ENTOMOLOGY LIBRARY GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. ADVERTISEMENTS. We require that every advertiser satisfy us of responsibility and intention to do all that he agrees, and that his goods are really worth the price asked for them. Rates for Advertisements. All advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 20 cents per line, Nonpareil space, each insertion. 12 lines, Nonpareil space make 1 inch. Discounts will be made as follows: On 10 lines and upward, 3 insertions, 5 per cent; 6 insertions, 10 per cent; 9 insertions, 15 per cent; 12 insertions, 20 per cent. SF54 G4 V.10 PAY HALF TUITION after taking situation. Send stamp for circulars and particulars. BUCKEYE BUSINESS AND TELEGRAPH COLLEGE, Sandusky, O. Mention this paper. Comb Foundation MachineS $15.00 TO $100.00. SAMPLES OF FOUNDATION WITH OUR ONE POUND SECTION BOX BY MAIL FOR FIVE CENTS. For illustrations see our Illustrated Catalogue of Apiarian Implements and Supplies, mailed on application. A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. On 50 lines (% column) and upward 1 insertion, 5 per On 100 lines (whole column) and upward, 1 insertion, On 200 lines (whole page) 1 insertion, 15 per cent; 3 insertions, 20 per cent; 6 insertions, 25 per cent; 9 insertions, 30 per cent; 12 insertions, 40 per A. I. ROOT. cent. THE A B C OF BEE CULTURE. Bound in paper, mailed for $1.00. At wholesale, postoffice singly), with which it may be clubbed. same price as GLEANINGS, (but will be sent to any five copies, $4.00: ten copies, $7.50. One copy, $1.00; 2 copies, $1.90; three copies, $2.75; 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 above. A. I. ROOT, Medina, O. "W. 0.'S" INK. In 2 oz. bottles, black, violet, or blue, in gross boxes, per gross... In quantities of 5 or more gross, $3,20 per Gross. In Pint Bottles, per doz. 66 แ In Quart 66 66 $4.00 .$3.00 600 12 00 Green and Red ink are necessarily more expensive, and the price will therefore be one-half more. Liquid Bluing, in 6 oz. bottles, per doz... 66 66 66 50 66 gross........ $5 40 I will send gross, 2 oz. inks, assorted colors, black, blue, violet, and one bottle each of green and -red, as a trial order for $1.00. Orders may be sent to me when more convenient. A. I. ROOT. INK POWDER. Sending my inks to far-off States by Express in one-fourth gross boxes, has made it expensive for my patrons, costing as high as $1.65 for Express charges alone on three dozen of 2-oz. bottles. In order to meet a great want among lovers of good ink, at a distance, I will send, on receipt of 25 cts., suffcient ink in powder, of either Black, Violet, or Blue, to make one quart of either color. And for the same sum, enough of Green or Red ink for one pint; or, upon receipt of $1.00, will send the five colors as above, free of charge, thus giving one gallon of five different colors, for one dollar. Ink by mail should be ordered directly from factory. These inks de not mould, are not injured by freezing, and do not corrode the pen. WM.OLDROYD, Columbus, Ohio. MIA Fdn. a Cure of Foul Brood.32 Forncrook's Patent One- Piece Section We are now in better shape than ever to furnish Bee Hives and Sections, having remodeled our ma- chinery, and got every thing in tiptop shape for the coming season. We make a specialty of our Patented June 28th, 1881. We have not sold any rights to manufacture, therefore we are the sole NOTICE Some persons having infringed upon our Patent "One-Piece Section," we hereby give notice that we shall prosecute all manufactu- rers. We shall not molest bee-keepers for USING those purchased before December 1, 1881, but here- by caution them against buying any except those bearing our stamp. It has been reported by some that it is our intention only to prosecute bee-keep- ers for using those One-Piece Sections heretofore purchased; this is wholly untrue and false. Watertown, Wis., Dec. 15, 1881. 75 to 100 Pedigree Pigs for delivery in June, six weeks to two months old. Write for prices. Also Brown Leghorn (prize winners) EGGS, @ $1. per doz., and B. B. R. G. Bantam Eggs for Hatching (imported), @ $1.50 per doz., in new baskets. Safe CHAFF AND SIMPLICITY HIVES. 37 by first of January, at special rates. Write for Birmingham, Erie Co., Ohio. dation.-High side-walls, 4 to 14 square The Oldest Bee Paper in America-Established in 1861. Published WEEKLY, at $2.00 a year. The first and third numbers of each month, $1.00 a year. The first number of each month, 50 cents a year. For brood combs, 40 cts. per lb.; thin, for comb If you desire the benefit of an experience which honey from 160 swarms of bees the present season, send for our new book. It contains 270 pages and 100 illustrations, and is fully up to the times. It will pay you to investigate. We sell everything used in advanced bee culture. Send for our illustrated cir- L. C. ROOT & BRO., Mohawk, N. Y. FOR EXCHANGE. 