Average Yield 100 lbs, per Colony 



WHEN you subscribe for a newspaper or a magazine do you 

 consider first the cost or whether it will be worth all it 

 costs and more in the returns it will bring you? 

 ' ' Gleanings in Bee Culture ' ' has tried for years to be interesting 

 and entertaining, and all the while to publish matter that is really 

 VALUABLE — that will return to its subscribers many times over 

 the subscription price. The following letter is to the point: 



Corker Stone, Ark., Sept. 19, 1913. 



The a. I. Root Co: — Look me up and see if my subscription to 

 Gleanings has not expired. I have been a busy man this year; in other 

 words, I have had a good many irons in the tire. 



I am a " counter-hopper," salesman by trade, and my side lines have 

 been bees, truck-growing, and chickens. You will, therefore, please excuse 

 if I have been tardy in remitting. You have never missed sending a num- 

 ber; so if my time is out, I thank you for your kindness, and I will try to 

 be more promjDt in future. I think nearly as much of Gleanings as I do 

 of my banner colony. But it would not have been a banner one, I am sure, 

 if it were not for A B C and Gleanings, and to these two I attribute my 

 success. 



This is my third year with bees ; and as A B C says go into the honey 

 business on tlie tiptoe, I have followed its advice and built up from two 

 to twelve colonies. Next season I will branch a little. 



We have 2400 acres under cultivation here, all cotton, so you will 

 readily see that cotton is my honey-plant. Well, there are a few fruit-trees 

 scattered around, and a little clover in places that the plow can't reach, 

 that help out in early spring; but if any one were to ask from what source 

 my bees get their nectar I would point with a proud finger to the millions 

 of cotton blooms. 



From my twelve hives, to date, I have taken off 961 lbs. of comb honey, 

 an average of 801/2 lbs. I shall have 200 more pounds to take off by Octo- 

 ber, which will raise my average to 96% lbs.; and if I were to return all 

 unfinished sections and apply the feeders, I feel sure that my colony 

 average would be considerably over 100 lbs. Now, I do not know, but it 

 strikes me that I have made my bees do pretty well, and the drouth we have 

 had too was against me to a certain extent. 



The Danzenbaker hive is the hive here for the production of comb 

 honey. I have tried other makes, but they all slip a cog somewhere, though 

 every thing is seemingly all right. 



Enclosed will find $2.75. Send me a new ABC, continue Gleanings, 

 and an additional 25 cts. to pay exchange on my check. 



Yours, S. W. Bos well, Jr. 



Subscription $1.00 per Year 



The A. I. Root Company, Medina, Ohio 



