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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURRAl. 



Dec. 7, IWS 



For 1906 



Gleanings lu 

 Bee Culture 

 for 1906 



We are bending every tfEurt to make Glean- 

 ings the best bee-paper ever issued. 1906 will be 

 the lianner year in our history. Beginning with 

 the Christmas number a great change will take 

 place. Frequent new cover designs. New de- 

 partment headings. Better paper. Better printing. More pages. 

 Our txcellent staff of contributors will be 

 maintained, and many splendid special articles 

 will be published. 



Root's Goods 

 for 1906 



I are 



Half-Tone 

 Illustrations 



During the past sum- 

 mer we have had a special 

 artist to take photo- 

 graphs for us. He has 



traveled on our account alone the past sum- 

 mer over 4000 miles, and we can promise some 



very fine pictures. Many of the Second Prize 



Photo Contest, American and Foreign, will 



appear soon. Our engravings are made by the 



very Hnest engravers in the United States. 



Just this wealth of illustration doubles the 



value of the paper. 



Advertisements ^se^fltTe "^^ 



class of advertisements it carries. Its sub- 

 scribers show their appreciation of the fact 

 by their liberally patronizing them. There 

 is no better medium in the United States for 

 those catering to the needs of the bee-keeper. 

 We now print 25.000 copies and yet with our 

 special edition (Dec. 15, 40,000) our old rates 

 hold good which were based on 20,000 circu- 

 lation. Gleanings gives its subscribeas and 

 advertisers full measure, pressed down and 

 running over. 



, . With all those im- 



SubSCriptiOn provements the price 

 Rates "'^' ^^ '■^^ same— $100 



per year. We make a 

 special rate of 6 months trial for 25 cents to those who have never 

 taken Gleanings. You will find Gleanings listed in all principal club 

 offers. We make many special inducements. In fact, we are just 

 waiting tor YOU to do your part. 



Our Hives 



We are running at Medina and vicinity 5 

 queen-rearing yards, at other points 3 more. We 

 are prepared to furnish our celebrated Red Clover 

 stock, a stock that won a splendid reputation for 



gathering honey from any source. We are also prepared to furnish 



bees in nuclei and full colonies. 



Our Bees 



and Queens 



Our Supplies for this year are of the same 



quality and standard of workmanship that has 



characterized our lines of previous years. Our 



motto is: " Not how much, but how good." 



In the matter of improvements it is generally conceded that we 



the leaders. We are constantly testing out every new device in 



our own yards and when it has stood the 



test we place it before the public. 



Our hives and equip- 

 ment, both for workman- 

 aud Sections ship and clearness of 

 stock, cannot be excelled 

 and we doubt if they have ever been equaled. 

 So strong is the demand for these goods that 

 there has been a strife in many cases among 

 dealers to get the Root Company's lines be- 

 cause they knew that everything that bears 

 the Root brand is always popular with the 

 customer and always the best that money and 

 brains can produce. 



Our sections and frames for 1906 are even 

 better than ever. They are inspected and re- 

 inspected and each inspector is required to 

 put in each box of sections that he passes 

 upon his own inspector's card so that it com- 

 plaint is made this card will come back on 

 him. As he is anxious to hold his position 

 and if possible get an increase in pay. it is" 

 clearly to his interest as well as that of the 

 customer to let nothing but perfect goods pass. 



Our extractors for 1906 

 in point of improvements 

 and quality of workman- 

 ship leaves everything else 

 in the shade. The 4, 6 and 

 S frame machines have the finest automatic 

 reversing mechanism that has ever been put 

 into a machine. Even the two-frame models 

 can have the reversing mechanism put on at 

 a slight additional cost; but we do not ordi- 

 narily advise buying the two-frame automatic. Steel construction 

 has been substituted for cast-iron wherever practicable. 



It will be a great improvement. A pleasing 

 Our Catalog new cover design. Entirely revised and rewritten. 

 for 1906 .Many new illustrations. The new arrangement of 



matter will be especially welcome by many. Every 

 thing is classified. All Bodies, Supers, etc., together. The prices are 

 under each article described and illustrated, thus doing away with 

 price-tables. Beginning Dec. 15 our catalog goes on the press for the ■ 

 first run of a solid 3 weejis, day and night. It you want a copy of this 

 first edition let us have your name at once. 



The Root 



Automatic 



Extractors 



THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY 



Medina, Ohio 





144 Erie St., Ghicaoo 



10 Vine St., PtiiladelDhia 



44 Veseu St., New yorl( 