4 AIMBOTLI40 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Names of responsible parties will be inserted in any of the following departments, at a uniform price of 20 cents each insertion, or $2,00 per year. $1.00 Queens. Names inserted in this department the first time with out charge. After, 20c each insertion, or $2,00 per year. Those whose names appear below agree to furnish Italian queens for $1,00 each, under the following conditions: No guarantee is to be assumed of purity; or anything of the kind, only that the queen be reared from a choice, pure mother, and had commenced to lay when they were shipped. They also agree to return the money at any time when customers become impatient of such delay as may be unavoidable. Bear in mind that he who sends the best queens, put up most neatly and most securely, will probably receive the most orders. Special rates for warranted and tested queens, furnished on application to any of the parties. Names with, use an imported queen mother. If the queen arrives dead, notify us and we will send you another. Probably none will be sent for $1.00 before July 1st, or after Nov. If wanted sooner, or later, see rates in price list. *S. F. Newman, Norwalk, Huron Co., O. *Wm. Ballantine. Sago, Musk. C., O. 1tfd 1tfd JAN. C. H. Deane, Sr., Mortonsville, Woodford Co., KY. COUNTER ltfd The new Deane System for Comb Honey. The N. A. B. K. A. says it surpasses any thing of the kind, combining all the necessary arrangements, simple and complete. One full set for 50 cts. Weight, 4 to 5 lbs. Sent by freight or express as you direct. Send money by P. O. money-order to Versailles, Woodford Co., Ky., at my risk. Send for price list. Will send by mail, exact measurement of each piece of the Star Chaff Hive, and the new Deane System, for 30 one-cent stamps. Don't fail to put your name and P. O. address. C. H. DEANE, 12-5d Mortonsville, Woodford Co., Ky. HEADQUARTERS FOR Early Italian & Cyprian Queens. Imported and home-bred; nuclei and full colonies. For quality and purity, my stock of bees can not be excelled in the United States. I make a specialty of manufacturing the Dunham foundation. Try it. If you wish to purchase Bees or Supplies, send for my new Circular, containing directions for introducing queens, remarks on the new races of Bees, &c. Address 1tfd DR. J. P. H. BROWN, Augusta, Ga. HIVES! HIVES! I am now prepared to manufacture bee-hives, wholesale and retail at the very lowest prices. Send one dollar, to get one of D. A. Jones' celebrated hives. Catalogue furnished on application. 9tfd JOHN M. KINZIE, Doon, Ont., Can. Postage.] STORE. [Pr. of 10, of 100 A most valuable instrument, when traveling in the woods when away from home on a cloudy day, etc. ring, to hang it to a watch-guard, same price. A small size, with 8 Lunch-baskets, or satchels, straw.. 1 40 13 00 15 Maple-sugar candy by the wagon-load 1 30 12 00 Wagon (size 2x3x6) thrown in, all for 15c. Sled-load, wheelbarrow-load, or cradleful, same price. 20 Sled, like 25c one, but only 4% x6x12 |1 20 | 11 00 We can now furnish Bessemer-steel barbed fence-wire, painted, the best in the market, at 10 cents per lb. ; and as it weighs only 1 lb. to the rod, it makes a cheap fence. One strand fastened on top of a board or rail fence, makes it stock proof. Galvanized wire, 11 c. Staples (steel) for same, 7 c. per lb. Pliers and wire shears, for cutting No. 9 wire, $1.25. A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. Honey Column. Under this head will be inserted, free of charge, the names or all those having honey to sell, as well as those wanting to buy. Please mention how much, what kind, and prices, as far as possible. As a general thing. I would not advise you to send your honey away to be sold on commission. If near home, where you can look after it, it is often a very good way. By all means, develop your home market. For 25 cents we can furnish little boards to hang up in your dooryard, with the words, Honey for Sale," neatly painted. If wanted by mail, 10 cents extra for postage. Boards saying "Bees and Queens for Sale," same price. KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. The silver spoons came to hand in due time, and all who see them admire them. Fewark, Del., Nov. 23, 1881. GEO. W. SIMMONS. Send me two more of the small dictionaries. Everybody who sees them wants one. M. W. HARRINGTON. York Center, Iowa Co., Ia., Dec. 5, 1881. The 16-inch Gem planer I ordered of you is received, and is a very fine machine-first-class workmanship, and it works splendidly. J. D. GOODRICH. East Hardwick, Vt., Dec. 5, 1881. The watch came last week all right; it is a marvel of beauty and