1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



183 



For Sale.— Fifty portico Langstroth hives, $50; 25 

 Jumbo hives, 500 Langstroth and Jumbo brood-frames; 

 one honey-extractor, $5; 50 Doolittle division-board 

 feeders; honey-tanks. Hill devices, etc. 



R. C. HuGENTOBLER, Miami, Ohio. 



For Sale.— Cheap, 32 colonies of Italian bees in eight 

 and ten frame two and three story hives. Reason for 

 selling, have no time to take proper care of them. 



N. O. Penny, Vero, Indian River, Florida. 



For Sale.— Rosecomb Buff Leghorn eggs, f2.50 for 

 15, $10.00 per 100; largest breeder and finest flock in the 

 world; largest and best layers of all Leghorns. Gold 

 Dust (original). F. Boomhower, Gallupville, N. Y. 



For Sale.— Surveying and mapping course in the 

 International Correspondence School, Scranton, Pa., 

 for $45.00, cash vsdth order, A fine chance for a young 

 man. E. S. Hacker, Ephrata, Pa. 



For Sale. — Five hundred two-story double-walled 

 hives for comb honey; use Langstroth frame, thick 

 top-bars, 3?sx5 or 4x5 sections; almost as light as single- 

 walled hives, at a less price; crated and sold only in lots 

 of five or multiples of five. Will also furnish you with 

 the finest of Carniolan queens; had 20 years' experience; 

 nothing but the best sold. Send orders now — $1.00 each, 

 two for 81.75, six for $4.50 for queens mailed in May and 

 June. W- W. Crim, Pekin, Indiana. 



MAPLE SYRUP. 



We still have about 40 gallons of fine rock-maple 

 syrup, which we offer in cases of six one-gallon cans, 

 at $1.10 per gallon; ten gallons or more, at $1.00 per 

 gallon. Order at once if you want to secure the goods. 



BEESWAX WANTED. 



Until further notice we will pay 28 cts. cash, 30 cts. 

 in trade, for average wax delivered here. This is as 

 high a price as we paid any time last year when founda- 

 tion was selling at 2 cts. a pound more than it is listed 

 at present. Besides, the early-order discount is greater 

 now than at the same time last year. 



BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 



So many of our subscribers in the United States have 

 wanted prices on the weekly British Bee Journal that 

 we now are prepared to furnish it with Gleanings one 

 year for only $2.00. To countries where second-class 

 postage Tates do not apply, the price is $3 00 for both 

 postpaid. To those who prefer the monthly Bee-keep- 

 ers' Record in place of the British Bee Journal it can 

 be substituted at the same price. 



winners in the first subscription CONTEST. 



Below will be found a list of winners in our First 

 Gleanings Subscription Contest, from September 15 to 

 February 15. We publish this list so that if those not 

 included wish to present claims they may do so before 

 too lite. A number sent in subscrip ions without stat- 

 ing a desire to compete, and were not counted. After 

 February 15 this contest is considered closed, and on 

 that date books and smokers will be mailed and orders 

 entered for queens to be mailed in the spring. 

 $10 00 red-clover queen, J. P. Berg, Wash. 

 $7.50 " •' J. S. Yoder, Va. 



85.00 " " J. H. Thomson, Ont. 



$3 00 " " T. J. Dugdale, N. Y. 



$2 00 " " S. E. Johns, Penn. 



Sixth to fifteenth prize, half- leather A B C to 

 Oscar Anderson, Wis. 

 Irving Long, Mo. 

 H. Mansperger, Mo. 



J. H. McCargo, Ark. 

 L. J. Berg, Wis. 

 C. L. Harris, Mass. 

 Frank L. Aulick, Ky. 

 John L. Emlet Ohio. 



C. E. Dibble, Wash. 



Geo. W. Copenhaver, Mich. 

 Sixteenth to twenty-fifth prizes, one Standard Cornell 

 smoker, to 



Edward Semmelroth, Mich. 



D. Esfensheat, Ohio. 

 L. S. Books. N. Y. 

 Vincent J. Haag, N. Y. 

 R. H. Baker, Wis. 



P. E. Jones, Ind. 

 J. H- Stoneman, Mich. 

 C. M. Nichols, Mich. 

 Fred W. Allen, N. Y. 

 John W. Moyer, N. Y. 



SECOND gleanings CONTEST. 



Twenty-five prizes. —First prize. $10.00 queen (variety, 

 winner's selection) ; second prize, $7.50 queen (variety, 

 winner's selection); third prize, $5.00 queen (variety, 

 winner's selection) ; fourth prize, $3 00 queen (variety, 

 winner's selection); fifth prize, $2.00 queen (variety, 

 winner's selection); sixth to fifteenth prizes, one cloth- 

 bound ABC; sixteenth to twenty-fifth prizes, one 

 Junior Corneil smoker. 



Conditions same as last contest, and will be published 

 later. Contest closes July 1. Any one may enter who 

 makes known his intention to us. 



Last contest every contestant that sent in more than 

 one subscription obtained a prize. It will doubtless be 

 so in this contest, so that besides the regular commis- 

 sion you vnW receive a prize that will more than pay 

 any effort made. 



ADVANCING PRICES. 



Pine lumber has advanced during the last few months 

 to higher prices than it has ever reached; and, in the 

 opinion of lumbermen who understand the outlook, and 

 ought to know, the price will advance still more. The 

 advance already is equivalent to $6.00 per 1000 feet. 

 Fortunately we are provided with stock on hand, and 

 contracted sufficient to see us through this season. If 

 it were not for this we should have to withdraw the 

 liberal early-order discounts now being made. 



Sheet zinc has also advanced a cent a pound within 

 six months, and over two cents in the last year and a 

 half. Tin and lead are also 30 per cent higher than a 

 few months ago. If the present high level is main- 

 tained very long or extended very much, we shall be 

 compelled to increase prices on some articles into which 

 these materials enter. We will not change prices dur- 

 ing this season if we can avoid it. 



METAL SPACERS FOR HOFFMAN FRAMES. 



We have not shown any thing in Gleanings for a 

 long time which has brought us so many inquiries as 

 the metal- spaced Hoffman frames shown in the Jan. 1st 

 issue. We have been hard at work for several weeks on 

 special dies and tools for turning these out rapidly and 

 cheaply, so we could afford to sell them low enough to 

 make them go in large quantities. We have been un- 

 fortunate in having two different dies crack in temper- 

 ing, so we have been delayed in getting the tools into 

 operation so we could say definitely what we could do. 

 We are aiming to furnish the frames with spacers at 

 $3 00 per 100 in flat. These frames have end-bars ^s in. 

 thick, li'n in. wide. The spacers only, we hope to fur- 

 nish to fit this size of end-bar at 30 cts. per 100: $2.50 

 per 1000. If you desire to use them on frames with a 

 thinner or narrower end-bar it will be necessary to 

 insert a thin piece between the spacer and end- bar to 

 make up for the difference in width. This will be held 

 in place by the same nail that fastens the spacer. Nails 

 are included with spacers. Postage, 20 cts. per 100. 



Convention Notices. 



The Washington State Bee-keepers' Association will 

 bold its annual meeting in the old M. E. church on 

 North Third St., N(irth Y-akima, Feb. 14. 15, and 16. An 

 interesting program is assured. One feature will be 

 the illustrated lectures on bee-keeping. Get all bee- 

 keepers from different parts of the State to attend, as 

 many subjects of vital interest will be discussed. 



No. Yakima, Jan. 15. Virgil Sires, Sec. 



