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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 15. 



Special Notices. 



GLEANINGS FREE THE REST OF THIS YEAR TO NEW 

 SUBSCRIBERS FOR 1893. 



As is our usual custom we make the above offer 

 to assist our present readers to introduce Glean- 

 ings to their friends. We will in addition g-ive you, 

 as a premium for all new names secured, a cash 

 commission of 25 cents on eacli new subscription. 

 It must be a new subscription. A changre from one 

 member of a family to another, or any like device, 

 would not be securing a new subscription, there- 

 fore we prefer that you send your own renewal, if 

 due, along with the new subscription secured. 



3-INCH netting of no. 19 AND 20 WIRE NOT FUR- 

 NISHED. 



At the last minute, just before going to press, 

 and after our itage on wire netting is printed, we 

 find that the manufacturers had so little demand 

 for the light weights of 3-inch netting wire No. 19 

 and -S). that they do not list them this year, and 

 therefore the cheapest thing we can furnish for pea 

 brush is either 3 inch No. 18, or 2 inch No. 20, both 

 of which cost 90c a roll, 1 foot wide ;ind 1.50 ft. long. 

 Please make a note of this in connection with what 

 we say in full-page announcement. 



MAPLE SYRUP. 



If we can not offer much in the way of extracted 

 honey we are prepared to furnish choice maple 

 syrup, in one-gallon cans, at $1.00 per gallon in 10- 

 gallon lots or more. For a less quantity we charge 

 ll.lO. We shall not be able to furnish much maple 

 sugar till the new season opens in the spring, as 

 we bought up and sold last spring all of this that 

 we could get. There is plenty of gO(jd syrup in this 

 vicinity, which we can procure and furnish at above 

 prices, and guarantee it strictly pure maple. 



HONEY PRODUCED WITH THE DOVETAILED HIVE. 



In connection with the honey described opposite, 

 we are most pleased with the fact that it was pro- 

 duced in our Dovetailed hives with section-holder 

 arrangement. After Mr. Ball got his first lot of 

 these hives three years ago and put them in use, he 

 wrote that he could secure from ]><, to H more honey, 

 with less work, than with the old stj'le L. hives he 

 was using, and he has since had several carloads, 

 and will have another carload within a few weeks. 

 We regard this as one of the best testimonies we 

 can have, that this hive is a success. 



DISCOUNTS FOR EARLY ORDERS. 



Only two weeks remain in which to secure the .5?r 

 early-order discount on hives and supplies for next 

 season's use. After Dec. 1st the discount drops to 

 4%. Quite a number have taken advantage of this 

 offer, and we expect to hear from many more during 

 the next two weeks. If you who have dealt with us 

 are getting better offers nearer home, and prefer to 

 have our goods so as to be uniform with what you 

 have, we trust you will communicate with us, stat- 

 ing circumstances, and we will try to arrange prices 

 to your advantage. We don't want all the trade 

 there is, but desire to hold present customei'S and 

 make new ones as well. 



PRICE OF WIRE NETTING REDUCED. 



We have just made a new contract with the man- 

 ufacturers for our sui>ply of wire netting and 

 fencing for the coming year, and we call your at- 

 tention' to our ad't on another page, where you will 

 flud that prices are greatly reduced. They are not 

 quite as low, however, as the special carload we 

 offered two months ago. Of this we have sold out 

 all the 18, 24, and 60 inch ; but we still have a stock 

 of the other widtlis. As we have an extra large 

 stock of the 4-foot on hand we will make the follow- 

 ing very low prices on this width only fi-om now till 

 .Ian. 1st, 1893, and for shipment from here: 



1 to 4 rolls, only $3.50 per roll. 



5 to 10 rolls, only $3.40 per roll. 



10 to 20 rolls, only $3.30 per roll. 



25 rolls or more, $3.20 per roll. 

 These goods ai'e fully equal to any thing we have 

 heretofore sold, and these prices can not be dupli- 

 cated anywhere, and are offered for only a limited 



time in order to reduce stock. Remember the size 

 Is 2-inch mesh. No. 19 wire, 4 feet wide, and are full 

 rolls, 150 feet long. The other widths in stock, and 

 prices, are as follows, all 2 inch. No. 19: 



1 roll. 5 rolls. 10 rolls. 

