1522 



GLKAJJINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1 



ADVANCED BEE CULTURE 



One of the most difficult tasks of my life is that of 

 writing an advertisement of Advanced Bee Cu'ture. 

 Be as modest as I can, it still smacks of egotism- 

 sounds like a parent praising his own child. If the 

 book had been written by some other man, the writ- 

 ing of an advertisement would be comparatively easy. 

 However, even at the risk of laying myself open to 

 ridicule, of becoming a laughingstock, I am going to 



Forget for Once 



that I am the author and publisher, and write as 

 though of another's work. 



When 18 years old I visited an apiary in swarming- 

 time; saw bees hanging in great golden-brown clus- 

 ters from the swaying boughs of the old apple-tree; 

 saw the snowy-white combs growing as by magic; saw 

 the waxen cells filled with nectar, and inhaled that 

 BwetUst of all perfumes the odor of a bee-hive in 

 harvest time. I was filled through and thro pgh with 

 enthusiasm. Here was a business that was most truly 



The Poetry of Life. 



I was that day born a bee-keeper. There was no 

 longer an> doubt as to what should be my life-occu- 

 pation. I at once be;ian buying bee books and jour- 

 nals, and visiting bee-keepers, and studying the 

 business from every po-sible standpoint. It was six 

 years later before I was able to engage actually in 

 the business, but I then possessed as thorough a 

 theoretical knowledge of bee-keeping as does a young 

 physician of medicine when he begins to practice. 

 All this was 30 odd years ago; and since then I have 



Run the Whole Gamut 



of bee-keeping, time and time and again. I have 

 practiced all sorts of methods for artificial increase; 

 I have battled wi h the difficulties of natural swarm- 

 ing; I have produced tons and t ns of comb honey; 

 have tried my hand at extracted-honey pi eduction; I 

 have reai ed and sold thousands of queens: I have ex- 

 hibited be:s and honev for 15 consecutive years at 

 from one to half a do/,en State fairs; T have wmtered 

 bees in all sorts of ways, outdoors and in in cellars 

 and buried in clamps; I have attended nearly all of 

 the conventions of a national character; 



Visited Hundreds of Bee-keepers 



in their homes, scattered from ocean to ocean and 

 from the lakes to the Gulf; I have read all the books 

 and journals; for nearly 20 years I have published the 

 Review, enjoving the confldeni e and corn spondence 

 of bee-keepers scattered all over the country; in 

 short. I have been a wide-awake, enthusiastic, prac- 

 tical, actual work-a-dav bread-and butter bee-keeper 

 all of these years, mtking a living for myself wife, 

 and little ones, oat of bees. Advanced Bee Culture is 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, 



The Ripened Fruit 



of all these years of varied experience; it is the crown- 

 ing effort of my life. I look upon it as the best piece 

 of work that I have ever done, or, perhaps, Q\ev ^vlll 

 do. It is written from a bread-and-butter standpoint. 

 It teaches how to make a living, yes, more than that, 

 make money out of bees. From all of these sources 

 that I have mentioned, from my own experience, and 

 that of the men with whom I have associated, I have 

 described the most advanced, the best methods of 

 keeping bee- for pr<>M. I begin at the opening of the 

 year, and go through the season step by step, touch- 

 ing briefly but clearly and concisely upon all of the 

 most important points, showing their relationship 

 one to the other, and how, joined together, they make 

 a perfect whole. If I could have had this book 20 

 years ago, and followed its teachings, I might now have 



Been a Rich Man. 



I say it fearlessly, because / knoiv 'hat it is true, \ha,t 

 no practical bee-keeper 'an afford not to read it. The 

 courage, enthusiasm, and inspir ition alone will be 

 worth more to him than the cost of tne book, to say 

 nothing of the more practical instructions. Many a 

 man fails from a lack of these very useful qualities, 

 and the perusal of Advanced Bee Culture will do much 

 to help him in this respect. 



One more point: A dozen years ago I took up pho- 

 tography as a hobby, as a pastime. I have studied it 

 just as you have studied bee-keeping. I have read the 

 journals and b >oks on the subject, attended the con- 

 ventions, etc I have lugged a large camera along 

 with me all over the United States and Canada, and 

 used it with loving care. Adoanced B>-e Culture 



Contains the Gems 



of this collection of all these years — a collection that 

 is simply unapproachable in the line of apiculture. 

 The book is beautifully printed with clear, large tvpe, 

 on heavy enameled paper. It is bound in cloth of a 

 blu'sh drab, and the front cover embellished with a 

 green vine of clover, a 



Bee of Go id 



sipping nectar from the snowy-white blossoms of the 

 clover. Taken all in all, it is a beautiful book. If 

 the advertising that I have done in the past has not 

 convinced you that you need the book then the fault 

 is in the advertisina: and for this once I have cut 

 loose and said jusi what I think of the book, iust as I 

 would of some other book— I may never do it again. 

 Price of the book $1.20. or the Eevinv one year and 

 the book for only $2,00. And remember that just at 

 present you get all of this year's, numbers free! 

 That is you can get the Review for this year and 

 next, and the book, for only $2.00 1 



FLINT, MICH. 



Dittmer S Comb Foundation 



is the best, not because we say so, but because the bees prefer it to other makes. 



DITTM ER'S PROCESS IS DITTMER'S. 



It has built its reputation and established its merits on its own foundation and its own name. 

 We make a specialty of working wax into foundation for cash. 



GUS DITTMER, Augusta, Wis. 



"Write for free catalog, and prices 

 on full line of supplies. 



