1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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take them up more or less during December. We are 

 now ready to ship such sizes and at prices as are given 

 in the table below. 



Per 10 Per 100 



.30 

 .35 



$2 00 

 2,25 

 5.00 

 We would 



One foot and under, each - .05 



The above by mail, " - - .08 

 One to five feet. " - .10 .7i 



They had better go by mail or express 

 not recommend sending them by freight, although 

 when carefully packed we have had them grow after 

 being out of the ground for several weeks. I think 

 trees not over five feet high gve, as a rule, better 

 satisfaction than larger ones, and the expense of ship- 

 ment is very much less on little trees. 



SASHES FOB HOTBEDS, COLD-FRAMES, AND LITTLE 

 GREENHOUSES. 



Now is the time to begin to think of giving some 

 protection to plants and flowers that are to be winter- 

 ed over; and there is not only pleasure but profit in 

 seeing stuff grow all winter long. With a few sashes 

 you can make a cold-frame that will grow lettuce, cab- 

 bages, and a lot hardy stuff without any beat; and 

 when you get ready toward spring, with fermenting 

 stable manure you can get both pleasure and profit 

 from the hot-beds. With a dozen sashes or less you 

 can make a greenhouse opening out from your ci liar 

 so you can grow vegetable-plants and other things; 

 and with present prices for almost every thing grown 

 under glass you can make a profitable investment of 

 your time on stormy days, and even keep your hired 



help busy that would otherwise be unemployed. Any 

 one who does just a little in the way of market-gar- 

 dening should have some sashes and start a little 

 greenhouse. Now, I have just sent for samples (so as 

 to be up to date) of the latest and most improved pat- 

 terns of hot-bed sashes to be found in and around our 

 largest cities: and while we are making them of late 

 of cypress, the best wood in the world for the purpose, 

 our prices are still unchanged. We keep constantly 

 ifl stock, ready to ship, sashes both in the fiat and 

 nailed up. 



PRICES OF OUR LATEST IMPROVED COLD FRAMES OR 

 HOT-BED SASH MADE OF CYPRESS. 



Price of one sash, in the flat, for sample, without 

 glass, 90 cts.; 5 in the flat, 85 cts. each; lo in the flat, 

 80 cts. each. Glass, 8xi0. just right for the above. 

 $2 90 per box of 90 lights: 5 boxes, $2.80; 10 boxes, $2.70. 



Sash put up, no glass or paint. 10 cts. eat-h extra; 10 

 cts. each extra for eai h coat of paint, and $1.15 each 

 extra for glass set in place, making the sash put up, 

 painted two coats, and filled with glass, at $3 25 each 

 in lots of 5. The risk and freight charges are so much 

 more shipped put up with glass that we do not recom- 

 mend you to order this way, and we can not well pack 

 less than five safely. 



We would not advise shipping a less number than 

 five; but if you take our advice you will have all your 

 glass sash shipped in the flat. In this case they go as 

 fourth-class freight; whereas, all complete they will 

 have to go as first-class, and some roads rate them as 

 double first-class. 



Awards in Photographic Contest. 



In accordance with the terms of our prize conte.st for photographs relating to bee-keeping 

 the following awards have been made: 



AAVARDS. 



Class A. 



Class D. 



First.— D. L. Bloeher, Pearl City, 111. 

 First. — (Foreign) Eugene F. Mason, Haiti. 

 Second.— (Foreign) Joseph Baptiste. Haiti. 

 Third. — (Foreign) E. Anthony, New Zealand. 



Class £. 



First. — Walter Garabrant, Chester, N, J. 

 Second. — Joseph Peterson, Clover, Utah. 



Class H. 



First. — (series) J. S. GilhUan, Newark, Del. 



Class I. 



Second. — John D. Blair, Arminto, Ky. 



Class J. 



First. — (Foreign) St. Mary's Abbey, England. 

 Second. — C. B Peterson, Chicago, 111. 

 Third. — George Fenton, Pine Island, Minn. 

 Fourth.— (series) Charles G. Macklin, Mor- 

 rison, 111. 

 Fifth — William Thompson, W.Koxbury, Mass. 

 Sixth. — Scott W. Jackson, Dundee, Mich. 



We hope there has been no oversight in any way. We are disappointed in not being 

 able tO' award the full list of prizes in each class. In some there are very few entries, and 

 in others the photographs were so poor that we could not make any award to them. 



Notwithstanding the smaller interest in this than in some of the previous contests, we 

 may have another to announce next year; but whether one is announced or not, we shall 

 be glad to get really nice photographs of any subject relating to bee-keeping, at any time, 

 and will pay fair prices for the same. If any error is discovered in the awards we shall 

 be glad to make the matter right on hearing from the interested party. 



1907 A B C of Bee Culture will be mailed to prize-winners as soon as the books are com- 

 pleted, probably within two or three weeks. Other prizes will be sent at once. 



U/te A. I. Root Company. 



First. — W. W. Lawrence, Centerville. Texas. 



First. — (Foreign) E. Bondonneau, Paris. 



Second. — Henry Schmieder, Koxboro, Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa. 



Second. — (Foreign) J. Rlnaldo, Italy. 



Third.— Charles M. Harris, Rochester, N. Y. 



Fourth. — (Foreign) A. Demieere. 



Fifth.— (Foreign) O. R. Bostock, New Zea- 

 land. 



Class B. 



First. — Rev. Dr. Wagner, Cincinnati, O. 



Sixth. — Irving H. Childs, Benson, Vt. 



Class C. 



First.— W. E. Patterson, E. Springfield, Pa. 

 Second. — (Foreign) St. Mai'y's Abbey, Eng. 

 Third. -W. A. Stewart, Elkin, Pa. 

 Fourth. — Rev. A. J. Kline, Bi'ainard, Neb. 

 P'ifth. — D. Meuser, Elmwood, Ontario, Can. 

 Sixth. — J. S. Giltiilan, Newark, Del. 

 Seventh. — Barnard Cummings, Chicago, 111. 



