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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



^PECI^Ii Ps[0TICEg. 



CHINESE ROSE WINTER RADISH. 



We have given this a place before every thing else 

 tor radishes in the fall. Not only are they better in 

 quality, but they seem to stand the hot weather 

 better. Ounce, 5 cts. ; per lb., 60 cts. Sow them 

 any time this month or next. 



CELERY-PLANTS. 



We havrt still on hand a very fine stock of celery- 

 plants for late planting. We have Isept them grow- 

 ing nicely by copious watering from the windmill 

 tank. Price .5 cts. for 10; 100, 40 cts.; 1000, $3.00. If 

 wanted by mail, add 5 cts. for postage for 10, or 25 

 cts. per lUO. 



OUR NEW STRAWBERRY-BOOK, WRITTEN BY X, B. 

 TERRY. 



The price of this book will be 35 cts.; by mail, 40. 

 It will be ready to mail in three or four weeks, 

 probably. If you get in a hurry you can have the 

 advance sheets, which are now printed up to page 

 64, and when the whole book is out we will send you 

 the work complete^ 



PRICES OF STRAWBERRY-PLANTS. 



The price of the Jessie and Bubach will be 10 cts. 

 for 10; 75 cts per 100; $6.00 per 1000. The prices of 

 the Gandv and Haverland, ~'0 cts. for 10; $1 50 per 

 100; per 1000, $10.00. If wanted by mail, add 5 cts. 

 for 10, or 25 cts. per 100 for postage. These are the 

 only plants we have for sale at present. If you 

 want other varieties, we would refer you to Mat- 

 thew Crawford, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The Jersey 

 ■Queen and Sharpless are discontinued, putting the 

 Jessie in place of the Sharpless, and the Gandy in 

 place of the Jersey Queen. 



HONEY WANTED. 



We are having calls daily for price of honey, and 

 some orders are sent in without knowing the price. 

 As yet we have not received a pound of new comb 

 honey with which to fill orders. There are more 

 requests for comb than extracted. If any of our 

 readers not too far from here have some nice comb 

 honey in 1-lb. sections well built out to the wood on 

 all sides, so it will stand shipping, please write us, 

 stating the quantity and the price you expect; and 

 if we can not make you an otTer, may be we can di- 

 rect you to a customer. 



TURNIP SEED. 



From our past experience with the Purple-top 

 Olobe, we are inclined to recommend it in place of 

 all others for sowing in August. We have a large 

 stock of nice seed, just harvested, the seed coming 

 from one of our bee-keeping brethren. Price 5 cts. 

 per oz.; 40 cts. per lb.; 5 lbs. or over, 35 cts. per lb. 

 If wanted by mail, add 9 cts per lb. for postage and 

 packing. Southern Prize turnip, which stands over 

 winter, and is specially adapted for furnishing 

 blossoms for the bees in spring, same price as the 

 above. This is not as good a turnip for the table as 

 the Purple-top Globe; but it may be sown at almost 

 any time, either in August or September. 



PRICE OF UNTESTED QUEE!JS REDUCED. 



We have quite a lot of tested queens, from a year 

 to two years old. We desire to remove these, and 

 put in their places young queens. All of them pro- 

 duce nice three-banded bees —good queens to breed 

 from. We will sell them at the same price, until 

 they are disposed of, as the untested. This month 

 we make a reduction of 25 per cent over July prices. 

 Untested queens, each, 75c; old tested, 75c; young 

 tested, $1.13; select tested, $2.25. If you want an 

 extra yellow queen, the price will be a fourth more. 

 We can not guarantee them to be any better honey- 

 gatherers than the average queens, and perhaps 

 not as gooa. Honey queens will also be a fourth 

 more. These queens, as also their bees, are leather 

 colored. The progeny of our two honey queens 

 last year gathered and stored honey while the other 

 bees were robbing and gathering nothing. Their 

 daughters may not produce bees anymore active; 

 but the climiccs are that they will be better workers 

 than the average bees. 



OUR FAIR OFFERS. 



We copy the following editorial from Gleanings 

 of last year, indicating what may be done in the 

 way of education at our State and local fairs: 



MAKE ALL YOU CAN OF THE FAIRS. 



