GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 15 



Gleanings In Bee Culture 



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BIG PRICES FOR STRAWBERRIES PREDICTED. 



People who remember the dreadful days of 1871, when, as a 

 consequence of the drouth of that year, Chicago was fire-swept 

 and all but destroyed, and several towns in Michigan and Wis- 

 consin were at the same time wiped out of existence, declared 

 during the early days of the autumn of 1908 that the drouth of 

 the present season could be compared only with that time. But 

 in 1871 the drouth was broken early in October, while that of 

 1908 remained unbroken at the beginning of winter. Not since 

 July has enough rain fallen to more than lay the dust, and this 

 statement is true of a major portion of the United States. 



The effects of the drouth were felt in few lines of production 

 where the crops were ripened or practically out of danger be- 

 fore the present drouth became very acute. But in the case of 

 other crops, and especially in the case of nursery stock of the 

 nature of plants, vines, and bushes, the season has been the 

 most destructive ever known. Many nurserymen whose prac- 

 tice it has been for years to ship strawberry-plants for fall set 

 ting were compelled to notifv their customers that they had no 

 stock last year (1908) that could be used for that purpose, and 

 many of them are now looking askance at the slim prospect 

 ahead for strawberry-plants for spring setting. 



One effect of this situation will be, of course, to send the 

 price of plants to a somewhat higher point than has ever before 

 been reached, as the scarcity of plants has made it necessary 

 for the nurserymen to raise prices to save themselves. But an- 

 other effect will be to make the strawberry itself a scarce arti- 

 cle, because so many of the growers who have failed to take 

 especial care of their plants during the drouth will find them- 

 selves out of business. Nurserymen are looking forward to a 

 tremendous business in plants in 1910 as a result of these con- 

 ditions, and The R. M. Kellogg Co., at Three Rivers, Mich., 

 write OS that they will set out 110 acres next spring, so confi- 

 dent are they that there will be an unprecedented demand for 

 plants in 1910. 



plants alone survive the struggle. Seeds from mild climates 

 will not answer the purpose where hardiness is the main re- 

 quirement, and yet much of the seed now sold is grown in 

 California and in Europe, where the conditions are not at all 

 similiar to our Eastern, Central, and Northwestern States. For 

 these reasons we think our readers who are in want of good 

 hardy seeds will again welcome the appearance of the L. L. 

 Olds' advertisement in these columns. It is our opinion that 

 Olds' catalog is a good safe guide to order frorn. 



olds seeds for HARDINESS. 



In many parts of this country Old's seeds are regarded with 

 high favor on account of their reliability and tnieness to name. 

 This is more particularly true of sections where the climatic 

 conditions are very severe and trying on vegetation, and hardy 



A VAST BUSINESS. 



The Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N. Y., is always to the 

 front. It is constantly forging ahead, and its new catalog al- 

 ways contains new ideas as well as accurate descriptions of 

 new inventions. In fact, the annual catalog of this company 

 is always something out of the ordinary. For 1909 it will 

 contain plain descriptions of their new fire-proofed insura'ble 

 incubators and brooders. There will also be complete ac- 

 counts of electrically heated incubators, which are certainly 

 something new, and there will be descriptions of incubators 

 holding respectively 8000 and 40,000 eggs. Surely these must 

 be worth going a long distance to see, for the Cyphers people 

 actually have these machines in operation. But if we can not 

 go to inspect these wonders we can send for the great 212-page 

 catalog describing them, which this great concern supplies free. 

 This book alone is worth 50 cents, for it is no mere catalog of 

 things to sell. The 1909 edition has numerous beautiful illus- 

 trations of America's greatest fowls, including Paderewski's 

 celebrated pep of five, for which he paid Mr. Kellerstrass $7500. 

 Not only so, but there are fine articles on feeding, laying 

 records, incubating, brooding, and "What the Poultry Busi- 

 ness is." After reading this book we think you will conclude 

 the American poultry industry is something great, and you will 

 feel proud you have a share in it. Furthermore, we feel cer- 

 tain that you will make up your mind to give the Cyphers In- 

 cubator Co. a fair share of your patronage in future if you have 

 not done so previously. Enterprise of this kind deserves reward 

 and encouragement, and we believe the readers of Gleanings 

 will recognize this as well as we do when their attention is 

 called to it. 



