1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



them into your cellar and market tlieni during- the 

 winter, or feed tnem to your liorses and cattle; and 

 if you get beiiind with your work, and tlie {jrouiul 

 freezes up before they are g:athe,red, it does not hurt 

 them at all, but does them jiood. In fact, you do not 

 need to remove them fi'oni the ground until you 

 want to \ise the ground for something else in the 

 spring; and you uau raise, on ground suitable for 

 the purpose— dear me! no one knows how many 

 bushels per acre— certainly a thousand, and perhaps 

 two tliousand. All kinds of farm stock are passion- 

 atel> lund of them, Just give them a bite and see. 

 The principal point about laisinu them is to get the 

 seed in early, before the weeds start: so you ought to 

 get at it right off now. Jn order to help you along, 

 let me say that we have a tine stock of seed that we 

 can furnish, until further notice— single pound, 35 

 fts. ; 111 lbs., $2.00; 2o lbs. at ouly 18 cts. per lb. 



St. Paul, Minn., on receipt of his carload of goods, 

 writes as follows: 



VEGETABLE-PLANT.S READY TO SHIP APRIL 1. 



"TPefliaps we are hardly~up to the times, but in one 

 respect we are after all. With us it is too cold to 

 think of putting any thing outdoors without either 

 cotton cloth or glass ovei- it. The stedsof peas, 

 beets, onions, etc . will tlo well enough in tlie 

 ground; but I am inclined lo think that our heavy 

 freezes will uot heli> them any. To prevent our 

 work from crowding all at one point, however, it 

 may be well to get in these hardy seeds, and per- 

 haps some early potatoes, whenever the ground will 

 permit If you want, your potato s real earlj'. 

 liowcvcr, they had belter be under cloth or glass. 



Of vegetable-plants, we have .Tt-rsey Waketield 

 cabbage and Henderson's Early Summer, ready to 

 send out. Of onion- plants, we have only the Extra 

 Early American Pearl. It is a little singular that 

 we should have these before any of the others; but 

 they had a chance in that greenhouse, and the 

 other kinds didn't. The Yelhjw Danvers, White 

 Victoria, and Prizetaker, will jn-obably do very well 

 to ship 111 about ten days, Init they will be rather 

 small, even then. Of tomato-plants we have Liv- 

 ingston's Beauty, Ignotum. and Dwarf Champion; 

 but they will be str.<jnger and better in about ten 

 daj's than they are now. Celery -plants, none ready 

 to send out yet. 



.MAPLE SUGAK AND SYKUP. 



So far this spring the demand is in excess of the 

 suppiy. We have orders booked for (piite a number 

 of barrels, and one inquiry for a lot of three car- 

 loads. The weather has been such that there will 

 be a short ci-op, and most of it is late, endangering 

 the quality. We havi' always had plenty for orders 

 in former years, and expect to this year, although 

 we may uot be able to ship it as early as some would 

 like it. Prices for No. 1 sugar, 10c; No. 3, 9c; No 3, 

 8c; .50-11). lots. He off; mUb. lots, ic otf. 



Choice syrup, SI. 10 per gallon; 10 gallons, $l.).Oi). 



SPR.\Y PU.MPS AND SPRINKLEKS. 



Our readers may not all have noticed the two 

 pages in our last number, devoted to the best out- 

 tits for spraying fruit-trees. We wish to call 

 -special attention at this time to a change in the 

 quantity price of Smith's Daisy force pump, which 

 reached us just after the last number was printed. 

 The correct price is given on page 12 of the new 

 catalogue we have mailed vou, and is as follows: 



Each, *1.00; 3 for «2.80; 1 d(jz., $10.(10; 2 doz., *18.00; 

 3 doz., $2.5.00; 6 doz., $45.00; 12 doz., $85.00. These 

 prices are made by the manufacturer, and we are 

 requested to strictjy adhere to them. For cash with 

 order, for 1 doz. or more, you may deduct 2'V cash 

 discount. 



ROOTS SECTION.S AND FOUNDATION. 



We have had a good deal to say in this department 

 recently in regaru to the excellence of our sections 

 and comb foundation, as we are now turning them 

 out. We want to share with you some of the kind 

 woi-ds we have lately received, bearing us out in 

 our claims We have arranged to supply M. H. 

 Hunt, Beech, Mich., with our sections this .season 

 for the first time in a number of years. On receipt 

 of the first shipment he writes as follows: 



"The goods are here, and everj' thing is all right; 

 the sections are tine, and certainly a grea timprove- 

 ment over the planer-sawed ones." 



You notice they are so nice that he did not recog- 

 nize them a-s ulaner sawed at all, while in reality 

 that is just what they are. Then H. G. Acklin, of 



t^ Mr. Root:— The cur of our goods arrived in good 

 order, with the exception of one or two packages 

 mashed a little during transportatit)n. The hives 

 are of good lumber; the dovetails are cut clean and 

 smooth, and they fit exactly when put together. 

 What a satisfaction to nail up and send out sample 

 hives— no pickin's— all good! Tliere is no question 

 but the average bee-keeper would be wise in select- 

 ing the Cowan extractor for use. It is ahead of any 

 thing in the extractor line lor bee-keepers having 

 from .50 to 200 colonies of bees. I fail to see where 

 you can make any better sections by your new ma- 

 chinery. Possibly the cost of manufacture may be 

 reduced. The brood foundation is the best I ever 

 saw, and the surplus foundation the nicest and 

 wliitest 1 ever saw. H. G. Acklin. 



