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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1. 



Contents of this Number. 



Absorlfents Favoied 33' 



Alfalfa, When Cut 324 



Apricots. Calif orula 3-14 



Beesof Italy 319 



Bee-moth 331 



Colonies. Doubling 326 



Covers, Sealed 327, 343 



Ditching. Tools for 340 



Electricity tor Imbedding. .343 



Eugene Secor 317 



Feeders 3:51 



Foundation, To Restore .334 



Frames, Wiring 328 



Hive carts 330 



Increase by Fuichase 3-'4 



Italians Ahead 334 



Moving to Out-apiaries 3.30 



Orange-blossom Honey 3.34 



Photos of Bee-keepers 330 



Propolis on T Tins 331 



Propolis on E-vcluders 3.33 



Funics, Price of 319 



Queens, Three in a Hive — 334 



Rambler at Bonfoey's 320 



Retailing-cases" 32,5 



Robbers, To Catch 333 



Shipping-cases 32.5 



Space Under p'rames 323 



Spraying Trees 322 



Sulphuric Acid 332 



Swarms, To Prevent 329 



Swarmer, Pratt's 318 



Swaimers, .Automatic 318 



Tools for Digging 340 



Top bars, New Plan 334 



Transplanting to the Field .341 



Ventilation, Upward 327 



Vinegar, Honey 316 



Wax Sheets on'GIass 334 



Wiring. Keeney 333 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The first annual meeting of the Connecticut Bee-keepers' As- 

 sociation will be held at Hartford, May 12, commencing at 10:30 

 A.M. All interested are invited. Mrs. W. E. Riley, Sec. 



Waterbury, Ct. 



The annual meeting of the Ionia Bee-keepers' Association 

 will be held at the Bailey House parlors, Ionia, Mich., May 11, 

 1892. John H Larrabee, of the Michigan Agricultural College, 

 will make an address. H. Smith, Sec, Ionia. 



The Southwestern Wisconsin Bee-keepers' Association will 

 hold its next annual meeting in Boscobel, Grant Co., Wis., on 

 the 13th and 14th of .Tanuary. 1S93. commencing at 10 a.m. All 

 members of the association ,^re requested to be present, as the 

 following officers are to be elected: President, vice-president, 

 secretary, assistant secretary, and treasurer. Blank repu)-ts 

 will be sent to each member of the association for 1892, with 

 instructions. A cordial invitation is extended to all bee-keep- 

 ers, and especially to those who would like to .ioin us. Each 

 member will be notified at least one month before said meet- 

 ing. Benj. E. Rice, Sec. 



Boscoliel, Wis. 



CIRCULARS RECEIVED. 



We have lately received apiarian price lists from the folli 

 ing parties: 

 F. C. Erkel. Le Sueur, M nn. 

 Jos. E. Shaver. Friedens, Va. 

 \V. H. Biight. Mazeppa, Minn. 

 C. D, l)uv:ill, Si.ineerville, Md. 

 Otto J. E. Urlian. Thorndale, Tex, 

 J. W. Bitti nbciiiler, Knoxville, Iowa. 

 Leah.v ilauufarturmg Co.. Higginsville, JIo. 



Special Notices. 



CANNED TOMATOES. 



We have a large supply of tomatoes of our own 

 canning'. Tliey are Igiiotum.s; and as both seeds 

 and juice were separated at the time of canning-, 

 the cans contain only the solid Ig-notum meat. 

 Price lu cts. per can, or 19.00 per 100 cans.« 



SEEDLING TOMATO-PLANTS. 



We have quite a surplus in the greenhouse of 

 g-ood strong plants, standing in tlie seed-bed; but 

 we are having so many frosts that we do not dare 

 risk them outdoors wilhout protection. Under the 

 circumstances we offer them, for immediate orders, 

 for 30 els. per 100, or f,'J.0O per 1000. If wanted by 

 mail, add :,'.') cts. per lUO for yx'Stage and packing. 

 We have Livingston's Beauty, Ignotum, and Dwarf 

 Chauipiou at tlie above prices. 



As tlie trade has liardly yet commenced on cab- 

 bage, caulitiower, tomato, and celery plants, we 

 have an unusually good assortment of all of them, 

 including, also, sweeVpotato plants. When tlie 

 frosts let up for good, however, tliere will probably 

 be a tremendous rush for every thing in this line, 

 and We rather anticipate there will be a scarcity of 

 many kinds of vegetable-plants. 



