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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 15 



BEESWAX MARKET. 



The market price of wax is very easy for this time of 

 year, and the price we are paying at present we will 

 not continue after July 1. For wax arriving before 

 July 1 we will pay 28 cts. cash, 30 in trade. After that 

 date, 2 cts. per pound less. 



STANLEY THREE-FRAME REVERSIBLE EXTRACTOR. 



We have recently taken in trade an old-style Stanley 

 automatic honey-extractor for three L. frames, made to 

 take crank on top end of shaft, without gear. The can 

 is of heavy tin, and the machine sold originally at 

 $15.00. We offer this one at $5.00. 



GLEANINGS FAMILY GROWING. 



We printed 21,000 copies of June 1st issue of Glean- 

 ings, and they are all gone to names on our subscrip- 

 tion list, and not enough to supply calls for this issue. 

 Only a few months ago we were printing only 20,000 

 copies, and using some hundreds of these as sample 

 copies. We shall now have to advance our stake to 

 23,000 copies to furnish enough for the list, and some 

 extra to supply the calls for sample copies. No wonder 

 Gleanings is proving so valuable as an advertising 

 medium. 



SECTIONS AND FOUNDATION FOR PROMPT SHIPMENT. 



We have a larger stock of sections than we ever had 

 at this season, and are prepared to make prompt ship- 

 ment of sections, foundation, and most other goods. 

 There has been very little delay in orders all season 

 except in a few cases where something special has held 

 some orders longer than usual. Our agents generally 

 are also in a position to make prompt shipment. If the 

 bees get lots of honey, and you need more goods quickly, 

 remember we are in a position to f urijish them by first 

 train. 



SECOND-HAND five-gallon CANS. 



We have to offer a quantity of second-hand five- 

 gallon honey-cans in good condition for use again, espe- 

 cially for amber or low grades of honey. We offer the 

 best of them at $4.50 for 10 boxes of two cans each; 

 $10.00 for 25 boxes. We have some which are not so 

 bright, and yet are honey-tight, that we will furnish at 

 10 cts. a box less. The boxes in which the cans ai-e 

 shipped are also second-hand, but will be put in good 

 condition when shipped. 



FAULTLESS SPRAYER. 



There is nothing superior to this little device for kill- 

 ing potato-bugs, currant-worms, lice on stock or poul- 

 try, and it is worth three times its cost for spraying 

 horses and cattle to keep off the flies. We have sold a 

 great many hundred dozen in the past few years. They 

 are not in our general price list, and we have a surplus 

 stock which we wish to reduce, and we therefore offer 

 the all-tin sprayer for 27 cts. each, three for 75 cts., 

 $2.50 per dozen. A local canvasser could sell these 

 easily at this season of the year at 40 or 50 cts. each. 

 We have twenty or thirty dozen which we will furnish, 

 while they last, at these figures. If ordered by mail, 

 add 25 cts. for postage and packing. 



SPECIAL price on TIN CANS. 



We recently secured a special bargain in half-gallon 

 square cans. They are choice bright stock; but as the 

 pattern differed slightly from the regular one they are 

 now making, they closed them out at a special price. 

 We have also an overstock of quart oblong square cans. 

 While this stock lasts we will make the following prices 

 for shipment from Medina only: 



%-gal. oblong square cans with IVs-inch screw, $5.00 

 per 100; $45.00 per 1000. 



%-gal. square cans with 1-inch screws, $6.00 per 100. 



y2-gal. " " VA-in. " 6.50 



y2-gal. " " IVo-in. " 7.00 



In 500 lots, 50 cts. per 100 less. 



We have also a good stock of one and five gallon cans 

 at regular prices. 



GLASS honey-packages. 



Anticipating a demand for honey jars and bottles we 

 have put in two carloads of stock before the summer 

 shut-down of the glass-factories, so that we are pre- 

 pared to furnish the various jars listed in our catalog. 

 We have also a few odds and ends of stock, such as we 

 formerly listed, which we offer, to close out, as follows. 

