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FOREIGN BEE JOURNALS. 



We not only receive and keep on file all the bee- 

 journals published in the English language, but we 

 have most if not all published in foreign languages. 

 Our friend Jacob,"of whom I have often told you, 

 reads German, and Mr. W. P. Root, our shorthand 

 writer, reads French and Spanish; and while we are 

 about it, our friends of the Bulletin d'Apiculture 

 have given our price list such a very kind notice 

 that we take pleasure In reproducing it below. 



Araong the catalogues which we receive, the following de- 



special mention: That of A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio, Ed- 

 itor of Gleanlngs, and the largest manufacturer of apicultur- 

 al articlt 



serve special 



in the entire world, contains 40 large pages, with 



every thing of which a bee-keeper has need— hives, bees, ex- 

 tractors, smokers, cans, instruments, and accessories of all 

 kinds; foundation - machines, scales circular saws, steam- 

 engines, carpenter tools, seeds of plants, and even watches. 



Of course, I am not able to read the journals in 

 other languages; but our stenographer runs them 

 over; and when he finds points of interest my at- 

 tention is called to the fact, and I always " look at 

 the pictures" and I feel a great pleasure in looking 

 over these periodicals in other languages, even 

 though I can not read them. 



QUEENS DURING THE WINTER MONTHS ; WHO 

 SHALL FURNISH THEM? 



Although wc have been in the habit for many 

 years back of mailing queens almost every month 

 In the year, we have decided that it does not pay us 

 nor our customers to continue the business, say 

 after Dec. 1 ; but where you must have a queen aft- 

 er that date, I would suggest that you by all means 

 get them from friends in the South. Some enter- 

 prising queen-breeder in the Southern States can 

 easily prepare himself to ship queens any month in 

 the year, to any one who may have need of a queen. 

 Now, to save a good deal of useless correspondence, 

 will not some of our Southern friends announce 

 their readiness to furnish queens all winter? They 

 can be shipped to us, it is true, and we could rc- 

 shipthem; but this seems to me an expensive and 

 foolish piece of business. During the past winter 

 we had orders from the Southern States for q\icens 

 during the month of January. Well, to fill such or- 

 ders we have many times sent queens that had just 

 come to us from the South. The poor little crea- 

 tures were obliged to take a trip of over a thousand 

 miles into a Northern climate, and then go straight 

 back to pretty near where they originally started 

 from, just because folks preferred to send to us, 

 rather than to neighbors not very far off. We will 

 give the names of those who are prejuired to send 

 out untested queens on receipt of orders, from now 

 until Jan. 1, free of charge, provided you who send 

 in your names have the queens all read}' to mail. 

 Of course, we want the names of men who are 

 known to be in good standing. 



THE SHIPMAN STEAM-ENGINE. 



We have just received one »f the above engines. 

 In order to give it a trial, to see how it would an- 

 swer for bee-keepers, for hive-making, etc. Only 

 two sizes are made— one and two horse -power; 

 prices, $125 and $200 respectively. The engine uses 

 a cheap grade of coal oil. Instead of coal. Now, it 

 Is a fact that coal oil is more expensive for fuel 

 than coal; but to offset this it is made so automatic 

 that it works without an engineer, and an engineer 

 usually costs more than coal. Again, the engine 

 Itself turns on the oil in proportion to the work to 

 be done. If you require a whole horse-power, the 

 machine itself turns on the oil accordingly; but the 



minute you throw off the machine, and ask it to do 

 something requiring Otily the power of a child, the 

 oil begins to be cut down so as to consume that 

 amount and no more. It takes what water it needs, 

 in just the same way; and in case of any accident 

 of any kind, such as water getting out of the boiler, 

 too much water coming in, or too high pressure, it 

 blows itself out and cools off. For instance, you 

 can set the limit of the steam-gauge at any point 

 you wish, according to the work to be done; that is, 

 if you do not wish the pressure to go above 100 lbs., 

 the machine itself cuts off the fuel when it reaches 

 that point. It seems as if it were impossible for it 

 to explode or do any harm. The machines are very 

 extensively in use for running printing-presses, 

 and such like work, and it seems as if thej' ought to 

 be worth what they cost, almost anywhere. Of 

 course, if a bee-keeper expects his business to 

 grow, he wants a larger engine than one-horse — 

 maybe even more than two-horse; but to those 

 who have been in the habit of running a saw by 

 foot power or hand power, these little engines 

 would, in a very short time, earn the $12,"). You 

 can have them shipped promptly to any address. 

 They are so light that the shipping is but little. 

 You will notice, that the two-horse power engine 

 costs a little moie than the two-horse power engines 

 we have been selling, and advertising in our price 

 list. 



PANSIES. 



A llEE-KEEPER IN TROUBLE, .\NU HOW WE MAY 

 HELP HIM OUT. 



LOST my bees, and it left me Hat on my back, 

 as I had put all I had into them; and now as 

 Gleanings and bees have got me into trouble, 

 it seems but just that they should help me out 

 again. I will tell you how. This summer, 

 from May 1st until now, I have had a large bed of 

 splendid new improved, fancy, large flowering, 

 German pansies(the very choicest known), that have 

 been in constant bloom, the wonder and admiration 

 of all, averaging from iK) to 2C0 flowers in bloom 

 upon a single plant at a time, flowers from 2 inches 

 across upward, and of a hundred different colors, 

 and marking all rich and velvety. The bed will 

 bloom until snow. I have thousands of fine young 

 plants from above bed, and I will send by mail 10 or 

 more plants (mixed) to any one for 1 cent each (nev- 

 er sold for less than 5 cts. each). These plants will 

 bloom from very early in the spring until snow 

 next year. 



I lost none in wintering out of doors last winter, 

 or in transplanting. 1 send you a few flowers cut 

 from above bed. Throw them into the coldest wa- 

 ter you have until freshened up. I have 2 swarms 

 of bees— 1 Italian, 1 hybrid; they are doing well. 

 Who has a good Italian queen to exchange for 

 pansy plants? F. V. Sahgent. 



Hubbardston, Worcester, Co., Mass. 



Friend S., as a rule we do not admit ad- 

 vertisements in this way ; but when you 

 offer those large pansies for only a cent 

 each, it seems to me we may please our 

 readers, and help you too, by making public 

 your offer. If they will blossom this winter 

 in our greenhouse, you may send me 500 to 

 start with. The samples you send are cer- 

 tainly very handsome. 



