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By Our Business Manager 



QUEENS. 



As we go to press we have a very limited number 

 of select tested Queens which we can send out by 

 return mail. We can let these go for S8 each on 

 immediate cash orders, They are young queens of 

 this season's rearing, and are excellent value. 



COMB AND EXTRACTED HONEY. 



We have some very choice lots of buckwheat and 

 amber comb honey which grade No. 1 and No. 2. 

 The amber lots are practically all white honey, but 

 the cappings are slightly discolored: and as we 

 maintain a high grade for our white honey, these 

 lots are marked "' amber." If you have any trade 

 for such lots our prices will be of interest to you. 



We have a good supply of sweet-clover and alfal- 

 fa extracted honey on hand. The quality is good. 

 Samples free. 



REMOVAL SALE. 



We have the following special bargains to oflfer 

 from our New York warehouse. The items vary a 

 little from regular equipment, and for that reason 

 we offer it at special prices to close out, rather 

 than move to new quarters. In order to secure any 

 of this at these prices, orders must be sent at once. 



Ten-frame Dovetailed hives, with regular %-inch 

 bottom-board, thick -top staple-spaced frames, met- 

 al-roof cover, and bee-escape board for super-cover; 

 regular price 815.50 for 10; will sell on immediate 

 cash order at 812.50 for 10; 50 for 860.00; 100 for 8115: 

 500 for 8550. 



Ten-frame bodies, or upper stories, with thick-top 

 staple-spaced frames; regular price 88.80 for 10. We 

 offer these at 87.50 for 10; 50 for 835.00; 100 for 865.00; 

 500 for 8300. 



Ten-frame bodies, or upper stories, with metal- 

 spaced frames; regular price, 89.30 for 10; will sell 

 at 88.00 for 10; 50 for 837.50; 100 for 870.00. 



Combined bottom and hive-stand; regular price, 

 83.20 for 10; eight-frame, offered for 82.50; and 83.50 

 for ten-frame, offered at 82.80. 



Old-style tight-bottom chaff hives, with telescope 

 cover, super cover, chaff-tray frames, and founda- 

 tion starters, 15YW6 | 8; old price, 839.00; will sell 

 for 833.75. 



15 YW6 I 10; old price 840.50; will sell for 835.00. 

 10XW7 I 10, same as above, with extra-deep cover 



and full sheets of foundation; old price 834.00; will 

 sell for 829.50. 



1 Boardman wax-extractor, in good condition; 

 has been used. Price 83.00. 



1 German wax-press, second-hand, in good condi- 

 tion. Price 85.00. 



16 double flat covers, with paper, 10 frames; offer- 

 ed at 30 cts. each. 



65 same, 8-franie, offered at 25 ct.s. each. 



800 Hoffman frames with end-bars having square 

 edges, offered at 82.50 per 100. 



2500 Hoffman frames with molded top-bar instead 

 of double groove and wedge; offered at 82.50 per 100; 

 822.00 per 1000. 



1 No. 17 Cowan extractor; new, but without ball 

 bearings, slip gear, or die-molded gear-wheels; of- 

 fered at 811.00. 



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By A. I. Root 



FORECASTING A LAYING HEN; THE LATEST AD- 

 VICES. 



There are several reasons why we are short of 

 " hen fruit " just now. It is moulting time, and we 

 have only 13 hens, and they are all old biddies — 

 that is, our hens up here In Medina. There is one 

 beautiful matronly White Leghorn hen, however, 

 that Is still laying; but we get only one egg a day, 

 and not quite that. Last Sunday she did not lay at 

 all. Monday forenoon she laid an egg, and another 

 on Tuesday afternoon. About that time I forecast- 

 ed, for Mrs. Root's benefit, that on Wednesday 

 there would be no egg, and there was none. Then 

 1 said there would be an egg on Thursday foi'enoon, 

 and it came to pass. Again, I predicted an egg on 



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Friday afternoon. Between one and two on that 

 afternoon I found her on the nest. To-morrow, 

 Saturday, Oct. 28, there will be none, and so on. 

