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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1. 



COMB FOUNDATION ADVANCED. 



From April 20, the date of this circular, till further 

 notice, or until price of wax declines again, the price 

 of comb foundation will be 3 cts. per lb. higher than 

 the prices quoted on page 14 of catalogs bearing date 

 before May 1, 1898. Should wax advance still further 

 this sea.son, the price of foundation will advance with 

 it. We do not look for any further advance. Whole- 

 sale prices are advanced the same as retail — 3c per lb. 



BEESWAX WANTED. 



We are using over two tons of beeswax every week 

 in the manufacture of comb foundation, and for the 

 next month we will pay 28 cts. per lb. cash, 30 cts. in 

 trade, for average wax delivered here. We can not 

 guarantee this price longer than June 1. If you have 

 any to ship we would advise you to get it off to us 

 promptly. Be sure your name is on the package, and 

 that it IS securely packed. Send word by mail how 

 many pounds you ship, and send railroad shipping- 

 receipt. 



FILLING OF ORDERS DELAYED. 



The demands upon us for goods this year are more 

 than double these of last year. L,ast season we began 

 running night and day about the last of March, and 

 kept it up for four months. This year we put on a 

 night force March 1, and have added more machinery 

 and men till our engines are overloaded and every bit 

 of available room occupied. In spite of all our efforts, 

 the orders come in faster than we can fill them. We 

 have ordered eight carloads of goods from other 

 manufacturers to help us out, and would order more 

 if they could supply them. We know of orders for 

 two cars going to other factories, which we had offer- 

 ed to us first and could not accept. We have not for 

 weeks .sent out any wholesale prices, and have turned 

 away lots of business that we might have had if we 

 were prepared for it. Some orders are delayed a 

 month, and a few as long as six weeks, while many, 

 for little items of which we have a surplus, and can 

 fill without robbing the older orders, we ship within a 

 few daj's to two weeks. We are as much disappointed 

 as any of our customers, that we are, by force of cir- 

 cumstances, compelled to delay the shipping of orders 

 so long. We are laying plans for greatly enlarging 

 our works before another sea.«on as well as to make 

 up more stock ahead during the dull season, and at 

 the same time we can not forbear to congratulate 

 those who were forehanded enough to foresee their 

 needs and order in the fall and winter, when we have 

 plenty of time and stock to fill orders, and you have 

 plenty of time to prepare the supplies ready for use. 

 Other manufacturers are also crowded, and more or 

 less behind on orders, though they may rot be as bad- 

 ly behind as we are. In any case, whether you send 

 your order to us or ebsewhere, you must expect more 

 or less delay Our branch offices and wholesale deal- 

 ers have more or less available stock. The above refers 

 »iain!y to bee-supplies: other goods, mostly, go promptty. 



B.'^RELY HOLDING OUR OWN. 



On April 20th we sent out to all our agents and deal- 

 ers the a'-ove bulletin, advancing price of founda- 

 tion 3 cts. per pound wholesale and retail, and offering 

 28 cts. cash, 30 trade, for average wax delivered here, 

 and telling of the delay to orders. These same slips 

 have been inclosed in all catalogs mailed since April 

 20, and inclosed with all letters going out. We have 

 thereby di.scouraged a good many from sending their 

 orders. Notwithstanding this, the orders received run 

 up to over one hundred a day. We have filled a great 

 many orders received in April for such items as we 

 could ship without robbing older orders. We have 

 very few orders received before April 1, except a few 

 carloads which we expect to ship during the next two 

 or three weeks. We have had one million .sections 

 from one manufacturer, half of which went to Syra- 

 cu.se. and we expect another million during this 

 month from the same place. Of another firm we have 

 ordered five cars of hives and .sections, and expect to 

 order .several cars more. We* have shipped from here 

 twenty carloads more this year than we had shipped 

 up to the same date last year, or fifty-three cars in all; 

 besides, the increase on less than carload shipments 

 has been fully as great or greater. Considering the 



bu.siness turned av ay, and what we have placed else- 

 where, the demand upon us this year is more than 

 double that of last year. The demand for hives is 

 something enormous, and it is orders for hives and 

 special goods that have to be made to order that we 

 are most behind on. 



