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(.LEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15 



DISAPPOINTED AGAIN. 



We have been still further disappointed and de- 

 layed in the delivery of a car of glass honey-jars, No. 

 ■25 and Simplex. Some oi-ders are beginnioK to move 

 direct from the factory on No. 25, which are in stock 

 in Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago, and will 

 soon be on hand here. The Simplex are delayed for 

 want of caps which the factory is having no end of 

 trouble in making, aecc-ding to their reports to us. 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 



It would seem as though our call for seed of sweet 

 clover was a little late in the season, especially for 

 the yellow variety, which matures earlier than the 

 white. So far we have heard from only two parties 

 having white sweet- clover seed to offer, and none of 

 yellow. It will be a pity if those who have this vari- 

 ety have not saved any seed, as there is a good de- 

 mand for both kinds. We have not yet secured 

 enough of either, and trust some of our readers have 

 seed to offer or know of some avail ible. If so, let us 

 hear from you with sample and price. 



CHANGES IN PRICES FOR 1907-8. 



Up to this time we have determined on the follow- 

 ing changes in list prices. During the past season 

 we have worked off our surplus stock of No. 2 plain 

 sections so that from this date forward, until further 

 notice, the price on B grade or No. 2 plain sections 

 will be 25 cents per 1000 higher than the rate given in 

 our catalog. 



We cut out the dozen ?ate on No. 30 wire on spools, 

 and increase the 5-lb. coils to $1 00 each. 



B. P. S. paint for hives is advanced to $1.75 per gal- 

 lon; 90 cts. per Vz gallon; 50 cts a quart; 30 cts. a pint. 



Painted wire cloth is advanced to 254 cts. per foot 

 for cut pieces; 2 cts. in full-roll lots. Galvanized 

 wire cloth, 8 mf sh. is advanced to 8 cts. per sq. ft. 



The A B C of Bee Culture, very greatly enlarged 

 and improved, printed on enameled paper, is advanced 

 to $\.bO postpaid; $1.25 with other goods by freight or 

 expiess. The new edition will not be completed till 

 November. Half-leather editions will be $2.00; full 

 leather, $2.50. 



There has been an advance of over 30 per cent in 

 material for bee-veils, and new prices are adopted as 

 follows: No. 1, all silk tulle veil. 90 cts.; No. 2, cotton 

 tulle with silk face, 60 cts,; No. 3, all cotton tulle, 50 

 cts.; No. 4, mosquito-bar veil, 30 cts.; bee-hat, 30 cts.; 

 silk luUe per yd., 60 cts.; cotton tulle per jd., 25 cts.; 

 mosquito-bar, per piece of 8 yds., 75 cts. No change 

 in globe veil. 



EARLY-ORDER CASH DISCOUNT. 



We have been obliged to cut down the early-order 

 cash discount below that offered in former years; but 

 it is still sufficiently liberal to pay transportation 

 charges quite a distance, or to pay liberal interest on 

 the money invested in supplies early, and should at- 

 tract those fort handed people who know pretty well 

 what they want for the coming season. 



The loUowing is the schedule of discounts for early 

 eash orders for bee-keepers' supplies, subject to the 

 (♦onditions below: 

 For cash sent in October, deduct 5 per cent. 

 ]| " " November, " iVz 



December, " 4 

 " " " January, " SH " 



February, " 3 

 March. " 2i4 " 



" April, " 2 



The discount is only for cash sent before the expira- 

 tion of the months named, and is intended to apply to 

 hives, sections, frames, foundation, extractors, smok- 

 ers, shipping-cases, cartons, and other miscellaneous 

 bee-keepers' supplies. It will not apply on the follow- 

 ing art cles exclusively; but where these form no more 

 Shan about one-tenth of the whole order the early-or- 

 der discount may be taken from the entire bill: Tin- 

 ned wire, paint, Bingham smokers. Porter bee-es- 



capes, glass and tin honey-packages, scales, bees and 

 queens, bee-books and papers, labels, and other print- 

 ed matter, bushel boxes, seeds, and other specialties 

 not listed in our general catalog. 



A TREE-LOVER'S BOOK. 



