GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 15. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRDP. 



We are still prepared to supply maple sug^ar and 

 syrup at prices noted in our last. We have a supply 

 on hand for prompt shipment. 



DOVETAILED HIVES, 1896 PATTERN. 



Those who prefer last year's pattern of frames 

 and cover and style of packing-, we are prepared to 

 supply on short notine, as we have quite a stock of 

 No. 1 Dov. hives, put up before the changes for 1897 

 were decided upon. These are furnished at 5 cts. 

 per hive less than the list price of 1897-pattern hives. 



HONEY. 



We have the choicest Wisconsin clover and bass- 

 wood honey to offer in 60-lb. cans, 3 in a case, at 7 cts. 

 In l-gallon cans, 8 in a case, at $6.50 per case; 2 cases 

 at $6.35; 5 or more at $6.00. Just think of it! the 

 choicest honey in one-gallon cans at 75cfe. a gallon! 

 There are few families who would not take a gallon 

 of such honey at $1.00 if they had the opportunity. 

 It has all been melted. 



SECOND-HAND FOUNDATION-MILLS. 



Since our last we have added two choice mills to 

 our stock of second-hand machines as follows: One 

 10-inch round-cell. No. ZZ. Price $13.00. This will 

 make foundation about 6 feet to the pound, and has 

 had excellent care; is practically as good as new, 

 and good value for the price. One 6-inch hex , No. 

 1331. Price $13.00. This has been used just enough 

 to get it into the very best condition for work, with 

 very thin base. Will make 11 feet to the pound. 

 Practically as good as new. We have most of the 

 mills listed in our last issue. 



CARLOAD SHIPMENTS. 



Since our last issue we have made up a large car- 

 load of e ^ port orders, the principal shipment going 

 to Sydney, Australia. We have another car to load 

 for same port, and one for Liverpool, England. We 

 have also put up a large car for Keno, Nevada, and 

 Inyo Co., Cal. A second carload has been shipped 

 to the Northwestern branch at St. Paul, and we 

 are shipping a third car to Jos. Nysewander, Des 

 Moines, Iowa, and one to Henry F. Hagan, Rocky 

 Ford, Colo. We have also two or three other carload 

 orders entered to go as soon as possible. 



We are running eleven hours a day in most de- 

 partments, and the section machinery fifteen hours 

 a day to keep pace with the demand. 



DRAWN FOUNDATION. 



We are now turning out drawn foundation in 

 pieces 3x4 inches in size, with cells %, inch deep on 

 each side the base. There are eiglit of these pieces 

 In an ounce, or 138 to the pound, or about 8 square 

 feet to the pound; with cells only ig inch deep each 

 side, there are 13 pieces in an ounce, or 12 square 

 feet to the pound— as light as extra thin foundation. 

 By rolling the sheet wax down still thinner it can be 

 made lighter than any foundation now offered lor 

 sale, or wh ch has ever been produced. With a lit- 

 tle more work on the machine, and more pressure, 

 we shall be able to turn out pieces 5x8 inches in 

 size. For the present we offer only the pieces 3x4, 

 two of wliich fill a Mb. section. To enable many to 

 try a little of it we will send 6 pieces, 2x4, put up in 

 1-lb. section, postpaid to any address, for 12 cts. in 

 stamps, or the same shipped with other goods for 10 

 cts. These will have cells about X inch deep. A 

 packagfi containing 10 pieces 2x4, with cells X inch 

 deep, mailed for 15 cts.; shipped with other goods 

 ^or 12 cts. 



"The proof of the pudding is in the eating," even 

 so the proof of the value of this drawn foundation 

 will be finally in the eating of the honey produced 

 with it, and the way the bees take t old of it. A little 

 practical experience in this line will be worth more 

 than all the theory you can pack into all the arti- 

 cles and editorials which may be printed in a gener- 

 ation. We believe that, for a perfect article of 

 comb honey, it Is going to entirely remove the ob- 

 jection which is often urged against the use of ordi- 



nary foundation. We hope many will give it a care- 

 ful trial this season on a small scale. We shall then, 

 at the close of the season, have testimony of some 

 value as to its utility^and desirability in use. 



