1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



21 



Special Notices 



By Our Business Manager 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 

 We want to hear from those who have sweet-clover 

 seed in quantities for sale. We have not secured our 

 usual supply, and are having a brisk demand, so are 

 liable to run short before another season's crop can be 

 trathered. 



JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. 



We have secured an extra-choice lot of Japanese 

 buckwheat for seed; and rather than carry so much 

 over for the spring trade we offer it for shipment now 

 at a special low price. For prompt cash orders we will 

 sell one bushel for $1.15; 2 bushels, $2.10; 10 bushels, 

 $10.00, bags irtcluded. If you can use 50 or 100 bushels, 

 write for special price. Seed is recleaned, and 50 

 pounds to the bushel. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



When the next issue comes out, Mrs. Root and I, 

 Providence permitting, will be in our Florida home at 

 Bradentown, Manatee Co. 



"THE FAilOUS GRUNDY METHOD." 



As I have been criticising this book rather severely 

 for a year past, or more, particularly because of the 

 price, $2.00 for a small paper-covered book, I deem it 

 no more than fair to state here that Mr. Fred Grundy 

 has cut the price down a half — that is, for $2.00 he will 

 furnish the book and Gleanings for one year free. 



While I am about it, I will state that Mr. Grundy has 

 given us another excellent book entitled "A Fortune 

 in Two Acres." Price 50 cents. Address Fred Grun- 

 dy, Morrison, 111. 



"ONE HUNDRED FORMULAS AND RECIPES FOR POUL- 



TRVMEN." 



The above heading is the title of a little book put out 

 by the Poultry Record folks, Carey, Ohio. It contains 

 nearly all if not Quite all the secrets that have been ad- 

 vertised and sold up to date. There is one thing I par- 

 ticularly like about this expos(5 of secrets. After giv- 

 ing a process the author expresses his opinion of it. 

 For instance, he says, in regard to the dollar secret for 

 feeding soda and epsom salts to chickens to destroy 

 vermin, " I consider the remedy of no value as a mite- 

 killer, but it may be of some value as a tonic." In re- 

 gard to the secret of telling a laying hen, he adds at 

 the end, " The advertisement is only to catch a few 

 dollars." The book is rather small for 25 cents — only 

 20 pages; but as it contains secrets that have cost some 

 of our friends a good many dollars, it ought to be a 

 good investment— especially for " us chaps " who have 

 been sending our quarters and dollars for all the se- 

 crets advertised. By the way, that Missouri woman is 

 still advertising her secret for sorting out the fertile 

 eggs before they go into the incubator; and the worst 

 part of it is, there are several poultry-journals that 

 still accept and insert the advertisement. 



THAT HOME-.MADE INCUBATOR. 



I omitted to say in the proper place that the ther- 

 mometer should be immersed in the water in the tea- 

 kettle. The bulb should be two or three inches in the 

 water so that the top may project enough so that the 

 temperature may be read easily. Now with this flan- 

 nel covering the outside of the kettle, the thermometer 

 needs to be up to 110 or 111, as I have explained, to 

 bring the top of the eggs in contact with the kettle 'or 

 flannel, rather) up to 103 ; and the eggs will not be 

 harmed if the temperature should rise to 120 or even a 

 little more. I think that the neighborhood of 118 or 

 120 is a better temperature when the eggs are hatch- 

 ing; and I have some chickens coming out now, this 

 25th day of October. When the eggs are pipped, we 

 think it best to have as many as possible pressing 

 against the warm kettle, removing the shells out of the 

 way and putting the chicks on the top shelf or nursery 

 as I have explained. Where you have one or more 

 shelves it accomplishes this nicely. Oh ! by the way, 

 Huber is as happy this morning because his baby 



only four months oldi has two teeth, as is his father 

 with his chickens just hatching in his newly invented 

 incubator. 



THE HOME DEPARTMENT OF GLEANINGS. 



All along through the years since this department 

 was started, there have been more or less requests to 

 have a selection made of Our Homes in book form. 

