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GLE-^NING« IN U'^K r\ 



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Apr. 1 



A Plain 

 Attractive and 

 Comfortable Home 

 Built of Hollow 

 Concrete 

 Building=blocks 



Concrete - Building - Blocks 



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11 1L ANY of the readers of Gleanings in Bee Culture 

 /Wl have undoubtedly noticed our advertisement at one 

 / V i. time or another. In fact, hundreds have v^ritten us 

 > saying, "I saw your advertisement in Gleanings." 



As a result we have sold a large number of machines to rt ad- 

 ers of this valuable publication, and we deemed it no more 

 than courtesy to those with whom we have had the pleasure 

 of doing business to thank them, through this medium, for 

 their patronage, and, further, state that we are in the market 

 again this year with all the machines we advertised and sold 

 last season, besides several new and distinct types. The con- 

 crete-building- block business has assumed such enormous pro- 

 portions- the product displacing every other building mate- 

 rial—at once and apparently for all time wherever established, 

 that we feel warranted in predicting that the time is fast 



approaching when 

 one who is thinking 

 of erecting a build- 

 ing, no matter 

 whether it's house, 

 barn, business block 

 or factory, will give 

 no other material 

 even a thought. 



THE BUILDING OF 

 HOMES has changed 

 as much as has the 

 method of doing any 



other work in the past decade. As is true 

 in the case of modern machinery, ' ' Neces- 

 sity has become the mother of invention." 

 THE GREAT ONSLAUGHTS made upon the 

 vast forests of the country have greatly 

 reduced the available supply of building 

 timber. Brick and stone have substituted 

 wood very satisfactorily in most cases, but 

 at a prohibitive cost. Only within th 

 past few years has a cheaper substitue 

 than either of these, one which rivalste 

 One of the Large Machines its cost wood itself, been found. No other 



One Style of Block 



