1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1551 



One-third of an ordinary issue of Gleanings in Uncle Sam's mail-sacks ready to go over to the train. 

 building in the background is the office. 



ous engravings that are here reproduced, 

 together with the large one in the center of 

 the journal, will give one an idea of the busy 

 life in the publishing department of The A. 

 1. Root Co. 



Perhaps a few figures may be interesting 

 as showing the amount of work turned out 

 in the house that Gleanings built. By con- 

 sulting our bills for paper we find that we 

 have turned out something like 300,000 lbs. 

 of printed matter this year. This does not 

 include all the subsidiary publications de- 

 voted to bees. A single issue of Gleanings 



weighs, on an average, 7000 lbs. Weigh a 

 regular number and figure out what the cir- 

 culation is. But this Christmas issue will 

 weigh approximately 14,000 lbs., or at least 

 that will be the rate on which our postage 

 will be figured. 



During the last year we have printed 

 15,000 copies of the A B C and X Y Z of Bee 

 Culture — the entire weight of which runs 

 over 40,000 lbs. Besides these have been 

 numerous small publications on bees with 

 editions ranging from one to five thousand 

 copies. 



Gleanings in Bke Cultubk is here illustrated, showing the great growth from 1873 to 190.5. The volumes 

 for 1906 and 1907 are even fatter than 1905, counting up to over sixteen hundred pages per volume. A person 

 who is so fortunate as to own a set of these books, 35 in all, has a library on bee culture the like of which is 

 not equaled anywhere.— From. PF/a^e's Class Advertising. 



