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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 15 



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SOJA BEANS FOR SEED— REDUCED PRICES. 



We can now make the extra-early soja bean, the 

 kind known as the American coffee-berry, at only 

 |2 00 per bushel. This ripens seed without any trou- 

 ble all over the North The later variety, the regular 

 soja bean, will be SI. 75 per bushel ; and if shipped 

 from Richmond, Va., where the seed was grown, for 

 immediate orders we can make the low price of 81 50 

 per bushel. The latter kind will produce a large 

 amount of feed ; and if frost holds off it will usually 

 ripen its seed here in the North. 



GLASS ADVANCED AGAIN. 



There has been another advance in the price of 

 window glass, so that the be>t price we can now offer 

 on 8X10 glass for greenhouse sash is $i 00 per box. 

 As we work off stock on hand we are modifying cur 

 shipping-cases by using a block at fach end of the 

 glass. This will enable us to use 16 inch strips in all 

 four-row cases or 12-iiich strips in three-row cases. 

 As we have quite a quantity of glass on hand, espe- 

 cially for two and three row cases, we will not incor- 

 porate this change into many of the ca'-es sent out 

 this vear, but we expect to do so as soon as present 

 stock is used up. We are already supplying some of 

 the four-row cases in the new style. 



SECOND-HAND MACHINERY. 



Since our notice in this department tw" months ago 

 we have sold several of the machines offered, but we 

 still have a number of the machines offered, as well 

 as others. We have sold the single cutter-head ma- 

 chines, but have the several double ones still on hand, 

 one at $40 00. practically new, and another, sTghtlj^ 

 damaged by fire, at 830.00 We have one or two rip- 

 saw tables to offer, one at 810.00 and one or two more 

 at 815.00. One solid iron-frame V grooving machine, 

 for 4^ sections only, worth new 8200; will sell for a 

 very low price. A solid-iron double-mandrel double- 

 head machine for cutting beeways in sections or sec- 

 tion-holders, worth newl^iSO; will sell cheap. A solid- 

 iron hive-dovetailing machine, which is in excellent 

 condition, and worth new 8500 ; will .sell very low. 

 Several 6-inch fouudationmachines. Particulars and 

 prices to those interested, on application. 



MASON FKUIT-JAKS. 



We still have in stock a few gross of quart Mason 

 fruit -jars with aluminum caps, which we offer, while 

 they last at 55cts. per doz.; 6 doz., 83 15; 12 doz.. 80 25. 

 We are expecting within a few days, from the factory, 

 a carload of jars with porcelain-lined zinc caps in 

 both green and flint glass. We placed our order for 

 these before the higher prices now ruling went into 

 effect, so that we are in a position to make closer prices 

 than we should otherwise be able to do. The retail 

 prices in our catalog are very close to the prices ruling 

 at present on carload lots at factory. For the present 

 we offer them at the following prices, which we can 

 not guarantee for any lenath of time, as prices are 

 likely to advance still further : 



GREEN GLASS. 



1 pint, 1 doz . 55: 6 doz.. $3 15: 12 doz . Sfi 2J. 



1 qt., 1 doz., 58; 6 doz., S3 30; 12 doz., 86 50. 



2 qt., 1 doz., 80; 6 doz., 84.60; 12 doz., 89 00. 



FLINT GLASS. 



1 pint, 1 doz.. 60; 6 doz , 83 45: 12 doz , 86 75. 



1 qt , 1 doz., 65: 6 doz . 83.75: 12 doz., 87.2.5. 



2 qt., 1 doz , 90; 6 doz., 8-5 20; 12 doz., 810.00. 



These jars are all put up one dozen in a partitioned 

 case, and I think they are the best-made jars we 

 have had in years. 



ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY. 



While there has been a little delay in filling orders 

 in a few cases during the past two or three months, we 

 are glad to .«ay that we are now clo.'e up on orders, 

 and shipping promptly all orders as fa--t as received. 

 Even odd-sized and irregular goods which have to 

 be made to order are gotten out within a few days. 

