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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 15 



GOOD READING 



We Mention here a few booklets, pamphlets, etc., which we will mail free upon appli- 

 •cation to parties interested. If you wish the whole number, enclose 5c for postag-e.. 



Books tor Bee-keepers is a booklet of 16 pages which gives a complete list of bee- 

 books, including- German and French bee-books and translations; books on fish- 

 culture, strawberry-g-rowing, greenhouse construction, gardening, etc. 



Bees and Queens is an 8-page booklet containing much valuable matter on the subject 

 of queens ; reasons why they don't lay ; test of purity, etc. It also names price on 

 imported and domestic, Italian and Carniolan queens, nuclei and full colonies. 



Facts About Bees is a 72-page book by F. Danzenbaker. It is of especial interest to 

 producers of fancy comb honey. It deals chiefly with the Danzenbaker hive ; draw- 

 ings are used to show the construction of the hive and the manipulations to secure 

 the best results. A number of pages are devoted to reports of bee keepers who 

 have used this hive. Ninth edition now ready. Mailed for 2 cent stamp. 



Outfits for Beginners is a little pamphlet giving the initial steps necessary for one to 

 make a successful start in bee-keeping. It also includes a number of outfits, and 

 names prices of same. 



Food Value of Honey is a 14-page leaflet by Dr. C. C. Miller. It tells why honey 

 should be eaten in preference to other sweets, and includes many cooking recipes in 

 which honey is used. This is intended for free distribution by producers to stimu- 

 late a greater demand for the sale of their honey. It can be printed with the pro- 

 ducer's card on front cover and advertisement on the back, very cheaply, if desired. 



Seed Catalog, This lists seeds for the garden, seed potatoes, basswood seed and trees, 

 alsike, white Dutch, medium and mammoth red-clover seed, alfalfa, sweet and 

 crimson clover seed, buckwheat, rape, cow-peas, turnip, sunflower, soja beans, and 

 coffee-berry, borage, catnip, dandelion, motherwort, figwort, mustard, spider- 

 plant, portulaca, Rocky Mountain bee-plant, sweet peas, and other seeds ; ther- 

 mometers, barometers, powder-guns, insecticides, tobacco-dust, spraj'ers, hot-bed 

 sash, starting-boxes, potato- planters, transplanting-machines, etc. 



Rubber-stamp Catalog illustrates and describes self- inking stamps, molding and 

 block stamps to be used with ink-pads. Model and U. S. band daters, ink-pids 

 and ink for renewing the same, interchangeable stencils, metal-bodied rubber-type 

 and holders, and printing wheels. 



Label Catalog includes samples of one, two, and three color work ; also labels printed 

 on three colors glazed paper ; price lists for the printing of circulars, catalogs, 

 letter, note, statement, and bill heads; shipping-tags, envelopes, business cards, 

 etc.; display cards and caution cards for shippers of honej', etc. 



Spanish Catalog is an abridged edition of our regular catalog of Bee-keepers' Supplies, 

 and is of interest to Spanish readers only. Give us the names of anj' of your Span- 

 ish friends interested in bee-keeping. 



U/ye A. !• Root Co., Medina, OHio. 



