1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



781 



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

 in good condition. Price $14.00. 



No. 013. — 6x2!^-inch hex. cell extra-thin-super mill, in fine 

 condition. Price $15.00. 



No. 2275. — 6x254-inch hex. cell extra-thin-super mill, in good 

 condition. Price $13.00. 



BEES AND QUEENS. 



Everybody nowadays, with any pretentions to success, tries to 

 keep pure-bred stock, whether it is horses, cattle, swine, poultry, 

 or bees. With mongrels you are working in the dark. Pure- 

 bred stock of any kind is a credit to all concerned — breeder, deal- 

 er, and purchaser. We have tried to keep the best stock possible; 

 and that we have succeeded is best borne out by the testimonials 

 we have received and are continually receiving from customers. 

 Here is a sample testimonial (we have others). 



Streator, III., June 5, 1908. 



A. I. Root Co; — My hive and bees I have received. 1 received 

 the hive Wednesday and bees Thursday. 1 have them in their 

 new chaS hive. They cost me $22.25, but I would not take 

 $50.00 for them; well pleased; without doubt the nicest bees I 

 ever saw in my life. Yours truly, 



Herschel E. Moffitt. 



If you wish to breed bees for sale or show purposes you must 

 have fine stock to begin with. A discriminating public will 

 have no other. We are always ready to quote reasonable prices 

 for fine stock in large lots. We do not breed the other kind. 

 Now is the time to purchase bees. 



PRICES OF NUCLEI. 



Oct. to July. July to Oct. 

 1-fr. nucleus without queen $3 00 $2 00 



2-fr. nucleus without queen 4 50 3 00 



3-fr. nucleus without queen 5 50 3 50 



5-fr. nucleus without queen 6 50 4 50 



Oct. to July. July to Oct. 

 Col. in 8-fr. Dov'd hive, no queen $10 00 $7 50 



Col. in 10-fr. Danz. hive, no queen 11 GO 8 00 



Col. in 10-fr. Dov'd hive, no queen 12 00 9 00 



We can supply with the nuclei any of the queens mentioned 

 in list. When one buys an extra-select queen, or any high- 

 priced queen, he would do well to have her come in a nucleus. 

 This will assure safe arrival. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



" LYDIA E. PINKHAM " AND FAKE TESTIMONIALS. 

 We are rejoiced to learn by the Mail Order Journal for June 

 that the Lydia E. Pinkham Co. has been fined $6000 for using 

 the photograph of a young lady, together with n forged testimonial 

 in favor of their medicine, without the permission or knowledge 

 of the young lady whose photo was used. Now, if this will es- 

 tablish a precedent so the Duffy whisky people and all medicine 

 companies can be prosecuted likewise, we can all " rejoice and 

 be glad." Heretofore it has seemed that this sort of forgery 

 could not be reached by any existing laws; but I think it is high 

 time that these medicine-swindlers be taught better. 



THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AND THEIR FLYING - MACHINE. 



Since the report in our last issue, the elder of the Wright 

 Brothers has gone to France. The following, clipped from the 

 Woman's National Daily, gives a glimpse of what is going to be 

 done: 



Paris, June 2.— One of the men associated with Mr. Wilbur 

 Wright In the aToplane trials that are to take place In the 

 north of France said to day that Wrljrht was confident of 

 meeting conditions laid down by Lazarre Weller, who has of- 

 fered $100,000 for the Wright aeroplane If It will make two 

 flights of 60 kilometers within a week, carrying two passen- 

 gers and enough gasoline for a 200-kllometer Hight, or ballast 

 equivalent to this. "I have already equaled this distance," 

 said Mr. Wright. " In the flights at Manteo, N. C. Fifty kilo- 

 meters is 31 miles, and I shall be disappointed if I do not sail 

 further than this in a single Hight. < )ur machine has sailed 

 with two passengers, though we have never carried a weight 

 equal to that imposed by Weller." 



With what is now going on in other parts of the world with 

 successful flying-machines, I think it is quite likely that some of 

 us, at least, will see them going over our heads before another 

 winter. 



know and we will mail you one as long as they last. If you 

 should be in need of more than a single copy, apply to your own 

 State Superintendent of the Anti-saloon League. I think the 

 100,000 copies or more, distributed, of this temperance pamphlet 

 have had much to do with the great prohibition wave that is now 

 circling not only all over our land but all over the world. 



