GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1. 



QUEENS TO NEW ZEALAND. 



I am pleased to Buy I received the queens all right 

 —two of them alive and the other only just dead. 

 There was still a little movement in her when she 

 arrived. There was only one bee alive with one 

 queen, and two with the other. This shows the 

 advantage of their coming in an envelope In the 

 letter-bags. They arrived o e day earlier than 

 Gleanings did. Thi y all had two or three cells of 

 honey left, buttlie candy was all gone except In the 

 one tliat was dead. I believe it would be better if 

 the lid were put close on the wire, and the ventila- 

 tion to be by holes in the sides of the cage only, as 

 it seems to me that the bees worry themselves to 

 death. T. G. Brickell. 



• Dunedin, N. Z,. Dec. 23. 



[Mr. B., in his order, requested that we put on 

 letter postage, believing tbat would secure more 

 prompt delivery. We did as requested, and the 

 above is the result. But perhaps it would be well to 

 state that we sent other queens at the same time 

 and to the sajie country, with ordinary postage, and 

 the queen went through alive.— Ed.] 



Root's Goods. 



Before placing j^our order for this 

 season, be sure to send for Root's 



1897 Catalog, ready now. 



Our 1897 hives, with improved 

 Danzy cover and improved Hoffman 

 frames, are simply ''out of sight." 

 Acknowledged by all who have seen 

 them to be a great improvement over 

 any hive on the market, of last year. 



Comb Foundation. 



Cheaper and better than ever; clear 

 as crystal, for you can read your 

 name through it. Process and ma- 

 chinery patented Dec. 8. 1896, and 

 other patents pending. Samples of 

 the new foundation free. 



The A. I. Root Co., 



Main Office and Factory, Mcdina, OhlO. 



Branch offices at 118 Michigan St., 

 Chicago; Syracuse, N. Y.; St. Paul, Minn.; 

 Mechanic Falls, Me.; No. 10 Vine St., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



FOR SALE. Cheap during 1897, Italian bees and 

 queens and iioot's bee-keepers' supplies. Ad- 

 dress Otto Kleinow, 123 Military Av., Detroit, Mich. 



TpcfpH Oiippn for 90 cents; untested, 6.5 cents. 

 ICMCU V/UCCIl One frame nucleus, 6.5 cents; 

 2-frame, $1.10. Discount on quantities. Send for 

 circular. Cooper & Gillett, Quebeck, Tenn. 



Money-order otHce. Spart;i, Tenn. 



(A few black queens ai 15c each; hybrids, 20c.) 



Wants and Exchange Department. 



Notices will be inserted under this head at one-half our usual 

 rate. Advertisements intended for this department must not 

 exceed five lines, and you must say you want your adv't in this 

 department, or we will not be responsible for errors. You can 

 have the notice as many lines as .you please; but all over five 

 lines will cost you according to our regular rates. This depart- 

 ment is intended only for bona-fide exchanges. Exchanges for 

 cash or for price lists, or notices offering articles for sale, can 

 not be inserted under this head. For such our regular rates of 

 20 c. a line will be charged and they will be put with the regu 

 lar advertisements. We can not be responsible for dissatisfac- 

 tion arising from these " swaps." 



WANTED.— To exchange Italian queens, bred from 

 imported mothers, for plants, seeds, pet stock, 

 or Cowan extractor. What have you to ofifer ? 

 J. H. Garrison. 1011 N. 23d St., St. Louis, Mo. 



WANTED.— To exchange Belgian hares, homing 

 pigeons. White Leghorn eggs or breeding-stock 

 for Italian queens from imported mother, pure-bred 

 geese, ducks, or ducks' eggs, or offers. 



Eugene Manning, Jacksonville, N. Y. 



WANTED— To exchange for any thing useful, 40 

 colonies bees; also 100 Simplicity supers with 

 wide frames. A. Y. Baldwin, De Kalb, 111. 



W ANTE D~To exchange eggs from B. Rocks, W. 

 and Buflf Leghorns, S. S. and Buff P. Bantams, 

 for wax or queens. J. Hallenbeck, Altamont,N.r. 



WANTED— To exchange young laying queens for 

 beehive machinery or full colonies of bees; will 

 pay cash for bees if preferred. 



H. G. Quirin, Bellevue, O. 



WANTED— To exchange a brand-new set of Ency- 

 clopedia Britannica, cost $60, also a brand-new 

 Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary, latest edition, 

 bound in sheep, cost $10, for strong hives of bees, 

 hybrids preferred. Fred Holtke, care of F. Bendt, 

 cor. Sixth and Orange sts., Newark, N. J. 



WANTED— To exchange incuba'or, hives, sup- 

 plies, rubber printing-outfits, or cash. Want 

 honey, wax, or fdn. 



O. H. Hyatt, Shenandoah, Page Co., Iowa. 



WANTED.— To exchange 60-lb. cans in good order, 

 boxe , valued at 25 cts. each, delivered, for comb 

 or extracted honey, of this ctr next season's crop, at 

 the market price. B. Walker, Evart, Mien. 



li'' ANTED— To exchange full colonies or nuclei of 

 VV bees fur gun or W. Wyandotte pullets. 

 I. J. Stringham, 105 Park Place, New Vork City. 



ANTED— To exchange standard varieties straw- 

 berry-plants and Turner raspberri -sets for any 

 thing useful. H. R. Gebhakt, Miamisburg, O. 



ANTED— To exchange turnip seed or bees for 

 mink, rauskrat, and hou>e-cat furs. 



C. G. Marsh, Belden, Broome Co., N. Y. 



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W' ANTED. —To exchange single-case World type- 

 writer (good as new); also hybrid bees in full 

 colon J', for extracted honey or oflers. 



A. W. Gardner, Centreville, Mich. 



WANTED.— To exchange strawberry-plants, Bu- 

 bach, Jessie, Wartleld, Crescent, Haverland, 

 Gandy, valued at $2 00 per lUOO; Cuthbert raspberry; 

 Snyder, Taj lor. Western Triumph blackberry, cheap 

 for beeswax. A. P. Lawrence, Hickory Cor., Mich. 



WANTED.— To exchange bicycle for foot-power 

 sciew-cutting lathe, Barnes saw, or mechan- 

 ic's tools. Robert B. Gedye, La Salle, 111. 



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ANTED.- To exchange talking-machine, oOO bee 

 papers, and a23-caliber rifle for bees or offers. 

 B. W. Hopper, Garden City, Kansas. 



