Chapter III. treats of swarming, or increase, 

 and Chapter IV. of the product of bees, as 

 honey, wax and pollen or bee bread. 



In Part II. we couie to tiie practical work 

 of the apiary, its care and management, the 

 hives and boxes, tiie position and arrange- 

 ment, how to transfer bees, iiow to feed 

 them and how much to feed, queen rearing, 

 how to handle bees, how to market honey, 

 the best honey plants— as April plants. May 

 plants, June and July plants, wintering 

 bees, the enemies of bees, and work for 

 each calendar month. The arrangement is 

 successive, and every topic is lucidly treated 

 in the Professor's blithesome, light-hearted, 

 pithy, suggestive style. The complete, 

 elaborate index is not the least important 

 and valuable part of the book. The author 

 will send this popular bee book in cloth to 

 any one who will remit him ,151.2.5; in paper 

 for $1, postpaid. This book, and we like it 

 all the better for it. is a Michigan product. 

 The author was a Sliiawassee county boy, a 

 graduate and now a professor of the Agri- 

 cultural College; and this book, wherever it 

 goes, at home or abroad, will not disgrace 

 the State, the College, or the author.— Post 

 and Tribune, Detroit, Mich. 



This handsome little volume of Professor 

 Cook has met with large favor from the 

 lovers of apiarian studies. The first edition 

 of 3,000 copies, published two years ago, has 

 been exhausted, and a general wisli and 

 want has induced a careful revision of the 

 book, with many additions and illustrations. 

 It is both a practical and scientific discus- 

 sion, and nothing that could interest the 

 bee-raiser is left unsaid. It is a book of 286 

 pages, well illustrated, and very neatly 

 printed on clear white paper.— C/iicrtgo 

 Daily Inter-Ocenn. 



Manual of the Apiary. — The large 

 class of apiarists in the United States will 

 find much valuable information in this 

 work, from the pen of Prof. A. J. Cook, Pro- 

 fessor of Entomology in the Michigan State 

 Agricultural College, It is not necessary 

 here to go over the ground of the volume's 

 contents, for they are already well and fa- 

 vorably known by bee culturists. This is 

 the second edition. When it is stated that 

 more than 2,000 copies of the first edition of 

 3,000 were sold in one year, the popularity of 

 the book may be readily understood without 

 further comment. But at the same time it 

 is apropos to state that the present edition 

 is greatly enlarged, mostly re-written, even 

 more fully illustrated, and contains the 

 latest scientific discoveries of the most re- 

 cent improvements in methods of apiarian 

 management and bee-keeping apparatus. 

 The writer says he recommends nothing 

 that he has not proved valuable by actual 

 trial unless he gives some eminent person 

 for authority for advising it. The volume is 

 published by Thomas G. Newman & Son, 

 publishers of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, No. 974 West Madison Street, Chicago. 

 — Prairie Farmer, Chicago. 



Manual of the Apiary, by Prof. A. J. 

 Cook, revised, enlarged, mostly re-written 

 and illustrated, has been issued from the 

 press of Thos. G. Newman & Son, of the 

 American Bee Journal, Chicago. It 

 needs no recommendation, for it recom- 

 mends itself. — Western Rural, Chicago. 



Bingham's Smoker Corner 



Will contain a short card from some one every 

 month. See Bellows Smoker card on another page. 

 T. P. Bingham. 



Lincoln, Mo., June 9, 1878. 



"Our bees commenced swarming in May, and still 

 continue. We have divided some. We now have 92 

 colonies. Bingliam's Smoker came to hand last Sat- 

 urday. We are all well pleased with it. We can n(jw 

 send the smoke where we want to, if the wind is blow- 

 ing. Sometimes we found it very difficult to direct 

 the smoke in the entrance of a hive with a rag 

 smoker, but Bingham's Smoker cures that fault, and 

 we are happy. Our eyes are no longer red from 

 smoke. Thanks to you and the ingenious inventor." 

 Vours, Mks. J. W. DICK. 



