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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15. 



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DISCOUNTS FOR EARLY ORDERS. 



We call your attention to our advertisement on 

 the cover of this number, setting forth the advan- 

 tasres of sending your orders early for goods for 

 next season's use. Five per cent allowed on orders 

 during the next two weeks. Remember, this does 

 not apply to honey, honey-packages, and such goods 

 for immediate use or sale. 



PERFORATED ZINC ADVANCED AND IMPROVED. 



We have for a year past received at intervals of 

 several months notice of a slight advance in sheet 

 zinc. These advances now aggregate so much that 

 we are compelled to advance the list price 20 cts. 

 per sheet, 28x96, and 20 c. on 10 honey-boards Nos. 1, 

 3, 3, 4, and 13. Revised table of prices will be given 

 in next number. To compensate you for this ad- 

 vance we wish to say that we have just completed a 

 new die for our zinc-perforating machine at an 

 expense of about $'h, and we have spared no pains 

 to make it absolutely perfect. Each of the 70 holes 

 in the die measures exactly ^y,, of an inch, which is 

 accepted as the correct size by several experts who 

 have made exhaustive tests and experiments. The 

 zinc we have made for two years past has given 

 good satisfaction generally. B ut a f e w have report- 

 ed that some queens will go through it. The new 

 zinc will effectually stop all queens and still allow 

 the workers to pass freely. Dealers in making up 

 their price lists will please take notice of the above 

 advance in the list price. 



SELF-SEALING HONEY-JARS. 



A few weeks ago our attention was called to a 

 new jar for honey by M. H. Hunt. He had some at 

 the Detroit exposition, and spoke of the way it 

 seemed to please all who ^aw it. He kindly gave us 

 the name of the manufacturers, and we wrote them 

 at once for samples and now have 15 bbls. of them 

 in stock. The adjoining cut 

 shows what they are like. The 

 cover is glass with a rim inside 

 projecting down about ~^g of 

 an inch, and between the cover 

 and jar is a rubber band. On 

 the cover is a circular raised 

 place with a notch in the top 

 The tinned wire bail of No. 13 

 wire has both ends hooked into 

 holHS in the side like the oaken 

 bucket tumbler or like a com- 

 mon wooden pail. Of course, 

 the holes don't go through the 

 glass. This bail is pressed up 

 . , ., the oval incline till it snaps 



into the notch on toi), which seals the jar as tight 

 as a Mason fruit-jar. There are two sizes, one hold- 

 ing 10 or 11 oz. of honey, the other about 14 oz. We 

 have them put up 150 in a bbl.. either size. Price of 

 large size, $8.60; of the small size, $8.00 per bbl. 

 l^or a smaller quantity the price will be 8 cts. each, 

 or 7.) and 70 c. per doz , respectively. No charare for 

 packages, in .5 bbl. lots direct from Pittsburg, Pa., 

 10 per cent discount from above prices by the bbl. 



GLEANINGS FREE FOR THE REST OF 1890 TO NEW 

 SUBSCRIBERS. 



Now is the time for getting up clubs of subscrib- 

 ers and extending the influence of Gleanings. To 

 make a greater inducement for those not acquaint- 

 ed with it to join our circle of readers, we will give 

 the rest of 18H0 free to new subscribers for one year; 

 that is, all new subscriptions received after this 

 date will receive Gleanings from the time the 

 subscription is received till Jan., 1893, for .f 1.00. We 

 will also include the American Bee Journal on the 

 same terms for 7.5 cts. extra; The Illugtrated Home 

 Journal for 35 nts. extra, or all three for $2 15. You 

 never had such an opportunity before of getting 

 three such journals and such a length of time for 

 so small a price. 



gleanings, 3 MONTHS' TRIAL TRIP, FOR 15 CTS. 



If there are some who will not accept any of the 

 offers above we are still desirous of having them 

 become acquainted with Gleanings, and offer to 

 send it 3 months on trial for only 15 cents. The 

 journal will he stopped at the end of this time, un- 

 less you send a request to continue. Think of it- 



six numbers of Gleanings for only 15 cents! Will 

 not many of our readers endeavor to introduce it to 

 other homes on these easy terms? 



sending gleanings after the time paid FOB. 



