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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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THE HUBBARD SECTION-FORMER. 



We can furnish this machine, described elsewhere, 

 for ^2.50. It weighs 24 lbs., and its extreme length is 

 5 feet. 



THE HONEY MARKET AT MEDINA. 



Honey is g"oing- off some better of late, especially 

 to-day ("26th) wlien we are sliipping- 100 cases (12,000 

 lbs. 1, "in three lots. Most of this is for manufactur- 

 ing- purpcses, and goes at a special price. For prices 

 we refer you to page 43 of No. 2, current volume. 



PLANET JR. CULTIVATORS AND TOOLS. 



We have tlie new 1891 catalogue of these valuable 

 garden implements. A number of new tools have 

 been added to the list, and old iwies improved. Be- 

 sides, we can make bettei- i)rices than usual. We 

 have tlie catalogue ready to mail on apjilication, 

 and in each is a slieet gi\-1ng our net prices, wliich 

 are from 15 to 50 percent below catalogue prices. 

 If interested, write for catalogue. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP. 



Tlie maple season opened early this year, and the 

 sugar and syrup produced tlius far excel the aver- 

 age in quality. We have a limited quantity on 

 hand, which we can furnisli at tlie following prices: 

 Syrup in 1-gal. sq. cans at $1.20 each; f 11.00 for 10; 

 $21. (XI for 20 cans. In .5-gallon cans, if preferred, at 

 5 c. per gallon less, wlien we liave it put up this way. 

 Choice sugar at 10 and 11 cts. per lb. ; 14 ct. less in .50- 

 Ib. lots; 1 cent less in barrel lots of 300 lbs. 



WHITE-CLOVER SEED. 



We have a nice lot of this, which we bought so as 

 to be al)le to make the following price: $8.00 per 

 bushel; $4.10 per X bushel ; $2.20 per peck; 18 cts. 

 per lb. White-clover seed has always been higher 

 than alsike till this year, but we can now sell it low- 

 er. The time to sow these seeds is during this and 

 the next month, according to locality. Alfalfa clo- 

 ver seed at $7.00 per bushel ; $3.60 per % bush. ; $1.90 

 per peck; 15 cts. per 11). 



JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT WANTED. 



Those having choice clean Japanese buckwheat 

 seed to sell will do us a favor to mail us a small sam- 

 ple, and write how many bushels (50 lbs.) you have to 

 sell, and the price you ask for it. Remember, that, 

 as we are selling it lower than last year, we e.xpect 

 to buy it lower. As a rule, it is selling for about 

 what the millers pay for it to gi-ind. Choice clean 

 seed brings a little higher price. 



ALSIKE CLOVER SEED. 



We advanced the price of this the first cf January 

 to $9.00 per bushel; $4.60 per X bushel: $2.40 per 

 peck; 20 cts. per lb., bag included. Since then the 

 market has been very firm— at one time as high as 

 $9.00 wholesale, in large lots, bags extra. We ex- 

 pected to have to advance the price again, but the 

 demand has slackened, and the market is easier, so 

 that we propose to leave our price where it is, al- 

 though at this price we sell on a very small margin. 

 We have choice seed, ready to fill orders promptly. 



CAULIFLOWER .SEED FROM H. A. MARCH. 



We have just received by mail a pound of seed, 

 and here is what friend Maivh says about it: 



It is of 1890 growth, and I cut and sold in market every he.ad 

 that was not •'perfection." It is really .stock seed that 1 grew 

 last year. My reports from the stations are better this year 

 than last; and all growers who used my Puget Sound seed are 

 sending for it again this year. H. A. March. 



Fidalgo, Wash., Feb. 7. 



The price will be 5 cts. per packet; ^8 ounce, 25 cts. ; 

 Ji ounce, 40 cts; one ounce, $1.50. Our friends will 

 notice that these prices are lower than they ever 

 have been before, and at the same time the qualitj^ 

 of the seed is superior to any thingthat has ever be- 

 fore been raised. When you get an orthodox hee-man 

 to raising seeds, or any thing else, he generally "gets 

 there" sooner or la ter. 



WHITE AND CREAM SECTIONS. 



Owing to an exceedingly open winter in. Ohio a vear 

 ago, there was very little basswood cut till spring; 

 and this spring, cut lumber is not a clear white, but 

 more of a cream. Had we not secured about 1.50,000 



feet of ex-tra nice white lumber in Michigan, we 

 should have been poorly supplied for wliite sections. 

