1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Special Notices 



By Our Business Managhr 



We recently advertised a few shelf-worn books on bee culture 

 and rural topics. The books on bees have been sold, but we 

 still have a few good books on various farm and garden topics 

 which are offered at reduced prices. Send for list if inteiested. 



HONBY-BXTRAC'IOR AT A BARGAIN PRICK. 



We offer for sale on the cars at shipping-point in Arkansas a 

 No. 17 Cowan two-frame extractor with comb-pockets 12 inches 

 wide. .X new machine of this style sold for $12.50. This is 

 represented to be practically as good as new, and we offer it for 

 $•'.00, subject to previous sale. 



JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT SBKI>. 



We have secured a nice lot of seed of the Japanese buckwheat, 

 grown for us the past summer. As it is out of season we are will- 

 ing to make quite a concession in price to reduce stock at present. 

 For orders placed now, accompanied by payment, we will furnish 

 seed in new bags, included without extra charge. One bushel, 

 $1.25; two bushels, $2.25; ten bushels, $10 50. 



CLOVER SEED. 



We have secured a good supply of alsike clover seed which we 

 offer for sale free on board cars here, bags included, at 25 cts. per 

 lb; $.^.00 per peck; $5.75 per half-bushel; $11.00 per bushel; 

 $21.00 per bag of two bushels. We can supply white Dutch clo- 

 ver seed at the same price as alsike; also alfalfa at same price. 

 Medium and Mammoth clover seed costs $2.00 per bushel less at 

 present market price. 



SWBET-CLOVER SEED. 



We have secured an additiontil supply of sweet-clover seed, and 

 offer it, till further notice, at the following special prices: Un- 

 hulled white, 14 cts. per lb.; lo lbs., $1.20; 100 lbs., $10 00; 

 hulled white at 6 cts. per lb. extra; hulled yellow, a'so at 6 cts. 

 per lb. extra. We have no unhulled yellow on hand at present, 

 but have some on the way, and on arrival the price will be the 

 same as the unhulled white. 



Catalogs Received. 



" Flowers for Springtime," by Mary E. Martin, Jericho Road, 

 Floral Park, N. Y. This is a very good catalog for persons hav- 

 ing a garden or small place. A novelty is the new Irish ever- 

 blooming rose, hardy on Long Island. 



" Olds' l'<09 Catalog." Seeds for ihe farm and garden; by the 

 L. L. Olds Seed Co., Madison, Wis. A special feature with 

 this firm is seeds for farm use, though they have garden seeds as 

 well. 



"A. A. Berry Seed Co's 1909 Seed-book," Clarinda, la. This 

 is a seed-book designed for farmers' use in the prairie States and 

 other countries where the theiniometer goes below zero. 



" Burpee's Farm Annual for 1909; the Plain Truth about the 

 best Seeds that Grow," by W. Atlee Burpee, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 This is a catalog that interests ttuck-gardeneis everywhere. 

 Every gardener ought to send for a copy. It is strong on sweet- 

 pea seeds and many garden annuals, such as the average house- 

 keeper wants to grow. 



" Ratekin's Se»d-book lor 1909," from Ratekin's seed-house, 

 Shenandoah, la. Interesting to all farmers in the blizzard be4t. 

 Makes a specialty of seed corn. 



" German Nurseries Garden Book for 1909," Carl Sondereg- 

 ger. Prop., Beatrice, Neb. This catalog has a very full list of 

 fruit and other trees for the blizzard belt. There are also full 

 lists of kitchen-girden vegetables and flower-seeds for the home. 



Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville Nurseries, Painesville, O., 

 tend out their " Catalog for Spring. 1909." This is a very com- 

 prehensive catalog for the garden and home. All home makers 

 in Ohio. Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia, and Illinois should 

 have a copy. 



" Seed Annual for 1909," bv The Livingstone Seed Co., Co- 

 lumbus, O. As usual this catalog shows a wide variety of good 

 tomatoes- Mr. Livingstone has Mne more, probably, than any 

 Qlher living man to improve the tomato, and. of course, his firm 

 is headqiurters for seed. They have other seeds as well. 



" Johnson's Garden and Farm Annual," by Thf Johnson Seed 

 Co., 217 Market St., Philadelphia. This is a favorite catalog 

 with truck-growers or market-gardeners, more particularly in the 

 east and southeast of this country. 



Cunie Brothers Co.'s "Horticultural Guide for Spring of 1909," 

 Milwaukee, Wis. This catalog is strong on farmers' seeds, but 

 has also a good line of flower and vegetable seeds for the home. 



" Catalog of the K. M. Kellogg Co.," Three Rivers, Mich. 

 This is the usual splendid catalog of strawberry-plants offered for 

 sale by the above company. Every grower of berries should se- 

 cure a copy. 



