1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



439 



affect the barometer in your locality. At 

 the time of the tornado in St. Louis our ba- 

 rometer dropped so much that I told the 

 people in our neighborhood that either my 

 machine was broken or there was a tremen- 

 dous tornado going- on somewhere. By the 

 time the papers reached us the barometer 

 had begun to travel back to its usual place, 

 and then I knew the reiisou of the tremen- 

 dous drop of the mercury. 



Now, lest this should sound very much 

 like an advertisement of the instruments we 

 have for sale, permit me to add that, unless 

 you are going to have time and inclination 

 to watch the instrument closeljs and keep 

 it on your mind, it may not pa}- you to 

 have one. I left one quite a spell with a 

 friend of mine. After several months' use, 

 or perhaps I should say neglect, he said 

 they did not look at it any more at all, be- 

 cause it was "no good." I took it home 

 and hung it up in our "cabin," paying 

 littie attention to it, because I supposed it 

 was out of order. Finally, after we had 

 had so many rainy days that I did not have 

 much else to do, I began to watch that neg- 

 lected instrument; and then I discovered it 

 did its work just as well as my old ma- 

 chine at home, only the field over which the 

 needle traveled was a smaller one. It went 

 up and down in obedience to the changes of 

 the atmosphere, but it moved only a little 

 way up and down. The aneroids are not 

 alike in this respect. Some of them have 

 a good long swing-, and others vibrate over 

 comparatively small spaces. By the aid of 

 the barometer we have harvested our crops, 

 both haj'' and grain, and got them in safe- 

 ly, season after season, while neighbors 

 with no barometer had repeated disasters. 



Special Notice to Bee=keepers ! 



Root's Supplies 



at Catalog Prices. 



SEND FOR CATALOG. 



F. H. Farmer, Boston, Mass. 



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182 Friend St., 1st Flight. 



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THEY ALL SAY 



theirs is "just as good as the Page," Don't 



that sound pretty well for "The Page?" 



Page Woven Wire Fence Co., Box S, Adrian, Michigan. 



To make cows pay, use Sharpies Cream Separators. 

 Book " Business Dairying " & cat. 288 free. W. Chester, Pa. 



A Warranted 



Red=clover 



Queen, 30 cts. 



An Offer for New 

 Subscribers. 



We want to add a lot of new readers to our WEEK- 

 LY AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL list. For that reason 

 we are making those who are not now reading onr 

 journal regularly, this liberal offer: Send us $lM and 

 we will mail you the Bee Journal for a whole vear, 

 and also one of our WARRANTED LONG-TONGUED 

 RED-CLOVER QUEENS-untested Italian. 



We have arranged with one of the oldest and be^t 

 queen-breeders (having many years' experience) to 

 rear queens for us this season. His bees average quite 

 a good deal the longest tongues of any yet measured. 

 The breeder he will use is direct from Italy, having 

 imported her himself. Her worker-bees are large, 

 somewhat leather-colored, very gentle, and scarcely 

 requiring veil or smoke. They stored red-clover 

 honey last season. All queens guaranteed to arrive in 

 good condition, and all will be clipped unless other- 

 wise ordered. They will be mailed in rotation, begin- 

 ning about June 1st" so " first come, first served." 

 Headquarters in Chicago for Root's 

 Bee°supplies at Root's Prices. . . . 

 A free catalog and a sample of the American 

 Bee Journal on request. 



George W. York & Co., Chicago, III. 



144=146 Erie Street. 



Did You Know That 



the Long-tongue Red clover Queens are in the lead? 

 Orders are ten to one in their favor. Untested queens 

 after May l.st, 75c; 6 for $4.50; 12 for $8.00; 3-frame nu- 

 cleus and untested queen, $2.75. We are now ready to 

 fill all orders by return mail. Send us vour orders 

 and see what fine bees and queens you will get. Or- 

 der from this advertisement and .save correspondence. 

 PRESTON STORE & BEE CO., 



Dority, Preston Co., W. Va. 



CENTS 



That's all it costs to get acquainted with the 



Rocky Mountain 

 Bee Journal. 



We want to send it on trial to every 

 reader of Gleanings Three IVIonths for 

 10 cts. This vigorous young month- 

 ly has just entered its second year on 

 a paying basis, and has become the 

 recognized mouthpiece of the bee- 

 keepers of the great Rocky Mountain 

 alfalfa regions. Address 



The Rocky Mountain Bee Journal, 



Box 611. Boulder. Colorado. 



HONEY QUEENS.— Bred from the Laws strain. Or- 

 ders being booked for untested and tested queens. 

 Select tested, $1.50; breeders, $2.50 to $5.00. None bet- 

 ter. H. C. Triesch, Jr., Dyer, Ark. 



