We Want to Help You 



Get more honey and make more money. Our fifty 

 years' experience making beekeepers' supplies and 

 appliances has taught us how to make hives, frames, 

 smokers, extractors and other appliances as perfectly 

 as it is possible to make them. 



To best serve the interests of beekeepers everywhere 

 is our aim. We have branch offices for the conveni- 

 ence of our customers in all large cities. Write us 

 direct for any information you may want. 



The A. I. Root Company, Medina, O. 



Established 1869 



Publishers of "Gleanings in Bee Culture" 



BECAUSE IT LASTS 



That is One Argument in Favor of 

 Cypress as a Beekeeper's Lumber 



There are many qualities that make the value in lumber, depend- 

 ing, of course, on the uses to which they are put. But of all vir- 

 tues that of endurance comes first. The wood that resists rot in- 

 fluences longest, especially when the wood is used in a service by 



which it is exposed to wet and dry conditions and earth contact — that wood is accredited with being able 



to give the user the greatest investment value. 



No use tries the lasting qualities of lumber greater than that of Bee Hive construction. It is the very deuce 

 to get lumber that will not too readily rot — unless one gets Cypress lumber. Then there is a good show for 

 endurance that means real money saved on repairs you don't have to make. Try it, Air. Beekeeper. 



STUDY THE WOOD QUESTION 



There's one waj to get at this matter of endurance — through books of authority. Such arc the 4.-! volumes 

 of the internationally famous Cypress Pocket Library. These books are not "advertising" — they are authori- 

 tative references on file in the libraries of scores of technical schools and National institutes. Ask for Vol. 

 1 to start with; it contains the complete U. S. Govt. Rept. on Cypress, "The Wood Eternal," and a full list 

 of the other volumes; then branch out until you cover the subject. 



SOUTHERN CYPRESS MFRS.' ASSOCIATION 



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1251 HISERNIA BANK BUILDING, NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



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