A'AN ALLEN & WILLIAMS' CLAIM. 



^'an Allen & Williams, of Barnum, Wis., are claim- 

 ing that our four and six frame Cowan extraftors 

 are an infringement upon the patented automatic 

 reversing extrai-tor of their own. We have before 

 us a copy of the patent, dated Nov. 15, 1893. The 

 object of the invention is to secure automatic re- 

 versing of the pockets. There is only one claim, and 

 that a combination claim, and a very narrow one at 

 that, covering a peculiar method of automatic re- 

 versing. Our extractors do )iot reverse automatical- 

 Ill. One hand turns the crank, and the other re- 

 verses the baskets without even stopping the ma- 

 chine. Moreover, we can prove by plenty of print- 

 ed references that the vital features of our Cowan 

 extractor, including the sprocket-wheel and chains, 

 are old ideas. The claims of Van Allen & Williams 

 are preposterous. It is unnecessary to state that 

 we shall protect all.those who are using Cowan ex- 

 tractors. 



Special Notices in the Line of Gardening, etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



DWARF ESSEX RAPE. 



We are pleased to tell our friends that we have 

 succeeded in making the following low prices for the 

 coming season: 1 lb., by mail, postpaid, 20 cts.: 6 lbs. 

 or over, 8 cts. per lb.; 100 lbs., 7!4 cts. 



A special leaflet in regard to above sent every 

 purchaser, or mailed on application. 



GRAND RAPIDS LETTUCE. 



Since my statement on page 364, of our last issue, 

 in regard to lettuce, we have sold 376 lbs., and the 

 greater part of it came from two beds, each 50 feet 

 long. The plants were set out in November in one 

 of the beds, and in the other about the middle of 

 January. We arranged the heat so as to have them 

 mature just when there was the best demand for 

 them. We have been getting a dollar a bushel for 

 spinach grown under glass in the same way, and 

 the demand bids fair to be beyond our supply, for 

 we are nearly sold out of both lettuce and spinach, 

 and our customers come risht to our beds and take 

 it away. So much for having a nice crop maturing 

 just about the middle of April, when there is the 

 greatest demand for such products. 



VEGETABLE-PLANTS READY APRIL 15. 



We have a very fine stock of almost everything. 

 Our twice-transplanted cabbage-plants have been 

 through so many freezes and snowstorms, without 

 protection, that we consider them fully equal to 

 cold-frame plants started in the fall. These large 

 twice-transplanted plants are 10 cts. for 10; 75cts. for 

 100; S6.00 per 1000 We have also a fine stock of 

 those once transplanted, at just half the above 

 prices. 



Of cauliflower we have the finest lot I think I ever 

 had at this season. The price is the same a« the 

 cold-frame cabbage-plants. We have also a nice lot 

 of very fine tomato-plants, including the new Ear- 

 liest in the World. The price of these also is the 

 same as the cold-frame cabbage-plants. Twice- 

 transplanted plants, large and stocky, double above 

 prices. Celeiy-plants, White Plume, Golden Dwarf, 

 40 cts. per 100, or $3.00 per 1000. Sweet-potato plants, 

 four different varieties— General Grant, Bunch 

 Yam, Yellow Jersey, and Early Peahody. Price 5 

 cts. for 10; 40 cts. per 100; $3.00 per 1000 Sweet-po- 

 tato plants, however, will hardly be ready before 

 about the last week in April. All plants wanted by 

 mail will be 35 cts. per 100 extra, and the twice- 

 transplanted plants are, as a rule, too large to be 

 mailable. 



POTATOES FOR PLANTING. 



We still continue our offer made on page 364 of 

 our last issue, of a dollar's worth of potatoes for 

 every new name for Gleanings, and ."lO cents' worth 

 for renewal. Please read carefully the conditions 

 as given in last issue. In addition to this the price 

 of Thoroughbreds will be reduced from $5.00 to $3.50 

 per barrel; bushel, $1.50; Yi bushel, 85 cts.; peck, 50 