Clockville, N. Y., June 11, 1878. 



" Received smoker all right. I cannot praise it 

 enough j it is all the inventor claims for it, and twice 

 as much. It works belter than the Quinby or any 

 other smoker that I have seen, and I would not trade 

 it for two common smokers. It isa flrst-class instru- 

 ment. W. V. BOSWORTH, Jr. 

 Logansport, Ind., May .'«), 1878. 



" The Bingham smoker came to hand in due time, 

 but out of shape from rough handling in the mail 

 bags, but was easily righted up. It is all I expected, 

 and more. I do not see how 1 did without it so long. 

 1 have no hesitation in recommending it to all bee- 

 keepers." M. Mahin. 

 Kenton, Tenn., June 11, 1878. 



" The Bingham Smoker came to hand all right, and 

 I have given it a fair trial. It is far better than the 

 Quinby, which I have been using. It will remain 

 trimmed and ready for use much longer than the 

 Quinby— the Quinby goes out quickly. It is more 

 durable, and I think I wUI send you some more orders 

 for it soon." J. W. Howell. 



Elizabethtown, Ind., June 15, 1878. 



"I have just purchased a smoker (one of Bingham's 

 extra large size), and to say that I am pleased with it 

 does not half tell it. There may be other makes and 

 styles as good, but I can't see how they could be bet- 

 ter. To start the thing, put a few coals of tire in the 

 tube, sprinkle on a little dry sawdust, then chips, and 

 fill up with anything lying about loose. Talk about 

 smoke ! It could almost smoke out a whole camp- 

 meeting. But the best thing about it is, that it does 

 not go out, like the old style Quinby Smoker. I have 

 often laid this one down on its side, while eating din- 

 ner (about an hour), and when ready to commence 

 work again, it is ready for business. My advice to 

 those about to buy a smoker is, to get the largest size; 

 it costs more, to be sure, but it will give you satisfac- 

 tion every time. You can throw away your bee-veils, 

 or keep them for your visitors. You will not need 

 them, as you need have no fears of stings, even from 

 the Grossest hybrids." Jos. M. Brooks. 



Prof. Cook, in his new " Manual of the Apiary," 

 speaking of the Bingham Smoker, says ; 



" This smoker not only meets all the requirements, 

 which are wanting in the old Quinby smoker, but 

 shows by its whole construction, that it has not only 

 as a whole, but in every part, been subject to the 

 severest test, and the closest thought and study. 



" At first sight this seems an improved copy of Mr. 

 Quinby's smoker, and so I first thought, though I only- 

 saw it in Mr. Bingham's hand at a Convention. 1 

 have since used it, examined it in every part, and 

 have to say that it is not a Quinby smoker. The bel- 

 lows, the valve, the cut-off, and even the form are all 

 peculiar The special point to be commended, and I 

 suppose, the only one patentable, is the cut-off be- 

 tween the bellows and fire-tube, so that the fire sel- 

 dom goes out, while even hard-wood, as suggested by 

 the inventor, forms an excellent and ever-ready fuel. 

 The valve for the entrance of air to the bellows, per- 

 mits rapid work, the spring is of the best clock-spring 

 material, the leather perfect, not split sheepskin, 

 while the whole construction of the bellows, and the 

 plan of the fire-screen and cut-off draft, show much 

 thought and ingenuity. I am thus full in this descrip- 

 tion, that I may not only benefit my readers, all of 

 whom will want a smoker, but also out of gratitude 

 to Mr. Bingham, who has conferred such a benefit on 

 American apiarists. There are three sizes, which 

 may be bought for $1.25, $1.00 and $2.00, respectively, 

 including postage. 



" Mr. Bingham, to protect himself, and preserve 

 the quality of his invention, has procured a patent. 

 This, providing he has only patented his own inven- 

 tion, is certainly his right, which I think honesty 

 requires us all to respect. Like Mr. Langstroth, he 

 has given us a valuable instrument; unlike Mr. 

 Langstroth, he should be granted a reward for his 

 gift." 



