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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 15 



For Sale.— White-clover comb honey at $3.25 per 

 glass-front case of 24 sections, 22 to 23 lbs. net; 20 lbs- 

 net at $300. Amber, $2.7.5 and $2.50 per case. 



B. HOLLENBACK, Spring: Hill. Kan. 



For Sale. — Choice extracted clover and basswood 

 honey in 60-pound cans. It was extracted at end of 

 season, and is very thick and well ripened. Price S% 

 cts. per pound. Sample free. 



J. F. Moore, Tiffin, Ohio. 



Fob Sale.— Amber and buckwheat comb honey, per 

 case of 24 sections. $2.50; unfinished sections, $8.00 per 

 100. Quirin-the-queen-breeder, Bellevue, O. 



For Sale.— 2000 lbs. of Colorado alfalfa extracted 

 honey. It is ripe. rich, and thick; 60-pound tin-cans, 

 two in a case, at $10.00 a case. 



A. A. Lyons, Fort Collins, Colo. 



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 the bee-keeper needs, your card in this depart- 

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Cash in advance. Ad's can be changed only 



in the first issue of January, April, July, and 

 October. 



Maplewood Apiary.- Choice comb honey, Italian 

 bees and queens. Geo.H. Rea, Reynoldsville, Pa. R. 2. 



Root's Supplies at factory prices; wholesale and 

 retail. Anton G. Anderson, Holden, Mo. 



Italian Bees, queens, and bee supplies. 



H. H. Jepson, 182 Friend St., Boston, Mass. 



Italian Bees, queens, beeswax, honey, and bee- 

 keepers' supplies. M. E. Tribble, Marshall, Mo. 



For Sale.— Bee-keepers' Supplies. Write for cata- 

 log. Lengst & Koenig, 127 S. 13th St.. Saginaw, Mich. 



Italian Bees and queens — red clover and golden 

 strains. E. E. Mott, Glenwood, Cass Co., Mich. 



Italian Bees, queens, honey, and bee-keepers' sup- 

 plies. A. T. Dockham, Box95,Rt.l, Eagle Bend.Minn. 



Swarthmore Apiaries— Golden,Caucasian,Banat. 

 Carniolan, Cyprian queens.E. L.Pratt, Swarthmore, Pa. 



Golden-all-over Italian, Caucasian, and Banat 

 races. Bred by Swarthmore methods from best stock 

 in the world, in three mating-yards with 600 twin mat- 

 ing-boxes. The Snyder Apiaries, Lebanon, Pa. 



Queens.— Improved Red-clover Italians bred for 

 business; June 1 to Nov. 15, untested queens, 60c; 

 tested, $1.00 each. Safe arrival and satisfaction guar- 

 anteed. H. C. Clbmons, Boyd, Ky. 



Big Reduction in Supplies! 



Until May 1 



Big stock of Dovetailed hives and Marshfleld sec- 

 tions to draw from. FREE— a year's subscription 

 with order amounting to $15.00 or over. Send for 

 32-page illustrated catalog free 



"W. D. 



Soper, JacRson, MicK. 

 Rural R.oute 3 



BOOKS RECEIVED 



C From the Reliable Poultry Journal 

 Publishing Company. 



POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES. 



Shows plans of low-cost, practical and labor-saving 

 houses, designs for inside fixtures, roosting coops and 

 coops for young chicks, and all necessary appliances 

 for the poultry yard; 96 pages, 9x12 inches, illus- 

 trated . Price 50 cts. 



ARTIFICIAL INCUBATING AND BROOD- 

 ING. Solves all problems of artificial incubating 

 and brooding. Tells how to obtain strong-germed, 

 fertile eggs, etc. Results gained from practical ex- 

 perience. 96 pages, 9x12 in., illustrated. Price 50 cts. 



THE CHICK BOOK. Tells how to obtain good 

 hatches; how to care for chicks of all ages; how to 

 feed for breeders and for broilers and roasters; how 

 to build coops; gives complete instructions in all work 

 connected with successful chicken growing. 80 pages, 

 9x12 inches, illustrated. Price 50 cts. 



THE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. Barred, buff, and 

 white. Gives rules for mating followed by the 

 most successful Plymouth Rock breeders, with a 

 chapter and chart on line breeding. Contains color- 

 plate of each variety. 110 pages, 9x12 inches, illus- 

 trated. Priec 50 cts. 



THE LEGHORNS. The best illustrated standard 



of all varieties of the popular Leghorns. Mating 



schemes clearly de.scribed. Color-plate of S. C. W. 



Leghorns. 78 pages, 9x12 in., illstd. Price 50 cts. 



ASIATICS. A work on Brahmas, Cochins, and 

 Langshans Contains " inside " information neces- 

 sary to success, with standard and ideal charts for all 

 varieties. Color-plates of Buff and Partridge Cochins. 

 100 pages. 9x12 inches, illustrated. Price 50 cts. 



DUCKS AND GEESE. Gives all details of 

 hatching, rearing, fattening, and marketing. De- 

 scribes lal)or-saving methods. 68 pages, 9x12 inches, 

 illustrated. Price 50 cts. 



TURKEYS. Every detail of the turkey business 

 explained fully and clearly. Written by the world's 

 foremost turkey growers. Contains color-plate of 

 ideal Bronze turkeys. 84 pages, 7x12 inches, illus- 

 trated. Price .50 cts. 



THE BANTAM FOWL. Mr. T. F. McGrew.judge 

 and breeder, tells how to house, feed and grow ban- 

 tams, how to treat their diseases, etc 72 pages, 9x12 

 inches, illustrated. Price 50 cts. 



RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES. Points 

 out the causes, describes symptoms, and gives sim- 

 ple and tested remedies for all diseases. 6x9 inches, 

 84 pages. Price 25 cts. 



C The follovping books, French trans- 

 lations of the Swarthmore series, have 

 been received from Mr. E. Bondonneau, 

 Paris, France. Mr. Bondonneau has 

 also translated the A B C of Bee Culture. 



NUCLEI MINIATURES. The French bee- 

 keepers are strenuously after Mr. Pratt and his 

 system of queen-rearing, for, no sooner has his mono- 

 graph on " increase " appeared than a translation fol- 

 lows of his "Baby Nuclei." The rendition of this 

 work into French is evidently the work of an expert 

 bee-keeper who wields a facile pen — in French Evi- 

 dently they do not have " babies " in la belle France, 

 so they are content to use the title of " nuclei minia- 

 tures." Mr. Pratt may rest assured that not one of 

 his ideas have been lost in the translation, for French 

 is a scientific langgage, created for and by a scientific 

 nation who are always ready to consider a new idea, 

 no matter where it originates. Our French colleagues 

 will find Mr. Pratt not "slow" on the subject of 

 queen culture, even if he lives in the suburbs of Phila- 

 delphia. Mon. E. Bondonneau, 142 Fanbourg St., 

 Denis, Paris, the authorized agent in France for Mr. 

 Pratt's books and outfits, is responsible for the pub- 

 lication of "Nuclei Miniatures." Price 50 cts. each, 

 postpaid. 



ACCROISSEMENT. The above is not a new 

 word, but is the round-about way the French have 

 of saying "increase," which every bee-keeper who 

 reads Gleanings regularly will understand at once. 

 This is Mr. E. L. Pratt's (Swarthmore's) book on the 

 subject, beautifully translated into French for the 

 benefit of French readers. This work is not a liberal 



