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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 



don't sell too cheap. 



The following very seasonable note came to hand 

 just as we go to press. Those who have honey to 

 sell had better bear in mind friend Heddon's sug- 

 gestions. 



Pleased al the partial improvements upon the past two sea- 

 sons, many bee-keepers have been praising I8.s;> as a aoney 

 year, It begins to look plain to me that, taking the country 

 all ever, we arc not going I" have an average crop by consid- 

 erable. The past two poor seasons have cleared tin' market of 

 honey, ami got consumers into the habit of paying better 

 prices than formerly. As it is a fact thatwe need ittokeep 

 our business equally profitable with other lines, let us hold up 

 to I his price. In I his local ion the season s not as good, up to 

 this date, as within the past two very poor years. We have 

 not one sixth of a crop. Basswood is in full bloom, fully half 

 past, and not any thing like an average yield solar. Clover 

 bloomed profusely, but yielded very stingily. This ends the 

 white-honey crop. Pleurisyis not yet plentiful enough here 

 to produce surplus honey to much extent in so large apiaries 

 as I keep. It is just getting into bloom, ami the bees arc thick 

 upon it. while theyleave everyother plant except that.for 

 the basswood. We can sec the honej standing in the blos- 

 soms in little drops, and the bees crawling all over it, rapidly 

 loading and going home. Only a few years ago we could not 

 tiud a do/en plants within the radius of our apiaries. In a few- 

 years more we expect it to yield ns a good surplus crop, if 

 nothing unforeseen happens. Do not be in a hurry to dispose 

 of your honey. Whatever yon do sell early, do not sell it 

 cheap. Let us wait till we see that we have to 



Dowagiac, Mich., July 13. James Heddon. 



{SPECI/m ]S[0¥ICEg. 



openings forming the letters being about 1% in. 

 highand 5 in. wide. M and W, of course, are wider, 

 and I narrower. The letters are of the following 

 pattern : 



FAIR, 1889. 



The price will be 10 cts. per letter or figure. With 

 thin foundation inserted, 15 cts. per letter or figure. 

 In ordering, if you will write the letters in the or- 

 der you want them, we can make 3 letters in one 

 piece, just right to slip into a wide frame. Or if 

 you don't happen to have a wide frame, simply 

 tack a bar on top, to suspend it from, and hang it 

 in the hive without a frame around it. The 4 fig- 

 ures, 1889, will go in a frame. To make the letters, 

 we simply tack two ,Vinch boards together, mark 

 the letter, and jig it out on a scroll-saw. To put in 

 the foundation, separate the boards, lay a sheet be- 

 tween, and tack them together again. We make 

 the letters large, because the bees will work in 

 them more readily, and they are much more con- 

 spicuous when filled. 



PREMIUM OFFER. 



To those intending to make an exhibit, and who 

 will agree to distribute judiciously the circulars we 

 will send, we will furnish free one letter or figure 

 for each dollar's worth of goods ordered, if the or- 

 der amounts to $4 00 or more. If foundation is in- 

 serted in each letter, we will furnish 2 letters for 

 every $3.00 worth of goods ordered. 



DECLINE IN BEESWAX. 



We quote a decline of 2 cts. per lb. in price of wax 

 from that last quoted. Revised prices will be 23 

 cts. cash; 26 cts. in trade for average wax, deliver- 

 ed here. To those who wish to buy. the price will 

 be 28 cts. for average quality, and 32 for best se- 

 lected. If those who send us wax would put their 

 name and address on the package, or on a slip of 

 paper in the package, so we could have a clew as to 

 where it comes from, it would save us much trouble 

 and annoyance. 



A DROP IN THE PRICE OF THE WHITMAN PUMP. 



We have received lower prices from the manu- 

 facturers of this excellent article, the merits of 

 which are set forth in Our Own Apiary. It is only 

 fair that we give our customers the advantage of 

 the decline. Our catalogue price is $7.50. We will 

 now offer them for $6.00 each; in lots of 3, for $5.50 

 each. For larger quantities, write for prices. They 

 may be sent by mail for 60 cts. each extra. Our old 

 price was $7.50. This is a strong brass pump, and 

 will send a stream of water perpendicularly 40 feet, 

 or it will send a spray, such as is used for bringing 

 down swarms, 30 feet high. Of all the pumps we 

 have experimented with, none answer so well as 

 swarm-arresters as the Whitman. 



