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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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ers, especially in the busy season, to be able to secure 

 groods promptly and at lower freight rates from these 

 distributing centers, and I am sure they will be will- 

 ing to share with us the heavy expenses necessary to 

 make this accommodation possible. Hereafter on all 

 orders from Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and 

 Washington offices, shipped by freight, a cartage 

 charge of 25 cts. will be made on orders of $3.00 or 

 less; 35 cts. on orders of $3.00 to $5.00; 50 cts. on orders 

 of $5.00 to $10.00; over $10 00 in value, 5 per cent of the 

 bill, or 20 cts. per 100 lbs., if that figures less than the 

 5-per-cent plan. At New York city the minimum 

 charge will be 50 cents. 



These charges do not cover the cost to us, but rep- 

 resent a fair division of the cost. 



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 rate 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 54 gallon; 50 cts. a quart; 30 cts. a pint. 



Painted wire cloth is advanced to 2^ cts. per foot 

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

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



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 tulle per yd., 60 cts.; cotton tulle per yd., 25 cts.; 

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

 in globe veil. 



THE NEW EDITION Or THE A B C OF BEE CULTURE 

 NOW READY FOR DISTRIBUTION. 



The new edition of the A B C of Bee Culture has 

 finally, after a great deal of labor, been completed. 

 So far from being merely a work for beginners, or 

 the A B C, it is also an X Y Z of the business, and 

 hence equally valuable to the veterans, for it gives 

 all the latest processes and methods of the most ad- 

 vanced bee-keepers, as well as those that may be 

 used by the novice. 



It very often occurs that an experienced bee- 

 keeper has, within a year or so back, read such and 

 such a method for producing comb honey or some one 

 else's plan for the prevention of swarming. He has 

 not kept a file of the journals. He can not remember 

 in what issues those methods appear. On reading 

 them at the time, he determined to give them a fur- 

 ther test when the season opened up; but where, oh! 

 where, can he find those journals containing just the 

 articles that describe these methods? Well, the new 

 work has given in brief some of the most important; 

 and all he has to do is to turn to the index and find 

 what he wants boiled down in clear language. 



Then, again, it often happens that the bee-keeper 

 hears about the Heddon method of transferring, or 

 reads something about Alexander's method of 

 strengthening weak colonies in the spring. Again, 

 he sees something about the Doolittle or the J. E. 

 Hand scheme for producing comb honey in connection 

 with the divisible-brood-chamber hive. He is all at 

 sea; but the new volume will tell him all about these 

 and more. 



But in a scientific way the ABC and X Y Z is far 

 ahead of what it has ever been before. The botanical 

 libt of honey-plants has been almost entirely re- writ- 

 ten by W. K. Morrison; the chemistry of honey, of 

 glucose, and of nectar are all covered by the same 

 writer. 



Mechanically the new edition has been improved by 

 the use of an almost entirely new set of engravings, 

 the old ones being reengraved, and the use of enamel- 

 ed book paper, the most expensive paper of the kind 

 procurable. This brings out not only the letter-press 

 but the engravings as well to a point of brilliancy and 

 clearness that is pleasing. 



But it would take quite a little volume to tell about 

 the new features of this magnificent work, and the 

 reader will have to see it in order to appreciate its 

 merits. While it is nearly 100 pages larger, and all 

 told 300 pages of new matter, the price has been in- 



creased only slightly — from $1.20 by mail to $1.50, or 

 $1.25 if sent with other goods. Or in half morocco, 

 $2 00, postpaid, or $1.75 with other goods. Full leath- 

 er, $2.50, postpaid, or $2.25 with other goods. 



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 sufQciently 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 forehanded people who know pretty well 

 what they want for the coming season. 



The following is the schedule of discounts for early 

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

 conditions below: 



For cash sent in December, deduct 4 per cent. 

 ." ." " January, " 3^ " 



February, " 3 

 " " " March. " 2^ " 



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 articles exclusively; but where these form no more 

 than 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. 



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Send 10c for a beautiful Mt. Mellick center- 

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WU I .>.....» ^^m,M If there is a queen- 

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stock let him trot out the proof. Testimonials 

 enough to fill this book. Will give you only one. 

 Mr. J. C. King. Washington, D. C . writes, "For two 

 years I have had one of your queens in my apiary. 

 Each season she has given me over 200 lbs. comb 

 honey; last season she actually stored while other 

 colonies starved. I have over twenty strains in my 

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Now is the time to get a fine breeding queen; stock 

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W. H. LAWS. Beevlile, Bee Co., Texas. 



