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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



Special Notices 



By Our Business Manager 



FOUNDATION SPLINTS. 



Some have been writing Dr. Miller for foundation-splints. He 

 does not have them for sale. We are prepared to furnish them 

 for 10 cts. per 100, 50 cts. per 1000 postpaid, or 40 cts. per 1000 

 with other goods. 



MAPLE SYRUP. 



We have a good supply of very choice maple syrup which we 

 can supply at $1.00 per gal.; 6 gal. at 95c; 20 gal. or over, 90c. 

 Will be pleased to hear from those interested. Maple sugar is 

 not so plentiful, and we can not oflfer this at less than 15c per lb. 

 for best; 13c for fair to choice. 



CARTONS FOR OUNCE CAKES OF BEESWAX. 



We can supply cartons for one-ounce cakes of beeswax, printed 

 with name and address blank, at 35 cts. per 100; 250 for 80 cts.; 

 500 for $1.50; 1000 for $2.75; by mail, 15 cts. per 100 extra. 

 These prices will also include the large carton to contain 32 of 

 the small ones. The complete package weighs 2 lbs., and, when 

 filled, sells to the dealer at $1.00. They retail the cakes at 5 cts. 

 each. Retinned molds for molding ounce cakes costs 35 cts. per 

 dozen; by mail, 40 cts.; lor two-ounce cakes, 40 cts.; by mail, 

 50. We do not have cartons to fit the two-ounce cakes. To 

 print your name and address on the cartons will add, 250 or less, 

 50 cts.; 500, 75 cts.; 1000, $1.00. 



SECOND-HAND FOUNDATION-MILLS. 



We have to offer the following second-hand foundation-mills 

 in good condition. We shall be pleased to hear from any one 

 interested. To such we can send a small sample of comb foun- 

 dation representing the kind of work produced by the particular 

 machine you inquire about. 



No. 079. — 6x2^-inch hex. cell thin-super mill, in very good 

 condition. Price $12.00. 



No. 078. — 6x2}4-inch hex. cell thin-super mill, in good condi- 

 tion. Price $12.00. 



No. 086. — 6x2/4-inch hex. cell extra-thin-super mill, in good 

 condition. Price $12.00. 



No. 075. — 2x9 hex., very old style, on frame with wood base; 

 in fair condition. Price $10.00. 



No. 085. — 2/4x6 hex. thin-super mill, in good condition. Price 

 $12.00. 



No. 086. — 2^x6 hex. extra-thin-super mill in extra-good con- 

 dition. Price $15.00. 



No. 096. — 2/4x10 hex. light-brood mill; almost new; in fine 

 condition. Price $20.00. 



No. 097. — 2^x10 hex. light-brood mill; in fine condition. 

 Price $18.00. 



No. 077. — 10x2-inch medium-brood round cell, old-style frame, 

 in good condition. Price $14.00. 



No. 092. — 6x2^-inch hex. cell extra-thin-super mill, in fine 

 condition. Price $15.00. 



No. 2275. — 6x2/4-inch hex. cell extra-thin-super mill, in good 

 condition. Price $13.00. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



GOOD BOOKS FOR BEE-KEEPERS AND OTHERS WHO ENJOY 

 OUTDOOR WORK AT THIS SEASON OF THE \'E.\R. 



Don't forget to look over our list of books elsewhere in this 

 issue. It should have been put in a little earlier, but was 

 crowded out by other matter. Many of these books will give 

 you short cuts in your oiudoor work that may save you hundreds of 

 dollars. They are all carefully selected, and some of them were 

 written by your old friend A. I. Root, some of which, at least, he 

 thinks, will prove valuable. I want to call attention also to 

 our free leaflets and pamphlets. These were printed to give 

 away free of charge in order to save our time in answering many 

 questions that are asked over again. Some time later on, if you 

 write that these leaflets have been helpful to you in the past, 

 that will be all the pay we want. 



THE " FIRELESS " BROODER UP TO DATE. 



The one we have works beautifully in April and May. While 

 we gave the chicks the benefit (!) of the warm pipes in the 

 greenhouse they kept dying as mentioned in our last issue; but after 

 we put them outdoors where they had no artificial heat at all they 

 brightened up at once and not a chicken has died since; and I feel 

 pretty well satisfied that no' artificial heat is needed (in fact, I 



think the chicks are much better off without it) say after April 1 

 in our locality. Perhaps there is no artificial heat needed, even 

 in the winter time; but I am not so well satisfied from my own 

 experience as to that; but I do now feel very sure that, in my 

 travels, I have seen many chickens feeble and dying under the 

 influence of artificial heat when they would have been ever so 

 much better off out in the open air and sunshine. 



