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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 1 



EXTRA-LONG BEE-GLOVES. 



Having made arrangements for our supply of gloves 

 from a fECtory making a specialty of their manufacture, 

 we save enough in the cost to enable us to offer them 

 either with or without fingers at 35 cts. a pair; by mail, 

 42 cts. 



HONEY. 



We have a good demand for choice comb honey as 

 well as good clover extracted. We should like to hear 

 from those who have either ready for shipment. State 

 quantity, how put up, and the price you ask; also 

 whether you can use supplies in exchange. 



PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY. 



H. H. Hyde, of San Antonio, doing business under the 

 name of the Graham-Hyde Bee Co., filed a voluntary 

 petition in bankruptcy on July 2d, of this year, with 

 total assets of about $5000 and total liabilities of nearly 



$9000. 



We have on hand 35 Falcon chaff hives, two-story, in 

 the flat: put up in crates of five each. These have two 

 %-inch division-boards and two chaff-cushion division- 

 boards. No frames or supers or other fixtures are 

 packed with these hives. Price as above, to close out, 

 $1.50 each. If the entire lot is ordered in September, 

 $1.25 each. The regular price of this hive, without fix- 

 tures, was $2.00. 



"the HONEY-MONEY STORIES." 



The foregoing is the title of a new 60-page pamphlet 

 published by G. W. York & Co., Chicago. It is well 

 printed and beautifully illustrated. The subject-matter 

 is prepared in popular style, calculated to interest and 

 attract the attention of the ordinary consumer of honey. 

 The stories are interesting, and from every point of 

 view are calculated to tickle the palate of the person 

 who has never eaten honey, and to stimulate the desire 

 for more on the part of those who are lovers of the 

 sweet. The price of the pamphlet is 25 cts. Bee-keep- 

 ers can probably procure them of the publishers. Mr. 

 York is to be congratulated on getting out so interest- 

 ing and attractive a book. 



WIDE-MOUTH MASON FRUIT-JARS. 



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

 a gross higher this year thanJast. 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, $1 20 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. 



BEESWAX AND COMB FOUNDATION. 



To compensate for the large early order cash discount 

 we propose to increase the trade price of wax; and until 

 further notice we will pay 26 cts. cash or 30 cts. in trade 

 for average wax delivered here or at our branches. 

 ■W hen you take trade at 30 cts. a pound you will not be 

 entitled to the early-order discount on the supplies. 



The price of comb foundation was reduced Aug. 1 two 

 cents a pound, and the revised price stands as follows: 



Grade. 



Medium Brood 

 Light Brood.... 



Thin Super 



Extra Thin... . 



Size.and sheets r 

 per pound. 1 lb 



ly^xiavs 7 to 8 



7^x16% 9 to 10 



3%xl554 28 



3"/3xl5^ 32 



The early-order cash discount applies to the reduced 

 price of foundation, making a total net reduction of 7 to 

 8 cts. a pound for September orders. We recommend 

 that shipment of foundation be avoided in extreme cold 

 weather, and to that end it would be well to get in your 

 supply in the fall. Use your leisure time in winter to 

 nail and paint your hives, put up sections, and prepare 

 other articles ready for the spring rush. 



CASH DISCOUNT FOR EARLY ORDERS. 



We can not remember a year when we were not 

 crowded with orders through the spring montlis, and 

 somewhat behind, some years more than others. In 

 order to divert some of this trade to the fall and winter 

 months we have offered inducements in the way of an 

 early order cash discount. This year we will be more 

 liberal than ever before in the amount of discount 

 allowed. For some months the price of some of the 

 materials used has been a little lower, and we have 

 stocked up heavily, and propose giving you the advan- 

 tage of the saving in price. The abundant farm crops 

 throughout the country are stimulating trade in almost 

 all lines, and prices are already stiffening. The dis- 

 counts which we propose to offer for early cash orders 

 are as follows: 



For cash orders before Oct. 1 10 per cent. 



Nov. 1 9 



Dec. 1 8 



Jan. 1 7 



" " Feb. 1 6 " 



March 1 4 



April 1 2 



You will notice that, after January, the discount 

 drops 2 per cent a month; and if we find that advanc- 

 ing prices of materials do not warrant the larger dis- 

 count we reserve the right to reduce the amount of 

 discount at any time. Your safest plan is, therefore, to 

 order at once. 



This discount is only for cash before the dates named, 

 and is intended to apply to hives, sections, frames, 

 foundation, extractors, smokers, shipping-cases, car- 

 tons, and other miscellaneous bee-keepers' supplies. 

 It will not apply on orders for the following articles 

 exclusively; but where these form no more than about 

 10 per cent of the whole orders the discount may be 

 taken from the entire bill: Tinned wire, paint, Bingham 

 smokers. Porter bee-escape, glass and tin honey-pack- 

 ages, scales, bees and queens, bee-books and papers, 

 labels and other printed matter; bushel boxes, seeds, 

 and other specialties not listed in our general catalog. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH WINTER WHEAT. 



Every farmer in Ohio who grows wheat, even if not 

 more than an acre, should certainly send to the Ohio 

 Experiment Station, Wooster, for Bulletin No. 165, and 

 study it carefully from beginning to end. I have re- 

 peatedly heard farmers discuss the very points our 

 station has been working hard to settle, and no indi- 

 vidual farmer can think of making such exhaustive and 

 complete tests as have been made by the station, with 

 the money belonging to our great State of Ohio. Your 

 own money has paid for these bulletins, and you should 

 by all means reap the benefit of them; and if you can 

 possibly do it you had better visit the station and look 

 over the fields where the tests are made. If you live in 

 some other State, by all means get in touch with your 

 own experiment station. 



THE SPANISH-ENGLISH TESTAMENT. 



When I returned from Cuba I had so much enjoyed 

 learning Spanish by means of the above Testament that 

 I ordered forty copies of the American Bible Society, 

 expecting, with the write-up, they would soon be sold. 

 I was a good deal disappointed, however, to firid we had 

 only one or two applications, and I began to think my 

 forty copies would last a long time. But for some rea- 

 son or other, I can not tell why, the call for them began 

 to increase, and a few days ago the book clerk gave me 



