1895 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Contents of this Number. 



A|iiar.v, Pival's 1:14 1 Hoiiev-bee Concert 



Artificial lee . UrnHdiieV packages 



Bee lu't-piiijj'. Minratiirv, 

 Bef-lii'c|iiim a Specialtv. 



Hdaidinan. )1 R 



t^aliliHjjc I'alnn.tti) 



Calilniiiiu Kclu.t's 



Dovctailc.l riiatf Hive... 



Eaitoi- ill Floiiila 



Klertiopni.e 



Kfcdiiin- Ba<-k 



Fi\c liaiiclei's. Advene ti 

 Hive. Dinetaileil f'l'atT.. 

 Hive.-^. Cliatr. in ('ellai... 

 Hives. Size of 



Bofnis. 



loiiree'i 



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CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Tlie riali Bee-keepers' Assoeiatioii will liokl its senii-aiimial 

 iiieetiiitiT on Tlmrsilay, April 4. at 111 A.M., in the Fisli Coiiiiiiis- 

 sidiier's looms, in tlie new eitv and eouiitv bnildint;-. Halt Lake 

 ^'itv. GKO. E. Dl'DLKY, See.. PidV.i. I'tall. 



' iie.Nt ainnial meeting of tlie C'ential California Bee-keep- 

 .ssociation will take place in Relnia. Cal., on Wed., March 

 .J. F. Flory, Sec. Leniooie. Cal. 



Wants or Exchange Department. 



Notices will be inserted under tiiis head at one-half our usu- 

 al rates. All advertisements intended for this department 

 must not exceed five lines, and you must say you want your 

 adv't in this department, or we will not be responsible for er- 

 rors. You can have the notice as man.v lines as von please, 

 "but all over five lines will cost you according: to our reenlar 

 rates. This department is intended only for bona fide ex- 

 ohanpres. Exchanges for cash or for price lists, or notices of- 

 fering articles for sale, can not be inserted under this head 

 For such our regular rates of 20 cts. a lino will >)o charged, and 

 they will be put with the regular advertisements We can not 

 l)e responsible for dissatisfaction arising from these "swaps." 



YOTTNG MAN with some exi^ericuce in bee-keep 

 in^- wovilcl like position with a practiciil nniiirist 

 wliere lie ean thoroughly learn the business. An 

 Eastern State preferred. Good references. 



F. C. JoNFS, Jr., 99 So. 10th St., Newark, N. .T. 



WANTED.— To e.xchanpe a 10-inch Koot founda- 

 tion-mill, g-ood as neWjfor liives in flat, or sec- 

 tions i\i,xiM, 1 to foot. 



A. W, Gahdner, Centreville, Mich. 



WANTED. --.Supplies, hoiie.y, or offers, for improved 

 Monitor incubator and brooder in perfect Cf)n- 

 dition. S. Howarth, Florissant, Col, 



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ANTED —Position in apiary; experience, g-ood 

 leference, singrle. 



E. H. FUHRMAN, Pleasant Home, O. 



WANTED,— To exchange supplies and other g-oods 

 for honey, O. H. Hyatt, Shenandoah, Iowa. 30tf 



WANTED.— To exchange several grood safety bi- 

 cycles. Honey wanted. Send sample, 



J, A, Green, Ottawa, III, 



WANTED.— To exchang-e 200 colonies of bees for 

 any thing useful on plantation, 



Anthony Opp, Helena, Ark, 



WANTED.— For spring: planting-, apple, quince, 

 currants, g:ooseberr.v. strawberry, in exchang-e 

 for g-olden qaeens, in June. 



J, F. Michael, Greenville, O, 



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ANTED,— To exchange bee-sui)plies for either 

 Gem or Cig'ar-box planer. 



E, J, Shay, Independence, W, Va, 



Ij^OR OFFERS, -One No, :.' Automatic grauge lathe, 

 and 1 improved g-aug:e lathe (for handle-making). 