A NICE LARGE POULTRY-BOOK ABSOLUTELY FREE OF 



CHARGE TO EVERYBODY' WHO SUBSCRIBES 



FOR GLE.^NINGS. 



This book is the same thing that is advertised on page 661 at 

 $1.00. There are 350 pages, profusely illustrated, and it is ex- 

 actly the same thing as the dollar book except the paper covers. 

 Everybody who sends a dollar for Gle.\nings, or any one who 

 pays for it a year or more in advance, may have this book free 

 of charge providing he sends 6 cents to pay the postage. We fur- 

 nish the book just as we say, but we positively can not keep 

 postage-stamps to give avjay. Although this book may not be 

 clear up to date in some things, it contains more practical matter, 

 in my opinion, than a whole dozen of some of the little paper 

 pamphlets now offered for a dollar or more. 



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THE " DANDELION COW " .\T THIS TIME, MAY" 15. 



This same cow is now giving a foaming pailful of excellent 

 milk while her food is almost entirely dandelions and nothing 

 else. While I write she is gathering in the yellow blossom- 

 heads in great quantities, that stand a foot high or more, and 

 cover the ground in our orchard so thickly that in places they look 

 as if the ground were literally covered with yellow srow. Just 

 at this time I notice the papers are (as usual) talking about wag- 

 ing war on the dandelion. Why in the world don't they get a 

 cow, and then, instead of fighting the dandelions, underdrain the 

 soil and make it very rich, and let the dandelions grow.' There 

 is no other plant that will furnish the amount of feed at this sea- 

 son of the year as does the dandelion. We (Roots and Rootlets) 

 have not found any better milk than that furnished by the cow 

 while she is, week after week, on an almost pure " dandelion 

 diet." 



WRIGHT BROTHERS MAKE A SUCCESSFUL TRIP IN AIR-SHIP. 



I have been telling you several times of late that we should 

 soon have some news. As I write to-day. May 9, the daily pa- 

 pers are full of accounts of their flights. From a column of mat- 

 ter in the Cleveland Leader I gather that they are making some 

 flights from Manteo, N. C, over the sand dunes of what is called 

 Kill Devil Hill. They have made as many as ten ascensions, 

 covering in all over 30 miles. Every thing worked quite as well 

 as when I witnessed their work two years ago last October. First 

 one of the brothers made a flight and then the other. They 

 seemed to show equal skill in handling the machine. At no 

 time did it seem necessary to direct the machine to the ground. 

 Apparently it could easily have continued its flight many miles." 

 Their longest flight, which occupied two minutes, covered a mile 

 and a half. The papers state that the present machine weighs 

 350 lbs. The engine, 30 horse-power, weighs just about as much 

 as the rest of the machine. I quote from the Leader as follows: 



The Wrights refuse requests for information regarding 

 their machine, and little can be learned about it except by ob- 

 servation of its performances. Located as they are at Kill 

 Devil Kill, and surrounded by sand liills with practically no 

 inhabitants, their experiments were witnessed by only a few 

 people. They are one mile from the Kill Devil Hill life-saving 

 station, on the beach of the Atlantic. Its six surfmen assisted 

 them in building and in handling the machine. These and 

 several others witnessed the experiments to-day. 



A herd of long-haired cattle, observing operations from 

 afar, were frightened into Roanoke Sound when once the ma- 

 chine Hew in their direction. 



Probably by the time this reaches you there will be plenty of 

 news of a more extended flight. May God grant that no acci- 

 dent may happen to these two j'oung Ohio inventors who seem 

 to have distanced the whole wide world in making a machine 

 that will actually fly like a bird, without the assistance of any 

 balloon. 



I have had no recent information from the Wright Brothers 

 themselves; but the above would indicate that there is going to 

 be " something doing " pretty soon in the way of a real flying- 

 machine — that is, a machine that does not need a balloon to 

 hold it up. 



D.AY-OLD CHICKS BY' EXPRESS. 



Dear Friend: — I will say I make a specialty of shipping day- 

 old chicks by express. I am a subscriber to Gleanings from 

 the start, and will be as long as I live. H. M. Moyer. 



Bechtelsville, Pa. 



In addition to the above we would add the names of Mrs. 

 Stephen Walker, Hawthorn Farm, Williamsville, N. Y.; and F. 



E. Schriver, Greenlawn Farm, Grafton, O., sends out day-old 

 chicks and ducklings; also C. A. Thompson, Belleviie, O., and 



F. G. Mason, Fabius, N. Y., chicks only. 



