. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. T. F. BINGHAM. FarWGll. MiGti. Patented May 20,18' BEST ON EARTH. Dilimer's GoinD Founflailon Why do thousands of bee-keepers prefer it to otoer makes? Because the bees like it best and accept it more readily. Dittmer's Process is Dittmer's It stands on its OWN NAME and its OWN FOUNDATION, to which alone It owes its reputation and merits. We are now ready to make prices for next aeason for WORKING WAX for CASH and for full line of Supplies. Wholesale and Retail. Free CataloR and Samples. QUS DITTMER, Augusta, Wis. Blentlon Bee Jonmal when vrrltlnK. Id


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. T. F. BINGHAM. FarWGll. MiGti. Patented May 20,18' BEST ON EARTH. Dilimer's GoinD Founflailon Why do thousands of bee-keepers prefer it to otoer makes? Because the bees like it best and accept it more readily. Dittmer's Process is Dittmer's It stands on its OWN NAME and its OWN FOUNDATION, to which alone It owes its reputation and merits. We are now ready to make prices for next aeason for WORKING WAX for CASH and for full line of Supplies. Wholesale and Retail. Free CataloR and Samples. QUS DITTMER, Augusta, Wis. Blentlon Bee Jonmal when vrrltlnK. Ideal Hive-Tool-"Best on the Market" Bee-keepers have long needed a special tool to aid them in properly manipulatlDg the hive-parts during the bee-season. The one shown here does the work to (This picture Is exactly one-half the size.) DESCRIPTION.—Tho Ideal Hive-Tool is made of hiKh-Erade malleahle iron, much like wrought iron, 8J^ inches lonK. The middle part is l 1-16 inches wide and l-'Al thick. The smaller end is I'a inches long, \f inch wide, and 7-32 thick, ending like a screw-driver. The larger end is wed^e-shaped, having a sharp semi- circular edge, making it almost perfect for prjing up supers, as it does nut mar the wood. What Some Bee-Experts Say of It. Louis C. Dadant (son of C. P. Dadant) wrote us May 10, 190?: "Your Hive-Tool is certainly the best on the market, and after having used one of them no bee-keeper would do without ; In the first edition (1903) of Dr. Miller's " Forty Vears Among the Bees," page 5S, he says: " Of all the hive-tools I have tried, I like best the Muench ; On Jan. T, 1907, he wrote us, saying he thought " just as much of the tool as ; Miss Wilson, Dr. Miller's assistant, says this of the Ideal Hive-Tool: "It is an ideal tool. In fact, I don't see how it could be improved upon. lam sure we would feel utterly lost in the apiary without it You will have to try


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