--For $3.00 cash we will send the “American Apiculturist” one year and one of our fertilizing hives containing four combs with brood and one-half pound of bees and a choice selected queen--the hive will also be supplied with one of our cone feeders. With this small nucleus colony one can rear a number of queens during the season and it will be a great help in learning queen-rearing. --Advertisers will please notice the change in our rates, 15 cents per line each insertion. There are about seven words to the line, and twelve lines to the inch. In sending copy always write it on one side of a separate sheet of paper and be very particular to have the names, addresses, etc., very plain. Parties unknown to us must send cash with the order. All copy for advertisements and manuscript must reach us by the first of the month, if they are to appear in the following number which we shall issue on the 15th of the month until December. _LETTER BOX._ _Des Moines, Ia._ DEAR SIR: Am in receipt of Vols. 1 & 2 of the “American Apiculturist” handsomely bound in cloth with an enormous golden bee on the front cover. Happy bee! to thus repose upon a production that has sprung up under the skies of Quinby, Carey, Parsons, Elwood, Alley, Hetherington, Doolittle, L. C. Root, and a host of northeastern beekeepers who have honored the calling. The attractiveness of the book and its practical teaching should find for it a ready sale. J. M. SHUCK. _Willamina, Yarnhill Co., Ore_. _April 22, 1885._ S. M. LOCKE, SIR: I have just received your first and second volumes bound together in cloth, and must say that it exceeds my greatest expectations. Every beekeeper should have it. FRANK S. HARDING, Pres. of the Willamette Valley B. A. _Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio._ DEAR SIR: Vols. 1 & 2 of the “Apiculturist” received, and after carefully examining its contents, I have no hesitancy in pronouncing it fully up to any bee journal published. Its contributors are first-class, and show by their articles that they are men of ability. I highly approve of your treatment and condemnation of fraud in every shape. I am pleased to meet with the familiar face of our old friend Mr. Langstroth in Vol. 2. He lives within 200 yards of me, and is one of the dearest old men I ever knew. A person has only to know him to appreciate his worth. D. A. MCCORD. _Battle Ground, Ind., April 13, 1885._ _Dear Sir_: The “Am. Apiculturist” came safe to hand, and having examined its contents, or rather the headings of the major part of the book, I pronounce it _ne plus ultra_. It should be in the hands of every respectable beekeeper of our broad land, it being complete and full of most useful knowledge. With many thanks I am, sir, very truly yours in fraternal bonds of apiculture.