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April. 19ir 



Amorican^ec Jonrnalj 



Weber Service! 



At this time of the year it is especially important that the Beekeeper be 

 able to secure his supplies without delay. With the promise of an early spring 

 and a heavy honey-flow this is doubly important. 



Root's Goods and Weber Service 



IS A COMBINATION THAT IS HARD TO BEAT 



We have a reputation for prompt delivery and quick service. Being 

 located in Cincinnati, the gateway of the South, we can save you considerable 

 in transportation charges. 



Our 1915 catalog will be promptly mailed to any one interested. 



C. H. W. WEBER & CO., 



2146 Central Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 



A Glimpse Behind the Scenes 



While the majority of Beekeepers are familiar with the Eoot honey extractors, smokers, wax 

 presses, foundation mills, swarm catchers, queen excluders, queen and drone traps, etc., and have used 



devoted entirely to the manufac- 

 ture of this class of ^oods, which 

 will "five the reader a faint idea 



these for many years, there are 

 not many who have had the op. 

 portunity of seeing these manu. 

 factured, and they do not, there- 

 fore, realize the number of opera- 

 tions required before the finished 

 product is finally turned out and 

 the many and costly machines 

 needed. For the benefit of these 

 we show the accompanying illus- 

 tration, showing only a corner of 

 one of the three Departments 



Partial view of the machine shop, one of the 

 three Departments devoted to metal goods 



of some of the machinery em- 

 ployed in the manufacture of our 

 uietal goods, whicli have achieved 

 a world-wide reputation, so much 

 so that today the Root Hon(\v Ex- 

 tractor is used almost exclusively 

 all over the world, while nearly 

 all of the foundation now used 

 is made with our foundation mills. 



Root's Goods are a synonym for perfect workmanship and the best of raw material. 

 THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY, Executive Offices and Factory, MEDINA, OHIO 



New York, 139-141 Franklin St. 

 Philadelphia, 8 10 Vine St. 

 Chicago, 21,5 West Ohio St. 

 St. Paul, 850 Payne Ave. 



— Branch Offices — 



San Francisco, 58 Sutter St. 

 Des Moines, 01.5-917 Walnut St. 

 Syracuse, lf)31 West Genesee St. 

 Indianapolis, 85il Massachusetts Ave. 



Zanesville, Ohio. 

 Mechanic Falls, Maine. 

 Washington, 1 100 Maryland Ave., S. W. 

 Los Angeles, Calif., 048 11. Second St. 



