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GLEANINGS IN BEE 'CULTURE. 



June 15. 



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NINK-INCH CIGAR-BOX PLANER. 



We offer for only 130.00 a cigar-box planer 9 inches 

 wide, which opens for stuff -^3 thick or less, to ,•,. if de- 

 sired. It is in good condition, and was used for plan- 

 ing sections. It is just the thing for smoothing very 

 thin .stuff, and is a bargain at the price to any one who 

 can use it. 



MOHERMAN BRASS BUCKET SPRAY-PUMP. 



In order to close out our stock of these 

 pumps we offer them from now on at 

 12.00 each, or 3 for fr5 00. They will do 

 nicely for arresting swarms as well as 

 for spraying trees, and are very cheap at 

 this price. 



YOUNG AMERICA LAWN-MOWER. 



We have been receiving quite a num- 

 1 :er of orders for these machines of late. 

 We have only a few of them left, and 

 they can not be replaced for three times 

 the price we are asking to close them 

 out. Ten-inch, SI. 00: 12-inch, Si. 2.5; and 

 we have pne only 14-inch at II. .50. If you 

 want one, order soon. 



HIVES OF ALL KINDS. 



Orders have not been coming in in ver\' large vol- 

 ume so far this month, and we are rapidly gaining on 

 orders. As we write we have very few orders on hand 

 over three weeks old. Our oldest orders are for hives 

 and special goods; but at the rate we are now turning 

 out hives we ought, during the next two weeks, to be 

 pretty well caught up. Certainly we shall not be more 

 than about a week behind by July first, at the present 

 rate of gain. 



SECTIONS IN STOCK. 



We still have a supply of No. 1 45:fx7-to-foot sections 

 ahead of orders, though they are dwindling fast. We 

 have alio No. 2 4x.5xl38 plain. Of all other regular 

 sizes listed in catalog we are .sold ahead, though we 

 are now not more than about two weeks behind on 

 section orders, and gaining. Many orders are filled in 

 less time. We were disappointed in getting a car of 

 .sections from Wisconsin, or we should have been 

 closer up on section orders by this time. 



PREPARATIONS FOR NEXT SEASON. 



We are placing an order for a large engine with a 

 capacity of .500 horse power at full speed and load, 

 and are having plans prepared for a new building 

 three stories and basement, having a roof area of over 

 one-fifth of an acre, or 60x1.50 feet, the largest of any 

 of our buildings. This will be an addition to our pres- 

 ent wood-working building, which is 44x96. We are 

 going to try hard to get ready for the orders that want 

 to come our way. 



BEESWAX DECLINED. 



We now have on hand a sufficient stock of beeswax 

 to complete our orders for the season with what little 

 will naturally arrive; and as the price has been ab- 

 normally high for a few weeks, owing to the heavy 

 demand, it is bound to go down fully five cents a 

 pound or more within a month or less. We therefore 

 drop the price we pay to 25 cts. cash, 27 in trade, for 

 average wax delivered here on all arriving after 

 this date, unless already contracted for at a higher 

 price. We may have to go still lower next month; but 

 this is a rather large drop all at once. 



COMB FOUNDATION DECLINED. 



We drop the last advance made in comb foundation 

 May 23, and leave the price for the present at the rates 

 fixed April 20. This is the price printed in our cata- 

 log dated May 1, 189S, and three cents above the price 

 printed in catalog of January, 1898. We have a stock 

 of twelve to fifteen tons of wax, most of it bought at 

 high-water mark. While we have a good many orders 

 for foundation on hand because it goes with other 

 goods, we are in shape to .supply foundation orders by 

 return train. Chas. Dadant &. Son, Hamilton, 111., 



also decline the price 2c a pound, to correspond with 

 our price. 



CARLOAD SHIPMENTS. 



Since last issue we have shipped a car to Jno. Nebel 

 & Son, High Hill, Mo. Two cars have gone to Jos. 

 Nyse wander, Des Moines, Iowa; two to our Chicago 

 branch; one large car to I<. A. Watkins Mdse. Co., 

 Denver, Colo. We are loading one for ,St. Paul branch 

 and another for Walter ,S. Pouder, Indianapolis. Two 

 more cars go to Jos. Nysewander, Des Moines, Iowa, 

 within the next week or ten days, and another car to 

 our Syracuse branch. Our Philadelphia branch has 

 plenty of hives for prompt shipment, and most other 

 goods except sections. They will have these within 

 the week. 



