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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Nov. 15 



The annual meeting of the Michigan Bee-keepers' 

 Association will be held at Saginaw, the first session 

 being Wednesday evening, Dec. 18, and continuing 

 through Thursday and Friday, the last session being 

 on the afternoon of the 20ih. Further announcement 

 as to program and headquarters will be made later. • 



Redford, Mich. Elmobb M. Httnt, Sec. 



The 17th annual meeting of the Illinois State Bee- 

 keepers' Association will be held at the State House, 

 on Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 19 and 20, 1907. 



Among those who will be present to help make our 

 meeting a good one will be Dr. C. C. Miller, of Maren- 

 go; C P. Dadant, of Hamilton: Geo. W. York, of the 

 American Bee Journal, and N. A. Kluck, a delegate 

 from the Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin 

 Bee-keepers' Association. The regular railroad rates 

 being but two cents per mile, they are the same as a 

 fare and a third last year. Good beds can be pro- 

 cured in private families, if hotels are full, at 50 cts., 

 and meals can be got at the restaurants from 15 cents 

 up. Jas. a. Stone, Sec 



SHOP-WORN OBSBBVATION HIVES. 



We have a few varnished observation hives, both 

 one-frame with super and ten-frame, which have been 

 in sample-rooms, and are not as fresh and bright as 

 new goods. We offer these, while they last, at 20 per 

 cent discount from list price. 



SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES. 



There is no weekly home paper for the moral and 

 religious nourishmpnt of the family that will equal 

 the Sunday School Times. It is especially helpful to 

 Sunday-school teachers and others interested in Bible 

 study. We can supply it clubbed with Gleanings at 

 $1.75 for the two, the regular price of each being $1.00. 



ADVANCE IN PRICE OF BUSHEL BOXES. 



Because of increased cost of lumber we are obliged 

 to mark up the price on bushel crates and boxes. 

 Until further notice the price of all-slatted bushel 

 boxes, 14 to crate, is $2.10 per crate; 12 to crate, $1.90; 

 galvanized bound. 12 to crate, $2 50. A corresponding 

 advance is made in wholesale and jobbing prices. 



YELLOW-SWEET-CLOVEH SEED. 



We have sold the last of our stock of yellow-sweet- 

 clover seed; and until we secure a further supply we 

 can not fill any more orders. As we go to press we 

 have got track of a nice lot in Oregon, which we hope 

 to secure. If we do we will so announce, with price, 

 in a later issue. 



WHITE-SWEBT-CLOVER SEED. 



We have secured a pretty good stock of unhulled 

 white-sweet-clover seed. We find in several instances 

 a large local demand for the seed at better prices than 

 we have been selling at, and that, in order to make it 

 an object for those able to gather the seed to do so, 

 we shall have to pay better prices than we have been 

 doing in former years. Our stock of seed secured for 

 the coming season is little more than half what we 

 had a year ago. We are obliged, therefore, to raise 

 our selling prices to 25 cts. per lb., postpaid; 15 cts. 

 where shipped with other goods; $1.30 for 10 lbs.; 

 $11 00 per 100 lbs.; hulled seed at 8 cts. per lb. extra. 



The attention of our Texas readers is directed to 

 the advertisement of Udo & Max Toepperwein, which 

 is found on page 1459. Mr. Udo Toepperwein is favor- 

 ably known to bee-keepers generally and to the trade 

 in Texas in particular, and has recently associated 



with him his brother, on account of his increasing 

 business, and they will devote themselves especially 

 to this line from this date on. 



This firm is very favorably located for the distribu- 

 tion of supplies throughout Texas. San Antonio has 

 most excellent shippmg facilities ; and their ware- 

 house being located directly on ttie siding of the S. A. 

 & A. P., and close by the other depots, makes it pos- 

 sible for them to serve bee-keepers promptly and 

 satisfactorily. The aim of this concern is to confine 

 their efforts to Texas, and to render the most efficient 

 service possible to bee-keepers in that State. 



DB. MILLEB SPLINTS. 



We have often had calls for wood splints for use 

 with foundation in brood-frames to prevent sagging, 

 as used and recommended by Dr. C. C. Miller. We 

 have usually made them by sawing thtm out, and wast- 

 ed more than three-fourths of the wood in sawdust. 

 We have hit upon a plan of slicing them, thereby sav- 

 ing all the wood, and cheapening the process as well. 

 We can furnish them 8^ inches long for L. frames at 

 50 cts. per 1000 by mail; 40 cts. shipped with 

 other goods. Small lots at 10 cts. per 100 postpaid. 

 Other lengths can be furnished as well. If shorter, 

 same price in 1000 lots. If longer, add fifty per cent 

 up to 12 inches long. 



SIMPLEX AND NO. 25 JABS AT LAST. 



We have received from the factory the carload of 

 jars which were to have been shipped last August. 

 AVe are now in shape to supply promptly No. 25 jars 

 holding 1 lb. of honey, 2 dozen to the case, at $1.10; 

 6 cases, $6 30; 20 cases or more at $1.00 a case. 



Simplex jars holding 18 oz. of honey, 2 dozen to the 

 case, at $1.15 per case; 6 cases, $6.60; 20 cases or more 

 at $l.t 5 per case. This simplex jar is over-size for one 

 pound of honey, but are the best we can do in this style. 

 There spems to be a great difficulty in producing this 

 style of jar with a glass cap which screws on, gspe- 

 cially the cap with internal spiral thread. There is a 

 small stock of the 1-lb. size in our Philadelphia branch; 

 but aside from these the 18-oz. size is the only one we 

 can furnish. 



BEMITTANCES FOB ORDERS AND ACCOUNT. 



We are under the necessity of asking our friends 

 and patrons when making remittances not to send 

 checks on local banks, but to send, instead, either a 

 bank draft on some large city bank, preferably New 

 York or Chicago, or a postolflce or express money or- 

 der. The tight money market through which numer- 

 ous sections are passing is making it difficult for us 

 to get credit at the banks for local checks, and in 

 some cases we may be obliged to return them and 

 ask instead for a remittance in one of the forms men- 

 »^ioned above. Where we make payments we almost 

 invariably do so by New York draft. Where you can 

 not remit by any of the methods mentioned, then send 

 money by registered mail. The most approved meth- 

 ods, however, are by bank draft, postofflce or express 

 money order. 



ALFALFA HONEY, COMB AND EXTRACTED. 



We have received in the last two weeks a car each 

 of comb and extracted alfalfa honey. The extracted 

 comes from Utah, and the comb from western Colo- 

 rado. We are selling the extracted in 60-1 b. cans at 10 

 cts. in single-can lots; 9i4 cts. by the case of two cans; 

 five cases or more at 9 cts. per Id. 



The comb honey, 24 sections to the case, sells at 

 $4.00 per case; per crate of 8 cases or more, $3.80 per 

 case; 25 cases or over, write for prices. No. 2 honey 

 at 30 cts. per case less. We also have some New York 

 and Pennsylvania white comb honey at 18 to 20 cts. 

 per lb., according to quality or grades. We are in the 

 market to buy clover extracted honey. If any of our 

 readers have any to offer, mail sample and write us, 

 stating how much you have, how packed, and what 

 you ask for it. 



CABTAGE CHARGE ON OBDEBS FILLED BY OUR CITY 

 BBANCH OFFICES. 



The expense of doing business in our large cities is 

 so great that we can not continue furnishing goods at 

 regular prices free on board cars from our city branch 

 offices. It is a great accommodation to many custom- 



