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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1. 



m'^i^ ^ BUSINESSJVIAN^ 



GLOBE BEE-VEILS. 



Our stock of globe bee-veils is entirely exhausted. 

 When we bought out Thos. G. Newman, some two 

 years ago last September, we took a stock of about 

 3000 of these veils. The Klondike craze has greatly 

 stimulated the trade r.ecently or we would have had 

 enough to run us through this season. We are nego- 

 tiating for more, and hope to be .supplied before the 

 end of April. 



BEEStVAX ADVANCED. 



The general market for beeswax will warrant our 

 advancing one cent a pound the price we pay. Until 

 further notice we will pay for average wax delivered 

 here 20 cts. per lb. cash; 28 in trade. For choice .select- 

 ed yellow we usually pay from 1 to 2 cts. per pound 

 extra. In shipping wax be very careful to nail up the 

 boxes or barrels securely. If shipped in .sacks they 

 should be double and quite strong. Not infrequently 

 considerable wax is lost in transit through careless- 

 ne.ss in putting it up for shipment. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP. 



This season has been most unfavorable for the pro- 

 duction of the sweets from the sugar maple, and those 

 who have succeeded in producing some have been pre- 

 vented by almost impassible roads from bringing it to 

 market. As a consequence we have not as yet been 

 able to fill very many of the orders we booked early 

 in the season. If we get any at all, we shall probably 

 have to pay more than the prices we have offered it at. 

 We withdraw all prices heretofore made, and when 

 we get a supply we will name new prices. 



CARLOAD SHIPMENTS. 



March first we shipped the first car for the .season 

 to Geo. E. Hilton; and as we go to press we are ship- 

 ping the .'econd. Between these two wc have shipped 

 a car to O. P. Hyde & Son, Hutto, Texas; one to each 

 of the five branches running in our name; one to 

 Rawlings Implement Co., Baltimore, Md., the larger 

 part of which was for Dundee, Scotland. One car to 

 Jiio. Nebel & Son, High Hill, Mo.; one to lyiverpool, 

 Eng.; another to lyondon, Eng We are also loading 

 two more cars for export, mostly for Airstralia. We 

 have shipped, besides, three other cars of goods dur- 

 ing the month. By computing the weight of less than 

 carload shipments I find they amount to a carload 

 eveiy two days. We are at present shipping four full 

 carloads a week, besides these smaller shipments. 

 We have orders booked for all the carloads we can get 

 off during the month of April, and very nearly as 

 many le.ss than carload orders as we can ship. We 

 have already bought four carloads of goods from other 

 factories to help us out, and are negotiating for more. 

 Notwithstanding the fact that last year brought us the 

 most business we ever had, we have, up to April first, 

 this year, shipped twenty more full carloads than last, 

 as well as a great many more less than carload ship- 

 ments. 



BUSINESS AT THIS DATE. 



A month ago we hoped by this date to be able to re- 

 port that we were catching up, so that we could han- 

 dle orders more promptly. The increase in the de- 

 mand over any former year is .so great that we have 

 hardly held our own during the past month; and, not- 

 withstanding we have shipped a great many more 

 goods during the month than we ever did before in 

 the same length of time, we have received orders for 

 more goods than we have shipped. We realize that 

 we are doomed to have a great many disappointed 

 customers this season, because we are not able to 

 serve them with leasonable promptness. For several 

 weeks past we have discontinued sending out any 

 wholesale lists in some cases, even to old agents and 

 customers. We have declined one order for a carload 

 for which we were to receive one thousand dollars, 

 half before shipment, balance on delivery, and an old 

 customer besides. We have turned away all orders 

 for outside lines, from customers whom we have here- 

 tofore supplied for .some lime. We have a larger 

 force at work than ever before — in fact, all we can 

 possibly find room for, and are running the machin- 

 erj^ day and night. If there is any thing we have not 



done that we can do to help supply the friends who 

 send us their orders, we will try to find out what it is, 

 and follow up that line. 