DRAWN FOUNDATION WITH NATURAL - BASE CELLS. 



We are finally ready to announce that we are pre- 

 pared to furnish in small quantities the drawn foun- 

 dation with natural ba.ses. The bases are as thin as 

 natural comb, and the walls are about V% inch high in 

 foundation, weighing the same number of feet to the 

 pound as ordinary thin super foundation. The size of 

 the pieces we are prepared to furnish is 3^-3x4, or we 

 can make them 33s.x4U. The dies will soon be com- 

 pleted to 4^2 inches square. Until they are, we send 

 pieces 33ax4 inches. It is not too late yet this season 

 to test small lots of this foundation. A package of 3 

 pieces will be mailed for 10 cts.: 10 pieces for 2.5 cts.; J^ 

 pound for SI. 00. This may look to some like a high 

 price: but you must remember that Mr. Weed has ex- 

 pended considerably over a thousand dollars in exper- 

 imenting, and is not even yet prepared to supply it in 

 commercial quantities. What we sent out la,st .season 

 had flat bases; and because of that fact it proved ob- 

 jectionable. It has been a much more difficult feat to 

 accomplish the production of this drawn foundation 

 with natural bases, and it is well worth the price 

 asked for these sample lots ju.st to see what has been 

 accomplished. 



WIRE NETTING FOR PEAVINES, ETC. 



We have a few odd rolls of wire netting, such as we 

 have kept in stock, not the Climax brand put upon 

 the market this year. In order to close it out we offer 

 it at the following special prices: 



10 rolls 3-in. No. 18 netting, 18 in. wide, % .90 a roll. 



8 " ' 24 in. " 1.20 



2 " " " " 48 in. " 2.40 

 7 " 2-in. No. 20 " 18 in. " .90 



1 " " " " 24 in. " 1.20 

 4 " " " " 30 in. " 1.-50 

 2 ' 36 in. " 1.80 



1 " " '■ " 42 in. " 2.10 



9 " " No. 19 " 12 in. " .60 



2 " " " " 30 in. " '1.50 

 2 " " " " 36 in. " 1.80 

 1 " 42 in. " 2.10 



Rolls are 150 feet long; and the price, you notice, is 

 about 10 per cent lower than Climax, although to buy 

 the goods new would cost us about 10 per cent more. 

 These prices are offered merely to close out stock on 

 hand here. Same di.scounts for quantity apply; name- 

 ly, 5 per cent off on 5-roll orders, or 10 per cent off on 

 lO-roU orders. Shipments from here only, and subject 

 to stock being .sold. We have a supply of all widths of 

 Climax netting on hand for prompt shipment. There 

 is nothing better or cheaper than this narrow netting 

 for peavine trellis, or any other garden plant requir- 

 ing something for the vines to climb on. 



SPECIAL SALE AT BALTIMORE, MD. 



We have on hand at Baltimore, Md., in the hands of 

 the Rawlings Implement Co., the following goods 

 which we oner, to clo,se out quicklj', at the special 

 prices annexed. Orders may be sent to us or to the 

 Rawlings Imp't Co. direct. Some of the goods are 

 old-,style, made several years ago, but to many they 

 will answer the same purpose as the latest make If 

 interested, and you desire further particulars, write — 

 remembering, however, that, at the prices we have set 

 on the goods, they are likely to go off quickly, and 

 they can not be duplicated at these prices : 



300 thick-top brood-frames with top-bar 19i\; long, 

 S1.25 per 100; S:3..50 for lot. 



700 all-wood frames, same as we now list, SI. 10 per 

 100; S6..50 for lot. 



200 half depth wide frames to hold 4 .sections, 4Jix 

 1%, S2..50 for lot. 



.5 Laree.se bee-escapes, same as we formerly catalog- 

 ed, 2.5c each; 11.00 for lot. 



.5000 two-pound sections, 5}4jiC>}{s.lJi. Write for spe- 

 cial offer on this lot. 