THE ACME HAND POTATO-PLANTER. 



As we are now out of the seed-potato business we offer about 

 four dozen Acme potato-planters at a big bargain to close out. 

 To those who are not familiar with them we will say 

 that this machine makes the holes, and drops and covers 

 all at one operation. Once over the field does the 

 work when the ground is fitted. In the soft soil of 

 Northern Michigan, the great potato region, one expert 

 man or boy will plant two acres in a day. Up there the 

 potatoes are nearly all planted with this little imple- 

 ment. A year ago we offered 

 them at 55 cents each, or three 

 or more at 50 cents each, or one 

 dozen for $5.25. While they 

 last we will make you a price of 

 45 cents each, or three planters 

 for $1.20, or a crate of 12 for 

 $4.00. If you want them at the 

 above price you had better get your order in before they are gone. 



"a LITTLE LAND AND A LIVING." 



The above is the title of a new book, just out, by the author 

 of "Three Acres and Liberty." It is along the same line with 

 what I have to say in our book on tomato culture, about support- 

 ing a family on a quarter of an acre. The book is specially val- 

 uable because it gathers up a great number of illustrations taken 

 from the various agricultural periodicals in regard to what can be 

 accomplished on a little piece of land — or perhaps I should say in 

 regard to what lias been accomplished. As the dates and refer- 

 ences are all given, it is an easy matter to verify these state- 

 ments, telling us what is possible to be done on a little piece of 

 ground by one who is really in love with old Mother Earth. The 

 only thing that troubles me about recommending books of this 

 kind is the fact that many people forget that these good results 

 are accomplished only by indefatigable labor, early and late. 

 The price of the book is $1.00, and can be had by addressing the 

 Arcadia Press, 150 Nassau St., New York, or from this office. 



THE " STAINLESS-FLAG " PAMPHLET. 



I find we have at present something like 200 copies left, and 

 therefore we can not undertake to furnish in the future more than 

 one copy to each applicant. If you did not get one last year, and 

 would be glad to see a copy of this great temperance tract, let us 



THE ROMANCE OF THE REAPER. 



On page 585 I said it was impossible for me to read or even 

 look through very many of the books and papers which the kind 

 friends are sending me day by day; and I have been thinking 

 for some time that I should probably not read many more />ool:s 

 clear through. But I had one of my happy surprises when I got 

 hold of a little book of 184 pages, entitled " The Romance of the 

 Reaper." The book was first issued serially in Everybody's 

 Magazine, with which many of you are familiar. Its beautiful 

 print, making it easy to read, and its magnificent illustrations, 

 caused me to read it almost from beginning to end without any 

 tired or " sluggish feeling " in the least. One reason why it 

 took such a mighty hold on nie was that, for the first time in my 

 life, I fully comprehended how the evolution of the reaper has 

 helped to feed the starving multitudes all over the face of the 

 globe. It also appealed to me particularly because I can well 

 remember seeing in my boyhood days the mower introduced, 

 later the reaper, then the binder that used wire, and finally the 

 twine binder. The history of these great inventors, who worked 

 day and night unflaggingly for a term of years, reminded me 

 most vividly of the evolution (in our own industry) of the honey- 

 extractor and the present hives and appliances that we have for 

 producing comb honey. The book does not give any one man the 

 credit by any means; but we have most interesting sketches of a 

 score of great inventors who helped to make the reaper what it is 

 now, and also who helped to make the farmers of our land what 

 they are now. The book is beautifully written by Herbert N. 

 Casson, whom I should pronounce one of the most talented writ- 

 ers of the present day. There are passages in certain parts of the 

 book that would do credit to a Fourth-of-July orator. The price 

 is $1.00, and I do not know how you can invest that amount to 

 better advantage. Read it yourself, and then lend it all over the 

 neighborhood. In some places it seems to defend the tmst busi- 

 ness; but if great tmsts have been the means of feeding the hun- 

 gry in the uttermost parts of the earth we can thank God for this 

 one thing at least. If some of the millionaires who have more 

 money than they know what to do with should all at once take a 

 notion to use some of their means to feed the starving women and 

 children in the different corners of the earth, I should certainly 

 feel that the millennium is coming. So far as I can learn from 

 the book, I believe our great inventors of reapers and mowers, 

 most of them if not all, reaped a rich pecuniary reward. 



The book is published by Doubleday, Page & Co., of New 

 York, to whom letters of inquiry should be sent. 



