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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 15 



A Page with Our Readers and Advertisers. 



"A SQUARE DEAL" 



We believe that every advertisement in this 

 paper is backed by a responsible person. But 

 to make doubly sure we will make good any loss 

 to paid subscribers sustained by trusting any 

 deliberate swindler advertising: in our columns, 

 and any such swindler will be publicly exposed. 

 We protect subscribers against rogues, but we 

 do not guarantee to adjust trifling differences 

 between subscribers and honest responsible ad- 

 vertisers. Neither will we be responsible for 

 the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the 

 courts. Notice of the complaint must be sent to 

 us within one month of the time of the transac- 

 tion, and you must have mentioned Gleanings 

 IN Bee Culture when writing the advertiser. 



READ IT AGAIN 



The above guarantee. Do you know just 

 what it means? Gleanings always pursued 

 the policy of accepting only the very best 

 and most reliable advertisements, and has 

 turned away many thousands of dollars' 

 worth of business because it did not come 

 quite up to its standard. Now we go a step 

 further; and when we make an error in 

 judgment, and our subscriber suffers, we will 

 make good if conditions named above are 

 filled. Doesn't this give you renewed confi- 

 dence in the advertisements that appear in 

 this number? Why not sit down right now 

 and write to those advertisers who interest 

 you, and buy their goods if you can? 



A valuable book fob farmers and poultry- 

 men FREE. 



A 48-page book called " Practical Farm Buildings " 

 has just been published by F. W. Bird & Son, East 

 Walpole, Mass. It is full of valuable plans and spec- 

 ifications for all kinds of farm and poultry buildings, 

 and every one of our readers should take advantage 

 of the exceptional offer they are making to send it to 

 any one free who sends four cents in stamps to pay 

 postage. The book would ordinarily sell for $1.00, 

 and it is worth every cent of it. 



The first few pages describe the best location, 

 shape, etc., for poultry-buildings, and a dozen or 

 more pages are given to plans and specifications of 

 the latest and most practical types of poultry and 

 colony houses. Twenty pages are given to dairy 

 farms, stables, hog-houses, sheep-sheds, and other 

 buildings on the farm. 



It is one of the best pieces of advertising matter 

 put out, and only half a dozen pages in the rear of 

 the book are reserved for the story about paroid and 

 Neponset roofings. On these pages may be found 

 cuts of the Plant Industry Building at Washington; 

 colony and chicken-houses on the farm of Prof. C. M. 

 Cowell, of the Maine Experiment Station, at Orono, 

 Maine; the largest stock-farm in Minnesota; build- 

 ings on the largest duck-farm in the world; birdseye 

 view of W. Barry Owen's plant at Vineyard Haven. 

 Mass.; sheds of D. J. Lambert, Apponaug. R. I.; and 

 many other buildings owned by leading poultrymen. 



Our readers should send for this book at once, be- 

 cause the edition is limited, and it will also pay you 

 to get get samples of paroid and Neponset if you do 

 not know about the kind of work they will do. 



MISSING NUMBERS. 



Mr. ^oo<.— Please send me Gleanings for Aug. 15, 

 which I did not get. It is overdue by two weeks. It 

 must have got lost, and I must have every number of 

 that paper, for there are too many good things in it 

 to be lost. Adolph Suksdorf. 



Spangle, Wash., Sept. 1. 



With the increasing circulation of Glean- 

 ings, and consequent new help employed in 

 this department, it happens that papers will 

 occasionally be sent wrong. Changes in ad- 

 dresses, and new rural routes, also contrib- 

 ute to the number of missing copies. We 

 are glad to replace on request any that may 

 be lost from any cause. By the first of the 

 year we hope to be in our new office and 

 publishing house, and have our subscription 

 work in the best of shape. In the meantime 

 please bear with us and call our attention to 

 any mistakes. 



USERS OF DISC HARROWS. TAKE NOTICE. 



One of our big advertisers, the American Harrow 

 Company, of Detroit, Michigan, is using our columns 

 earlier this season than ever with announcements 

 advising our readers who wish to be sure of having a 

 disc harrow to use at the season of the year they need 

 it; to place their orders earlier, because they can not 

 guarantee to fill all orders in their rush season. 



This company has had a remarkable sale on their 

 tongueless disc harrows, and last spring their books 

 showed that they had to return 1463 orders for these 

 implements that it was impossible for them to fill on 

 on account of their factory not being abte to turn out 

 enough harrows to go round. 



This phenomenal sale was brought about on ac- 

 count of the merit of their patented tongueless disc 

 harrow, which has many points of advantage over the 

 old-style disc harrows so generally used. 



We can easily understand the points of superiority 

 of the tongueless disc harrows over any disc having a 

 tongue. By doing away with a tongue, and using a 

 forward truck, both horses pull alike at all times, 

 either on straight-away pulls or short turns— the 

 truck doing away with all side thrash and neck 

 weight, which has "' bunged up " so many horses just 

 at the season of the year when they are most needed. 



To any of our readers who are not familiar with the 

 Detroit tongueless disc harrow, we advise that they 

 write to the American Harrow Company for their cat- 

 alog and other printed matter; and if they decide to 

 buy one of these harrows, we see a good reason why 

 they should place their order early to be sure of get- 

 ting their implement just when they need it. 



A postal card addressed to the American Harrow 

 Company, Detroit, Michigan, will bring you full in- 

 formation. 



ADVERTISING - RATES 



Twenty cents per agate line flat. 



Classified columns— bona- fide exchange or 

 want ads. — 20c a line. 



Discount for cash in advance, 5^ ; if paid in 

 10 days, 2^. 



No objectionable advertising accepted. 



Forms close 10th and 25th of each month. 



Guaranteed circulation per issue, 30,000. 



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