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We take great pleasure in presenting this 57th annual price list of Bees, Queens, and Bee* 

 keepers' supplies ; the goods offered you in this and the accompanying 64 page catalog of Root's 

 Goods for 1917 will completely supply your wants for the season at very reasonable prices if 

 you consider quality and our facilities for serving you, which is unequalled. By carefully read' 

 ing these catalogs you will find if you" are not already posted in progressive Bee-keeping, much 

 that will be to you both instructive and interesting. We handle Root's goods in car lots which 

 enables us to offer these goods- at manufacturers' prices ; this makes a saving to the purchaser 

 in time and transportation charges, and entitles you to the best that money can buy. 



BEES. Of all the different races of bees yet brought to America there are none that can 

 equal the Italians. In 1860 Wm. W. Gary, Sr., went to Flushing, Long Island, and cared 

 for the first successful importation of Italian bees to America. It was from the original im- 

 portation that he made a selection of ten nice colonies and brought them to Lyonsville into 

 the apiary we purchased and they have proven the superior qualities claimed for by German 

 Beekeepers before their introduction to America or here. 



DO BEES INJURE GRAIN OR FRUIT? Many people contend that bees are an 

 injury to Buck-wheat by taking away the substance that would be formed into grain. What 

 are the facts f The flowers open and honey is secreted, if the bees do not gather it, it is 

 wasted. Now what is the difference to the plant whetherthe honey is lost in this way or it is 

 collected by the bees ? If there is any difference the advantage appears to be in favor of col- 

 lection by the bees for the reason that it thus answers an important end to the economy of 

 nature consistent with bee provisions in ten thousand different ways in adopting means to 

 end. Abundant authority may be cited to show that instead of being a hindrance to the per- 

 fect development of grain or fruit, bees are indispensable in the aid they give in fertilization. 

 The man With a fruit farm or green house, and the gardener can no longer get along without 

 the bufey bee. 



BEES FOR PROFIT AND PLEASURE. If one is situated in a locality \«here the 

 wild bees are in the woods, their fruit blossoms will be visited more or less by them, but one 

 that is fore-sighted will readily see the advantage of the honey bee to the fruit blossoms and 

 will.have a few Italians in his back yard or green-house, and he will find that they are not 

 only a source of profit financially but the pleasure alone derived from watching the busy 

 workers will pay hira for all the trouble he has been to in caring for them. 



We can furnish bees in one, two, three and five-frame nuclei, and full col- 

 onies in Gary Simplicity, Langstroth Simplicity, eight and ten frame Dove- 

 tailed or Danzenbaker hive, also in pound and half pound packages. The nu- 

 clei are put up in light shipping boxes made of basswood, the top and bottom 

 are covered with wire cloth ; this makes a very light package, with plenty of 

 ventilation and strong enough to stand shipment any reasonable distance. They invariably 

 go through with little or no loss. Bees by the pound are shipped in light wire covered pac- 

 kages, which enables the purchaser to secure a minimum express charge. 



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