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GLEANINGS IM BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 



us. Just think of it I a great invention coming 

 about by being in such proximity to the pork-bar- 

 rel! If that is not jumping from the sublime 1o the 

 ridiculous, then I do not know. Can't friend Secor 

 weave us a poem with the above materials? Well, 

 old friend, we owe you a vote of thanks, any way. 

 Perhaps it ought to be something more than thanks. 

 But you see you did not study it out at all. It is 

 like the boy who whistled out in school. He dis- 

 claimed all responsibility, on the ground that "it 

 whistled itself." 



gPECI^Ii pi0¥ICEg. 



WHEELBARROWS, WITH GAS-PIPE LEGS AND HAN- 

 DLES AND WOOD BOX. 



Wc Still have a few of the old iron wheelbarrows 

 on hand that we wish to close out, and to do so we 

 offer them at $3.50 each. 



REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF GARDEN-SEEDS. 



Since our list was printed in the January No., we 

 have secured many important reductions in the 

 price of staple seeds. At the same time, 1 believe 

 we get the vei^i best stock that can be furnished. 

 For prices, see our new seed-list, which we hope to 

 have ready to mail in about a week. 



NEW 10-INCH FDN. MILL, $17.00. 



A customer in Eufauhi. Ala., is holding " a 10-inch 

 A. I. Root comli-founrtatioii machine, which has 

 never been used, and is in the original box in which 

 it came from the factory." To make a quick sale 

 we offer this machine for $17.00 cash. This is an 

 excellent opportunity for some of our Southern 

 friends to <jl)tain a new mill at a reduction, and 

 save freight or e.xpi'css charges. 



ANOTHER DECLINE IN PRICE OF JAPANESE BUCK- 

 WHEAT. 



It gives us more pleasure to inform our readers 

 of a decline in prices than of an advance. This 

 time it is the Japanese buckwheat that has made 

 such astonishing yields the past season, in spite of 

 drought. We have succeeded in securing a large 

 lot at a price to enable us to offer it at the follow- 

 ing prices: 1 lb., la cts.; V2 peck, 60 cts.; 1 peck, 

 $1.00; ii bushel, $1.90; 1 bushel (50 lbs.), $3.50; 5 bush- 

 els or over, $3.00 per bushel. 



THE "GRAND RAPIDS" LETTUCE. 



At this writing, nearly half of my eight ounces of 

 seed has been sent off in the 5 and ;.'5 cent pack- 

 ages; and the prospect is, that I shall get my mon- 

 ey back, and have some seed for our own green- 

 house and outside grounds besides. At the same 

 time, the seed will be tested by thousands of dif- 

 ferent people during the coming year. For five 

 cents you get about 70 or 80 seeds of lettuce, post- 

 paid, by mail. 



DISCOUNTS FOR EARLY ORDERS. 



During the month of February we allow a dis- 

 count of 3 per cent from our entire catalogue, as 

 an inducement for our customers to send their 

 orders now. We have great piles of goods ready 

 for the busy months of April, May, and June; but 

 the experience of former years has taught us that 

 you are wiser to order early than to depend on this 

 stock on hand, for it has iisuaUy been exhausted 

 right in the midst of the busy time, when all the 

 friends want their goods by first train. We try each 

 year to be better prepared than the year before; 

 but each year, so far, has brought increased trade, 

 so that some delays were unavoidable, however much 

 we regretted them. We are better prepared this 

 year than ever l)et()re for promptness, and we want, 

 if possible, to be prompt through the entire scasi-n. 

 Vou can help us, as well as yourselves, if you antici- 

 I)ate your needs and send some of your orders now. 



MAPLK SUOAK AND THE SUG.VK-liLISH. 



The season for making maple sugar and syrup is 

 almost here; and those who expect to engage in the 

 business are looking about for best appliances and 

 methods. You don't know what is best, nor the 

 many short cuts in the process, till you have read 



Prof. Cook's new book on "Maple Sugar and the 

 Sugar-bush." This book was written in the spring 

 of 1887, at my request. As the autlior has, perhaps, 

 one of the finest sugar camps in the United States, 

 as well as being an enthusiastic lover of all farm 

 industries, he is better fitted, perhaps, to handle the 

 subject than any other man. The book is written 

 in Prof. Cook's happy style, combining wholesome 

 moral lessons with the latest and best method of 

 managing to get the finest sugar and maple syrup, 

 with the least possible expenditure of cash and 

 labor. Everybody who makes sugar or molasses 

 wants the sugar-book. It has 42 pages and 35 cuts. 

