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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Aug. 15 



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

 Established 1 889 



Survival of the Fittest 



By the Baa Crank 



Root's 



Goods 



at 

 Root's 



Prices 



with 



Pouder 

 Service 



The tales of those new-fangled things 



We read of, near and far, 

 Sound too delightful to be true— 



And many of them are. 



My twenty-years' experience in hunting for and 

 testing out new things for bee-men has brought to my 

 attention a great many devices for which great claims 

 were made. Some of these made good, but very many 

 proved to be bubbles which burst at the first touch of 

 actual service. My own experience is not different 

 from the other fellows', for I remember how I had plan- 

 ned to construct a bee-escape some years ago that 

 would be practical, when a man by the name of Porter 

 instead of Pouder came out with one so perfect that it 

 could never be improved. Then I had dreams about 

 a veil with a flexible celluloid face, but I soon learned 

 that better veils were already on the market. Then I 

 devised an open-cornered section, and I supposed 

 every bee-man in the whole country would demand 

 them all at once when announced. The bee-men did 

 not look at it that way. Then I devised a honey- 

 extractor to take frames in the same position they are 

 in the hive. I named it the "Paragon," and I sup- 

 posed that every up-to-date bee-man would want a 



"Paragon." I had just one model made to begin with __ 



=* — and I am glad I had only one, for I finally disposed *" — 



of it at just a little below cost. 



Just now I am deeply interested in a new gas-oven for melting gran- 

 ulated honey, so constructed that the honey will get away from the neat as 

 fast as it becomes fluid, and I am wondering if my oven will be a bubble. 

 Anyhow, I have in stock at all times a complete stock of Root's Standard 

 Goods, and my patrons assure me of their satisfaction in the fact that any 

 thing listed in my catalog has been tried out, and can be depended on for 

 perfection in prmciple and honest workmanship. I find that it is just as 

 desirable to weed out undesirable articles as to be up to the minute on new 

 novelties. 



If you have not received my catalog let me send it to you. It will cost 

 you nothing, and you will probably be reminded of something that you had 

 mtended to get with which to save labor and increase your profits. 



BEESWAX. — I am now paying 28 cts. cash or 30 cts. in trade. 



HONEY. — At this writing I have stored in my basement more than 500 

 five-gallon cans of very finest extracted honey in new cans. Bee-keepers 

 as well as dealers are buying this honey, and it is entirely free from any 

 honey-dew. Fancy comb honey is also arriving from Michigan and Wiscon- 

 sin, but thus far all lots have been sold before arrival. If interested, write 

 for my monthly (juotations and samples. 



Walter S. Pouder, Indianapolis, Indiana 



859 Massachusetts Avenue 



