300 Swarms of Bees for Sale! I will sell and ship from the 15th of April till the 20th of May next, 300 colonies of bees at the following prices: PURE ITALIANS, 50 CENTS PER COLONY MORE. It is unnecessary to say any thing concerning the quality of my bees, inasmuch as they have always given universal satisfaction. As to their strength in numbers of bees, and extent to brood, I will only say that they are as strong as any that I have at the season of the year that they are shipped. The queen must be healthy and prolific, and this year will, in nine cases out of ten, be of last year's breeding, since nearly all of my 612 colonies that I wintered in last fall had been supplied with young queens during the season. They will have sufficient honey to carry them through to white-clover blossom; often they have much more. I use the eight-frame Langstroth hive, with portico. They are painted white; are in neat, trimlooking shape, and have all straight combs. I might here insert letters testimonial sufficient, but I trust that my guaranty, that every colony I ship will give satisfaction, is sufficient in any case, inasmuch as I have shipped several thousand colonies during the last four or five years with never a grumbling report. I will further guarantee safe arrival at the last express station. No order is booked unless accompanied by the cash. When booked it will be filled in its proper turn. Notice will be given as to the time of shipment, and, shortly before shipment, the exact date. No discount from the above prices will be given under any circumstances to anyone; and correspondence for that purpose will be useless. I shall, however, be glad to answer any other questions in regard to bees and their management. Money may be sent by Chicago, Milwaukee, or New York Draft, Money Order, or Registered Letter. Respectfully yours, GEO. GRIMM, JEFFERSON, JEFFERSON CO., WISCONSIN. BINGHAM BEE SMOKER Langstroth Hives Sections. AND LEWIS' IMPROVED ONE-PIECE SECTION. Objection has been made for the last two years, by Heddon and others, to the One-Piece Section, on account of the sharp corners made by the side-insets, and by others to the tendency of the bees to make the combs narrower at the insets. Our attention was called to these objections by receiving large orders for sections without the side-insets (one party ordering 30,000). We have now decided to manufacture them like the above cut, without side-insets. This improvement also enables us to make them at a lower price, as there is less labor on them. Pice $4.50 per 1,000 on crders ro' dess than 500. No charge for crating. No Patent on this Section. Send for new Price List, now ready. GIVEN'S FOUNDATION PRESS. IN THE FRONT RANK GIVEN'S MACHINE FOR WIRING FRAMES. of Queen-Breeders. Our handsome 24-page of four races of BEES, QUEENS, and BEE-KEEP- 2-7d BOOKS for BEE-KEEPERS and OTHERS. Any of these books on which postage is not given. will be forwarded by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price. In buying books, as every thing else, we are liable to disappointment, if we make a purchase without seeing the article. Admitting that the bookseller could read all the books he offers, as he has them for sale, it were hardly to be expected he would be the one to mention all the faults, as well as good things about a book. I very much desire that those who favor me with their patronage, shall not be disappointed, and therefore, I am going to try to prevent it by mentioning all the faults so far as I can, that the purchaser may know what he is getting. In the following list, books that I approve, I have marked with a*; those I especially approve,**; those that are not up to times, †; books that contain but little matter for the price, large type and much space between the lines, 7; foreign, §. BOOKS ESPECIALLY FOR BEE-KEEPERS. As many of the bee-books are sent with other goods by freight or express, incurring no postage, we give prices separately. You will notice, that you can judge of the size of the books very well, by the amount required for postage on each. 12 A B C of Bee Culture** Paper...... 10 Quinby's New Bee-Keeping** 10 Langstroth on the Hive and Honey Bee**+ 2 Dzierzon Theory**. 88 94 1 10 1 15 140 190 Growers) 30... Fur, Fin, and Feather.. Farming For Boys... Farm Implements and Machinery, Thomas. Gardening For Money, Barnard. Gardening For Pleasure, Henderson. Gregory On Cabbages....paper. $5 50 30 3 75 38 1 75 100 300 75 25 30 75 150 150 1 50 300 125 5 00 38 50 1 50 1 50 150 150 30 30 20 Draining for Profit and Health, Warring. Forest Tree Culturist, Fuller*. Fret Sawing for Pleasure and Profit**. