OCTOBER 1, 1913 



BEEKEEPERS' DIRECTORY 



If you need queens by return mail send to J. W. 

 K. Shaw & Co., Loreauville, Iberia Parish, La. 



Nutmeg Italian queens, leather color, after June 

 1, $1.00. A. W. Yates, Hartford, Conn. 



Well-bred bees and queens. Hives and supplies. 

 .1. H. M. Cook, 70 Cortlandt St., New York. 



Improved golden-yellow Italian queens for 1913; 

 beautiful, hustling, gentle workers. Send for pric« 

 list. E. E. Lawrence, Doniphan, Mo. 



Queens. — Improved red-clover Italians, bred for 

 .business; June 1 to Nov. 15, untested queens, 75 

 cts. ; select, $1.00; tested, $1.25 each. Safe arrival 

 and satisfaction guaranteed. 



H. C. Clemons, Boyd, Ky. 



Quirin's famous improved Italian queens, nuclei, 

 colonies, and bees by the pound, ready in May. Our 

 stock is northern-bred and hardy ; five yards winter- 

 ed on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 without a 

 single loss. For prices, send for circular. 



Ql'lRIN-THE-QUEEN-BREEDER, Bellevue, Ohio. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



Bv Our Business Manager. 



rOWBR-PLANT renewed. 



We have installed a new 150 H.P. water-tube 

 boiler, and are resetting our 300 H.P. boiler in a 

 new location as two 150 H.P. units, so arranged 

 that we can use any >,wo of the three while the third 

 is being cleaned. By this arrangment we shall have 

 no further need of .shutting down the plant during 

 the busy season for cleaning boiler. While we are 

 resetting the old boiler we are short of steam capac- 

 ity to run the engine on full load, and are somewhat 

 handicapped for a few weeks in turning out stock in 

 the wood-working building. We are securing extra 

 power from the trolley line to help us out. We will 

 also install a new engine in November, replacing the 

 one which has carried our load for fifteen vears. 



REVISED PRICES ON BEEHIVES AND SUPPLIES. 



As we go to press we are printing our revised 

 prices, which will be mailed on application to those 

 interested. We have adopted as our regular cover 

 on the Dovetailed hive the metal-top flat cover which 

 telescopes over the hive about 2 1/^ inches in connec- 

 tion with a super cover designated as Re. This being 

 a more expensive cover adds about 20 cts. each to 

 the price of each hive, in addition to an advance of 

 about ten per cent. There has been an increase in 

 price of hives, frames, section-holders, fences, sepa- 

 rators, .shipping-case^, feeders, cages, and a number 

 of small articles. Sections are advanced 25 cts. per 

 1000; comb foundation, 3 cts. per lb. 



An early-order cash discount of six per cent will 

 be allowed from the new prices for cash orders dur- 

 ring the month of October, covering a general line 

 of bee supplies. This discount will not be allowed 

 on orders for glass and tin honey-packages, labels, 

 printing, cartons, booklets, bees, and queens. Where 

 such items form less than twenty per cent of a gen- 

 eral order the discount may be taken from the entire 

 order. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



A. I. Root 



OFF FOR FLORIDA. 



On Nov. 4, after I have cast my vote, Mrs. Root 

 and I expect to go back to our Florida home. I give 

 the notice thus early, so the friends who are writing 

 me may know where to direct. Now, I hope you will 

 excuse me for Saying once more, when I get away 

 from our office here with all its up-to-date parapher- 

 nalia, I can not write you long letters, as I have 

 been doing all summer. Of course, I shall have a 

 dictaphone ; but the cylinders for it will have to be 

 sent by express to Medina, to be made into type- 



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written letters. On this account let me ask you once 

 more, if you want an answer to your letter, inclose 

 an addressed postal card. Every little while some- 

 body sends me a common blank postal card. Now, 

 I can buy these anywhere for a cent apiece. I do 

 not want postal cards nor postage stamps. I want 

 you to write your own addre,ss, for nothing wears 

 ine out like trying to make out a scrawled name, and 

 ihen hunting the letter all over to find where the 

 writer lives. I think it an excellent plan for every 

 nan and woman (and I should like to say child) to 

 have some printed postal cards with name and 

 address printed on said cards. Then when you want 

 to ask somebody a question, inclose one of these 

 printed cards. In that way you may be sure of get- 

 ting an answer of some kind straight back; for the 

 recipient, while he. is in the office getting his mail, 

 can take a pencil, and oftentimes answer you in a 

 few words, and sometimes a few words right off 

 quick are worth a few dollars. You will notice when 

 I am writing you for something I want, I inclose 

 such a postal with my address on it. Now, one rea- 

 son why I say postal card is because this is an age 

 of " boiling down " things. You can put a great lot 

 on a postal card and have it readable if you take a 

 little pains. If you do not use a pen, use a good 

 sharp pencil — one that will mark black. Skip all 

 preliminaries, and just hustle right into your sub- 

 .iect. Say wliat you think will be helpful, and then 

 stop. If you wish, you might add something like 

 this: "Your old Friend," A. I. Root. 



Kind Words from our Customers 



The case escapes are received. They look good to 

 me. It saves the brood and a bad mess. 



Ottawa, 111., July 25. P. M. Cordon. 



500 BABY CHICKS, etc. 



I got 500 " baby chicks " this spring (White Leg- 

 horns), and have now about 280 promising pullets. 

 I raised all but eight per cent of the 500. Not hav- 

 ing money to buy material for brooders I took most 

 of the material out of cedar logs. 



Your religious articles I enjoy greatly. I want 

 to thank you with heart and pen (I wish I could 

 do it with hand and mouth too), for your per- 

 sistent fight for truth and righteousness, spiritual 

 and social. We may not always see the fruits of our 

 good endeavor; but the influence exerted will be 

 counted in eternity, and the reward for every good 

 deed will not fail to come. May God strengthen you 

 and give you a long and blessed work day, and at 

 last a glorious entrance into the mansions above. 

 May he keep our hearts clean from partiality in 

 these troublesome times. 



Yours in the Lord, 



Lawrence, Wash., July 30. E. A. Larsen. 



BRIBERY AND TAKING BRIBES, ETC. 



Being a recent subscriber to your bee magazine, I 

 wish to exp^-ess my appreciation of the journal as a 

 whole and of the Our Homes department in partic- 

 ular. My father, while a beekeeper in Iowa, was a 

 subscriber to Gleanings, and I enjoyed reading 

 every line in it, and knew where to find Our Homes. 

 Well, one sabbath day I visited a neighboring bee 

 keeper who also was a subscriber ; and, picking up 

 a copy of Gleanings, I turned to the back of the 

 book, and, while reading, my neighbor noticed me 

 with Gleanings and inquired what I was reading. 



" I am reading Gleanings." 



"Do you consider that sabbath reading?" was 

 his next shot. 



I made no answer, but laid the book aside while 

 I inwardly wondered, " Does the man know what 

 the book contains?" 



Well, I had been reading an article by A. I. Roet. 

 " Bribing and Taking Bribes " the subject was, and 

 pictured a salesman making inducements to the fore 

 man to use his company's ink in the printing depart 

 ment. Now, that was good moral advice and sound 

 business principles ; and the lesson given there 

 " stuck " in one mind at least, and perhaps the re- 

 buke helped to fasten the lesson ineftaceably on my 

 memory. I am thankful that these articles are still 

 coming, and am not averse to having any member of 

 the family read these splendid thoughts on any day 

 of the week. 



Boulder, Colo., July 5. E. C. Bird. 



