Write names and addresses plain-giving County and State.

Additions can be made to clubs at any time, at the same club rate.

When changing post-office address, mention the old address as well as the new one.

Specimen copies, canvassing outfit, Posters, and Illustrated Price List sent free upon application.

We send the JOURNAL until an order for discontinuance is received at this office, and arrearages are all paid.

We will give Hill's work on "Chicken Cholera" (price 50 cents), to any one desiring it, as a premium for two subscribers.

When you have a leisure hour or evening, why not drop in on a neighboring family and see if you cannot get a subscriber for THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL?

Remittances to be sent at our risk must be by Post-office Order, Registered Letter, Draft or Express (charges prepaid). Make Post-office Orders and Drafts payable to Thomas G. Newman & Son.

For the convenience of bee-keepers, we have made arrangements to supply, at the lowest market prices, Imported or tested Italian Queens, full colonies, Langstroth or other hives, Extractors of all the makes, and anything required about the apiary.

The only safe way to send money by mail is to get the letter registered, or procure a money order or draft. We cannot be responsible for money lost, unless these precautions are taken. Then it is at our risk, and if lost we will make it good to the sender, but not otherwise.

Attention is called to the advertisement of ROPP'S COMMERCIAL CALCULATOR. It is in all respects what is claimed for it, and is a very valuable work.

Honey Markets.

NEW YORK.-In consequence of the advent of warm weather and small fruits the demand for honey for table purposes ceases here at this season of the year and the trade is confined to manufacturers, consequently prices are now at their lowest ebb. Just now there is considerable trade in West India honey for export. These transactions are with honey in bond, the duty being 20c. per gallon; dealers buy and sell it without taking taking it out of the custom house, except when our domestic honey sells so high as to justify the payment of import duties. At present the prices rule about as follows:

West India honey in bond, per gal., 82@ 85c, free, $1.02@1.05; white clover, strained, per fb.. 8@10c; buckwheat, 7@8c; white clover, comb, 14@15; buckwheat, comb, 10 @12c. The price of honey of course will increase during the fall.

BEESWAX.

A few small parcels are being taken chiefly to ship. Sales at 30@31c., the latter price for choice southern. Exports for week ending July 17.. 1,298 lbs from Jan. 1st..

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..61,233 " same time last year.. .38,269 "* Prompt sales can be relied on at the above quotations for the next 15 days. H. K. & F. B. THURBER & Co. CHICAGO. - Choice new comb honey, 15@18c. Extracted, choice white, 8@9c. Beeswax, 25@30.

CINCINNATI. - Quotations by C. F. Muth. Comb honey, in small boxes, 12%@ 15c. Extracted, 1 lb. jars, in shipping order, per doz., $2.75; per gross, $30.00. 2 fb. jars, per doz., $5.00; per gross, $55.00.

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FRANCISCO.- Quotations by Stearns & Smith. White, in boxes and frames, 10@15c. Strained honey in good demand at 9@10c.; comb, 11@13c.; beeswax, 25@26c. Extra fine grades of honey are firmer. Markets well supplied with low grades.

San Francisco, July 6, 1877.-"Our advice from all parts of the State is that we will have only about quarter of a crop. No new crop yet in the market. Old prices are 1@2 cts. finer." STEARNS & SMITH.

ITALIAN QUEENS!

I will furnish daughters of Select Imported Queens at the following prices:

REDEEMED.

BY O. GERARD.

This is the title of the most successful temperance song published. It is now being sung nightly at the temperance meetings held in Cincinnati. Everybody should sing "Redeemed." Price 35 cents per copy. Can be played on the Piano or Organ. Address all orders to the publisher. F. W. HELMICK, 50 West 4th St., Cincinnati, O.

"THE LOCUST PLAGUE" is the title of a new work on the Grasshopper or Rocky Mountain Locust, by Prof. C. V. Riley. It is nicely gotten up and illustrated. The matter is very interesting and exhaustive. The Professor gives some valuable hints as to its destruction.

THE CROPS in this country are simply enormous, but in Europe they are in gloomy contrast. In America the present crop has but seldom been equalled, in either quality or quantity. The crops of the north-west will this year bring two thousand millions of dollars into the hands of the producers. Good enough!!

Friend C. O. Perrine has gone to Europe in the interest of bees, honey, and-C. O. Perrine. He intends to visit England, France, Germany, and Italy. He says he shall try to determine the question of the existence of black bees in Italy, see whether bees work as well there as in this country, etc. He intends to buy some queens, and try the experiment of "importing on his own hook." When he returns our readers will learn the results of his investigations and experiments.

No. 9.

