PRICE LIST.
As some of my customers reside in localities where lumber and labor is scarce and high in price, and some perhaps may wish to obtain my Italian Bees, I add this price list and have made arrangements to supply such.
I will furnish the material for Controllable Hives, Boxes and all fixtures (except glass) got out ready to put together for Sixty Dollars per dozen, Thirty Dollars per one-half dozen.
This price includes all the material and fixtures securely packed and shipped as freight at lowest rates of transportation to any part of the United States or Canada.
All parts of hives, boxes, etc., are got out of good Pine Lumber by machinery with steam power. Any piece or part of a hive will fit the corresponding part of any other Controllable Hive. One dozen hives got out in this way and put together makes every part of the dozen hives interchangeable one with the other. Thus brood frames, glass honey boxes, feeders, honey boards, box frames, etc., etc., may be taken from one hive and put into another, and will fit well. This is a very important point in managing the bees, and is seldom attained to perfection when the material for hives is got out and put together by an ordinary carpenter.
A person of average skill with tools will take the material for hives as I furnish it, and put together ready for receiving the bees, one dozen Controllable Hives in one day.
Order your material early so as to get your hives and boxes ready for the bees before the hurry of spring work.
To any one who has the book "Bee Keeping for Profit" I will forward, for Eight Dollars, to any part of the country, one complete Controllable Hive, well finished and painted, with the six brood frames containing comb foundation, and with seventy-six one pound boxes or in place of them, thirty-eight two pound boxes, (or part of each as customers may prefer) each box supplied with comb foundation ready for the bees to commence work, feeder in place on the hive as used for feeding; the hive all ready to receive a swarm of bees.
If copy of Book is to be included with the complete hives, price will be Nine Dollars.