IQ Gleanings in Bee Culture 



WITH OUR READERS AND ADVERTISERS 



"Will you please suspend publication of our 'help wanted ' ad. in Glean- 

 ings? We are simply swamped with replies, and every one, nearly, a desira- 

 ble man. We wanted only one now; but we have so many replies it is a task 

 even to acknowledge them." The above is a letter recently received from the 

 Rocky Mountain Bee Company, who have used our columns on various oc- 

 casions, and always, we believe, with satisfactory results. 



To many it might seem that a two or three line ad. in the classified de- 

 partment of a paper like Gleanings would not be especially satisfactory in 

 point of returns; but a trial of them will convince you that quite the oppo- 

 site is the fact. Our readers can get a double value from the "classified ad- 

 vertising" department. In the first place, a careful perusal of these small 

 advertisements in every issue will often result in the purchase of some honey, 

 supplies, bees, or queens, or some poultry or eggs, at a very reasonable price. 

 Through this department exchanges are made, positions secured and given, 

 all with very little trouble or expense, and invariably to the satisfaction of 

 the reader. 



On the other hand, there is hardly a reader of our magazine who at some 

 time or other hasn't occasion to sell something; and through what better me- 

 dium can he make such sales than his own paper, where he may put his wares 

 before those interested in the same general pursuits? The cost is small, and 

 one or two insertions are generally sufficient to make sales. When you are 

 cleaning up this spring, if you find a lot of things that are really good but 

 that you have no use for, try offering them through the classified department 

 of this paper at a reasonable price and turn them into money. It doesn't re- 

 quire any effort on your part. Gleanings does the work. 



If you need help for your spring work, or if you haven't enough of your 

 own work to do, you will find that Gleanings can help you out. A "help 

 wanted " advertisement will bring responses from those who really want to 

 work and are reliable; and if you are looking for a place either in an apiary 

 or on a farm you will find our readers very responsive to this class of adver- 

 tising. 



It will pay our reaciers well to peruse the classified columns of every 

 issue very carefully, and to make a liberal use of them whenever occasion 

 requires! 



