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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1. 



Contents of this Number. 



Bees. Xursing Them 498 



California Bee-keepers 504 



Cell-eups. Doolittle 52ii 



Chronicle of Picnic ."ilH) 



Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin.5()3 



Currant-worms 515 



Dustin's Apiary 512 



Flour, Home-made 510 



Frames, Tool to Wire 511 



Hewitt, John 520 



Hive-shade, Day's 496 



Holy Spirit's Influence 519 



Honey, Artitieial 511 



Honey, Grading 496 



Hose, Rubber 516 



Increase, To Prevent 491 



Jokes, How to Tell 506 



Lady-bugs 515 



Manura's Letter 493 



Miller's Outburst 519 



Murray. R. V 502 



Funics, Benton on 504 



Funics at Medina 492 



Rambler in Matilija Can'n.507 



Scarabseids 497 



Sealed Covers in Cellar 511 



Section-case, New D 500 



Smoker, Bingham 521 



Strawberry Talk 514 



Tobicco-dust 515 



Wax at Entrance 509 



Wax Flowers 499 



Webster's Bad Advice 511 



Whitewood Honey 511 



World's Fair 498 



York,G. W 495 



Special Notices. 



HONEY WANTED. 



We are entirely sold out of both comb and ex- 

 tracted honey, and should be pleased to receive 

 offers. We have a demand for only the best grade. 

 If you have any new comb honey to offer yet, let 

 US iiear from you, with quantity, and price j'ou asli. 

 We can use either new or old extracted honey of 

 good quality. Mail sample, naming quantity and 

 price, and tell how put up. In this connection we 

 desire to call your attention to the screw-top mail- 

 ing-block in another column. 



OUR NEW TOMATO-BOOK. 



Sixty-four pages of this work are now printed and 

 bound together in convenient form for reference. 

 This book gives the most complete directions for 

 making hot-beds of every description, perhaps, of 

 any thing now in print. It also includes the use of 

 cloth, glass, and even boards for covering the beds, 

 and considers all the practical appliances in use for 

 growing plants of every description under protec- 

 tion, not only in our locality, but away down south 

 and away up north. The price of the work is 40 cts., 

 postpaid by mail. If you send for it now you will 

 get the advance sheets as fast as they come from 

 the printing-press, and the complete book when fin- 

 ished besides. 



JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. 



Our call for offers on Japanese buckwheat in last 

 number has revealed the fact that there is a good 

 deal of it to be had. At least a thousand bushels 

 have been ottered us, and some at such a price that 

 we are able to sell at the old figure given in our cat- 

 alogue, except that you must pay extra for bags. 

 This will make tlie prices, including bags, as fol- 

 lows: 1 bush., $1.2(1; 3 bu.sh.. $2.10; 1" bush, or over, 

 $1.00 per bushel. We liave secured a good supply, 

 and can fill orders promptly at above figures. We 

 sowed some as late as August 10, some years ago, 

 and matured a crop of seed, so there is time to send 

 for a month yet; although if you can it is best to 

 get it in by the 1.5tli to 20th of July, to be sure of 

 maturing the seed before early fall frosts. 



STRAWBERHY-PLANTS, ETC. 



There is a short period during the last of .Tune 

 and first of July, wliile strawberries are fruiting, 

 when it is not advisable to sliip plants, for the 

 llimmj plants have not yet made sufficient root to 

 bear transportation. You can, however, set them 

 out during this period if the young plants are 

 grown on your own grounds or on those of a neigh- 

 bor near by, .so you can move them with sufficient 

 dirt adhering to the roots. During the coming fall 

 we sliall give place to three new varieties; viz., 

 Parker Earle, Edgar Queen, and Wartield. We may 

 drop some of our old ones, but have not decided 

 just which ones to drop, at pre.sent writing. For 

 several se; sois iiast, the demand in our locality lias 

 been tor a berry that would stand wet weather. 

 If now, however, we should have a dry season, or a 

 succession of dr.v seasons, it might materially 

 change our decision as to what varieties to recom- 

 mend. We presume we shall have a limited number 

 of plants, rooted enough to send out l)y the middle 

 of July. Large orders, however, can not well be 

 filled until two weeks or a month later. 



SQUARE CANS FOR EXTRACTED HONEY. 



