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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1 



SPECIAbiNdjo 



CES BV ;^ 



BUS1NE~SS MANAGErJ^ 



SECTIONS. 



No withstanding the fact that we have been ship- 

 ping sections recently to the number c f a iLiilliou or 

 moie a week, we still have on hand a re-erve siock of 

 upward of four million, and have a capacity for mak- 

 ing eighty to one hundred thousand a day of ten hours. 

 We have al.-o a plentiful supply of choice whiie dry 

 ba.'-swood of 1000 cut, as well as a million feet of ntw 

 basswocd cut the past winter right near us in Ohio, 

 some of it the choicest lumber we ever had. The win- 

 ler has been most favorable for cutting, and we have 

 secured so much that we ran short of piling room, 

 and had to stop shipment of large lots to be piled and 

 sea.soned elsewhere. We have been even more strict 

 than usual in grading our sections, so that our No. 1 

 quality are unsui passed ; and ihe No. 2, of which we 

 have a large stock, are unusually good — better than 

 the I est sections of a few years ago, yet 50 cents per 

 thousand cheaper than the No. 1. Many will prefer 

 them at the lower price. 



BRASS SMOKERS 



We are prepared to furnish smokers of brass, not 

 only in the thr<.e larger sizes of Bingham but also the 

 Crane and Corneil at 25 cents each more than the 

 price of tin. We have not listed brass ^mokers in our 

 catalog because we are not yet satis-fitd that they are 

 as good as those made of tin except perhaps in locali- 

 ties on the sea coast where the salt air causes the or- 

 dinary tiu smokers to rust out too scon. Out of hun- 

 dieds of tin smokeis sent every year in the mail we 

 have had less damaged than we have had among the 

 few brass that have Ijcen sent out. We take this as 

 rather conclusive evidence that the brass smokers are 

 not as strong as ihe tin. With careful usage they 

 mav not burn or rui-t out as quickly, but we have gen- 

 erally found that the tin fire-cup will last as loag as 

 the bellows under ordinary conditions, and therefore 

 there is no need of a more durable material in the 

 fire-cup. Belter go slow on brass smokers till we 

 know more about them. 



BUSINESS AT THIS DATE. . 



We have made more carload shipments to date than 

 in anv year heietofote. Since the beginning of the 

 !-easoii, about the middleof Uec , 1900 we have shipped 

 sixty two carloads of 30 COO lbs or moie each. Ten of 

 these have been boxe>. sixteen more have been hives, 

 sections, etc , exported, and thii ty-six to various points 

 in this country. During the past week five cars have 

 gone to various points on the Pacific coast, contain- 

 ing in all over a million sections and ten thousand 

 shipping-cases. The demand for honey ext' actors 

 this season has been something phenomenal, and an 

 enlarged force of workers in this department has been 

 working long over time for weeks, and still we are 

 somewhat behind. California alone has taken one 

 hundred and thirty-four extractors so far this year, 

 .sixty-five of these being four and six frame, with ball 

 bearings. If this may be takfU as an indication of 

 the yield of honey we may 1 .ok out for California this 

 ytar. The late.>-t reports from (here are that late rains 

 are lacking, and the honey yield may thereby be cut 

 short or greatly reduced. 



SPECIAL LOW CLUBBING OFFERS ON GLEANINGS. 



New readers who may see this issue for the first 

 time, and old ones who have perhaps been sub-^cribers, 

 and have dropped out in the meantime, will be in' cr- 

 ested in the following speci tl clubbing offers that we 

 aie prepared to make : 



OFFER NO. 21. 



For 25c we will send Gleanings mbnths' trial sub- 

 scription to new subscribers. 



OFFER NO. 22. 



For 81.00 we will send Gleanings for one year and 

 an untested Italian queen valued at 75 cents : but at 

 this low price we reserve the right to send queen some 

 lime in July when we have a choice supply. 



OFFER NO. 23. 



For 50.: we will send Gleanings from the time your 

 subscription is received till January 1, 1902, so that the 



SOONER you send in your order the more numbers^you 

 will gel. 



