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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



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ICES 



SS, MANAGER 



BUSINESS AT THIS DATE. 



Orders continue to come in good volume, and keep 

 us l)usy. It is gratifying to be able to fill them as fast 

 as they come. If we should have an old time honey- 

 flow and a consequent rush of orders we shall try hard 

 to keep up our good record. 



BEESWAX MARKET. 



Beeswax is coming in quite freely, and the prospect 

 is that, iu-ide a month, we shall be reducing the price 

 we pay bv one or two cents a pound. If you have any 

 to dispose of you had better take advantage of the 

 present market price. We are paying at present 28 

 cents cash, 30 cents in trade, for average wax deliver- 

 ed here. If you want goods in exchange, and don't 

 want to wait till wax reaches us, send us the shipping 

 receipt from the railroad company, and give the num- 

 ber of pounds shipped, and we will send on your or- 

 der promptly. 



NO. 2 SECT.XONS. 



We have, during the past season been more partic- 

 ular than sometimes in the past in the grading of our 

 sections ; and a larger proportion have gone into the 

 No. 2 grade because not considered white enough for 

 No. 1. This policy has served to increase our stock of 

 No. 2 g'ade as well as to improve the quality of this 

 grade. Candidly we consider our No. 2 grade of sec- 

 tions superior to any grade on the market ten years 

 ago. They are, of course, not as white in color, but 

 in every other particular they are superior. After all, 

 the color is largely a matter of whim or prejudice. If 

 many bee keepers who never used any but No. 1 grade 

 could see the No 2, or try them once, they would use 

 them more largelv. There are some sections of the 

 country where only No. 1 grade is used. This is true 

 of the Pacific-coast trade and export trade. Itismain- 

 ly because of this fact that we have a surplus of No. 2 

 grade, especially of certain sizes. 



Our stock of .sections has been melting away very 

 fast during the past few weeks, and we are now using 

 new lumber and running our full capacity to keep or- 

 ders up and make prompt shipment. Six weeks ago 

 we had ov<=r two million No. 1 sections on hand, and 

 over a million No. 2. We still have over a million No. 

 2, but of No. 1 we have less than a quarter of a million 

 available for domestic orders, besides half a million 

 for export. The No. 2 grade, of which we have a large 

 surplus, consists of : 



-1^4^ <454'x2-in , 2 and 4 beeway. 



4'4"-<-'/Jxl}g 2 and 4 beewav. 



4MX4i/Xl^4 1. 2. and 4 beeway. 



4'/iX4i4'Xl'^ plain. 



3JiX.5Xli/^ plain. 



4x5Xl?-i plain. 



The price is S3. 00 per 1000; 3000 for ffS 25 ; .5000 for 

 $12 50; 10 000 for $23 50. Two years ago we could not 

 supply as many No. 2 grade as were ordered. 



Send in your orders now, and see how promptly we 

 can furnish them. Such a veteran bee-keeper as Doo- 

 little uses No 2 grade sections because he prefers th« 

 darker color of wood as it sets off better the white 

 comb honey, and to save something in the price as 

 well. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



SEED POTATOES AS PREMIUMS; 500 BUSHELS TO BE 

 GIVEN AW.AY 



As we still have a pretty fair stock of all kinds of 

 seed potatoes in excellent condition, very little sprout- 

 ing, many of them none at all, we make the follow- 

 ing liberal offer to the readers of Gleanings: 



Any one who sends us 51.00 for Gleanings, past, 

 present, or future, may have .50 cents' worth of pota- 

 toes; or anybody who sends .*l 00 for potatoes may 

 have Gleanings six months free of charge, or six 

 months for every dollar that is sent for potatoes. 

 Second, every old subscriber who sends us a new 

 name, and introduces Gleanings into a family or lo- 

 cality where it has not heretofore been going, may 

 have $1 00 worth of potatoes for every dollar he sends 

 us for Gleanings as above; or for every dollar 

 you send us for potatoes on and after this date 



you may have Gleanings one year providing^ 

 you introduce it into a new locality where it has 

 not gone before. Now, please notice that the man 

 who subscribed for Gleanings, even though he 

 is new. does not have 81.00 worth of potatoes. His 

 subscription must be sent from somebody 7iiho is al- 

 ready a stibscriber. Of course, we do not care 'who 

 has the potatoes. Each of you can have half, or they 

 can go wheiever you choose. You will notice this 

 exceedingly liberal offer is made in order to get 

 Gleanings introduced into new homes and new 

 neighborhoods. Last, but not lea.st, please bear in 

 mind you must pay your own transportation. If you 

 want potatoes sent by mail you must send the money 

 for postage. As a rule it does not pay to have pota- 

 toes sent by express. As small a quantity as a peck 

 can be sent "by freight. This offer lasts only so long 

 as the potatoes hold out. 



I presume our friends are aware that many of the 

 most successful potato-growers prefer not to plant 

 until June or even in July. In fact, up in the Traverse 

 region I found the great potato grrwers wait till June 

 before planting; and many of them plant clear up 

 into July. In this way you get away from bugs and 

 hot weather, and, as a sequence, you largely avoid 

 the blight. Of cour.se, there is danger of an early 

 frost; but such a frost is not much worse than the 

 bugs, blight, and hot weather — that is, if you do not 

 put off vour planting until too late. 



We submit our table of varieties once more in order 

 that you mav have it all before vou. More than half 

 of the .500 bushels are the Red River stock, Northern 

 grown. Early Ohio. 



table of prices. 



KAME. 

 Varieties are in order 

 as regards time of ma- 

 turing ; earliest first, 

 next earliest second, 

 and so on. 



Red Bliss Triumph, 

 nvhite Bliss Triumph. . 



Earl.vOhio 



Earl.v Trumbull 



Bovee 



Early Vermont 



New Queen 



Lee's Favorite 



Freeman 



Twentieth Century. . 



State of Maine 



Maule's Commercial 



Carman No. 3 



Sir Walter Raleigh.. 



New Russet 



New Craig 



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$3.00 

 3.50 

 2.50 

 3.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 •2.50 

 2.50 

 3.00 

 3.50 

 2.50 

 3.00 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50' 



* This is the same thing as Junior Pride. 



At present writing, seconds are all sold out except a 

 few Early Ohio. We are also sold out entirely on 

 Early Trumbull, Lee's Favorite, and New Queen, ex- 

 cept a few seconds of the latter. 



CONVENTION NOTICE. 



The spring meeting of the Eastern division of the 

 Northern Illinois Bee-keepers' Association will be 

 held at the residence of B. Kennedv, 7 miles south- 

 east of Rockford, 111., on rural route No. .5, and 3 miles 

 northeast of New Milford, 111., on Tuesday, May 21, 

 1901. All interested in bees are cordially invited to 

 attend. B. Kennedy, Sec'y. 



Minnesota Bee-keepers" Supply Mfg. Co., 



Manufacturers of 



Bee-hives. Sections. Shipping-cases, and 

 Everything Used by Bee-keepers. 



Orders filled promptly. We have the best shipping 

 facilities in the world. You will save money by send- 

 ing for our price list. Adf^ress 



Minnesota Bee=keepers' fupply Mfg. Co.. 

 Nicollet Island Power Building. Minneapolis, Minn. 



The A. I. Root Co.'s Goods 



shipped from Jackson, Mich. Root's extra- 

 polished sections, foundation, hives, shipping- 

 cases, etc. cheap. Send for list. 



W. D. Soper, R. D. 3, Jackson, Mich. 



