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THE HOME QUARTETTE Four Magazines One Year for $1.50 Our Special Price $1.50 RECULAR PRICE . $1.00 .50 PICTORIAL REVIEW (monthly) one year .50 We will Send the Above Quartette for $1.50. $3.00 PICTORIAL REVIEW. LADIES' WORLD. MODERN PRISCILLA. CLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. A monthly beautifully illustrated. A few of the many departments and features: Home Care for Common Ills: Marketing for the Month; Kitchen Step-savers; Labor-saving Suggestions; House-building Plans; Millinery Lessons; Flower Gardens. Special Articles: Newest Fashions; Styles for Children; Home Dressmaking Lessons; Recipes; Home Furnishing; Entertaining and Etiquette; How to Earn Money at Home, etc. A monthly; an ideal publication for women and the home. A thoroughly practical household magazine, and treats of every subject of interest to women. Clean and wholesome, elevating in tone, and entirely free from sensationalism. An up-to-date dressmaking and pattern department, A monthly devoted to all kinds of needlework. Recognized as the leading fancy-work magazine of America, the authority on all kinds of embroidery, knitting, crochet, lace, costumes, lingerie, and home decoration. Gives practical patterns and instructions in all kinds of needlework. A semi-monthly. The leading bee-magazine of the world. A glance at its pages will convince any bee-keeper that It is a magazine he can not afford to be withcut. The information it gives on all questions relating to the subject are invaluable to the bee-keeper whether he has one colony or hundreds, and even if you are not a bee-keeper you will enjoy reading the paper. Interesting home and garden departments. No substitutions of other publications can be made in this offer Present Subscribers to this paper can have GLEANINGS sent to some bee-keeping friend, the other three papers to their address. THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY, MEDINA, OHIO THE EDITOR of the Bee-keepers' Review is a bee-keeper both at heart and from financial interest. He and his brother have charge of several hundred colonies of bees, and he is able to write and edit from actual experience-to look at things from the bee-keeper's point of view. He has nothing to sell except the Review and hard earned experience. Not only this, but he seems able to instil into the pages of the Review a breeziness, a cheeriness, an in- DIE ARMEMA 台萱萱 體 V CHARLES J. WILLIAMSON, Second Nat'l Bank Bldg., Patent Practice in Patent Office and Courts. WASHINGTON, D. C. Many books on sports of various kinds have been written, but outside of an occasional article but little has been written on the subject of Bee Hunting. Therefore, I have tried in this volumeBee Hunting for Pleasure and Profit-to give a work in compact form, the product of what I have learned along this line during the forty years in nature's school-room. Brother, if in reading these pages you find something that will be of value to you, something that will inculcate a desire for manly pastime and make your life brighter, then my aim will have been reached. S A. 6. WOODMAN CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. I WANT YOU to get my new, handsome win ter of 1908 Fashion Book, showing HUNDREDS OF LATEST STYLES with illustrated lessons on Cutting and Dress- They are the same patterns I publish the FARMER'S MY SPECIAL OFFER Send me 25c and I will send you the Farmer's Call every week for one year (about 1000 pages) and will send my big Fashion Book to you free. I also agree to sell you any pattern you want thereafter for 5c. I can sell them for 5 cts. because I buy them by the thousand and don't make any profit. I don't want any profit. I want your subscription to the FARMER'S CALL. You will save many times the cost of my offer in a year. WRITE TO-DAY. You can use this coupon-cut it out now and mail to me with 25c-1c and 20 stamps taken, but a quarter almost always goes safe: JOHN M. STAHL-Enclosed 25c for Farmer's Call for one year, your book of patterns, postpaid, and privilege of buying patterns at 5c each. GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE E. R. ROOT Editor A. I. ROOT H. H. ROOT Ass't Editor Department Editors:-DR. C. C. MILLER, J A. GREEN, PROF. A. J. Cook, J. E. Crane, "STENOG," LOUIS H. SCHOLL, G. M. DOOLITTLE, R. F. HOLTERMANN, W. K. MORRISON. If so, the advertisement of Funston Brothers, of St. Louis, Mo., who are celebrated fur-dealers all over the American continent on account of the extensive business they do in raw furs. A goodly number of bee-keepers are interested in hunting and trapping, and it is with some pride that we point to the fact that the firm of Funston, one of the most reliable concerns of the kind in the world, should be the first to use our columns soliciting the bee-keeper's trade in furs. Judging by the market reports, the trade in furs seems to be in a flourishing condition. Skunks, one of the enemies of the bee-keeper, are selling at top-notch prices. Even the humble muskrat fur is selling at good prices, and the nimble coon is doing well also, probably on account of the fact that his fur is much used for automobile coats. The fur of the sly fox seems to be in