1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



57 



Convention Notices — Continued. 



The third annual convention of the Western Honey-piodiicers' 

 Association will be held January 20 and 21, 1909, in the Library 

 building, Sioux City, Iowa. This association is composed of 

 bee-keepers residing in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Ne- 

 braska, Utah, and California They are assisting each other in 

 a way that is worth while, by their systematic advertising, and 

 marketing of honey. We shall endeavor to make this one of the 

 nijsi helpful conventions that the association has held, and we 

 send out a sweeping invitation to all who are interested in pro- 

 gressive bee culture to be present, and to be prepared lo give 

 something of interest; and to those who ate interested in honey 

 as a food we extend a cordial invitation to be present and see the 

 thought and energy the bee-keepers are putting into their art to 

 produce the best honey possible. 



Mr. N. E. France, General Manager of the National Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association, h is promised to be present. One of the promi- 

 nent features of this meeting will be an effort to secure legislation 

 that will assist in checking the spread of bee diseases in Sjuth 

 Dakota and Iowa. 



The question-box will be another prominent feature, and now 

 is the time to begin to think about the things that you want to 

 know more about, and to hand them into the question-box. 



Salix. Iowa. E. G. Bi^own. 



Special Notices 



By Our Business Manager 



PRICES ADVANCED. 



In the new edition of our catalog the prices on Hoffman, thick 

 top, and Danzenbaker frames are marked up about 20 cts. per 

 100, and the prices on observation hives and Bigelow educational 

 hives are also advanced about 20 per cent. Enamel cloth is ad- 

 vanced to 30 cts. per yard; $3.00 per p-ece of 12 yards. Honey- 

 extractors are advanced, as announced last August, because of the 

 increased cost in ball-bearings and slip g;ar — two new features 

 added for this year. 



YELLOW SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 



We have received from California ovei a ton of very nice seed 

 of the yellow sweet clover, all with the hulls off. As we have 

 none of this vjriety with the hulls on, we can offer it only in the 

 one form, and the price will be 30 cts. per lb., postpaid, or 22 

 cts. not prepaid; 10 lbs., $2.00; 25 lbs , $4.75; 100 lbs., $18.00. 

 We have a limited quantity of the hulled white, which we can 

 famish at the same rate. The unbulled white is 7 cts. per pound 

 less. 



CAPPING-MELTER. 



Our new catalog will include the capping-meiter described 

 and illustrated in the Nov. 15th issue of Gleanings. It will 

 be made of heavy extra-quality tin, extra coated, and the price, 

 without heating-stove, is $8.00. 



MANUM SWARM-CATCHER. 



Our swarm-catchers for this year a'e being made of 8-mesh gal- 

 vanized-wire cloth, and are much stronger and more durable than 

 heretofore. This adds to their cost, so that we have increased 

 the price to $1.25 with pole, or 90 cents without it. The increase 

 in price is trifling compared with the greatly increased strength 

 and lasting quality of the implement. 



FOUR-FRAME NON-REVERSING EXTRACTORS. 



We have devised a very simple method of producing a four- 

 frame extractor, non-reversing, in a small can, at a moderate 

 price. By taking four comb-pockels, such as we use in the L. 

 size Cowan or Root automatic, and fastening them secu-ely at 

 each corner, and to a frame similar to that used in the Cowan, 

 we have a reel holding four combs, very strong and rigid, which 

 will swing with ample clearance in a can 20 inches in diameter. 

 The combs must be lilted out and turned the other side out, and 

 inserted again before you finish extracting from both sides of the 

 comb, the same as in the Novice. There may be those who pre- 

 fer to do this for the sake of getting a machine in small compass. 

 W«» will furnish three sizes; 



No. 54, wiih comb-pockets 9^8 in. wide in a can 20 in. in di- 

 ameter. Price $16.00. 



No. 74, with comb-pockets 12 in. wide i.i a can 23 in. in di- 

 ameter. Price $18.09. 



No. 84, with comb-pockets 12H in. wide and one inch deeper; 

 24 inches in diameter. Price $20.00. 



liEE-Hl'NTlNi;. 



The publisher of that excellent magazine, Hunitr-TraJer- 

 Trapptr, has just placed before the public a new book which 

 will interest iiuite a good many of our readers. Its object is suf- 

 ficiently indicated by its title, " Bee-hunting." 



From time to time we have received orders for just such a book 

 and we are glad to see that soin» one else has undertaken to fur- 

 nish a work of this kind at a moderate price. In our judgment 

 the book is all it claims to be — a guide to successful bee-hunting 

 from A to Z. There are a good many localities in this country 

 where there are wild bees in the woods and rocks in considerable 

 abundance, and, in more than one sense of the word, it might 

 P'ly to hunt them. This book g ves 'he information necessary to 

 enable any one, who is intelligent and active enough, to engage 

 in bee-hunting with success. If you do not care to engage in 

 the work yourself, perhaps you h ive a son or friend who would be 

 g ad to take up bee-hunting if he knew how to proceed. Pds- 

 sibly, if you were to pieseni a copv of this book io such an aspi- 

 rant the wild bees in your locality would be considerably redui ed 

 in numbers before long. In some sections there is an opportunilv 

 to make bee-hunting pay. In any event it is evident a work on 

 bee-hunt'ng will prove to be in eresting in several ways. 



The book is well gotten up and well worth the price ask-d for 

 it, but we are making a special offer of it in connection wiin 

 Gleanings, which places it within reach of all our subscribers. 

 Price 25c postpaid; with Gleanings one year, $1.10. See p. 7. 



TELESCOPE EXCELSIOR COVER. 



In our new catalog, soon from the press we will list a new 

 cover. We have been furnishing for several years on special or- 

 ders what we have called the Colorado cover. This is very sim- 

 ilar to the E cover with a rim telescoping down over the hive at 

 least an inch. With such a cover it is necessary to use a super 



cover over the hive or super to prevent the bees from sticking it 

 fast, so that it would be difficult or impossible to remove it readily. 

 By increasing the width of the end cleats and the cover boards, 

 and adding side strips, we convert our patented Excelsior into a 

 telescope cover, as shown above. Hives will be supplied with 

 this cover and super cover at an extra cost of 10 cents per hive. 

 The cover alone, without super cover, sells for 5 cents each more 

 than the regular E cover. 



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