1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



19 



FIVE HUNDRED 



Queens 



Our Queens were 

 never better than 

 they are now. . . . 



We have queens of every grade bred 

 in our yards here, that we can send 

 out by return mail. 



We Guarantee our queens to be equal 

 to any stock bred, and better than 

 the average. 



You Can't Expect to get large crops of 

 lioney if you have inferior stock in 

 your yards. 



It Doesn't Pay to leave old and com- 

 mon queens in the hives. 



Requeen Now. We can furnish the 

 best stock at this season of the year 

 at such reasonable prices no one need 

 hesitate to get the queens he needs. 



The First Cost is really a secondary 

 consideration now. 



Quality is the first consideration, and 

 we know you can not be better 

 pleased than to send your order to 

 us. We guarantee safe arrival any- 

 where in the United States. 



Our Prices: Untested, $1.00; select un- 

 tested, ¥1.25; tested, $2.00; select 

 tested, $3.00 ; breeders, $3.50; select 

 breeders, $7.50 ; extra select breed- 

 ers, $10.00. 



Quantity Orders. We take special care 

 of orders for queens in lots of fifty or 

 more. Give plain mailing instruc- 

 tions, telling whether you want them 

 all one day or at intervals, and we 

 will get them to you just when you 

 want them. We make special prices 

 in quantity lots. 



Write Us Today and get some of the 

 best (jueens obtainable at reasonable 

 rates, and be sure of getting a large 

 honey crop. Our bees will gather 

 honey if there is any to be had. 



The A. I. Root Co. 



Medina, Ohio 



Special Notices by A. L Root. 



FLORIDA REAL-ESTATE OFFERS, ETC. ; LOOK OUT FOR 

 "LAND-SHARKS." 



No matter how tempting' the offer, nor what may be 

 the circumstances represented, do not purchase land 

 in Florida, either acres, lots, or any thing of the sort, 

 without visitinfi the locality and inspecting it. If you 

 invest first and look it up afterward you may find you 

 have purchased land at thirty or forty dollars an acre 

 that might have been bought for five or six dollars (or 

 less* had you been on the spot. 



HOW TO DESTROY RATS. 



The above is the title of another bulletin in regard 

 to the rat nuisance. On page 418, -July 1, I wrote up 

 the former bulletin, and announced that rats are cost- 

 ing the people of this country about a hundred million 

 dollars annually. It seems there was such a demand 

 for the former bulletin that the edition was soon ex- 

 hausted, and another one has just been sent out, issued 

 the 3d of this month. It contains pictures of the little 

 trap I recommended, and a number of suggestions in 

 regard to their use. There are 20 pages, ard I wish the 

 bulletin might be put into every home in the land 

 where rats and mice have ever made any trouble. We 

 liave already sold a gross of the little mouse-traps (two 

 for a nickel! , and another gross is ordered and on the 

 way. If you can not get these traps near home, re- 

 member we can send you two of them by mail, post- 

 paid, for 7 cts., or a whole dozen for 41 cts. Now, 

 please turn in and help, in ridding not only your own 

 premises, but the whole United States, and, better still, 

 the whole wide world, of the shame and disgrace that 

 rest on every one of us when we permit these pests 

 not only to annoy us, but to bring, indirectly, death 

 and pestilence in our midst. 



"FARM MANAGEMENT IN NORTHERN POTATO-GROWING 

 SECTIONS." 



The above is the title of another exceedingly valu- 

 able bulletin. It contains 31 pages, and should be in 

 the hands of every potato-grower in the nation, no 

 matter if you grow only enough for your own use. I 

 wish to speak of only one special point. I have told 

 you what they are doing in the way of improved corn 

 culture. Now, something similar can be done with 

 potatoes, fur I have proved it. Select your potatoes 

 for planting next year in the field at the time of dig- 

 ging. Take only the best tubers from the best-yielding 

 and healthiest hills. This bulletin tells us that a man 

 in Michigan commenced doing this some years ago. 

 The first year he found that only 8 per cent of the hills 

 were up to the standard he had decided on. The next 

 year 20 per cent of the hills came up to the standard. 

 The third year more yet, and after five years of this 

 method he was able to produce a field where 70 per 

 cent of the hills came up to the requirements in the 

 way of yield, shape, and resistance to drouth, blight, 

 etc. He not only more than doubled his yield, but 

 greatly improved the quality of the whole crop. You 

 can not afford to be without this potato bulletin. The 

 two bulletins I have mentioned are sent free on appli- 

 cation to any one of Uncle Sam's children. Just write 

 to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 

 and tell them what bulletins you want. 



POULTRY SECRETS. 



The poultry-secret business see.ms to be pretty well 

 done up with the war that Gleanings and the agricul- 

 tural papers have been waging on it. Another book 

 in regard to the matter is now in my hands. It is en- 

 titled "Tricks in the Poultry Trade." It was written 

 by Reese V. Hicks, TopePa, Kansas, editor of Poultry 

 Culture. Price 25 cents. The book contains 64 pages, 

 and is well worth the price, for it exposes many of the 

 secrets that have been advertised during the last two 

 or three years. As the book is brief, he does not stop 

 even to give credit to the inventors or advertisers of 

 the tricks. And, by the way, he described how to 

 make my paper-box egg-tester, almost word for word 

 as I gave it in Gleanings; but he does not even men- 

 tion A. I. Root. Perhaps I should not complain, as he 

 does not mention anybody. While the book does not 

 tell as much as "Poultry Secrets," by the Farm Journal 

 people, it gives enough to be well worth the money. 

 " Tricks of the Poultry Trade " is given free to every- 

 body who sends .50 cents for their periodical. Poultry 

 Culture, Topeka, Kansas. 



Now we iiave two good examples before the poultry 

 world for some of the brethren to follow who have been 

 charging a dollar for a single page of printed matter, 

 or say half a dozen pages, for some little secret. We 

 have two fair-sized books concerning a great lot of 

 secrets, for the very reasonable price of 25 cents each. 



