
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, in the Clerk s 
Office of the District Court ol' the United States for the District ot 
Iowa, and in the year 1872 in the Office or the Librarian of Congress, by 
E. KRETCHMER, of Cobuiio. Iowa. 
TO THE l'RESS. 
* 37 “ Editors of Agricultural Journals and other periodicals arc request- 
ed to noiice the appearance of this work, and are invited to make extracts, 
by A®'y 1 eJfitor who sends us his terms of advertising, with a copy of his 
caper in which the " American Bee Keeper’s Guide ” is noticed in due 
form giving our address, and stating that one copy or our pamphlet will 
be sent free of charge to any bee-keeper, will receive by return mail a copy 
of the “American Bee-Keeper’s Guide.” with an individual right for 
using the Champion Bee Hives, with “ bill of measure,” and directions 
i'or making the same, 
