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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 15. 



I may remark that the "Medical Director" 

 alluded to in the above has seen fit to send me a 

 very kind (?) letter; and he tries again to ex- 

 plain how it is that Electropoise acts. He ad- 

 mits they get $25.00 for a 50-cent article, and 

 says the scientitic explanation of Electropoise 

 is, that it acts in the same way as putting cold 

 applications to the spine; but instead of apply- 

 ing the ice to the spinal column the polarizer is 

 placed on a block of ice, and the "'cold" runs 

 along the wire to the wrist or ankle, and then 

 to the spinal column. Thisexplanatinu is quite 

 ingenious indeed. But, unfortunately, science 

 has never yet discovered a sort of cold or heat 

 either that could run along a wire; then he 

 modifies it by suggesting that it is "thermo- 

 electric vital force" that goes along the wire. 

 No scientist of the present day recognizes any 

 such force, I hardly need remark: and yet these 

 fellows keep right on robbing sick people. 



CARLOAD SHIPMENTS. 



Since last report we liave loaded and shipped a 

 fourth car to Barteldes & Co., Denver, Colo. We 

 are loading' a second car for G. G. Wickson & Co., 

 San Francisco, and have export orders sufficient to 

 make a fourth car for Ne>v York city. 



A MILLION FEET OF PJNE LUMBER. 



During the last month we havp bought, or con- 

 tracted for, a round million feet of dry pine lumber 

 for use in making hives, frames, boxes, etc. We 

 have also contracted to furnish 10 or 13 cars of lum- 

 ber cut for boxes for shipping celery, most of it 

 grown in this county. We have for some time been 

 cutting up pine lumber at the rate of over two curs 

 a week. 



MASON FRUIT-.IARS. 



We have a pretty good stock of Mason fruit-jars, 

 bought befnre price advanced, which we will sell, 

 while they last, as follows: 



1 viint, 1 doz. in box, 65c: fi doz. in box, $3.50 

 1 quart, " " 7iie; 8 " " 5.U0 



', gallon, •' " 85c: 6 " " 4.75 



These are best jars, made witli natural gas. 



NORTHWEST TRADE INCREASING. 



From thp settlement for 1 he month of May with 

 H. G. A(klin, St. Paul, Minn., our Northwestern 

 representative, we note witli much satisfaction a 

 decided int-rcase in the trade in our goods for that 

 ttrritorj'. I'he amount sold during tjie one month 

 was more than for the entire year of 1893, and near- 

 ly as much as last year's entire trade. This indi- 

 cates either that the prospects for bee-keepers in 

 that section are much better, or that they appreci- 

 ate Root's goods and the convenience of being able 

 to g:et them near home at catalog prices on short 

 notice, as well as the service of our agent there. 

 DoubtlesF both considerations help to swell the 

 trade. 



HONEY-PACKAGES OF ALL KINDS. 



We have already furnished this season a great 

 many thousand shipping-cases of various sizes, and 

 several hundred boxfs of glass to use with them. 

 We are ready to su))i)ly thousands more in large or 

 .small quantities, as needed. Our cases are light, 

 strong, neat, and well made. They include nails, 

 and, if ordered complete, will include glass and 

 paper to go under and over the sections in each case. 



For shipping extracted honey the 60-lb. square 

 cans can not be surpassed. After July 1st. in all 

 the territory covered by the Western Classification, 

 i. e., west of Chicago and Mississippi River, extract- 

 ed honey in barrels, kegs, or cans boxed, will go at 

 4th class rate of freight. We are prepared to fur- 

 nish 60-lb. cans, with l?4inch screw caps, from New 

 Orleans, La., St. Louis, Mo., Conneaut, O., or from 

 here. Price of a single box of 3 cans, 75c ; 10 boxes. 



J6 .50: 25 boxe=, $15.00. Special prices quoted on 

 large lots and e:irloads. One galhin or 13-lb. square 

 cans, with screw caps, f 10.00 per 100: or put up, 10 

 in n box. at $1 40 for one box; $13.00 for 10 boxes: 25 

 boxes, $30. We have a good assortment of glass 

 packages for retailing honey in. See our catalog. 



