-Culture 2 00 1 75 



Bee-Keepere'Magazine...- 1 50 140 



Bee-Keepers' Guide 150 140 



Bee-Keepers' Review 150... 140 



The Apiculturist 175 1 60 



Canadian Bee Journal 2 00 1 80 



Canadian Honey Producer... 1 40 130 



The 8 above-named papers 5 65 5 00 



and Cook's Manual 2 25 ... . 2 00 



Bees and Honey (Newman)... 2 00 175 



Binderfor Am. Bee Journal.. 160.... 1 50 

 Dzierzon'8 Bee-Book (cloth) ... 3 00 ... . 2 00 

 Boot's A B C of Bee-Culture. .2 25. . . . 2 10 



Farmer's Account Book 4 00 2 20 



Western World Guide 150.... 1 30 



Heddon's book, "Success,".. 1 50.. 1 40 



A Tear Among the Bees 1 75 1 50 



Convention Hand-Book 1 50 1 30 



Weekly Inter-Ocean 3 00.... IJT.t 



Iowa Homestead 2 00... 1 90 



How to Propagate Fruit 150 1 '25 



History of National Society. .1 50 1 25 



Your Full Address, plainly written, 

 is very essential in order to avoid mistakes 

 and delays. 



IVe Supply Chapman Honey-Plant 

 SKE1> at the following prices : One 

 ounce, 40 cents ; 4 ounces, $1 ; K pound, 

 S1.75 ; 1 pound, $3. One pound of seed is 

 sufficient for half an acre, if properly 

 thinned out and re-set. 



Clover Seeds.— We are selling Alsike 

 Clover Seed at the following prices : $8.00 

 per bushel; S2.35 per peck ; 25 cents per lb. 

 Wliite Clover Seed : $10.00 per bushel; 82.75 

 per peck ; 30 cents per lb. Sweet, or Melilot, 

 CU/uer Seed: 86.00 per bushel ; $1.75 per 

 peck: 20 cents per lb.— by express or freight. 



<^oi'lc lor Winter Packing:. — Its 



advantages are that it never becomes musty, 

 and it is odorless. Cushions can be made 

 of cloth and filled with the cork, for winter 

 packing. We can supply all orders now at 

 10 cents per pound. Or a seamless sack of 

 it, containing 15 pounds, for $1.00. 



Apiary Register.— All who intend to 



be systematic in their work in the apiary, 



should get a copy of the Apiary Register and 



begin to use it. Tlie prices are as follows : 



For 50 colonies (1'20 pages) $1 00 



" 100 colonies ('220 pages) 125 



'• 200 colonies (420 pages) .... 1 50 



Red Isabels lor Pails.— We have 

 three sizes of these Labels ranging in size 

 for pails to hold from one to ten pounds of 

 honey. Price, $1 for a hundred, with the 

 name and address of the bee-keeper printed 

 on them. Smaller quantities at one cent 

 each ; but we cannot print the name and 

 address on less than 100. Larger quantities 

 according to size, as follows : 



Size A. Size B. Size C. 



250 Labels *1.50 $2.00 $'2.'25 



500Label8 ..2.00 3.00 3.50 



l.OOOLabels 3.00 4.00 5.00 



aa- Samples mailed free, upon application. 



The I^ovelist— A l^ovel Enter- 



prise.— Novel in name, form, purpose ami 

 method is TItc Novelist,Ald.ei\'sne-w weekly 

 magazine of American fiction. 



It is certainly handy in form, beautiful 

 in dress, excellent in all mechanical quali- 

 ties, and low in price ; well suited in all re- 

 spects to meet the wants of the intelligent 

 millions who are capable of appreciating 

 "the best." 



Terms, $1.00 a year, at which rate it will 

 give over 3,500 pages, equal to from eight to 

 twelve ordinary American dollar novels. 



The stories will follow successively, one 

 at a time, a novel of ordinary length, thus 

 being completed in from four to eight 

 weeks. If one story does not please, you 

 will not have long to wait for the next. For 

 a ten-cent subscription (if you don't wish to 

 enter for all at $1.00), you will receive the 

 first chapters of every story published dur- 

 ing the year, which you can then order sep- 

 arately, if yon wish. A specimen copy of 

 The Novelist will be sent free on request. 

 Address, John B. Alden, Publisher, 393 

 Pearl St., New York ; P. O. Box 1237. 



Piiotogfraplis of Bee-Keepers.— 



The " medley " gotten up by E. O. Tuttle, 

 containmg the faces of 131 representative 

 apiarists, and a printed sketch of each one, 

 will be sent with the Bee Journal for one 

 year for $1.75; or we will present it free, by 

 mail, to any one, for a club of tliree subscri- 

 bers and $3.00. 



Yucca ISriislies, for removing bees 

 from the combs, are a soft, vegetable fiber, 

 and do not .irritate the bees. We supply 

 them at 5 cents each, or 50 cents a dozen ; if 

 sent by mail, add 1 cent each for postage. 



Scatter tlie Leaflets.— Look at the 



list (with prices) on the second page. 



A Poclcet l>ictionary will be pre- 

 sented for two subscribers with $3.00. It is 

 always useful to have a dictionary at hand 

 to decide as to the spelling of words, and to 

 determine their meanmg. 



COBJVENTIOSr NOTICES. 



ty The next meeting of the N. W. Ills, and 9. W. 

 Wis. Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in Rock, 

 ton, Ills., May 22, 188K. D. A. Fuller, *ec. 



I^" The sprinfi meeting of the Wisconsin Lake 

 Shore Center Bee-Keepers' Association will he held 

 on May 31. 188H. in Mueller's Hall, at Kiel. Wis. 



Feeu. Zasthow, Sec. 



C^~ The Keystone Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 hold its sixth annual meeting in the Court Mouse at 

 Scranton, Pa., on Tuesday, May 8, ihsh. at 10 a.m. 

 All bee-keepers are invited. A. A. Davis, Sec. 



tW The Hardin County Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will meet at the Court Uouse in Bldora, Iowa, 

 on the second Saturday In each month, at noon 

 (12 o'clock), until further notice. 



J. W. Buchanan, Sec. 



;l?- The semi-annual meeting of the Progrossive 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in the Sons of 

 Temperance Hall at BainbrldgeCentre.O.. on Thurs- 

 day, May a, 18H8. Parties wishing conveyance from 

 Geauga-Lake atation, on the Erie railroad :i miles 

 distant, will please iiutify Mr. L. H. Brown, Bissels, 

 Geauga Co., O.. so that arrangements can be made 

 for the same. All interested are invited. 



Miss Duma Ben.vett, sec. 



