LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 
I. B. LINFIELD, Director, 
Agricultural Experment Station, 
. Bozeman, Montana. 
Dear Sir:— 
The accompanying paper, entitled practical bee-keeping, de- 
signed for the use of the beginner and small apiarist, adapted to the 
state of Montana, has been prepared by Mr. Ralph Benton, a 
graduate of the Montana Agricultural College in the class of 1906. 
Mr. Benton is well qualified to write on this subject having had a 
lifelong experience with bees with his father, who is the Apiarist of 
the United States Department of Agriculture, and having also had 
several years of practical experience in Montana. The paper was 
submitted in lieu of a thesis and was prepared during Mr. Benton’s 
senior year. 
Several photographs made by myself are submitted for illus- 
trations; several others have been borrowed, credit for each bor- 
rowed cut being placed in the legend. 
The results of our experiments in apiculture are summarized 
by Mr. Benton, it seeming to be desirable to publish a popular 
bulletin covering in a general way the whole subject of apiculture 
in’ Montana, rather than to publish in separate bulletins such a gen- 
eral work and in addition a detailed statement of our experiments. 
I recommend that this paper be published as Bulletin No. 67 of 
our regular series. 
R. A. COOLEY, 
Zoologist and Entomologist. 
Bozeman, Montana, Nov. 15, 1906. 
