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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1917 



car each in Chicago, Des Moines and St. Paul, which 

 we offer for a short time, to reduce stock, at $1.10 

 p?r cafe of 2 dozen; 6 cases for $6.30; 30 cases or 

 more at $1.00 per case. These prices are below 

 present values, and the revised prices in our new 

 issue of the catalog: now in preparation are 10 cts. 

 a case higher. Send in your orders direct to our 

 Des Moines, St. Paul, and Chicago branches, men- 

 tioning this notice, and get them in during this 

 month of August, remittance accompanying the or- 

 der, to avail yourselves of this special price. 



HONEY CANS AND PAILS. 



The new catalog in preparation will have still 

 higher prices on cans and pails, tho not as high as 

 recent quotations from several factories would re- 

 quire if we had to buy on today's market. We have 

 a good stock, bought some time ago, and for a short 

 time only will accept orders at the prices last issued, 

 which are below what we would have to pay if we 

 were buying today. These prices, available for a 

 short time only, are as follows : 



Five-gallon cans, 9 to bundle, weight 23 lbs., 

 $3.60. Five-trallon cans, 50 to crate, weight 190 

 lbs., $20.00. Five-gallon cans, 2 to bo.x, $1.25 each; 

 10 for $12.00. Five-pound friction top pails, $17.00 

 per crate of 200 ; 50 for $4.50. Ten-pound friction- 

 top pails, $13.00 per crate of 100; 50 for $6.75. 



With such high prices prevailing on new cans 

 there has been an unusual call for second-hand cans, 

 and we have Veen oversold all season, and have 

 none to offer now. We have been getting for good 

 second-hand cans as much as new cans sold for two 

 years ago, and still we cannot supply the demand 

 for them. 



OLD STOCK SHIPPING-CASES. 



In view of the advance in price of new-stock 

 shipping-case« for 24 sections, comb honey, of $4.00 

 per 100 over list prices, the old stock which we have 

 laeen closing out becomes more attractive when you 

 compare prices at which these are offered with new 

 prices. We still have available here and at some of 

 our branch offices quite a lot of 12 and 16 lb. cases 

 for sale at $8.00 per 100 for 12-lb. ; $8.50 for 16- 

 Ib. We have the largest stock for the 41/4 x 1%-inch 

 plain section. In an emergency these could be used 

 for ten 4i/4 x 1% sections. If interested let us hear 

 from you, stating the size of section you want to 

 case, and we will advise you what we have to offer. 



We also have several hundred nailed-up cases, 

 once used, and good for use again. These are of- 

 fered at $10.00 per 100 as they are. If new cor- 

 rugated pads and drip-papers are furnished, add 

 $2.00 per 100 to provide these. We have the largest 

 stock for regular 414 xl% sections, but have also 

 some of the other sizes. Let us hear from you if 

 you can use any of these. If carriers are wanted 

 to reship your comb honey, add 75 cts. each. 

 These hold 8 cases each. 



ADVANCED PRICES. 



As we go to press we are preparing to issue an- 

 other edition of our catalog with prices revised to 

 date. This is a general revision involving almo.st 

 everything listed. A very few items are left un- 

 changed in the retail list. Others are advanced 

 ten to forty per cent, the average advance being 

 about twenty per cent. All hives and parts of hives, 

 supers, frames, section-holders, separators, sections, 

 shipping-cases — in fact, practically everything made 

 of wood as well as metal — are marked up. The ad- 

 vance in the price of lumber at present over prices 

 prevailing a year or eight months ago is, for such 

 grades and kinds as we use, fully forty per cent. 

 In fact, to secure an adequate supply of dry pine 

 for hives we have paid for a large lot of a higher 

 grade than we ordinarily use one hundred per cent 

 more than we were paying a year ago. In view of these 

 advancing costs we lielieve the moderate advance 

 we are making will be considered reasonable and 

 entirely justified under the existing circumstances. 



We had hoped to give in these columns in detail 

 many of the new prices, but find we do not have 

 time before going to press to get them into typ^. We 

 will mention only a few of the outstanding changes. 



Sections of all styles are advanced $1.50 per 

 1000. Shipping-cases, $4.00 per 100 in regular 

 and safety styles. Honey-extractors are again 



marked up ten per cent, making twenty since the 

 lust of the > ear. Hoffman frames are up 70 cts. 

 per 100; shallow frames are up 50 cts. per 100. 

 Section-holders and fences are marked up 50 cts. 

 per 100. Hives and supers in general about 20 to 

 25 per cent. If interested, send for revised catalog, 

 which we hope to have in print early in August. 



METAL SPACERS SLIGHTLY DEFECTIVE. 



In making the metal spacers for the metal-spaced 

 frames there is a percentage which come out either 

 sheared a little scant on one side, or with slight 

 breaks in the tin where it is drawn up into the 

 spacing-boss. These are hardly passable as perfect 

 stock, but in actual use they will answer every pur- 

 pose as a spacer. Rather than throw these into the 

 scrap we will offer them while they last, including 

 nails to nail them on, at 25 cts. per 100 ; $2.25 per 

 1000. Transportation charges extra. 



BUSHEL BOXES FOE POTATOES. 



In order to realize cost at the new higher price of 

 lumber we shall of necessity have to mark up the 

 price of bushel boxes. These are seasonable just 

 now for handling the new crop of potatoes, which 

 ought to be large if not blighted. As we have a 

 good stock of these boxes, as shown, we will accept 

 orders for a short time, only to reduce stock, at 

 former prices; namely, $2.40 per crate of 14, all 

 slatted, or $22.80 for 10 crates. Two boxes are 

 nailed up; and twelve more, including the nails, are 

 packed inside. Crate weighs 90 lbs. Orders should 

 be rent to Medina. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



GOOD BOOKS BY PROF. SHANNON. 



I have several times of late, as our readers may 

 remember, mentioned Professor Shannon's " purity " 

 books. Well, I find on my table three booklets. 

 The title of the first one is, " Did God make Boys 

 and Girls equally Good?" This book contains 27 

 pages. To give you an inkling of its contents I 

 quote the first paragraph : 



" Each year I address tens of thousands of bright, 

 hopeful boys and girls in our public schools and 

 Sunday-schools. I begin one address by asking, 

 "Did God make boys morally better than girls?" 

 To this question comes only one reply, " No." As 

 a second question, I ask. " Did God make girls to 

 be better than boys?" Here I often find a differ- 

 ence of opinion ; some holding that he did, nearly 

 all holding that he did not. To the question, " Did 

 God make boys and girls equally good?" the replies 

 quite generally indicate that they believe he did. 

 Then, I ask, " If God made them to be equally good, 

 why do boys and men swear a hundred times where 

 girls and women swear once; use a ton of tobacco 

 where girls and women use a pound; drink a barrel 

 of whisky where girls and women drink a pint; 

 twenty go to jails, reformatories, and penitentiaries, 

 where one girl or woman goes?" This is a puzzling 

 question to them. Many are ready to believe that 

 perhaps after all God made girls better than he 

 made boys." 



The second book is entitled, " Did God make Men 



