1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEr: CULTURE. 



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\(). ?7B. — (i frame Rodt Automatic lor frames not over 1 1-^s 



in. deep ?7.0ll 



No. .^7BP. — Same as above with power gear 42.00 



"No. 40B. — 8-frame Root Automatic for I,, frames, M< in. in 



diameter (wi. 210 lbs.) 40.00 



No. 40BP.— Same as above with power gear 45.00 



No. 47B. — 8-franie Root Automatic for frames not over U 5-8 



in. deep 46.00 



No. 47BP.— Same as above with power gear SI. 00 



Other sizes built to order. Prices on application. Give out- 

 side dimensions of frame and length of top-bar. and number of 

 frames vou want to extract at one time. 



In the foregoing list, H. of course, indicates that the extractor 

 is fitted with ball-bearings. R indicates that the Root automatic 

 is meant, and I* indicates that the machine is fitted for power, 

 and requires the use of an engine. 



KALL-BKARINO EXTRACTORS. 



For some time we have been on the lookout for a good ball- 

 bearing at a price low enough to enable us to use it in our hon- 

 ey-extractors without greatly increasing the price. We have 

 now found what we have been looking for, and propose from this 

 time forward to equip all our extractors with ball-bearings. This 

 we can not do at the regular price; but the machines will be so 

 much improved in durability and easy-running quality that you 

 will be well repaid for the slight additional price. In addition 

 to the ball-bearings we are arranging a slip-gear device on al 

 most all hand-power machines, to enable one to throw the gears 

 out of mesh and stop the crank from revolving the moment you 

 stop applying power, and allow the reel to spin on its ball-bear- 

 ings, throwing out the honey while you uncap the next lot of 

 frames ready to put into the extractor. None of these improved 

 machines aie in the hands of our dealers, as we did not get them 

 perfected in time for this season's trade. You must not expect 

 the new features on any extractors you may order this season un- 

 less you especially request it or mention it in your order. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



UP-TO-DATE POULTRY-BOOKS, ETC. 



Besides the poultry-book that we give away to everybody who 

 sends $1.00 (as mentioned in Glf.anincs for May 15), provid- 

 ing he sends 6 cts. for postage, we have the following up-to-date 

 valuable books which we offer at half price to any one who sends 

 $1.00 for Gleanin<;s and asks for no other premium, or any one 

 whose subscription is paid up for one year or mote. First we 

 have two books, the regular price of which is $1.00 each; to the 

 subscribers of GLEANiNf;s, as mentioned above, 50 cents each, 

 postpaid. The first of these books is: 



Poultry-plant Construction, most profusely illustrated with plans 

 for houses, diagrams, bills for material, and descriptions of the 

 largest and most successful poultry-plants now running, including 

 houses for ducks as well as chickens. 



The second dollar book is entitled Successful Poultry-keeping. 

 This is a book of 176 pages, 9x12, brimful of illustrations. It 

 comprises the whole business in every department, from setting 

 hens to caponizing. 



Then we have the following books at 50 cents each: 



Artificial Incubating and Brooding. 



Poultry-houses and Fixtures, with a special department in re- 

 gard to fresh-air or curtain-front poultry-houses. 



The Chick Book; all about raising chickens; profitable broil- 

 e-rraising, etc. 



The Plymouth Rocks. 



The Bantam Fowl. 



The Leghorns. 



The Asiatics. 



Ducks and Geese. 



Eggs and Egg-farms. 



Besides the above 50-cent books we have also 6 more Sil-cent 

 books entitled Cyphers' Series, as follows: 



1. Profitable Poultry-keeping in all its Branches. 



2. _ Profitable Care and Management of Poultry- 



?■. Profitable Poultry-houses and Appliances. 



4. Profitable Egg-farming. 



5. Profitable Market Poultry. 



6. Capons for Profit, by T. Greiner. 



The above 15 books are 50 cents each, but only 25 cents to 

 those who send $1.00 for Gleanincs, or to any one whose sub- 

 scription is paid up for one year or more; and if you find when 

 you get any one of them that you do not care for the book at 25 

 cents, send it back and we will return the money. As we have 

 only a limited stock of these books perhaps you had better order 

 soon, and mention some other one in case the one particularly 

 wished has been sold out. We have still a good stock of the 

 hook entitled Profits in Poultry, for which you may send 6 cents 

 to pay for postage as described in Gleanings. This is a good- 

 sized book that we give away, but it is not up to date like the 

 others. 



