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OILED COTTON GLOVES FOR HANDLING BEES. 



Some of the large honey-producers in New York 

 State and elsewhere have been using, for handling 

 bees, gloves made of heavy cotton drill soaked in lin- 

 seed oil, and dried. The oil treatment, when proper- 

 ly done, makes the gloves sting proof. We have a 

 sample pair of these gloves, and have made an order 

 for a supply for stock. They are made in three sizes 

 — small, medium, and large. The small correspond to 

 ladies' sizes in rubber ; the medium to gents' sizes, 

 and the large to extra sizes. The price is 50 cents a 

 pair. We shall not be prepared to supply them be- 

 fore May; but in the meantime we shall be pleased to 

 book orders for samples, if any wish to try them. 



THIN-BASE FOUNDATION. 



We should like to hear from those interested in the 

 new thin-base foundation. If enough interest is tak- 

 en in it to warrant, we will increase our facilities for 

 making it so as to reduce the cost, and thereby get the 

 price down to perhaps 75 cents a pound this season. 

 Bear in mind, it has high walls as well as thin base. 

 There are about 5 pieces in thickness to an inch, so 

 that it occupies about 2 I 2 times the space of the same 

 weight of ordinary super foundation. It is neatly 

 packed in paper boxes of % lb. and 1 lh. each, and in 

 sizes for the 1%. the 4x5, and the 3 5 s x5 sections. 

 Prices, for the present, as given in last issue of 

 Gleanings. Send for small free sample if you want 

 to see what it is like before you order. 



ADVANCING PRICES. 



The scarcity of metals of various kinds results in 

 continually advancing prices. We ordered a carload 

 of tin plates early in December, and have not received 

 them yet, and have no definite assurance when we 

 shall get them. In the meantime prices have ad- 

 vanced over thirty per cent. We recently placed an 

 order for a carload of nails at $12.00 a ton more than 

 we paid in December, hive-gallon square cans have 

 advanced 10 to 12 cts. jar box of two cans, and other 

 tinware in about the same proportion. We are fortu- 

 nate in having a good stock. We will not advance 

 our pi ices till compelled to do so, but that maybe 

 very soon. 



ONE-GALLON SQUARE CANS. 



We have sold so far this season, mainly for maple 

 syrup, about 13,000 one-gallon square cans, and we 

 have tiOOO more just arriving from the factory. Most 

 of these have l^'-inch screw cap, and we sell them at 

 11.00 per 100 less than the regular lever-seal can 

 shown in our catal. g. Some have a large 2j£-inch 

 cap in the center of the top of can, with a wire bail. 

 These are 25 cents per 100 moie than the small caps. 

 Price of tnese cans, with l^-inch cap, $9.00 per 100; 

 $80.00 per 1000; with 2^-inch cap, SO. 25 and $82.50 re- 

 spectively. These prices hold only while this stock 

 lasts. If thej^ go off as fast as previous stock, they 

 will not last ten days. Send in your orders if you 

 want any. 



BUSINESS AT THIS DATE. 



Last year we received during the month of March 

 about 2000 orders, while this year in the same time we 

 have received about half that number. A year ago 

 we began running night and day the first of March; 

 this year we are turning out as many or more goods 

 during an 11-hours' day run ; and unless business in- 

 creases very materially we shall be able to get along 

 this year without running nights. With the excep- 

 tion of some carload orders we are shipping orders 

 promptly. In some cases, where odd or special goods 

 are ordered there is a little delay. We are gaining 

 fast on carload orders, and expect, by the middle of 

 April, to be pretty well caught up. 



CARLOAD SHIPMENTS. 



Since reporting the middle of February, we have 

 shipped over thirty full carloads as follows: One to 

 Prothero & Arnold." Dubois, Pa.; one to W. W. Cary, 

 Lyousville, Mass.; two to Geo. E. Hilton; one to 



Thomsonville; the other to Fremont, Mich.; one to O. 

