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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 



them to hold their trade, and we are sure they will 

 very soon be in better shape than ever before to 

 furnish the world with beehives and section boxes. 



LATER. 



We wrote you that you might take out our advertisement; 

 but we now t^ay, leave it in; and if you will kindly say, when 

 you notiee our loss, that we have leased another place, and, 

 with assistance of outside shops, will, we think l)e able to fill 

 our orders in a few days, we shall feel obliged. We think we 

 shall be able to fill your orders also, but we do not ask you to 

 wait; and. in fait, we want all customers who have orders 

 with us to order them canceled If they feel they will be delay- 

 ed too long. ' G. B. Lewis & Uo. 



Watertown, Wis., April 23. 



In addition to the above we earnestly entreat the 

 customers of G. B. Lewis & Co. not to withdraw 

 their orders, but to help our friends out of their 

 trouble by letting them fill them as soon as they 

 can. Should you ask for your money back, and then 

 send it to us with our present mass of orders be- 

 fore us, it will probably delay you longer than to 

 let them remain where they are. We are very glad 

 to see our friends getting on their feet again so 

 rapidly after their great loss. 



The following comes from the Falconer Manu- 

 facturing Co. : 



Mr. Root:— We are very sorry to hear of the loss of Messrs. 

 G. B. Lewis & Co., and your letter was the first intimation 

 that we had of their misfortune. We are likewise sorry that 

 the sections they were loading for you were burned also. We 

 notice that y<m have guarded against a similar loss by the in- 

 troduction of sprinklers. We placed them in our factory in 

 1888, and hope, should there be a fire in either your own or 

 our factoi'y, the sprinklers will do all we should expert of 

 them. We note that you are very much crowded with orders, 

 and we are in the same situation, though our faoilitie» are 

 greater, and we are better pi'epai'el for a large traie, than 

 ever before. The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. 



Jamestown, N. Y., April 25. 



We are glad to notice the friendly feeling that 

 seems to exist among our great supply establish- 

 ments. Even though we are rivals in business, we 

 have been for some time, helping each other, and 

 we all feel sorrow and sympathy for friend Lewis' 

 loss by fire. We are glad to know th it the Falconer 

 Manufacturing Co. put up the sprinklers, even a 

 couple of years before we did. I hope the bee- 

 keepers of our land will exercise forbearance un- 

 der the circumstances; namely, that we are all pret- 

 ty well overloaded with orders, and one of us has 

 been crippled by fire. 



THE A B C OF BEE CULTURE AGAIN REVISED. 



The 42d thousand of our A B C of Bee Culture is 

 just completed. A3 usual with former editions, it 

 has been thoroughly revised and likewise enlarged. 

 The present edition numbers 420 pages, size of this, 

 and double column. A picture-gallery of apiaries 

 and honey-exhibils, comprising 16 pages, has been 

 added, and just follows the biographies of noted 

 bee-keepers. The engravings of both the bio- 

 graphical and picture-gallery departments com- 

 prise our latest and best, many of them full page. 

 An appendix of some pages has been added by Dr. 

 Miller, and the same are reproduced elsewhere in 

 this issue for the benefit of our readers who may 

 have our old edition. It was found, after the book 

 was nearly completed, that, during the past few 

 months, improvements had come up, and Dr. Mil- 

 ler was accordingly asked to write them up and 

 add such other suggestions as he mlglit see lit to 

 make from the latest revision. The-subjects in the 

 body of the book, that have received special revi- 

 sion, are Comb Honey; Feeding (the latter being en- 

 tirely re-written); Extracted Honey; Hive-making, 

 with a description of how to make the new Dove- 

 tailed hive; Queen-rearing, with a brief summary 

 of Doolittle's method of procuring and completing 

 cells In full colonies with a laying queen; Swarm- 

 ing; Veils, and Wintering. The last subject was 



entirely re written, so that it is the very latest in 

 regard to the indoor and outdoor methods. The 

 whole subject is well illustrated. 



The ABC book sells at the rate of about 6000 

 every 14 or 15 months, and it was only by getting a 

 new press that we were able to get out the present 

 edition so that our customers would not have to 

 wait. We aim to make each edition of the ABC 

 up to the times— as much so as if the whole book 

 had been written during the year of publication. 

 As it is all kept in standing type, each subject can 

 be revised in accordance with the latest develop- 

 ments. As soon as we can do so practically, we 

 propose to drop the paper-cover edition. A great 

 many of our customers, after receiving the latter, 

 aie a little surprised and disappointed that they 

 should get so nice a book in such cheap binding. 

 Although the A B C in cloth costs us considerably 

 more than it did when we first sold it for $1.35, we 

 have decided to keep the price the same, and sell 

 only one kind of binding— cloth. When sent with 

 other goods, so as to save postage, the price will be 

 only f 1.10, as formerly. 



gPECI^Ii pi0¥ICEg. 



12-INCH FDN. MILL, IN CANADA FOR SALE. 



We have at Millbrook, Ont., a 12 inch fdn. mill 

 that is practically as good as wben new, and has 

 made only about ;5U0 lbs. of fdn. It is over the 

 lines, and 30 per cent duty paid. If any of our 

 Canadian friends want it they may have it for 

 $:JO.OO. Better send for samples made on the mill, 

 so that you may know just what you are getting. 



THE BRITISH BEE .JOURNAL AT A LOW PRICE. 



The price given in our list is $2 40, postage in- 

 cluded; as we have, however, about a doze a copies 

 coming by way of exchange, more than we have 

 subscribers for, we will furnish it until this edition 

 i* exhausted, at just half price— fl 20— for the year 

 1890. Of course, you will receive the back numbers 

 from January. Sample copies furnisaed before 

 subscribing, if you wish. 



METAL-CORNERED FRAMES. 



A good many have inquired if we can furnish 

 metal corners for the wide and thick top brood- 

 frames. We answer, no. Our metal corners are 

 made (inly for frames ?s inch wide, and from J^ to 

 % in. thick. The wire reversing corner will fit (mly 

 on frames Js in. wide. There isn't enough advan- 

 tage in either kind of corners to justify the expen- 

 sive machinery required to make them any other 

 size than those we already furnish. 



PRICE OF .lAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. 



We this date withdraw the low price at which we 

 have been selling Japanese buckwheat for several 

 months, and quote, until turther notice, those pub- 

 lished on page 26 of catalogue, which are as fol- 

 lows: llh. Sets.: by mail, 15 cts.; 1 pock, 4(1 cts.; K 

 bushel, 15 cts.; 1 bushel, $1.40; 2 bushels. *2..50; lU 

 bushels or more, $1.10 per bushel, bag included in 

 every case. We have already disposed of several 

 hundred bushels, and still have a good stock of 

 choice seed. 



HONEY-QUEENS. 



Last season the progeny of on^ of our queens was 

 so very much ahead of all other bees in our apiary, 

 in point of honey gathering, that we sold daughters 

 ot the queen for a half more than our regular cat- 

 alogue price. As the queen was an old one, we 

 sent her south last fall to our Southern breeder, 

 and now be reports having a nice lot of honey- 

 queens. These will be sold, as long as Ihry lust, for 

 a half more than our regular catalogue prices. Un- 

 tested, in May, $2 25; tested, $4.50; select tested, 

 *6 75. We are aware that these prices are ruther 

 high; but it is early in the seasen yet, and the 

 queens are extra. 



