1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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Italian queenti from direct imported mothers, red- 

 clover strain, $1.00. Circular. 

 A. W. Yates. 3 Chapman St.. Hartford. Conn. 



For Sale. — Hi^h-frrade red-clover and Golden 

 queens. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. 

 One, 75cts.; six, $4.00; dozen, $7.50. 

 Sires Bros. & Co.. North Yakima. Wash. 



Queens.— Improved red-clover Italians, bred for 

 business— June 1 to Nov. 15. untested queens. 60 cts.; 

 .select. 75 cts.; tested, $1.00 each. Safe arrival and sat- 

 isfaction guaranteed. H. C. Clemons. Boyd, Ky. 



Quirin's famous improved Italian queens ready in 

 April; nuclei and colonies about May 1. My stock is 

 northern bred, and hardy. Five yards wintered on 

 summer stands without a single loss in 1908; 22 years a 

 breeder. For sale, several tons of fall honey. 



QUIRIN-THE-QUEEN-BREEDER, Bellevue, 0. 



Honey Markets continued from page 2. 



St. Louis. — This market at the present time is al- 

 most entirely bare of comb as well as of extracted 

 honey. Prices have materially advanced, and we 

 quote as follows : Fancy white comb honey, 15 to 16 ; 

 choice amber. 13 to 14; dark or granulated is not in de- 

 mand, and nominal at 7 to 9. Broken or leaking hon- 

 ey sells at much less. Amber extracted honey in five- 

 gallon cans sells at 654 to 7; in barrels, 6. Beeswax. 

 28J4 to 29 for choice pure; all impure and inferior, less. 



Sept. 21. R. Hartmann Produce Co. 



Chicago.— Were it not for the fact that fruits of all 

 kinds are arriving on this market very freely, the de- 

 mand for comb honey would be considerably stronger. 

 However, after the first of the month we look for a 

 decided improvement in the honey situation on both 

 comb and extracted; and it is certainly to bee-keepers' 

 interests if they have any honey to let it come forward 

 during the next 30 or 60 days. These are the best 

 months to make disposition of honey. Quote our mar- 

 ket to-day as follows: Strictly fancy white comb hon- 

 ey, 16 to 17; No. 1 white. 15; No. 2 white and light am- 

 ber. 13 to 14; medium amber. 10 to 12. White clover 

 extracted. 7^2 to 8; light amber. 7; medium amber, 5 to 

 7. Bright pure beeswax, 30 to 32. 



Sept. 21. S. T. Fish & Co. 



into a new and untried land and climate until you have 

 first been there yourself. That is the advice of your 

 old friend A. I. Root. Address J. W. White, Seaboard 

 Air Line Railway, Portsmouth, Va. 



Special Notices 



By Our Business Manager 



HONEY IN DANZENBAKER SECTIONS. 



We are especially desirous to secure as much comb 

 honey as possible in 4x5 sections or in shallow frames. 

 It must be choice white comb honey, without mixture 

 of honey-dew. If any of our readers have or know of 

 such honey to be had we should be pleased to hear 

 from them, stating quantity, and price asked. 



ADVANCED PRICES. 



In our last issue we gave a brief announcement of an 

 advance in price of hives, frames, sections, and other 

 wooden goods. In connection with this notice there 

 appeared a partial list of revised prices as they will 

 appear in our new catalog. We now have a sheet 

 comprising all the new prices, which we shall be glad 

 to mail to anybody interested. One of these sheets ac- 

 companies all catalogs which we are mailing until the 

 new edition, incorporating the new prices, is ready. 



The early-order discount, which applies to the re- 

 vised pricf s where a change has been made, is 6 per 

 cent for cash orders during the month of October. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



FLORIDA— LOW EXCURSION RATES; ONLY $25.00 FOR THE 



ROUND TRIP FROM CINCINNATI TO .MANATEE CO. 



AND OTHER POINTS. 



We are just informed that the Seaboard Air Line R'y 

 Co. makes a special excursion rate, Oct. 5 and 19, Nov. 

 2 and 16. and Dec. 7 and 21. And let me repeat, before 

 you invest in any of the real-estate schemes now being 

 so extravagantly advertised, invest $25.00 in money 

 and 25 days in time, and go and look up things your- 

 self. Do not put a copper into any thing of this sort, 

 no matter what inducements may be held up before 

 you, until you have made a trip and seen the place 

 with your own eyes. Then if you choose to invest, go 

 ahead. But do not take your family and possessions 



THE NEW POULTRY BOOK, THE DOLLAR HEN. 



