1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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^vSiincjs — Poctor-LotioiW^in; 



Mr Foozel declares ttie lotion "all right but 

 Announces his lack offaith in Pills. 



" I have had time to but little more than glance over 

 the A B C of Bee Culture, but from that glance I 

 should say you out-did yourselves. The pictures and 

 style of make-up are very near perfection."— C. M. 

 Doolittle, Dec. 21, '99. 



ADVANCE CATALOG FOR 1900. 



We have printed for circulation, before our complete 

 catalog for KKXl is ready, fifteen thousand copies of an 

 advance catalog of sixteen pages of illustrations, and 

 price lists of every thing shown in the complete cata- 

 log, but without the descriptive matter. We mail this 

 on application to those who write for prices, until the 

 new catalog is ready, about Feb. 1. 



CHOICE WHITE HONEY. 



We are still supplied with choice comb and extracted 

 honey, which we shall be pleased to furnish to those 

 in need. The comb is in cases of 24 sections, weighing 

 20 to 24 lbs. net, at 16c per lb,, in five-case lots or over. 

 The extracted is in cases of 2 cans, weighing 110 to 120 

 lbs. net, at 10c per lb., by the case. Five-case lots at 

 9%c. This honey is very thick and heavy, and light in 

 color. Samples of extracted mailed free to those in- 

 terested. 



WINDOW GLASS DECLINED. 



.Soon after the differences between the glass-blowers 

 and manufacturers were adjusted. The American 

 Window Glass Co. made a cut in prices so that, for a 

 time at least, lower prices prevailed. This is but little 

 help to the bee-keeper at this season of the year. We 

 can now sell 8x10 glass for cold-frame sas'h at S2 .50 

 per box; .>box lots at 82.40. No change in price of 

 shipping case glass at present. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



THE NEW RUSSET SCAB-PROOF POTATO. 



We are using the above right along : and Mrs. Root 

 has just announced that she prefers them for the table 

 to any other potato grown during the past year — that 

 is, all things considered. The greater part of the late 

 potatoes were killed before maturity by the early frost; 

 but the lussets come under this head also, for they 

 were planted v. rj' late. She admits that the quality is 

 not equal to that of choice Freemans ; but after trying 

 a bushel of Freemans. and then a bushel of rus.sets, she 

 gives the latter the preference; that is, for this present 

 year. 



HOW SHALL WE VOTE? 



On page 6 Dr. Miller asks me a question, and Ernest 

 has taken the liberty of answering it ; in fact, he 

 answered it for me before I saw it. His concluding 

 sentence is about what I should say. If the candidate 

 does not stand for God and the right, work to defeat 

 him, no matter what his party. Circumstances alter 

 cases so much that I should not like to make a cast- 

 iron pledge about voting ; but I will say this : I shall 

 ca.st my vote where, in my judgment, it will do the 

 most good, all things considered, before God and be- 

 fore my fellow- man. 



A BOOK FOR EVERYBODY WHO KEEPS A PIG. 



The O Judd Co. have just gotten out a new book en- 

 titled "Home Pork-making;" and I should think it 

 would pay every family, having a pig, to send .50 cents 

 for the book, it tells how to take care of a pig, and 

 then there are lots of pictures for cheap appliances for 

 butchering. Who is there among our readers who has 

 not had more or less experience at butchering-time 

 who would have been glad to avail themselves of the 

 latest and mo.st approved appliances? Then there is 

 all about making the pickle, barreling the meat, fixing 

 a smokehouse, all the way from the very cheapest box 

 or barrel to the latest and most approved arrange- 

 ment ; all about making pig-troughs ; how to keep 

 them clean with little labor ; recipes for cooking pork 

 in every imaginable way. The book will be mailed 

 from our office for .50 cents. It has 144 pages, and pic- 

 tures all through. 



