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dishes do not require leeder-Hoats as do tin 

 Iftinsy The answer seems to lie this: In 

 metallic receptacles, the bees, in the ab- 

 sence of a feeder-tloat, will swim to the 

 edge; baton arrivin.u' there thev aie unable 

 to catch hold of the metal. In the butter- 

 dishes, on the contrary, a lloatiiis' hee, as 

 soon as his foot strikes the rough edges of 

 the wood, the claw grasps the wood and he 

 is safe. He has only to crawl among the 

 bees, and he will be speedily cleaned of his 

 •'too much" feed. .Vnother thing in fa\tir 

 of wooden butter-dishes and i»ie-plates is, 

 that the sides are gently llaring. In an or- 

 dinary bread-pan. such as we used last year 

 in feeding, the sides were (|uite steep, and 

 we found that we were obliged in all cases 

 to use cheese-cloth for a lloat for the bees, 

 otherwise there would be large numbers of 

 them drowned in the feeder. We have tried 

 these wooden feeders now for three days, 

 and we lind scarcely a dead bee in any of 

 them, even witliout any kind of lloat what- 

 e\er. 



rilKIK COST, AS ('()>rPAlM;i> WITH OTHEK 

 KKKDP:itS. 



1 presume the gi-eat majority of you will 

 be able to purchase a few at your grocery 

 store, just to try ; but for those of you who 

 are unable to obtain these wooden butter- 

 dishes at your own home, and for those who 

 l>erhai)s would like to i)urcliase 100 or idOO, 

 we api)end the following i)i-ices : Wooden 

 butter-dishes, to hold a jiound of feed, (iitxfl. 

 s;i.,5(l per looo ; per Kio, 4(i cts.; or -l cts. for 

 10, by express or fieight, with other goods. 

 If wanted by mail, 12 cts. extra for 10. The 

 wooden i)ie-plates, you probably can iu:)t ob- 

 tain ucai' you. We can furnish them for 

 just double the ))rice of tlie butter-dishes; 

 postage ]ier 10, 12 cts. 



One can scarcely realize the cheaimess of 

 these feeders until he compares our lowest 

 price for the Simplicity feeder in oiiritiice 

 list. Price of these latter per 100 is s:i..')0. 

 Set this amount over against 40 cts. per 100 

 for the wooden butter-dishes, and then you 

 can better understand their low cost. 



Now a wold in regard to these cheap 

 feeders in comparison with other feeders. 

 From what trial I have been able to give 

 them. I think they work (piite as well as the 

 Simplicity trough" feeder ; though, however, 

 if the price were the same I think I should 

 l)refer the Simplicity, as the latter occupies 

 a little less room in the hive. Uut when we 

 consider tlie difference in price, my prefer- 

 ence would be very much in favor of the 

 butter-dishes and pie-plates. The Simplici- 

 t\ wooden feeders, after a couple of years' 

 use. become dirtv. and sometimes soak 

 through, and at times check so as to leak. 

 The price of the butter-dishes is so extreme- 

 I> low that one can well alVord to throw 

 them away after one season's use, and use 

 nice new clean feeders next year. Both the 

 Simplicity and the butter-dishes hold one 

 pound of syrup ; so also do the pie-plates. 

 These are very pretty, and will answer ex- 

 cellently, no (ioubt, for baking pies. You 

 can take the pie-plate containing the pie to 

 the picnic, and you won't have to fuss to 

 bring it back ; or yon can send your pie to a 

 church social, and it does not matter very 



rhuch whether the plate is ever returned or 

 not. 



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I' tihli filled Setni-Moiithhi. 



J^. I. lE^OOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



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For Clubtine Bates, Soo First Page of Eeading Mattsr. 



i^vd:EiDi2sr^^, OCT. 1, lesT-. 



We have to-day, Oct. 1, 



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(!OOI) NEWS KROM KATHEK LAN(!STHOTII. 



The following- is .iust at liand, on a postal card: 



Thanks In our heaveiilv Father, the daik cloud is all H'liiie. 

 D.iytiiii, O., Se|it. -Vi. L. I.. Lan«stroi'|[. 



The " darlc cloud " alluded to byourg-ood friend 

 is the hrain trouble he has suffered from for so 

 many years. We trust it will keep away Ions- 

 enough so we may be able to get souiething from 

 him for our pages once more, if he feels equal to the 

 task. 



COMMERCIAL TER.MS. 



A ORKAT many of our readers do not understand 

 the meaning- of certtiin commercial terms used in 

 the (luotations of honey. Tn reply to a number of 

 inriuiries, Mr. Miith makes the following- explana- 

 tion : 



Frienii RodT; The ex|iressiiiii. '• ml arrival," means that 

 honev (likeothei ;i-..odsi biiiijfs the stipulated price at wharf 

 or de'pnt here. It is the net price, no charges lieiiit;- made lor 

 haiilinu'. stora!i-e, c'oiiiinissioii, etc. 11 does not mean that we 

 will lake, at that price, all the honey arriveil at onr wharves or 

 depots. We liiiv all we want at the rans;-e ot thosi- prices, and 

 have been liheVallv siipiilied hv ,iiir I ri<-nds. s,, far. - In the 

 i(d)l(iiiK wov " means the price lioiiev liriii<;s when it passes 

 out (d' the hands of the wholesaler into those of the retailer. 



riiuiiinati.Ohio. Sejit. -;n. lS8i. CHAS. F. MfTll. 



MERRYUANKS .\ND HIS NEIGHBOR. 



This is a little book of 210 pages and 68 illustra- 

 tions. The older readers of Gleanings will not 

 need to be told what it is about. To our younger, 

 or new readers, 1 will say that It is a book treating- 

 of bees (and hive-making), gardening-, maple-sugar 

 making, and other rural industries. It has also a 

 good deal to say about our homes, and was written 

 specially for the juvenile readers of Gleanings. 

 More than all, it treats of one particular home that 

 was started on a sandy foundation, but eventually 

 became builded on the rock Christ Jesus. The 

 price of the book is 25 cts.; 10 copies. $3.00; ItHI, 

 $18.00. If wanted by mail, add ;{c each for postage. 



THE honey-market AT THE PRESENT DATE. 



Well, friends, we are getting some e.xtracted 

 honey at the prices offered in our last issue, so we 

 shall not raise our otter any more .iust yet. And. 

 by the way, it is quite interesting to look over the 

 market-reports, to which we refer you on page 724. 

 Please note what a great variation there is in prices. 

 Our friends in St. Louis and some other points 

 don't seem to have wakened up yet to the fact that 

 honey is worth ti great deal more money than it 