The more I read this new book the more I value it. 

 If you will read the extracts I have given on page 618, 

 and also the advertisement on the cover, you will get 

 a pretty good idea of its general tenor. The great point 

 is, it comes from a man who was in the employ of the 

 Department of Agriculture. His opinions are not only 

 unbiased, but he does not seem to care very much 

 whom he hits, in advising the boys and girls and men 

 and women who are thinking of taking up poultry cul- 

 ture. I bought 100 copies to start with, and a third of 

 them are already sold. Please notice reduced price to 

 readers of Gleanings, which will be sent one year, and 

 the book, for $1.50. If you have already paid for Glean- 

 ings for a year or more, the book will be sent postpaid 

 for an even 75 cents. 



" HOW TO keep well AND LIVE LONG." 



The above is the title of T. B. Terry's new book that 

 is now in the hands of the printers, and which is ex- 

 pected to be sent out Dec. 25. The Practical Farmer of 

 Philadelphia, Pa., contains the author's introductory to 

 the book. When I first read it I began to plan for clip- 

 pings to put in Gleanings; then when I turned over to 

 Terry's regular article in the same issue I found so 

 many more good things that it seemed ought to go in 

 Gleanings I finally decided to tell our readers to send 

 a postal card at once, asking for a sample copy of the 

 Practical Farmer for Sept. 25. If the publishers will 

 not let you have it free of charge, tell them I said they 

 should charge it up to their old friend (or their long- 

 time friend), A. I. Root. Terry, as you know, is com- 

 paratively a neighbor and special friend of mine, and 

 therefore my opinion may be somewhat biased; but I 

 can not help thinking that just now he has made the 

 best contribution to the science of right living that has 

 ever been given to poor sick and suffering humanity. 

 He may make some mistakes, it is true; and we must 

 always remember that teachings that are just right for 

 one person may not be exactly right for another; but 

 taking it all in all, T. B. Terry has helped more people 

 to climb up to health and happiness than any other 

 one man I know of. Let me say again, however, that 

 the above is simply my opinion; but the crowds of 

 people who are now indorsing him, and saying he is 

 exactly right about fresh air, pure water, and a simple 

 diet, I think bears out my statement. 



THE WONDERBERRY; SWEET CLOVER, ETC. 



I have just returned from a visit to our Ohio Experi- 

 ment Station. They have a nice row of plants of the 

 wonderberry, loaded with fruit; but the statement that 

 the fruit is ever fit to eat raw, no matter how well it is 

 ripened on the bushes, is ridiculous. It is about the 

 meanest-tasting thing I ever got hold of. But it does 

 make very good pies. One of the professors remark- 

 ed, however, that it needs vinegar or some other acid 

 to make it sour enough, and then sufficient sugar to 

 make it sweet enough. Then I remarked that " a whole 

 lot of things" would make good pies if we would do 

 that way. Last season they attempted to grow it; but 

 the flea beetle attacked it so fiercely from first«to last 

 that they did not have any fruit. This year they suc- 

 ceeded, with a good deal of pains, in keeping off the 

 beetle. But Prof. Thome suggested that we should be 

 a litlle careful about bringing in a plant on the ground, 

 that seems, like this one, to invite the flea beetle, and 

 encourage it to multiply at such a rate as to get it on 

 to the potatoes and other stuff in the garden. And this 

 was the first time that I ever caught on to the fact that 

 some new plants may introduce and develop special 

 insect pests. By the way, I have just discovered the 

 following in our last Rural New- Yorker: 



The nonh-pole topic Is about the wonrterof the universe just 

 now: next to It come the fly'nij-machlnts. and last, but not 

 least. Is the wonderberry. and I ihlnk the whole thing Is v:o\ag 

 to be a (;ood last nfr rebuke to seedsmen who drat; out old 

 things under new names with a Hxed-up wonderful story. 

 I>on't you think so? And, by the wav, why do not our experi- 

 ment stations come out In the open and make thems>-lves 

 beard! A. I. Root. 



On page 619, there is a suggestion that sweet clover 

 will stand a very heavy dressing of lime, in fact, Prof. 

 Thorne says that on their soil at Wooster, O., they can 

 not get a rank growth of sweet clover without lime; 

 and he says that their experiments seem to indicate 

 that it is almost impossible to put on too much lime for 

 this clover. He also adds that there is no clover known 

 of so much value in bringing up poor soils and prepar- 

 ing them for alfalfa and other clovers as sweet clover. 

 What do you think of that as a report from one of the 

 best experiment stations in the United States? 



