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GI.EANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15. 



MAPLE SUGAR. 



We have on hand atout 150 lbs. of No. 1 ; 4.50 Ib.s. of 

 No. 2, and 100 Ib.s. of No. 3. We offer thi.s in ."imall lots 

 at ft, 8c, and 7c per lb. respectively for the three 

 grades : W-lb. lots at I'^c per lb. les.s ; barrel lots of 

 about 300 lbs. at about at Ic per lb. less. 



We have also a few gallons of good clear syrup, not 

 first run. at S5c per gal.: 5-gallon lots at 80c.' We ca'n 

 al.so get on short notice lirst-grade .syrup at about 90c 

 per gallon. 



HONEY MARKET. 



Sales of both comb and extracted honey have been 

 vers' good so far this month. Prices remain the .same 

 as quoted in Oct. 1st issue. We are handling more 

 than we did last year, and =hall be glad to hear from 

 those who have honey to offer. In writing, please 

 state how much you have, .stating amount of each 

 grade ; al.so how it is put up, etc., to .save correspond- 

 ence. Also state lowest price vou will take for your 

 crop, and give us freight rate to Medina if possible. 

 We are especially in need of light extracted just now. 



GREENHOUSE AND COLD-FRAME SASH. 



Having taken a job requiring a large amount of 

 mortising, we have added to our equipment of ma- 

 chinery- a chain mortiser, and are now prepared to 

 furnish greenhouse and cold-frame sash, made in the 

 ordinary way with mortise and tenons. If these .sash 

 are shijjped in the flat (K. D.) it will not be quite .so 

 ea.sy to put them together as the rabbeted style we 

 have been making. After they are well put together 

 thej- will be better, stronger, and more durable. If 

 shipped put together the freight is more than it is 

 when shipped in flat. Sash put together go at first- 

 cla.ss rate of freight, either with or without gla.ss. We 

 will furnish thee .<=ash in flat as before at same 

 price; viz., 70c each; 13.2.5 for 5, or »6.00 for 10 sash, 3 

 feet 4 inches wide by 13 feet long for 4 rows of .8-inch 

 glass, or three rows of 11-inch glass. Sash put togeth- 

 er will be 10 cents each extra. Glass included will add 

 another dollar to the price of the sash put up. 



SECOND-HAND ENGINES AND DYNAMO FOR SALE. 



We have grown beyond the capacity of our 7.5-Iight 

 dynamo to fmni^h "us with adequate light, and are 

 compelled to put in a larger machine. In doing so we 

 have decided that it will be economy to put in a 

 machine large enough to furnish electricity to run by 

 electric motors our printing machinery and machine- 

 shop, instead of using our present method of carr\-ing 

 steam long distances in pipes and running several 

 small steam-engines. These changes neces.i^itate the 

 throwing out of our 7.5-light dvnamo and two small 

 engines, and possiblv two more a little later. 



We offer for S75.00'a 75-!ight. .88-volt, Brush dynamo. 

 This machine cost us about 5400 seven years ago, and 

 has been doing us good service ever since, and would 

 continue to do so if it were large enough. It is a bar- 

 gain. Further particulars to those interested, on ap- 

 plication. 



One I'A-'H. P. upright engine, which has been run- 

 ning our presses and other machinery in our printing 

 department. We offer this for S85.00' This .size, when 

 new, .sold for $125, and this has had the be.st of care, 

 and for service is as good as new. We also offer a 10- 

 H. P. engine for SlOO; same general description. This 

 is just the right .size for running the dynamo. 



Special Notices in the Line of Gardening, etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



SENDING MONEY LOOSE IN A LETTER. 



I would urge all the friends in remitting to use a 

 bank draft, express money order, or postoftice money 

 order for any amount over $1.00. If you can not get 

 either of the above, then have the lette)- registered, 

 which costs only 8 cents. I am verv' sorrv to say that, 

 for .six months past, there has been cons'iderable evi- 

 dence to the effect that somebody is tampering with 



the mails. We have promptly reported to the Depart- 

 ment at Washington, and they have been making in- 

 vestigations for six months. Notwithstanding this, 

 every little while we are pained to hear of losses. 

