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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



EC. 15 





In 'this issue, as will be noted, the index for 1901 is 

 omitted ; but we will furnish it as an insert in our 

 next issue. Owing to a combination of circumstances 

 it was impossible for us to prepare it as usual for the 

 last number of the vear. 



MAPLE SUGAR. 



There is a geat shortage of maple products, both 

 sugar and syrup ; and the new crop will not be in for 

 two or three months. We have upward of a ton of 

 nice sugar made up from syrup that was slightly taint- 

 ed, and with the addition of about 20 per cent of gran- 

 ulated sugar to make it grain We shall be pleased to 

 mail samples to those interested, and will sell in 100- 

 pound lots or more at 10 cts. per pound. 



HONEY M.'^RKET. 



We have a good stock of honey, both comb and ex- 

 tracted ; and while it has been moving quite freely it 

 has not been going as fast as we should like to see it 

 go. We shall be glad to hear from those interested, 

 stating what quantity you can use, either comb or ex- 

 tracted, and we shall be pleased to give you an at- 

 tractive price. We still have .some SOO cases of the 

 choice thick western honey in cases of 24 sections, 

 with wood slides in place of glass We have also 

 choice comb honey from New York, Pennsylvania. 

 Alabama, and Michigan. December is usuallj' a good 

 month for honey. If in need, let us hear from you. 



GERMAN \VAX-PRESS. 



We are getting some splendid reports from those 

 who have been trying our new wax-press. Mr. E. T. 

 Flanagan, one of the oldest customers on our books, 

 says: "' I have bought goods of you for quite 20 years, 

 but have never received any thing from you that has 

 given me the satisfaction the wax-press has " And 

 he seconds his appreciation by ordering another ma- 

 chine. We have found it impw.ssible to produce a ma- 

 chine thoroughly satisfactory at as low a price as we 

 expected to make. From now on the price will be S12 

 each. It will be so listed in our new catalog. If you 

 have many old combs to render, you can pay for it 

 from the increased amount of wax secured the first 

 year 



C^T.^LOG FOR 1902. 

 The revision of our catalog for KI02 is completed, 

 and we will begin printing them before Jan 1 It 

 will be some weeks before we get around to our large 

 list of names, but we will do .so as early as possible. 

 Among the first to be mailed will be those to our list 

 of sub-cribers. If vol do not get one within a month, 

 let us hear from you. All the matter has been reset, 

 and much of it rewritten, with many new illustrations. 

 Very few changes in prices have been made. Some 

 glass and tin honej'-packages formerly listed have 

 been omitted, f^ new arrangement of hives has been 

 made, which I think will please those who have had 

 difficulty in understanding our system of hive num- 

 bers We continue the same sj-steni. but we have ar- 

 ranged right under a picture of each style of hive a 

 table of prices of that hive nailed and in flat, 8 and 10 

 frame, in different quantities. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



MARCH'S CAULIFLOWER AND JERSEY WAKEFIELD 

 CABK.^GE SEED. 



Last year we bought of friend March |60 worth of 

 cauliflower seed. It was from his new improved 

 strain of Snowball, the kind that makes a nice white 

 head for every seed you plant, if every thing is favor- 

 able. Of course, this amount is not very much com- 

 pared with what some of the large seedsmen pay ; but 

 it is more than twice as much as we ever sold before. 

 We had also a tremendous lot of orders for March's 

 .strain of extra-early Jersey Wakefield cabbage seed; 

 and after buying every ounce of seed he had to spare, 

 we were unable to fill all orders. This season we have 



a nice stock of both cabbage and cauliflower seed 

 grown by friend March expressly for us ; but to be 

 sure not to be disappointed, perhaps you had better 

 send in your orders early The practice of growing 

 cold-frame cabbage and cauliflower plants by planting 

 in the fall has been mostly dropped, if I am correct. 

 -A later method is to sow the seed in the greenhouse ; 

 and when it begins to show the second leat, transplant 

 to cold-frames and let them grow slowly all winter. 

 This hardens them and gives a big stocky root. The 

 man who gets nice home-grown cabbage and cauli- 

 flower in the market first, gets a good profit ; and there 

 is always a big demand for nice stocky well-hardened 

 plants in the spring. 



Wakefield cabbage seed will be at the old price — 

 20 cts. per oz ; J2.o0 per lb. But this new improved 

 strain ot cauliflower seed will be as follows: Vt, ounce, 

 30 cts.; '/( ounce, 50 cts.: 1 ounce, #17,5. Postage paid 

 at above prices except the cabbage seed by the pound. 

 This will be 10 cents more if wanted by mail. 



ANIMAL BREEDING, BY THOMAS SHAW. 



The aV)ove is the title of a new book just out, by the 

 O. Judd Co. Prof Shaw, who at pre.-ent is connected 

 with the University of Minnesota, has made himself 

 well known to our readers, or at least many of them, 

 doubtless, by his book on " weeds " and other valuable 

 books later. See what Prof. Shaw says in his preface 

 in regard to the matter: 



Animal breeding is in many of Its phases a most intricate 

 subject. While it has its shallows it has also its great deeps 

 that have never yet been fathomed. They would take an 

 intellectual giant over his head at the very first plunge. 

 The difficulty, therefore, of writing effectively on such a 

 subject will be at once apparent. 



Now, I confess the above gives me confidence in the 

 author of the book. I did not know before that we 

 had a good writer who was honest enough to confess 

 as much as he has in the extract above. The chapter 

 on the "influence of previous impregnation " ought 

 to be worth the price of the book, even fot poultry- 

 breeders. If we have a flock of white fowls, and a 

 black rooster gets in among them, how much damage 

 will it do, and how long will it last? Prof Shaw tells 

 us there are good authorities who claim the white hens 

 will be apt to produce speckled chickens all their 

 lives after this one mating. Perhaps that is putting it 

 pretty strong ; but with my short e.xperience in such 

 matters I am prepared to accept some such statement. 



The book has over 400 pages and about a dozen il- 

 lustrations. We can mail it from this office for .Jl 50. 

 It is probably the most complete and comprehensive 

 work ever published on this subject. 



PLANERS 



The above cut shows one of our small Planer»j 

 of which we make twelve differentstyles and slz«a. 



Also large Planers, Band Saws, Buzz Plan«r»p 

 Moulders, Wood Lathes, and all kinds of 



WOOD WORKING MACHINERY 



Send for Catalogue. 



The FRANK MACHINERY CO. 



Buffalo. N. Y. 



The Sure-Hatch Incubator hatches sure, 

 tisement on page 995. 



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