1901 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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SPECIAbiNOTicES 



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HONEY-CANS. 



We still have a fair supply of 5-gallon honey-cans 

 which we can furnish at prices listed in our catalog. 

 We can also supply the smaller sizes, 1, 54 and ^ gal- 

 lon, with 154'-inch screw-caps. We have also some 

 one-gallon cans with 2'4'-inch caps. We have a fair 

 supply also of Record seal-cover and raised-Cover tin 

 pails as listed in catalog at catalog prices. 



GLASS HONEY-PACKAGES. 



Of No. 25 lib. jars we have a good supply put up 

 two dozen in partition boxes, but our supply in bar- 

 rels is exhausted for the present, though we hope to 

 have a further supply soon. We have also a good 

 supply of No. 100 jars similar to No 25, holding l4 oz. 

 of honey both in barrels and boxes. Owing to our 

 surplus s'ock of these two sizes in boxes we will sell 

 them at 50 cents per gross advance over the price of 

 the same in barrels, instead of 81 00 advance, as listed 

 in catalog, for a short time only. We have lately 

 secured 10 gross of pint flint Mason jars, put up one 

 dozen in a box, which we can supply at 60 cts. per 

 dozen; 87 00 per gross. Our stock of quart Mason jars 

 is getting very low, and we have still a good supply of 

 2 quart. 



HONEY MARKET. 



The market for comb honey continues good, and we 

 are shipping on orders as fast as received, and have 

 had to check our salesmen taking orders till we could 

 see a larger supply in sight. We have engaged a car 

 of comb honey to come early this month, from Cali- 

 fornia. By next issue we hope to give definite an- 

 nouncement regarding it. We are getting 16 to 17 cts. 

 for fancy white; 15 to 16 for No 1 while, and other 

 grades in proportion. We feel pretty well satisfied 

 that prices of comb honey will not go higher, and 

 they may be a little easier when bee keept rs take the 

 time to case their honey and get it to market. Sep- 

 tember and October are usually the best selling 

 months. Marktt for extracted honey continues dull. 

 Either the sale of extracted honey in bottles or other 

 glass packages must be greatly stimulated or else a 

 larger proport on of the best grades of honey should 

 be stored in sections. Raise comb honey by all means 

 if the conditions are favorable, and the quality of the 

 honey good and suitable. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



JERSEY WAKEFIELD CABBAGE SEED FOR COLD FRAME 

 PLANTS. 



When this reaches you it will be just about the right 

 time in most localities to sow the seed in the open air 

 in order to have plants ready at just about the right 

 time to plant in cold-frames for cold-frame plaTits. 

 With the protection of sashes only, without any bot- 

 tom heat of any sort, the plants will be well rooted 

 before severe cold weather sets in, and will winter all 

 right in almost anyplace in the North, Price, for 

 March's best selected stock seed, ounce, 20 cts.; \ 

 ounces, 75 cts. 



FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, AND MARKETING. 



The above is the title of a new book just published 

 by the O. Judd Co. It has often been said that it takes 

 a smarter man to sell fruit at good prices after it is 

 grown than it does to grow it ; and I should nr t won- 

 der if the statement were true. This book is intended 

 to give all the assistance possible in teaching the be- 

 ginner how to put his fiuit up and how to stll it. It 

 has 250 pages, and is amply illustrated. Price 81 00. 

 It can be mailed from this office. This book also con- 

 siders very thoroughly the matter of storage ; how to 

 keep fruit as long as possible when there is a glutted 

 market ; all about packing and packages ; how to put 

 up apples so as to stand long shipments and bring the 

 best prices. All sorts of tools are descibed and figur- 

 ed for the business. The book includes evaporating 

 and canning ; and, in short, it covers the whole sub- 

 ject from beginning to end of the saving of your fruit 



fi om loss after you have got it grown, and also how 

 to manage to get the best prices. 



EARLY POTATOES FOR SEED. 