 12 inches wide $1 00 $ 4 50 . $ 8 50 

 30 " " 3 50 12 00 22 00 



36 •' " 2 80 13 50 26 00 



42 " " 3 25 15 50 30 00 



^-inch staples for above at 15c per lb. 



CLOSING-OUT PRICES ON SECTIONS. 



While we do not acknowledge that the first qual- 

 ity sections we have been furnishing the past year 

 are inferior in any res])ect to any heretofore fur- 

 nished liy any manufacturer, we have, nevertlie- 

 1 ess, realized that perfection was not yet attained, 

 nor the cost of making reduced as low as it (jught to 

 be. We have felt that, unless we did impiovo our 

 method of making sections, we might get lieliind in 

 the race. It is our constant aim, in all kinds of 

 goods we make, not so much to get the price down 

 to the lowest offered anywhere, but to furnish 

 goods of superior quality so that the slight increase 

 in price over some offers made shall be much more 

 than made up in quality. During the past year es- 

 pecially we have made great advances in this direc- 

 tion, not only in our own judgment, but also in 

 the opinion of great numbers of our customers who 

 have expressed themselves. We have planned, and 

 are building improved machinery for making sec- 

 tions, which will cost upward of $1000 or more, by 

 which we hope not only to cheapen the cost of m.ak- 

 ing, but also and more especially, to make them 

 more uniformly perfect in workmanship and tinish. 

 They will be smoothed both sides in a specially 

 built machine, and reduced to a uniform thickness. 

 These machines are not yet completed, and will 

 hardly be in operation for several weeks yet; but 

 they are far enough along so we look with assur- 

 ance for the anticipated results. Now, to come to 

 the subject set at the head of this notice, we have 

 in stock over a million of choice sections made in 

 the old way. They are choice goods, well made, and 

 as good as any one can reasonably ask for; but we 

 have too many of them; and in order to work them 

 off we propose to offer them at prices that will make 

 them move if there is anybody in want of sections 

 at all. The surplus is of other widths than the 

 standardly. We have about 



250,000 l}s inch, open top and bottom; 

 70,000 lii •* ' ' 



1.50,000 19.i ' 



350.000 7 to foot 



60.000 1%, 7 to ft., and 1\% in., open 4 sides. 

 We will furnish any of the above for a limited 

 time at the following net prices, which are not sub- 

 ject to any early order or other discounts, and for 

 cash with order: 



1000, $3.50; 3000, $7.00; 5000, $11.00; 10,000. $30.00. 

 Those who can use a larger quantity will please 

 write, naming the quantity wanted. We have also 

 some 8.5.000 of Mi inch, and 40,000 of \\l inch No. 1 

 cream sections that we offer in connection with the 

 above at $2 00 per 1000; 5000 for $9.00, or 10,000 for 

 $17.00. These are choice, well-made sections, except 

 in color. The retail price of our No. 1 white sec- 

 tions, standard size, will hereafter be $3.00 for a 

 single thousand, and a deduction for greater quan- 

 tities, up to 5000, of 'ZVi per cent for each additional 

 1000, making 2000 at $5.85; 3000 at $8.55; 4000 at $11.10, 

 and 5000 at $13.50. Prices of larger quantities on ap- 

 plication. 



NEVADA COMB HONEY. 



As our car of comb honey just arrived as we were 

 going to press for la-st issue, we did not have time 

 to report on it after opening up. Now that we have 

 an opportunity, we desire to say that it is the finest 

 lot of comV) honey we ever set eyes on, and you 

 don't have to credit our eyes alone for tliis asser- 

 tion. All who have seen it add a like testimony. 

 Mr. J A. Buchanan, of HoUiday's Cove, W, Va., 

 who handles many tons of honey every year, and a 

 good judge, writes, in remitting for 18 cases re- 

 ceived: "This is the finest lot of honey we have 

 had for years. It came in perfect condition." 

 Some brokers in Cleveland wrote inquiring prices; 

 and when they found our prices one to three cents 

 higher than they had been paying for good white 

 honey they thought they could not do any thing 

 with it; but after seeing it they changed their 



