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have had made, and sold several extractors; 

 don't know that 1 will ever liave another 

 made, but 1 don't believe in any one patent- 

 ing things that they liave no right to. 



J. M. Valentine. 

 [As we understand it, Mr. Mnth's patent 

 only covers the inclined sides of the comb 

 basket, and its manner of fastening to the 

 sliat't. We are surprised that a patent 

 sliould be issued on an extractor, after all 

 the essential features have been so long in 

 use.— Ed.] 



Dallas, Texas. Oet.7, 1878. 

 Friend Newman :— L send you by this 

 mail the Catalogue of our Fair, and also, 

 the awards of the premiums. Judge VV. II. 

 Andrews, of McKiiuiey, contested for best 

 queen, and took 1st premium ; he also con- 

 tested for preuiium for handling and sub- 

 jugating. I got 1st premium over him. G. 

 A. Linn, of Corsicana, contested for best 

 queen and lost. Mr. Kuper and myself con- 

 tested for 1st, best display of honey, ex- 

 tracted, in comb and wax ; 2d. i)est package 

 of comb honey, 1 lb. or more ; 3rd, bee hive 

 for all purposes, Mr. Kuper had some very 

 fine 1 lb. sections, also a Simplicity hive. I 

 got 1st premium with the regular Langstrotli 

 hive and the 2 lb. prize box. 



F. F. Collins. 



Johnson Grove, Tenn.. Sept. 21, 1878. 

 I Iiave 20 colonies in Langstrotli hives in 

 good condition. We can winter on summer 

 stands here witliout trouble. Our honey is 

 mostly gathered from poplar in May, as we 

 have no white clover ; bees gather honey 

 here from the pea and cotton bloom, honey 

 from the latter is sour and unpalatable. 



John H. Smith. 



Camargo. III., Oct. 18, 1878. 

 I have received one of Shuck's Boss Bee 

 Feeders, and find it a very convenient and 

 easy feeder for bees at the entrance of the 

 hive, with little or no danger of robbers. 

 A. Salisbituy. 



Sumner. 111., Oct. 5, 1878. 

 Friend Neavman : I had a queeiiless 

 colony, and gave it two capped cells from 

 another hive. In three days 1 found a young 

 queen in the hive, but she had no wings. 

 She looked all right otherwise. I caught a 

 Jot of drones from the hive I took the cell 

 from, as I had no otlier that had drones in, 

 aiul gave them to the colony that had the 

 wingless queen ; the bees received them ; 

 the queen is now laying all right; has no 

 wings, and never had any ; I have watched 

 her closely. Our honey crop is very light in 

 this region, owing to such dry weather 



W. Emekick 



[This looks like fertilization in confine- 

 ment, and will nodoubtaid Prof, Hasbrouck 

 in solving that problem.— Ed.] 



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The Annual Convention of the Northwes- 

 tern Illinois Bee-kenners' Association will 

 be held at Shirland, Winnebago County, on 

 Dec. 17, 1878. Jas. E. Fehr, Sec. 



^usiuc55 I^Xattcrs* 



TERitl*!* OF 8lIUSCKII*TIO!V'. 



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cash in advance. One inch measures fourteen lines. 



Special Notices 50 cents per line. 



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 must be received by the'-iUth, to insure insertion. 



Notice to Advertisers.— We intend only to ad- 

 vertise for reliable dealers, who expect to fulfill all 

 their advertised promises. Cases of reni imposition 

 will be exposed, and such advertisements discon- 

 tinued. No advertisement received for less than $1. 



Address all communications and remittances to 

 TM«S.>I.\S ii. IVKW.tlAN Jfe Si«>X, 



974 West Madison St. CHICAGO, ILL. 



To Correspondents. 



When changing a post-office address, mention the 

 old address as well as the new one. 



We send the Journal until an order for discon- 

 tinuance is received and all arrearages are paid. 



We do not send goods by C. O. D., unless sufficient 

 money is sent with the order to pay express charges 

 both ways. 



When ordering Extractors, give outside dimen- 

 sions of frame or frames to be used, length of top- 

 bar, width and depth of frame just under top-bar. 



In consequence of the dearth of small currency in 

 the country, we will receive either one, two or three 

 cent stamps, tor anything desired from this office. 



Strangers wishing to visit our office and Museum 

 of Implements for the Apiary, should talcethe Madi- 

 son street-cars (going west). They pass our door. 



Additions can be made to clubs at any time at the 

 same rate. Specimen copies. Posters, and Illustrated 

 Price List sent free upon application, for canvassing. 



Remit by post-office money-order, registered letter 

 or bank-draft, payable to Thomas G. Newman & Son^ 

 so that if the remittance be lost it can be recovered. 



We will send a tested Italian Queen to any one 

 sending us three subscribers to The Amekican Bee 

 Journal with *t>.UO. Premium Queens will in every 

 case be tested, but not sent till after July 1st. 



Write name and post-office address plainly. If 

 there is no express office at your post-office address, 

 be sure to give your nearest express office when or- 

 dering anything by express. Give plain directions 

 how goods are to be sent. 



Seeds or samples of merchandise can be mailed for 

 one cent per ounce. Printed matter one cent for 

 every two ounces. These must be tied up; if pasted, 

 they are subject to letter postage. Dnn't send small 

 P(ick(i(ies hy express, that can just (is wellbe sent by mail. 



For the convenience of bee-keepers, we have made 

 arragements to supply, at the lowest market prices, 

 Imported or tested Italian Queens, Full Colonies, 

 Hives, Extractors and anything required about the 

 Apiary. Our Illustrated Ciitalogue and Price List 

 will be sent free, on application. 



We have gotten up a "Constitution and By-Laws," 

 suitable for local Associations, which we can supply, 

 with the name and location of any society printed, 

 at $2 per hundred copies, postpaid. If less than 100 

 are ordered, they will have a blank left for writing in 

 the name of the Association, etc. Sample copy will 

 be sent for a three-cent postage stamp. 



Our answer to all who ask credit is this : We sell on 

 smuli margins, and cannot afford to take the risks of 

 doing a credit business. If we did such a business, 

 we should be obliged to add at least 10 to 20 per cent, 

 more to our prices, to make up for those who would 

 never pay, and to pay tlie e.xpenses of keeping book- 

 accounts with ourcustoraers-this we know our Cash 

 Customers would not think to their advantage.— 

 This rule we must make general in order not to da 

 injustice to any one. The cash system gives all the 

 advantage to cash customers, while the credit sys- 

 tem works to their injury. In justice to all we must 

 therefore require Cash witti the order, for all 

 Apiarian Supplies. 