We have adopted the plan of many papers, of 

 sending Gleanings right along until we receive 

 orders to discontinue; and the great majority of 

 our readers who have expressed their opinion are 

 pleased with this arrangement. It is more conven- 

 ient to include a dollar with a remittance for an or- 

 der for goods whenever one is sent in, and it isn't 

 pleasant to have the journal stop when you want it 

 to come along. We therefore continue it till we 

 get orders to discontinue, because this plan pleases 

 the majority. There are some, however, who take 

 exceptions to it; and we want to saj' to these that 

 we can accommodate them also it they will say, when 

 they send their subscription, that they want it 

 stopped when the time paid for is up. Unless you 

 do this we shall keep it going till we have orders to 

 stop it. 



OUR beautiful OCTOBER. 



Did anybody ever know the like of it? Here it is 

 the 14th day of October, and our garden-stuff is all 

 growing and ripening as in June or July. Not even 

 the lima beans have been injured by frost. We are 

 having the finest cabbage, cauliflower, late Mam- 

 moth Sugar corn, cucumbers, lettuce, melons, peas, 

 peppers, pumpkins, radishes, spinach, squashes, 

 and last, but not least, the nicest Ignotum tomatoes 

 we ever had in the world, and in the greatest abund- 

 ance right here in the middle of October. And, oh 

 my! how the strawberry-plants do grow! Our tur- 

 nips have not as yet had frost enough to be real 

 sweet, but they are growing beautifully. My 

 friend, have you forgotten to be thankful? 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The next convention of the Turkey Hill Bee-keepers' Associ- 

 ation will take place at the Turkey Hill Grange Hall, near Wil- 

 derman's Station, three miles southeast of Belleville. 111., Oct. 

 30, 1890. All interested are invited. S. Beaeutigam, Pres. 



The Missouri State Bee-keepers' Association will meet in con- 

 vention at Mexico, Mo , Oct. 22 and 23. A good programme, and 

 an instructive and interesting time is expected. All persons 

 interested in bee culture are cordially invited to attentl. Good 

 board can be obtained for 75 cts. per day, or 20 cts. per meal. 

 J. W. Rouse, Sec, Mexico, Mo. 



KIND WORDS FOR OUR STRAWBERRY-BOOK. 



The small treatise on A B C of Strawberry Culture, 

 by Messrs. T. B. Terry and A. I. Root, is a big book 

 in a small compass. It is primarily a farmers" book, 

 and we would advise every farmei' reader of ours to 

 get one and read it.— The Poultry Monthly. 



A B C of Strawberry Culture is the name of a neat 

 pamphlet of 1.50 pages, by Messrs. T. B. Terry and 

 A. I. Root. It covers the whole subject in an inter- 

 esting manner, is nicely illustrated, and is just the 

 work for those beginning to grow delicious straw- 

 berries. Price, postpaid, 40 cents. For sale at this 

 office.— American Bee Journal. 



An excellent little book Is T. B. Terry's A B C of 

 Strawberry Culture, just from the press of A. I. 

 Root, Medina, Ohio. It contains 144 pages and a 

 large number of illustrations, and will no doubt be 

 of great value to all beginners in strawberry culture 

 who have the good judgment to buy a copy and use 

 it judiciously. The price is only 40 cents by mall. — 

 Colorado Farmer. 



I received from you a copy of Terry's book on 

 strawberries, for which I am very much obliged. I 

 have read every word of it carefully. As I raised 

 strawberries in former yeai's by the acre, 1 will just 

 saj' it is a sp cinlid book for beginners, and many 

 gi'owers could le.iin very much from it. 



Platteville, Wis., Sept. 27, 189J. E. France. 



A B C of Strawberry Culture is the title of a little 

 book of 144 i)ages, written in two parts, the first by 

 T. B. Ti'rry, the well-known agricultural writer, who 

 writes fi'om Ins farm and what he sees and does, and 

 not as a theorist. The other part is written by A. I. 

 Root, the charming editor of Gleanings in Bee Cul- 