We have just received a copy of a newly published 

 book which we believe is destined to occupy a unique 

 place in the literature of North American trees. The 

 full title of this volume is " Handbook of Trees of the 

 Northern Slates acd Canada," and it is all that and 

 perhaps a little more for good weight. The author 

 and publisher is Mr. Romeyn B. Hough, Lowville, N. 

 Y., who has already achieved a national reputation 

 for his meritorious "American Woods." The idea 

 underlying this new book on trees is to convey a large 

 part of ihe information by means of pictures, and this 

 has been accomplished very hapv»ily and beautifully. 

 There are still some who believe that photography 

 has nothing to do with art; but these unbelievers 

 would have to revise their opinion if they should 

 carefully examine the illustrations in this book. Trees 

 lend themselves splendidly to pictorial illustration, 

 and the book now before us shows how well it can be 

 done. It is a work of art in the best sense. North 

 America is famous for its many beautiful (and at the 

 same time valuable) trees; and any one not conver- 

 sant with them will be pleasurably astonished at the 

 number and beauty of our American forest-trees. Ex- 

 cept in the tropics there is nothing like them. 



To the bee-keeper a book of this kind has a charm- 

 ing interest; for many of the trees here descri ed are 

 familiar nectar-producers. For example, the follow- 

 ing liberal honey-yielders are illustrated and de-scrib- 

 ed: Willows, elms, magnolias, tulip-trees, sweet-gum, 

 plane-trees, wild apples, red-buds, coffee-tree, yellow- 

 wood, locusts, sumacs, hollies, maples, basswood (or 

 linden), tupelos, rhododendrons, laurels, sourwood. 

 persimmons, catalpas, tigworts, and some of lesser 

 note. Now that we are close up to a timber-famine 

 these trees become more important than before; and 

 truthful, accurate information as to the habits, range, 

 rate of growth, and general value of our native trees. 

 is more desired than ever. As a rule, ev n farmers 

 who are familiar with most of these trees are noi, well 

 infurmed as to their value and habits Even ihe lum- 

 bermen are not, and much remains to be kncn. 



Two things of vast imporiance have been discover- 

 ed in rtcent years: Pirst, that many trees cao be 

 grown yery closely, and that they grow fast when 

 properly planted. Then, too, we have learned to 

 know just where each tree will grow well and to the 

 best advantage by carefully studying its haiiits. This 

 forms a rural education in itself, well worth having ; 

 and if you are a country resident it is a sort of dis- 

 grace not to know the trees. With Mr. Hough's book 

 you may soon learn to recognize and name correctly 

 the trees of your neighborhood, and begin to take an 

 intelligent interest in them. 



Some of them, of great beauty, you will want for 

 your dooryard and around the farm, and probably 

 your wife will be as keenly delighted with this vol- 

 ume as you will be, causing you to adorn the old 

 homestead with these charming additions to the land- 

 scape— trees. It will give a new zest to treeplant- 

 ing. The illustrations of the tree itself, the fruit, the 

 leaves, the bark, and even the grain of the wood, 

 should enable any intelligent person to name proper- 

 ly the trees of his locality, thereby adding very con- 

 siderably to his stock of scientihc knowledge. For 

 teachers, therefore, we s ould think the work indis- 

 pensable. The price is high ; but it is a large book, 

 handsomely bound, with fine paper, and all done in 

 the highest style of the printer's art. W. K. M. 



We can supply this book at publisher's price. $8.00. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



BASSWOOD-TREES FOR FALL PLANTING. 



Up to the present date, Oct. 11, we have had no 

 frosts sufQcient to make the leaves fall; but we expect 

 them to come very soon now. As soon as the leaves 

 drop we are in the habit of shipping basswood-trees. 

 Perhaps spring planting would be preferable to fall 

 planting; but as the basswood is a very hardy tree I 

 think if they are put out with ordinary care at any 

 time during the fall, winter, or spring, when the 

 ground is not frozen, few should fail to grow. In our 

 locality we very seldom have the ground frozen up so 

 but that we can ship trees readily any time during 

 November; and sometimes we can, during a thaw. 



