PECOS VALLEY of New Mexico lands are coining $50 to $65 net per acre per year from alfalfa. Forty-five thousand acres of alfalfa in bloom five times a year, surrounding Artesia, means honey for the bee-keeper. Live in an ideal fruit country, where the largest artesian wells in the world constantly pour out their wealth. Artesia, the future Rose City, already has the famous "Mile of Roses." Homeseekers' excursions the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Agents wanted, to accompany parties. Write to-day to R. M. LOVE, General Agent, Artesia, N. M.

For bee-smoker and honey-knife circular send card to T. F. BINGHAM, Farwell, Mich. ITALIAN BEES, queens, honey, and Root's bee-keepers' supplies. ALISO APIARY, El Toro, Cal. Golden-all-over and red-clover Italian queens; circular ready W. A. SHUFF, 4426 Osage Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. QUEENS.-Improved red-clover Italians, bred for business, June 1 to Nov. 15, untested queens, 75 cts.; select, $1.00, tested, $1.25 each. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. H. C. CLEMONS, Boyd, Ky.

Quirin's famous improved Italian queens ready in April; nuclei and colonies about May 1. My stock is northern bred, and hardy. Five yards wintered on summer stands without a single loss in 1908; 22 years a breeder. Honey for sale. QUIRIN-THE-QUEEN-BREEDER, Bellevue, O.

Breeding queens of pure races-price $3.00.

Caucasian and Carniolan Order from A. E. Titoff, Expert in Apiculture, with Russian Department of Agriculture, Kieff, Russia. Remit with orders. Correspondence in English.

Convention Notices.

The Southern Minnesota and Western Wisconsin Bee-keepers' Association will hold their annual convention Feb. 23 and 24, 1909, in the court-house at Winona, Minn. All interested are cordially invited. O. S. HOLLAND, Sec.

Winona, Minn.

The annual meeting of the New Jersey State Bee-keeper's As sociation will be held at the State House, Trenton, N. J., Jan. 9. The following is the program:

10:00 A.M., roll-call and business session. 10:20, annual address by the president.

10:45, How I secured 11⁄2 tons of extracted honey from 27 colonies the past season, and increased to 39."-E. G. Carr, Esq., New Egypt, N. J. Discussion.

11:30, question-box. Answers by experts.

1:30 P.M., "Some things the United States Government is doing for the Bee-keeper."-Prof. F. G. Fox, Erwinna, Pa., late Government Apiarist, Washington, D. C.

2:15," Up-to-date Bee-keeping."-J. H. M. Cook, Esq., Essex Falls, N. J.

3:00, election of officers for the ensuing year.

3:15, question-box, and discussion by experts.

3:30, adjournment.

Please bring samples of honey, both comb and extracted. GEO. N. WANSER, Sec.,

Cranford, N. J.

WM. W. CASE, Pres., Frenchtown, N. J.

The annual convention of the Nebraska State Bee-keepers' Association will be held at 2 P.M., Wednesday, January 20, in room 109, Agricultural Hall, State Farm Campus, Lincoln, Neb. An especially good program has been prepared this year, and all bee keepers should take advantage of this opportunity of exchanging ideas and receiving practical help for the coming year. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 18. LILLIAN E. TRESTER, Sec.

Convention Notices-Continued.

The third annual convention of the Western Honey-producers' Association will be held January 20 and 21, 1909, in the Library Building, Sioux City, Iowa. This association is composed of bee-keepers residing in lowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Utah, and California They are assisting each other in a way that is worth while, by their systematic advertising, and marketing of honey. We shall endeavor to make this one of the most helpful conventions that the association has held, and we send out a sweeping invitation to all who are interested in progressive bee culture to be present, and to be prepared to give something of interest; and to those who are interested in honey as a food we extend a cordial invitation to be present and see the thought and energy the bee-keepers are putting into their art to produce the best honey possible.

Mr. N. E. France, General Manager of the National Bee-keepers' Association, has promised to be present. One of the prominent features of this meeting will be an effort to secure legislation that will assist in checking the spread of bee diseases in South Dakota and Iowa.

The question-box will be another prominent feature, and now is the time to begin to think about the things that you want to know more about, and to hand them into the question-box. Salix, lowa. E. G. BROWN.

SPECIAL NOTICES

BY OUR BUSINESS MANAGER

BEE-HUNTING.

The publisher of that excellent magazine, Hunter-TraderTrapper, has just placed before the public a new book which wil interest quite a good many of our readers. Its object is sufficiently indicated by its title, "Bee-hunting."

From time to time we have received orders for just such a book and we are glad to see that som one else has undertaken to furnish a work of this kind at a moderate price. In our judgment the book is all it claims to be-a guide to successful bee-hunting from A to Z. There are a good many localities in this country where there are wild bees in the woods and rocks in considerable abundance, and, in more than one sense of the word, it might pay to hunt them. This book g ves the information necessary to enable any one, who is intelligent and active enough, to engage in bee-hunting with success. If you do not care to engage in the work yourself, perhaps you have a son or friend who would be g ad to take up bee-hunting if he knew how to proceed. Pssibly, if you were to present a copy of this book 'o such an aspirant the wild bees in your locality would be considerably redu ed in numbers before long. In some sections there is an opportunity to make bee-hunting ray. In any event it is evident a work on bee-hunting will prove to be in eresting in several ways.

