Title: American bee journal
Identifier: americanbeejourn491909hami (find matches)
Year: 1861 (1860s)
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Subjects: Bee culture; Bees
Publisher: (Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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SOME GOOD PREMIUM AND CLUBBING OFFERS Capacity, 24 Pounds by Ounces
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The NEW FAMILY SCALE Latest Idea in Scales— Terfection Slanting Dial Scales A scale is invaluable for check- ing: up all purchases made. There is a long: felt want in every family for a reliable, accurate, good weighing: pair of scales that is sold at a moderate price. In preserving, cookings and baking, a pair of scales is necessary in weighing the proper proportion of fruit, sugar, etc.. as all recipes are now prescribed by ounces and pounds, instead of the old method of using cups, which were found to differ very materially size. When the bntcher brings a roast or leaves a steak, or "grocery boy delivers your order, it's a mighty good 'lea to weigh it. Suppose a roll of butter ia porchasod. Place a late upon the platform and turn the screw Liwards the left until the hand is brought back again to zero. Then the butter is placed on the plate and the actual weight of the butter is indicated on the dial. Warranted absolutely accurate and will last a life-time. Each scale packed in an individual bnx. It is entirely different trom any scale ever offered. It is built entirely of steel, except the dial, which is niiide ot aluTninum with the marks and figures large enough to t>e seen easily. The back-ground is finished in black. The platfurm is made oi a heavy glazed tile, supported on double stet-l uprights. This is entirely new and never seen on any scale belore. The scale is beautiiully finished in Alumin- _ um Bronze, artistically decorated. It can be instantly adjusted to be used with a basket, plate or any other vessel. Price. S1.40, b; express, not prepaid; or with (he American ^ee Journal one year— bolb for $ 1.90; or ^iveo free as a prem- ium for seadiQit us 5 new subscribers a( 75c each.

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