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Vol. III. 



SUPPLEMENT -SEPT. 1, 1875. 



No. IX. 



ANOTHER SUPPI^EMElVr. 



W^,0 j'Oii ask what for, dear friends V Well, 

 • A^Jl prineipally because we want to have a 

 "biu; talk" ajjain, hut not all on that account, 

 either, but because we think what we have to 

 say may help you some. You just be quiet a 

 minute, and we will get down to the matter by 

 and by. 



Do most of you remember the red wooden 

 balls with rubbers tied to them, that juveniles 

 used to think such rare playthings a few years 

 ago V Well, when they lirst came around they 

 used to sell for 2oc., then for 1."), and Anally for 

 10 cents. About this time we discovered that 

 we could get them by the gross for 3'.j cents, 

 and proposed that they could be sold for only 

 oc. ; the objection was raised that l^v, cents 

 would not pay the expense of showing them, 

 etc., but we carried our point, and no adverti- 

 sing was needed, for every urchin "spun" home 

 with his ball and the joyful news, something 

 like this : 



"Oh mother ! iiiotlier ! just see ; and it onlj' 

 cost Jive cents!" 



Sister must have one too, and liUk brother 

 likewise of course, ahd the sparkling eyes and 

 screams of delight wei'e almost ample compen- 

 sation, even if we had not made a cent on the 

 speculation, but the beauty of it was that we 

 sold several gross, almost as fast as we could 

 hand them out. 



Now, we felt then very much as we feel now 

 when we get a letter like the following, from 

 one of our readers who had a "desperate," hard 

 time in getting |10. to send for an extractor 

 that he needed badly. His frame ha])pened to 

 work nicely in the Standard, so we wrote back 

 to him that there was f 1.00 balance remaining 

 in his favor ; as it happened, he had been won 

 dering how he might get just one more dollar 

 for an Italian Queen, and when we handed it 

 to a neighbor to send him one, he wrote as 

 follows : 



I got the extractor all right, and extracteil between 

 one and two hundred Ibp. to-daj-. It works like a 

 charm, better than I expected. It runs faster than I 

 thought, full as fast a« Abbott's, of Wakenian ; his 

 has no arm in to hold the shaft linn, but the bottom is 

 stronger, with a strainer all over it, so the honey 

 needs no straining as it docs with yours, but Abbot's 

 costs almost double what yours does. Your knife is a 

 "cli))i)er," could be no better unless a longer blade 

 would improve it. The charges were not so much as 

 I exi)ectcd, 75 cts. only, 35 from Medina to (Meveland, 

 and 40 from Cleveland to Kingsville. 



If you should have a (^ueen sent me, have it sent by 

 mail, as the exjiress oilUie is V>;^ miles oJf. The honey 

 harvest is not mucli just now : has been very good and 

 bees have done well where there were any left after 

 the April freeze; am well i)leased with GLEANiNcis, 

 shall get back volumes as soon as I can, they must be 



worth five times what chey cost. Lewis Coon. 



Monroe Centre, Ashtabula Co., <>., July 28th, '77. 



We probably shall not l)e able to sell ex- 

 tractors for five cents, nor for live dollars, but 

 we are going to try to see liow well we can do. 

 even if there seems l)ut little ])ossibilit> of in- 

 ducing even beginners to commence with one 

 standard frame. As the business enlarges and 

 increases, several new points begin to develop 

 themselves, and one important one is that all 

 machines to work to the best advantage, should 

 be so made that the frame may hang in them 

 just as it hangs in the hive, if we except tht- 

 L. and Q. frames, and all having a length un- 

 der the top bar greater than 14 inches. It 

 may be impossible for us to give all the rea- 

 sons for this now, butVve hope you will take 

 our word for it when we say there are very 

 good reasons for standing a frame on end in 

 the extractors when the length is much great- 

 er than the depth. 



IIIAGKAM OF PRINCIPAL FRAMES IN USE. 



Qliinhv. 



Standakd. 



