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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Tin- Oi iKlnal 

 BINGHAM 



To make an im- 

 meneo smoke lots of 

 fiiol and lots of fire is 



Patented, 1878. 



ROQ QmnUaff neetleil in a smoker, 

 UCC OlllUnCl as elsewhere. Such a 

 fire makes Jots of heat 

 —and wide shields are 

 a great comfort. We 

 are practical bee 

 keepers — our tool s 

 were invented for our 

 own nse. NVe use no 

 others. We have all 

 other kinds, however, 

 but they are so com- 

 plicated we can't af- 

 ford to use them. 



Prudent Franklin 

 said "time is money" 

 — Bingham smokers 

 go themselves. The 

 new handle makes 

 them easy and safe to 

 refill, and the turned 

 cap easiest and safest 

 to use. Oar other inventions do tlie rest and do 

 it best. No one liut Bingham has ever improved 

 a Bingham bee smoker or a Bingham & Hether- 

 inpton uncapping knife, or ever will. Hundreds 

 have tried but all have failed—" History repeats 

 itself." We make a line of smokers so that no 

 bee-keeper need buy a poor, unscientific bee 

 smoker on account of price. Our Little Wonder 

 is not only the best low priced, but the lowest 

 priced bee smoker made, and with sound, dry 

 stove wood for fuel, it is a wonder and a delight. 

 Until our embodiment of the direct draft and 

 blast principle in bellows bee smokers, fire, even 

 of rotten wood, could not be depended upon. 

 Just when most needed, Lo, and behold I no fire 

 — no smoke remained in the smoker. l>r. C. ('. 

 Miller, in March number of Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture states that "Smokers heretofore liave 

 either had the cut off or else sucked smoke into 

 the bellows." The Dr. has told in few words 

 just what the stat* of bellows bee smokers was 

 prior to oar invention, and, causually, what all 

 other bee smokers now do, but the Dr. omitted 

 saying how much hard, creosote varnish coated 

 the inside of the leather, the blast tube, the valve 

 and the springs, if in the inside of the bellows 



It does not seem that it wonld need an experi- 

 ment to understand what the effect of smoke 

 would be when sucked into a bellows comjiosed 

 of leather soft and pliable as buckskin and hav- 

 ing a valve which, to be valuable, must work 

 freely in all positions. The features that en- 

 abled us to do what had never been done before, 

 and what no other bee smoker does now, we 

 had patented. From time to time we have im- 

 proved our original smoker and had the improve- 

 ments patented. 



Our designs anil improvements in uncapping 

 knives and bellows bee smokers mark an epoch iu 

 apiculture, and have revolutionized the tools of 

 the apiary and th^ management of bi>es. The 

 record of our bee smokers and knives is simply 

 phenominal. Thousands of the smokers have 

 been in use in all kinds of apiaries and in all 

 countries from five to ten years and are yet ser- 

 viceable. The knives will last a lifetime, and no 

 one. it is safe to say, will ever improve them. 

 They do perfectly the work required of them, 

 which is also true of our smokers. Tools that do 

 perfectly the work required of them are never 

 changed materially. 



We make six kinds and sizes of bee smokers. 

 The four higher priced have wide shields to pro 

 tect the hands and bellows from heat; the two 

 lower priced have narrow shields to protect the 

 bellows. All are made on the same principle 

 and have the strongest draft and blast of any 

 smokers made. Our invention enables us to burn 

 sound stove wood and chips, bark, rags, rotten 

 wood, tobacco, shavings, hay, or anything coni- 

 bnstible without fnssing or loss of fire. Our 



" Doctor " and Conqaeror smokers are the larg- 

 est, most perfect. moBt valuable and most eco- 

 nomical bee smokers ever nsed by bee-keepers. 

 They cost perhaps a dollar more, but that dollar 

 represents only ten cents per year for ten years 

 of ease, comfort, satisfaction iind instant, cer- 

 tain, and absolute control of the most vicious 

 colonies of bees without fear o' favor or fassing 

 with lost fire. The ten cents jjer year woald be 

 saved in matches to say nothing of stings and 

 lost temper incident to nnscicnt ific bee smokers. 



The least pressure of a Bingham smt>ker bel- 

 lows moves tne smoke so gently and in snch a 

 soft soothing cloud that the bees hardly realize 

 that they have a master whom they must obey. 

 Every particle of air that a Bingham smoker bel- 

 lows contains, and much more, is forced through 

 the smouldering fuel and utilized. No snapping 

 of the bellows, no squeaking springe, no nervous 

 hast<^ frightening the bees into remote corners, 

 or balling the queen. Witha Bingham smoker the 

 bee-keepei may smoke much or little just as he 

 pleases. He is master of the smoker — not the 

 smoker master of him. 



To soothe and contrt)l is the office of a Bing- 

 ham bee smoker and it does that perfectly, either 

 side up, in all positions alike, in season and out 

 of season. Such a smoker inspires the confi- 

 dence and respect not only of the bee-keeper, 

 but of the bees. 



Our latest smoker invention consists of a 

 movable cap or hood which deflects or tarns the 

 blast of smoke nearly at a right angle t« the 

 stove ; and a coiled steel wire handle firmly at- 

 tached to the tapering nozzle by which the noz- 

 zle is removed and replaced, even when the 

 smoker is red hot, without inconvenience or 

 danger. The handle may be used without the 

 hood. These peculiar features were very 

 thoroughly tested by many noted and extensive 

 bee-keepers last season and pronounced valuable 

 inventions. We do not put them cm any smokers 

 uidess so ordered, as we charge twenty-five cents 

 extra for them. We send them per mail, post- 

 paid, with printed directions how to put them 

 on Bingham smokers now in tise, provided the 

 order specifies the size of the smoker to be fitted 

 and contains 2^) cents. 



Bingham & Hetherington Uncapping Knife. 



Patented Jlay 29. 1V70. 



Price of Bingham bee smokers and uncapping 

 knives.per mail, post paid : The Doctor, the 

 largest bee smoker made, has a stove i:5xH' ., 

 inches, S2 0f): Conqueror. lUx:?. S1.7.t; Large. 

 n'.-x2'... $1.50: Extra, U'jxi, »1.2.=i: Plain, 11x2, 

 $1.(K) ; Little Wonder, 10x1 'i, 6.i cents. Bingham 

 & Hetherington uncapping knife, SLl."). 



To sell again, send for dozen rates. 



BINGHAM PERFECT 



BEE SMOEEB 



Pnt'd 1878, 188'-', <t 180'.'. 



Cheapest & Best on Earth. 



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Hiiigliam&IIetlieringtoii 



ABRONIA, MICH. 



