A D VER TISERS ' BEPAR TMENT. 



Continued from front cover. 

 the necessity of painting them any more than 



ordinary household tin ware. Clean tin, can 



be washed with boiling water; when painted 



or japanned it cannot. 



I have got the Extractor finished, am well pleased. 

 I took the gearings and Inside work which you sent 

 me to Chatfield & Smith ot Anamosa. They did me 

 a good. job. I had it finished in the best manner, it is 

 all metal, runs like a top, and my wife can pick it up 

 and take it where she pleases. 1 would not exchange 

 it for any other one I have seen. 



Viola, Iowa. R.J.Talbot, 



ABOUT ADVEKTISKnENTS. 



S a matter of course we receive but a lim- 

 ited number of advertisements, compared 

 with what we would did we make no discrim- 

 ination, but insert every thing offered, without 

 a care as to whether the parties were proposing 

 to do a fair business or not. Our ideas on the 

 subject are given exactly in this little note 

 just sent in with a new advertisement. 



Will try to use my customers as I would wish them 

 to use me. Yours truly, 



Ashland, Ohio. E. J. WOKST, 



This sums it all up exactly. We ask noth- 

 ing more, but when one does not scruple to 

 receive money for a patent hive that he knows 

 will not work, or that he has no "right" to 

 receive money for; another takes $10. lor a 

 receipt for Fertilization etc., promising to re- 

 fund the money if it don't work, which he nev- 

 er does ; a third receives $2.00 for a wonderful 

 receipt for an " Ambrosial'" promising too, to 

 refund money, but never does ; and still anoth- 

 er class receives money for Queens etc., that 

 they can't furnish, and after two years time 

 write to our much abused, and patient friend, 

 tailing him times are so hard they can't send the 

 money back, won't he take some wares, etc.; 

 what is to be done ? 



We submit the question to our patrons, shall 

 we receive advertisements from such? We are 

 well aware this class of advertisers are quite 

 profitable, and we might almost excuse an Ed- 

 itor for turning about and concluding patent 

 hives are not so very bad after all, even had 

 they loudly denounced them, before occupying 

 the chair, "Editorial." 



Our Wares. 



We shall at all times take the liberty of care- 

 fully scrutinizing the prices asked for whatever 

 is advertised in the way of implements, and if 

 we deem the prices asked exorbitant, shall in 

 default of a better way offer them ourselves at 

 what we consider a fair margin. 



Recognizing the fact that the good of our 

 readers, (they being by far the larger number,) 

 should always be considered before that of our 

 Advertising patrons, we have not hesitated to 

 offer for sale anything whereby we thought 

 their welfare might be promoted. In putting 

 the dollar hive in the market we expected to 

 incur the abuse of those having hives for sale 

 at prices ranging from 5 to $10, and we were 

 not disappointed. Now it has been suggested 

 that some of these things have been offered at 

 less than cost, to "spite" certain individuals; 

 aside from having no time for any such folly, we 

 have, ever since the days of the "hen business" 

 had a strong Yankee propensity, for making 



every thing pay some profit at least, and our rea- 

 ders may rest assured that when we oft'er the 

 present number, at the rate of 4c. per copy, in 

 clubs, it probably did not cost over 3 1 ., ; that the 

 Wax Ext'r offered elsewhere, at $3.00 did not 

 cost over 2.50 all crated; Simplicity hive, 75c. 

 etc., but permit us to say that to secure these re- 

 sults, real work of brain as well as hand is 

 needed. If the $1. Queens cannot be reared at 

 a profit we believe it will be our first defeat; a 

 series of papers on the subject will be commen- 

 ced in our next. The details of our experi- 

 ments with artificial heat, will be found in 

 Sept. and Oct, No's of last year. 



Names of responsible parties will be inserted in 

 either of the following departments, at a uniform 

 price of 10c. each insertion, or SI. 00 per year. 



Panics inserted in this department the first time 

 without charge. 



Those whose names appear below, agree to furnish 

 Italian Queens the coming season for §1.00 each, un- 

 der the following conditions ; No guarantee is to be 

 assumed of purity, safe delivery or anv tiling of the 

 kind, only that the Queen be reared from a choice, 

 pure mother. They also agree to return the money at 

 any time when customers become impatient of such 

 delay as may be unavoidable. 



Bear in mind that he who sends the best Queens, 

 put up neatest and most securely, will probably re- 

 ceive the most orders. Special rates for warranted 

 and tested Queens, furnished on application to anv of 

 the parties. 



J. Shaw & Son, Chatham center, Medina Co., Ohio. 



I. E. Daniels, Lodi, 



G. W. Dean, River Styx, " " " 



E. C. Blakeslee, Medina, " " 



Willis J. Phelps, " " " " 



W. J. Hosmer, Jauesville, Minnesota, 



James A. Buchanan, Wintersville, Jeff. Co., O. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown, Augusta, Georgia. 



Miss. Annie Saunders, Woodville, Miss. 



W. J. Standefer, Dry Grove, Hinds Co., Miss. 



W. D. Wright, Knowersville, Albany Co.. X. Y. 



J. H. Nellis, Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., N. Y. 



R. S. Becktell, New Buffalo, Mich. 



C. R. Williams, Milan, Erie Co., O. 



Who agree to make such hives, and at the prices 

 named, as those described on our circular. 

 Geo. T. Wheeler, Mexico, N. Y. 

 R. S. Becktell, New Buffalo, Mich. 

 Kruschke Bro's, Berlin, Wis. 



B u * i ii e jg * <«fc; F er .*§ o " »I * 



H. E. Curry, 208 W. Fourth St. Cin. O., will pay a 

 liberal price for some empty combs. 



In order to hasten the ■ tit rod ml i a of the 

 SST STANDARD ^a 



Apiarian Implements, we make the following offer. 

 Standard Hive, including bottom-board, eloor-step, 

 Blocks' and all the stand that we think is needed to 



keep it from the ground $2.00 



Twenty frames for above b% c. each 1.15 



Quilt 40 



Or all complete except painting, for 3.50 



The same in a bundle including nails, hinges etc, 3.25 

 Extractor made expressly for Standard frames, (will 



take Gallup frames also) 19.00 



Any deviation from above, be it only 1-16 of an inch, 

 will be only at our regular list prices. 



Diagrams and directions for making above hive will 

 be given in our next No. 



A. I. ROOT & CO., Medina, Ohio. 



We always consider it an especial favor to hive 

 customers inform us by 2^ostal card whether goods 

 are satisfactory,' whether our mode of packing is 

 efficient; time taken in transit ; whether Express 

 or Freight charges were reasonable, etc. etc. 



Respectfully, A. I. Root & Co. 



