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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May, 1918 



HELP WANTED 



WANTED. — Ta\o mon for corcb houey. Give age, 

 wages; and experieuce. 



B. F. Smith, Jr., Fromberg, Mont. 



WANTED. — Indu.strious student helper, not sub- 

 ject to draft, to work in apiary and garden. 



W. D. Wright, Altamont, N. Y. 



WANTED. — Young man of good liabits to work 

 with bees. State age, experience, and wages. Mrs. 

 B. F. Detwiler, 1579 Gouin Blvd., Montreal, Quebec. 



HELP WANTED.— Several men experienced or 

 ineixperienced to work in bee and queen yards. Wire 

 us your offer. The Penn Co., Penn, Miss. 



WANTED. — Man to work with bees the coming 

 Reason. Address, stating age, experience and wages, 

 wc to furnish board. The Rocky Mountain Bee Co., 

 Billings, Montana, Box 1319. 



WANTED. — Young married couple to work out- 

 fit of bees and poultry on small orchard lot in city, 

 including garden work. For particulars addre«,s 

 288 Gleanings in Bee Culture, Medina, O. 



WANTED. — Beeman to commence work at once 

 — large producers. State age, experience and wages 

 wanted first letter. 



Weber Bros. Honey Co., Blackfoot,- Idaho. 



WANTED. — A young lady, as a student helper 

 in large apiary, run for comb and extracted honey, 

 for 1918 season, fine chance to learn. Write im- 

 mediately, giving wages, age, height, weight, ex- 

 perience and references all in first letter. 



Earl L. Baker, Lake City, Mich., R. D. 3. 



W.ANTED. — Young men <jf ener'jy and charitcter, 

 of (lean habits, not eligible for military duty, us 

 hclpi'rs in our extensive beebusiiiess. Fine chance 

 til learn. Write immediately, giving vaj-'es. age, 

 height, weight, experience, and references all in first 

 lelUr, or expect no answer. 



E. F. Atwater, Meridian, Idaho. 



WANTED. — Industrious ■■•oung man, fa.'^t worker. 

 as a student helper in our Iar.;e bee busines.s for 

 1918 season. Truck used for out yards and haul 

 ing. Apiaries located near summjr resorts. Will 

 give results of long expeirieui'.e anl bo,ird and 

 small wages. Give age, weight, e.xperieune. and 

 wages in first letter. 



W. A. l.atshaw Co.. I'hiriou, 'Mich 



SITUATION WANTED 



WANTED. — Single man wants position as helper 

 in bee yard. Understands beekeeping and car- 

 pentry. Wm. Marsh, 29 Wareham St., Boston, Mass. 



W.A^NTED. — Position as student helper in largo 

 apiary. Am single: have had! some experience, and 

 can give best O'f references as to my character anfl 

 liabits. Ward I. Reed, care of Brawnhurst Dairy, 

 Greoley, Colo. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



HOME AGAIN. 

 It is now April 19, and here we are (Mrs. Root 

 and I) back in our Medina home. How about the 

 electric windmill? I'll tell who is caring for it 

 later; at present I want to say something more about 

 those potatoes, see p. 245 April Gleanings. For two 

 fuU weeks I sold potatoes daily, without a bit of 

 opposition from any body. Nobody else had suc- 

 ceeded in getting any new potatoes. As an experi- 

 ment I raised the retail price to 40' cents for a half- 

 peck basket. It seemed to make no difference. Every 

 basket was snapped up almost before I got out of 

 town. For the first time, our grocery has adopted 

 the " spot cash" plan. They pay the farmer spot 

 cash and he pays them cash. Now this suited me to 



a dot. And I got so much money for my daily load 

 of potatoes, it wore holes in my pockets, until I 

 emptied the dimes and nickels intoi a little box we 

 kept in the cupboard, (it isn't there now dear read- 

 er) and on leaving home we invested $100 in Lib- 

 erty bonds. From the one-half acre in our back- 

 yard garden we received over $150.00 spot cash; and 

 you, reader, can do the same, or a similar thing, if 

 you set about it in the right way. 



Let me go over it once more, briefly : You start 

 your potatoes, cut to one eye, in a bed, in very rich 

 soil, where they can be quickly protected if frost 

 comes. When there is a bunch of green leaves, and 

 a great bunch of bushy roots, plant them out as you 

 do cabbage plants, and have new potatoes before any 

 body else. 



FIRST PRINCIPLES OF FARMING. 



The above is the title of a pamphlet of 87 pages, 

 by my "long-time friend" (author of our book on 

 Tile Drainage), Dr. W. I. Chamberlain. I have 

 gone over it with much pleasure, and pronounce it 

 of great value to one who wants to learn farming. 

 Prof. G. F. Wright, the great geologist, Oberlin, O., 

 says the book " should be in the hands of every 

 farmer in Ohio." I was so much pleased with the 

 closing paragraph of the book that I give here the 

 closing isentence from it: " For myself I can say that 

 thru my life of nearly 80 years, chiefly as a farmer, 

 and all of it among farmers, I have noticed that 

 the farm children who have been trained to ' remem- 

 ber the Sabbath day,' attend church and attend 

 Sabbathscliool, and try to keep the Golden Rule, 

 have grown up to be more successful and respected 

 men and women and better and more helpful citi- 

 zens than the farm children who have not been 

 trained up to attend church, but have, like their 

 parents, made the Sabbath a day for lounging or 

 loafing or for hunting, fishing, base ball and the 

 like. Such boys I have often seen 'go to the bad.' " 

 Address Stockman-Farmer Publishing Co., Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., or order from us. Price 25c. 



REGARDING HOME PRODUCTION OF SUGAR 

 BEET SYRUP. 

 The Michigan Agricultural College sends 

 Gleanings the following word concerning a 

 matter about which there is considerable 

 inquiry just at present. ' ' Last year we sent 

 out 20 samples of sugar beet seeds to cor- 

 respondents inquiring in regard to the home 

 production of syrup. In no case was a suc- 

 cessful report submitted. Several thought 

 the method practical, but stated that their 

 sugar beets did not ripen. If the syrup is 

 carefully skimmed it is possible to make it 

 palatable. The method outlined in Farmers' 

 Bulletin S23, U. S. Dept. of Agricul- 

 ture, is a laborious one and would require 

 much fuel and boiling down of juice. ' ' Any 

 of our readers interested would do well to 

 write to Washington for Bulletin 823. 



AROUND THE OFFICE 



M.-A.-O. 



Nearer to not survivin ' than ever before. 

 ' ' Uncle Amos ' ' is comin ' home from Florida 

 within a few days, too. He 's a good enough 

 man — about as good as I ever knew — but 

 he ain 't likely to be fawnin ' on me much. 

 Seems like I don 't love nobody and nobody 

 don 't love me. So, if I don 't meet you here 

 no more, I hope to meet some of you very 

 choicest spirits, who have fishin and truth- 

 tellin ' propensities, in the happ.y fishin' 

 grounds later. I hope some more of you 

 won 't be there to trouble me no more, either, 

 so I do. 



