1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



395 



For Sale. -White Wyandotte eggs. $4.00 per 100; $2.00 

 per 45, or 81.00 per setting. Chas. W. Barnes, 



138 N. Pleasant St., Norwalk, O. 



For Sale.— 15 White Wyandotte eggs, $1.00; nice 

 cockerels, $1.00 each, Duston strain, seed com. Cir- 

 cular. J. F. Michael, Winchester, Ind. 



For Sale.— Cheap, a place of four acres in one of 

 the best locations for bees in New York State. Have 

 taken 300 lbs. of comb honey from one colony in a sea- 

 son. G. H. Adams, Box 976, Schenectady, N. Y. 



For Sale.— Trees by mail; one-j ear-old peach and 

 apple trees, 10c each; $1.00 per dozen. Guaranteed 

 true to name and free from disease. 



G. A. Haper, Batchtown, 111. 



For Sale. — If you want an illustrated and descrip- 

 tive catalog of bee-keepers' supplies for 1906 send your 

 name and address to Frank S Stephens, 



(Root's Goods.) Paden City, W. Va. 



For Sale.— Bees; the right kind, right prices. Safe 

 arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. Ask for illustrat- 

 ed Outfits for Beginners, price list, and our hints on 

 buying bees. Mason Supply Co., Mechanic Fs., Me. 



For Sale.— 100 colonies of pure Italian bees in eight 

 or ten frame new Dovetailed hives with Hoffman 

 frames: tested queen in each colony. Price $6.00 each. 

 In lots of ten, $5.00 each. 



F. A. Gray, Redwood Falls, Minn 



For Sale.— 500 colonies of bees located in the best 

 sweet-clover belt in the U. S. Will take $1500 for the 

 outfit. Reason for wanting to sell, too much other bus- 

 iness. If I do not sell shall want a good man to run them 

 next season. W. N. Cannon, Greenville, Ala. 



For Sale. — Three untested Italian queens for $1.00 

 after July 1, if ordered now; warranted pure mated. 10 

 cts. extra. Satisfaction, or money back. Only 300 at 

 this rate. All you want as long as they last. Orders 

 filled in rotation. Particulars free. 



S. F. Trego, Swedona, 111. 



For Sale. — Fine home in Glenwood, Wis.: one large 

 house and two lots in the city, and two acres with large 

 building 25x100 feet (very suitable for bee-supply fac- 

 tory), 150 colonies of bees all in good condition; one of 

 the best white-clover and basswood localities for bee- 

 keeping. Write for particulars. 



J. GoBELi, Glenwood. Wis. 



For Sale.— An 8-room 2- story frame house, bee-cel- 

 lar, coal-cellar, soft water, 2 lots, also 85 colonies bees in 

 10-frame Jumbo hives: 141. 10. 25, 8-frame Langstroth 

 supers; 1250 clean extracting Langstroth combs; 9 ft. 

 by 4 ft. solar wax-extractor pans, holding 500 lbs.: 1 re- 

 versible extractor. 2 other kinds: storing cans; 100 ex- 

 cluding zincs, enough fixings for 100 colonies with good 

 honey business. Will sell bees separate or with proper- 

 ty. W. Bowling, Louise St., Stratford, Ont., Can. 



Regarding our Advertiser?. 



Mr. W. N. Scarff . New Carlisle. Ohio, is an enthusiast 

 on small fruits He says, " There are not enough rasp- 

 berries, strawberries, blackberries, and other small 

 fruits of the right quality to satisfy the commission 

 men in the markets of the big cities. As much as $300 

 profit per acre can be made from scientific culture of 

 these fruits." Mr. Scarff is willing to tell how, and to 

 send a catalog free to any one who may write, mention- 

 ing this paper. 



