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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1. 



Special Notices. 



SH1PPING-<'A8ES. 



We are prepared to furnish promptly, and at best 

 prices, choice clean basswood shipping--cases for 

 comb honey. See p. 30 of our catalogue for descrip- 

 tion and price list. ^__ 



SECTION caktons. 

 We have a good stock of cartons, for 4^x1% sec- 

 tions, that we can furnish promptly at the prices 

 g'iven in our advertising columns elsewliere; and 

 notice we have them without tape liandles at 81.00 

 per 1000 less than those prices. Special prices in 

 large quantities. 



.JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. 



Now is just the time for sowing buckwheat, arTd 

 we still have a plentiful supply of choice seed at 

 the following prices: Peck. 40c; K bushel, 70; 

 bushel, $l.:iO; 'i bushels, $2.~'0; 10 bushels, $10.00; bags 

 included in each case. We have track of a further 

 supply if it is needed. Sent on your orders. 



STANLEY HONEY-EXTRACTOR. 



Of the old stock of Stanley extractors we still 

 have one two-frame, with gear, at $11.00; one four- 

 frame with gear, $15.00, and three four-frame with- 

 out gear, at $13.00. We can add a gear to any of the 

 latter at $3.00 extra if necessary. We shall have no 

 more cheap Stanley extractors when these are gone, 

 so that, if' you want to secure one, order quick. 

 These prices are less than two-thirds of regular 

 price. 



SHIPPING-CASE GLASS. 



We have an extra large supply of 2x9 shipping- 

 case glass, 400 lights to a box. We sell this regular- 

 ly at $2.50 per box; and if it had to be cut from 

 whole stock it could not be furnished at this price. 

 To reduce stock we will sell for $J.25 per box; 5 

 boxes, $11.00; 10 boxes, $20.00. We have also quite a 

 little 2x18, which we otter at $3.40 per box of 300 

 lights, and the same reduction for larger quantity 

 as ou 2x9. 



HONEY-CANS, PAILS, TUMBLERS. 



Latest reports point to an old-time honey-flow in 

 many localities, though rather late in opening. We 

 are prepai-ed to furnish promptly a full line of tin 

 and glass packages for extracted honey. See pages 

 31 and 32 of our general catalogue for cut, descrip- 

 tion, and price. We call ])articular attention to our 

 No. 25 jar, which holds a full pound of honey, has a 

 glass cover with rubber ring, and a tin screw band 

 to fasten the cover air-tight. We have these put up, 

 2 dozen in a partitioned case, all ready to be re- 

 shipped again without additional packing after the 

 jars are filled. Price per case. $1.40; 6 cases for 

 $8.00. The same jars, packed, 12 dozen in a barrel, 

 at $7.00 per barrel. 



LABEL AND RUBBER-STAMP CATALOGUE. 



We have finally completed a new supply of job- 

 printing and lai)el calalogues which gives samples 

 of ditt'erent styles of honey-labels in several colors, 

 and a list of prices. We are also putting in a 13- 

 page supplement of rubber stamps, so that our label 

 and rubber-stamp catalogues are now combined in 

 one, and will be mailed free on request to all ap- 

 plicants. This gives prices also for printed envel- 

 opes, note-heads, shipping-tags, cir'culars, price 

 lists, etc. The time for marketing honey is ap- 

 proaching, and you should be prepared with a 

 suitable equipment for pulling up your honey in 

 the neatest way possible, so as to make it sell readi- 

 ly at good prices. 



HONEY MARKET. 



We have as yet secured no new honey, tliough we 

 have had a number of offers The prospect is good 

 for a large yield in many localities. We have had a 

 number of cars of very choice white-sage extracted 

 honey offered us, one or more of which we expect 

 to take. We shall also have another car of Ball's 

 choice alfalfa comb honey this year. It is early 

 yet to name prices, as the market has hardly open- 

 ed yet. We shall doubtless have some new lioney to 

 furnish within a week or two. We have about 1000 

 lbs. of very choice extracted honey, of last year s 

 crop, that cost us 10c per lb., in kegs of 100 to 200 



lbs. We offer it, till sold, at 9c in kegs, or 10c in 60- 

 Ib. cans. We will name prices on new honey later, 

 when we are prepared to supply it. 