 Let me know a good loctition for a custom sawmill, 

 some one, W. S. Ammon. Reading, Pa, 



WANTED.— A quantity of drawn combs, 

 eitf I .T, Stkingham, 10.5 Park Place, N, Y, 



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.■\NTED.— To exchange telegraph stock for bees 

 or nursery stock in spring, 

 ) "W, G, Chamberlain, Pittstield, Me, 



WANTED.-To exchange alfalfa seed and span 

 mare mults, for nuclei and queens and bass- 

 wood tree.s, 

 eoi Bert, W, Hopper, Garden City, Kan, 



fl,' ANTED.— To excliange one double stereoptlcon 

 ft outfit, consisting of a oak-timshed lanterns to 

 burn Willi a lam]) or lime light, with 1 pair of Dar- 

 let lens, with dissolving keys and s.iturator, with 9'Z 

 plain and colored views suitable for exhibitions and 

 advertising, valued at $12,5.(1(1, for liand-saw, stand- 

 ard make, oi- any kind of macliineiy that 1 could 

 use, W, H WoHLEY, Keokuk, Iowa, 



WANTED,— By an apiarist, 1(1 .yi ars' experience, a 

 position with some man making a specialty of 

 tee-keeping or supjily work, 

 J. B. Henderson, Roney's Point, W, Va. Box 96. 



WANTED.-To exchange a Barnes combined foot- 

 power saw, for L. brood-frames of comb, and 

 nucleus hives, or offers. 



J. E. Henderson, Elm Grove, W. Va. Box T. 



WANTED.— To exchange Merritt typewriter, dou- 

 ble cinch saddle, runabout sleigh with shafts, 

 Demaz lathe and scroll saw, for bicycle, or otters. 

 Describe wheel. S. ( ', Snow, Blakesburg, Iowa, 



WANTED,— To exchange the best paper-shell pe- 

 cans known, for onion-sets, asparagus roots, or 

 moss such as nurserymen use for packing trees, 

 E, E, KisiEN, San Saba, Texas, 



WANTED,— To correspond with bee-keepers in 

 Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, in regard to 

 the hone.v crops; also the price of land. 



Address John Burr, Braceville, 111. 



500 Barrels Sweet=Potato Seed. 



Yellow .lersey, best variety, 13.00 per barrel. 



Red Spanish, Red Bermuda, and Jersey Queen, 

 $4.00 per Inurel; .5sj discount On 5-barrel lots. 



Our stock is tine. Order now and secure a sup- 

 pl,V at reasonable prices. K. M. AlAH^\j>», 



:i-7ei Bojv l^:i, Terre Haute, Ind. 



Inc M ^mifh I'erkiomenville, Pa., breeder of 

 jaa. JTl. OIUIllI, 16 leading varieties of Poultry. 

 Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalog free. 



pOR SALE.— 40 acres of choice, healthy pine-land, 

 ■ partly cleared, with house and barn, near P. O., 

 K mile from Gulf; fine bee-range, for only $700 ! 

 Reason, having two places. 



CHAS. NORMAN, St. Petersburg, Jla, 



Dovetailed Hives. 



Sections, Extractors, Smokers, 

 and everything ;i Bee-keei)ers 

 wants. Honest Goods at Close 

 Honest Prices. (iO-page cata- 

 log free. 



J. M. JENKINS, Wetumpka, Ala. 



Read what J, 1. Parent, of 



Charlton, N, Y., says — "We 

 cut with one of your Combined 

 Machines last winter 50 chaff 

 hives with 7-inch cap, 100 honey- 

 racks, 500 broad frames, 3,000 

 lioney-boxes, and a great deal o€ 

 other work. This winter we 

 have doubled the amount of bee- 

 ^ 'lives, etc, to make, and we ex- 

 '^pect to do it all with this saw. 

 "It will do all you say it will." 

 Catalogue auu Price I-ist free. Address W. F. & 

 JOHN BARNES, 545 Ruby St., Rockford, 111. 



When more convenient, orders for Barnes' Foot- 

 Power Machinery may be sent to 



The a. I, Root Co. 

 eiotf Please mention this paper 



