A large mass of paper magazines and journals can create a real problem with significant others.

Proquest (formerly University Microfilms) has an online archive for Bee Culture that one can access with one's library card.
(Full text coverage: May 1998 (Vol. 126, no. 5) - present 
Citation/Abstract coverage: May 1998 (Vol. 126, no. 5) - present)

Propquest does not appear to have ABJ at all, but both Bee Culture and ABJ have their own online archives that are free with a subscription, some articles are free even without.

There may also be microfiche copies of both, as some universities photographed everything, and not all of it got digitized.

The Cornell U. Online archive "The Hive and The Honeybee" has really old ABJ (1890 - 1889)
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/hivebees6366245

The idea of scanning and putting the back issues of Bee Culture on CDs was vetoed by Kim Flottum, as he only had "first publication rights", and copyright law meant that any author could sue over the reprinting of an article without compensation.  In contrast, the publishers of the "Sacred Octagon", a magazine about British MG sports cars, took a chance, and published a "notice" asking anyone who might object to contact them to have their article removed from the CD, and got back nothing but checks from everyone ordering a CD for themselves, as it freed up  massive amounts of shelf space that was better utilized as storage for spare fuel pumps, carburetor floats, and ignition points, and the ability to search the entire publication from the first issue was a big improvement.

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