WHITE BEANS. 



I believe these alwavs bring cash as surely as 

 wheat and corn : and the prices have never been 

 away down, like wheat and corn— that is. to my 

 knowledge. The beauty of them is, they do better 

 when planted, say the last of June, than at any oth- 

 er time (less liable to be buggy): and we usiuiUy 

 have ground that can be cleared off about this time. 

 The hurry of planting is mostly over, so we can put 

 them in in good shape. We have never found any 

 thing better than the York State Marrow and the 

 White Kidney. We can furnish either at 15 cts. per 

 quart; peck', $1.00; bu.shel, $3..50. If wanted by 

 mail, add 15 cts. per quart for postage. 



CRIMSON CLOVER. 



We copy the following from a circular ju.st receiv- 

 ed from Baltimore: 



"Ttcan be sown from June to October 20th: the 

 earlier, the more pasture it will make. It germi- 

 nates quickly, grows very rapidly through the fall 

 and winter, blossoms in this latitude about May 1st, 

 and is ready for hay about the second week in May, 

 and matures seed from the first growth about first 

 week in June. It can be sown after other crops are 

 removed from the ground, such as wheat (when 

 clover has failed to catch i, oats, millet, or on any 

 vacant ground. It is a very rank grower, some 

 stools containing as many as 120 to 140 blossoms from 

 one seed. 



"It will grow and make a heavy crop of hay or 

 seed on land so poor that the common clover would 

 not make a stand; and if cut when in full bloom it 

 will mike the most nutritious hay known: or if 

 turned under it will prove a most productive phos- 

 r>bate. increasing larsrely any crop that follows. 

 We believe great profit would result to the farmer 

 by sowinsr buckwheat and crimson clover at the 

 same time. He could thus get two more crops a 

 year than are usually grown. The buckwheat nur- 

 tures the tender clover-plant, and shields it from 

 the summer suns: and when it is taken off in the 

 fall it leaves the clover healthy and strong to make 

 its ffrowth." 



The principal point in the aliove is for bee-keep- 

 ers. On the same ground you can get a crop of 

 buckwh'^at and a crop of crimson clover, both 

 honev-plants. From what expeiience I have had 

 with both, I have not a particle of doubt but that it 

 will succeed. T intend to make a sowing of several 

 acres myself. From 8 to 15 lbs. of the crimson-clover 

 seed are needed per acre, and we are prepared to 

 furnish it at the following very low figures: Two- 

 bushel sack. $7.00; per bushel," $3 60: half-bushel, 

 $1 90: peck, $1,00: pound, 10 cts. If wanted by mail, 

 add 10 cts. per lb. extra for postage and packing. 

 We will send 3 ll)s. by mail, postpaid, for ."iO cts. 

 Every bee-keeper should try a little patch of it in 

 his garden, even if he does not do any thing more. 

 The spring and winter just past have, perhaps, been 

 as unfavorable for this plant as any one for years 

 past; and yet the reports, even as far north as we 

 are, are sufficiently favorable to warrant at least a 

 further test. Of course, it is not to be expected 

 that all who sow it will get as great results as are 

 claimed for it in many of the circulars sent out. 



The Practical Faitncr, of Philadelphia, for June 

 1.5, is devoted almost entirely to reports of crimson 

 clover, and instructions in regard to its manage- 

 ment. We think it wnll pay any one who is interest- 

 ed in the matter, and has had little or no experience, 

 to send for this as a sample number. Address 

 Practical Farmer, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Did you ever! My Hubbard squashes now. June 

 13, have leaves as large as my two hands, and yet 

 not a bug, worm, or insect of any sort has even so 

 much as looked in the direction of that squash- 

 patch, evidently. I have been watching them every 

 night and morning, ready for the fight: but it looks 

 now as if I should not have any fight at all. 



I EATHER'COLORED QUEENS, 40 CTS. EACH, 

 •-' or $4.00 per dozen, June or after. Monov-order 

 olfice, Royalton. A. T. M( KIBHEN. 



Morrill, Morrison Co., Minn. 



