1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1297 



" If goods are wanted c|uicK, send to Potider." 



Established 1889 



A 5TORY WITH 

 A MORAL 



By the Bee Crank 



Professor Bonnier, of the 

 Institute of France, in a 

 recent article states that the 

 remarkable intelligence of 

 bees in finding their way 

 home is taken advantage 

 of by a custom among the 

 Indians. They discover a 

 bee-tree in this way: They 

 catch a bee which has 

 alighted on a flower, and, 

 having carried it some dis- 

 tance, let it go, carefully 

 observing the direction it 

 takes. A little further on 

 they repeat the same thing with 

 another bee. They are sure to find 

 the tree at the point of the angle 

 formed by the course taken by the 

 bees, because it is a well-known 

 fact that a bee will return to its 

 home by the straightest line. 



MORAL. 



If you will intercept a number of 

 shipments of bee supplies, and note 

 the direction from which they came, 

 and draw straight lines on a map 

 to represent these directions, you 

 will find that nearly all of these lines 



converge in Indianapolis. 

 When a bee-keeper wants 

 supplies he does not want 

 them to reach him by a 

 roundabout route; he pre- 

 fers to have them come 

 straight. Indianapolis is 

 well called the " Pivot 

 City," because it is the cen- 

 ter fiom which radiate elec- 

 tric and steam railway lines 

 to every point of the com- 

 pass. This natural advan- 

 tage has been improved by 

 me by the adoption of every 

 business method which will insure 

 prompt and careful packing and im- 

 mediate shipments. I do not wait 

 until orders are received before send- 

 ing for a stock of goods with which 

 to fill the orders, but carry at all 

 times a full stock of Root's goods, 

 which are sold at Root's prices, less 

 five per cent for cash orders received 

 during November. 



BEESWAX. I have an outlet for 

 a large quantity of beeswax, and I pay 

 thehighest market prices, 28 cts. cash 

 or 30 cts. in trade delivered here. 



My illustrated catalog of bee sup- 

 plies is free. 



Walter S. Pouder, 



513-515 MassacKtisetts A.venu.e, Indianapolis, Ind. 