CARLOAD SHIPMENTS. 



We had hoped, during the past month, to ship four 

 full carloads each week, besides filling .smaller orders, 

 but we have not been able to accomplish it. The 

 smaller orders have aggregated five to six carloads in 

 weight each week, and twelve full carloads is all we 

 have been able to get out of bee-supplies besides two 

 cars of other goods. We have shipped two carloads to 

 lyondon, Eng , and a carload of miscellaneous export 

 orders; a large car to Jos. Nysewaiider, Des Moines, 

 Iowa, and another to W. ,S. PJuder, Indianapolis, Ind. 

 A large car with enough overflow to make two car- 

 loads has gone to Syracuse, and another large car to 

 Philadelphia branches. As I write we are loading two 

 cars for Chicago branch. We have .shipped a car to A. 

 F. McAdams, Columbus Grove, Ohio, where our pat- 

 rons in the we.stern part of the State may be supplied. 

 We are al.so preparing a carload for Reno, Nev., a 

 large part of which goes on to Inyo Co., Cal. We still 

 have carload orders ahead of us unfilled for five cars 

 for export and ten cars to different points in this 

 country, all we shall be able to get off this month and 

 keep pace with smaller orders coming in. 



CLEAN, BRIGHT, SECOND-HAND 60-LB. CANS. 



A party in Holliday's Cove, W. Va., who handles 

 large quantities of extracted honey, has quite an ac- 

 cumulation of empty sixty-pound cans, two in a box, 

 which he offers for sale cheap. He has divided them 

 into two classes — cans that are bright inside and out, 

 and those which are bright and clean inside, but 

 slightly rusted outside. We offer the.se cans as they 

 are, in lots of ten boxes or more, at the following 

 prices: 30 cts. a b"'x for those bright inside and out, or 

 20 cts. a box for those somewhat ru.sted outside. Ship- 

 ments made direct from Holliday's Cove, W. Va. (near 

 Pittsburg, Pa.). Orders must be sent here. 



ODD-SIZED SECTIONS 



We have the following odd sizes in sections on hand. 

 Should you see any in this list that you can use, write 

 us. 

 1000 5x5x1% open top No. 1. 

 500 S'^xSxl^ open top No. 1. 

 4000 5i4'x55^xl% open top No. 1. 

 4000 iW^KWinWi open top No. 2. 

 !K)(Hl (;iix5iix2 open top No. 2. 

 ■J(Kii) (li^x.'i'4xl'8 open top No. 1. 

 .■!')0 tix5-xPs open top No. 1. 

 500 ".x5x2 open top No. 1. 

 4.')00 3'/^x5xl v^ open corner No. 1. 

 15U0 4i/{x55sxll,^ open top No. 1. 

 1500 55 8x414" .xl^:i open top No. 1. 

 TjOO 558x4i4'xi;e closed top No. 1. 

 .500 4i/j:x(ii4x2 open top No. 1. 



In regular sections we have an over-supply of 45^x 

 4^x1% and 7-to-foot, No 1 and 2 style; of No. 2 grade 

 in 4J^xi;< plain; and 3-^8x5x1^. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



THE LEGGETT POWDER-GUNS FOR DRY P.^RIS GREEN. 



The above firm have this season got out a new ma- 

 chine that they call the Standard duster — price only 

 $1.50. It dusts two rows of potatoes at once, and will 

 probably take the place of their higher-priced guns of 

 ia.st year. We can furnish them if desired. The 

 Hotchkiss powder-gun will also be $4.50 instead of 

 $5 00 as it is in our price list. 



VEGETABLE-PL.ANTS READY AT THIS WRITING. 



We have a fine lot of celery-plants of all kinds; al.so 

 Snowball cauliflower; a fair supply of onion-plants; 

 but tomato and cabbage plants are pretty well bought 

 up or engaged. Sweet-potato plants we are just be- 

 ginning to send out. As strawberry-plants are now 

 pretty much all budded ready to blossom, I would not 

 advise ordering many as late as this. We expect to 

 have new potted plants during this month. 



ONION SETS. 



At present writing we have only about half a bushel 

 left of Prizetaker onion-sets and a few white ones. 



