1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



3it 



expense, changed so as to take this reversible frame. 

 The frame, as I suspected, is a modification of the 

 old Quinby closed-end frame. But this is not closed 

 end. It rests on metal corners; will ?o in just as 

 well one side upas another. I should really like to 

 try handling- bees in this hive one season, and I 

 think we will put bees in this one to try it. The 

 frame is exactly the same as the L. frame. Wide 

 frames to hold sections are made in the same way, 

 and the whole arrangement is admirable. We are 

 having engravings made, and propose to illustrate it 

 fully in our next number. There may be difficulties 

 that will develop themselves when we come to work 

 It; but there are some very decided advantages in 

 it over a suspended frame, aside from this feature 

 of the frames being reversible. The metal corner 

 that the frame retts on is the invention, I am told, 

 of our old friend Vandervort, of Sprout Brook, N. 

 y. Friend H. writes that he has used the hive three 

 or four years past. 



So far as reports have been received, we judge 

 that the matter of wintering has been more favor- 

 able than for many years; and if I am correct, there 

 are more live bees now in the United States, and 

 Canada too, perhaps, than ever before since the 

 world began. 



CIRCUIiARS RECEIVED. 



W. H. Pi'ootor, Fair Haven, Vt., sends us a 4-page price list. 

 Bees and queens are liis specialty. 



J. P. Mc(:i('^;mi . I riM l.md Saginaw Co., Mich., sends a 1-page 

 price list; si. , i ilt \ , -. . tion boxes and hives. 



H. A. Civo.lii.li. :\l;issey, Hill Co., Texas, gives us prices of 

 queens, on n p.isi.il ..m il. 



T. L^ThuriUui). li.MJm-K 

 lar; specialties, huni i . \ii,i 



B. P. Barber <V ( i 



12n)age price list ■ i _ , , 



J. S. Holcombe .V i ,. I.in 

 (•iroular. mostly ol |.nullr\ ; 



nds out a 1-page circu- 

 and sections. 

 ila Co., O., send out a 



pn 



hu ts, btes, Mueens, on last page. 

 iivo Co., N. Y, sends out a lOpage 

 -< -upplies in general; and among 



eiiin Heights, O.. send out anoth- 



Tbel'.er in Fruit-box ('o.. i; 

 er circular in regard to th"i 

 ol: sawing. Although we can hanllv :it;iet- t\illv, that they are 

 as nice asnic-ly sawn sections, yet ;\> ilieiv lu.-ti.niii- s^■,■m to 

 be well pleased with them, and a'^ tlie i.ii'' >^ Ii-^^^-ik. doubt 

 they will meet with a good s:i1e. '• v.rii m r in ii..nl.i in rei^-anl 

 to the matter, you can get n -.umih-- i Mmh - hmI imi' ,,iily si.iiii. 



S. C. Perry, Portland. I ' i. . hi m in-true- 



tive 4-page price list; si r. ' . ,, i,i.,. i ii\ tlw thou- 



sand. FiuendP. has a tai.i- . I ii.- ,.i u .,: k,i br,.>, hy the 

 thousand. The first wei-k m M.i \ . i 'i . . nis i-. inimi. Tlieu they 

 godownScts. less erirli ^ve. k iiin I tin' 1-1 ol .Inly, when they 

 are offered for onlv is .t-^. v r wm. .Inst think ot tlii^t.fvieuds! 

 awhole thousaml ol m11o« « iiit;v.l \Mn kei- l>i is lov only 18 e.! 

 Friend P., somebody will s.n.l you Just is e. in a letter, for lOflO 

 bees, then what ;ne yon Koin;;- to dot Send them by mail and 

 piiy postage.' 1 uiiess it eoiild he done, if they don't hatch cut 

 on the way. and die helore lliev get there. 



Mrs, Lizzie E.Cott.m sends out n supplement to her 1881 cir- 



cular; and I am sor 

 ward almost all the 

 ness. So long as sh 

 thing.^ she sells, am 

 nals and supply-den 

 can not reeomini'tiil 

 papers bavn dei^line 

 sends some s,,i t of ;i 

 other pajiei s tJiink 



it has its old bit 



■ bus 



•'^MARYIAND SECTION CO.-^^- 



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4!i x4'-<x2 



JV X IH xl".:; 

 4>i^ xJ'i x]>i 



If Siii 



Per M «4.ry) 

 ■ Per M S4.00 

 Per M $3.50 



TED, add 50 ct.s. 

 per thousand. 



Address C. H. LAKE, Secty. 



P. O. Box 3S3, Baltimore, Md. 

 is'TidScent stamp for samples. Discount 

 ■ W50 cts per l.OOU ou 10,000 lots allof one size 



Position Wanted. 



&sk,±sii^-y OX" S3b.a.x-o. 



THREE YEARS' EXPEttlENCE. 



Hf.st licfcvfiiccs. 



SAMUEL A. MILLER, 



9 23 Carteret St., WOODSIDE, NEWAEE, N, J. 



ifXvv^vA.^VArA»c>^.^^N«>A»PA^.vsvsni^^^ 



The $1.00 



fountain fump 



-OR— 



The iibove cut gives a pretty good idea of the 

 Fountairl Pump, that has occasioned such a brisk 

 trade during the past six months. It is easily oper- 

 ated, and will throw a stronger stream, and throw it 

 further, than the Whitman pump; but it can not 

 well be carried in the hand with a pail of water, as 

 we would carry the Whitman; neither is it as dura- 

 ble, as it is made of tin instead of brass. It has no 

 hose attached, ^t present the manufacturer ob- 

 jects to our selling single pumps for less than liSl.OO, 

 although we can sell three for 8^2.25; in lots of ten, 

 the price is .*6 00; 100, $55 00. 



To parties living at a great distance they can be 

 sent by mail for (JO cents. They will answer very 

 well f(")r sprinkling a colony of bees, if you can get 

 near enough to them to set your pail down while 

 you throw the spray. Each pump has three differ- 

 ent nozzles— one for'a spray, one for a small stream, 

 and one for a large stream. We consider them a 

 great acquisition. A. I. ROOT, ITIcdina, O. 



COINVENTIOIN NOTICE. 



The next meeting of the Keystone Bee-keepers' 

 Association will be held in the i-ooms of the V. M.C. 

 A. in Scranton. May 13, 188-1, at 10 o'clock. Interest- 

 ing subjects will be discussed. All are invited to at- 

 tend. Geo. H. Colvin, Ass't Sec'y. 



