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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 23. 19('S. 



Gorresponfl ence course in Bee Culture. 



Last fall we announced this course and made a special offer to students for early enrollment. We have secured quite 

 a number of students, but nearly every one of these wants to continue his own bee-keeping- so that we find ourselves with- 

 out a sufficient number to recommend to parties wanting help in their yards. 



We have inquiries now for help from a number of States — California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Pennsylva- 

 nia, Michigan, and other States. See what one of our students says : 



The a. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. La Costa, Texas, Jan. 38, 1905. 



Dear Sirs : — I am very grateful for the 1905 edition of the " A B C of Bee Culture ". I am highly pleased with your instructions in your 

 Correspondence Course. It brings out points the amateur could never find by reading bee-books as it gives the essential parts in rotation so to 

 explain them understandingly. It is like having a teacher or trying to study off-hand. Saving so much time and getting the foundation 

 started right is half the battle. I hope to be an expert bee-keeper some day. Should I fail I certainly could not blame you. Everything bear- 

 ing your name is first-class. May you ever prosper and live long to instruct us. With best wishes, Tours truly, W. B. Hesskbw. 



Send for our prospectus, or, better still, send us your order with $10.00, for which we will send yon : 



Complete Course of 17 Lessons. 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture 1 Year. 

 1 A B C of Bee Culture. 



We give in addition personal answers to as many questions as the student desires to ask, either on bee culture, loca- 

 tions, help, honey markets, or, in fact, any subject relating to bee-keeping. We know where many good locations are yet 

 untouched ; where the good honey markets are ; who is needing help, and hundreds of other things that the bee-keeper 

 wants to know. We can't tell you these things unless you ask. If you have hesitated to ask us, thinking we could not 

 well afford to give time to answer your questions, enroll in our Correspondence Course. Never mind if you have been a 

 bee-keeper for 20 years. If you do not need the lessons, the information we can give you by mail on a variety of topics 

 will more than pay you. Let us show you one case : 



A party became interested in bee-culture a few years ago and set about to build up a large apiary. He succeeded 

 remarkably well, but paid little or no attention to the honey markets, his time being taken up with other matters. The 

 third season he produced a very large crop of honey (150,000 pounds) and being unacquainted with the markets, he sent it 

 for sale to a large city, to a house no more familiar with the honey markets than he. It appears that they sold it at any 

 price they could get, for he told us later that the information we gave him of another market would have saved him over 

 a thousand dollars on the one sale. (He hadn't asked us for it, but learning of the situation we wrote him, but too late ; 

 the sale had been made.) Perhaps the American Bee Journal readers think they would not be benefited. We assure you 

 there are dozens of ways in which you can be helped. 



Here is what one of our customers thinks of our " A B C of Bee Culture ", which is included with the course : 



" After looking through the 1905 ' A B C of Bee Culture', just received to-day, I told 

 Mrs. C. I would not take $25.00 for it if I could not get another copy. — P. F. Conklin, 

 Elmira, N. T." 



The IVew Edition (1»05) "A U C ot Bee Culture'' is $1.30, 

 postpaid, if ordered alone. 



And another customer speaks thus of Gleanings in Bee Culture : 



Danville, N. J., Dec. 12, 1904. 

 Dear Sir ;— You ask if I have found " Gleanings " a good investment, and I can truly say the investment has not only been good, but 

 very good. Although I do not keep bees for profit at this writing, but hope to at some future time, will say that I am trying to learn all I can' 

 about the subject, and " Gleanings " adds more ideas to my limited store of knowledge than any other publication I receive? All the depart- 

 ments treated in this semi-monthly paper are very interesting to me, and I get anxious to see its pages when the date arrives for its appearance. 



Yours truly, Ralph P. Fisher. 



Don't you think $10.00 is a smali price for wliat we are offering you ? 



Gleanings (senti-nionthly, S'i pages) is ^I.OO per year if ordered alone. 



THE -A.. I. PIOOT OOL/IP^^A-ilSr"^, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



