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GLEAN, INGS IN BEE CULTURE 



April, 1917 



Personality of 



LEWIS BEEWARE 



No product can be better than the sum total of 

 the skill, brains, and conscience of the men 

 behind it. This gives the product personality. 



What is the Personality of Lewis Beeware and 

 the Company behind it? 



The G. B. Lewis Company has been in the business of manufacturing Bee 

 Supplies for forty-three years. — It has grown from a carpenter shop to a plant 

 covering nearly six acres of ground, with an annual output of thirty million Sec- 

 tions and one hundred thousand Hives. — During all these years in the face of ad- 

 vancing prices on material and labor, the scarcity of suitable lumber, the compe- 

 tition of cheaper and inferior goods it has had many opportunities and induce- 

 ments to cheapen its product at the expense of quality — but it has ever stead- 

 fastly maintained one standard of quality and workmanship. LEWIS BEE- 

 WARE IS THE SAME TODAY, WAS THE SAME YESTEEDAY AND WILL 

 BE THE SAME TOMORROW. 



The business has been under one management and the lumber has been 

 bought by one buyer for twenty years. He is still managing the business and 

 buying the lumber. The head mechanic came into the factory when a boy. He 

 has been supervising for forty years. The bee-hive superintendent has been 

 making bee hives for thirty-three years. The section boss has been watching 

 Lewis Section machinery and output for thirty-two years. 



This is the PersonaUty that goes to make up Lewis Beeware. 

 Does it mean anything to you? 



If you believe that "a bee hive is a bee hive" and are not particular about 

 quality or workmanship, then any make of bee supplies will suit you; BUT — if 

 nothing short of the best will do you, then you want 



Lewis Beeware 



Buy your metal goods and appliances where you like, BUT " if it 's made of 

 wood" insist on LEWIS BEEWARE — every package of LEWIS Hives and every 

 crate of LEWIS Sections bears the BEEWARE brand. LOOK FOR IT- 

 INSIST ON IT. 



G. B. LEWIS COMPANY 



Sole 

 Manufacturers 



BEWARE 



WHEREYOU BUY YOUR 



BEEWARE 



J r^ Xki I c s 



MAKES IHE FINEST. 



Watertown, 

 Wis. 



