1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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COME TO COLORADO 



The most profitable bee-country in the United States. Our tens of thousands of acres of alfalfa and 

 orchards, together with the profusion of wild flowers, makes Colorado the natural home of the bee. 

 Before you come, send for copy of RANCH AND RANGE, the leading farm journal in the West. 



Ranch & Range Pub. Co., Commonwealth Bldg., Denver, Col. 



Just what you're asking for. Pithy 

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 Complete show reports. A Department 

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your wants. Beeswax wanted. 



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 Select untested, 1, .Si. 00; 6, $5.00; 12, $9.00 

 Tested, . . 1, $125; 6, 6.75; 12, $12 00 

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Chas. Koeppen, - Fredericksburg, Va. 



SPECIAL NOTICES BY A. I. ROOT. 



RECENT BXPBRIMBNT-STATION BULLETINS. 



First and most important of all is a circular from oar Ohio 

 station at Wooster. on alfalfa culture. They tell us that alfalfa 

 is now bcine grown with more or less success in every county in 

 Ohio: and they go on to eive directions so that the average farmer 

 ought to be able to make a sure thing of growing alfalfa more or 

 less. 1 would advise, however, starting a small plot first; and 

 when rou get the hang of just what is needed on your own farm, 

 you can increase your acreage. 



Our Ohio station also tends out a very valuable bulletin on 

 economic zoology. It treats of all the pests that worry ue Ohio 

 farmer, and has even an excellent chapter on rats and mice. 

 This balletin contains nearly 100 pages, and should surely be 

 read and thoroughly studied by every farmer and gardener. 



In addition to the above, the Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, has just issued three valuable bulletins — one on peanuts, 

 one on onion culture, and another in regard to a successful 

 poultry and dairy firm. This latter ought to be of great value to 

 every poultry-keeper. Please consider, friends, that these State 

 aD4 (OTernmeat bulletiss are not only sonod and reliable, but 



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FOR BEE-KEEPERS 



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 of twenty States; on space reserved for correspondence is a well- 

 tried honey-cooking recipe and our name. There are twenty 

 different recipes. They will make a nice present to any lady. 

 Send us 30 cents in stamps and we will fli^il you a set of cards. 



The Colorado Honey Producers' Ro^n, Denver, Colo. 



Western bee-keepers should have our 50-page 

 Illustrated Catalog of Bee-supplies. It is Free. 



Miller's SUPERIOR ITALIAN QUEENS 



By return mail after June 1, or your money back; Northern bred 

 from best red-clover working strains in U. S. No better hustlers; 

 gentle, and winter excellent. Untested, from my three-banded 

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 six, $4.00; 12, $7.50. Special prices on 50 or more. Safe arrival 

 and satisfaction guaranteed. Circular free. 



ISAAC F. MILLER, Reynoldsville, Pa. 



they are worked out and sent out solely in the interest of the 

 farmer. Nobody who has any sort of ax to grind has any thing 

 to do with these bulletins. 



THE "magic BGG-TESTER." 



I am ashamed to be obliged to own up that in all I have had 

 to do and say about testing eggs as soon as laid, it never occurred 

 to me that I should get some eggs from hens where no male birds 

 are kept at all, and in this way explode the foolish claim made 

 by the manufacturers and venders of "secrets." Seethe letter 

 below. 



In looklni; over GLEA.\i>J(is for .\pril 15. In the poultry de- 

 luirtiiu-nt 1 see you say a little about epg-testers. I was one 

 to speml J2 for a •• Magic " epj;tester. 1 have put it through 

 all kinds of tests, and find 1 1-2 eggs will hatch— not all. but 

 some as well as 0—0 1-2; all xx— x will not hatth. I went to a 

 friend's and tested some eggs from a pen that had no male 

 bird, and they went just as eggs from a pen with a male bird 

 do. Some went xx. xx 1-2. as well as 0. I have hatched eggs 

 In Incubators. I can not see where It helps ine. I shall be 

 glad to hear what success you have. 



Chatham, N. Y.. May I. P. L. Callkkder. 



After reading the above I sent to the Magic Egg-tester Works, 

 Buffalo, N. Y., and asked them to send my money back, on the 

 ground that their machine did not tell any thing at all about se- 

 lecting eggs for an incubator or for a sitting hen, and I advised 

 the writer of the letter also to ask for his money back. 