 P. Hyde & Son, Hutto, Texas; three to ourbrano|»t 

 .Syracuse; one to Philadelphia; one to St. Paul; ont>"Jb 

 Sacramento, Cal., and one to Los Angeles, Cal. The 

 latter was ordered back before it had gone far, be- 

 cause of the continued drouth. One to Rocky Ford, 

 Colorado; one to Vickery Brothers, Rvansville, Ind.; 

 one to A. F. McAdams, Columbus Grove, Ohio, six- 

 teen carloads for export, besides four more going 

 within a few days. We are sending a very large car 

 for Salt Lake City, Utah, and another for Reno, New 

 This will still leave six or eight cars not shipped, for 

 which we have orders entered. We have shipped one- 

 half more cars this year than we had shipped up to 

 the same date last year. We still have a large stock 

 to draw on, and are in very much better condition for 

 filling orders promptly than we were a year ago. 



new boiler. 

 We now have our new 400-horse-power water-tube 

 boiler connected with the new engine, and we are no 

 longer troubled for lack of steam. The shavings and 

 sawdust collected from the machines by the exhaust- 

 fans furnish all the fuel needed so far, so that we not 

 only need no coal, but have wood and kindling to sell. 

 Our old boilers are for sale, at least two of them; will 

 give particulars to those interested. 



SECONDHAND BICYCLF; A $75.00 CLEVELAND FOR 



$39.00. 



As our readers know, every season I get a new 

 wheel, simply for the reason that I like to keep up 

 with the times; and so far 1 have sold these bicycles 

 to some of our readers. My Cleveland, referred to ed- 

 itorially on page 112, is practically as good as new — a 

 $75 00 machine, audit has all the latest 1898 fittings. 

 I had it fitted up to order. I am an advocate of large 

 tires, because they are so much easier-running and 

 longer-lived. The tires on this machine are 1% inches 

 wide and 2 inches deep; and for real solid comfort 

 they beat any thing else I ever tried. The handle- 

 bars are wood, and can be either diopped or raised. 

 The saddle is the extra-wide Wheeler — the easiest sad- 

 dle, to my notion, that was ever made. The chain is 

 the celebrated Cleveland, hardened pin and link, and 

 the sprockets are of large diameter. The whole is 

 protected by a gear-case, and is nearly air-tight. I 

 have ridden this wheel for a whole year, and I have 

 not had to touch the chain during all that time. The 

 price at which we offer this bicycle, for all practical 

 purposes as good as new, the enan el and nlck«-l being 

 intact, is an even $39.00, or but little more than half 

 price; and 1 would say that it is a far better machine 

 than nine-tenths of the so-called high grades at $10.00 

 and $50 00 



I have also a tandem, the list price of which was, in 

 1897, $150. and it cost us an even $101 It is one of the 

 best machines that was ever built, and is in first-class 

 order We will sell this for an even $10.00. Particu- 

 lars on application. It will be necessary to speak 

 quickly in order to secure these bargains. If they are 

 not exactly as we represent, thev can be returned at 

 my expense. E. R. Root, Medina, O. 



Special Notices by A. 1. Root. 



SOJA (OR SOY) BEAN— REDUCTION IN PRICE. 



Instead of $2.50 per bushel, as in our catalog, read 

 $2.00 per bushel ; peck. 60 cts.; quart, 10 cts. Leaflet 

 mailed on application, telling all about this legume. 



SWEET POTATOES FOR BEDDING GROWING PLANTS. 



This year we shall handle only two varieties — the 

 well known Yellow Jersey and the General Grant 

 Vineless. Either kind will be, % peck, 30 cts.; r eck, 

 45 cts.; bushel, $1.50; barrel, S3 50. If wanted by mail, 

 20 cts. per lb., postpaid. We expect to have them 

 readv to send out any time during May. Sweet-potato 

 plants of the above will be readv during June and 

 July. Price of plants: 10 for 5 cts.; "40 cts. per 100; $3.00 

 per" 1000. If wanted by mail, 25c per 100 extra. 



THE BIGGLE POULTRY-BOOK. 



I find we have ten copies of these still on hand un- 

 sold. Now the Biggie Poultry book, is a little one, but 

 it is the handsomest poultry-book, by all odds, for the 

 price, of any thing out. Aside from the colored pic- 

 tures of the fowls, there are beautiful photos from 



