The Advantages of Buying 
Root’s 
Bee- keepers’ 
Supplies. 
QUALITY. 
They are well made from good material. You are never disappointed and disgusted by re¬ 
ceiving goods inaccurately cut, and roughly made: from inferior stock. 
INTERCHANGEABLENESS. 
This accuracy with which goods are made allows a customer to order goods year after year, 
and each lot will fit the others as new parts fit in repearing an Elgin watch. 
A FULL LINE. 
There is nothing that an apiarist needs to manage his bees that we can not furnish. If you 
want a bee-hive, a bee-book, or a queen bee we can supply you. There is no other firm in the 
United States of which this can be said. The completeness of our establishment is not the only 
point of excellence. We aim to excel in all others. 
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. 
We begun the manufacture of supplies 35 years ago. and with an increasing trade every year, 
now reaching $ 5 oo,ooo annually, we have a vast amount of valuable information at our command, 
Our semi-monthly journal, Gleanings in Bee Culture, is now in its 34th year, and as editors 
and publishers of this, we have likewise acquired many valuable ideas which we are using in our 
manufacturing department. No other house is so well equipped in anyway as we are for the 
manufacture of high-class supplies of all kinds. 
PROMPTNESS. 
With our immense manufacturing facilities, the adoption of standard goods, and the estab¬ 
lishment of agencies and branch houses throughout the various parts of the country, we can get 
goods to you with wonderful promptness. 
COST. 
No goods o 1 like quality are sold at lower prices than we can sell them, while the shipping 
of them in car lots to the branch houses and agencies allows the customer to get them at factory 
? trices within a short distance of his home. Send for a catalog, and list of dealers, and save 
reight and time by ordering of your nearest dealer. 
AMATEUR BEE KEEPERS. 
The various pamphlets we print will help you in a hundred different ways. To get inoculat¬ 
ed with the bee fever just read “My First Season’s Experience with th; Honey-Bee.” Soon you 
will begin to thirst for more knowledge regarding the “little fellows.” The “Habits of the 
Honey Bee” will start you right, Alter this only a complete treatise will satisfy you. “Books 
for Bee-Keepers” places before you for selection the best books in the English language. To 
keep up interest you need a bee paper. “Gleanings in Bee Culture” meets this need, as a 
specimen copy will convince you. 
Selecting an outfit to start with is a hard task for many, but ‘‘Outfits for Beginners in Bee 
Culture” will make all easy; its companion, “Bees and Queens,” will inform you on the im¬ 
portant question of queen-bees. 
All the above are free. Ask for the one that interests you, or all of them. We are always 
glad to answer arty questisn that you may have. 
THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY, 
Factory and Executive Office 
=Medina, Ohio.= 
Branches 
CHICAGO, ILL-, 144 Hast Erie St. 
PHILADELPHIA. PA., 10 Vine .St. 
NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., 44 Vesey St. 
SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
MECHANIC PALLS, ME. 
Branches: 
ST. PAUL, MINN., 1024 Mississippi St. 
SAN ANTONIO, TEX. 
WASHINGTON, D. C.. 1100 Maryland Ave 
HAVANA, CUBA, Obrapia 14. 
KINGSTON, JAMAICA. 115 Water Lane. 
Agencies Everywhere. 
Howard Co., O., May 26 , ’ 04 . Your plants were good, W. W. FARNSWORTH. 