RUBBER STAMPS FOR TOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. 



A month ago, in urging you to be sure and sign 

 your name and give your address, we mentioned 

 incidentally that we could furnish you a rubber 

 stamp to print 3'our name and address for 20c, and 

 so We can; but you need with it ink and pads — or, 

 better, a self-inking pad, which costs 25c more. We 



can, for 25c, furnisii you a nicKel pen-holder, with 

 sliding pen and pencil in one end, and on the other 

 a rubber stamp, giving your name and address, 

 with pad to ink it, and a tube of ink included, all 

 for 25c. It is usually sold for .50c, and often for 90c 

 or !?1.(X). If you want this, order our pen and pencil 

 stamp, and be sure to give plainly just what you 

 want it to print. If you don't write verj' plainly 

 we can not be respcjiisible for errors. 



MASON FRU1T-.JARS. 



Last year, in fruit-canning time there was a scar- 

 city of Ma.son jars, and the price went up to nearly 

 double what they can be had for now. We advise 

 you to provide yourselves In time before the "glass- 

 workers stop for the summer heat. We are pre- 

 pared to take orders now for jars to be shipped di- 

 rect from Pittsburg, Pa., in original packages, from 

 the first to the fifteenth of .June, at the following 

 prices : 



Pints (6 doz. in box), $8.00 per gross (12 dozen). 



Quarts (8 doz. in box) $8.25 per gro.ss. 



2-quart (6 doz. in box) $11.00 per gross. 



Remember these prices are good only for imme- 

 diate orders, and to be shipped during the first half 

 of June direct from Pittsburg, Pa. Orders to be 

 sent to us. 



STANLEY AUTOMATIC REVERSING HONEY-EXTRACT- 

 OR 



As announced in last 

 number of Gleanings, 

 ^\( have lea.sed from G. 

 \\ Stanlej^ the right to 

 make his automatic ex- 

 it letor, and we bought 

 li om E. R. Newcomb his 

 stock of materials and 

 ni<i chines unsold. This 

 stock consists of about 

 twenty -five machines, 

 two and four frame. To 

 work it off quick, and 

 gi\e us a chance to put 

 out machinesof our own 

 m ike, we offer these 

 ill ichines as long as they 

 last, atone-fourth off old 

 ^ puces. We will sell the 

 two-frame machines as 

 they are for $9.00; the -t-fia.ne for $15.00. They are 

 crated ready for sliipment, with crank direct on the 

 center-shaft. We will attaili our new horizontal 

 gear, as shown on page 14 of our catalogue, for $3.00 

 each extra. 



ONE-PIECE SECTIONS. 



We are now making one-piece sections at the rate 

 of a million a month. In the five months from Aug. 

 1st to Jan. 1st we made about one and three-quarter 

 millions; in January and February, one and one- 

 quarter millions; and since the 1st of March we 

 have been turning them out at the rate of a million 

 a month. We have nowMii stock about one and a 

 half millions of all widths of the i4ii:-inch section 

 from 1^ inches up to 2 inches. Weluneal.so enough 

 dry lumber in our yard to make about t luce million 

 more. By the time this is worked up tlie lumber we 

 have contracted, cut the past winter, will be ready 

 to begin on, and this will make six or eight million 

 more. The quality of the sections is superior to any 

 we ever sent out in former years, and, we beUeve, 

 equal to any made, and superior to most makes. 

 We contracted to supply one large dealer at a high- 

 er price than he was oft'ercd other good .sections for, 

 because he decided that ours would jjlease his cus- 

 tomers enough better to pay the ditterence in price. 

 We are also making lower prices in large lots to 

 dealers than we have been able to do heretofore. 

 We mention all these things to show you how well 

 l>repared we are to serve you. Last year, and the 

 year before, our supply of lumber suitable for sec- 

 tions was insufficient, and, as a consequence, to fill 

 orders at all we were compelled to send out some 

 that were rather inferior for first grade. To many 

 of our friends who received these goods we have al- 

 lowed a rebate; and to others who mentioned it in 

 their orders we have sent an extra supply of the 

 choice sections we are now turnin.g out. If there 

 are any who have not yet had satisfaction, we want 

 to hear from j'ou .so that we may ha\ e an opportu- 

 nity to give you satisfaction, and to give you sec- 

 tions that can not be surpassed by any manufactur- 

 er. 



