1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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BUSINESS PROSPECTS. 

 At this date last year we had shipped twenty-five 

 full carloads, while we have sent thiity-five this year 

 up to the same time. We are now shipping five or six 

 cars a week, and have orders booked for over twenty 

 cars. Smaller orders are coming in quite freely, and 

 are being filled promptly. We have a much larger 

 stock on hand to draw from than we had at the same 

 time last year. Rt ports come from various localities 

 ■of heavy losses in bees ; and while we shall undoubt- 

 edly have all the business we can handle to advan- 

 tage, it would be larger but for the recent extremely 

 cold weather. 



FACILITIES FURTHER INCREASED. 



Our new engine was drawing so heavily on the old 

 battery of boilers that we have found it necessary for 

 safety to put in a new boiler of 350 H. P. capacity. 

 This is being put in position as we go to press, and, 

 we anticipate, will be in operation within two weeks. 

 We shall then be able to hitch still more machinery 

 on to the new engine if we can find a place to put it. 

 We are able now to turn out about one-fourth more 

 goods than with our capacity of a year ago. 



METAL GOODS ADVANCING. 



There are such marked advances in price occurring 

 in almost all kinds of metal goods that we may not be 

 able to maintain present prices very long on such 

 goods. We have anticipated our wants for the season 

 as nearly as we could estimate, and bought heavily be- 

 fore these advances occurred. Some of these supplies 

 may run out before the season is over, and when we 

 have to buy new stock at advanced prices we may be 

 compelled to advance the price of the finished prod- 

 uct. The early bird catches the worm. Moral — order 

 early. 



HYDE-SCHOLL SEPARATORS. 



In a recent issue of Gleanings we illustrated the 

 H. S. separators, and-gave a description by the intro- 

 ducer. We have just shipped to O. P. Hyde & Son, at 

 Hutto. Tex., a carload of goods, and among them were 

 5000 No. 1 H.-S. separators made of wood, and 500 of 

 tin, also about 5000 No. 2 of wood, and 500 of tin The 

 No. 1 is used with the regular slotted section holders 

 with sections slotted four sides. They are ,'„ thick, 

 4XxlS/s, and can be furnished at SI 10 per 100; 500 for 

 $5.00. The No. 1 of tin are only 3J£ inches wide, 

 straight on both edges, as they are to be nailed to the 

 section-holders. Price of these is $2.00 per 100. The 

 No. 2 H.-S. separators are used with the 3 s sx5xl^ 

 plain sections in the Ideal super, and have cleats and 

 spacing-buttons on them. Price in wood, $1.75 per 100; 

 or in tin, $3 50 per 100. We can not say that we can 

 recommend these separators; but a-< we had to Tig up 

 tools for making them we are prepared to furnish 

 them to any who may wish to try them. 



A NEW SUPER FOUNDATION. 



Mr. Weed has just finished a set of dies for making 

 super foundation, 10 feet to the pound. The principal 

 features of this are that the base is as thin as that of 

 the natural, and the foundation near^ % inch thick: but 

 instead of being thin, like other foundation, walls are 

 wedge-shaped — large at the bottom and taper to a 

 point at the top edges of the cells. It looks very much 

 like ordinary deep-wall foundation, but is in reality 

 very different. As Mr. Weed has only small dies, and 

 desires these for experimental purposes before mak- 

 ing large dies, we will furnish this foundation in lim- 

 ited quantities at the rate of $1.00 per lb. Samples 

 will be sent for 15 c. 



According to our previous experiments the bees re- 

 quire considerable wax in the walls, and, no matter 

 how thick the said walls are, they will thin them 

 down, but not so the base. This latter must be as thin 

 as the bees make it. For this reason we confidently 

 expect this new foundation will give the nearest ap- 

 proach to no-gob comb honey of any thing ever yet 

 produced ; and we also expect that it will be worked 

 out quicker than the drawn foundation we formerly 

 made. We will have cuts in our next issue that will 

 show the product, so that a better understanding of 

 its general character may be had. 



Mr. Poppleton, of Florida, has already tested it; and 

 although the pieces ran 6 ft. to the pound, the walls 

 and base were as thin as natural when worked out 

 into comb by the bees. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



On page 11)5, instead of 

 ' traced " onions. 



braced" onions read 



A LOW-PRICED SEED-DRILL SUITABLE FOR GARDEN- 

 ING UNDER GLASS, ETC. 



The drill pictured below, I know, will work all 

 right, becau e we have used one made on a similar 

 principle, for many years. It cannot very well clog, 

 and it drops about as evenly as any drill that can be 

 made on any principle. 



A NEW LOW-PRICED HAND SEED-DRILL. 



The price of the above little machine is only 00 

 cents, and for 20 cents more it can be sent anywhere 

 by mail. There is no machinery about it to get out of 

 order. You can quickly adjust it so as to drop the 

 seeds thick or thin as you want them by running it 

 alone the floor, if your seeds are high-priced, like 

 cauliflower, lay down a newspaper, and then you can 

 easily scrape up your seeds and save them. We have 

 the drills in stock re idy to send out by the first mail 

 or by express. These are especially for sowing seeds 

 in hot-beds and cold-frames. 



PRICES ON STRAWBERRY-PLANTS FOR THE SPRING OF 

 1899. 



L,et me say at the outset that I can not grow good 

 plants at the prices they are offered now in almost all 

 of the agricultural papers. I do not mean to say that 

 those that are offered for $1.50 per 1000 are not good, 

 for I do not know. I do know, however, that ours 

 are true to name, and grown in ground that has been 

 made exceedingly rich at great expense. The best 

 prices we care to make on the standard old varieties 

 will be as follows : 15 cts. for 10 plants ; 60 cts. per 100; 

 $-1.00 per 1000. These prices are for the first column. 



The new varieties listed in second column will be one- 

 half more than the above prices, with the exception of 

 the Nick Ohmer, which will be twice the above prices. 



OLD STANDARD VARIETIES. 



Je-sie 



Haverland (Imp.). 



Bnbacli ( Imp.). 



Wai field (Imp.). 



E Igai Queen (Imp.). 



Sharple>s. 



Parker Eaiie. 



NEWER VARIETIES. 

 Rio. 



Marshall. 

 Carrie dm]) ). 

 Win Belt. 

 Ma'-ffai et. 

 N<ek Ohmer. 

 Brandy wine. 



Above by mail at an additional cost of 5 cts. for 10, or 

 25 cts. for" 100. The varie ies are all perfect, with the 

 exception of those marked " Imp.," which are imper- 

 fect. We shall probably be read}' to ship strawberry- 

 plants as soon as this reaches you. In the lists we 

 have made, the first mentioned are the earliest, and 

 the last, latest. 



If you want my opinion as to the best strawberry — 

 that is the best eating right from the patch, I would 

 put the Sharpless at the head. If you want the earli- 

 est good-sized berry, I would recommend the Rio. If 

 you want the most prolific — that is, the one that bears 

 the most quarts — I would suggest Warfield. Haver- 

 land. and also Paiker Earle if you give the latter ex- 

 ceedingly good culture and rich ground. If you want 