I believe bee-keepers generally are learning more 

 and more the advantage of putting up extracted 

 hone.v foi' shipment in these square cans. Honey 

 in square cans handles much more satisfactorily 

 than in any other package, according to our expe- 

 rience. We are prepared to furnish you the square 

 cans, f . o. b. at Conneaut, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo., or 

 from here, at the following prices: 



Two five gal. cans, boxed with IV^-inch screws, 

 each, 75c; 10, $7.00; 100, f 65.00. 



Two five-gal. cans, boxed with \}i and 4 in. screws, 

 each, 85c; 10, $8.00; lOi), $75.00. 



One five-gal. can, boxed with l>^-iuch screws, 

 each, 45c; 10, $4.20; 100, $40.00. 



One five-gal. can, boxed with lH and 4 inch screws, 

 each, 50c; 10.14.70; 100, $45.00. 



Ten one-gal. cans, boxed with screws, each, $1.50; 

 10, $14.00; luO, f 130.00. 



One hundred one-gal. cans in one box, $12.00. 



WINTER OR EGYPTIAN ONION-SETS NOW READY. 



If these are set out at once they will make a large 

 growth before winter sets in; and, under favorable 

 circumstances, will divide up, making many onions 

 where you planted only one set ; so you will see 

 there is a big advantage in getting them in early. 

 Of course, tliey are now green, for we pick them 

 from the stalks just as they are sent out, and they 

 are expected to be planted at once. If j'ou wish to 

 keep them for any length of time liefore planting, 

 you will need to wait until the sets are more mature 

 and dry. The demand for these sets for many years 

 has been greater than the supply, so you will heed 

 to send in your orders early. Prices: 15 cts. per qt., 

 or $1.00 per peck. If wanted by mail, add 10 cts. per 

 qt. extra. This is the only onion, .so far as my 

 knowledge extends, that is so hardy as to stand any 

 winter in any locality ; audit furnishes onions for 

 market or table u.se not only weeks but months 

 ahead of any other. In cold-frames and hot/-beds, 

 such as I have described, it can readily be grown 

 and marketed every day in tltc year. 



BEESWAX DECLINED AG.\IN. 



The market on beeswax is still growing easier, 

 and we make a further decline of 2 cents per lb. 

 From now till further notice we will pay for aver- 

 age wax. delivered here, 23 cts. cash; 26 in trade. 

 Our selling price will be 29 cts. for average, 33 for 

 select yellow. Our retail price of foundation is 

 reduced 3 cts. per lb., and the table of prices will 

 stand as follows from now till further notice: 



TABLE OF PRICES OF COMB FOUNDATION. 



When you order, be sure to tell which grade you 

 want, and give price. 

 Small samptes of each grade will he mailed free. 



>— Price per lb. in lots not less than - 

 Sq. ft 

 NAME OF GRADE, per lb lib. 10 Ibs. 25 lbs. 50 lbs. 100 lbs 



Heavy brood fdn. 

 Medium " ' 



Light 



Thin surplus " 

 Ex. thin " " 



Van Deusen thin 

 flat bottom 



SECOND-HAND MACHINERY. 



During the past few months we have bought up 

 several outfits of machinery for making bee-keep- 

 ers' supplies; and if any of our readers or their 

 friends contemplate putting in machinery we are 

 prepared to fit you out from cellar to garret with 

 everything you need in engines, boilers, machinery, 

 shafting, pulleys, hangers, beltiii,u-, saws, etc. The 

 following is a partial list of the sfcond-hand ma- 

 cliinery we have to sell. If you desire further par- 

 ticular's we shall be pleased to hear from you. 



One 20-H. P. Fishkill horizontal engine, rebuilt, 

 and as good as new; would cost new, $4u0; will sell 

 for *200, 



One .5-H. P. horizontal engine and boiler, with en- 

 gine mounted on boiler, in good running order. 

 Price $1.")0. 



One 24-inch two-roll Fay sandpaper machine, near- 

 ly new. Price, new, $450; will sell for S175. 



One 9-inch cigar-box planer, nearlj- new; has been 

 used very little. Price, new, f65; will sell for $40. 



One V-groove section machine, nearly new. This 

 is our make, old style, with screw-feed; sold some 

 j-ears ago for $75; will sell now for $40. 