Our experience last fall at the Ohio Centennial at 

 Columbus has taught us that much can be done at 

 fairs toward educating the people in our favorite 

 pursuit, and correcting many of the false ideas 

 current among them. Much can be done toward 

 correcting the public mind on the subject of manu- 

 factured (?) honey by distributing our $1000 reward 

 cards, and by having a comb-foundation mill, with 

 samples of wax sheets before and after they have 

 passed through the mill. The worst falsehoods are 

 those which contain a grain of truth, and there is 

 no doubt but that the comb-foundation industry 

 furnishes a foundation and gives strength to the 

 story of manufactured comb honey. In the minds 

 of the great mass of the people, except those di- 

 rectly interested in the use of comb foundation, 

 this product has made a vasrue impression, and it is 

 not strange, knowing human nature as we do. that 

 this fouuuation is exaggerated into fully completed 

 comb, and filled witn honey or a substitute. One of 

 the best ways to correct the false notions, and 

 shear off the great overgrowth of imagination from 

 the facts is to show to the masses at the fairs how 

 comb foundation is made, explaining the impossi- 

 bility ot accomplishing the manufacture of com- 

 plete comb honey. Have a piece of natural comb 

 and a piece of tue thinnest comb foundation and a 

 magnifying-glass, so that each may be examined. 

 Hand to ihe skeptical and unbelieving one of our 

 reward cards, otfering $1000 for proof to the contra- 

 ry of your statements. In all your efforts, be pa- 

 tient and Christlike, remembering that these neisrh- 

 bors who have been misinformed have not had 

 your opportunities for knowing the facts. If this 

 policj' is persistently carried out there can not fail 

 to come increased confidence in bee-keepers as a 

 class and their product, and increased consumption 

 of honey. 



INDUCEMENTS FOR FAIR EXHIBITS. 



In view of the above it is to your interest as bee- 

 keepers to make as fine an exhibit as possible. 

 Your own product should, of course, figure largely 

 in the exhibit. Our show-case will help display 

 your comb honey, and you should have the extract- 

 ed honey in a variety of attractive packages, most- 

 ly glass, tastily labeled. 



To help flu out the exhibit and add variety, you 

 need the various implements used in the production 

 ot honey, such as a sample hive, frames, sections, 

 honey-extractor, knife, smoker, and what not. To 

 encourage this part of the exhibit, we will, as in 

 years past, allow a discount of 25 per cent from 

 goods of our manufacture which are suitable for 

 such exhibits. These are the conditions on which 

 we grant this discount: 



1. That you state with the order at what fair or 

 fairs they are to be entered. 



2. That you receive only samples (one of a kind). 

 Five hundred sections, 1 lb. each grade fdn., 50 

 frames flat, will be counted us units. 



3. That you show up the goods to good advantage, 

 and judiciously distribute the advertising matter 

 and samples of Gleanings we send along. 



If you secure any premiums on the goods, they 

 are yours. If you secure any subscribers to Glean- 

 ings we will allow you a rebate of 25 cts. on each 

 name so secured. You must, however, charge the 

 full price of $1.00, and remit us 75 cts. of it. If you 

 sell any ABC books we will mail them to your 

 order at $1.00 each, you charging $1.25 in each case. 



OFFER TO THOSE WHO DON'T BUY GOODS. 



Some fairs may come off so soon that you won't 

 have time to get the goods you would like, or you 

 may have them already, and are going to exhibit at 

 one or more fairs. To such we offer free one copy 

 of cloth A B C or one year's subscription to Glean- 

 ings, if you will display posters, and judiciously 

 distilbute advertising matter which we will send 

 you on request. 



This outfit consists of ICO return business cards. 

 25 $10110 reward cards, 10 price lists, 10 copies of 

 Gleanings, 10 Gleanings posters, and a letter di- 

 recting you how to use them. We propose to 

 number each lot of cards sent out, and keep a rec- 

 ord, so that we shall know from the quantity of 

 cards of each number that are sent back somewhat 

 how well you have done your work. 



