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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



March 



The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co.: 



Gentlemen — Kindly send me catalog 

 of supplies. I am entirely sold out, and 

 in the rush of work last season was 

 obliged to order quickly from Chicago. 

 I could not send to your factory, as it 

 takes two weeks for goods to come by 

 freight. 



I have never seen anything in the 

 section line that comes up to your Pal- 

 con section. I had a neighbor bee-man 

 (who, by the way, does not buy nis sup- 

 plies from me, as he lives eight miles 

 distant) visit me last summer when I 

 was busy putting on sections, and he 

 noticed how my press was working and 

 how square my sections were when put 

 up, and the general good appearance 

 of the work, and he remarked that his 

 section press was not as good as mine 

 (he has the same kind I have), and he 

 could not get his sections to sit up 

 square, etc. Well, I thought at the 

 time maybe his press was out of order 

 somehow and gave it no further 

 thought. Right after this I had a run 

 on sections and sold out quick, and I 

 had to get sections instanter; I ordered 

 from Chicago, and, to make a short 

 story, my press would not do good 

 work on these sections, and they would 

 not stand up square, and I was no bet- 

 ter off than my distant neighbor, who 

 blamed his press when his sections 

 were at fault. 



If you manufacture a line of goods as 

 good as you did four years ago, I want 

 those goods, even if I have to pay a 

 little extra freight. 

 Yours truly, 



JOHN W. WILCOX. 



Scales Mound, 111.. Feb. 3, 1898. 



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Address, 

 EDITOR AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER, 

 Falconer, N. Y. 



W. M. Gerrish, Ea.st Nottingham, N. H., 

 keeps a complete .supply of our snoods, and 

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