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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec 15. 



of variations. Now, mind you, these philan- 

 thropic fellows who claim they are anxious to 

 help the laboring people have no conscience 

 whatever, and have no scruples at all in tak- 

 ing the last copper a poor woman has earned 

 by going out doing washing. 



"GARDENING FOR PLEASURE." 



The greenhouse I have been talking to you about on 

 another page, and which will be presented in our 

 next issue, is now occupied, or a great part of it, with 

 flowers instead of vegetable plants. Instead of raising 

 stuff to sell, I am planning to grow plants this wiuter 

 with which to decorate our grounds around the facto- 

 ries. Just now I am greatly interested in ornamental 

 colei. I have not yet become sufficiently well ac- 

 quainted with the plant to succeed with it as I should 

 like. If any of our readers who are experts with the 

 coleus can give us some hints, or even send me a price 

 list of new and choice plants, it will just now strike 

 me where I am greatly interested. I have already a 

 Bermuda melon-tree nearly a yard high, an azalea, 

 an orange-tree with seven oranges on it ; a lot of gera- 

 niums (I make these grow just grand), an umbrella- 

 tree, an abutilon, quite a lot of palms, etc. 





SINESSJV1ANAGER 



CHOICE HONEY, COMB AND EXTRACTED. 



Of the car of honey received from Utah we have sold 

 nearly two-thirds of the comb and perhaps one-fourth 

 of the" extracted so far. We are negotiating with some 

 parties for comb, and may close out the rest of it very 

 soon. If in need of any, write before it is all gone. 

 Price 16 cts. per lb. in 5-case lots or over ; extracted, 10 

 cts. in case lots of 110 to 120 lbs. per case. Samples of 

 extiacted mailed on application. 



CARLOAD SHIPMENTS. 



We have already begun to receive orders for sup- 

 plies for next season quite freely, from jobbers and 

 wholesale dealers, and are now shipping out one or 

 more cars each week. We have loaded seven cars of 

 goods for export since the last week of October, count- 

 ing two we are loading as we go to press, and have 

 orders entered for several more, besides four cars for 

 shipment west this month. 



SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES. 



Those of our readers who desire the Sunday School 

 Times can have it clubbed with Gleanings for one 

 yeat at SI 50 for the two. If you have already sub- 

 scribed for Gleanings under some other offer you 

 may send 75 cents alone for the Times. The year be- 

 gins with Dec. 15, 1899, and ends middle of December, 

 1900. 



RETAIL CATALOGS. 



We are pushing the work on the revision of our cat- 

 alog as fast as possible, but are not likely to have any 

 completed till late in January. You need not wait for 

 a new catalog for prices, as "those which are changed 

 from old edition are printed in our Nov. 15th issue, 

 and we will print within a few days a 10-page illus- 

 trated and priced advance catalog, without descriptive 

 matter, for use until the complete catalog is ready. 



SECOND-HAND FOUNDATION-MILLS. 



We have at this writing the following second-hand 

 foundntion mills which we offer at the following 

 prices: 



No. 1858. One 6-inch Root mill. This will make 

 fair thin or extra thin ; is in good order, but has sev- 

 eral cells slightly damaged. Price $12.00. 



No. 1949. One ten-inch Root mill with hexagonal 

 cell and 2%-inch rolls. This has been used in our 

 wax-room, and is in first-class condition for thin su- 



per. A new mill of this style is worth $30.00. Will 

 furnish this one for $20.00. 



No. 05. Six-inch mill with two-inch roll, and makes 

 fine foundation. Price $12.00. 



No. 06. Six-inch mill with 2^<-inch roll. This has 

 been used only a few months, and will make good 

 foundation. Price $15.00. 



No. 07. Six-inch mill with 2J-<-inch roll. This was 

 made for thin super. It has seen considerable use, 

 but for a general-purpose mill it will do very well, as 

 it would make good light brood. Price $12.00. 



No. 09. Ten-inch round cell with two-inch roll; in 

 fair order. Price $18.00. 



Send for samples of the mills you are interested in, 

 provided you intend to purchase, and state which 

 ones you wish to see samples of, and we will forward 

 them promptly. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The Northeastern Ohio and Northwestern Pennsyl- 

 vania Bee-keepers' Association will hold their nine- 

 teenth annual convention at Andover, Ohio, Jan. 17 

 and 18, 1900, at Chapman Hall. 



Franklin, Pa. Ed Jolley, Sec. 



The 34th semi-annual meeting of the Seneca Co. Bee- 

 keepers' Association will be held in the K. O. T. M. 

 Hall, Romulus, N. Y., on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 1899, at 10 

 a.m. C. B. Howard, Sec. 



Romulus, N. Y. 



A bee-keepers' institute under the auspices of the 

 Bureau of Farmers' Institutes will be held in connec- 

 tion with the meeting of the Cayuga Co. Bee-keepers' 

 Societv at the Business Men's Association Rooms, Au- 

 burn, N. Y.. Dec. 21, 1899. Sessions at 10 a. m., 1:30 

 p. m., and 7:20 p. m. The afternoon and evening ses- 

 sions will be addressed by Prof. Frank Benton, Assist- 

 ant Entomologist, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 All interested are invited. J. W. Pierson, Sec. 



Advertiser's Department of Short Write-ups. 



Little— But a Great Hatcher. 



Hundreds of poultry-raisers on a small scale have 

 long wished for a small, inexpensive, yet practical in- 

 cubator. These will hail with delight the introduction 

 of the "Wooden Hen." 



This little hatcher does just as good work as the 

 highest priced incubators. It is heated by hot water, 

 and has the latest and most improved automatic at- 

 tachments for regulating heat, moisture, and ventila- 

 tion. It is made in the most substantial manner from 

 thoroughly kiln-dried lumber, is handsomely finished, 

 and has a capacity for fifty ega;s. The extremely low 

 price brings it within the reach of all, enabling any one 

 to raise broilers for market, or for his own table, 

 when prices are highest. An interesting and valuable 

 little book about the " Wooden Hen " may be obtained 

 free of the manufacturer, Mr. Geo. H. Stahl, Quincy, 

 111., by mentioning this paper. 



Since we began to offer poultry-journals in our club- 

 bing list (see page 919) we have been interested to 

 notice a good many of our readers are poultry-keepers 

 as well as bee-keepers, and it seems as though success 

 in this as well as in bee-keeping depends upon careful 

 and economical management. One of the means for 

 this which has come more and more to be depended 

 on is the using of scraps of meat and bone, particular- 

 ly fresh bones; and for getting into available shape, I 

 believe there is nothing better than the bone-cutters 

 offered by F. W. Mann &. Co., Milford, Mass., whose ad 

 appears on page 949. We quote the following, from a 

 well-known poultry-man : "Fresh-cut bone as an 

 egg food is no longer an experiment, ll'e knorv it is 

 the best thing on earth to make hens lay and chick 

 grow. It will pay you to invest in a bone-cutter, if 

 you have not one alreadv." If you have not already 

 written to F. W. Mann & Co. for their catalog, better 

 do so at once, as it contains lots of valuable informa- 

 tion, and when doing so don't forget to mention 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture. 



