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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apb 1. 





Manager 



Notes of Travel tliatwere written for this issue 

 were crowded out by a mass of other matter. They 

 will appear In our next. 



BEESWAX WANTED. 



Since our last we have received a goodly number 

 of g'ood-slzed shipments of beeswax; but we can, 

 for the next two or three months, use all that our 

 readers can send to us. We are paying now 29 cts. 

 cash, 33 in trade, for average wax delivered here. 



ALSIKE CLOVER SEED. 



We have a good supply of choice seed, and it is 

 plenty early enough to sow. There are many good 

 reasons for soM'ing. Price of seed, f 3.00 per peck; 

 $3.80 per half-bushel; $7.20 per bushel; $14.00 for 2 

 bushels; .5 bushels or over, at $6.60, bags included in 

 each case. 



CHOICE EXTRACTED HONEY WANTED. 



We are in need of choice extracted basswood and 

 clover honey. We prefer it in 60 lb. cans; but if we 

 can not get it that way we will take it in some other 

 way if we c:in buy it. Tliose who have a supply 

 which they desiie to sell, we sliall be glad to hear 

 from, with samples, stating quantity you have, how 

 put up, and the price, 



WHEELBARROWS AND LAWN-MOWERS REDUCED. 



Wc call your attention to the adv't on the 3d cov- 

 er page, and to the marked reduction in price, es- 

 pecially on lawn-mowers, which we have reduced 

 one dollar each from the prices of last year. Surely 

 at these low prices there are few in need of a mow- 

 er who need remain witliout one. We still offer the 

 same styles we have sold for several years. 



PLANET JR. GARDEN IMPLEMENTS. 



We are now supplied with this year's catalogs of 

 Planet Jr. tools, wliich we shall be pleased to mail 

 to those interested, togetlier with our net-price 

 sheet. We are making lower prices on these excel- 

 lent tools than ever before, and there have beeu 

 some valuable improvements added. Write for cat- 

 alog, if interested in hand seed-drills, for all kinds 

 of garden seeds, onion-sets, etc., hand or liorse cul- 

 tivators for all kinds of work in the garden. 



CARLOAD SHIPMENTS. 



Since our last report we have .shipped the second 

 car to Florida, to A. F. Bi-own, at San Mateo; a sec- 

 ond car to F A. Salisbuiy, Syracuse, N. Y.; a second 

 carload to Wm. A. Selser, 10 Vine St., Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; a carload of export orders through the port of 

 New York, including about a tiiird of a car for J. H. 

 M. Cook. 78 Barclay St., New York. As we go to 

 press we are loading a car for H. G. Acklin, St. Paul, 

 Minn., which will be followed by one for G. G. Wick- 

 son, Los Angeles, Cal., and another to Barteldes & 

 Co., Denver, Col. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP. 



The weather so far has been very unfavorable to 

 the production of the delicious sweets from tlie 

 sugar maple, and the season is so far advanced that 

 there can be at best but a light crop In this vicinity. 

 Few will take the trouble to make sugar if the.v can 

 get a market for syrup. Our orders for syrup are 

 all filled, and we can supply many more at $1.00 per 

 gallon, in quantities, for choice syrup. We have 

 booked a number of orders for sugar, but so far it 

 has not been offered to us for sale by the producers, 

 and we may be obliged to disappoint our friends; 

 but we hope soon to be supplied; can offer no bet- 

 ter prices than named in our last, and these only 

 subject to our being able to get the sugar to fur- 

 nish on orders we receive. 



HIVE-MAKING MACHINERY. 



If any one is interested in an outfit of machinery 

 for hive-making we liave a hai'gain to offer at Otta- 

 wa, Kan. Tlic outfit consists of a 4 H. P. engine 

 and boiler, a liive-dovetailing machine, a saw-table 

 with a lot of grooving-saws and cutter-heads, a 10- 



inch foundation-machine, and other tools. Cost 

 new over $500. Is in about hs good condition as 

 new. and can be bought for $325 casli. Will send • 

 further particulars to tliose interested, on appli- 

 cation. 



