ADVERTISERS 1 DEPARTMENT. 



DDALKRS IN SUPPLIES FOR THE 

 APIARY. 



^N response to our call for catalogues and 

 jj}^ price lists we have received very few printed 

 circulars or lists as vet. One reason is perhaps 

 that in our industry so far, the most volumin- 

 ous circulars, and flaming advertisements, have 

 emanated from the "biggest humbugs." So 

 long as such is the case we cannot blame a 

 hive maker, or Queen raiser for concluding to 

 let his aoods be an advertisement in themselves. 



Where much business is clone however, some 

 kind of a circular seems almost a necessity to 

 save laborious correspondence. 



FRANK Benton, successor to Hamlin & Benton, 

 sends a neat circular of Queens, Colonies, Extractors 

 etc. Edgefield Junction, Davidson Co., Tenn. 



Geo. T. Wheeler, Mexico, N. Y., sends a neat little 

 book containing much valuable matter. His prices 

 l'or hives, frames, and honey boxes, are quite reason- 

 able. 



As we have had something to say -in regard 

 to Mr. T. H. B. Woody, we append the follow- 

 ing note from friend Wheeler: 



In response to vour call I send mv circular and price 

 list. Mr. T. H. B. Woody, was highly recommended 

 to me as an agent, so fgave him control of a large 

 territory-, and let him figure largely in my circular 

 etc. But I find he does not deal fairly with his cus- 

 tomers and has not with me, therefore I erased his 

 name from my circular, as you see. 



J. H. Maktin, Hartford. N. Y., makes hives arrang- 

 ed either for box or ext'd honey. 



Dk. Jewel Davis, Charleston, Ills., makes Queen 

 Nurseries ami Extractors. 



T. P. Andrews, Farina, Ills., makes hives at our 

 list prices. 



We will continue the list next month. Our 

 own circular, we enclose with this No. You 

 are all at liberty to read it over just as often 

 as you like. Aren't we clever? 



SOOTE OF OUR "WARES," 



J^UTof a number of flattering letters ree'd 

 %Jjj) from the recipients of our Lithograph of the 

 Hexagonal Apiary we select the following: 



A. I. ROOT & CO. :— Mv best thanks for your design 

 of a well regulated apiary. Your Idea is a good one 

 and it will not fall to help" in developing good taste, 

 and besides this it will be a stimulus. 



In regard to present given every old sub- 

 scriber who renews before Jan. 1st, he also 

 writes as follows : 



My best thanks also for " and ." It is 



a good and has found a place among mv best 



friends in the family . Chas. F. Muth, Cin., O. 



DEAR NOVICE:— I here send you 75c to renew my 

 subscription to -'Gleanings," and don't forget to send 

 that whistle, or whatever it is, I hope it won't be a 

 house and lot in a cltv. for I don't know what I should 

 do with it. L ucius Sno w, Blakesbnrg, Iowa. 



I am very much pleased with vour picture and think 

 the plan and arrangement A No. 1, and will be the 

 means of stimulating many of our bee-keepers to 

 greater exertions in care and neatness. 



Will. G. Smith, St. Louis, Mo. 



MESS. A. I. ROOT & CO. :— If you can make the cor- 

 ners to suit, I will certainly put them to all my frames, 

 and I have now 50 new hives that I would fix with 

 them, for they are the beat thing I have seen yet. Or 

 if you can give me the reason why % wide is better 

 than \\, I will certainly adopt them. Please let me 

 know If the North American Bee-Keepers' Society 

 have adopted a standard frame, if so what is the size ? 



Paul Viallon, Bayou Goula, La. Nov. 17th, 1874. 

 P. S.— I have taken 50 lbs. box honey from my colo- 

 nies In the month of Oct., which is very good for one 

 month. 



Before deciding on 7 s, for width of top bar 

 to frame, we supposed we had experimented 



enough to be sure that such would in the end 

 be the decision of at least the majority. The 

 average thickness of worker comb is abont J^,, 

 and the bees seem less disposed to bulge the 

 combs out, toward the top bar, to a greater 

 thickness, than when these bars are made one 

 inch or more. Also, if frames are placed about 

 l^rfj inch apart, with l 1 ^ top bars you have 

 only % space to insert the ends of your fingers 

 in removing a frame ; for the same reason we 

 And greater difficulty in lifting any frame de- 

 sired, the broad top bars not permitting the 

 amount of play, without killing bees, that the 

 narrow ones do. To illustrate the matter best, 

 till a hive with frames of all width tops from 

 }n inch to 1% ; let it stand through one honey 

 season, so that the combs may become cram- 

 med with honey ; we think you will find the 

 frames with narrow tops will be much the 

 easiest to remove. It is highly important 

 many times to get out the frame containing 

 the Queen before she can have time to hide ox- 

 get off on the bottom or sides of the hive, as in 

 the case of black and hybrid Queens, and to- 

 do this we must have frames easily removable. 

 We know of no argument in favor of broad, or 

 close fitting top bars, except that they act as a 

 honey board in confining the heat of the brood 

 cluster; happily a close fitting well made 

 quilt answers every purpose, and with Doolit- 

 tle's excellent idea of packing straw above the 

 quilt in spring, they may be kept as warm as 

 kittens. Friend McGaw of Monmouth, Ills., 

 mentions a colony of bees that gave a strong 

 natural swarm in March. This colony was 

 covered with a real bed quilt, and had access to 

 to some hives belonging to a neighbor from 

 which the bees had all died, leaving full combs 

 of buckwheat honey unprotected. 



Tl 1,1 P, LINDEN, and other honey producing trees. 

 Send lor catalogue. 

 Sip A. BATTLES, Girard, Pa. 



BEE HIVES and surplus boxes of any style in use, 

 or anything used about the Apiary, lufnished at 

 the lowest prices. H. ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. tfx 



CATNIP SEED, fresh and good, 50c per ounce. 

 J. L. WOLFENDEN, Adams, Wal Co., Wis. 75p 



C CATNIP SEED for 6ale at 25c per oz. Address 

 J A. A. RICE, Seville, Medina Co., O. lltf 



You cannot look over the back No's of Gleanings 

 or any other Periodical with satisfaction, unless they 

 are in some kind of a Binder. Who has not said— 

 perhaps only mentally— "Confound it 1 must have last 

 month's Journal and"it's no where to be found." Put. 

 each No. in the Emerson Binder as soon as it comes 

 and you can sit down happy, any time you wish to find 

 any thing you may have previously seen even though 

 it were months ago. 



Binders lor Gleanings (will hold them for four 

 years) gilt lettered, free by mail for 50, 60, and 75c, ac- 

 cording to quality. For table of prices of Binders for 

 anv Periodical, sec Oct. No. Send in your orders. 



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



