1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



299 



our ranch in Michig-an last summer I let 

 my watch run down, and wanted to catch a 

 train. I rode through the rain so as not to 

 be too late, and pretty nearly used myself 

 up with over-exertion, and then found I was 

 an hour ahead of time. The farmer's clock, 

 eig'ht miles away from the station, was a 

 whole hour out of the way, and this thing- 

 has happened to me several times. Yes, I 

 know we have a lot of contrary, stubborn 

 farmers, who, if they could have the correct 

 time by telephone, would insist on setting 

 their clocks by the sun, saying sun time is 

 "God's time," or some such foolishness. 

 Hired men come to work before the correct 

 time, and oftener away behind, just because 

 there are no two timepieces alike ; and this 

 clumsy and slipshod way of setting clocks 

 costs the country at large thousands of 

 dollars yearly. There can be no sharp 

 promptness such as banks, railroads, and 

 great business corporations must have, 

 without uniform timepieces. May God be 

 praised for the telephone on this account if 

 for no other — it enables us to correct our 

 clocks and watches, at least once in 24 

 hours, so we can have them all pretty 

 nearly, if not quite, "on the dot." 



ALFALFA CLOVER SEED SPECIALLY ACCLI- 

 MATED FOR COLD REGIONS. 



Mr. Root: I have been much interested in all that 

 you have published about alfalfa, but the half has not 

 been told about it. No doubt if more farmers knew 

 just how to plant the seed, and could be conveniently 

 supplied with good fresh seed, more would be induced 

 to try a little piece. To that end I am willing to go 

 half "way and help them out. Though I am hardly 

 able to furnish seed free and pay the postage, I can 

 send seed if they will help pay the postage, so it will 

 not be all a matter of labor of love. 



I have a quantity of nice fresh seed from Nevada, a 

 high, cold section where the thermometer goes down 

 to 20 below zero, and I consider such seed much better 

 for the colder sections than seed matured in a warmer 

 climate. 



I inclose 30 cts. for insertion of three lines in your 

 Wants and Exchange column, and wi.sh that you 

 would give me — one of your old twelve-year subscrib- 

 ers—an editorial note on the subject. 



This is a magnificent section of the State for our 

 bees, and thou.sands of acres of the best pasturage. 

 Why is it so neglected in your columns ? I have never 

 seen an iterii from our vicinity in Gleanings since 

 reading it. William C. Aiken. 



Angwin, Cal., March 14. 



Friend A., I am glad to give an old sub- 

 scriber, or anybody else, encouragement in 

 introducing- new and improved seeds ; but I 

 am afraid you are undertaking- to be too 

 liberal. Permit me to suggest that 3'ou 

 send 10 cents' worth of seed for one of the 

 dimes, and use the other to pay postage — 

 see page 305. You may get snowed under 

 with applications if you undertake to be too 

 liberal, and I think you had better have a 

 little printed slip to go with each package 

 of seed, telling the farmers how to sow it 

 and how to manage it. Here and there we 

 have patches of it in Ohio; and after they 

 once get a stand it seems to hold its own 

 for many years — that is, if it is cut at the 

 proper time and managed right. 



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We have left some of those 

 slightly damaged copies of 

 P rof . Cook ' s " Bee - keeper ' s 

 Guide" that went through our 

 fire a year ago. The reading 

 matter is all right — only the 

 cloth covers are somewhat dam- 

 aged. Price, to close out, 60c 

 a copy, by mail ; or, with week- 

 ly American Bee Journal a 

 year, both for only $1.40. Reg- 

 ular price of the book alone is 

 $1.25. Big bargain where you 

 get both book and Journal (52 

 copies) for $1.40. Better order 

 quick if you want book on ei- 

 ther these low offers. Now is 

 the time to begin to read the 

 American Bee Journal. It will 

 continue to be a great paper in 

 1902. And it comes every week. 



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