Henry Bohlman, of Defiance, O., writes: "Your 

 comb foundation is the finest I ever saw." These 

 are only a sample of the many words of praise we 

 are receiving almost daily. The best part of it is, 

 ^^ewere ncAer better prepared to fill orders more 

 promptly for sections and foundation, as well as 

 other goods. tl\an we are now. We have over a 

 million of these fine sections in stock. Of comb 

 foundation, we have made up since last October 

 about ten tons, of which over seven has been ship- 

 ped, and we liave about three tons of stock to draw 

 on. We shall be pleased to mail free samples of 

 sections and foundation to any one interested, and 

 still better pleased to fill your oi'ders liy mail, ex- 

 press, or freight. We will meet the prices of any 

 competitor for an euually good article. 



WIRE netting, SHf)KT ROLLS, ETC. 



As aniuiunced in last issue, we submit below a 

 list of the short rolls and remnants of wire netting 

 that we have just received fi'om the fiictory. We 

 still have a good supply of 2-inch No. 19 netting 4 

 feet high, « liich we still offer at these special prices: 

 1 roll, $y.60; .5 rolls, $17.50; 10 rolls, 834.00. This you 

 notice is luc a roll higher than our last offer on this 

 size. We have the 3-inch Nos. 19 and 20 from 3(5 to 72 

 inches wide as given in last number. We have put 

 the pi ice on the following pieces at the same rate as 

 full rolls, except on the 72 inch, on which we offer 

 an extra 10' discount. 



Of 2-inch mesh No. 19 wire, we have the following 

 remnants and short rolls at %c per square foot. 

 The figures at the left give the width in inches, and 

 the other figures give the length of each piece in 

 feet. Multiply this by the width in feet, then take 

 two-thirds of the result to find the price of 'each 

 piece. 



12 I 31, 35. 10, 52, &), 7."), 103, 109, 117, 123, 130. 



18 I 24, 48, .W, .17, .59, 6r., 77, 



24 I 8, lU. 21, 44. 48, .')5. 59. 69. 75, 81, SI, 90. 92, 93, 96, 97, 97, 98, 104, 114, 



] 120, 124. 128, 131, 143. 147. 147. 

 :W I 15, 24. 45, .50, 60, 62. 64, 70. 90. 9l, 101. 107, 123. 137. 140, 144, 146. 

 :i6 1 9, 16, 18, 18. 19, 26, 26, 30, .38, 40, 40. 411. 46, 49, .50. 50, .50, .50. .53, .54. .55, 



I 56, ,5S, 58, 64. 73, 73. 73, 74, 75, 75, 82, 83, 84, 84, 84, 87, 87, 90, 90, 92, 



I 91, 96, 96. 96, 99, 100. 100, 100, 100 KKI. 1(H), 100, 100, 10(1. 102, 102, 102, 



I 105, 105, 109, 110, 111, 114, 115. 116, 118, 120, 120, 122, 124, 124.125.125, 



1 128, 129. 129, 130, Kid, 1,38, 141, 142, 142. 143, 143, 14), 144, 147, 147. 

 42 I 16,20,79,109, 124,131. 

 48 1 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 20, 25. 29. 32 35, 38. 40. 46, 48. 50. .">(). 55. .55. 60, 60, 61, 



I 64, 67, 68, 73, 75, 75, 75. 82, 83. 84, 86, 87, 90. 94, 96, 98, 98. KM), 100, 100, 

 102, 102, 103, 111, 119, 120, 120, 122, 123, 123, 124, 130, i:«. 138, 140, 



I 140, 143, 144, 144, 144, 144, U5, 145, 145, 145, 146, 146. 

 .54 72. 88, 8S, 143. 

 60 I 45. 53. 62. 71, 73, 73, 75. 78, 87, 96, 101, 101, 101 , 105. 107, 110, 120, 123, 



I 124, 138, 140, 144, H4. 146, 146. 

 72 I 16, 20. 20. 38. 40. 42. 42. 42, 46, 47, 48, 57, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75. 75, 81, 82, 



I 85, 85, 88, 88, 93, lOo, 100, 100, 107, 110, 112, 119, 120, 12:!, 124, 125, 134, 



I 142. 



Of 2 inch Xo. 20 we huve the following pieces at three-flfths 

 of a cent per squn II- foot. Arrive at the price in i>recisely the 

 same way as above, takinj; three-fifths of the number of feet 

 instead of two-thirds, to get the pi ice in cents. 

 12 I 42, 69. 98 143. 

 18 I too. 

 24 I 33, 120, 138 



30 I 32, 39, 73, 105 105, tiO, 140, 140. 140. 146. 



36 I 12, 20, 22, 36, 38, 39. .56, 57, 66, 68. 75, 79, 81, 8(1, 88, 1(K), liiO. KIO. 110, 

 119, 120, 122, 125, 126, 128, 128, 132, 134, 136, i:i8. 140, 141, 144. 14,5. 



42 I 142. 143. 

 48 I 36. 41, 49, 55, 60. 

 143. 146, 145. 



16, 70, 75, 85, 86, 92, 98, 104, 105, 114, 123, 125, 140, 



60 27, 44. 46 48. .50, 51, 60, 73, 103, 105, 119, 125. 1.S9. i:i9, 147. 

 72 I 25, 38, 44, 45, 70, 75, 76, 79, 100, 100, 128, 137, 139. 



In lots of 6 pieces, any one or assorted kinds, de- 

 duct 5% ; 10 pieces, 10% ; 25 pieces or more, 15', . On 

 the 72-inch netting you may also deduct 10'. on 

 single piece orders; or, in additii)u to above, on 

 (luantity orders. First come, Hi'St served. General- 

 ly these pieces go off very rapidly, and it may he 

 well to name a second oi- third choice in case your 

 first may be gone. 



