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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTL'KE. 



Dec. 15 



uburbanHife 



COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE 



^ Suburban Life is a practical country life magazine 

 combining the best features of such a publication with all 

 the elegance of construction that fine coated paper, beau- 

 tiful illustrations and careful press work can produce. 

 ^ In less than a year Suburban Life has become a recog- 

 nized success. It has entered a field with great possibili- 

 ties for development and has lived up to its opportunities 

 in a way extremely gratifying to its readers. 

 fl Suburban Life is a magazine of about forty-eight large 

 pages 10 X 14, with cover designs reproduced in colors 

 direct from photographs, and it is to be noted that the 

 magazine has already reached a point of such elegance 

 as to win for itself the title of 



"THE MAGAZINE BEAUTIFUL" 



^ The following list of articles which are in preparation, and writers with whom we have contracted 

 for leading articles, will suggest the extremely wide and practical field which Suburban Life will cover. 



SOME LEADING ARTICLES 



Specializing with Small Fruits. 



Building an Automobile House at a Small Cost. 



Care and Training of Dogs. 



The Care of Birds and Pet Stock. 



Raising Ducks for the Market. 



Forestry as a Profession for Young Men. 



The Story of the Pasture House. 



Making a Living from Ten Acres. 



A Physician's Bantams. 



Ideal Suburbs of American Cities. 



Construction and Care of Hot-Beds. 



Starting Seeds in the House. 



The Two Family Suburban House at a Moderate Price. 



Construction of Artificial Lily Ponds. 



Window Boxes and What to Grow in Them. 



Making a Start with Bees. ^ 



Best Strawberries for the Home Grounds. 



The A. B. C. of Poultry Culture. 



Wild Fruit — Where it Grows and When it Ripens. 



WELL-KNOWN WRITERS 



Eben E. Rexford. Well-Known Flower Expert. 



Prof. Samuel T. Maynard. Late of the Mass. Agricultural 

 College. 



Filibert Roth. Of the University of Michigan. 



Robert Cameron. Of the Harvard Botanical Gardens. 



Alice G. McCloskey. Of Cornell University. 



Alfred Ackerman. State Forester of Mass. 



Thos. H. McDonnell. Of the Iowa State Highway Com- 

 missioners. 



Nahum J. Batchelder. Ex-Govemor of N. H. 



Helen M. Winslow. Well-Known Club Woman. 



Dr. E. P. Felt. State Entomologist of N. Y. 



Prof. C. K. Graham. Poultry Expert of Conn. College of 

 Agriculture. 



E.W.Alexander. The Famous Bee-Keeper. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips. Bee Expert of U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



JEldward H. Forbush. Well-Known Authority on Nature 

 Subjects. 



Ida D. Bennett. Author of " The Flower Garden." 



TWO SPECIAL COMBINATION OFFERS 



^1 en ^°' ^^ *^^ ^^ will send Suburban Life for one year to any address, and Include a copy of 

 O I ■ V U that most delightful New England story of country life, "The Waybackers " by Joe Cone, 

 which has been commented on so favorably by such authors as the late Hezekiah Butterworth and others. 



This novel is a new copyright novel of 379 pages, bound in red cloth, gold title, gilt top and has 35 black and white 

 illustrations and five half-tones in tint. It is only by controlling the entire edition that we are able to make this offer. 



A A fl n For $2.00 we will send Suburban Life for one year to any address, and Include a copy of 

 ^£iUU "The Flower Garden," a hand book of practical ({arden lore, by Ida D. Bennett, pub- 

 lished by McClure. Phillips &. Co., at $2.00. 



This beautiful volume contains 282 pages of text, is attractively bound In cloth, contains 36 half-tone illustrations, and 

 4 plates, and is all in all one of the most practical books on the flower garden ever published. It is only by making an 

 exceptional arrangement with the publishers that we are able to offer this volume in connection with a year's subscription 

 to Suburban Life. 



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