A very neat and nicely arranged catalog of grapevines 

 and general nursery stock has reached us. It comes 

 from Mr. Lewis Roesch, the nurseryman of Fredonia, 

 N. Y. Certainly there can be no better grounds on 

 which to grow grapevines than those along the shore of 

 Lake Erie. From this district come some of the finest 

 grrapes in the United States. It pays to buy from a 

 specialist in nursery stock as in most other things, and 

 we do not know of a better place to buy grapevines than 

 from Mr. Roesch. Should j ou wish a copy of the cata- 

 log we refer to, just write, mentioning Gleanings, and 

 one will be sent free. 



:j«?T?"K»25™Br 7 -" 





maple sugar and syrup 

 The season is here when the sugar maple produces its 

 delicious sweets. Quite a little syrup and some sugar 

 has already been harvested, and we may have more when 

 the weather warms up again. We offer choice syrup at 

 II 20 per gallon, or SI. 10 in ten-gallon lots. A limited 

 amount of sugar at 12 cts. per pound. 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 



We are practically sold out of all kinds of sweet- clover 

 seed, both hulled and unhulled, white and yellow. We 

 have got track of two small lots which we will use in 

 filling orders already received, as far as it will reach. 

 This is not the best time of year to find it unless some 

 one has it stored away gathered from last year's crop or 

 before. If any of our readers can put us in communica- 

 tion with any one having seed for sale we should like to 

 hear from such with sample and price. 



TRADE and PROSPECTS. 



Prospects are fair for a honey crop in parts of Califor- 

 nia, judging from the early rainfall. The outlook is 

 good in other localities, and demand for goods is in- 

 crea.^ing- The early-order cash discount during this 

 month is 2 per cent. After March. nodi.«count. Recent 

 prices quoted on pine lumber for hives are higher than 

 we have ever paid, and an advance of about twenty per 

 cent over 1 he cost of our present stock, which we esti- 

 mate is sufficient to see us through this season. 



WIRE-CLOTH SEPARATORS. 



The editorial in last issue on wire-cloth separators has 

 called forth numerous inquiries for samples and price. 

 We are not yet equipped with tools and dies for making 

 these most economically, and. in fact, the form bpst 

 adapted for use has not been fully decided upon. The 

 supers which we have made for different customers in 

 New York State, and which are kept for sale at our Syr- 

 acuse branch, are of a special form, either eight or ten 

 frame wide. The section-holder has both top and bot- 

 tom-bar, and a pressure screw through one end-bar by 

 means of which the four plain sections are clamped and 

 held in line with the section-holder, and it is handled as 

 a hanging frame. Tin spacers are attached to each end 

 of the section-holder at the top. The wire cloth separa- 

 tor bound with tin has spacers on the bottom at each 

 end. and special spacers are provided at each side of the 

 super. When all the section holders and wire-cloth sep- 

 arators are in place the space is filled without the use of 

 springs, and the wire cloth separators are held in posi- 

 tion %vithout any point of contact with the sections. 

 When a section-holder is raised half an inch it is free 

 from the spacers, and may be lifted out freely. The 

 great advantage of this arrangement is the ease and 

 rapidity with which the contents of a super may be ex- 

 amined or removed, and the absence of any point of con- 

 tact with the sections to be propolized The supers reg- 

 ularly furnished are all made for the 4x5x1/3 plain sec- 

 tions, and cost, without sections or foundation starters. 

 $4 50 for 5, in flat, eight-frame; *5.C0 for 5. ten frame. 

 A sample of either, put up ready for use, will cost $1.50. 

 For those who want to try the wire-cloth separator in 

 ordinary supers, in place of fences for plain sections, 

 we will undertake to furnish them with the regular 

 wood-end cleats; and no intermediate cleats, at 8 cents 

 each. In using these separators which are spaced, and 

 held in line only at the ends, it is important, before plac- 

 ing them in the super, to see that they are straight. If 

 they are inclined to bow one way or the other they 

 should be sprung in the opposite direction until they 

 are straight It will also be necessary to wedge the 

 sections in the ordinary section-holder so as to hold them 

 in position, even with the edge of the same. This is im- 

 portant to provide proper bee-spaces, and insure the 

 comb being built entirely within the section and not 

 projecting from either face beyond the edge of the wood. 



