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I have no objection to answer communications if a stamp 
is enclosed. Parties writing, will please write their names 
and P. O. address distinctly — to avoid mistakes. 
Bee-keepers infringing upon my patent-hive, or any part 
of it, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Any 
person giving information will be suitably rewarded. 
I am constantly in receipt of letters asking for hives on 
credit either for their own use or to sell to others. Owing 
to the great rush of business I now have to attend to, it will 
be impossible for me to comply with their requests. The 
sending of references would all be very well in ordinary 
times. With the help of several assistants, I have all I can 
possibly do in answering letters and filling cash orders. 
Consequently I have no time to look after references, but 
have to confine myself to a cash business exclusively. 
Therefore 1 hope my friends will excuse me and send their 
money instead of references. 
Customers ordering hives will please look over the list of 
articles carefully. The hive can be filled with fixtures for 
other hives, small boxes ready made or larger ones unmade. 
By letting out the hive it will hold fixtures for a dozen hives, 
besides a dozen or two of boxes, and the freight would be no 
more than on a separate hive, and at the same time when 
frames, boxes, &c., are ordered it would be economy to have 
them packed in a Compound Hive, as the freight would be 
no more than on a common box. The hive I will call at 
the low wholesale price, as per price list in this book. 
Italian Dee Book sent free to all parties ordering Italian 
queens. 
Guide to Apiarian Science. — Edition of 1858 is now ex- 
hausted. Another season I anticipate issuing an im- 
proved and enlarged edition, which will probably come at 
one dollar each, bound in muslin, with gilt back, which will 
be purely a practical and scientific work. 
Secrets of Bee-Keeping , published in 1863, is now ex- 
hausted. I therefore refer the bee-keeper to the present 
