BOOKS ON RURAL SUBJECTS. 



Sold by The A. I. Root Co., Medina, 0. 



A B C of Bee Culture. 



1901 edition; 500 

 pages ; the only 

 encyclorsedia tn 

 bees. The last 

 edition, 5000 cop 

 ies, issued in Oc- 

 tober, 1899, was 

 exhausted in the 

 short space of o: e 

 year. Even before 

 the edition was 

 out of the press, 

 1500 copies had 

 been sold ; a n d 

 before thirty days 

 had passed, 1000 more copies were 

 taken. We immediately set to 

 work to print a new edition. While 

 the edition of 1899 was morethoi- 

 oughlv revised than anv previous 

 one, that for the year 1900 has now 

 received even larger additions of 

 new matter, so that the hook from 

 beginning to end is almost entirely 

 new. It now contains 500 double- 

 column pages. It has been most 

 carefully gone over by Dr. C. C. 

 Miller, who has prepared a new set 

 of comments, and by Prof. A. J. 

 Cook, of Pomona College, Cal. As 

 before, old subjects have been re- 

 written. Descriptions of obsolete 

 methods have in all cases been 

 stricken out, and the verv latest 

 put in their place. This 1901 edi- 

 tion marks the 75th thousand. 



While the brok has been enlarg- 

 ed, and hundreds of pages have 

 been rewritten and revised, the 

 price will be the same as before : 

 $1.20 postpaid, or $1 00 by express 

 or freight with other goods, or 

 when sent with our journal Glean- 

 ings in Bee Culture, which is a con- 

 stant appendix to the ABC book, 

 a journal beautifully printed and 

 illustrated, 36 pages, for the very 

 low price of $1.75 for the two. For 



quantity of up-to-date bee-litera- 

 tme there is nothing else offered 

 at this low price. 



A B C of Strawberry Culture. 



236 pages, fully il- 

 Imtrattd Price~45c; 

 mail, 5c extra. This 

 is also one cf Ter- 

 ry's, and has receiv- 

 ed some very high 

 words of praise. The 

 1902 edition is not 

 only rtvistd, but the 

 bock is veiy much 

 increased in size, mei tioning all 

 the new varieties and new methods 

 of cultivation, bringing the indus- 

 try clear up to 1902. Who that 

 keeps horiey - bees does not also- 

 have a little garden patch? If j ou 

 would learn to raise in it that most 

 luscious of all fruits, the strawt er- 

 ry, with the best results, you can't 

 be without this little book. Even if 

 you don't grow strawberries jou'll 

 be the better for reading it. 



What to Do, and How to be 

 Happy while Doing It. 



The above book, by A. I. Root, is 

 a compilation of papers published 

 in Gleanings in Bee Culture, in 1886, 

 '7, and '8. In 1900 an appendix was 

 added, bringing it up to date. It is 

 intended to solve the problem of 

 finding occupation for those s^at- 

 tered over our land, out of employ- 

 ment. The suggestions are princi- 

 pally abrut finding employment 

 around your own homes. The r ook 

 is mainly upon market-gardening, 

 gardening under glass, fruit cul- 

 ture, poultry-raising, etc Price, in 

 paper covers, 50c; cloth, 75c. If or- 

 dered by freight or express, deduct 

 8 and lOc respectively. 



