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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June I 





"H Goods are wanted Quick, Send to Pouder." 

 Established 1 889 



A TEXT FROM JAMES 



By the Bee Crank 



Yes, the bee sings — I confess it, 

 Sweet as honey — Hea\en bless it. 

 Yet 'twould be a sweeter singer 

 If it didn't have a stinger. 



—Jamti Whilcomb Riley. 



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Root's 



Root's 

 Prices 

 with 

 Pouder 

 Service 



And the bee would have more verses for 

 his song and more pounds of honey to his 

 credit if he kept out of the stinging business; 

 for if a bee stings you it is a dead one. My 

 Hoosier Italians are very gentle, and I have 

 no fear of stings; but I sometimes think I 

 could sell more bee-veils if I would send out 

 bees that were inclined to be cross. 



I am not partial to making a big noise ; 

 but I offer no apology for the humming sound, 

 which can not be quieted around my hive; it's 

 no bumble-bee's song— all noise and no honey. 

 I am busy storing up something for myself ; 

 I but that my patrons have found my services 



equally profitable is evidenced by the thou- 

 ' sands of successful bee-men that twenty years of 



square dealing enables me to count among my friends. 

 There has never been a name in my files of a patron whom 

 I can not to-day look squarely in the face, for in none of my 

 deahngs has any one ever been 'stung." 



It would be unfair to claim that, if you have had unsatis- 

 factory service elsewhere, the supply man was always to blame. 

 Just at present the demar.d here for Root's goods is almost in 

 the form of a panic, and even with the best and most complete 

 stock of new goods, all under one roof and with all of the latest 

 and rapid methods of handling the business, I find that in some 

 cases I am obliged to delay certain orders for a few days, 

 believing that it is only fair to fill our orders in the rotation as 

 received. Mail packages and express orders go the day the 

 order is received; but freight orders must take their turn. I 

 certainly have the confidence of the bee-men, and no efforts 

 will ever be spared to maintain it. 



My catalog of bee-supplies is free, and 1 should like to mail it to you. If 

 more convenient you can make up your order from the Root catalog, as my prices 

 are always identical v^iih their foctory schedule. 



BEESWAX. — I am now paying 29c cash or 31c in trade, delivered here. 



Goods 

 at 



Walter S. Pouder, Indianapolis, Indiana 



859 Massachusetts Avenue 