In return we a.sk our customers to have all the pa- 

 tience tht y can mu.ster; and if you can not wait we 

 are perfectly willing to return your money, and let 

 you try elsewhere. The Falconer Mfg. Co., at James- 

 town, N. Y., are running over time, and unable to 

 help us any. The Leahy Mfg. Co., at Higginsville, 

 Mo., wrote us a short time ago that they were running 

 night and day. and a month behind on orders. The 

 Wisconsin f.-ictories are busy, although they may be 

 able to handle more. The demand seems to be more 

 than double what it was la.st year, and none of us 

 were looking for or were prepared for such a tremen- 

 dous increase. We are doing our be.st, which is all 

 anybody can a.sk. The above refers only to bee-hive 

 materials. Seeds, department-store goods, and every 

 thing else except woodwork (that we manufacture), 

 can go almost by return train. If j'ou want your goods 

 sent in two shipments — part at once, rest later — say so. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



OUR TRANSPLANTING-MACHINE — REDUCTION IN PRICE. 



We are having so many calls for the machine pic- 

 tured on page 462 of last year that we are enabled to 

 reduce the price to SI. 2.5 from $1..tO; two machines, 

 $2.2.5. Of course, they can be made cheaper still if 

 enough of them are ordered to enable us to make 

 them in quantities. 



SWEET POTATOES FOR SEED. 



Now is the time to bed them — see directions on page 

 278. We have in stock Yellow Naiiseniond (or Jersey), 

 Early Peabody (or Red Bermuda), the hunch yam 

 (Gold Coin), and the General Grant. Price of the 

 first, ^2 peck, 30 cts.; peck. -15 cts.; bushel, II. .50; bar- 

 rel. JfJ.OO. Price of the other three. '4 peck, 40 cts.; 

 peck, 60 cts.; bushel, Jf2.00; barrel, $.5.00. Barrel orders 

 will be shipped directly from the grower; for one 

 bushel or less they will be shipped fiom here. If 

 wanted by mail, 20 cts. per pound, postpaid. By 

 freight or express with other goods, 10 cts. per pound. 



VEGETABLE-PLANTS. 



Of these, we have read}' to send off : Jersey Wake- 

 field cabbage-plants. Snowball cauliflower. Prizetaker 

 onion-plants, and White Plume celery-plants. We 

 have some very nice tomato-plants ready to ship; but 

 you would have to protect them with glass or other- 

 wise unless j'oii are further .south than we are 



There seems to be quite a demand this spring for 

 the soja bean, and most dealers are holding it at from 

 S2..50 to S3 00 a bushel. We have just succeeded in 

 getting 20 bushels from the South, where it was 

 grown, so that we can furnish the seed at the low 

 price of S2.25 a bushel. We have ju.st filled an order 

 from our Ohio Experiment .Station for 10 bushels. 

 Here is what Prof. Hickman says in regard to it : 



I am thinking now of trj'ing the soja bean on a 

 larger scale than ever before, as a crop to plow under, 

 putting them on this spring instead of oats, and plow- 

 ing down for wheat this fall. J. F. Hickman. 



Ohio Ag. Exp. Sta., Wooster, O., March 18. 



SEED POTATOES. 



Please notice the very low prices we have on choice 

 potatoes by mail — Bovee, Thoroughbred, Early Ohio, 

 etc. We can furnish every thing in our printed list of 

 potatoes, with the exception of Burpee's FIxtra Early 

 and Early Norther. Many of the other kinds are pret- 

 ty nearly out, however. We have the largest quantity 

 of Freemans, grown by T. B. Terry, of any one kind ; 

 and in my opinion the Freeman potato is the best in 

 quality of any potato at present in the world; and on 

 our ground, when planted late, it gives almost as good 

 a yitld of these extra nice potatoes as any of the 

 others The Monroe Seedling, Rural New-Yorker, 

 and Sir William, at only .f2..50 a barrel, we consider a 

 bargain. We are sold out of White Bliss, and have 

 had to .send away up north to the .State of Maine to 

 get more; therefore we shall have to put a higher 

 price on them than what we have been selling them 

 at — probably S4..50 a barrel for firsts and SS.iiO for sec- 

 onds. 



Our .seed-potato seconds are all sold out except a 

 very nice article of Monroe Seedlings at SI. .50 per bar- 

 rel, and four or five barrels of New Queen at Sl.oO per 

 barrel. Our .Summit Co. potato-growers — at lea.st a 

 good many ot them — pronounce the Monroe Seedling 

 equal in quality, shape, and j-ield, to any of the newer 



