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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1919 



ONTARIO. — Wholesale price producers are re- 

 ceiving: Extracted, 24 to 27c: comb, $3.00 to $3.75 

 per dozen. Most of the white honey already in the 

 hands of the jobbers. Most beekeepers are getting 

 the prices asked. Second-grade light honey is two 

 to five cents cheaper. Reports show generally but 

 little dark honey. Bees have reared brood until 

 early this month and so will be in good shape where 

 fed. Sugar hard to obtain in a few localities, but 

 this situation is being looked after from this office. 

 — P. Eric Millen. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA. — Extracted honey is now 

 fetching 30 c in 60-pound cans, it being retailed at 

 35 and 40c . 16-oz. jars are selling at 45c. Very 

 little section honey is produced in B. C. This is 

 being retailed at 40 and 45c. • The crop thruout the 

 Province is about the average. In some spots, large 

 returns are reported, but in each case the report 

 come-s from the good beekeeper. European foul brood 

 is still going ahead, and owing to the non-arrival 

 of queens, many colonies will die out. — Williams 

 Hugh. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA. — Wholesale price pro- 

 ducers are receiving: Extracted 28c; comb, 32c. 

 Only small quantity of comb honey produced. Mar- 

 ket is firm. Wholesale price the beekeepers holding 

 for is 30c. Colonies going into winter quarters in 

 good condition. Owing to the unusually dry season 

 honey crop generally not as large as anticipated. — 

 W. J. Sheppard. 



TRADE NOTES 



SALE ONE-POUND HONEY-JARS. 



We have a surplus stock of 

 these glass jars holding 15 ozs., 

 put up 2 dozen to a case, includ- 

 ing lacquered tin tops, at 

 Kretchmer Mfg. Co., Council 

 Bluffs, Ta. The cost of these 

 jars has nearly doubled in the 

 past three years. Our present 

 list price is $1.70 per case: 

 $16.50 for 10 cases. Limited 

 .stock on hand. Must move 

 stock quickly. Send your or- 

 ders direct to the point nearest 

 you where the stock is located, 

 mentioning this notice and in- 

 cluding remittance with your 

 order. The A. I. Root Co. 



Medina, Ohio. 



BEE information VERY CHEAP. 



To give us more paper stock room, we are going 

 to offer our entire accumulations of old Gleanings, 

 as far back as 1873, for 5c a single copy, and 

 where a complete year is asked for (and we can 

 furnish it) we will charge only 50c for a full year 

 of Gleanings. This is the cheapest beekeeping litei-a- 

 ture that can be bought. Most of the years we can 

 furnish complete, up to a limited number. But 

 some years are lacking a few numbers. First come, 

 first served. 



The A. I. Root Co., Medina, O. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



THAT SECO.Vn ELKCTRIO WINDMILL. 



The first electric windmill put up about two years 

 ago runs the automobile quite satisfactorily, as I 

 have told you — that is, if we do not average more 

 than four or five miles a day; but it is hardly equal 

 to the task of lighting the house, also heating water, 

 running the cooker, etc., and hence the second one, 

 which is now on its way to our Florida home. With 

 this we hope to do some cooking, and perhaps, to a 

 certain extent, warm the house during cold spells. 

 When we succeed in making that cold north wind 

 (that Florida people dread so much) warm up the 

 home instead of making everybody shiver, we shall 

 — " come a joke " on old Boreas. 



" BURBANK'.'? CRFATIONS"; some of HIS 

 LATER ONES. 



After I returned from Florida I got hold of Bur- 

 bank's 1919 catalog, and I sent for the seed of 

 quite a number of things. The Giant white-seeded 



sunflower named Manteca I have described else- 

 where. A new kind of corn which he calls Sorghum 

 Pop, I am very much pleased with. It is the result 

 of crossing a variety of sorghum with Stowell's 

 Evergreen, and he found after testing that it pro- 

 duces pop cnrn._ The grains are pearly-white, and 

 the ears larger in size than ordinary pop-corn ; and 

 the funny thing about it is that a great part of the 

 ears are twins — you might call them Siamese twins; 

 and besides the twins we have quite a number of 

 triplets. It pops beautifully, and I have been great- 

 ly enjoying lately putting the pop corn in hot milk 

 instead of tl;e " shredded wheat biscuits " that I 

 have been using for months past. And, by the way, 

 one of those twin ears of pop corn after it has been 

 popped out would bring quite a little money at 5 

 cents a paper bagful, such bagfuls as you usually 

 buy on the streets of the pop-corn roaster. By the 

 way, it looks to me that this sorghum pop-corn 

 might help largely in reducing the " high cost of 

 living" — that is, if you grow it in your garden and 

 pop it yourself. 



There is one more of Burbank's novelties called 

 papago corn. You plant just one kernel in a hill, 

 and that one kernel will send up from three to five 

 stalks (some of them 12 feet high or more) ; 

 and mo.st of the stalks produce 2 to 4 ears, 

 many of them from ten to twelve inches long ; and 

 the corn is a very good sweet corn. The ears, 

 there being so many on a stalk, are not as large 

 around as ordinary field corn, but some of them are 

 almost a foot long. I think it would furnish a tre- 

 mendous lot of feed to put in a silo, but maybe the 

 number of bushels to the acre might not equal that 

 of ordinary field corn. I do not know. I am so much 

 pleased with the sunflower and the two varieties of 

 corn that I am planning to send a few grains of 

 each to any subscriber to Gleanings who will send 

 me an addressed stamped envelope. 



Advertisements Received too Late to Classify 



FOR SALE. — Clover and buckwheat honey in 60- 

 lb. cans, two per case. 



Bert Smith, Romulus, N. Y. 



SUPERS FOR SALE. — 100 for 4% beeway sec- 

 tions; 40 for 4x5 plain sections. Part new. Bar- 

 gain. All ten-frame. 



Thos. Phillips, Johnsonville, N. Y. 



FOR SALE. — 300 colonies bees with complete 

 equipment for extracted honey. No disease here. 

 J. O. Hallman, Helena, Ga. 



FOR SALE. — New crop extracted buckwheat 

 honey put up in 10-lb. pails, $2.25 per pail. Terms 

 cash. Special price on 25 pails or more. 



H. Hatton & Sou, Andover, R. F. D. No. 3, Ohio. 



FOR SALE. — 1 to 100 colonies of Italian bees, 

 fine strain with tested queen, in one-story 8-frame 

 single-walled hives, full-depth, self-spaced, Hoffman 

 frames; nearly all wired, $10.00 each. A few colo- 

 nies in lO-frarae hives, $12.00 each. All free from 

 disease, f .o. b. here. 



Wilmer Clarke, Earlville, N. Y. 



WANTED. — To buy the sweet water from melt- 

 ing old combs or cappings. 



Edw. A. Winkler, Joliet, R. D. No. 1, Ills. 



WANTED. — Two experienced bee men for the 

 season of 1920. One queen-breeder with experi- 

 ence ; one with experience in handling bees. State 

 age, number of years' experience and wages. Also 

 give reference. 



W. J. Forehand & Sons, Ft. Deposit, Ala. 



W.\NTED. — Beeswax. We will pay for average 

 aiiality beeswax delivered at Medina. 40c cash. 42c 

 trade. We will pay 1 and 2c extra for choice yellow. 

 Be sure your shipment bears your name and ad- 

 dress as shiijper so we can identify it on arrival. 

 The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. 



PATENTS 



Practice in Patent Office and Courts 

 Patent Counsel of The A. I, Root Co 



Chas, J. Williamson. McLachlan Building, 

 WASHINGTON, D. C. 



