1909 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



GENERAL ADVERTISERS. 



Some large general advertisers still hesitate to try Gleanings in Bee Culture, 

 being under the impression that it is nothing but a class magazine. The letter below, 

 lately received from a former subscriber, contains a significant statement. His opinion, 

 representative as it is of hundreds of expressions received by us, ought to convince any 

 advertiser. Such subscribers are sure to be good patrons of our advertisers. 



West NashviHo, Tenn. , Jan. 25, 1909. 

 The A. I. Root Company, 



Uedlna, Ohie. 

 Gentlemen: -- 



Replying to yours of Jan. 7, with inquiry as to my 

 reason for discontinuing Gleanings, I will say that I have 

 the numhers of that magazine for a year and a half, and have 

 read ahout one-fourth of their contents. I also have a 

 copy of your latest ABC and X Y Z, and have not read it as 

 much as I should; therefore I thought it best to discontinue 

 my bee-papers for a time, any way. 



My opinion of Gleanings and its publishers is the 

 highest. I do not know of a cleaner, higher-toned period- 

 ical. In general moral tone it has most of the religious 

 publications beaten ''to a frazzle, •' and its genuine inter- 

 est in its readers and their homes and home-life makes it 

 more than a class or trade journal. 



Assuring you that it is my intention to be again 

 numbered among your subscribers at no very distant date, 



I am 



Host sincerely yours, 



E. J. Adkisson. 



Quality of Circulation. Gleanings numbers more than 35,000 subscribers, the 

 very highest grade of readers — about one-half prosperous farmers, the other half men and 

 women in all walks of life — all intensely interested in bee culture. This represents a very 

 general circulation all over the country. 



The Final Test. Do advertisers in Gleanings get results? If we haS your eye and 

 ear for five minutes we could prove to your entire satisfaction that no medium in this 

 country, circulation considered, has as handsome a record of bona-fide results. This has 

 been shown over and over again by the returns that have been received by many and dif- 

 ferent lines of general (as well as specially apropos) lines of business that have been and 

 are using space. We might cite scores of cases, but have room for only a few — such as 

 Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Co.; Kitselman Bros.; R. M. Kellogg Co.; Darling & 

 Beahan; Seaboard Air Line; Farm Journal; W. Atlee Burpee & Co.; Bateman Mfg. Co.; 

 M. M. Johnson Co. 



We will gladly send specific data on this matter of results to any advertiser asking for 

 them. For any other particulars address 



Advertising Dept. CLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, Medina, O. 



