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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 1 



A Page with Our Readers and Advertisers. 



"A SQIARLDEAL" 



We believe that every advei-tisement 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 mu.st be sent to 

 us within one month of the time of the transac- 

 tion, and you must have mentioned GIjEANing.s 

 IN Bee Culture when writing the advertiser. 



A year ago we reminded the readers of our adver- 

 tising pages that they could get some valuable infor- 

 mation by reading the Page Fence Age. The winter 

 edition of that paper, which is sent free to any of our 

 readers, gives some particularly valuable information 

 regarding materials in fence construction. 



H. J. Mercer. Los Angeles, who has been 

 advertising his honey in our classified col- 

 umns, writes Dec. 15: 



Reduce quantity from 350,000 to 50,000 lbs. Stock 

 going fast at 6% and 7 cts 



Use our columns to disjjose of your honey 

 at good prices. 



A VALUABLE BOOK FREE. 



Mr. H. C. Phelps, president of the Ohio Carriage 

 Manufacturing Co., Station 29.S, Cincinnati, O., who is 

 the originator of the famous free trial plan of selling 

 vehicles from factory to consumer, has just published 

 a remarkable book giving the factory secrets of bug- 

 gy-making. He has sent out over 150,000 of these val- 

 uable books to interested people, and will gladly send 

 you one free if you are interested to learn how bug- 

 gies are made. Write Mr. Phelps for one of his fa- 

 mous books to-day, on a postal card, and you will get 

 it free by return mail. Write him at the above ad- 

 dress. 



There are very few of the readers of Gleanings 

 who are not interested in the question of telephone 

 service. We think it very fortunate that the Swed- 

 ish-American Telephone Co., Department 20, Chicago, 

 111., have agreed to furnish, free of charge, a very 

 practical 80-page book, explaining and illustrating 

 telephones and their parts with wiring diagrams and 

 full instructions. Whether you are a subscriber to a 

 telephone system or intend to put in a private line, 

 you will be equally interested in the contents of this 

 book. Please mention that you saw this notice in 

 Gr,EANiN(;s and they will send the hook at once. 



CATALOGS RECEIVED. 



The 1907 annual catalog of the Planet Jr. people is 

 before us. Every farmer and gardener (and who is 

 there who doesn't have a garden V) should send for 

 this book. It shows their lines of tools in operation 

 on a large variety of crops, and in many different 

 countries; 56 pages. Sent free on request bv S. I-,. 

 Allen & Co., Box 11065, Philadelphia, Pa. 



WOODWORK PRICES REDUCED. 



Here is an illustration how Gordon, Van Tine& Co., 

 who operate the biggest woodwoork, sash, door, and 

 general mill-work factory in the country, cut prices 

 in two for the consumer. 



In the first place they sell direct from their factory 

 to the individual user or contractor, or builder. 



Compared with this system just look how sash, 

 doors, and woodwork is generally sold. Take for in- 

 stance a four-paneled door of high quality; the deal- 

 er's price is $2.00— the retailer pays his jobber $1.15 

 for this door— the jobber pays the average maker 87c 

 for it. Gordon, Van Tine & Co. sell direct from 

 their immense factory the same door for 80c. In oth- 

 er words, they sell a door of warranted quality, fine 

 white pine, to the consumer for less than the jobber 

 pays the average small maker for it. You save, 

 therefore, the jobber's profit of 28c, and the retailer's 

 profit of 85c, besides the difference between Gordon, 

 Van Tine's low factory price and that of the average 

 factory, a total difference of $1.20. 



Now, this factory is located in Davenport, Iowa — 

 almost the center of the United States, and ship- 

 ments are made to every city in the Union, safe de- 

 livery guaranteed. Every item in their immense free 

 catalog is as great a bargain for the very same reason 

 as the door just mentioned, and remember that better 

 quality goods are not made nor sold by anybody. 



Mention this paper and youL will get prompt atten- 

 tion and the best treatment^ Address Gordon. Van 

 Tine & Co., Station B77, Davenport, Iowa. 



Please discontinue our advertisement of second- 

 hand honey-cans, as we have orders for all we have. 

 Gleanings certainly reaches the bee-keepers. 



Dec. 19, 1906. E. R. Pahl & Co. 



The above is another expression of the 

 value of our classified columns. Read those 

 in the present issue and send us an order if 

 you want to sell something, or to buy or ex- 

 change. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Farm Poultry. A Popular Sketch of Domestic 

 Fowls for the Farmer and Amateur. By George C. 

 Watson, M. S., Professor of Agriculture in the Penn- 

 sylvania State College. 



3tl pp.— 95 illus.— $1.25— (postage, lie).— (The Mac- 

 millan Co.) 



The Principles of Fruit-growing. By L. H. Bailey, 

 Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell University. 



The standard book on the general principles of man- 

 aging a fruit plantation. 



5th ed.— 516 pag^es— 120 illustrations— $1-35— postpaid 

 (The Macmillan Co.). 



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ADVERTISING - RATES 



Twenty cents per agate line flat. 



Classified columns — bona-flde 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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