1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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BUS I N E'S S JVl ANA GER k 



HONEY. 



We are still having a fair demand for comb and ex- 

 tracted honey, and trust we shall close out present 

 stock before any of the new crop is on the market. 

 We hope to hear from any in need of honey to supply 

 their trade. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP. 



The maple crop is rather light, and the producers 

 are asking good prices for what little we are able to 

 secure. We can not at this writing offer syrup in lots 

 of 5 gallons or more at less than 81.00 per gallon, or 

 sugar in &0-lb. lots or more at 12 cts. per lb. for best 

 grade. If interested, write us. 



BEESWAX WANTED. 



We wish again to urge bee-keepers who have combs 

 to render or wax to ship to lose no time in getting it 

 to njarket. A little later, wax will accumulate much 

 more freely, and the price will begin to go the other 

 way. We have not for years paid as high as we are 

 now paying for wax — 2i)c cash, 31c in trade, delivered 

 here, and you should take advantage of high-water 

 mark in prices. We have been getting in some large 

 shipments, and have enough to keep us running for 

 the present, but will be ready for some as .soon as you 

 can get it to us. It sometimes takes a month for wax 

 to arrive from far western points. If you have any to 

 furnish, get it on its way at the earliest date possible. 

 Should you have an offer that nets you more than our 

 price, let us hear from you before you let it go if you 

 can. 



HASTINGS SHEAR AND KNIFE SHARPENER. 



Here is a little tool that ought to be in every house 

 that possesses a sewing-machine. It is clamped to a 

 sewing-machine stand just where the belt comes 

 through, and is driven by the sewing-machine belt 

 just the same as you drive the bobbin-winder. It has 



a wheel of carborundum, about three inches in diame- 

 ter, securely mounted in a metal frame, with adjust- 

 able guide for holding shears, knives, or any of the 

 various household tools that need sharpening. It will 

 pay for itself in a very short time. It can be sent by 

 mail safely for 8 cts. postage, and the price is only one 

 dollar. Send for one, enclosing one dollar, to N. P. 

 Robinson, Wellington, Ohio; and if you don't find it 

 well worth the investment, let us know. If you can 

 .sell any to your neighbors, ask for terms to agents. 

 Don't send your orders to us, but send to the address 

 above. We will vouch for Mr. Robin.son's honesty. 



BUSINESS AT THIS DATE. 



Present indications point to a congestion of orders 

 such as we had in 1K98. We are now an average of 

 three weeks behind on orders, and some carload or- 

 ders are over four weeks old. I,ess than carload ship- 

 ments we try to ship within a week or 10 days, either 

 from here or one of our agencies. We are doing our 

 utmost to keep up the quality as well as the quantity 

 of our output, and shall have to ask the utmost pa- 

 tience on the part of our customers. We have orders 

 in for eighteen carloads, as well as a goodly number 

 of less than carload shipments. We have shipped so 

 far this season, since the n iddle of December, 6i car- 

 load shipments. The forehanded people who order 

 in the fall or winter what they need for the coming 

 season are the ones to be envied and congratulated in 

 times li-se this, and imitated in larger numbers in the 

 years to come. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



Chas Vanderbilt, I,yons, N. Y., can still furnish Sir 

 Walter Raleigh potatoes, second size, at 82.00 per bbl. 



SWEET CLOVER AT THE OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Press Bulletin No. 223, March 24, of th-s year, tells 

 us pretty clearly why sweet clover should never be 

 classed with noxious weeds. If you want the bulletin, 

 write to the Ohio Experiment .Station, Wooster, Ohio. 

 This bulletin treats mainly of its value for plowing 

 under on poor soils where nothing else will grow. It 

 also explains very clearly why it is rarely if ever 

 found under circumstances where it should be consid- 

 ered in any way even an annoyance to a progressive 

 farmer. 



YELLO^V SWEET CLOVER. 



For the first time we have enough now so we can 

 offer seed of the yellow sweet clover; but as it is scarce 

 and high-priced the price will be, for 1 lb., 20 cts.; 

 5 lbs. or more at 18 cts. If wanted by mail, add 10 cts. 

 extra for packing and postage. We have seed only 

 with the hulls on. M. M. Baldridge, of St. Charles, 111., 

 who has tested it for years side "by side with white 

 clover, says it is a biennial, the same as white clover, 

 and that it blooms two or three weeks earlier than the 

 white. It is not as tall as the white, but produces a 

 great quantity of bloom. I saw it on his place when I 

 called on him in July, 1900. 



FUMIGATION METHODS. 



The above is the title of another new book by the O. 

 Judd Co. It treats principally of fumigation by the 

 use of hydrocyanic acid gas. Killing insect pests 

 marks one of the greatest strides ever made in agricul- 

 ture. Heretofore we have been more or less helpless 

 victims to these terrible scourges. Now, however, by 

 spraying bisulphide of carbon, and, lastlj', by the use 

 of this new gas, we are getting to be pretty well mas- 

 ters of the situation. Not only fruit-growers and nur- 

 serymen, gardeners and florists, millers and grain- 

 dealers, but the farmers of the country at large, where 

 they keep posted, are getting the upper hand of these 

 hindrances. Wormy apples are a disgrace to the or- 

 chardist; and gardeners, seedsmen, and grain-dealers 

 .should be ashamed to offer any of their products in- 

 fested with iiLsect enemies. The book has 313 pages. 

 It is full of pictures. The latter part of it tells all 

 about fumigation with carbon bisulphide. The result 

 of the work of the experiment stations, and the laws 

 in regard to insect pests, are given for the whole 

 United States. I think the book will prove to be a 

 valuable acquisition to our agricultural literature. 

 .Sent postpaid from this office for $1.00. 



MAIL ANY DAY. 



Orders are now being booked for queens, untested 

 and tested. Golden Italian selected tested, $1.50. 

 Breeders, 82.50 to 85.00. None better. 



H. C. TRIESCH, Jr., Dyer, Ark. 



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