Friend Baldwin of Lake County, Indiana, says that he and friend Keller always winters without loss by packing their hives some 3 inches all around with oak leaves.

H. K. & F. B. Thurber, have purchased the entire honey crops of friends N. N. Betsinger and G. M. Doolittle, of New York. These crops are large, and we congratulate them on their early sale.

Those who send honey to be exhibited in New York at the National Convention should see that it is nicely put up and properly labeled, stating the kind of honey and the bee-keeper's name and address.

A copy of J. M. Hicks' "North American Bee-Keepers' Guide" is on our table. It contains much that is interesting to novices; and had the little work been nicely printed it would have been more acceptable generally. Of course it is intended chiefly to introduce Mr. Hick's hive.

DZIERZON THEORY.- Referring to the new issue of this excellent and valuable work, Novice remarks as follows:

"We congratulate friend Newman on having struck upon the bright idea of giving us the Dzierzon theory in a neat little pamphlet. This theory has been attacked from all sides for many years, yet like the Copernican theory of old, it stands as firm as the hills. Some of our young friends who are so hasty in deciding that the drone progeny is affected by the fertilization of the queen, had better give it a careful reading. It is a good thing for us all to read over carefully, even if we have once been over it in the first volume of the A. B. J. If there is anything you do not get hold of, in regard to queens, drones, and fertile workers, you had better read it. If thoroughly studied, it would save many a column of queries and long stories in all our bee papers."

Seasonable Hints.

Usually about the middle of September, all storing ceases in this latitude; then surplus boxes should be removed. If troubled with robbing bees, contract the entrances. If it is necessary to feed for winter, it should be done in the latter part of this month. If desired, colonies may be Italianized during the fall months. Care should be taken not to expose refuse honey, or it may cause trouble in the apiary. An examination should be made of every colony during this month, in order to ascertain its condition. Weak colonies should be strengthened by full frames from strong ones, or united. Any queen that is old or unprolific should now be superseded by a young and vigorous one, else she may die in midwinter and endanger the life of the colony in the spring. Be sure that all colonies have young bees and plenty of room for clustering near the centre of the hive, for it will not do to go into winter quarters with old bees only.

Fall honey is often gathered in abundance from golden-rod and other fall flowers during this month, and if the bees store more than is needed in the brood chamber, the extractor should be used, not to rob them, but to give the queen room to lay in-and thus produce the young bees so essential to safe wintering.

The National Convention. Particulars of the arrangements made by friend Coe, for the session of the National Convention on Oct. 16th, may be found in this issue of THE JOURNAL. This is an important meeting and will we think result in much good to the bee-keeping fraternity. Honey producers and dealers will have an opportunity to confer on the all-important subject of how to place honey upon the market so as to make it the most profitable to bee keepers.

Messrs. Thurber offer a $50 gold medal for the finest sample of honey in the most marketable shape.

The Hon. and venerable Peter Cooper intends to offer a silver medal. He has already placed the magnificent Hall of the American Institute at our disposal, for the sessions of the Convention.

The finest and most interesting display of honey, beeswax, bees and apiarian supplies ever made ought to be on exhibition at the American Institute.

Let all subordinate associations send delegates, and provide for at least a part of the necessary expense. Where there is no association, let any beekeeper elect himself a delegate, and go, in the interest of bee-keepers generally and of himself in particular.

The invitation is broad and general. -COME!

HON. PETER COOPER.-An Exchange remarks that the growth of the country is well shown by the fact that the man is still alive who, after middle age, built the first railway engine made on this continent. That man is our esteemed and philanthropic countryman, Peter Cooper. He built the engine after his own designs in Baltimore a little more than thirty years ago, and it was successfully operated on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway.

Mr. Cooper was the first to apply anthracite coal to the puddling of iron, which he did in a rolling and wire mill that he had erected in New York.

Mr. Cooper was 76 last February,and still feels a deep interest in the country and in all the people, particularly the laboring classes.

Surplus Frames.

In Thurber's Trade Circular, we notice the following, concerning surplus frames and honey boxes:

The absolute failure of the honey crop in California is, beyond all peradventure, now an established fact, and prices, in consequence, have largely advanced, with a tendency towards still higher figures. The failure of the California crop affects the price of honey packed in glass to a still greater degree, owing to the fact that California honey is stored in what are called Harbison frames; these are racked together, packed in cases, and sold net weight, thus packers were able to cut out the combs and pack them into glass jars and tumblers, without loss of tares. This year we are obliged to fall back upon Eastern and Southern apiarists for our supplies. The custom among these bee-men is, to have their honey stored in 2 and 4 b. caps or

scale, and by applying our usual business principles, succeeded in reducing the prices for honey packed in glass more than 40 per cent., but for the reasons above given, we are obliged this season, to advance prices materially, although not near to the old prices of 1874-5.

