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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 15 



EIGHTEBN-INCH GEM PLANER. 



We have for sale an IS-inch Gem pl<ner, second- 

 hand, which we are replacing with a heavier machine. 

 We offer it for $10 cash. v\ here a party wants a tool 

 at a low price, which will do good work, this is a bar- 

 gain. 



HONEY MARKET. 



We have just received another large car of extracted 

 honej' from Caiifornia. and shall be pleased to hear 

 from those in need of choice honey for bottling. This 

 con.sisis of white and light amber. 



We have been moving off our stock of comb honey 

 quite freely lately, but still have a g od stock, and so- 

 licit inquiry from those in need. Now that the weath- 

 er has moderated it can be shipped safely. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP. 



The season for the.se delicious sweets of the sugar 

 maple is here, and from present indications it prom- 

 ises to be .'-hort. We expect to supply our customers 

 as usual. It is rather early yet to hx a definite price, 

 but we shall doubtless be able to furnish it at the usual 

 price. $1.00 per gallon for choice syrup, and 10 cts. per 

 lb. for best grade of sugar. We shall be pleased to 

 hear from those interested. 



FAVORITE FAMILY SCALES. 



In our catalog for this year there occurs a misprint 

 on the price of the 24-lb. Favorite family scales. The 

 catalog reads $2.75 each, when it should be $175, the 

 same as the I2-lb. They are the cheapest scale we 

 know of for the capacity, as well as the most conven- 

 ient, and we are selling this year for 82.2'> one of the 

 48-lb. capacity. The divisions on the dial of this being 

 closer, it will not be as handy for weighing small 

 amounts as the cue of 12 lbs capacity. 



BEESWAX WANTED. 



The market for beeswax continues firm, and prices 

 are ruling a little higher. We advance the price we 

 pay to 29 cents cash, 31 cents trade. We hope we shall 

 not have to advance anv further. If we do we shall 

 h ve to advance also the price of foundation. If you 

 have any wax to sell or any old combs to make any, 

 let us have an early shipment. As soon as we secure 

 enough for this season's needs we will make the price 

 down again. Too often in the past, parties have held 

 their wax a little too long to secure the best price. 



BUSINESS BOOMING. 



We are well nigh swamped with orders. Two 

 months ago we were about 20 cars behind, but we kept 

 gaining till toward the last of February, when we had 

 only about 12 ahead of us. Since then they have come 

 in again in such numbers that, at this writing, we are 

 16 cars behind We are running our factory 11 hours 

 a day, and our shipping department still longer, and 

 doing our utmost to keep pace with the orders, and 

 catch up a little closer. Prospects are promising for a 

 good season, and it behooves the foie-handed to be 

 prepared in time. 



Kind Words from our Customers. 



Please do not mark my name with aD (di.scontinue), 

 for I would rather you would use a C (continue). So, 

 for a renewal, here is my dollar ; and now for Glean- 

 ings, just hear me holler. Three cheers ! Hip, hip, 

 hip. hurrah for Gleanings ! Lewis Hockett. 



Fairmont, Ind., Jan. 22. 



To The A. I. Root Co.. San Antonio. Texas: — Ire- 

 reived the goods all right. I am certainly well pleas- 

 ed with them. They are the best hives I ever saw. 

 Plea.se accept my thanks for the nice way they are 

 packed. J. W. Wolf. 



Mineral, Texas, Feb. 15. 



the new MATTITUCK ERFURT CAULIFLOWER (IM- 

 PROVED snowball) seed. 

 Inclosed find $1.75, for which please send me by 

 mail one ounce of the Mattituck Erfurt cauliflower 

 seed. I got an ounce last year, and it was by long odds 

 the best I ever grew. John G. Gray. 



St. Catharines, Ont., Dec. 21. 