" Asters, Dahlias, Gladioli," by Ralph E. Huntington, Paines 

 ville, O. This is a unique little catalog, beautifully arranged 

 and well worth paying for, but is free for the sending. 



" The 1909 Descriptive Catalog of Wood's High-grade Seeds, 

 and Guide for the Farm and Garden," by T. W. Woods & Sons, 

 Richmond, Va. A very important catalog for the border States 

 and the South. 



" AIneer Brothers' Seed and Plant Catalog," by Alneer Bro's, 

 Rockford, III. This catalog seems to be strong on vegetable 

 seeds, also Rainbow pansies and peonies. 



" Catalog of D. Hill," evergreen specialist, Dundee, III. This 

 contains a tine list of beautiful hardy evergreens, firs, hemlocks, 

 pines, spruces, junipers, cedars, arbor-vitjcs, etc.; also locusts, 

 basswoods, and other deciduous trees. 



" Annual Seed Catalog for 1909," by The Henry Field Seed 

 Co., Shenandoah, Iowa — a large general list of seeds for the gar- 

 den and farm. 



" Northrup King & Company's Quarter-century offering of 

 Sterling Seeds," Minneapolis, Minn. This is an extra-fine cat- 

 alog devoted to meritorious seeds for the Northwestern States. 



"Northern-grown Seeds. Plants, Bulbs, and Fruits for 1909," 

 by L. L. May & Co., St. Paul, Minn. This is a very fine cata- 

 log of seeds pertaining to the farms and gardens of the North- 

 west. It has a beautiful cover-page illustration. 



" Shumway's Seed Catalog," of Rockford, HI. This is a 

 large-sized catalog of farmers' seeds. It has a wholesale price 

 for those who plant on a large scale. 



BOOK REVIEWS. 



MBRRYBANKS AND HIS NEIGHBOR. 



Here is a little book, issued some years ago, but new to thou- 

 sands of our present subscribers, which is quite a departure from 

 the usual order. It is not a work of fiction, because it is too 

 largely founded on fact to be classed as such. Neither is it a 

 treatise on something; nor is it a history, biography, theology, 

 nor, in fact, any of the usual 'ologies. It is a strange mixture of 

 fact and fiction. In some respects it is an attempt to build castles 

 in the air, and these ate probably just such " castles " as the av- 

 erage country boy indulges in to his heart's content. As the 

 author is A. I. Root, it contains a good deal about bees and bee- 

 keeping; in fact, the hero blossoms out into a modern bee-keep- 

 er with all sorts of " bees in his bonnet." Like most men of 

 his breed he was fond of experimenting in the art of agriculture 

 with a view to eking out a slender income; and the story o' haps 

 and mishaps is carefully given here with a view, probably, to 

 helping others who may follow in his footsteps. He has a droll 

 way of relating Jiis experience, which gives a zest to what 

 would otherwise seem a plain unvarnished taleof joy and sorrow. 

 There is a great deal of what newspaper men call inspiration; 

 and doubtless many a farmer boy or village carl would be glad to 

 read such a book, as it is sufficiently interesting to draw out the 

 enthusiasm of young men of the right class, and lo lead them on 

 to a useful life. For this purpose it is recommended to those who 

 can place a copy where " where it will do the most good " — 

 that is to say, in the hands of home person seeking a vocation or 

 an avocation. Price 25 cts. postpaid; or with Gleanings one 

 year, $1.10, postpaid. 



BBE-HUNTINt;. 



Bee-hunting has been a favorite avocation with the American 

 pioneers for over a hundred years, and the description of a bee- 

 hunt by Washington Irving is one of the delightful tid-bits of 

 American literature. Yet no book has appeared on the subject 

 until now, probably because bee-hunters are not bookish men. 

 They prefer life in the open. The book before us is a rather 

 small work, but it deals with a very simple subject which de- 

 pends very largely for success on the acuteness of sense and gen- 

 eral alertness of the hunter rather than the following of a set of 

 rules laid down in a book. The author gives some kinks which are 

 very important in tbe successful hunting of the bee, though the 

 jvf rage reader may be inclined to pass them by as non-essential. 

 He should give careful heed to these instructions, however, and 

 he will doubtless achieve some measure of success, though there 

 are few spo ts that require more real gumption than bee-hunting. 

 Take the book with you in the sprirg, and earnestly seek na- 

 ture's guidance. One of the "secrets" of the book is the use of 

 coumarin essence, whic.'i is a substitute for vanilla, to attract tfe 

 wild bees. The coumarin is extracted from sweet clover, which 

 readily explains why bees are attracted by it. The author is 

 Mr. John Lockard, who seems to have given the subject consid- 

 erable attention. Price 25 cts. postpaid. We can supply it 

 from this office. 



THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY, MEDINA, OHIO. 



