TO OUR PATRONS 



For tlie convenience of our patrons we some 

 time ago established a series of agencies in the 

 principal business centers of this country, chiefly 

 with a view to the much more expeditious ship- 

 ment of goods. Every one knows, who has much 

 to do with railroads, that they are provokingly 

 slow just at the very time the buyer is waiting 

 for the goods. This is particularly true of bee- 

 keepers who do not know what their requirements 

 will be until the season has almost arrived. Then 

 they order the goods in a great hurry, expecting 

 to get them in a few days, whereas the railroad 

 people consume weeks in getting the goods to 

 the destination. To overcome this we have cov- 

 ered the country with agencies. Some of these 

 are our own, and some are not. It is immaterial 

 to the consumer which is which, for they all sell 

 (or nearly all) at our Medina prices. They can 

 do this because the charges on a carload of bee- 

 supplies are small compared with the individual 

 charges on small lots. There are other advan- 

 tages. Many can go to some nearby city and 

 purchase the goods after having inspected them. 

 Others drop in to have the uses of the various 

 apiarian articles explained. 



OUR NEW YORK BRANCH. 



This branch was established chiefly to take 

 care of our foreign trade, which had grown to 

 large dimensions, and which we found impossible 

 to cope with from Medina alone. We hae 

 made no effort to draw local trade to this office 

 because we have branches at Syracuse and Phila- 

 delphia, but in spite of ourselves a trade has 

 grown up tributary to the city of New York. 

 Persons doing business in the metropolis, but 

 living in the suburbs, found it very convenient 

 to call at our office and order their supplies as 

 needed. Others living at a considerable distance 

 from the city, but who occasionally visit it on 

 business, took the opportunity to call and see us, 

 and in consequence gave us their business. The 

 office is located in the E-Teiiiiig Post building, op- 

 posite St. Paul's Church, and just around the 

 corner from the old Astor House. It is near the 

 postoffice. 



We have no stock of goods there, the ware- 

 house being located in Hoboken for convenience 

 to the shipping. The address is Evening Post 

 Bldg. , Vesey St., Telephone 543 Cortland t. 



OUR PHILADELPHIA BRANCH. 



This is in charge of William A. Selser, a vet- 

 eran in the bee business, and a prominent author- 

 ity on the subject of honey. Having been so 

 long in the business, all the time in the vicinity 

 of the Quaker City, Mr. Selser is peculiarly able 

 to give assistance and advice to beginners and 

 others not so well informed perhaps. Usually 

 we carry quite a stock of goods there, wherewith 

 we supply Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 

 Maryland, and Delaware, and even points much 

 further away. Twice a week during the season 

 the manager gives lessons to persons who wish to 

 see how various appliances are used. For this 

 purpose the spectators need not leave the building 

 as we have an apiary on the roof. We also have 

 other large apiaries near the city where are bred 

 bees and queens. Here we have had"field days" 

 when as many as 1000 bee-keepers assembled to 

 see some of the leading experts do stunts with 

 bees. This shows the strength of the bee-keep- 



ing interests in and round Philadelpliia. If you 

 can make use of this branch we shall be glad to 

 have you do so, as our facilities are full and com- 

 plete in all departments. Mr. Selser has a big 

 lund of information to draw on, and is at your 

 service. The address is The A. 1. Root Co., 10 

 Vine St., Philadelphia. 



THE WASHINGTON BRANCH. 



This branch was established to cope with the 

 trade of Virginia, Western Maryland, and ad- 

 jacent territory. Contrary to general opinion, 

 the capital city of our nation is very favorably 

 situated for business purposes. This is more 

 particularly true of Virginia and Western Mary- 

 land, which can be served with great prompti- 

 tude and despatch by the railways from Wash- 

 ington, also by way of the Potomac Ri\cr 

 steamers. Lately this branch has been greatly 

 favored with orders, and we judge from tiiis our 

 friends have found out its value as a shipping- 

 point. Our manager there is Mr. W. T. Ker- 

 rick, an expeiienced bee-keeper. This office is 

 situated at 1100 Maryland Ave., S. W., and 

 may be easily found by strangers on a visit. 



OUR CHICAGO OFFICE. 



As the greatest railroad center of the world, it 

 was long manifest to us before we actually de- 

 cided on it that we ought to have a branch es- 

 tablishment in Chicago from which we could 

 ship orders that are needed in a great hurry. In 

 a number of other ways there are great advan- 

 tages in having a Chicago warehouse, chief of 

 which is the opportunity of being able to ship on 

 the very railroad near which the bee-keeper lives. 

 This insures better service, quicker transport, 

 and lower rates. Then, again, many of our cus- 

 tomers who perchance may visit the city find it 

 convenient to call on us, and in this way we be- 

 come more conversant with their wants and de- 

 sires. We need not enlarge on the advantages 

 of this office, as they will be obvious to most of 

 our readers who live in the region tributary to 

 Chicago. Our manager there is R. W. Boyden, 

 who is always on hand to attend to the wants of 

 our friends, and who is very glad to see callers 

 who are interested in bee-keeping. The office 

 address is. The A. I. Root Co., 144 E. Erie St., 

 Chicago, 111. 



THE A. I. ROOT CO. IN SYRACUSE. 



Here we have in complete charge Mr. F. A. 

 Salisbury, whose name was familiar to American 

 bee-keepers 25 years ago, and has been ever since. 

 He has many friends who enjoy sending him an 

 order every year with clocklike regularity. Syra- 

 cuse is right in the heart of a bee country, and 

 last year when every one else was complaining of 

 "hard times" Mr. Salisbury did quite his usual 

 amount of business, possibly a little more. 

 Much of this is due to his personal qualities as a 

 business man with years of good reputation be- 

 hind him. He is, in addition, situated in a fine 

 business center so as to reach New England and 

 New York. He also knows the importance of 

 getting out orders in a hurry when the honey- 

 flow is in sight. He has been there himself, and 

 has a fellow-feeling for the belated customer who 

 leaves off ordering to the last moment. The 

 A. I. Root Co., Syracuse, N. Y. , is sufficient. 



The A. I. Root Co., Medina, O, 



