1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



577 



Special Notices. 



SHIPPING-CASES. 



We are prepared to furnish promptly, and at best 

 prices, choice clean basswooil shipping'-ciises for 

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

 tion and price list. 



SECTION CARTONS. 



We have a g-ood stock of cartons, for 4J^xl% sec- 

 tions, tliat we can furnish promptly at the prices 

 given in our advertising columns elsewhere; and 

 notice we liave them without tape handles at $1.00 

 per 1000 less than those prices. Special prices in 

 large quantities. 



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, $1.5.(10, and three four-frame with- 

 out gear, at $12.00. We can add a gear to any of the 

 latter at $3.00 extra if nei'cssary. 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.35 per box; 5 

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

 little 2x18, which we offer at $3.40 per box of 200 

 lights, and the same reduction for larger quantitj' 

 as on 2x9. 



EXPERT COLUMBIA ORDINARY BICYCLE FOR $30.00. 



These are the days of safety bicycles, those 1aav- 

 ing both wheels 24 to 30 inches in diameter, and the 

 old-style high or ordinary wheels are not in great 

 demand. There are some who still ride the old or- 

 dinary, especially if they can get a $150 v^'heel for 

 $.30.00. One of our helpers has a 54-inch Expert Co- 

 lumbia, which in its day was considered the best 

 wheel of its class. It is in good repair, and will be 

 furnished in flrst-class running order, securely 

 crated, on board cars here, for $30.00— a rare bar- 

 gain for any one in want of such a wheel. 



LABEL AND RUBBER-STAMP CATALOGUE. 



We have finally completed a new supply of job- 

 printing and label catalogues which give samples 

 of different styles of honej'-labels in several colors, 

 and a list of prices. We are also putting in a 12- 

 page supplement of rubber stamps, sotliatt)ur 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 primed envel- 

 opes, note-heads, shipping-tags, circulars, price 

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

 proaching, and you should be prepared with a 

 suitable equipment for putting up your honey in 

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

 ly at good prices. 



WHAT CAN WE PLANT IN THE MIDDLE OF .JULY ? 



Well, un.ess you have more rain tlian we are hav- 

 ing here, or else have water for irrigation, it will 

 not be of much use to plant any thing. If. howev- 

 er, you have rain or water you can plant kidney 

 wax beans, York State Marrow, Henderson's bush 

 lima— in fact, all tlie beans that mature (|uickly; 

 and. so far as my experience yoes, you will have no 

 bean-weevils at all from seed planted in .luly; and 

 you will have wux beans for table u>je witliout 

 much mistake. If the frost holds off' they will also 

 mature for seed. .a. year ago we put out nearly a 

 quarter of an acre in July. The frost held off so 

 the greater part of them matured good beans for 

 seed; and these beans we found were worth three 

 or four dollars a bushel at wholesale; in fact, the 

 price of kidney wax beans has always been high. 

 You can also put in extra-early corn; cucumbers 

 for pickles; peas, radishes, spiniich, summer 

 squashes, etc. But if it does not rain you must 

 supplv the water; and I tell you it takes lots of it. 

 A little stream of water such as would run through 

 an inch pipe will do some good for a small garden; 

 tout when it comes to acres, with a burning hot sun 



and a drying wind, such as we are ha^^ng now, you 

 just want a small millrace. We have been setting 

 out celery by running water down through the fur- 

 rows before we put in the plants, and they are just 

 thriving beautifully; but it took somethi'ng like .50 

 barrels of water to set out 4000 or 5000 plants. 



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Kind Words From Our Customers, 



The goods came all right yesterday. The founda- 

 tion and sections are very nice. S. H. Hough. 

 Saybrook, O., July 6. 



I received the potato-boxes all right, and am very 

 much pleased with them. 

 Albion, Mich., July 3. C. H. Billinghurst. 



I received the goods in fine shape; foundation the 

 best of the best; sections the same. Thanks for 

 prompt attention to m^ order. 



Bangor, Mich., July 6. Frank D. Spencer. 



A KIND WORD FOR FRIEND TERRY AND THE STRAW- 

 BERRY BOOK. 



[The following letter was written to our old 

 friend Matthew Crawford, of Cuyahoga Falls, O., 

 who forwarded it to us. We judge the writer to be 

 a minister:] 



Mr. Crawford :— I have just finished reading that 

 little book you sent me, "Terry on Strawberry 

 Culture," and I must send you a few words in ex- 

 pression of my thanks for the information, and 

 especially the gratification it has given me. It 

 seems to me an all-sufficient guide, even for the 

 most inexperienced, to complete success in growing 

 this most delicious of all fruits; and it is written in 

 such a simple and businesslike style that the veriest 

 tyro can find no difficulty in understanding and 

 following its directions. But what I have specially 

 enjoyed about the book is its unobtrusive but very 

 perceptible religious aroma. It is as delightful as 

 the fragrance of the strawberry itself . It gladdens 

 my heart to find one, when writing a simple treatise 

 OK practical hoiticulture. so cheerfully recognizing 

 and frankly expressing his loWng loyalty to our 

 Father in heaven, and giving Jiim the thanks which 

 are his due for his bounteous gifts, instead of as- 

 cribing them, as so many do, to an impersonal and 

 unintelligent "Nature." The little book is a good 

 sermon (all the better for not professing 'o be one), 

 not t)nly on doing our best with whatever we laave to 

 do, but also on gladly and gratefully recognizing 

 our heavenly Father's jiresence and love in every 

 blessing we enjoj'. "W. H. Wilcox. 



Maiden, Mass., June S. 



S-Banded Golden Red-Clover Bees. 



If you want bees that 

 will work on Ked Clover, 

 try one of our five-banded 

 queens. Queens in July, 

 untested, 75 cts. ; }i doz., 

 $;^.60; tested, $1.. 50; select, 

 $3; the very best, $4. De- 

 scriptive circular free. 

 LEINIINtiiEK BKOS, 

 Ft. J enuings, O. 

 Please mention this p.'i|it-r 5ttdb 



BY W. I. OHAMBBELAIN, A. M., LL. D., 



Koimei'Iy Secretary of tlio Ohio State BoarU of Agriculture, 

 and iate President /l the Iowa State Agricultural Col- 

 lege. At present Associate Editor of the 

 Ohio Farmer. 



This is a valuable companion to our other rural 

 books. It embr;t .s the experience of forty years 

 of one of our fi^r iiiost practical agriculturists, who 

 has laid with h own hands over 15 miles of tile. 



Price35c; by mail, 40c. 



A. I. ROOT, MEDINA, OHIO. 



