GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 



Advertisements will be received at the rate of 20 

 cents per line. Nonpareil space, each insertion, cash 

 in advance ; and we require that every advertiser 

 satisfies us of responsibility and intention to do all 

 that he agrees, and that his goods are really worth 

 the price asked for them. 



A beautiful work of 100 Pages, One Colored 

 Flower Plate, and 300 Illustrations, with 

 Descriptions of the best Flowers and Vegetables, 

 and how to grow them. All for a Five Cent Stamp. 

 In English or German. 



The Flower and Vegetable Garden, 175 Pa- 

 ges, Six Colored Plates, and many hundred Engrav- 

 ings. For 50 cents in paper covers; $1.00 in elegant 

 cloth. In German or English. 



Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine— 32 

 Pages, a Colored Plate in every number and many 

 fine Engravings. Price $1.25 a year; Five Copies for 

 $5.00. 



Vick's Seeds are the best in the world. Send 

 Five Cent Stamp for a Floral Guide, containing 

 List and Prices, and plenty of information. Address 

 12-3 JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. 



Early Queens. 



J. P. H. BROWN, Augusta, Georgia, Importer 

 and breeder of Italian queens, and dealer in Bee- 

 Keepers' supplies. Queens bred a month earlier 

 than in the North. Low express rates. Packages 

 of five or more queens sent free of express charges 

 to any part of the United States except California 

 and Oregon. lltfd 



MANUFACTURERS OF SUPERIOR DOUBLE 



REFINED GRAPE AND MALT SUGAR, 



CRYSTAL GLUCOSE SYRUP. 



Superior Double Refined Grape Sugar for feeding 

 bees, at3 J ,4c per lb. in barrels of 375 lbs., and 4c in 

 boxes of 50 or 110 lbs. Crystal Glucose Syrup 5c per 

 lb. by the barrel. Samples of the Grape Sugar will 

 be sent prepaid, by Express, on receipt of 10 cents. 

 lltf LOUIS P. BEST, Sup't, Davenport, Iowa. 



STILLMAN*Co 



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\ N.W. Copo FRONT&VlNE 

 CINCINNATI OHIO, 



$1.50 per YEAR ; CLUBS of 5 or More $1.00. 



Send Ten Cents for a Sample Copy of 



The American Bee Journal 



The Oldest, Largest and Best Bee Paper. 

 THOMAS O. NEWMAN «fe SON, CHICAGO. 



Gash for Beeswax! 



Will pay 30c per lb. for any quantity of nice, clean 

 wax, delivered at our R. R. station. 



A. I. ROOT, Medina, O. 



Before Purchasing 



Supplies for your Apiary, send a postal card with 

 your name and (if you will do us the kindness) those 

 of bee-keeping neighbors, for our Illustrated Circu- 

 lar of Apiarian Supplies, and sample Sectional Box 

 and Comb Foundation, made on the Dunham 

 Foundation Machine, which is the latest improve- 

 ment in that line. We wish to place these samples 

 before Every Header of this Magazine, and hence 

 offer them Free. Just send your name at once. 



N. B. — We have secured the general agency of the 

 above machine. Special attention given to rearing 

 Italian Queens and iiees. The highest price paid 

 for Beeswax. J. C. & II. P. SAYLES, 



Hartford, Wis. 



NELLIS 7 "FLORAL INSTRUCTOR. 



An elegant illustrated quarterly devoted to gai- 

 dening in all its branches, containing a complete 

 list of Seeds, Plants, Bulbs &c. at reduced prices, 

 also much information. 10c. per year; sample copy 

 and 2 p'k'ts of bee seed for 3c. Seeds for bee-keep- 

 ers a specialty. A. C. Nellis, Canajoharie, N. Y. 



You can not look over the back No's of Glean- 

 ings or any other Periodical with satisfaction, unless 

 they are in some kind of a Binder. Who has not 

 said— "Dear me, what a bother— I must have last 

 mouth's Journal and it is 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 anything you may have previously seen 

 even though it were months ago. 



Binders for Gleanings (will hold them for two 

 years), gilt lettered, free by mail for 50, CO, and 75c, 

 according to quality. For table of prices of Binders 

 for any Periodical, see Oct. No., Vol. II. Send in 

 your orders. A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. 



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Having built a shop and put in new machinery, I 

 am prepared to furnish Bee Hives, Section Boxes, 

 Frames, &c, &c, as cheap as the cheapest. 



Section Boxes, 4&x4&x2, per M., $3.00, and every- 

 thing else at bottom prices. For further particulars 

 send for Circular. F. A. SALISBURY, 



12-ld Geddes, Onondaga Co., N. Y. 



The A B G of BEE CULTURE 



Part First, will tell you all about the latest im- 

 provements in securing and Marketing Honey, 

 the new 1 lb. Section Honey Boxes, mak- 

 ing Artificial Honey (loinb. Candy for 

 Bees, Bee Hunting, Artificial Swarming, 

 Bee Moth. &c, &c. 



Part Second, tells All about Hive Making, 

 Diseases oS Bees, Drones, How to Make an 

 Extractov, Extracted Honey, Feeding and 

 Feeders, Foul Brood, etc, etc. 



Part Third, tells all about Honey Comb, Hon- 

 ey Dew, Hybrids, Italianizing, King Birds, 

 Tlie Locust Tree, Moving- Bees, The Lamp 

 Nursery, Mijjjnoiinettc, Milkweed, Mother- 

 wort, Mustard, Nucleus, Pollen, Pro- 

 polis, and Queens. 



tS*"All are Profusely Illustrated with Kn- 

 gravisags. 



Nothina Patented. Either one will be mailed 

 for 25c; M doz., $1.25; 1 doz., $2.25; 100, by express, 

 $15.00. 

 The three parts bound in one, mailed for 60c. One 

 1 doz. $6.00i 100, by express. $35.00. 



A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. 



