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June 20, 1907 



American Vae Journal 



HAND-MADE SMOKERS 



BINGHAM M Extracts from Catalogs — 1907: 



CLEAN ^T^B Chas. Dadant & Son, Hamilton, 111. — This is the Smoker we 



11^^ « recommend above all others. 



u. B. Lewis Co., Watertown, Wis. — We have sold these Smok- 

 ers for a good many years and never received a single complaint. 



A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. — The cone fits inside of the cup 

 so that the liquid creosote runs down inside of the smoker. 



All Bingham Smokers are stamped on the tin, " Patented 18"8, 

 1S03, and 1903," and have all the new improvements. 



Smoke Engine — largest smoker made $1.50 — 4 inch stove 



Doctor- cheapest made to use 1.10 — SJ'j 



Conqueror— right for most apiaries 1.00 — 3 " 



Large — lasts longer than any other 90—2)^ " 



Little Wonder — as its name implies 65—2 " 



The above prices deliver Smoker at your post-ofiice free. We send circular it requested. 



Original Biagham & Hetherington Uncapping-Knife. 



T. F. BINGttflM. Farwell, MiGH. 



Patented May 20. 1870. BEST ON EARTH. 



wmx% GoniD Founflawon 



Why do thousands of bee-keepers prefer it to otoer makes? 



Because the bees like it best and accept it more readily. 



Dittmer's Process is Dittmer's 



It stands on its OWN NAME and its OWN FOUNDATION, to which alone it owes its 

 reputation and merits. 



We are now ready to make prices for next aeason for WORKING WAX for CASH and 

 for full line of Supplies. Wholesale and Retail. Free Catalog and Samples. 



QUS DITTMER, Augusta, Wis. 



Mention Bee Journal when wrltlne- 



Meal Hive-Tool-" Best on the Market" 



Bee-keepers have long needed a special tool to aid them in properly manipulating the 

 hive-parts during the bee-season. The one shown here does the work to perfection. 



(This picture is exactly one-half the size.) 

 DESCRIPTION.-The Idea! Uive-Tool is made of hiph-grade malleable iron, much like wrought iron. 

 S\i inches long. The middle oart is l 1-16 inches wide and 7-32 thick. The smaller end is \% inches long. H 

 inch wide, and 7-3:2 thick, ending like a screw-driver. The larger end is wedge-shaped, having a sharp semi- 

 circular edge, making it alm'tst perfect for prying up supers, as it does not mar the wood. 



What Some Bee-Experts Say of It. 



Louis C. Dadant (sod of C. P. Dadant) wrote us May 10, 190r: "Your Hive-Tool is 

 certainly the best on the market, and after having used one of them no bee-beeper would do 

 without it." 



In the arst edition (1003) of Dr. Miller's " Forty Tears Among the Bees," page 58, he 

 says: " Of all the hive-iools I have tried, I like best the Muench tool.'' On Jan. ?, 1907, he 

 wrote us, saying he thought " iust as much of the tool as ever." 



Mifs Wilson. Dr. Miller's assistant, says this of the Ideal Hive-Tool: "It is an ideal 

 tool. In fact, I don't see how it could lie improved upon, lam sure we would feel utterly 



lost in the apiary without it You will have to try one yourself if you want to know its 



worth." 



The " Ideal Hive-Tool " Free as a Premium. 



We will mail an Ideal Hive-Tool FKEE as a premium to any present paid-in-ad- 

 vance subscriber to the American Bee .Journal, for sending us ONE NEW subscription for a 

 year at SI. 00; or we will send the American Bee Journal one year and the Ideal Hive-Tool 

 — both for $1.20. Price of the Ideal Hive-Tool alone, postpaid, 30 cents. 



QEORQE W. YORK & CO., ii8 W. Jackson Blvd., CHICAGO, ILL. 



Id every country tue snccessfnl aflyertiser is ttie continuous aflyertisp' 



REE DAni/C Sent postpaid by 

 DCr, DUUIVO George W.YOKK& Co., 

 118 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, 111. 



Advanced Bee-Cultnre. Its Methods 

 and Management, by 'W. Z. Hutchinson. 