Before another spring, all sorts of early potatoes 

 will be held at exceedingly high prices, for the rea- 

 son that growers north, south, east, and west, have 

 been tempted to sell at the unusual prices offered for 

 potatoes for table use. I have no idea what other 

 dealers are expecting to ask ; but we have so many 

 applications for prices just now I have decided to 

 offer such as we have, for the present, at the follow- 

 ing prices: 



Barrel. 84 25; bushel, 81.50; K bushel 85 cts.: peck, 

 50 cts, ; 14 peck, 35 cts.; 1 lb. by mail. 30 cts ; 3 lbs. by 

 mail, 60 cts. This refers to early and extra early po- 

 tatoes. 



We have in stock, ready to ship, the following 

 kinds: 



Red and White Bliss Triumph, Early Ohio. Early 

 Trumbull, Bovee, New Queen, L' e's Favoi ite, Fret - 

 man, and Twentieth Century. .Seconds of all the 

 above will be half price ; but the half price does not 

 apply to poatoes by mail. The Twentieth Century 

 is put in order as being one of the latest of the extra 

 earlv. This season, however, it grew pt t toes as 

 large as hens' eggs, as soon as any in the lot ; but it 

 did not arrive at maturity quite as soon as the Early 

 Ohio and others. In making orders let it be under- 

 stood that the above, firsts and seconds both, will run 

 smaller th-nn usual, and are not as clean and nice 

 shaped, on account of the severe drouth. P ea^e re- 

 member, also, I reserve the liberty of advancing the 

 prices at any time when I find the prices from other 

 seed-growers are going to be very much above the 

 prices I have given. Until further no'ice piices of 

 New Craig also will be as above. Prices on other late 

 potatoes will be given later on. 



Now Is the Time to Paint. 



The Heller Chemical Co., of Chicaeo. Ill , whose ad- 

 vertisement appears on page 799 of this issue, have 

 just issued one of the neatest paint catalog' ever sent 

 through the mails. It contains a fine color page show- 

 ing 60 distinct colors for out and inside painting; for 

 barns, fences, fl ors, carriages, wagons, enamels, and 

 stains Besides this fine color selection there is a 

 splendid line of brushes, also painters' supplies of all 

 kinds. This company has been to a good deal of ex- 

 pense in getting up this catalog and making it com 

 plete in every detail. Th-»y have made it especially 

 for the mail-order customers, and our readcs will ro 

 well to send for one, especially if they haveany paint- 

 ing to do this fall. Be s\ire vi'hen writing to ask for 

 their paint catalog, ard kindly mention this paper. 

 These paints are all mixed and ready to put right on. 



Wisconsin Farm Lands. 



The best nf farm lands can be obtained now in Mar- 

 inette County, Wisconsin, on the Chi ago, Milw<<ukee 

 & St. Paul R-iilwav, at a low price and on vt r-. favora- 

 ble terms. Wisconsin is noted for its fine crops, ex- 

 cellent markets, and healthful climate. Why rent a 

 farm v.- hen y^ u can buy c ne much cheaper than you 

 can rent, and in a few years it will be your own prop- 

 erty? For particulars address FA Miller, General 

 Passenger Agent, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 

 Railway, Chicago. 



To make cows pav, use Sharpies Cream Separators. 

 Book " Business Dairying " & cat. 288 free. W. Chester. Pa. 



I have just received from you a cop3' of the A B C of 

 Bee Cnltute, which I value at 810 to anv apiari>-t. In- 

 deed, it is a " dand3'." I now own two editions of 

 this work. Please accept ray thanks for the same 



King Cieck, Ky Dr M. Fields 



The untested clover queen, with her escorts, ar- 

 rived safely last night, all alive and hearty. She is a 

 very likely-loiking it sect, being as large f s if not 

 larger than any queen I have received through the 

 mail She is row under introduction Bees are work- 

 ing nicely on swamp flowers, being able to do a good 

 deal more than board themselves; they have no in- 

 clination to rob, which will, of course, help with the 

 safe introduction of the queen just received. 



Poole, Can. D. Chalmers. 