WIRE NETTING AND FENCING CATALOGS. 



We have for some time been short of wire-netting 

 catalogs, but we are now supplied with a large new 

 edition which we shall be pleased to mail those in- 

 terested, on application. It uicludes a discount- 

 sheet giving very low prices, and incorporates a 

 page describing a new and very cheap sheep and 

 hog fence. We are also prepared to furnish No. 12 

 smooth galvanized fence wire, 100-lb. bundles, at 

 $2.25 per 100 lbs., or barbed wire at $3.75 per 100 lbs. 



LABEL CATALOGS EXHAUSTED. 



We regret to be obliged again to disappoint our 

 friends who apply for label catalogs. Our store is 

 exhausted, and our printers are now and have been 

 so crowded witli work that they have been unable 

 to print a new edition. It is likely to be six weeks or 

 two months before they will be able to complete an 

 edition. We have a number of new designs in hon- 

 ey-labels, which will appear in the new catalog when 

 ready, and we trust it will be ready in good time be- 

 fore the next honey-crop is taken. We will file all 

 applications, and send catalogs as soon as ready. 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED WANTED. 



If you have any for sale, mail us a sample, tell us 

 how much you have, and what .voti will take for it. 

 By the way, it is really remarkable what a demand 

 there is getting to be for sweet clover; and I for one 

 should be very glad to know what people do with 

 it. We are jnst now in receipt of an order for 350 

 lbs. Some time ago I used to feel troubled about 

 large orders, for fear the friends did not know what 

 the.v were ordering, and did not know what they 

 wanted; but with the steady demand that is coming 

 in now, there can hardly be a question but that it is 

 being used as a fodder crop, oi- for .something else 

 besides these. Can anybody enlighten us ? 



OLD- STOCK SECTIONS. 



We still have the following list of old-stock i\ix4:M 

 sections, made two or three years ago, which we 

 offer, to close out, at $2.20 per lOOO: 3000, $6.00; 5000, 

 $9.00; 10,000, $16.00. 

 109,000 4!4x4i4xi;2, open top and bottom. 

 13,000 " " " open four sides. 

 9,000 " " x7 to ft., closed top. 

 7,WX1 " " " open top and bottom. 

 8,000 " " " cream, or No. 3, new stock. 

 .5,00t) " " xl3i closed top. 

 9,000 " " " open top and bottom. 

 3,000 " " " open four sides. 

 4,000 " " xl!i. closed top. 

 5,000 " " " open top and bottom. 

 ]0,0a) " " xHS. open 4 sides. 

 30,000 " " x2, cream, open top, new stock. 

 30,000 " " " cream, open four sides. 

 At the very low price named above, these are a 

 Viargain This is especially true of the l^j-inch sec- 

 tions, w hell are about equal to our extra polished 

 as now made. If any one can use or handle a quan- 

 tity of this width we shall be pleased to hear from 

 them. 



PARSNIP SEED AT A BARGAIN. 



Last fall we succeeded in getting a tremendous 

 crop, and the seed is all from the Improved Guern- 

 sey, nice large roots; but either we have not the 

 proper machinerj- or else we do not understand the 

 business of cleaning the seed. There are no seeds of 

 weeds nor any thing of that sort, but there are little 

 bits of stems and branches of tlie parsnip itself that 

 can not be got out in any way we know of except bj' 

 expensive hand-picking." These bits of stem no not, 

 of course, hurt it in the least for sowing, but they 

 make it look untidy; therefore we offer it at tlte fol- 

 lowing exceedingly low prices: 1 lb., 30 cts.; 5 lbs., 

 75 cts. ; 10 lbs., $1.35. Just now parsnips are selling 

 in our market for 6 cts. per lb. Those that wei'e dug 

 and placed in the cellar last fall might have beeu 

 sold at about the same price all through February 

 and March if we had had enough of them. If you 

 can not sell them all, horses, cows, pigs, and even 

 chickens, are very fond of them. The above prices 

 are to hold only so long as our stock holds out. The 

 quicker you get them into the ground the better, 

 after the frost is out, for parsnips will make quite a 



