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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feh. 15. 



to advertise. A successful manufacturer 

 and advertiser of toilet .soap once said 

 that it cost, in advertising, six times the 

 price of a calse of soap, for each new cus- 

 tomer secured; but it was a profitable 

 I have sometimes thouglit that tlie pub- 



It Costs Money 



transaction, as a person once a customer remained a customer. ^- , , ^ , 



Usher of a g-ood paper could almost aflord to send it free one year to new subscribers for the salfe of mat 

 ins- people acquainted with his journal. 1 am not going 1o go as far as tliat, but I'll tell you how lar I 

 am going Of some issues of tlie liEViEW I have as many as 300 copies; of otiiers, 2011; of otliers, 100; and 

 so on down to less than a d<>z(>n. Now. if you will allow me to plclj them out, I will sell these back num- 

 bers at two cents a copy. Send me any amount up to fifty cents, and I will send you half as many copies 

 as you send me cents, and no two copies alike. Remember that back numbers of the Review are some- 

 what different from the b:ick luimbeis of some journHls— that eacli number is, to a certain extent, a little 

 book or pamphlet containing tlie views of leading bee-keepers upon some special topic. Stamps taken, 

 either U. S. or Canadian. _ „ ."^ ^^.. . ,«^ . . . 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Flint, Hichigan. 



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