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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1 



FASHION BOOK FREE! 



I want to send you my handsome new 

 book showing hundreds of latest styles 

 with illustrated lessons on cutting and 

 dressmaking. I will agree to sell you all 

 the patterns you want for five cts. each. 

 They are the same patterns you have al- 

 ways paid 10c & 15c for at the 

 stores, made by the same peo- 

 ple.and correct in every detail. 



HOW I DO IT. 



I publish the FARMER'S 

 CALL, a weekly paper for 

 every member of the family. 

 An especially interesting fea- 

 ture each week are the chil- 

 dren's letters : and theWoman's 

 Department is unusually strong 

 and Instructive. Among the 

 special features for Women 

 folks, is its fashions in which I 

 show the 5c patterns. Let me 

 help vou to save inonev. 



MY SPECIAL OFFER 



Send me 25c and I will stud you 

 the Farmer's Call every week 

 (over 1000 pages) for one year and will send my big 

 Fashion Book to you free. I also agree to sell you any 

 pattern you want thereafter for 5c. I can sell them for 

 6 cts because I buy them by the thousand and don't make 

 any profit I don't want the profit. I want your sub- 

 scription to the FARMER'S CALL. You will save many 

 times the cost of mv offer in a year. WRITE TO-DAYI 

 JOHN M.STAHL,.Dept. G», QUINCY^ILU 



FlowerLanguage 



Post Cards ^^ 

 FREE 



TO YOU 



A series of 

 beauti- 

 ful cards 



Do yon know the 

 1 a nguaee the 

 flowers talk? 

 Here is a wonder- 

 ful series of twelve 

 beautiful Flower 

 Language Post Cards 

 that I will lend to 

 you absolutely free. Only send me ten cents for 

 a six month's trial subscription to my big 24-psge 

 journal, THE GLEANER, which is of interest to 

 every member of the family, and I will send you 

 all twelve of these beautiful cards absolutely free 

 as a present. Each card portrays a different clust- 

 er of life colored flowers arranged in artistic de- 

 signs reproduced from paintings by J. Leslie Mel- 

 ville. Each card has a beautiful poem written by 

 O. Preston Wynne, revealing the language of the 

 flowers in verse. 'Think of it, 



12 Beautiful Post Cards 



and THE GLEANER for six months on 

 trial for only 10 cents and REMEMBER that if 

 you will write me at once I have a surprise for 

 vou. Don't forget to ask about it. Don't lay thii 

 down and say "I'll send for these tomorrow;" 

 WRITE RIGHT NOW. 



G. H. SLOCUM. Publisher 

 904 Majestic Bldg. Detroit. Mich. 



SHipping'-cases 



for any number or size of sections desired. These cases are made of 

 fine white basswood, and the workmanship is first class. Owing to the 

 shortage in the honey crop last year we have a good stock on hand and 

 can make immediate shipment. 



Twelve-inch case, with follower, to hold 24; or eight-inch case, with 

 follower, to hold twelve beeway sections, shipped when no size is men 

 tioned. All cases single tier unless otherwise ordered. 



Honey-packages in Tin. 



Standard packages for storing and shipping extracted honey. Less 

 chaoce for leakage or taint from wood; being square they economize 

 space. Five-gallon cans boxed two or one in a box; gallon cans 10, 

 /4-gallon cans 12 to box. Five, one, or 54 gallon cans not boxed if desired. 

 Prices on application for any quantity. 



Place your order now; prices and prompt shipment guaranteed. 



MINNESOTA BEE SUPPLY COMPANY 

 123 Nicollet Islai\€l, Mix\x\eapolis, Mii:&i\. 



A BIG RENEWAL OFFER! 



TWO BEE-PAPERS FOR ABOUT THE PRICE OF ONE. 

 American Bee Journal, 1 yr., $0.75 11 o"" '•"'^e 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture, 1 yr., 1.00 $1.25 



$1 .75 I] FOR THE TWO 



New subscribers at same rate. Sample copy of Bee Journal free. Send all orders to — 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, ,. 1 1 8 W. Jackson, ., CHICAGO, ILL. 



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Twenty-flve Years' Practice. 



CHARLES J. WILLIAMSON, 



Second Nat'l Bank Bldg,. Washington, D. C 



Patent practice in Patent Office and Courts. 

 Patent Counsel of The A. I. Root Co. 



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