1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1635 



Our records show that something like 2000 copies of 

 the new edition of the A B C of Bee Culture were sold 

 before it was off the press. We are making delivery 

 as fast as possible, and hope that all of our friends 

 will be supplied before this issue reaches them. 



SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES. 



There is no weekly home paper for the moral and 

 religious nourishment of the family that will equal 

 the Su7iday School Timts. 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. 



WHITE-SWEET-CLOVBR 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; $130 for 10 lbs.; 

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



TELLOW-SWBKT-CLOVER SEED. 



We have finally secured a choice lot of yellow-sweet- 

 clover seed which is now on the way to us from Ore- 

 gon. The sample we received is hulled, and we sup- 

 pose the bulk lot will be the same. We can offer this 

 at 25 cts. per lb.; 10 lbs. $2 30; 100 lbs., $2100. By 

 mail. 8 cts. per lb. extra. The chief advantages of the 

 yellow over the white is in the fact that it blooms at 

 least two weeks earlier. From some reports received 

 it is not so hardy or so luxuriant in growth as the 

 white. 



STEEL HIVE-TOOL NICKEL-PLATED. 



After much experimenting we have adopted a hive- 

 tool, about eight inches long as shown above. It is 

 made of tempered spring steel, about Wt inches wide 

 at each end. sharpened and one end bent over at 

 right angles for a scraper or a rest for the hand when 

 inserting the opposite end to separate parts of hives. 

 It is nickel-plated and polished. Price 40 cts.; by 

 mail, 46 cts. 



WAX MOLDS FOR OUNCE CAKES. 



There is a very large demand for little cakes of 

 beeswax for various household purposes. You will 

 find that nearly every druggist keeps wax, not only 



for compounding but for sale. Since the enactment 

 of the national pure- food law there has been a stimu- 

 lus to the demand for cakes of pure beeswax where, 

 before, a mixture was often used. We have calls for 

 molds for making these small cakes. We have not 

 heretofore had them to furnish. We found some- 

 thing of compact form, and just the right size to hold 

 one or two ounces of wax. They are pressed tin re- 

 tinned. Price of one-ounce size, 35 cts. per dozen; by 

 mail, 40 cts. ; of the two-ounce size. 40 cts. per dozen ; 

 by mail, 50 cts. For our trade we put up each ounce 

 cake in a carton, and 32 cakes, or 2 lbs., in a large 

 carton, which sells to the dealer for $1.00. The price 

 of these cartons depends on the quantity you require 

 and the printing on them. Prices quoted to those in- 

 terested, on application. For limited local need you 

 can doubtless work up a trade without the cartons. 



GERMAN EDITION OF THE A B C OF BEE CULTURE. 



We find when we get all our figures together that 

 the production of the A B C in German is a bigger ex- 

 pense than we anticipated, and that $2.00 each for the 

 paper-bound edition does not cover first cost to us. 

 even if we could sell every copy for cash at the full 

 retail price. Compared with other works of like size 

 and nature of contents the price ought to be $5.00 per 

 volume ; but we know very well that very few would 

 buy at that price. To make the price reaso lable, and 

 at the same time bring us somewhere near first cost, 

 we will ask $2.50 postpaid for the cloth-bound edition 

 and $2.00 for the paper-bound. When shipped with 

 other goods by freight or express, 20 cents may be 

 deducted. If any of our readers know of German 

 friends who do not read English readily, and would 

 like to read the A B C in their native tongue secure 

 their order for the book at the above prices, and for 

 50 cts. additional we will send Gleanings one year to 

 your address or any other to which you may prefer to 

 have it sent. 



PERFORATED ZINC FOR QUEEN-EXCLUDERS REDUCED. 



During the past few months the market price of 

 spelter and sheet zinc has declined sharply, so that 

 zinc is now selling as low as it did in June, 1905, 

 although it lacks more than one cent a pound of be- 

 ing as low as it was in June, 1904. Because of the 

 reduced cost of zinc, we revise prices on perforated 

 metal, tak.ng effect from this date. 



Sheets, 32x96 inches, will be $1.50 each. 



PRICE LIST OF ZINC HONBT-BOARDS. 



Name and Size. 



10-frame unbound ziuc. 14X19^4 



lO-fr. large unbound zinc, 16x20 



S-frame unbound zinc, 12xl9J4 



8-frame wood-zinc, 13^8X20 



10-frame wood-zinc, 16x20 



10-frame wood-bound zinc, 16x20.... 



8-frame wood-bound zinc, 13^x20. 



WIRE QUEEN-EXCLUDERS. PATENTED OCT. 8, 1907. 



On another page of this issue we show something 

 new in queen-excluders, which we believe will be a 

 great gain in saving wear and tear on the bees' wings 

 passing through it when contrasted with perforated 

 zinc. 



Alley traps and entrance-guards with wire instead 

 of zinc in entrance will be 5 cts. each more than the 

 old style— namely. 



Wire Alley trap. 8 or 10 frame, 50c each; $4.50 for 10. 



Wire entrance- guard 8 or 10 fr., 18o each: $1 .50 for 10. 



No. 7 wire and wood honey-board, 16x20, $3.50 for 10. 



No. 8 wire and wood honey-board. 13,'^x20, $3 00 for 10. 



Wire entrances, pieces for either Alley trap or 

 entrance-guard. 10 cts. each. 



Wire strips for honey-boards, $2 20 per 100. 



NEW HONET-JAB. 



We have found a new honey-jar which is not only 

 neat in appearance, and seals tight, tut is lower in 

 price than any of the jars listed in catalog. We shall 

 have it in 54-lb. and 1-lb. size. The mold for the 1-lb. 

 size is not yet ready, and we shall not have the jars In 

 stock for some weeks. We have a few of the ^-Ib. 

 size. We can mail a sample for 15 cts. to pay packing 

 and postage. 



