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OUR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, 



PAYABLE STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. 



Single subscription, one year $1 50 



Two subscriptions, sent at the same time 2 50 



Three " " " 3 50 



Four " " " i 50 



Five or more, " " " ..each, 1 00 



B^~If not paid strictly in advance, TWO DOLLARS 

 per annum will charged in all cases. 



Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 



ao cents per line of Agate space, for each insertion, 



cash in advance. One inch measures fourteen lines. 



Special Notices 50 cents per line. 



5^"A line will contain about eight words; fourteen 

 lines will occupy an inch of space. Advertisements 

 must be received by the 20th, 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 real imposition 

 will be exposed, and such advertisements discon- 

 tinued. No advertisement received for less than $1. 



Address all communications and remittances to 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN & SON, 



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, in case not taken from express office. 



In consequence of the dearth of small currency in 

 the country, we will receive either 1, 9 or 3 cent 

 stamps, for anything desired from this office. 



Strangers wishing to visit our office and Museum 

 of Implements for the Apiary, should take the 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 FIVE subscribers to the American Bee 

 Journal with iSXSO. The premium Queens will in 

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



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. Don't send small 

 packages by express, that can just as 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 Catalogue 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 

 small 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 the expenses of keeping book- 

 accounts with our customers— this we know our Cash 

 customers would not think to their advantage.— 

 This rule we must make general in order not to do 

 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 with the order. 



"Facts are Stubborn Things." 



The report of the N. W. Ohio Convention, 

 as published in a Toledo paper, was received 

 after our " Convention " department in this 

 Journal was printed. It contains the fol- 

 lowing as the action of that Convention : 



"The merits of the different bee publications were 

 discussed, and Mr. Everett complained of unfair 

 treatment by the editor of the American Bee 

 Journal in reference to his extractor and the sup- 

 pression of the most important part of the adver- 

 tisement of the same. On motion, Mr. Fahnstock 

 was appointed a committee to examine into and 

 report at the next meeting if any cause for complaint 

 exists. Jno. Y. Detwiler, of Toledo, O., suggested 

 the feasibility of organizing the bee-keepers of 

 America into a co-operative association, for the 

 purpose of having a bee paper published solely in 

 the interest of it patrons and not alone in the sale of 

 its editor's wares." 



The report of the Convention, with these 

 charges, was published in the Toledo paper 

 during the first week in January. Yet it 

 was not received at this office until the 21st, 

 ult. Meanwhile copies thereof have been 

 sent to prominent bee-keepers in different 

 States with letters denouncing all the Bee 

 papers in general and the Bee Journal in 

 particular. These are asked to be con- 

 sidered "strictly confidential" and kept 

 "secret" until the arrangements are made 

 to carrying out the latter part of the above 

 programme. Several persons to whom such 

 documents were sent, have written to us for 

 " the facts." But for this request and the 

 " secret " scheming we should pass it all by 

 in silence. But as our friends demand that 

 the facts be made public, we cheerfully com- 

 ply. Before doing so, we quote the follow- 

 ing from a correspondent, who for the 

 present shall be nameless : 



"Last night I received a lot of papers concerning an 

 undertaking against all the bee publications— not so 

 much against the Bee Journal as it is against 

 Gleanings and the Magazine, but really against them 



all I was cautioned to keep it a secret until all the 



arrangements could be perfected, and I shall do so 

 with reference to their plans. You have offended 

 one man about advertising— was there cause for this 

 feeling?" 



There was no cause for the feeling, nor 

 for the action of the Convention, as we shall 

 proceed to prove beyond the possibility of 

 a doubt. 



A display of honey, wax and bee appli- 

 ances was made last fall at the American 

 Institute Fair in N. Y., during the meeting 

 of the National Convention. Soon after 

 arriving we received a notice that we had 

 been appointed one of the judges on honey, 

 wax, extractors, &c, by the Board of Mana- 

 gers of the American Institute. The judges 

 met, performed their duties to the best of 

 their ability with the best of feeling, and 

 after the Convention adjourned, went home. 



About a month afterwards Mr. Everett 

 sent us some matter to appear in his adver- 

 tisement, concerning his having received 

 the award at New York Fair, adding these 

 words : "competing with the Muth, Novice, 

 and Excelsior extractors." We immediately 

 addressed him this : 



Chicago, 111., Nov, 19, 1878. 

 Friend Everett :— Of course you are fully aware 

 that no other extractor was entered for competition 

 but yours, and hence it is unjust to say that it was in 

 competition with any— being the only one, it had to 

 take the award. If you presist in having it published 

 of course I must make statement of the facts, in 



