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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 60 



Three " " " " 3 60 



Four " " " " 4 50 



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



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



cash in advance. One inch measures fourteen lines. 



Special Notices 50 cents per line. 



J3?"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, 



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. 



Club names for the Bee Journal, may be all sent 

 to one post office, or to as many post offices as there 

 are names in the club. 



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. 



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. 



In consequence of the dearth of small currency in 

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

 stamps, for anything desired from this office. We 

 cannot use Canadian or other foreign stamps. 



We will send a tested Italian Queen to any one 

 sending us FIVE subscribers to the American Bee 

 Journal with SfST.iSO. 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 well be 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. 



HEP" We ask attention to the card of The 

 Ohio Farmer of Cleveland, O., in this issue 

 of our paper and recommend it as one of the 

 oldest and most valuable agricultural and 

 family papers of the country. * 



No book can be more useful to horse- 

 owners than one recently published by Dr. 

 B. J. Kendall, Enosburgh Falls, Vt. The 

 price being only 25 cents, all can afford it. 

 Every one who sees it is very much pleased 

 with it, as it has 35 fine engravings illustrat- 

 ing positions of sick horses, and treats all 

 diseases in a plain and comprehensive man- 

 ner. It has a large number of good recipes, 

 a table of doses, and much other valuable 

 horse information. The book can be had 

 of the author as above, or at the American 

 Bee Journal office, 972 and 974 West Mad- 

 ison St., Chicago. 



Local Convention Directory. 



1879. Time and Place of Meeting. 



Dec. 9.— Northwestern Union, at St. Paul, Minn. 



10.— Michigan State, at Jackson, Mich. 



13.— Indiana State, at Indianapolis, Ind. 



16, 17.— Northern Michigan, at Carson City, Mich. 

 1880 



Jan. 13.-N. W. 111. & S. W. Wis., annual, at Davis, 111. 

 Feb. 11— Northeastern, at Utica, N. Y. 



t3^~ In order to have this Table complete. Secreta- 

 ries are requested to forward full particulars of time 

 and place of future meetings.— Ed. 



Honey and Beeswax Market. 



BUYERS' quotations. 



CHICAGO. 

 HONEY.— White clover, in single-comb sections, 

 Kits'lSc. ; when with more than one comb in a box, 2c. 

 per lb. less. Dark, in the comb, no demand. Ex- 

 tracted, 7@9c. 



BEESWAX— Prime choice yellow, 20@22c; darker 

 grades, 12'a(ctl5c. 



NEW YORK. 



HONEY.— Best white, in single-comb sections, 20w 

 22c; fair do., 17c 19c; buckwheat and dark, 14@lfic. 

 Larger boxes, 2c. per lb. less. Extracted, 9<« 12c. 



BEESWAX.— Prime quality, 25c 



CINCINNATI. 

 HONEY.— White, in single-comb sections, 16@18c. 

 Extracted, 8@9c. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 

 HONEY.— Comb, 12!^@15c.. Extracted, 8(»10c. # lb. 



STEARNS & SMITH. 



Worthy of Attention.— We advise all our read- 

 ers, whether they own a foot of land or not, to sup- 

 ply themselves with that treasure of useful, practical, 

 reliable information, the American Agriculturist, so 

 named because started 38 years ago as a rural jour- 

 nal, but now enlarged to embrace a great variety of 

 most useful reading for the Household, Children in- 

 cluded, lor the Garden, as well as the Farm— for all 

 classes. Each volume gives some 800 original En- 

 gravings, with descriptions of labor-saving and labor- 

 helping contrivances, of plants, fruits, flowers, ani- 

 mals, etc., including many large and pleasing, as well 

 as instructive, pictures for young and old. The con- 

 stant, systematic exposures of Humbugs and Swind- 

 ling Schemes by the Agriculturist are of great value 

 to every one, and will save to most persons many 

 times its cost. Altogether, it is one of the most val- 

 uable, as well as the cheapest Journals, anywhere to 

 be found. The cost is only $1.50 a year, or 4 copies 

 for $5. Single numbers 15 cents. Subscribe at once 

 for 1880, and receive the rest of this year free, or send 

 3-cent stamp for postage on a specimen copy. Ad- 

 dress Orange Judd Company, 245 Broadway, N. Y. 



75c 



pays for the Bee-Keepers' Magazine. Fruit 

 Recorder, Rural Life, Scribner's Monthly, 

 .and a large list of periodicals at reduced 

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