Anticipating the advance in honey, we contracted early in the season for the crops of all the best apiarists stored in caps, not to exceed 2 bs. each in weight, and to meet the requirements of the trade, will pack only 12 of these little caps in a crate. The caps are to be four sides glass, while the tops and bottoms and the entire crates are to be made out of the whitest New England pine, all second growth. The honey thus stored, will at once present the neatest and newest possible appearance, which, in connection with the fine quality of the goods, will tend greatly to increase their consumption.

Go to the National Convention.

The Honey Market.

The American Grocer says:

We are in possession of reliable information from San Diego, California, confirming the previous reports of the almost total failure of the honey crop in that and the counties lying contiguous thereto. Our readers will remember that last year was a wonderfully propitious one for the secretion of honey in that section-the rains were ample and the dews regular; the crop was unprecedentedly large. San Diego county alone shipped 1,277,155 lbs., and it is estimated that the yield in the entire State reached 2,500,000 lbs. This, or most of it, was forced upon our Eastern markets and prices became depressed; quotations for choice comb honey fell rapidly from 28c. to 18c. per b., the most of it went into consumption at the latter price. This year the immense floral variety and phenominally splendid climate of that section seem to have availed nothing; a drouth set in, and worse yet, they have had no dews, and the whole face of the earth is parched into unproductiveness and death. What a metamorphosis! Mr. Harbison writes: "I have visited my apiaries the past week, and have heard from all the principal points. The inevitable result will be that a large portion of the bees will die of starvation

unless fed enough to carry them through the period of six months. They are only gathering a living now, and can only depend on this lasting for, say 5 or 6 weeks, It follows that feeding will have to be resorted to from that time till flowers bloom,which will, at best be, till Feb., 1878."

The question now arises what effect the loss of California's crop will have upon the market? The opinion has been hazarded by an eminent apiarian that prices will be forced back to the old standard. This is a delusion that producers will, no doubt, delight to hug, but we question whether a calm investigation of the situation will justify such a hope.

The immense consumption of honey last fall and winter has satisfied capitalists that money can be profitably employed to develop our honey resources, even at the low prices that ruled them. Consumption always renders an article cheap and abundant; it renders possible the investment of vast capital in the establishment of large apiaries throughout the country, the reduction of transportation thereby making remote crops accessible and enabling bee men to work their apiaries at the minimum cost. It establishes the business upon a firmer basis and promotes this product to the dignity of a staple. All this could never be done

unless the vast consumption of honey rendered it wise and practicable to do So. Here we see the advantage of the merchant; he induces consumption by pressing its sale, and it is the consumption of honey that increases its cheapness. It is only by extravagance, so to speak, by free and extensive use of honey, that the machinery by which it is made cheap is put into operation. If honey is consumed largely the resources will be co-extensively developed, and our immense wealth in this direction will startle us still further: If but little is used little will be produced, and that little dear. "Consumption and the possibilities of extended consumption," says that celebrated political economist, Mr. Bunce, "stimulate invention and industry."

Mr. Heddon, an apiarian of no inconsiderable practical experience, has for a long time attempted to dissuade men from embarking in the bee business, fearing the increased production would glut the market. He will find, however, that capital is not fixed in its activity nor human energies limited, and as Nature's resources are fairly boundless, honey will be extracted from the fields to an extent immensely determined by the demands of consumers. We all remember the old fable of Fortunatus, in whose purse a gold piece appeared as rapidly as the contents were withdrawn. In the new purse of Fortunatus, called production, two or more pieces appear as rapidly as one is withdrawn, and thus it is that in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, and the South generally, which is now rapidly passing out of what may be called a "transition state," and activity taking the place of indolence, the modern purse of Fortunatus is found. Capital has found investment there, and this tier of States lying in the same latitude with California promises to send to market almost enough honey, produced in excess of last year, to offset the loss sustained by the failure of the crop in the latter State. More than this, the prospect in New York State for a large crop is very encouraging. One gentleman, in the central part of the State, recently informed us that he thought his yield would aggregate 100,000 to 150,000 lbs., against 70,000 lbs. last year. Favorable reports also reach us from Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio. Thus it will be seen that, notwithstanding the disastrous news from the Golden State, last year's consumption encouraged production in other quarters to such an extent that the increased supply thus secured will keep honey within reach of the poor, and we predict that prices will hardly be restored to the old standard, though California honey will, no doubt, be higher than last year.