The book is well gotten up and well worth the price ask d for it, but we are making a special offer of it in connection with GLEANINGS, which places it within reach of all our subscribers. Price 25c postpaid; with GLEANINGS one year, $1.10. See p. 7.

TELESCOPE EXCELSIOR COVER.

In our new catalog, soon from the press we will list a new cover. We have been furnishing for several years on special orders what we have called the Colorado cover. This is very similar to the E cover with a rim tele coping down over the hive at least an inch. With such a cover it is necessary to use a super

PRICES ADVANCED.

In the new edition of our catalog the prices on Hoffman, thick top, and Danzenbaker frames are marked up about 20 cts. per 100, and the prices on observation hives and Bigelow educational hives are also advanced about 20 per cent. Enamel cloth is advanced to 30 cts. per yard; $3.00 per piece of 12 yards. Honeyextractors are advanced, as announced last August, because of the increased cost in ball-bearings and slip g ar-two new features added for this year.

YELLOW SWEET-CLOVER SEed.

We have received from California over a ton of very nice seed of the yellow sweet clover, all with the hulls off. As we have none of this variety with the hulls on, we can offer it only in the one form, and the price will be 30 cts. per lb., postpaid, or 22 cts. not prepaid; 10 lbs., $2.00; 25 lbs. $4.75; 100 lbs., $18.00. We have a limited quantity of the hulled white, which we can furnish at the same rate. The unbulled white is 7 cts. per pound less.

CAPPING-MELTER.

Our new catalog will include the capping-meiter described and illustrated in the Nov. 15th issue of GLEANINGS. It will be made of heavy extra-quality tin, ext a coated, and the price, without heating-stove, is $8.00.

MANUM SWARM-CATCHER.

Our swarm-catchers for this year are being made of 8-mesh galvanized-wire cloth, and are much stronger and more durable than heretofore. This adds to their cost. so that we have increased the price to $1.25 with pole, or 90 cents without it. The increase in price is trifling compared with the greatly increased strength and lasting quality of the implement.

FOUR-FRAME NON-REVERSING EXTRACTORS. We have devised a very simple method of producing a fourframe extractor, non-reversing, in a small can, at a moderate price. By taking four comb-pockets, such as we use in the L. size Cowan or Root automatic, and fastening them securely at each corner, and to a frame similar to that used in the Cowan, we have a reel holding four combs, very strong and rigid, which will swing with ample clearance in a can 20 inches in diameter. 1 The combs must be lifted out and turned the other side out, and inserted again before you finish extracting from both sides of the comb, the same as in the Novice. There may be those who prefer to do this for the sake of getting a machine in small compass. We will furnish three sizes;

No. 54, with comb-pockets 95% in. wide in a can 20 in. in diameter. Price $16.00.

No. 74, with comb-pockets 12 in. wide in a can 23 in. in diameter. Price $18.03.

No. 84, with comb-pockets 121⁄2 in. wide and one inch deeper: 24 inches in diameter. Price $20.00.

cover over the hive or super to prevent the bees from sticking it fast, so that it would be difficult or impossible to remove it readily. By increasing the width of the end cleats and the cover boards, and adding side strips, we convert our patented Excelsior into a telescope cover, as shown above. Hives will be supplied with this cover and super cover at an extra cost of 10 cents per hive. The cover alone, without super cover, sells for 5 cents each more than the regular E cover.

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A Free Trial Package is Mailed to Every One Who Writes.

A. L. Rice, a prominent manufacturer of Adams, N. Y., has discovered a process of making a new kind of paint without the use of oil. He calls it Powdrpaint. It comes in the form of a dry powder, and all that is required is cold water to make a paint weather-proof, fire-proof, and as durable as oil paint. It adheres to any surface, wood, stone, or brick. spreads and looks like oil paint, and costs about one-fourth as much.

Write to Mr. A. L. Rice, Manufacturer, 8 North St., Adams, N. Y.. and he will send you a free trial package, also color-card and full information showing you how you can save a good many dollars.

Write to-day.

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The Savings Deposit Bank has a capital and surplus of $70,000, and assets of over $700,000. Its policy is conservative; its affairs are ably managed by capable and successful business men.

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Texas has passed new School Land Laws. Millions of acres are now to be sold by the State at $1.00 to $5.00 per acre; only one-fortieth cash and no more to pay for 40 years, unless you desire; only 3 per cent interest You can buy 160 acres at 1.00 per acre, payable $4.00 down and 40 years' time on the balance, 3% interest. Greatest opportunity ever offered to investors and farmers. Texas land is better than Oklahoma, Iowa or Illinois. Send 50 cents for Book of Instructions, New State Law, Map of Texas, and brief description of over 400 million acres of vacant public lands in 25 different States, which are open to homestead. Three Books for 81.00. E. C. HOWE, 938 Hartford Building, CHICAGO, ILL.

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