DISCOUNT ON GOODS FOR FAIKS. 



In view to the education of the people to more 

 correct views of our pursuit, as indicated in an ed- 

 itorial elsewhere, we will, as has been our custom 

 for years, furnish samples at a discount. All goods 

 of our manufacture will be furnished at 25 per cent 

 discount, the only conditions being that you will be 

 allowed a discount only on samples (one of a kind), 

 that they must be entered for exhibition at one or 

 more fairs, and that you distribute judiciously the 

 advertising matter we send along with the goods. 

 If you secure any premiums, the money thus se- 

 cured is yours for your trouble, in addition to the 

 commission we allow you when you buy the goods. 

 We will consider a box of 500 sections, 1 lb. of each 

 grade of foundation, 50 brood-frames, flat, 50 wide 

 frames, as units, and subject to discount as sam- 

 ples. We will also furnish free all you can judi- 

 ciously use of the $1000 reward cards. 



AN ATTRACTION FOR FAIR-EXHIBITS. 



Some of our old customers will remember that 

 we used to advertise and furnish sections i% in. 

 square, with fancy-shaped center, such as stars, 

 hearts, diamonds, etc. We have not made these of 

 late, but we have had frequeut calls for letters to 

 be filled with comb honey by the bees, to form mot- 

 toes. We have never been well equipped for mak- 

 ing these till now. We have a full set of pattern 

 letters to work from, and they are of such a size 

 that three will fill an 8-section wide frame, the 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



I received the package of tomato plants at 10 p. m. 

 last night; placed them in a little water over night, 

 and potted them this morning. They were in prime 

 order, hardly wilted, or a leaf injured. They can 

 not fail to grow. I hope to have a good report to 

 make next fall. Chas. J. Jackson. 



Newton, Kan., June 27, 1889. 



GOT HIS DOLLAR S WORTH. 



We all enjoyed reading your travels very much, 

 and, in fact, all the Home talks and good things. 

 If a bee-keeper can't get a dollar's worth from 

 Gleanings he surely does not read and profit 

 thereby. Please renew my subscription for one 

 year. R. R. Ryan. 



Bradshaw, Neb., June 13, 1889. 



THOSE DOVETAILED HIVES " RIGHT TO THE DOT.'* 



I am well pleased with those ten Dovetailed hives 

 I received of you; they are right to the dot, and 

 don't you forget it. I put up the 500 sections which 

 came also, without breaking a single one in the 

 bunch. Martin F. Williamson. 



Friendly, W. Va., June 17, 1889. 



HOW THE BUCKWHEAT WENT OFF. 



Before I forget it I owe you a vote of thanks, or 

 that doesn't exactly express it. I am very thankful 

 to you for your Kindness. I will try to make good 

 the amount on Gleanings. It has sent me half a 

 dozen calls for buckwheat. Can't a man touch you 

 without getting himself spread out? Well, I will 

 make it all riffht some time. J. H. Kennedy. 



Quenemo, Kan., June 12, 1889. 



THE DOVETAILED HIVE JUST THE HIVE FOR THE 

 GREAT MASS OF BEE-KEEPERS. 



The Dovetailed hives ordered of you arrived in 

 first-class order, and freight very moderate. We 

 admire your ingenious method of crating, and are 

 much pleased with the hives. We consider the 

 Dovetailed as just the hive for that great class of 

 bee-keepers who, farmers also, make bee-keeping 

 an extra; have few appliances for putting hives to- 

 gether, and devote their attention to the produc- 

 tion of comb honey exclusively. R. N. Learned. 



Newton, N. J., May 27, 1889. 



FOK SALE.— Italian queens, tested, at $1.00 

 each, 6 for $5.00; untested, 75 cents each. No 

 foul brood. 12ttd L. A. Ressler, Nappanee, Ind. 



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ILL pay 10 cents each for Oct. 1, i8S2, number of 

 Gleanings. A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio. 