 There have been more for the past .season than for 

 several years past, but we hope to be able soon to get 

 hold of the culprit. Plea.se read again our instructions 

 for sending money, that go out with everj' catalog. 



PRICES OF SEED POTATOES FOR 1898. 



I suppose nobody can tell ju.st now very much about 

 what potatoes will" be worth, next spring; but from all 

 the facts I can gather from different localities all over 

 the United States it is pretty certain that prices will 

 advance rather than decrease. And, still further, I 

 have not been able to find prices anywhere as low as I 

 gave in the table in our issue forSept. 1.5, page 684. 

 In fact, several kinds are sold out, or nearly so, and 

 we can not replace them at the prices offered there. 

 Until further notice the prices will be as in the table 

 below: 



SCALE OF PRICES ON FOLLOVl^ING POTATOES. 



Name 



Varieties are in order as 

 regards time of mntur- 

 ing; earliest first, next 

 earliest second.and so on. 



Wliite Bliss Tiiniiiph .. 

 E Tlioro'hred. M.iiile's.. 



EaHv Ohio 



Earl V Norther 



Buri)ee's Extra Early. . . . 



Freeman 



New Queen 



Monroe SeerilinpT — 

 Rural New Yorker No. 2 . 



Sir William 



Cai-mnn No. 1 



Carman No. 3 



Koshlfononp; 



Manum'R Enormous 



New Craig 



2 .50 



2 50 



3 fO 

 3 00 



2 50 



3 50 

 3 0O 



Where potatoes are wanted for table use, and we 

 maybe al'owed to make our ovrn selection of such 

 kinds as we have most of, we will make a special 

 price of 75 els. a bu.shel or S2.00 a barrel. This latter 

 price is for an immediate order. These /afi/f potatoes 

 will probably be either the .State of Maine, Empire 

 State, or Bur'bank. We can still furnish seconds at 

 half prices given in the table, of all except White 

 Bliss, Early Norther, and Burpee's Extra Early. We 

 shall put iiito the seconds badly shaped potatoes, and 

 those that have been cut in digging, and those that 

 are somewhat scabby, but, of cour.se, nothing that is 

 not in ,^ood order for shipping. I would urge the 

 friends to have their potatoes shipped at once while 

 there is no danger of frost. In fact, I will guarantee 

 them to reach you free from damage by frost if the 

 order reaches us before Nov. 15. 



Permit me to call attention to our .second-sized 

 Freemans grown bv T. B. Terry. The larger ones 

 are just the thing for a baking "potato for table u.se ; 

 and at onlv S1..50 per barrel thev are a bargain. We 

 call attention to it now because, for .several years past, 

 Terra's second-sized Freemans have been closed out 

 so that a good many were disappointed by getting in 

 their orders late. 



We have also made arrangements to furnish the 

 Bovee potatoes, but can not at present state prices, 

 further than to .say that ours will be as low as those of 

 anv responsible dealer. Peter Henderson claims that 

 the Bovee is earlier than the Early Ohio, and very 

 much more productive. From the few we have grown 

 on our own grounds, we are inclined to think he may 

 be correct in both particulars. 



" EVERY THING IN THE BEE-LINE WORTH PRINTING." 



On page 721 of our Oct. 1st issue our old friend Hen- 

 rj' Alley was permitted to .say in the Kind Words de- 

 partment that Gle.inings contains about every thing 

 in the bee-line worth printing. Of cour.se. he gave this 

 as his opinion. I have .said once before that I did not 

 mean to let any thing of that kind appear in print 

 again. No doubt friend .^lley /«<'<!«/ exactly what he 

 said ; but it was in a private communication, and not 

 intended to be put into a public journal. Had the 

 writer not been off on one of his wheelrides when said 

 pages were made up. there would have been at lea.st a 

 modification of thai kind word, for it is certainly not 

 true. Neither Erne-st nor my.self believe it, and it 

 would be unkind and discourteous to the editors of 

 other bee-journals to even insinuate that ours is the 

 best one of the lot.— A. I. R. 