 The matter came up again recently; but I am rather 

 inclined to think we should give our attention to the 

 future rather than to the past. But I might remind the 

 friends that in 1881 there was such a call for back num- 

 bers that we printed two small books, Parts I. and II. 

 As you know, I do not believe in big prices for a little 

 book, and never did; so these books are sold at 10 cts. 

 each, each one containing about 50 pages, Gleanings 

 size. Well, there are nearly 200 of these old selections 

 of Our Homes, and you can have them, while they last, 

 the two for 15 cents. If wanted by mail, add 4 cts. for 

 postage. As I glance over my work in trying to lift 

 up humanity during the last 35 years, it looks to me as 

 if there really were many valuable lessons in the two 

 pamplilets. There is much said, for instance, about 

 building up a home, and having things convenient for 

 the least expenditure of time and money. Therefore, 

 friends, if any of you would like to see a sample of the 

 Home Papers in their early stages, send us 12 cents for 

 Part I., or 19 cents for the two. 



FIRELESS BROODERS; SOMETHING TO FURNISH HEAT 

 FOR THE FIRST WEEK OR TWO. 



While heating bricks to keep the new chicks warm 

 during a cold spell down in Florida I thought several 

 times of the little foot-warming stoves that we kept for 

 sale something like ten years ago. These are kept 

 warm by means of a stick of fuel lighted with a match. 

 The expense of the heat is only about one cent a day. 

 Now, this arrangement would be much simpler than a 

 lamp. It could notset any thing afire, it occupies very 

 little space, and does not need any of the machinery 

 necessary to accommodate a lamp to keep it burning. 

 Besides, there could be no possible danger of an ex- 

 plosion. I have just interviewed Huber, who has had 

 considerable experience with these cheap little stoves. 

 I think they sold at 40 cents, with quite a lot of fuel 

 thrown in. He agrees with me that they would be just 

 the thing, but for the fact that the heat fluctuates too 

 much, going up and down, and, worst of all, frequent- 

 ly going out entirely. I think I have read somewhere, 

 however, that the fuel has been recently improved so 

 that a stick of it will burn until every bit of it is con- 

 sumed without going out. Can anybody give me any 

 information in regard to the matter? 



BOOK REVIEWS. 



THE FAMILY-READING PROBLEM. 



To find reading that satisfies one's craving for the 

 bright and attractive, and which is at the same time 

 perfectly suitable for impressionable young people, is 

 at times difficult. The best magazines are admittedly 

 published for mature readers only. The Youth 's Com- 

 panion, Companion Building, Boston, Mass., alone is 

 for all the family. While the editors keep in mind the 

 eager desire of the young for tales of action, enter- 

 prise, and adventure, these stories in The Companion 

 are so well written as to fascinate men and women in 

 all stages of life's journey. And this is true not only 

 of the fiction in The Companion but of the entire con- 

 tents. The articles, by famous writers, convey knowl- 

 edge that is useful to the wisest and most experienced 

 as well as to the immature. In short. The Companion 

 solves the reading problem for the entire family. It is 

 entertaining and it is "worth while." 



Every new subscriber will find it of special advan- 

 tage to send at once the $1.75 for the new 1910 volume. 

 Not only does he get the beautiful " Venetian " Calen- 

 dar for 1910, lithographed in thirteen colors and gold, 

 but all of the issues of The Companion for the remain- 

 ing weeks of 1909, from the time the subscription is 

 received. 



Convention Notices. 



The annual meeting of the Middlesex Bee-keepers' 

 Association will be held in the City Hall, London, 

 Ont., Nov. 6, at 10 : 30 A.M. and 1 : 30 P..M. All bee-keep- 

 ers are cordially invited. E. T. Bainard, Sec. 



Lambeth, Ontario^ 



The Northern Michigan Bee-keepers' Association 

 will hold its next annual session at Slancelona, Mich., 

 Dec. 1 and 2. We are holding this meeting at this 

 time to get the attendance of those who can not get 

 away during the busy month of April — the usual meet- 

 ing month. A rousing meeting is expected. Come! 



East Jordan, Mich. Ira D. Bartlett, Sec. 