Mr. A. I. Root : — In reading your Home paper last 

 evening in regard to the Biddle affair, it occurred to 

 me that, if you would pick out the cream of your 

 Home papers, and put them in book form, I should 

 be pleased to get one or more and have them placed 

 in our libraries I lent your Adam and Rve story to 

 my brother Jacob (of happy memory. Judge of Hali- 

 burton), ai d he gave it to a man who came to him for 

 a divorce, and who after reading it, saw his error and 

 returned the journal to 'i>y brother, with many thanks, 

 as it had completely reconciled him and hfs wife to 

 each other, at least, and mav we not hope to God also? 



Little Britain, Can., Feb. 28. F. Whiteside. 



Mr. Root: — Our Homes is very interesting to me. 

 We have been in Colorado 15 years, and this year is 

 our first with the journal here. We were from Ohio 

 originally and husband was a great bee-man — a regu- 

 lar subscriber to your journal, and got many supplies 

 from you some 25 years f>go I reid the Home papers 

 when Huber was a cute little fellow, and when Blue 

 Eyes was so often spokf n of ; and to have the journal 

 again is like a drink of water to a thirsty traveler. 

 Husband, of course, was more interested in the bee 

 business. H. S. ShuU Wellsville, Ohio, was our old 

 home addre,ss. I want to tell you why the journal 

 which came to day was so interesting. The reading 

 abo t the little horne in the woods, the companio ship 

 of -10 years of married life (which is our length of 

 ti'ne together), all appealed to me forcibly. You will 

 always have interested readers of the Home papers, 

 as they are written differently from any thing found 

 el.sewhere. You write honestly, and plain - spoken, 

 without fear or favor to any one. 



Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Shull. 



L,a Junta, Colo., Nov. 20. 



Mr. A. I Root :- It was your article in a back num- 

 ber of Gleanings where you spoke of dear Mrs. 

 Root wishing to do her '' own work." Yes. it was that 

 picture of true home life which has made me a hum- 

 ble sub>-criber to Glean ngs. I thought you were 

 talking to my wife all the time. She. too. won't have 

 a hired girl in the house, although we are both 75. 



You are tolerable on "bees and horse<," but you 

 don't touch the living spot till you write out your 

 everyday experiences ; and after reaf'ingthem I could 

 almost fun to Medina and throw my arms around you, 

 and wish I was ^{ as good a Christian. 



Waterbury, Ct., Dec. 30. B. S. Hotchkiss. 



Why, dear friend H , yru do not realize how extrav- 

 agant you are in your talk especially for a man 75 

 years old. You do not know what a predicament you 

 would be in if you were " '/ "as good a Christian as 

 my poor self. If you should talk with my next-door 

 neighbors, especially a certain one who does not fall 

 in with my erratic ways, j'ou might change your mind. 

 May God 'ble.ss you and your wife I wish you could 

 come and make us a visit when we get up to our ' cab- 

 in in the woods " again. 



As we are snowed in up on these mountains T thought 

 I would write you. I have been thinking for almost a 

 year that I would do so. When our boy wanted a dol- 

 lar to send to you for Gleanings I said. " I gne s fa- 

 ther would not want you to spend money in such a 

 foolish way." As his father is a Christian, he wants 

 his children brought up in the good way ; but the boy 

 said, "There is as good reading in the books as you 

 will hear preached." and so I said I would like to see 

 some of them, as I had never read any thing in any 

 advertising book vet that was as good as what you 

 would hear at church. So the boy brought me three 

 of them that .some friend had let him take, and I saw 

 at once that they would be a help to him. and gave 

 him the dollar This was one year ago. and this year 

 I gave him another dollar for it. I think the lesson 

 that you have in about the Biddle brothers pays for 

 the book this year. 



I don't believe in secret societies, and I hope that the 

 Lord Jesus Christ will keep me so that I never will 

 want to belong to any. I have been a Christian for 

 ten years, and I love to read God's word ; and. so far, 

 in reading your journal I have been strengthened. I 

 often think of your text, " And the Lord God said unto 



