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June 6, 1907 



American ^ee^Joumal 



BE GOOD TO YOUR BEES 



Suppose a man should build a house for you with low roofs, so low you would have to stoop to walk around, the stairs 

 steep and rickety, the windows small, the doors so narrow you could not walk through them without being squeezed, bumps 

 and bruises right and left, nothing fitting, nothing right. WOULD YOU LIVE IN A HOUSE LIKE THAT ? Well, I 

 suess not. 



And yet some bee-keepers expect their bees to do good work in hives that are made wrongly at the outset, constructed 

 of poor material with incorrect bee-spaces, the lumber rough, encouraging comb-building and propolizing. What do the bees 

 do under such circumstances ? Why, they do the next best thing which is to set about to make over the hive — just what you 

 would do in the case of the poorly constructed house. They try to correct the human mistakes made in the building of the 

 hive. The men who have constructed the hive have made a botch of it, and the bees instinctively try to improve upon their 

 work. Bees cannot make hives and honey, too. Lewis hives are made scientifically right from the time the first board is 

 planed until the last nail is driven. Give your bees Lewis hives made of good, clean, smooth lumber, the parts fitting like a 

 watch, every bee-space just right. This insures returns, real returns for your money invested in bee-goods. 



Thousands of Lewis Hives, Millions of Lewis Sections now on hand in the warehouses of the Lewis Company and their 

 distributing houses as given below. 



DISTRIBUTING HOUSES 



ENGLAND— E. H. Taylor, Welwyn, Herts. 



FRANCE— Raymond Garlel, Paris, 2 ter Quai 



de la Me^isserie. 

 CUBA— C. B. Stevens & Co., Havana. 19 0ficios 



C. B. Stevens & Co., Manzanillo. 



CALIFORNIA— The Chas. H. Lilly Co., San 

 Francisco, I+I Spear St. 



SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA- Paul Bachert, 



Lancaster. 

 Doyle-Barnes Co., San Diego. 

 Fallbrook Co-operative A ss'n, Fallbrook. 



COLORADO— Colorado Honey-Producers' As- 

 sociation, Denver. 



Arkansas Valley Honey-Producers' Associa- 

 tion, Rocky Ford. 



Grand Junction Fruit Growers' Association, 

 Grand Junction. 



Robert Halley, Montrose. 

 IOWA— Adam A. Clarke, Le Mars. 



Louis Hansseu's Sons, Davenport. 



W. J. McCarty, Emmetsbnrg. 



ILLINOIS— York Honey and Bee-Supply Co., 

 Chicago, 191 E. Superior St. 

 Dadant & Sons, Hamilton. 



INDIANA— The C. M. Scott Co., Indianapolis. 



MICHIGAN— A.G. Woodman Co., Grand Rapids 



MINNESOTA— Wisconsin Lumber Co., Min- 

 neapolis, 432 Lumber Exchange. 



MISSOURI— E. T. Abbott, St. Joseph. 



OHIO— Norrls &. Anspach, Kenton. 



OREGON— The Chas. H. Lilly Co., Portland. 



PENNSYLVANIA— Cleaver & Greene, Troy. 



TEXAS— Southwestern Bee Co., San Antonio, 

 438 W. Houston St. 



UTAH- Fred Foulger & Sons. Ogden. 



WASHINGTON— The Chas.H. Lilly Company, 

 Seattle. 



