1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CQLTURE. 



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The price is the same as the one above. The book 

 is quite a little larger than the former one, and 

 much more fully illustrated. I wish that those who 

 get out 35-cent handbooks would try to give us 

 "good measure" in the way of plenty of nice pic- 

 tures, and a good number of good-sized pages. 



"A BOOK ON SILA(;E,.J 



by Prof. F. W. Woll. of Wisconsin, is a beautiful 

 book of 193 p;iges and many fine illustiations. This 

 is the mostcomplete thing on tlie subject, I believe, 

 that has ever been brought out. It not only tells all 

 about silos of every shape and size conceivable, but 

 it gives all the latest improvements up to the pres- 

 ent day; and it discusses most fully the cultivntion 

 and harvesting and handling all of the various 

 crops that are usually put into a silo. The price of 

 the book is SI.Oj, in cloth, or 50 cts. in paper; but by 

 special arrangements with the publishers we are 

 enabled to offer it with GLEANiNCis fov SI. 50, bound 

 in cloth, or $1.25 if Viound in paper. If you have al- 

 ready subscribed for Gi-eanings we will send you 

 the book postpaid for 35 cts., and it will certainly 

 pay you to invest this small sum, if you ar^e going 

 to do anything with silage at all, or even if you 

 would like to read up and be posted on this suliject. 

 Many of the illustrations are full-page, and so plain 

 that almost any farmer should be able to go to work 

 and make a silo, almost by looking at the pictures. 

 The author is Assistant Professor of Agricultural 

 Chemistry in the University of Wisconsin. This is 

 a matter of special interest just now, since it has 

 become evident that the silo has come to stay, and 

 no mistake. 



While we are about it, permit me to say that we 

 have remaining on hand some thirty or forty copies 

 of Prof. Cook's book, "Silo and Silage." second edi- 

 tion. These formerly sold for 35 cts To close them 

 out we will mail them for the small sum of 10 cts. 

 each. 



IRRIGATION FARMING. 



Last, but not least, we have a brand-new book on 

 irrigation; and it is written by a man (Lute Wilco.v, 

 Denver, Colorado) who has been practically engaged 

 in the work almost all his life. It discusses every 

 means for obtaining water which is beforo the world 

 at the present day— making ponds and reservoirs, 

 changing streiims from their course, drilling wells, 

 putting up windmills, using steam and gas engines, 

 and even closes a chanter with the following pun- 

 gent remarks in regard to locating- wells by employ- 

 ing "water-witches:" 



Water Witchery. Ever Pincethe writer can remember he 

 has been conversant with the methods of certain men who 

 claim to possess the occult power of locating a stratum or 

 underflow of water by means of a forked stick, held in such a 

 way that it is expected to dip at a point over the underlying 

 waters as the operator passes along on the surface. Thi.s is 

 called ■' water witcheiT." and is at best a verj' problematical 

 practice, scarcely worth the time that one might devote to it, 

 and certainly not always worth the fees that may be charged. 

 The way to put a water locator of this sort to a practical test 

 is to place stakes at the points where his forked willow may 

 show the downward tendency, indicative, as he will .say, of the 

 water underneath. Let several stakes be driven at different 

 points. Then blindfold the water prospector, lead him around 

 in a circle several times; and if his magic »'and will repeat 

 the dipping actions as before, and the two sets of stakes agree, 

 some depenrit-nce may then be placed in the operation, but the 

 test wHl be more apt to fail and the deception will at once be 

 apparent 



The book also discusses in detail not only all 

 about growing crops by applications of water, but 

 tells us exactly why we sometimes make a big suc- 

 cess, and at other times why the water we give our 

 plants does them more harm than good. There are 

 80 many bright sparkling truths scattered all 

 through the book that I am going to make some ex- 

 tracts right here. I am sure they will be worth 

 something to you, even if you never buy the book 

 at all. 



"Every crop tells when it wants water. Wlie'i "nrn 



wants water it tells the fact by its leaves being curieil up in 

 the morning." 



'■ Nothing is so damaging to a growing crop as to Icve the 

 furrow or gutter in which the water has run, to bake and dry 

 in the sun." 



•'One must introduce in the soil alternately much air and 

 little water." 



"Alfalfa is the greatest forage plant the world has ever 

 known, and should be a special crop with every irrigation 

 fanner." 



'• The writer once met a venerable padre of Old Mexico who 

 said his alfalfa patch had been planted over two hundred 

 years, had never been re-seedeU during that time, and had 

 yielded four crops of hay regularly every year." 



