BEE SUPPLY PRICES 



A FRANK TALK WITH BEEKEEPERS 



No one likes high prices but the profiteer. We are all sick and tired 

 and irritated by higher this, higher that and higher everything. We have 

 all waited for the turning point when things would begin "going down." We 

 as manufacturers of beekeepers' supplies, have hoped for this turning point 

 as anxiously as any beekeeper possibly could. We have been encouraged 

 by seeing some necessities, such as men's and women's clothing, going to 

 lower levels, and have hoped to see lower prices reach to metal and lumber 

 materials. We have expected the tide to turn in our field of metal and 

 wood manufacture, hoping not to have to advance prices. So it is that we 

 have made only a very few minor advances now for two years. 



But the turning point of higher prices of materials does not come in 

 our field, and is not in sight at this date, July 1, because the manufacturers 

 of metals and lumber are today swamped with orders at prevailing high 

 prices. These high prices are going to continue while the rush of orders 

 continues — and there is no turning point in sight. 



Prices asked today on pine lumber are more than double, and basswood 

 three times as much as prices in effect two years ago. Except for the fact 

 that we had a year's lumber supply purchased in advance we would have 

 been compelled to advance prices a year ago for the past season. 



Metal parts of our e.xtractors, smokers, uncapping knives, queen ex- 

 cluders, etc., have increased from two to si.x times their former cost to us. 

 Our labor cost has increased 60 per cent during the past two years. 



We put these plain facts of our own manufacturing situation before 

 our customers to explain the absolute necessity for advancing the prices of 

 a considerable part of our bee supplies. It becomes necessary to do this if 

 we are to continue to manufacture for the beekeepers without actual loss. 



We say to our beekeeping friends and customers that we shall reduce 

 what both they and ourselves regard as too high prices just as fast as the 

 price of materials used in our manufacture may permit. We do not like 

 high prices for the beekeeper any better than the beekeeper himself likes 

 them. 



ROOT QUEENS 



Our queens are bred by as skillful and experienced queen-breeders as 

 can be found in the United States. There are very few places where queens 

 are reared under as favorable conditions as in our own Ohio queen-rearing 

 yards in midsummer. The strain is proved and of the highest quality. We 

 guarantee that better queens than ours cannot be bought anywhere. Prices 

 are : 



1 Untested Queen $ 2.00 24 Untested Queens $40.80 



6 Untested Queens 11.40 48 Untested Queens 76.80 



12 Untested Queens 21.60 100 Untested Queens and up- 

 wards — special prices quoted^ 



Inquiries as to tested or breeding queens invited. The demand for 

 these often exceeds our supply. So order well in advance. 



Write or wire when deliveries are wanted. We are producing in large 

 quantities this season, and with advanced information as to the wants of 

 our customers we shall at times be able to quote unusually attractive prices 

 on large quantities. 



THE A. I. ROOT CO., Medina, O, 



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