How About Next Year? 



THE SEASON OF 1917, JUST CLOSED, HAS BEEN A MOST UNUSUAL 

 ONE. BEEKEEPEES WHO DID NOT FOETIFY THEMSELVES EAELY 

 IN THE SEASON BY SECURING THEIE HIVES, SECTIONS AND OTHEE 

 GOODS AND HAVING THEIE EQUIPMENT EEADY FOE THE BEES, 

 FOUND THAT WHEN THE HONEY SEASON WAS UPON THEM THAT 

 THEY WEEE UP AGAINST THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: 



EVERYBODY WANTED BEE GOODS— DEALERS HAD DEPLETED 

 STOCKS ON ACCOUNT OF THE UNUSUAL DEMAND— MANU- 

 FACTURERS WERE SEVERAL WEEKS BEHIND ON ORDERS— 

 THEIR FACTORIES WERE WORKING OVERTIME, SOME BEE- 

 KEEPERS WERE DELAYED, SOME DISAPPOINTED, SOME GOT 

 THEIR GOODS WHEN IT WAS TOO LATE. 



Now, Mr. Beekeeper, what are You 

 Going to Do about Next Season? 



Prospects are favorable for a big demand for bee supplies next year. Profit 

 by the experience of the past. Prepare!! Order your goods this fall. Write 

 us or our deale" nearest you for a list of new prices. 



If you are not on our mailing-list, write us at once and we will send you 

 a catalog containing na.iie of the distriVjuter nearest you, and in this way you 

 will also be sure to receive a copy of our new 1918 catalog when it is issued, 

 which will be in January, as usual. 



LEWIS 



Hives and sections and all other goods are made from the best material and 

 are scientifically maniifactuied. 



OUR GUARANTEE 



We absolutely guarantee our goods to be perfectly manufactured of the 

 best material for the purpose. On examination, if our goods are not as repre- 

 sented, we do not ask you to keep them. Return same at our expense and we 

 will refund your money, including any transportation charges you have paid. 

 If you piirchasc our goods from one of our distributers, the same guarantee holds 

 good, as we stand back of them. 



Remember, in harmony with the general call made by the President, all 

 beekeepers now owe it to the nation, in order that beekeeping may fulfill its 

 liighest obligation, to redouble their efforts to increase the importance of bee- 

 keeping as an agricultural industry which conserves a valuable national resource 

 and which produces a non-perishable, concentrated, wholesale food which plays 

 a very important part in the endurance of any nation. 



Order your bee supplies early and order standard goods in order to save 

 time and enable manufaclluring plants to accomplish the most in the shortest 

 possible time. 



G. B. LEWIS COMPANY 



Watertown, Wisconsin, U. S. A. 



Send fill' catalog gi\iiii;' ii;uiit> of distributer nearest "S'uu. 