 We can not duplicate these when present stock is sold: 



1-lb. tin-top tumblers. No. 789, 5 bbls. of 200 each, at 

 $4.50 per bbl. 



IVi-lb. tin-top glass pails. No. 778, 2 bbls. of 100 each, 

 at $5.00 per bbl. 



Large lb. tin-top glass pail. No. 777, 1 bbl. of 150, $5.00. 



Small lb. tin-top glass pail. No. 776, 1 bbl. of 200, $5.50. 



1-lb. Oaken Bucket tin top, with wire bail, 1 bbl. of 150 

 for $5.00. 



These prices are all a dollar a barrel less than we used 

 to sell these tumblers and pails at. We have also a little 

 loose stock which we will pack and include at same rate. 



WIDE-MOUTH mason FRUIT-JARS. 



The carload price on Mason fruit-jars is over a dollar 

 a gross higher this year than last. We carried over 

 quite a large stock, which we will sell at the same 

 prices as heretofore— namely: 



Pint doz., 52 cts.; 6 doz., $3.00: 12 doz., $5.75 



Quart " 55 cts.; " 3.10; " 6.00 



Half-gallon.. " 75 cts.; " 4.10; " 8.00 



Triumph wrench, 15 cts. each. 



Ball's waxed rings, 5 cts. per dozen. These are far 

 superior to rubber rings for fruit-jars, and cheaper. 



In addition to the regular style of Mason jars we 

 have a stock of wide-mouth special Masons, with 3-inch 

 opening. These are especially desirable for canning 

 large fruit whole, or for packing chunk comb honey. 

 These jars are of extra quality, and cost $1.65 per gross 

 more than the regular pattern. As we do not list them 

 we offer our present stock at an advance of 10 cts. per 

 dozen, $120 per gross, on any size. They have zinc caps 

 and rubber rings. We have no wax rings of the right 

 size to fit these jars. They are a bargain at this price. 



AIKIN HONEY-BAGS. 



We did not include these bags in our catalog this 

 year because we wanted to see them more generally 

 tested in different sections of the country, and proven 

 a satisfactory package everywhere before doing so. 

 We are prepared to supply them, and have arranged 

 for a 1-lb. size in addition to the four other sizes sold 

 heretofore. We are now supplied with all sizes. 



2-LB. SIZE, 5x7i4. 



1-LB. SIZE, 3^x5J^. 



I .65 I 10 



3.00 50 @ 



3.75 

 7.00 

 6.60 



31^-lb. SIZE, 6x9H. 



.$1.01) 

 4.75 



8.75 

 8.25 



5-LB. SIZE, 7x10. 



..$5.50 

 .. 5.25 



.$ 1.20 



5.50 



50 



@ 00 



10-lb. SIZE, lOxlOK- 



$1.50 



7. 



13 50 



@ 13. 



We will print in name and address of producer or 

 dealer, in different quantities, at the following sched- 

 ule of prices for any size: 



I,otsof 10 30 cts. 



Lotsof 25 50 cts. 



I^otsof 50 75 cts. 



I^otsof 10 $1.00. 



For each additional 1000, add 50 cents. Each change 

 of name and address counts as a separate order. For 

 instance, 1000 bags printed with four different names 

 and addresses, 250 of each, would be $2.00; with ten 

 different names $3.00, etc. As the bags must be print- 

 ed before they are made up and coated, we can not 

 change the label except in lots of 10,000 or over. We 

 have some plain 2-lb. size of dark-drab paper which 

 we can furnish plain at $2 00 per 1000 less than prices 

 quoted above, or we can print a smaller special label 

 in one color at above rates extra for printing. 



SECOND SERIES OF PRIZE-PHOTO CONTEST. 

 Many of our subscribers could not take part in our 

 first contest, as the time was so short, and it was the 

 season of the year when good photos could not be ob- 

 tained. Those who were fortunate enough to have pic- 

 tures had an advantage. To give all an equal chance 



