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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 " " " " 4 50 



Five or. more, " " " ..each, 100 



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

 per annum will charged in all cases. 



Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 



20 cents per line of Agate space, for each insertion. 



cash in advance. One inch measures fourteen lines. 



Special Notices 50 cents per line. 



j3g~A line will contain about eight words, fourteen 

 lines will occupy an inch of space. Advertisements 

 must be received bv the20th, 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, 



972 & 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, 3 or Scent 

 stamps, tor 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 ST. 5©. 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 wellbesentby 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 blankleft 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. 



Et^ The Iowa State Fair will be held at 

 Des Moines, Sept. 1st to 5th, 1879. Those in- 

 terested should send to Dr. J. R. Shaffer, 

 Fairfield, Iowa, for a Premium List. 



JtiF'Tlie Seventh Annual Exhibition of 

 the " Inter-State Industrial Exposition of 

 Chicago " will open Sept. 3d and close Oct. 

 18, 1879. Four hundred thousand persons 

 attended this exhibition, on an average 

 each year, since the Exposition was opened 

 to the public. 



The Hive 1 Use.— This is a pamphlet 

 of 16 pages, giving a-description of the hive 

 used by Mr. G. M. Doolittle; it is re-pub- 

 lished from the Bee JouKNALCfor March, 

 for the convenience of the manygwho desire 

 to get the particulars therein given, either 

 for reference or making the hive for their 

 own use. It can be obtained at this office: 

 price 5 cents. 



E2ir Moore's Rural Life, is a periodical 

 designed to promote the home interests of 

 such city, village and country residents as 

 delight in flowers, fruits, shrubs, landscape 

 and kitchen gardening, and,.those pleasant 

 adornments and surroundings which render 

 life enjoyable, whether in cottage, villa or 

 mansion. It is published at $1.50 per year 

 by the Rural Life Publishing Co., 34 Park 

 Row, N. Y. It is beautifully printed, and 

 Mr. D. D. T. Moore, who is well known as 

 one of the best editors of the'age, is at the 

 head of the Editorial Corps. It should find 

 its way into every home injthe land. 



Quinby's New Bee-Keeping.— Concern- 

 ing this new work the American Agricul- 

 turist remarks as follows : 



" Mr. Quinby was collecting materials for 

 this revision when his long and useful career 

 as our leading Apiarist was terminated by 

 his sudden death. It is fortunate that his 

 son-in-law. Mr. L. C. Root, was thoroughly 

 prepared through a long business association 

 and many years of joint experiment and in- 

 vestigation with him, to take up the work, 

 and give not only Mr. Quinby's later views, 

 but the results of his own experience. Be- 

 ing the latest work on the Apiary, it is also 

 the fullest. In no industry have more im- 

 portant improvements been made within 

 the past few years than in bee-culture, and 

 these are embodied in this new edition. 

 While work is adapted to the wants of the 

 amateur bee-keeper, those who would take 

 up bee-keeping tor profit will find here the 

 methods of one who has for years devoted 

 himself to it as a business. Though Mr. 

 Root modestly accepts the position of re- 

 viser, he is really joint author, the work be- 

 ing almost entirely re-written." 



