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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Christmas Gifts 



for the whole Family 



A few timely sugfgestions which will help 

 to solve the perplexing question of 

 Appropriate Christmas Remembrances. 



FOR FATHER: A year's subscription to Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture and a cloth-bound copy of the 1913 edition 

 of The ABC and X Y Z of Bee Culture. 

 Advanced Bee Culture, by the late W. Z. Hutchinson 

 Advanced Bee Culture and Gleanings one year. 

 The Dollar Hen (a practical book on poultry culture) 

 with Gleanings in Bee Culture one year 

 Root Standard Smoker (tin) with 

 Gleanings In Bee Culture one year, 

 Langstroth on the Honeybee 

 Langstroth on the Honeybee, with 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture, one year 



FOR MOTHER: A set of Quality Knives, 



See pniare 19, Nov. 1 Gleanings. This set consists of three knives 

 — one SLICER, one BUTCHER, and one PARING- KNIFE. 

 Blades of best tempered crucible steel, and finished with the 

 highest polish it i=! possible to put on metal. Good handles. A 

 first-class set of knives." 



One Set of Quality Knives and a year's subscrip- 

 tion to Gleanings in Bee Culture, .... 



FOR DAUGHTER: A copy of How to Keep Bees . 



By Anna Botsford Comstock. A charminsriy written book which 

 introduces the reader in a most interesting: way to the bee, giv- 

 ing in clear language all of the details of beekeeping so essential 

 to success of an amateur. 



How to Keep Bees and a year's subscription to 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture, 



A Set of Three Pairs of Scissors, 



Of different sizes, having elaborately designed gold-plated hand 

 les, nickel-plated polished blades. See Gleanings, Oct. 1, p. is 



One Set of Scissors, with a year's sub.scription to 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture, 

 FOR SISTER: Standard Domestic Science Cook Book 



Contains , is departments, no illustrations; excellent cook hook 

 and a year's subscription to Gleanings, 



FOR SON OR BROTHER: A copy of Dr. C. C. Miller 



Fifty Years Among the Bees 



Fifty Years Among the Bees, and 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture one year. 



$2.50 

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 1.50 



1.50 



1.75 

 1.25 



1.75 

 100 



1.50 

 1.00 



1.50 

 1.00 



1.50 



2.50 

 1.00 

 1.50 



Subscription to GLEANINGS may be to one address and the rest 

 of the combination to another, if so desired. . . Foreign postage 

 on the Combination Oifers, 60c extra; Canadian postage, 30c extra. 



The A. I. Root Co., Medina, O. 