 Our various branches and agencies are also well sup- 

 plied with goods, so that, if you aie in need of bee- 

 supplies, you can obtain them without delay. We 



have in stock here over three million sections, and' 

 more than a third of these are No 2. There is not 

 a size listed in our catalog that we can not supply in 

 No. 2, and these are fine sections compared with what 

 we turned out as No. 1 a few years ago. Our No. 1 

 are perfection itself. If any one can suggest any fur- 

 ther improvement upon them we should be pleased to- 

 get the suggestion 



FIFTEEN AND TWE.VTY-FIVE DOLLAR QUEENS HAV- 

 ING A MEASURED TONGUE-REACH. 



The call for queens of our celebrated 8200 imported 

 mother has been so great that we have decided, in ad- 

 dition to the 82 00 84 00, and 86 00 grades of this stock, 

 to offer some 810.00, 815,00, and even 82.5.00 of this same 

 blood. But these prices are for tested queens, the 

 tongues of whose bees have been jneasured. 



The $10.00 q\ieen is guaranteed to produce bees with 

 a tongue-measurement of jVn ! the 815,00 queen, fda ; 

 the J25.00 queen, ^-5';,. 



These last are very rare, and with one exception 

 this (iVnt is the longest tongue-reach j'et secured. We 

 reserve the right, when we do not have the stock with 

 the tongue - reach called for, either to return the 

 money or to send the next lower, remitting the bal- 

 ance. It would be well for our friends to put in their 

 orders at once, and as soon as we get the grades we 

 will send notice. When the money is sent, the 

 queens will be forwarded These will be put up in 

 the very be.st manner possible ; and while we guaran- 

 tee safe arrival in good order to any point in the 

 United States, on any railway ine, we will not guar- 

 antee safe introduction. Such valuable queens should 

 be released on hatching brood. 



N. B — It seems as if it ought not to be necessary to 

 say that no one but a queen-breeder or a large honey- 

 producer should order these high-priced queens; but 

 it is a fact according to our experience that beginners 

 with only a few colonies will order our highest-priced 

 imported queens. Such bee-keepers have no more 

 use for such queens than a pig has for a wheelbarrow. 



SENDING BEESVl'AX BY EXPRESS. 



Yes. I know I have talked about it several times be- 

 fore ; but just now our express clerk opened a pack- 

 age of wax sent by express, with, I think, 82.75 

 charges. But it could have been sent by freight, the 

 proper wav to send beeswax, for 75 cts.. a clear sav- 

 ing of 82 00 ; and the clerk informs me that this is al- 

 most a dailv occurrence. When I asked him what he 

 supposed ailed our bee-keeping friends to throw away 

 their money at this rate he said he co'.ild not think of 

 any reason unless it was that they were in a hurry for 

 returns. I really hope, however, this is a mistake, 

 for I am loath to believe that our bee-keepers, or many 

 of them at least, are as hard up as this would seem to 

 indicate. If it is true, however, that any of you are 

 needing money badly, I will try for my part to see 

 that our book-keeper gets the remittances straight 

 back to vou as soon as possible. Beeswax is a cash 

 commodity. It ought to be spot ca'^h every time. Of 

 course, there are times and circum.stances when ex- 

 press is about as cheap as freight, but it is rarely true. 

 Before you ship your wax, ask your agent what the 

 expense will be both ways. If you are in a hurry for 

 the money, say so when you send the box. and we 

 will try to get it back to you the very day the wax 

 reaches us; and we shall not feel hurt, either, even if 

 you do ask for very prompt payment. 



Ql|/:kfkric ^ have 150 fine tested three-banded 

 UCCIia. Italian queens for sale They are last 

 August queens, and their bees are fine honev-gather- 

 ers. Testfd. $1.25; select tested, $1..50: breeders, 82.00; 

 untested, 75c each, or 88.00 per doz. I guarantee safe 

 arrival, and satisfaction on every queen. I have been 

 a queen-breeder for 12 years, and know what good 

 queens are. J. W. Taylor, Ozan, Ark. 



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OTICE. — I can not fill any more orders for early 

 queens this season. Address chanaed to 



W. C. Oathright, LasCruces, N. M. 



pOR SALE CHEAP.— California bee ranch and 500 

 ^ colonies of bees. Write for particulars, price, and 

 easy terms. I. A. King, Almond, SanDiego Co., Cal. 



Y^ANTED. — To exchange Jaranese buckwheat at 

 '" 80 cts per bushel; sacks, 15 cts. extra, for cash, 

 or bees in shipping-boxes, if not too far away. 

 Albert 1,. Martin, I,eonardsburg, Delaware Co., O. 