 Price 35c; by mail, 38. 



THE BEE-KEEPER S WHEELBARROW A BOON TO 

 ALL. 



We have been selling this wheelbarrow for about 

 two years, and it elicits praise and admiration 

 everywhere. When we received the first lot we 

 gave one to our mail-carrier on which to wheel the 

 mail up to the postottice. He had not been using it 

 long when one of our Medina meat-market men in- 

 quired where he got it; and, finding we had them 

 for sale, soon purchased one for delivering. The 

 grocers, also, noticing how light, strong, and tasty 

 they were, and also that the price was so low, soon 

 supplied themselves. Private families saw many 

 places where they would help them, and purchas- 

 ed, till, within the past two years, we have sold 15 or 

 20 of them in our own little town of 1500, without 

 any solicitation on our part. They simply sold 

 themselves. We cite this to show you how taking 

 they are, and how easily some of you who read this 

 may bring a blessing to your neighbors and a little 

 remuneration to yourselves for the trouble. We 

 have so much confidence in them that we have given 

 the factory an order for a carload of .500; and by 

 so doing we have secured a special low price. We 

 are thus enabled to offer exti-a inducements to 

 those who buy in quantities, or to dealei-s who ad- 

 vertise them in their circulars, and to the trade 

 generally. See our ad. on another page, and write 

 us for special prices, naming the quantities of each 

 size you want. The large size seems to take best. 



ADVANCE IN PRICE OF PLATE-GLASS AND GLASS- 

 WARE. 



Owing to a strike of nearly if not quite all the 

 workmen in the glass-factories of the East, includ- 

 ing those of Pittsburgh, which is likely to last for 

 some months, the i)rice of plate-glass and glass 

 honey-tumblers and pails has materially advanced. 

 As we put in a large stock of plate-glass of the sizes 

 used for shipping-cases (given on page 13 of our cat- 

 alogue) last summer, before the advance, we will 

 still sell at the old prices. We are not so fortunate, 

 however, in regard to honey-tumblei's and glass 

 pails, for we have very few of these in stock. Of 

 the screw-top glass nails we have but 800 of the I'/i-lb. 

 size; 400 'j-lb., and none of the 1-lb. size, and it is 

 likely to be several months before we shall be able 

 to get more. Of the " Oaken Bucket "glass pails, 

 we have 400 ii-lb. size, and 100 1-lb. size. We still 

 sell what we have of these at the old prices, until 

 further notice. The half-pound (9-oz.) and one-pound 

 (15-oz.) honey-tumblers have advanced in cost to us 

 3 cents per doz., or I4 cent each, and prices will be, 

 until further notice, as follows: H-lb. (9-oz.) size. 

 Sets, each; $2.90 per 100; $6.15 per bbl. of 250; $23.50 

 per 1000; 1-lh. (15-oz.) size, 4 cts. each; 35 cts. for 10; 

 $3.25 per 100; $5.80 per bbl. of 200; $27..W per 1000. 

 You notice we indicate in parentheses how much 

 ordinary honey these tumblers will actually hold. 

 Thej' are the nearest to u and 1 lb. that we are able 

 to get at present. We can get 10 and 16 ounces of 

 gilt-edge basswood honey into them, and they are 

 what we have been sellmg for half a dozen years 

 back. We have on hand 4 bbls. (800) of a smaller 

 1-lb. tumbler that holds 13 oz. of ordinary honey, or 

 14 oz. extra thick. These we will sell at the old price 

 of .$5 25 per bbl. 



SEEDS. Pkt. new kind Tomato Seed, very choice, 3c. 

 Catalogue free. F. B. Mills, Thorn Hill, N. Y. 

 3-4-5d 



APIARY FOR SALE. 



1 offer for sale my apiary. It is in good shape, 

 with suitable hives. A change in my business makes 

 this necessarv. W. H. SIMMONS, 



203 Market St., WjlHamsport, Pa. 



