1886 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



595 



REDUCTION IN THE PKICE OF SECTIONS DURING 

 THE FALL OF 1886. 



For tho benefit of the prudent ones who may 

 wish to purchase their sections this fall for next 

 season's use, we have concluded to name the 

 followins' very low prices lor large orders; viz.: 

 Regular Simplicity sections, $4.00 per 1000; 10 or 

 more thousand, m.r<Q per 1000; 100.000 or more, *:5.25 

 per 1000. This will give supply-dealers a chance to 

 be fully prepared for next season's orders, and will 

 also give them a good fair margin for handling and 

 paying interest on their money. We arc also pre- 

 pared to give low figures on almost every thing else 

 to be ordered between now and the first of January 

 for next season's use. We do this in order that wc 

 may keep our regular hands, instead of dropping 

 them until business shall commence again. I would 

 say, however, this reduction in the price of sections 

 applies only to regular one-pound onc-piccc V.^X^'^^ 

 sections. One-pound four-piece sections, either 

 dovetailed or nailed, will remain at the old price, 

 «4 .50 per 1000. Odd sizes, up to 66 cubic inches, .^.i.CO 

 per 1000. No order taken for less than 500 of an odd 

 size. 



A WHOLE YEAR OF GLEANINGS FOR ONLY 1.5 



CENTS. 



In looking over our stock of back numbers of 

 Gleanings we discover that we have about a thou- 

 sand bound volumes for the year 1876 still left. 

 Each volume is securely bound with two brass 

 clasps, and a complete index makes the whole con- 

 venient for reference. To reduce this stock we 

 have concluded to disjiose of them to our custom- 

 ers for the very low price of 1.5 cts. each, or 10 cts. 

 additional when sent by mail. In this year you 

 will find articles from the pens of Langstroth, 

 Katie Grimm, Adam Grimm (who, with tho money 

 he made of his bees, established a bank), and a 

 host of others whose active brains still live in the 

 pages of these back numbers. On page .5;i of this 

 volume is an article written by "Novice," when he 

 had the bee-fever, telling " How to Do Every Thing 

 that Needs to Be Done with a Colony of Bees." 

 In short, it is the ABC of bee culture in a nut- 

 shell. This article alone will be well worth the 

 • price asked for the whole volume to the beginner, 

 as it covers all the questions that he would be like- 

 ly to ask. On page ~74 is described, by the aid of 

 diagrams, how to make the chaff hive. All through 

 the whole volume "Our Own Apiary" is full of 

 practical hints. 



RUBBER ST.VMPS FOR PUTTING THE NAME OF THE 

 PRODUCER UPON SECTIONS OF HONEY. 



Now that the honey ser.son is about over, and the 

 comb honey ready to come off, our friends will need 

 some ready means of labeling their section honey. 

 We keep and advertise labels suitalilc forthei)ur- 

 pose; but the chief objection to this method of 

 marking honey is tho labor involved. Moreover, 

 the producer could hardly aflord to paste labels 

 upon a ton of section honey, and a label pasted 

 upon the clean white surface of a section does not, 

 to our notion, really add toils appearance, although 

 it will " set off " honey in jara or pails, and comb 

 honey in pasteboard boxes. To meet the reciuire- 

 ments of some cheap and rapid means of marking 

 sections, the man u fact \irers of rubber stamps have 

 made for our trade some very pretty designs of 

 their work expressly for stamping the surface of 



sections. What can be more neat and tasty than 

 the producer's card artistically lettered in red ink, 

 stamped right upon the clean white surface of the 

 basswood section itself? The freshness of the wood 

 marked in this way produces an efleet that can not 

 be accomplished with jiapcr and paste; moreover, 

 the producer's card upon every section is a guar- 

 antee of itself that the honey is pure; and when 

 the honey is extra fine, the consumer, whether he 

 purchases much or little, knows right where he can 

 obtain more of the same brand— a means of adver- 

 tising of no small consequence. Why, 1 believe I 

 should like the fun of stamping my name upon 

 some of my own honey that I was choice of. We 

 can furnish you a stamp of this description, packed 

 in a neat tin box, necessary pads, and ink included, 

 for $3.00, postpaid, or the same a little fancier, for 

 JK2..50. Send for our rubber-stamp circulai-, free on 

 application, and you can then pick out the design 

 you want. 



THOMAS HORN, OF SHERBURNE, N. Y. 



The first advertisement sent us by this individual 

 appeared in our issue for Aug. 1, 1885. He there 

 offered very low prices on queens, in order to intro- 

 duce his strain of bright Italians. A sample nu- 

 cleus was sent us some time last fall, to let us sec 

 what we thought of his bees. Of course, they were 

 very fair; and as his postmaster and banker seemed 

 to consider him an energetic, go-ahead man, we 

 continued his advertisement until June 1, of this 

 year. At that time wc declined inserting it any 

 longer until he had straightened up complaints. 

 Of course, Mr. Horn might have had so many orders 

 that he was unable to fill them all; but with many 

 oi'ders, of course coines much money; and he cer- 

 tainly should have returned the money when he 

 found himself unable to fill the order.s— at least, so 

 to seems to me. The operation seems to be a good 

 deal of a repetition of the Herbert A. Burch swindle. 

 If I am doing Mr. Horn an injustice, I stand ready 

 to correct it any minute when he returns the mon- 

 ey or fills tho orders. Filling orders (for which cash 

 was sent before the honey season opened) after the 

 honey-How is past, is not, of course, exactly the 

 thing for a straight man to do; but I presume most 

 of his customers would be glad to get even that, if 

 they can't get the money. In justice to him, I 

 would say that many orders have been filled after a 

 long delay. In a few cases he has sent more than 

 the money's worth. The question naturally arises. 

 Is he responsible, and can these small sums be col- 

 lected of him"? So far as we have been able to gath- 

 er, I think he is not— at least he allows his accepted 

 drafts to go by without scruple. These operations 

 have not been on anything like the scale of Mr. 

 Burch; that is, no very large sums of money havj 

 been sent him, so far as 1 can discover. When wc 

 accepted his advertisement he was considered a 

 good square nuui; and whether this has all been a 

 scheme of his from the outset, or whether he has 

 used money belonging to others injudiciously, may 

 be hard to say. At any rate, if he values his repu- 

 tation we offer him every possible chance to regain 

 it. Tho plea made by a few, that one ma.v be swamp- 

 ed by reason of having Unt ntitrli business, is, 1 be- 

 lieve, recognized as being a rather thin excuse for 

 neither sending liaek the money nor filling orders. 

 Not a word has been heard from him since tho tele- 

 gram given in our editorial last month, on this 

 matter. 