" There is a good deal of misapprehension afloat regarding 

 this or that kind of soil being unsuited to alfalfa. . Any 



soil will do. so long as it has a porous substratum foi- proper 

 drainage, and so that there is no accumulation (jf surface 

 water to injure the crown and root of the plant." 



There is one whole long chapter about alfalfa. 



The above is from the O Judd Co.; price $3.00. 

 We will furnish it to our subscribers for W.75, to be 

 sent by freight or express with other goods; if by 

 mail, add 8 cts. for postnge. The book contains 313 

 pages and 95 engravings, and is fully up to the 

 times. As it has been something like a dozen years 

 since we have had any new book on this subject, I 

 am sure it will meet a long felt want, and meet with 

 a large sale. 



BUSINESS^^ 



ANAGER 



HONEY MARKET. 



We are still prepared to supply those in need of 

 choice honey for their home trade. Choice alfalfa 

 comb honey, in 2i-lb. cases, 4-case lots or more, 15c 

 per lb. Unfinished sections of the same honey, 3c 

 per lb. less. Extracted alfalfa or California honey, 

 in 60 lb. cans, 3 in case, "t%c per lb.; 3-case lot or 

 more, 7c. Choice clover and basswood, i4c per lb. 

 extra. We have also the alfalfa in one-gallon cans, 

 6 to the case, at $6.00 per case; 2 cases, $11.30; 5 

 cases, $37.00. 



CATALOG FOR 1896. 



Our catalog for 1896 is now in the press, and we 

 will begin mailing it to our list of names within a 

 few weeks. As we have a list of 75 to 100 thousand 

 names to send it to, we may not get through the list 

 before March. The readers of Gleanings, how- 

 ever, will receive one some lime this muniii. There 

 are very few changes from the last edition. Work 

 on our catalog of miscellaneous goods is pretty 

 well along, and we hope to have that out in ;t couple 

 of months or less. We hope to have it done in time 

 to mail along with our bee-sui)ply catalog to most 

 of the list. 



CARLOAD SHIPMENTS. 



We have just had with us for a few days Hon. 

 Geo. E. Hilton, of Fremont, Mich , with whom we 

 have made arrangements to manufacture the " Hil- 

 ton Chaff Hive" and T supers for him. He left an 

 order for a carload of miscellaneous goods to put in 

 stock at Fremont, so as to be prepared to fill or- 

 ders from there promptly. We are also loading this 

 week a car for Baltimore, Maryland. Most of this 

 consists of sections and frames tor export to Eng- 

 land, and about 14,(00 lbs. to sort up the stock of 

 Rawlings Implement Co., our agents for Maryland 

 and Delaware. We expect shortly to send a car to 

 McClure Bros., of Las Cruces, New Mexico, who ex- 

 pect to supply the bee-keepers of that section. 



BRANCH OFFICES. 



Besides the recently established Chicago branch 

 for the sale of our line of beekeepers' supplies to 

 be conducted in the name of The A. I. Koot Co., 

 with Geo. W. York as manager, we have made ar- 

 rangements to have our St. Paul, Minn., and Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y., branches conducted in our name, and 

 with the same efficient managers as have had them 

 in charge heretofore. We liave shipped a large car- 

 load to Syracuse during the past month, and are at 

 woikon a car for St. P;iul, and which will be shipped 

 very soon. H. G. Acklin, our manager there, seems 

 to gi%'e satisfaction in his dealings, as is evidenced 

 by the following which has just come to us, and to 

 which we give place without consulting Mr. Acklin. 



Mr. Root:— I should like to tell you that you 

 couldn't get a better man as agent for your goods 

 in St. Paul than Mr. Acklin is. 1 shipped wax to 

 him. He wrote me the whx was so nice that he cuts 

 4 per cent off on the goods, liesides paying me 3 cts. 

 more per lb. cash for the rest of it. When I take the 

 freight charges into consideration I saved at least 

 $3 50 by shipping it to him instead of to Medina. I 

 write this so you can see how well he satisfies his 

 customers. L. F. 



Carver, Minn. 



The trade in St. Paul the past season was better 

 than was anticipated, and, as a consequence, a 

 number of things ran short, causing delay in some 

 cases ill filling orders, and some disappointment. 

 We hope to overcome this by having an ample sup- 

 ply on hand for tlie coming season. Do not wait too 

 long, however, but, get ypur grders in early. 