very great demand, and there ought to be money in trapping him if you understand just how to trap his wary lordship. That scourge of the West, the wolf, is in much demand now, but only for his hide or fur. Of course fine prices are paid for the pelts of the lynx, marten, and fisher; and our northern readers may be able to do some business at the attractive prices now being paid. Civet cats are in active demand, and so are mink. It looks to us from the nature of the market reports that the trapping fraternity are likely to do well this year provided they can secure a fair catch, which largely depends on the ability of the trapper. In any case it will pay our trappist readers to get in touch with Messrs. Funston. What may be a pest in your neighborhood can quite possibly be turned to good account-that is to say, a bank account. A VAST BUSINESS. The Chicago House-Wrecking Co., whieh is now using a large space in our columns, is one of the largest concerns of the kind in existence, and therefore merits more than a passing mention. The house they illustrate on another page, at $650 for all the materials, is certainly a triumph for the mail-order business. At first sight it seems odd that that we can now order a complete house, together with all its furnishings, with a reasonable assurance that we shall get just what we order. Not many years ago such a transaction whould have been deemed impossible; but there are many reasons for supposing that, in future, most of our houses, barns, etc., will be ordered in just this way. That is to say, the house will be shipped in the flat, and put up on arrival by a local carpenter or mason. By this means we get the help of skilled architects and artisans in a way that is impossible in small places. We also get a much greater choice of materials, because a large house can give us a wide variety to choose from, whereas a local concern can offer only a very limited line for our inspection. Whether it agrees with our ideas or not, it looks to us at present as if all the business of the future would be done on this plan. We are gradually working toward this system; and the Chicago House-Wrecking Co. can justly claim to be a prominent factor in bringing about this radical change in business life so far as relates to the house-building trade at least. The business they do is large and steadily increasing, showing that the public likes the system and appreciates its benefits. SEEDS THAT ARE GUARANTEED. At last we have a seedhouse that actually gives its customers a positive guarantee that their seeds are fresh and of good germinating power. Hitherto large sums have been lost because the seeds were old, or perhaps for other reasons the seed was poor, with the result that the labor of the planter was wasted. The amount that has been lost in this way is almost incalculable, and yet much of it could have been avoided by more care and common honesty on the part of seedsmen. This will be changed, however. The first seedhouse we know of to break away from the old plan is the well-known fi m of A. A. Berry Seed Co, who execute a binding guarantee that their seeds are fresh and of high germinating power. Write to them for further details. Their advertisement appears on another page. A GENEROUS OFFER. The special attention of our readers is called to the very liberal offer, on another page in this issue, of the Hawkins PubIfshing Co., who publish that excellent poultry paper, Poultry Husbandry. Arrangements have been made with three other excellent papers for the farm, whereby the four papers may be had for one year, together with Chick Culture," a very valuable book on poultry-raising, by Dr. A. A. Brigham, all for $1.00. Read the advertisement clear through, for the offer will certainly interest you; and when sending in your order, please mention this publication. This is one of the poultry papers which carries no objectionable advertising; in fact, it has come to our notice that it has refused several such accounts and we therefore especially commend it to the attention of our readers. We wish our customers and friends A HAPPY NEW In other words we wish you Send us your list of goods and let us quote you pricesWe can save you money. M. H. HUNT & SON LANSING, MICH. ter to be had. Now is the time to send in orders, and be ready for the rush season. All kinds of Garden and Field Seeds. Choice sweet-clover seed always in stock. A large variety of best seeds for the South. Bee-keepers and gardeners who also raise poultry will be interested in our large stock of poultry-supplies, the largest and most complete line in the South.. Catalogs of all of the above lines on request. Send now, and get your orders in early. Texas Seed and Floral Company Dallas, Texas Belle City Incubator Co.... 49 Root Incubator Co..... 51 Berry's Poultry Farm...... 46 Brenner, J. J.. ............................... 51 Electric Wheel Co Nearly every one knows something about the Planet Jr. cul- WIRE FENCING. We take this opportunity to call your attention to the full- repair work. In point of fact, woven-wire fences are very Very few names are better known in the business world than PUMPS AND SPRAYERS. One of the first concerns in this or any other country to man- |