BEE SUPPLY PRICES 



A Frank Talk with Beekeepers 



No or ^ 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 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 ma- 

 terials. 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 Ivunber 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 extractors, smokers, uncapping knives, queen-ex- 

 cluders, etc., have increased from two to six times their former cost to ns. 

 Our labor cost has increased 60% 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 



1 Untested Queen $2.00 24 Untested Queens. . .$40.80 



6 Untested Queens 11.40 48 Untested Queens... 76.80 



12 T'ntested Queens.... 21.60 100 Untested Queens and up- 



wards — special prices quoted. 



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

 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. 1. Root Company, Medina, Ohio 



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