GLEANINGS IN HEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 1.5. 



Maple-Sugar Supplies. 



The thiR' Ls at hand wlieii those who produce the 

 delicious sweets from the sugar maple must he get- 

 ting' ready. J^or the best lesults you must have 

 Kood clean apparatus of the most approved type, 

 and you really can not atJord not to read Prof. 

 Cook's book, •' Maple Sugar and the Sugar-bush," 

 which we furnish at :i5c, or we will give a copy free 

 to all those who buy sugar-makers' supplies of us to 

 the amount of 610.(10 or more. We do not sell evap- 

 orators, but we think we can do you some good on 

 spouts, pails, covers, and cans. We have received a 

 carload of these from the factory, and they are 

 made of American tin-pl it ; The plates are tinned 

 and made up into cans by the same firm; and by 

 taking a carload we get them at bottom prices. See 

 table below. The piils and cans are machine-made, 

 far superior to hand-made, and guaranteed not to 

 leak. 



BUCKET WITH HINOED TIN COVKR. 



This cut shows the manner of hanging the bucket 

 on the spout, and also the manner of emptying with 

 the hinged tin cover. Most i rogressive sugar- 

 makers nowadays use covers of some kind. 



I'KICE LIST OF SAI'-I'AILS, COVERS, CANS, ETC. 



Record sap-spout, $1 00 per 100 $8,011 per inon 



1-gal. square cans, $10.00 per 100 J'JO.OO " lOt"' 



1 gal. square cans, 6 in a bo.\, 85c. per box; $8.00 for 10 



boxes, 

 l-gal. .square cans, 10 in a bo.v, $1.3(1 per box $12.00 



for 10 boxes. 

 .5-gal. square cans, not boxed, 28c. each $5.(0 "or :.'(; 



cans. 

 6-gal. square cans, 2 in a box, 70j. per box $15 .50 



for 10 bo.xes. 

 .5-gal. square can, 1 in a box, 45c. per box $l.(Klf()r 



10 boxes. 

 (Jradeottin. Price per 100. 10 qt. IS-ijt. lo-qt. 

 IC charcoal or bi ight tin 



sap buckets, $14.00 $15.00 $r,.5(i 

 IX charcoal or bright Im 



sap buckets, $16.00 $17.00 $20.00 



Heavy galvanized sap-buckets 19 00 22 0<' 



IC coke-tin sap-pails 13.00 ].5..5ii 



IX 1500 18.0.1 



Hingfd tin covers o. 00 per 100 



|{eversil)le wood covers, painted 4 50 " lUO 



The sap pails in above table, of coke tin, are offer 

 ed to compete vMth oth'^r cheap liuckets you will 

 find in the marki't. The best are the clieapi^st in 

 the long run. The tin in these cheap pails is just 

 the same as in the better ones, except the coating, 

 which is much thinner. We guarantee thefe equal 

 or superior to the other cheap buckets in the n)ar- 

 ket but, recommend, instead, the higher-priced 

 ones with better coating. The galviui'/.ed iron pails 

 are C()ated after they nre put together, and will 

 never rust out. It requires more care to keep tliem 

 clean. THK A. I. HOOT CO., Medina, O. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



The liives and sections are beautifully made, and 

 I am very much pleased. Joe L. Cooper. 



Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 20. 



The sewing-machine I ordered of you Nov. 20 was 

 received Dec. 24 in good condition. It is a daisy, 

 and my wife is more than pleased with it. 



Fitch burg, Mass., Jan. 7. Lewis Damon. 



OCR potato book. 

 Mr. T. B. Terry:— 



I consider your book one of the greatest works on 

 agriculture that 1 ever read. It needs a new title, 

 however. Instead of the " A B C"of Potato Cul- 

 ture it should be called the " A to Z." 



W. A. Linn, 

 Managing Editor Evening Pu)it. 

 New York, Dec. 2{K 



the cowan extractor, and how esteemed ISY a 

 CUBAN. 



I received a few days ago a Cowan extractor. No. 

 25, through Messrs. Falconer, bearing your imprint. 

 I am glad to express tlie satisfaction which 1 feel in 

 regard to the machine, which, perhaps, is the best 

 now in use by beekeepers. I have promised myself 

 to use noLliiiig but the Cowan in the future. 



Joaquin Casquero Babredo. 



Cardenas Cantel, Cuba. 



BEES AND BIBLE. 



By chance I came across some old back numbers 

 of Gleanings, which I readilj' devoured, and, like 

 "Poco," greatly desired more. I consider Glean- 

 ings superior to'any other bee-book, and your Home 

 chats very instructive and entertaining. 1 think 

 you missed your calling. You thought the Lord 

 said /(CCS, and he said Bible. I have half a dozen 

 stands of bees; am an enthusiast on the subject, 

 though 1 am without knowledge or experience in 

 regard to them. Mrs. Carrie M. Robertson. 



Mayview, Mo., Jan. 8. 



A KIND WORD FROM A" STRAWBERRY-CRANK," ETC. 



Mr. Root:— I am pleased to see what perhaps is an 

 outline of your lace. You have been at times the 

 only man talked about in my house. My son, at one 

 time, was a bee-ci-ank, purchased the ABC book, 

 aid took your journal; but 1 have the book, also 

 your "Tomato ' and "Strawberry" hook. Of 

 course, other names are in the book, but 1 can see 

 A. 1. Koot in it all. lam in the middle sixties, and 

 have never diank spirits, nor smoked or cliewed to- 

 bacco; am a strawberry crank, and wish ti> learn 

 the name of the berry coming nearest to the follow- 

 ing description: Fair or good size; dark-red Hesh; 

 led through and through; very firm, with flavor 

 very tine, strong acid; of course fairly productive. 

 1 wish ii for acanning beriy. Will you tell me the 

 berry ";' It will be a great point to gain. I contract- 

 ed the stiawberry symptoms about two years since; 

 have nc)w about six acres under cultivation. 1 raise 

 the Gandy for market. It would be a tine canning 

 berry if it had tiaik-ied fiesb, and was not a little 

 bitter w hen canned. If you know all about the old 

 Champion, or Windsor, as it is now called, please 

 tell me if it has tine flavor or not. D. F. Brown. 



Frieport, N. V., Dec. 31. 



Friend U.. my impressioir is that the Warfleld 

 comes nearer your description than any other berry 

 We have. The strawberry-growers who read Glean- 

 ings can, however, correspond with you, if they 

 choose. 



In regard to the outline of my face, I am afraid 

 the picture in the berry-book is hardly as much as 

 anoutline. If it were not that it is a foolish thing 

 to feel hurt because your picture does notdojou 

 justice, I do not know but I siiould have scolded 

 some about this picture before this. The worst of 

 it is, it shows a scar, or deformity, that does not ex- 

 ist at all. When I first saw it 1 thought that, per- 

 haps, it was a blur in the printing; but other books 

 show it just the same. Had Judge Higgle given me 

 an opportunity, 1 would have fui nished him a cut 

 that would have made me look at least tolerably re- 

 spectable in such a crowd of bright able nren. Our 

 stenographer suggests, that pe.liaps the rest ft el 

 something as 1 do; but it seems to me everyone 

 must admit that A. I. Root is the ,>.o/Mt>Mookiug 

 chap in the whole crowd. 