 • — The author of this work is a prac- 

 tical and helpful writer. You should 

 read his book; 330 pages; bound in 

 cloth, and beautifully illustrated. Price, 

 $1.20. 



A B C of Bee-Cnlture, by A. I. & E. R. 

 Root. — A cyclopedia of over 500 pages, 

 describing everything pertaining to the 

 care of the honey-bees. Contains about 

 400 engravings. It was written espe- 

 cially for beginners. Bound in cloth. 

 Price, $1.20. 



Scientlflc ftueen-R earing, as Practi- 

 cally Applied, by G. M. Doolittle. — A 

 method by which the very best of 

 queen-bees are reared in perfect accord 

 with Nature's way. Bound in cloth and 

 illustrated. Price, $1.00; in leatherette 

 binding, 75 cents. 



Bee-Keeper's Guide, or Manual of the 

 Apiary, by Prof. A. J. Cook, of Pomona 

 College, California. This book is not 

 only instructive and helpful as a guide 

 in bee-keeping, but is interesting and 

 thoroughly practical and scientific. It 

 contains a full delineation of the 

 anatomy and physiology of bees. 544 

 pages. 295 illustrations. Bound in cloth. 

 19th thousand. Price, $1.20. 



I..nng.strotU on the Honey-Bee, revised 



by Dadant. — This classic in bee-culture 

 has been entirely re-written, and is 

 fully illustrated. It treats of every- 

 thing relating to bees and bee-keeping. 

 Xo apiarian library is complete without 

 this standard work by Rev. L. L. Lang- 

 stroth — the Father of American Bee- 

 Culture. It has 520 pages, bound in 

 cloth. Price, $1.20. 



Honey ns a Henltli Food. — This is a. 

 16-page honey-pamphlet intended to 

 help increase the demand for honey. 

 The first part of it contains a short 

 article on "Honey as Food," written by 

 Dr. C.C. Miller. It tells where to keep 

 honey, how to liquefy it. etc. The last 

 part is devoted to "Honey-Cooking Re- 

 cipes" and "Remedies Using Honey." 

 It should be widely circulated by those 

 selling honey. The more the people 

 are educated on the value and uses of 

 honey the more honey they will buy. 

 Prices: Example copy for 2-cent stamp; 

 50 copies for 70 cents; 100 for $1.25; 

 250 for $2.25; 500 for $4.00; or 1000 for 

 $7.50. Your business card printed free 

 at the bottom of the front page on all 

 orders for 100 or more copies. 



Forty Years Among: tlie Bees, by Dr. 



C. C. Miller. — This book contains 328 

 pages, is bound in handsome cloth, with 

 gold letters and design; it is printed on 

 best book-paper, and illustrated with 

 112 beautiful original half-tone pic- 

 tures, taken by Dr. Miller himself. It 

 is unique in this regard. The first few 

 pages are devoted to an interesting 

 biographical sketch of Dr. Miller, tell- 

 ing how he happened to get into bee- 

 keeping. About 20 years ago he wrote 

 a small book, called "A Year Among 

 the Bees," but that little work has been 

 out of print for a number of years. 

 While some of the matter used in the 

 former book is found in the new one, it 

 all reads like a good new story of suc- 

 cessful bee-keeping by one of the mas- 

 ters, and shows in minutest detail just 

 how Dr. Miller does things with bees. 

 Price, $1.00. 



*'The Honey-3Ioney Stories." — A 64- 

 page-and-cover booklet, 5?4x8V4 inches 

 in size, printed on best quality paper. 

 Many short, bright stories interspersed 

 with facts and interesting items about 

 honey and its use. The manufactured 

 comb honey misrepresentation is con- 

 tradicted in two items, each ocupying 

 a full page, but in different parts of 

 the booklet. It has in all 33 fine illus- 

 trations, nearly all of them being of 

 apiaries or apiarian scenes. It also 

 contains 3 bee-songs, namely. "The 

 Hum of the Bees in the Apple-Tree 

 Bloom." "Buckwheat Cakes and Honey," 

 and "The Bee-Keepers' Lullaby." This 

 booklet should be placed in the hands 

 of everybody not familiar with the 

 food-value of honey, for its main ob- 

 .iect is to interest people in honey as a 

 daily table article. Price, 25 cents, or 

 3 copies for 50 cents. 