Well, something has lately come up about capons that may 

 make this latter book especially valuable. The writer, in one 



of the recent poultry-joiunals, says capons can be easily taught to 

 take care of chickens just as well as the mother hen; and you can 

 give them chicks from the incubator or take them away from the 

 hens when hatched, and he will be just as good a mother as the 

 mother-hen, and he will grow and get fat at the same time. The 

 writer says he has repeatedly given a good-sized capon .10 or 40 

 chicks, and he says the capon would scratch and " cluck " for 

 them and brood them as well as the mother. Greine.'s book does 

 not tell us any thing about this. Perhaps he did not know it. 

 If his eye should alight on this will he please let us know? and 

 if any of the rest of you have had experience in giving chicks to 

 a capon as I have described I wish they would write me briefly 

 in regard to it. If a capon can be made to receive and brood 

 chicks it looks to me as if he would be ahead of a " fireless " 

 brooder or any other kind. 1 am inclined to think there may be 

 at least some tnilh in this, for I have seen a half-grown chicken 

 adopt other small chickens, and care for them almost like their 

 own mother. 



Finally, we have quite a number of copies of a book called 

 Reliable Poultry Remedies; or, the Causes, Symptoms, and 

 Tieatment of Po\iltry Diseases. Now. while I have very little 

 faith in doctoring either chickens or human beings with dnigs or 

 medicines of any kind, I find this book exceedingly valuable in 

 its hints about the prevcntiun of diseases among poultry. A great 

 many times, and I do not know but I might almost say the great- 

 er part of the time, when your fowls are ailing it is because of 

 some carelessness or neglect on your pan. This book will en- 

 able you to see almost at once where the trouble is. 



The regular price of the book is 25 cents, or /.? ,enis on\y \o the 

 readers of GLEANINGS. 



IHl- WRIGHT BROTHERS FLYI NG-M.ACHIN K, AND OTHERS, 

 UP TO DATE. 



We learn by the papers that, some little time ago, Wilbur 

 Wright, the elder of the brothers, while making some experi- 

 ments in flying, was pretty severely burned by the escaping steam 

 of the cooling-coils of his engine. He said, however, he was not 

 hurt, and to prove it he walked half a mile or more to his stopping- 

 place; but as we go to press we learn by the Woman's Daily that 

 the hurt was more severe after all, and will probably interfere 

 with some of their plans for flights over in Europe. It is just like 

 mv good friend Wilbur to say he was not hurt, e.ven when sufl^er- 

 ing severely, and we hope and pray that he may soon be fully 

 recovered. 



From the magazine called Aeronautics we learn that De la 

 Grange, on the .10th of May, made ten circles with his aeroplane, 

 staying up in the air 15 minutes and 26 seconds. The distance 

 covered was from 14 to 15 kilometers. As a kilometer is equal 

 to about r, of a mile, the speed made was about 40 miles an hour. 

 Farnam has also made a successful flight, carrying a passenger, 

 and afterward won the $2000 prize by making a 20-minute flight 

 of 11 miles. 



The "June Bug," as it is called, has also made some very suc- 

 cessful flights here in America, in orte of them winning the 

 SdrntHic American trophy. This flight was made July 4, and 

 the machine made something over a mile, at the rate of about 40 

 miles an hour. We are further told that De la Grange has planned 

 to arrive with his machine in the city of New York about the 

 20th of August, that Farnam is probably here by this time, and 

 the prospect is that " something will be doing " now right speed- 

 ily. In fact, it may be that something has already been done 

 while I dictate these words. 



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Notices will be inserted in these classified columns 

 at 25 cents per line. Advertisements intended for this 

 department can not be less than two lines, and should 

 not exceed five lines, and you must say you want your 

 advertisement in the classified columns or we will not be 

 responsible for errors. 



Help Wanted 



Wanted. — Man and wife for farm in Dutchess Co., N. Y. 

 Man to have knowledge of bees. Address 



B, Room 40<>. Evening Post Bldg., New York City. 



Poultry Offers 



A. I. Root's Bee-goods, Poultry-supplies, Seeds, etc. 



Stapler's, 412-414 Ferry St., Pittsburgh, Pa 