cheapness, and a good timekeeper. Your kindness and fair dealing are highly appreciated. D. S. TYLER. Clio, Mich., Dec. 5, 1881. Please accept thanks for favors during the past season; for promptness in filling orders, mode of shipping, etc. My best wishes to you and all connected with the factory (Blue Eyes not forgotten). I hope to more than double my orders next season. Ashley, Pa., Aug. 8, 1881. JOEL HEYDT. My copies of GLEANINGS are nearly worn out, as they have been lent to bee keepers so much. FRED TIMMERMAN. Fayette, Fayette Co., Ia., Oct. 31, 1881. [(will always replace those worn out in such service, free, friend T.] The package came to hand, and I found it all nice. My bees have done finely this year. The queens that I received of you last year are fine. I am proud of you as of any man living. I said that I had found the right man in the right place. JOHN BAYS. Boxford, DeKalb Co., Mo., Oct. 24, 1881. The 15-cent dictionary come to hand all right, and I declare it is quite a prize for the money. I showed it to my teacher, and asked him what he thought it ought to be worth. He replied that he thought such a book would cost forty or fifty cents. ISABELLA WIER. South River, Anne Arundel Co., Md., Nov. 18, 1881. Inclosed find $4.18. Please send me GLEANINGS for 1882, and one of the improved Waterbury watches. time as any watch I ever owned; in fact, gives me more pleasure than any watch I ever carried, for it needs no medicine to keep it going. J. S. TADLOCK. CHICAGO.-Honey.-The market prices of honey The one I got of you last February keeps as correct and wax remain unchanged. Chicago, Dec. 21, 1881. A. H. NEWMAN. One barrel of white-clover honey, weighing 235 lbs., for which I will take 10c. per lb.; honey is candied solid. No charge for barrel. Delivered on cars at Gettysburg, Pa. A. I. WEIDNER. Bigler, Adams Co., Pa., Dec. 16, 1881. I will sell 4400 lbs. of choice sage honey, candied, in 80-lb. tins, in lots of 6 cans or more, delivered in any of the principal cities of the U. S., at 12 c. per lb. R. WILKIN, San Buenaventura, Cal., Dec. 17, 1881. Kingsbury, Guad. Co., Texas, Nov. 21, 1881. That watch you sent me for the small sum of ten dollars has puzzled the watch-dealers here. They have been trying to compete with your prices, but all have failed, and one of my friends told them that he would let me send to a bee-man out in Ohio and get one. Therefore please send by first mail, one ten-dollar American watch. WM. DEWORTH, Bordentown, N. J., Dec. 5, 1881. The reason I haven't sent these small amounts more promptly, is, it is so expensive, and I had concluded to wait till I made an order, as I do every year; but I know this is wrong; and besides, friend Byrne predicts a failure, and we must not allow that. Keep up the Home Papers by all means, and tell our friend away up in Maine, if he don't want them to take his knife and cut them out. C. H. DEANE. Mortonsville, Ky., Dec. 5, 1881. Magnifying-glass and postal of Oct. 21st received. Thanks for the beautiful little instrument. It is fine for so small a price. My 75c colony is doing finely. They have taken in 30 lbs. of honey since Wednesday. I am informed that if any want to buy cheap black bees in box hives, they can get them about or near Reynolds, White County, Indiana, at two dollars a stand, as many as one wants. My bees are all packed for winter but one, and it has a good sbed. GEO. L. HOLLENBACH. Noblesville, Hamilton Co., Ind., Oct. 24, 1881. I received all the goods promptly, and in good order, but I don't see how in the world you can furnish articles for so small a price. Your pruning shears whv. I could not get a pair like that for less than $1.75 in the city of New York! Your glasscutters are simply immense for that price. I had a few glasses to put in the greenhouse, which had to be cut to fit; and I tell you, they just worked splendid. You may expect another order shortly. Meanwhile accept thanks for promptness. Carlstadt, N. J., Nov. 15, 188i. FR. HOLTKE. THE 5-CENT SUNDAY-SCHOOL BOOKS. I have the Sunday-school books, entitled "The Giant-killer," "The Roby Family," "On the Way," "Ethel Linton," "Sheer Off," and "Silver Keys," and I would say to those who have not read them, be sure to get them when you are making your selections. If any one only knew the wholesome and interesting matter contained in these books, he would not, I think, hesitate to hand over the insignificant price and read them. J. P. MOORE. Morgan, Pendleton Co., Ky., Nov. 28, 1881. A HINT FOR OUR YOUNG LADY READERS. flutter around for awhile and then die. And now a A. C. MILLER. Barrington, Bristol Co., R. I., Dec. 6, 1881. I thought I would drop GLEANINGS this time (I have taken it 3 years); but when the last number Newpoint, Decatur Co., Ind., Dec. 