AUGITE STOVE-MATS REDUCED AGAIN. 



The stove-mat has proven so 

 good a thing that there are many 

 imitators, and prices are again 

 reduced, owing to the competition 

 iHtween the various manufac- 

 liircis. We consider none equal 

 t(i the original '"Augite." and we 

 handle it in prefei'ence to any 

 other. In the following redilced 

 prices we have got down to "hard- 

 pan," and we do not look for fur- 

 ther reductions. Price 10c each; 

 $1.00 per dozen ; 6 dozen for $5.50, or 12 dozen for 

 $10.60. By mail, 6c each extra on all sent singly, or 

 5 cents each on two or more in one package. 



IMPORTED ITALIAN QUEENS. 



Having just received a nice importation of queens 

 direct from Italy, as noticed elsewhere, we are pre- 

 pared to furnish the best imported, during this 

 month, for $5.00; during the next three months, 

 $4.00. Fair imported queens, $4.00 and $3.00 respects 

 ively. We have a good many orders booked for im- 

 ported queens; and after they have rested a few 

 days in the hives, and have laid ent)ugh eggs to 

 show whether they are prolific or not, we will send 

 them out. We were afraid that quarantine regula- 

 tions on account of the cholera scare would be en- 

 forced at New Y^ork; but as they have not been, so 

 far, we have been enabled, contrary to our own 

 expectations, to get our imported queens through 

 alive. We hope to be able to fill all orders through 

 the coming season. 



ONE-POUND SECTIONS. 



The copious honey-flow, so suddenly sprung upon 

 the bee-keepers in many sections, has found many 

 unprepared with the necessary sup])lies, and the 

 demand for section boxes has been very brisk for 

 the past two weeks, many orders coming by wire. 

 We are glad to say we were prepared to meet this 

 sudden demand, and to fill all orders promptly. We 

 still have a surplus of all the narrow widths, 1}|, 

 IM, 7-tofoot, l\l, and \% inch. No. 1 white, which we 

 offer at $3.75 per M.; 2000, $5,00; 5000, $13.00; 10,000, 

 $23.50. We have also a surplus of No. 1 cream, \\l, 

 and 1%, which we sell at $3 (W per lOOt); 5O0O, $9.00, to 

 I reduce stock. These are all 4ii square. We shipped, 

 early in the season, 50.000 of our No. 1 white sections, 

 with some otlier goods, to Chas. T. Overton, Craw- 

 ley, Sussex, England. On May 2d he wrote, with 

 another oi'der for 50,000, as follows: "I am well 

 pleased with the goods you have sent. The sections 

 aie better than I expected." 



LAWN-MOWERS. 



The season for lawn-mowers is still ripe, though 

 well advanced. We have a good supply of one of 

 the most durable and satisfactory mowers made— 

 the Globe. It is, if any thing, superioi- to the Phila- 

 delphia, which lias for many yt ars been the leading 

 mower. It is made on the same plan, with decided 

 improvements, and the price we ask at retail is 



I below what the Philadelphia brings at wholesale. 



] We have a good stock of tlie two most popular sizes 

 — 14inch and 16-inch; we have also quite a few 10- 

 inch. Beginning with July first we make the fol- 

 lowing special prices : 

 10-inch Globe «3.fi0; 12-inch $3.90 



! 14-inch " .... 4.00; 16 " 4.50 



[ 10-inch Young America 2 50; 12 " Young Am.. 3.00 

 This is a reduction of .50c each on the Young 

 America mower, putting them away below cost. 

 They are a single driver, and answer a good pur- 

 pose for a small lawn, or for any one who can not 

 attord a better one. 



"bees and HONEY," AND " BIENEN KULTUR. ' 



We have recently secured a large shipmen* of 

 books from Thos. G. Newman, and among them one 

 hundred copies each of cloth-bound "Bees and 

 and Honey," at $1.00, and an abridged edition of the 

 same in German, called " Bienen Kultur," paper 

 covers, at 40c postpaid. We can furnish "Bees and 

 Honey," by freight or express with other goods, at 

 90c, or, clubbed with Gleanings one year, postpaid, 

 for $1.75; 10c less if the book goes with other goods 