OFFER NO. 2-1. 



If you order SIO 00 worth of goods frc m our catalog 

 at regular prices, paying cash for them, for 50 cents 

 more you can have Gleanings for one year. 



OFFER NO. 25. 



For SI 00 we will send Glf.anings one year and a 

 Clark smeker, postage 20c extra. Or, for Si.25 we will 

 send the Corneil smoker, postage 2.5c extia. 

 OFFER NO. 2tj. 



For 31.75 we will send Gleanings one year and our 

 CNclopedin on bees, the A B C of Bee Culture, 1901 edi- 

 tion, of 500 pag^s. 



CLI'BBTNG OFFERS 



We will send the Review of RevietL's or Youth's Com- 

 panion new subscribers only, iuid a subsciiption to 

 Glean ngs, for 82 25. Or for $1 .50 we will furnish 

 Gleanings and any one of the following-named mag- 

 azines or papers : 



Success, IVoman's Home Compatiion. Ohio Farmer^ 

 Michigan Farmer, Ptaclica I Farmer, Kansas Fanner, 

 Indiana Farmer, Cosmopolitan, and Piei son's Maga- 

 zine. 



Subscriptions to Review of Reviews and Youth'' s Com- 

 panion must be strictly new 



Old as well as new subscribers may take aivantage 

 of these several offer.', but all arrears or back sub- 

 scriptions must first be paid at $100 a year. Refer 

 to these offers bv number to avoid mistakes. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



WANTED, WHITE MULTIPLIER ONIONS AND SHALLOTS. 



If any of the friends have either of the above kinds 

 of onions I wish they would U t me know how many, 

 and what they will take for them. Better still, send 

 a sample by mail, then there will be be no mistake. 



WANTED — SEED OF THE BLUE THISTLE OR CHAPMAN 

 HONEY PLANT. 



If anv of the readers of Gle.-^nings can give us a 

 few seeds, even to get a start, of this honey-plant, we 

 will pay him a reasonable price for them. We also 

 want some motherwort seed. Who has any ? 



YELLOW SWEET CLOVER. 



As our supply is quite Imited we can furnish this 

 seed only in 5 cent packages. M. M. Baldridge, of St. 

 Charles, 111., an authority on sweet clover, says the 

 yellow is quite different in many respects from the 

 white. 



ROOTED cuttings AND OTHER GREENHOUSE 

 PLANTS. 



If you are at all interested in these things it will 

 pay you to send to S. W. Pike, St. Charles, 111., for his 

 little catalog. After \ ou have learned to handle root- 

 ed cuttings successfully in this way. you can get, for a 

 few cents, plants that would cost dollars when they 

 are grown up big. There are several nice things in 

 our little greenhouse 1 should like to tell you about if 

 space permitted. 



CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER, AND ALLIED VEGETABLES. 



This is the title of another excellent book from the 

 O. Judd Co.. just out. It not only tells all about grow- 

 ing cabbage from seed to harvest, but also includes 

 cauliflower, broccoli, collards, Brussels sprouts, kale, 

 or borecole, and kohlrabi. These latter varieties of 

 cabbage are largely grown in the ."south. The latter 

 part of the book tells all about injurious insects, and 

 fungous diseases of those plants. The book co" tains 

 125 pages, cloth-bound, and is fully up to date in evftry 

 respect. Pi ice 50c. It can be mailed from this office. 



THE NEW HAND (75c) POTATO PLANTER . 



When I returned from Florida I asked how the po- 

 tato-planters were selling. They told me they had 

 sold a few ; and I began to think that perhaps I hal 

 overestimated the value of the implement. Pretiy 

 soon, however, our f i iends began to call for tV.em, and. 

 now at this time, March 29. it seems as though almost 

 every order included a potato-planter. The factory 

 has sent us a gross and a quarter: but the present de- 

 mand indicates that we shall need all of them. Spe- 

 cial circular in regard to preparing the ground, using: 

 the toal, etc., mailed ou application. 



