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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr 15 



HONEY WANTED. 



We are in the market for comb honey in Danzenba- 

 ker sections, either clover or basswood. Only fancy 

 or A No. 1 grades are required. If you have any on 

 hand which meets these requirements, please com- 

 municate at once, stating quantity and price. 



CARTONS FOR OUNCE CAKES OF BEESWAX. 



We can supply cartons for one-ounce cakes of bees- 

 wax, printed with name and address blank, at 35 cts. 

 per 100 ; 250 for 80 cts. : 500 for $1 50 ; 1000 for $2.75 ; by 

 mail, 15 cts. per 100 extra These prices will also in- 

 clude the large carton to contain 32 of the small ones. 

 The complete package weighs 2 lbs., and, when filled, 

 sells to the dealer at $1.00. They retail the cakes at 

 5 cts. each. Retinned molds for molding ounce cakes 

 cost 35 cts. per dozen; by mail, 40 cts ; for two-ounce 

 cakes. 40 cts.; by mail, 50. We do not have cartons to 

 fit the two-ounce cakes. To print your name and ad- 

 dress on the cartons will add, 250 or less, 50 cts. ; 500. 

 75 cts.; lOCO, $1.00. 



THE ALEXANDER BEK-VBIL. 



We have secured, for making a bee-veil of wire 

 cloth, a special weave of cloth 

 having 8 meshes to the inch, 

 and No 32 wire painted black. 

 Ordinary window-screen cloth 

 is of the same size of wire, and 

 12 to 14 meshes to the inch. 

 This special cloth is. therefore, 

 more transparent, and obstructs 

 the vision less, than any other 

 cloth we were ever able to se- 

 cure. One objection to a veil of 

 this kind is its bulk and the 

 difficulty of transporting it, ei- 

 ther by mail or when packed 

 with other goods. We have 

 overcome this one objection by 

 making it with an open seam from the crown to the 

 bottom of the skirt. Eight small safety-pins are in- 

 cluded to pin up this seam when you receive it. or 

 you may prefer to sew it up. The veil is rolled up so 

 as to be placed in a box 3 x 3 x 12 inches so that it can 

 be mailed safely for 12 cents postage, or packed with 

 other goods to go by freight Price, complete, 60 cts. 

 By mail, 72 cts. Special wire cloth for veil furnished 

 at 6 cts. per foot or piece for a veil at 18 cts.; by mail. 3 

 cts. a foot extra, or 25 cts. postpaid for a veil-piece 10 

 X 33 inches, having edges folded ready to sew on the 

 cloth parts. 



SIMPLEX HONEY-JABS. 



The factory have assured us 

 that we may again secure this 

 popular honey-jar in several sizes, 

 including the one holding one 

 pound of honey. We have ordered 

 afresh supply, and expect to have 

 them in stock this next month. 

 They will be packed in reshipping- 

 cases of two dozen each, and the 

 price will be $1.10 per case ; 6 

 cases, $6.30. 



NO. 25 HONEY-JABS. 



During the past year w3 have 

 had an unusual amount of trouble 

 with breakage of this jar, even in 

 the reshipping-cases packed with 

 corrugated paper. The breakage 

 occurred either in the porcelain cap or the top rim of 

 the jar where the cap rests. We find we can get this 

 same jar with lacquered tin cap without the center 

 beiQg cut out. This cap is lined with waxed paper 

 wad, which seals tight on the top edge of the jar. 

 This style of cap not only does away with breakage 

 almost entirely, but enables us to furnish the jar at a 



lower price. We are not yet supplied with the new 

 stock, but expect to have them this month at the 

 following price. They will be packed as usual, two 

 dozen in reshipping partitioned cases. No. 25 jars, 

 tin cap lined, 90 cts. per case; 6 cases, $5.10. ; We can 

 still furnish from stock the usual style of No.t25 with 

 porcelain caps at $1.10 per case; 6 cases, $6.30. 



MAPLE SYRUP. 



We have a good supply of very choice maple syrup 

 which we can supply at $1.00 per gal.; 6 gal. at 95c; 

 20 gal. or over, 90c. Will be pleased to hear from 

 those interested. Maple sugar is not so plentiful, and 

 we can not offer this at less than 15c per lb. for best; 

 13c for fair to choice. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



WANTED -SEEDS OF HONEY-PLANTS. 



Just now we are sold out of both spider plant and 

 flgwort (or Simpson honey-plant). If any of our read- 

 ers have any seed of the above-named plants that they 

 have saved, and will mail it to us, we shall De very 

 glad to allow them what it is worth. 



BASSWOOD-TREES FOB SPRING PLANTING. 



I find on my return home from Florida that our peo- 

 ple are sold out on basswoods " one foot and under." 

 We are also sold out on every thing more than about 

 3 ft. high. But we have quite a good supply of little 

 trees from 1 to 3 ft. high. Prices will be, for one tree, 

 10 cts.; 10 for 50 cts ; 100, $4.00, These are rather big 

 to send by mail. But we can. however, pick out the 

 smallest ones so the postage will not be so much, and 

 send you ten of these little trees by mail for 50 cents. 

 Better get in your orders at once if you want them, as 

 they will soon be budding out; and they do much bet- 

 ter when taken out of the ground before the leaves 

 have made very much of a start. 



ANOTHER POtJLTRY-BOOK. 



On p. 527 a new book on poultry is announced; and 

 as some of the claims made for it sound a little ex- 

 travagant I sent for it while I was in Florida, and read 

 it through twice, and certain parts of it several times 

 The oook is so much in the line of my " nature stu- 

 dies" with poultry during the past two winters that I 

 wrote to the author 1 should like to make him a visit; 

 and I have to-day, April 9, just returned from that 

 visit. I am satisfied that Mr. Philo has struck on a 

 plan of saving a greater part (and perhaps almost all) 

 of the chickens that die in the shell, even with the 

 best incubators. I am satisfied, too. that he is suc- 

 ceeding with a flreless brooder, even during the win- 

 ter months. I saw them not only at his place, but at 

 several other places, working with apparent success. 

 His plan of keeping poultry permits them to be kept, 

 even in a crowded town or city, without annoying the 

 neighbors. He seems also to have demonstrated that 

 he gets fully as many eggs by keeping a few hens, say 

 half a dozen, in the little houses he has devised, as 

 where they have unlimited liberty. It is true the book 

 is not a very large one; but the price, $1.00, includes a 

 year's subscription to the excellent Poultry Review. 

 When I first got the book, when I was down in Florida, 

 I sat down and wrote the author as follows: 



Friend Pliilo.—l have had your book three days, and have 

 read it through twice and much of It three or four times. The 

 boolc is all original. Not only every page but almost every 

 line has the stamp of a real practical worker, and of a delver 

 for nature's secrets. It strikes on a hundred points where I 

 have been pushing ahead in the dark— yes, in the dark, for the 

 reason that the multitude of poultry books and journals have 

 scarcely a word to say in the way of helping the explorer; and 

 you have also done more than any other poultry writer, so far 

 as I know, in making chickens attractive, and their care easy 

 for the average boy or girl in towns and cities where room is 

 expensive. The same will apply to poultry for elderly men 

 and women. A. 1. Root. 



Bradentown, Fla., March 10. 



After looking it over more or less during the past 

 month, and finally paying him a visit, I see no partic- 

 ular reason to change my mind in regard to the book 

 as a system of poultry-keeping. 



We expect to give a picture of one of his little poul- 

 try-houses in our next issue; and I shall then have 

 something more to say in regard to my visit to his 

 place. 



