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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb 15 



skillfully gotten up so as to appear to be bona- 

 fide type-written productions, when they are 

 nothing but printed circulars in letter form. 

 These rascals print them by the thousands, 

 and mail them for a cent each, knowing that 

 every little while they will get hold of some- 

 body who is fool'sh enough to be frightened by 

 their threats of " United States courts," etc. 

 One such medicine firm, whose letter is now 

 before me, is the Hospitaline Remedy Co., of 

 New York. The man it was sent to is Henry 

 F. Buck, of Buckskin, Mich. He says he was 

 foolish enough to send them money in advance 

 for the medicine he had, about a year ago ; 

 but it never did him a particle of good — just 

 money thrown away ; and now they are try- 

 ing to blackmail him for some vwre money. 

 A similar letter came to a relative of mine, a 

 vddow. Her husband purchased some medi- 

 cine of a firm .several years ago, but he paid 

 for it at the lime, as a matter of course. In- 

 stead of handing over any money in answer to 

 such threats, just mail all such letters to us 

 and we will show the parties up. 



The dunning letter Mr. Buck sends us does 

 not have his name, nor that of anybody else, 

 for that matter. His name was on the outside 

 of the envelope, where the letter was address- 

 ed to him. 





NATIONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Object ; — Defense of the rights of bee-keepers ; pros- 

 ecution of di -honest commission men and glucose 

 adulterators; but only members are entitled to 

 protection. 



Officers:— E. R. Root, President, Medina, O.; R. C. 

 Aikiu, Vice-president lyoveland, Col.; Dr. A. B. 

 Mason. Secretary, 3-il2 Monroe St., Sta. B, Toledo, 

 O.; Eugene Secor. Gcn'l Manager, Forest City, la. 



Fees: — Annual membership fee $1.00 Remittances 

 may be sent here or to General Manager as above. 



OUR CATALOG FOR 1901. 



Owing to delay in the completion of the present 

 ediiion of the A 15 C of Bee Culture and other printing 

 about the beginning of ihe new year, we are a little 

 late in getting out our catalog. We have already mail- 

 ed a copy to the readers of Gleanings, and expect to 

 get around to our larger list of applicants by the first 

 of March or soon after. We have printed lO 000 cata- 

 logs for Geo W. York & Co.. who have just moved to 

 14-l-14(i Eiie St., about five blocks further north than 

 the old location ; al.so 12,000 for Jos. Nysewander, Des 

 aioines, Iowa Catalogs for other dealers will be dis- 

 tributed within the next two weeks. If you have not 

 received your catalog yet, send for it ; and if you 

 know of others in your neighborhood interested in 

 bees, or like y to he, send us their names and we shall 

 be pleased to send thcni a copy. 



SECOND-HAND MACHINERY. 



We have on hand quite a number of second-hand 

 machines which might be of u.'e to some of our read- 

 ers if they knew of them. We have several machines 

 for cutting the slots in sections, section-holder bottoms, 

 or separators. One is a single-head machine, hand- 

 feed, which sells new for 825.00. This is just as good 

 as new for service, and we offer it compleie with wood 

 frame for $12. .50 just half piice. We have also two or 

 three double-head feed machines which sell new for 

 875.00. One or two of these machines are almost new, 

 and just as good for service, and we offer them at 

 $40 GO each. A third was slightly damaged by a fire, 



but is in good shape. We offer this one at J30.00. We 

 have al.so several saw-tables for ripping, worth from 

 810.00 to 820 00 in present condition. Further particu- 

 lars on application, to those interested. Last, but not 

 lea'it, we are just installing a new machine for dove- 

 tailing our hives both sides at once, with which we ex- 

 pect to do the work much more rapidly and very ac- 

 curately. It will be hard to improve very much upon 

 the work we have been doing on our pres^ent machine, 

 which will be for sale as soon as the new one is in- 

 stalled and accepted. The old machine is piactically 

 as eood as ever, and is capable of dovetailing nearly 

 1000 hives a day, and doing it in the excellent manner 

 which has given our Dovetailed hive an enviable repu- 

 tation. We would not build a new one like it for 

 less than 85(X); but we will sell this one for much less. 

 We shall be pleased to hear from any one interested, 

 when we will give further particulars and price. 



REMOVAL NOTICE. 



In our last i<sue, in the department of Pickings, we 

 referred to the fire and water loss at the office of the 

 American Bee Journal, on the first day of the year. 

 The publishers have put forth a notice which we are 

 pleased to put before our readers : 



Begifining Feb. 1st, our place of business will be at 

 144 and 146 Erie Street, instead of 118 Michigan Street. 

 Our correspondents, and customers who are in the 

 habit of calling at our office, will please note this 

 change in location. 



After our loss and general disturbance here, caused 

 by the fire in this building on Jan. 1st, we concluded 

 it would be best for us to seek another location. We 

 had little trouble in finding what we think will suit us 

 exactly. 



The new place is on the first or ground floor — so 

 there will be no more stairs to climb, as is the case 

 here. Also, there will be no need for a freight eleva- 

 tor at the rear, on which we have had to load and un- 

 load all our goods the past eight years. This will save 

 considerable handling. We shall have a larger floor 

 space at our new location, so we shall be able to have 

 every thing on one floor instead of on two as has been 

 the case here a part of the time. 



Our new office — 144 and 140 Erie Street — is just a few 

 short city blocks (about 100 rods) due north of the 

 Chicago & Northwestern Railway Passenger Station 

 on Wells Street. We shall be about midway between 

 Wells Street and Franklin Street on Erie Street. 



We think now none of onr friends who come to the 

 citv will experience any difficulty in finding us. 



Come and see us in our new business home— after 

 Feb. 1st. George W. York & Co. 



The change, we anticipate, will be better in every 

 way. There is no great loss without some small gain. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



OFF FOR FLORIDA. 



To-day, Feb. 4, during a big snowstorm, I start out 

 for the sunny South, to meet the friends once more, 

 or at least a part of them, with whom I had such a 

 pleasant acquaintance six years ago. 



JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT — ADVANCE IN PRICE. 



Although we have sold 100 bushels or more at 75 cts. 

 a bushel, it has now gone up so we should be glad to 

 buy at that price or a little more. Under the circum- 

 stances the lowest price we can offer it is, two-bushel 

 bag 82 00 F"or smaller quantities see our new seed 

 catalog just out. _^ 



.ADVANCE IN SWEET CLOVER. 



Instead of 100 lbs. at 5 cts., as heretofore, after this 

 date we shall have to make the price 100 lbs. at 7 cts.; 

 10 lbs. or less at 8 cts. By mail, 1 lb. will be 20 cts. 

 The above is for sweet-clover seed with the hulls on. 

 Hulled seed, sometimes called Bokhara, will be 3 cts. 

 per lb. more than the above prices. As there area 

 good many more seeds of the hulled in a pound you 

 can not tell exactly which is the cheaper in the end. 



HENDERSON'S BfSH LIMA BEANS. 



When all other beans are so well up in price, it is a 

 little refreshing to know that we are enabled to fur- 

 nish Henderson's bush lima. 1 pint, 8 cts.; quart, 15 

 cts.; peck, 81.00; bu,shel, 33.50. This is the earliest 

 lima b an known, and they are wonderfully produc- 

 tive. So far as I know they will grow and ripen any- 



