1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



33 



THE GREEHOUSE, UP TO THE TIME OF OOING TO 

 PRESS. DEC. 3L 



That automatic greenhouse ran itself all the 

 while we were gone to Washington— Monday 

 night till Friday night — even though the tem- 

 perature was down near zero the greater part 

 of the time. Not a valve was moved nor a ven- 

 tilator opened. The accumulated heat in the 

 ground and hot-water pipes did the business. 



Special Notices. 



EARLY-ORDER DISCOUNTS. 



Duriug this month the discounts for early orders 

 is 3%, applying- to pages 10 to 3U of our catalogue. 



WIRE NETTING AND FENCING. 



We have secured 98 rolls assorted widths of 3-iuch 

 No. 19 and No. 30 netting-, whicli we can furnish, as 

 long- as it lasts, at the prices given in the table, page 

 829 of the Nov. 15th No. of Gleanings. Shipments 

 will be made from here. We will also extend till 

 March 1st the special prices on 2-inch No. 19 netting 

 we made for shipment from here, which for ~Mnch 

 No. 19, 4 ft. wide, were $3.50 per roll; 5 rolls, $17.00; 

 10 rolls, $33.00; 25 rolls or more, $3.20 pei- roll. 



ANOTHER CARLOAD ORDER. 



We have shipped to W. O. Victor, of Wharton, 

 Texas, a carload of bee-keepers' supplies, compris- 

 ing 10-frame two-story Dov. hives for comb and ex- 

 tracted honey, shipping-cases, extractors, smokers, 

 honej'-knives, bee-brushes, sections, cartons, etc. 

 Any bee-keeper in that vicinity will do well to get 

 his prices. We are planning to send a carload, com- 

 prising a general line of supplies, to St. Paul, Minn., 

 where they will be sold at our prices. Any of our 

 readers in" that section who are interested would do 

 well to correspond with H. G. Acklin, 1024 Mississip- 

 pi St., St. Paul, with a list of what you need. 



SPECIAL PRICES ON SECTIONS EXTENDED. 



We extend the special prices on secti(jns mention- 

 ed in the Nov. 15th number, through this month 

 and next, unless previously recalled. The prices 

 are for sections ^H square, and either 1}J, \\l, 1%, 7 

 to foot wide, open top and bottom, and No. 1 white 

 in quality. The special prices are $2.50 for 1000; 

 $7.00 for 3000; $11.00 for .5000; or, $20.00 for 10.000. 

 These prices do not applj' to the regular size Us 

 wide, nor to the other widths after our surplus is 

 gone. We have besides. No. 1 cream, 1}| and 1% 

 wide and 4^ square, at $2.00 per 1000; $9.00 for .5000; 

 $17.00 for 10,000, while they last. 



A NEW BOOK— THE ICE CROP. 



The O. Judd Co. have just given us a nice little 

 volume, full of pictures, tmswering almost every 

 question that could possibly be asked in regard to 

 fixing ice-ponds, cutting and putting- away the ice, 

 and saving it through summer time. First they 

 talk about the ice industry, then in regard to the 

 legal ownership of ice-fields; also sanitary matters. 

 They tell liow to scrape off the snow most expedi- 

 tiously; give cuts of all the tools used in the great 

 ice-fields, and others, such as farmers might want 

 on their farm. Then they tell about ice-houses, 

 from a little box in the barn, up to the great big 

 ones; what is ice good for '? how to make ice-cream, 

 lemon ice, and lots of other tilings that take the 

 nickels unless we make them at home with our own 

 cream and our own ice. The book contains 122 

 pages, 16mo, cloth, $1.00. We can furnish it at the 

 above price. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



Our advertisement in Gleanings the past season 

 has paid us very well. The ones for the mismated 

 • queens brought orders thick and fast from far and 

 near. We had to return .some orders. It was im- 

 possible to fill them all. The one for tested queens 

 did as well as we expected. 



Decatur, Miss. Cleveland Bros. 



The Cowan extractor is a gem. Frail ' no one 

 would think of such a thing after seeing it; and 

 the gearing and frame run very true. The work- 

 manship is thorougli. Albert C. Bull. 



Chester, N. Y. 



The f>K lbs. of Gleanings paper arrived O. K., 

 and just fits m^- type-writer. I am well pleased 

 with it. I had forgotten that I had a credit on your 

 books until the bill for tlie paper came. I tell you, 

 it is nice now to write copy on this long smooth 

 Gleanings paper. A merry Christmas and a happy 

 New Year to A. I. Root, tiie Home of the Honey- 

 bees, and all its helpers. Jennie Atchley. 



Greenville, Texas, Dec. 24. 



BEE-KEEPERS' 



SUPPLIES. 



Before i)lacing- your order for 

 supplies send for our illustrat- 

 ed catalog. We are making the 

 liest goods at lowest prices. 

 E. H. TRUMPHK, Bankers, JVIicli. 



PATENT WIRED COMB FOUNDATION 



HAS NO SAG IN BROOD-FRAIUES. 



THIN FLAT - BOTTOM FOUNDATION 



Has No Fisib-bone in Surplus Honey. 



Being the cleanest is usually worked 

 the quickest of any Foundation made. 

 im J. VAN DEUSEN & SONS, 



_j^| Sole Manufacturers, 5tfd 



SS'J ' Sprout Brook, Montgomery Co., N. Y. 

 Please mention this paper. 



VANDERVORT 

 COMB -FOUNDATION MILLS. 



Send for samples and reduced price list. 

 itfd JNO. VANDERVORT, Laceyville, Pa. 



Barnes' Foot-Power Machinery. 



Read what .J. 1. Pahent, of 

 Chaklton, N. Y., says— "We 

 cut with one of j-our Combined 

 Machines last winter 50 chaff 

 hives with 7-inch cap, 100 honey- 

 racks, 500 broad frames, 2,000 

 honey-boxes, and a great deal of 

 other work. This winter we 

 have doubled the amount of bee- 

 hives, etc., to make, and we ex- 

 fieet to do it all with this saw. 

 t will do all you say it will." 

 Catalogue and Price List free. Address W. F. & 

 JOHN BARNES, 646 Ruby St., Rockford, 111. 



When more convenient, orders for Barnes' Foot- 

 Power Machinery may be sent to me. A. I. Root. 

 23tfd 



He Sup^Qi! Sup-BusI 



BY 



author of the 

 BEE-KEEPER'S GUIDE, INJURIOUS IN- 

 SECTS OF MICHIGAN, ETC. 



The name of the author is enough of itself to rec- 

 ommend any book to almost any people; but this 

 one on Maple Sugar is written in Prof. Cook's hap- 

 piest style. It is 



DFUSELY * ILLUSTRATED,6^ 



And all tne difficult points in regard to making the 

 very best quality of Maple Syrup and Maple Su- 

 gar are very fully explained. All recent inven- 

 tions in apparatus, and methods of making 

 this delicious product of the farm, are fully 

 [described. 



PX«.XCE:i 3S C:;«s.| 1c»y SCall. 3SD CXm. 



"^ A. I. ROOT, a^ediaa., O- 