 Now, I am watching that I^eghorn hen with as 

 much interest and enthusiasm as an astronomer 

 watches for the coming of a comet; ^^nd, my good 

 friends, if you too have a hen that lays two eggs, 

 then skips, and so on, just keep her and give her 

 good care, for she is worth considerable if not more. 

 Oct. m—" Forecast " 0. K. Hen lays at 10 a.m.; 

 next day at 2 p.m.; then skips a day. 



STORY OF THE BIBLE. 



Those who have read Gleanings for twenty years 

 or more will reniember what was said about the 

 Story of the Bible, or, rather, how muc?i was said 

 about it over twenty years ago. I do not know just 

 how I got hold of it; but as it is a good-sized book, 

 with the whole Bible in regular order in language 

 so plain that a child can understand it, it appealed 

 to me at once. Of course 1 took it home and 

 showed it to Mrs. Root and the children. Our boy 

 Iluber, then nearly ten years old, took a great 

 fancy to it. I remember he would take it with him 

 to the table, and while he was chewing slowly a 

 mouthful of food (according to the directions of 

 Terry and Fletcher) he was also taking into his 

 young life the characters described in the Story of 

 the Bible. After a time he read the book clear 

 through, then turned over to the beginning and 

 commenced reading it through again. After he 

 had read it tn-ioe, and had begun reading it the 

 third time, I made a gentle remonstrance. I told 

 him there were other valuable books within his 

 comprehension that should receive some of his 



attention. Huber 

 is now grown up, 

 has a wife and a 

 home, and a girl 

 big enovigh to look 

 at the pictures in 

 the Story of the 

 Bible, and she will 

 very soon begin 

 reading it. 



1 do not know 

 exactly how it is 

 that we stopped 

 keeping the Story 

 of the Bible in 

 stock, as there has 

 ■ajrj inri inii «i i^innn'iiii been a coiitlnual 



Ml: il m^^kl^ 1 . il \Xm ■ .If demand for it 



^al ^^ ■lilili:^ErTr;|i|]i]i||| 1 i n g the t w e n t y 

 years that are 

 past. Especially 

 w h e n Christmas 

 is approach Ing, 

 many wise and 

 though tf u 1 par- 

 ents think of this 

 beautiful book as a Christmas present. If I am 

 correct, the original author, Charles Booster, is 

 dead; but a son of his has been for some time at 

 work in getting out a new enlarged and revised 

 edition. There are now over 700 pages in the book; 

 and as it weighs about 3 lbs. the postage on it alone 

 is 24 cts. There are 300 beautiful illustrations in it. 

 As a rule I do not greatly admire Holy-Land pic- 

 tures, such as we have in some of our Sunday- 

 school books and papers; but the illustrations in 

 this are beautiful and wholesome. And besides 

 these pictures there are four or five colored plates 

 that are gems of art. The publisher informs me 

 that they are copies of valuable old pictures in his 

 possession. This book is not only a valuable one 

 for children, but many a grown-up man and wo- 

 man will find it a gi'eat help in straightening out 

 the chronology of the Bible. For instance, in our 

 recent Sunday-school lessons in Isaiah, Jeremiah, 

 and Ezekiel, we have had passages referring to 

 eveijts described in the earlier parts of the Bible in 

 chronological order. But the Story of the Bible 

 places all of these events in the order in which 

 they occurred. It is in many respects an exceed- 

 ingly clear and plain commentary on the Bible. 

 Nothing can help our nation, and, for that matter, 

 nothing can help the great wide world more, in 

 my opinion, than to let the young people, even at a 

 tender age, begin to get as much knowledge as pos- 

 sible of the Bible. And this reminds me that quite 

 often, when I have been trying to recall something 

 in the Bible, Huber would help me out, and he 



