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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1 



If you have ariy thing to sell, to exchange, want a sit- 

 uation, or help, use our classified columns for Dec. 15. 

 For that issue only we will muke a ^pecial rate of !0c 

 per line to any subscriber who has not tried these col- 

 umns during the present year. We can assure you of 

 good results. 



In our Oct. 15th issue we announced a special issue 

 for Dec. 15 (Christmas Number). The cut below shows 

 the design, but the real beauty can not be shown in a 

 small cut in one color. No finer printing has ever been 

 put out anywhere, we believe, than this cover, which is 

 printed in the natural colors of the red clover. Our 

 subscribers can make a fine Christmas present to their 

 amateur bee-keeping friends by ordering a year's sub- 



scription for them, beginning with Dec. 15th issue. As 

 a matter of fact, we can i.ot begin a subscription with 

 the middle of the month, so any presentation orders for 

 1906 will include the Dec. 15th issue without charge. 

 Subscriptions are already pouring in faster than we 

 have ever known before. 



BUSINESS OUTLOOK. 



There is considerable activity in supplies for this sea- 

 son of the year. An increasing number are taking ad- 

 vantage of the ejrly-order discounts. We notice, too, 

 that customers who get started in this habit generally 

 keep it up. The larger proportion of Orders are from 

 those who have ordered eai ly in former y( ars. They 

 have learned that it is not only profitable from the in- 

 vestment .standpoint, but that it is a decided advantage 

 to have the goods on hand to prepare during the eisure 

 time of winter for the following season. 



Last season closing early left many of our dealers with 

 a liberal stock on hand, yet we are receiving: encourag- 

 ing orders from many of these, and the promise ol more 

 in the near future. We have shipped half a million sec- 

 tions with other goods to Scotland, and have another 

 order from the sa ne country for another half-million, 

 together with frames and hve lumber. All of the sec- 

 tions which we send to Great Britain are split top for 

 fastening foundation -a feature never intioduced in 

 this country. Sections can not be folded and receive 

 foundation starters by this method nearly as rapidly 

 as by our American methods. It is convenient some- 

 times when only a few sections are used, and you are 

 not provided with the machine for folding and fasten- 

 ing starters. 



AWARDS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC CONTESTS. 



The following awards have been made in the contest 

 announctd some months ago for best foreign photos of 

 bee-keeping sub.iects: 



First Prize. — Father Adrien Cavaille, director of. the 

 apiary of Abbaye de la Grande Trappe, Soligny. France. 



Second Prize —"Societe des Apiculteurs," Algeria. 



Third Prize. — P. Chiris, Marseilles, France. 



SECOND AMERICAN -COMPETITION. 



Class A ^ Apiaries. — First Prize, E. H. Hanselman, 

 Augusta, Wis.; second prize, W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, 

 Mich.; third prize, M E. Tribble, Marshall, Mo. 

 Class B- Comb Honey —First prize, decision pending; 

 second prize, deci-ion pending; third prize, G. B. 

 Woodberry, Glendale, Culif.; 

 Class C — Swarms, etc— First prize, A. L. Errett, Mad- 

 ison. Pa.; second prize, Arnt Arneson, Cameron, Wis.; 

 third prize, F. P. Briggs, Aj er, Mass. 

 The winners in the foreign contest as well as a large 

 number of others lorwarded thei ■• photographs through 

 Monsieur Emile Bondonneau, 142 Faubourg .<t. Denis, 

 .Paris, to whom we acknowledge our indebtedness for 

 his kind assistance in securing for this contest a large 

 number of fine photos. 



In Class A, Amerii-an, we have some exceptionally 

 fine views. Wisconsin leads again with first-prize 

 apiary. In Class C, views of swarms, etc., Mr. A. L. 

 Errett, who secured a first prize in our former contest 

 (see page 6.57, June 15 Gleanings) secures first prize 

 again with a delightful subject. Mr. Arneson and F. P. 

 Briggs follow closely behind with equally interesting 

 photographs. 



The puolication of these photographs in fine half-tone 

 engravings will b-gin in our December 15th issue, and 

 be continued regularly for several months. 



We shall announce another contest, both domestic 

 and foreign, in our December 15th issue. As the entries 

 are not large in number, and as there are no conditions 

 attached, we urge every bee-keeper to be constantly on 

 the lookout for suitable photographs, as the competition 

 is not heavy and prizes are large- 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



BASSWOOD-TREES FOR FALL PLANTING. 



I am sorry to tell our friends that we are already sold 

 out of the trees one foot and under; but we have a pret- 

 ty good stock from one to five feet at 10 cts. ea<-h; 75 

 cts for 10: $5 00 per 100 We can ship them at any 

 time now b -fore the ground freezes up, which will not, 

 in our locality, be before about the flist of December. 



THE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



And now we have a whole book just about chrysan- 

 themums and nothing else, just out, published by the O. 

 Judd Co. It hrtS 160 pages, and is well illustrated. 

 There is a chapter on hardy chrysanthemums that fcan 

 be grown outdoors. Pi-ice 50 cents. 



We have also another new book entitled "Soil Phys- 

 ics and -Laboratory Guide," by Prof. Stevenson, of the 

 Iowa State ("ollege. The above is a text book, I should 

 say, i-pecially for students in our experiment stations. 

 It is pretty severely scientific. It has 80 pa.fes, and is 

 well illustrated. Price 50 cents. Either of the above 

 books will be sent postpaid from this office at the abovs 

 price. 