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany How to Make Candy**. How to Paint, Gardnert. Injurious Insects, Prof. A. J. Cook** Irrigation for the Farm, Garden and Orchard, Manual of Vegetable Plants, in paper. Tillinghast, La Plume, Perin Onion Culture* On the Road to Riches** Play and Profit in my Garden* Practical Floriculture*.. Purdy's Small Fruit Instructor* Sugar Canes and their Products. Sample of How to Get a Farm and When to Find One.... Insects Injurious to Vegetation... Plain, $4 00. 1 25 175 With Colored Plates, $650. Jennings' Horse Training Made Easy. 1 25 Johnson's How Crops Feed. 200 50 Klipparts Wheat Plant...... Johnson's How Crops Grow 200 1 75 150 Leavitt's Facts About Peat... 25 Landscape Gardening, Downing. 1 75 6 50 150 20 Mrs. Cornelius's Young Housekeeper's Friend. 150 Money In The Garden, Quinn.. 150 150 Manual of Botany and Lessons, Gray. 300 38 150 Practical Butter Book, Willard. My Vineyard at Lakeview.... 125 100 250 Pear Culture, Fields.... 125 150 Peach Culture, Fulton's. 150 50 Pear Culture For Profit, Quinn. 100 Potatoe Culture, (Prize Essay). 100 15 Painter, Gilder and Varnisher.... Parsons On The Rose 40 Riley on the Mule.... 150 Practical Poultry Keeper, Wright. 150 200 150 Rhododendrons, Rand 1 50 20 School and Field Book of Botany, Gray 2 50 38 75 50 Taxidermist's Manual.. 100 150 Youman's Household Science. 1 75 25 Youatt on Sheep..... 150 100 You can not look over the back No's of GLEANINGS or any other Periodical with satisfaction, unless they are in some kind of a Binder. Who has not said "Dear me, what a bother-I must have last month's Journal and it is no where to be found." Put each No. in the Emerson Binder as soon as it comes, and you can sit down happy, any time you wish to find anything you may have previously seen even though it were months ago. Binders for GLEANINGS (will hold them for one year), gilt lettered, free by mail for 50, 60, and 75c, according to quality. Table of prices of Binders for any Periodical, mailed on application. Send in your orders. A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. EMERSON'S FOR PAT. BINDER PERIODICALS Cash-for Beeswax! Will pay 21c per lb. cash, or 23c in trade for any quantity of good, fair, average beeswax, delivered 1tfd CASS CO., MICH. HEADQUARTERS In the West Having fitted up our shop with new machinery, we are prepared to furnish all kinds of Apiarian Supplies; Simplicity, Chaff, Langstroth, and other hives. SECTION BOXES, ONE-PIECE, OR DOVETAILED, $4.50 PER 1000. BEES and QUEENS, (See special offer on Queens in our Price List.) DUNHAM FOUNDATION AT BOTTOM PRICES! at our R. R. station. The same will be sold to those Job Frinting done on Short Notice... LARGE NEW LIST FREE. BRIGHT BROS., Mazeppa, Wabasha Co., Minnesota. The Oldest Bee Paper in America--Established in 1961. Inks by Mail AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, One pint, 6c; qt., 10c; gal., 250. Agents wanted. ELWOOD & CO., WEEKLY, at The first and third numbers of each month, $1.00 a year. THE BEST KNIFE MADE Blades extra thick, oil tempered, every cre tested by file. Exchanged free if Ecit or flawy. Price postpaid. 75c, or 1-Llade, 50c. Medium, 2-blade, 50C. J-Liade, 25e. Ilustrated list tree. Butcher Knife, best, 6 in., 50c; StickingKnife, 60c; Skinning Knife, 75c, postpaid. Please send for our free list. Address MAHER & GROSH. 34 N. Monroe St., Toledo, Ohio. Address only, like (No. 1, $1.50; with business card, like No. 2, $2.00; with movable months and figures for dating, like No. 3, $3.00. Full outfit included JOHN M. KINZIE, Doon, Ont., Can. A BEE-KEEPER WANTED. Must be experienced and reliable. No person using intoxicating liquors, tobacco, or cigars, need apply. A married man preferred. Must be indus For illustrations see our Illustrated Catalogue of Apiarian Implements and Supplies, mailed on application. A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. THE ABC OF BEE CULTURE. Bound in paper, mailed for $1.00. At wholesale, same price as GLEANINGS, (but will be sent to any postoffice singly), with which it may be clubbed. One copy, $1.00; 2 copies, $1.90; three copies, $2.75; five copies, $4.00; ten copies, $7.50. The same, neatly bound in cloth, with the covers neatly embellished in embossing and gold, one copy, $1.25; 2 copies, $2.40; three copies, $3.50; five copies, $5.25; ten copies, $10.00. If ordered by freight or express, the postage may be deducted, which will be 12c on the book in paper, and 15c each, on the book in cloth. Cook's Manual in paper or cloth at the same price as abov e. A. I. ROOT, Medina, O. $2 75 175 190 4 50 225 2 75 300 350 175 2.25 2 25 |