 This winter we have alieady twice our usual year's- 

 supply of the nicest white basswood we ever had. 

 It will be a month or six weeks yet before any of 

 this is dry enough to work into sections, and we have 

 got to the end of our dry white from Michigan, last 

 year's cut. We have white 1-lb. sections in stock. 7 

 to foot, l?i and 1% inches wide; but, until our new 

 lumber is ready to work we shall have to furnish 

 other widths and sizes in cream color. Of course, 

 we will furnisli these cream color at a lower 

 price, and many of you no doubt would just as soon 

 have them at the lower price. We have just been 

 rigging up our dry-house so we can hurry up the 

 seasoning of the white lumber more than ever be- 

 foie; and as this comes to your notice this dry-house 

 is running full blast. We have only a limited quan- 

 tity of lumber for cream sections, and make this into 

 sections onlj' because of the present dearth of white. 

 As soon as our white lumber is dry enough we shall 

 discontinue the cream grade. 



PRICE OF 1-LB. SECTIONS. 



The price of a single thousand 1-lb. one-piece sec- 

 tions, with most of the manufacturers and dealers, 

 is $3. .50. In larger lots the price varies somewhat. 

 To be uniform with other large dealers we make the 

 following: 



Cream, when 

 Quantity. No. 1 white. we have them. 



Less than 350, per 100 $ 50 $ 40 



250 1-lb. sections 1 00 80 



.500 to 2000, per 1000 3 .50 3 00 



2000 1-lb. sections 6 .50 5 50 



.3000 " 9 00 ■ 7 50 



5003 " 14 00 12 50 



Prices of white sections in larger quantities made- 

 known on application. Cream sections are not sold 

 for less than above figures in any quantity. 



VEGETABLE PLANTS FOR MARCH. 



Well, I suppose we might as well confess we have 

 not any, unless it be Palmetto asparagus and straw- 

 beri'ies. We have a few cold-frame Jersey Wake- 

 field cabbage-plants, but not enough good ones to 

 offer them for sale. We have a great lot of plants 

 raised fi-om seed started in the greenhouse in 

 January and February, l)ut none of these will be 

 real nice to send out before the middle of March. 

 The same is the case with transplanted lettuce- 

 plants and celery-plants. Plants from the seed- 

 bed we have abundance, of cabbage, lettuce, and 

 celery. But these are so delicate, and need so 

 much care, both in shipping and transplanting, 

 that about half of the time they do not amount to 

 much. We can send them if you wish, at the prices 

 we have in former years; but unless in the hands of 

 an expert, they (seedlings) are often not a sue- 

 cess. We can furnish asparagus-plants and straw- 

 berry-plants at 10 cts. for 10; 75 cts. per 100, or $6.00 

 per 1000. If wanted by mail, add 5 cts. for 10 or 25- 

 cts. per 100. The four strawberry-plants we have 

 selected to offer for sjning iilanting are the Jessie, 

 Bubach, Gaudy, and Haverland. The Jessie and 

 Gandy are growing in the greenhouse, so we can 

 take tliem up at any time. The Bubachs are in the 

 open air; but as we seldom have much frost in 

 >Iarch, we can take them up almost any time. But 

 of the Haverlands, our stock is already exhausted, 

 and we are waiting for a shii)ment of .5000 plants 

 which we have engaged as soon as they can be tak- 

 en u]). We are going to put these out in our rich 

 plant-beds, under glass; but we prefer to have 

 them m.ike some growth before sending them to- 

 customers; therefore we can not furnish you 

 Havei-lands right oft' now. We can send all the 

 rest promptly. 



SECOND-HAND FOUNDATION MILLS. 



We have on hand to dispose of, the following sec- 

 ond-hand mills. As a rule we consider new machines 

 the cheapest tti buy, even at a much higher jn-icer 

 but tlieie are circumstances when a man wants to 

 make only foi' his own use, and can not afford a new 

 machine "when it may be profitable to buy an old one. 



One 12-iiich Dunliam mill, formerly used by Da- 

 dant, and in faiily gin>d order; makes heavy brood 

 foundation with round cells. It sold when new at 

 $,50.00; will sell now for $18.00. 



One 10-inch, our own make of several years ag<i, in 

 fair condition, will make faii'lvgood brood founda- 

 tion ; will sell for $10.00. 



One 10-inch, of our make, in fair condition; used 



