1880 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CUJLTUKE. 



573 



Please, friends, do not write us to continue your 

 subscriptions, when you have sent the money to 

 some one else. It complicates matters in a way you 

 have no idea of, and very often some one "gets 

 mad" before it is all fixed. 



Khiend Doolittle's comments and review of the 

 A 15 (' bonk arc completed: and, as it contains many 

 valuable hints and suggestions gleaned from his ex- 

 perience in honey-raising, it will be given complete. 

 commencing in the January No. 



We have enlarged Gleanings to 00 pages this 

 month,- S more than usual, to accommodate the in- 

 dex, and also to give you the counter list once more, 

 iust before the holidays. It will probably appear no 

 more, except in the price list. 



We have got out a new mandrel for foot-power 

 saws, which we shall illustrate next month. It will 

 hold the same saws as our $5.00 mandrel, but will 

 cost only $2.75. By mail, 50c extra. It runs on steel 

 points, and runs easier than the $ 5.00 oue. 



We close the year with 5040 names. Inasmuch as 

 the honey crop has been so poor. I can hardly bope 

 to have tne subscription continue up to its present 

 number; but whether you renew or not, my friends, 

 please accept my most earnest thanks for your kind 

 support thus far. 



THE BLACK LIST. 



We have no more names at present as candidates 

 for the Black List ; but several names have been sent 

 us that are under investigation. Unless they make 

 some sort of a reply before next No., wc shall have 

 to give their names. 



We are expecting daily some California honey 

 from friend Wilkin. It is to cost us 10c, delivered 

 here, and we are making preparations to put it up in 

 tins, so that, when ordering goods from us, you can« 

 if you choose, have a 2-1 b. can of California sage 

 honey put iu as sample for only 28c. 



On all orders for goods received during the month 

 of December, for any thing on our price list, of 

 whatever nature, we will give a discount of 3 per 

 cent, providing you mention the mailer when you 

 make the order, and refer to this notice. No,<jdiscount 

 will be allowed unless you do this. 



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The following was received just too late for the 



Honey Column:— 



Forsale. 5 bbls. of clover and basswood honey, mixed, and one 

 bbl. fall honey, very light. Price m cents on cars here. Bar- 

 rels hold 360 lbs. , iron-hooped, and waxed. 



.1. J. swartwciit. Union City, Branch Co.. Mich. 

 aJsoBbbls. clover and basswood homy, mixed; barrels hold 

 "jo lbs. . iron-hooped, waxed, and painted. 



F. K. Johnson, Union city. Branch Co., Mich. 



The following advertisements were received after 

 our advertising pages were printed: - 



Vor $1.10 I will send the " American Agriculturist " lor 1881. 

 Three subscriptions, received a1 one time, Sl.OOeaoh. 



Geo. O. Tompkins, White Plains, Westchester Co. , X. V. 



In) you keep bees! 

 Thin subscribe fur the "Bee-Keepers' Exchange," an origi- 

 nal, valuable monthly, Price ,;, cents per year. Sample free, 

 send for our Empire 'Club List before subscribing fur your peri- 

 odicals, ana save money. Address J. H. Nellis, 



Canajoharie, Mont. Co., N. V. 



Friend Nellis has very kindly proffcrod the Peet 

 cage, or any of its desirable features, to anybody 

 who chooses to make them. It will be but a small 

 recompense to friend Peet for his ingenious con- 

 tribution, to style all cages after that pattern,— Peet 

 queen-cages. Our thanks are also due friend Nellis 

 for his agency in bringing it out, and adding to its 

 desirable features. 



GLEANINGS FOR 1880. 



As we ha\ e a large quantity of back Nos. on hand, 

 we will send the entire volume for 1880, postpaid, to 

 any address in the U. S. or Canada, for 75c., if or- 

 dered before Jan. 1st, 1881. None will be sent at this 

 price if the order reaches us after Jan. 1s£,' as our 

 reason for offering them so low is, that they will go 

 at pound rates of postage until that d ito. 



DR. CHASE'S RECEIPT-HOOK, AGAIN. 



Our notice of last month brings out the fact, that 

 the hook published at Ann Arbor, Mich., claiming to 

 1h' the original Chase Receipt-Book, is a sort of 

 swindle, ami patent-medicine advertisement, gotten 

 up by said Beal. Dr. Chase is in Toledo, O., and we 

 can mail the genuine book to any of you fin receipt 

 of the price, $2.00. No wonder I thought the doctor 

 had degenerated ! 



INK. 



After trying a great many kinds of ink, we find 

 none that stand all tests like "W. O.'s" If more 

 convenient to order of us, when you are getting oth- 

 er goods, wc can furnish it at his prices. The ink 

 made of the ink-powders advertised in this number, 

 is excellent in every respect, except that it dries up 

 quicker, having only water for the liquid portiou. 

 We can furnish the powders also. See 5 and 25 cent 

 counters. 



It will be observed, that some of our honey quota- 

 tions arc old. This is because n o reports came in by 

 the time we went to press. Thurber has just replied 

 as follows:— 



Best white honev. small, neat packages, 17<r<l9c; fair do. , 1&§ 

 16c; dark do.. ]](.'< i:tc; lar^e boxes about 2c ^ tb. lbs*; white 

 extracted. 9@10c; dark do., 7®8C| Southern strained, 80&85. 

 Market a trifle weak. >\ ith indications of lower prices. 



New York. Nov. 14, 1880. A. Y. THIRBEK. 



Still later:— 



There is little change to note in honey, comb or extracted. Wp 

 quote: Comb in 1 and 2 lb. sections, choice. 19 to 21; medium. 16 

 to 19; extracted, selling 9 to 11. Demand yood for both, comb 

 and extracted. Beeswax, steady at 81 to 22K. 



St. Louis, Nov. 23, 1880. It. C. Greer & Co. 



PERIODICAL SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS. 



My friends, I hardly know what is right in this 

 matter. Some of you, in sending to me for goods, 

 say like this: "Mr. Root, I want all of these things, 

 and I think I can trust you to furnish them to me as 

 low as anybody does." If I charge him a dollar for 

 Gleanings, he may say that others advertise it for 

 only 00c. If I charge him 90c, why should I not let 

 you all have it for the same? Simply because I could 

 then give no commission at all to the kind friends 

 who work hard to get up clubs. What is right and 

 Christian-like all round? Who will tell? 



PREMIUMS FOR SUBSCRIBING EARLY. 



Every subscriber who remits us during the pres- 

 ent month of December, for Gleanings for the year 

 1881, may have his choice of any articla on the 5e. 

 counter, providing you mention it at the time you 

 send the money, tell us which article you choose, ani 

 send along the postage. 



We offer no premium for any single subscriber 

 after the first of Jan. 



To avail yourself of these offers, you must comply 

 with the conditions named. Do not tell the clerks to 

 pick out your premiums themselves, and do not 

 omit the postage; for we want the whole business 

 so that we can go right along as rapidly as we can 

 handle the goods, just as wo did with the counter 

 store on the fair grounds. 



Tliis offer is now also made to those who subscribe 

 in clubs as per first page of reading matter, if sent 

 before January 1, 18S1. 