7, 1881. HOW TO GET SUBSCRIBERS. I was so delighted with GLEANINGS. I had some copies in my pocket. When I saw a bee-keeper I offered him one to read, with an invitation to take a copy. In every instance they have done so. Wilkinson did not know that he wanted it at the time I offered him the copy. I passed his residende yesterday, and asked him how he liked it. He came out to the road and said it was just what he wanted. He would not do without it; said his wife wanted him to take the A B C, but GLEANINGS was just what he wanted. He never had any honey except what he took out of hives, L. movable frames. They are all in a hurry; want to begin with Nov. No. Send them along. FRED TIMMERMAN. Fayette, Iowa, Nov. 1, 1881. Smoker No. 2, which you sent me in place of the one Uncle Sam put his foot on, came all right, and, as the girls say about a new hat, it is "just nobby." I think you are very kind to send another smoker; but I do not feel just right to have you stand all the loss. I don't know which to do in return for your kindness-pay off the debt against your factory, or try to get you some new subscribers for your magazine. I think I will try the latter plan. How would it do to leave a space at the bottom of your labels for comb honey, to fill with pen or pencil the kind of honey the case contained, also space for name and address of producer? P. W. RICHTMYER. Gilboa, Schoharie Co., N. Y., Nov. 22, 1881. [I think I would use a separate label for the purpose you mention, friend R.-Your very kind words pay for all the damage, but we should be very glad of the subscribers.] What will be your lowest terms for GLEANINGS for five years and one Waterbury watch, latest improved nickel case? We like GLEANINGS SO well, and also the editor, that we want to secure it for the above time. It is a pleasure to deal with you; for if there are any mistakes, you are always ready to correct them if you were at fault. W. O. & G. L. BEACH. Quitman, Nodaway Co., Mo., Nov. 19, 1881. [Many thanks for your very kind words, friend B.; and all that troubles me about them is, that I may not always deserve them.-As we are doing a great deal to introduce the Waterbury watches, the manufacturers have given us an especial rate, where we use them as premiums, and this enables us to give a watch, free of postage, to everybody who sends us $5.00 for five subscriptions. It may be a club of five, or sent to five different addresses, if all are new.] On page 567, Nov. GLEANINGS, I notice an editorial who of you is it that has been selling us pure queens headed, "A Big Swindle," in which you ask, “Now, for hybrids?" I suppose I must confess that I am "guilty," for I see no chance to escape, as one of your customers, whose order I filled, wrote me that the queen (which I sold for hybrid) was pure. Speaking of her bees he called them "little beauties." I wrote him that I was glad to hear it, and of course did not ask for any thing extra. I did not know she was pure when I shipped her I thought she was hybrid, but found out later that I was mistaken. So it was with one or two more I shipped you for hybrids, and I thought, Won't that fellow be tickled when he finds that his queen is a tested one instead of a hybrid one?" I feel amply paid by so agreeably disappointing those fellows, if it was really I. I know I am the "chap" in at least one of the cases which I have stated. Can you not tell, friend Root, by going to your queen-books, the one from whom you got the "bogus" hybrid queens? Look, and let me know. SQUARE MEN. I wish to state that I fully approve of your idea of having a list of square men. I think it will be a great aid to all of the honest ones. I will leave it to you and my customers whether I deserve to be placed in that list or not. I have dealt with you very much, and you have trusted me whenever I asked you to send me goods, before I had paid for The box of goods shipped to my address the 17th is received, every thing in good condition. Almost every article was better than we expected - a wonder for the money 50 to 75 per cent cheaper than the same could have been bought here. Why do you advertise the carpenter's level an "imitation rosewood," when it is good cherry, same as all levels, just as good as rosewood; while to say "imita-them, for which I hereby tender you many thanks. tion," conveys the impression that it is soft wood, only painted, which would be a poor article even if it imitated gold. I shall want another box of goods after awhile. S. C. PERRY. Portland, Ionia Co., Mich., Nov. 25, 1881. [Why, you see, friend P., it was imitation rosewood at first, but the manufacturers improved them, and we had not got round to note it. Many thanks for your kind words.] You can tell whether I have acted honestly with you |