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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 1 



Bcc-kccpcrs' Directory 



This department is for the exclusive use of all- 

 year-round advertisers. If you have any thing 

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

 ment keeps vour name always before your pros- 

 pective customers at half our fiat rates. We re- 

 serve the rijJht to reject or modify any ad. not 

 eligible to these special rates. 

 2 lines, 24 issues and Gleanings one year $ 5.00 

 " '• " " " " 7.50 



4 " " " 10.00 



Cash in advance. Ad's can be changed only 

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

 October. 



I club a high-grade Italian queen with Gleanings, 

 new or renewal. W. S. Crawford, Hineston, La. 



Wanted.— 500 colonies of bees in Texas, Arizona, or 

 California. N. E. Miller, Box 373, Logan, Utah. 



Finest Golden and red-clover queens, Caucasian and 

 Carniolan. Daniel Wurth & Grant, Pitkin, Ark. 



Italian and Caucasian bees and queens of best 

 quality; price list free. A. E. Titoff, loamosa, Cal. 



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, 183 Friend St., Boston, Mass. 



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

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



Italians, Carniolans. No disease. Two-comb nu- 

 cleus with queen, $3.00. A. L. Amos, Comstock, Neb. 



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,Cyprianqueens.E.L.Pratt,Swarthmore,Pa. 



Queens. Free list giving safe method of introduc- 

 ing, ready Feb. 15. E. E. Lawrence, Doniphan, Mo. 



Italian Bees, queens, honey, and Root's bee-keep- 

 ers' supplies. Aliso Apiary, El Toro, Cal. 



Golden-all-over Caucasian Banat bees and 

 queens. We book orders for early queens from our 

 best imported breeding stock for honey, with 600 twin 

 mating-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. 



For Sale. — Honey, bees, and queens; cartons at 

 half price, and some other supplies. Bees on Danz. 

 and L. frames. Free circular. 



Quirin-the-queen-brbeder, Bellevue, Ohio. 



BEESWAX. 



The supply of beeswax in the market seems to be 

 shorter than usual, and the price continues firm. As 

 spring approaches, the supply usually becomes more 

 plentiful. Prices abroad are much easier, and, as a 

 consequence, much wax is being imported from for- 

 eign countries. We are paying 30 cts. cash, or 32 in 

 trade, for average wax delivered here or at branches. 



CATALOG FOR11907. 



Our Tcatalog for this year is complete, and is being 

 mailed to the readers of Gleanings first. We have 

 also supplied some to our various agencies to furnish 

 on request. Our larger list of names will be reached 

 in due time. Those who have not received a catalog 

 within a few days after receiving this issue of Glean- 

 ings, and can not wait longer, may have one sent 

 promptly on request by postal. If you receive more 

 than one, hand the extra one to a neighbor interested 

 in bees, and thereby do him and us a favor. 



SIMPLEX JARS. 



Those who have started to use this style of jar, and 

 desire to continue, we can furnish the next larger 

 size than those we have been furnishing, at the same 

 price— $1.10 per case of 2 dozen; 6 cases at $1.05; 30 

 cases at $1.00, shipped direct from factory, while pres- 

 ent supply lasts. We still have some of the regular 

 size in Philadelphia and at Mechanic Falls. The 

 larger size mentioned above will hold about 17 to 18 

 oz. of honey nicely filled. We can still supply the 

 half-pound tumblers, 4 dozen to the case, with corru- 

 gated packers and parchment disk for sealing under 

 the covers, at $1.00 per case; ten-case lots at 95 cents; 

 packed in barrels of 32 dozen each at $5.00. 



ADVANCING PRICES. 



A comparison of prices on metals in the New York 

 market at the close of the year for the past six years 

 shows an advance of 62 per cent on No. 2 foundry 

 iron; 84% per cent on copper; 80 per cent on tin; 50 per 

 cent on lead; 55 per cent on spelter (zinc) ; 1.39 per cent 

 on antimony. Many other commodities have ad- 

 vanced in like proportion. The increased production 

 of gold, which is the standard of value, has been 54 

 per cent. This goes to show that, as gold becomes 

 more plentiful by increased production, it grows 

 cheaper when exchanged for other articles of which it 

 is the measure of value. In other words, the same 

 weight of lead which, in 1900, could be had for $4.00 in 

 gold, at the end of 1906 requires $6.00 in gold to buy it. 

 Careful statistics show that the general average in- 

 crease in price of all commodities since 1893 has been 

 42 per cent. 



In the face of this general increase in values, which 

 has been especially marked during the past year, 

 there has been almost no increase in the price of bee- 

 keepers' supplies for about four years. This is large- 

 ly due to decreased general demand because of poor 

 honey crops the past two years. If the present pace 

 of increase in cost of materials continues, and we have 

 any thing like a fair honey crop this season, manu- 

 facturers will be compelled to advance prices to main- 

 tain a living profit before another season, and even 

 before this season has reached its close. Those who 

 lay in a stock of supplies can rest assured that they 

 are not likely ever again to buy them any cheaper. 



