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 included. If you can use 50 or 100 bushels, 

 write for special price. Seed is recleaned, and 50 

 pounds to the bushel. 



Special Not ices by A. I. Root 



THE STAINLESS FLAG. 

 We have about 150 copies left of this great temper- 

 ance pamphlet. You can have them, while they last, 

 by sending us a two-cent stamp for postage. About 

 one copy to each applicant is about all we want to 

 spare, however, under the circumstances. 



RADIUM AND THE ELECTRIC CLOCK. 



" Radium still radiates," and the electric clock has 

 now completed two full years on one set of three little 

 dry batteries. Just think of it— a clock that keeps tick- 

 ing, and keeps excellent time, for two full years with- 

 out any winding, and, I was going to say, without a 

 finger being touched to it! but once in quite a spell 

 Mrs. Root has pushed the minute-hand forward a little. 

 I suppose this clock might be regulated more exactly; 

 but it is doing so well we do not like to meddle with it. 



"BUILT AND USED BY POULTRVMEN." 



The above is the title of a beautiful book just chock 

 full of pictures showing what successful poultrymen 

 have now in actual use. There is a great lot about 

 fireless brooders. Many styles are described and pic- 

 tured; also various kinds of hot-air and hot-water 

 brooders, and water-fountains and feeders galore. The 

 book is gotten out by The Standard Co., Quincy, 111. 

 The only price I find on it is 75 cts., and this includes 

 the Standard Poultry Journal one year. As the Journal 

 is 50 cts., the book costs you only 25; and it is worth 

 that, just to look at the pictures. 



"PROTECTION OF FRUIT-TREES FROM RODENTS." 



The above is the title of Bulletin 208 from the Ohio 

 Experiment Station, and a most useful and beautiful 

 bulletin it is. It contains 20 pages full of accurate il- 

 lustrations — one or more on each page. The damage 

 to fruit-trees by different animals such as mice, wood- 

 chucks, rabbits, etc., by girdling them in the winter, 

 is enormous; and this book gives some splendid illus- 

 trations of all the best methods known for combating 

 these pests. Not only that, but the closing chapter 

 tells us what to do when most people would consider 

 a tree hopelessly ruined. We have now in our apple- 

 orchard a Mcintosh Red, that I think a lot of, that was 

 saved by grafting some shoots both above and below 

 the girdling. The tree would surely have died but for 

 these gr.ifts. Now, do not send to me for the bulletin. 

 Send to the Ohio Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio. 



TURKEVS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



The Reliable Poultry Journal, of Quincy. 111., has just 

 issued a big, bright, practical turkey-book. I have 

 had my eye on the turkey business for quite a good 

 while; but I have always been told that they do not 

 thrive unless they can have unlimited liberty. This 

 book, however, gives an account of one turkey-raiser 

 who got some wild-turkey eggs and hatched out some 

 turkeys from them. The only way, however, by which 

 he could prevent them from flying away with other 

 wild turkeys that frequently flew over his place was 

 to put them in a yard 30 feet wide by 130 feet long, cov- 

 ered overhead with poultry-netting as well as having 

 a six-foot fence. For a roosting-place he let his in- 

 closure go up 30 feet high. He kept them successfully 



in this pen, and obtained some wild males so as to get 

 a cross with the best strain of tame turkeys. 



Now, the only fault I find with this beautiful book— 

 if, indeed, it is a fault— is that it does not give the loca- 

 tion of the various turkey-growers who furnished the 

 articles. The book is full of practical teachings, for it 

 was written entirely by successful turkey-growers. 

 The picture in the frontispiece is nice enough to hang 

 up in the parlor. It represents in full colors a pair of 

 Mammoth Bronze turkeys. This book is dated 1909, 

 and the price is 75 cents postpaid. If I knew where the 

 man lives who has the covered turkey-yard and wild 

 turkeys I should like to go and visit him. Perhaps he 

 kept his residence out of print for fear he might have 

 too many visitors. 



On the title-page we find the following: 



A turkey boiled 



Is a turkey spoiled; 



A turkey roast 



Is a nation's boast; 



But for turkey braized, 



The Lord be praised. 



I forgot to say that the principal objection to my 

 growing turkeys is that, if they run loose, they will 

 annoy my neighbors, and I should never want to do 

 that. I have been trying for several years to coax 

 Bro. Shumard to start a turkey-ranch on his island. 

 As he is almost a mile from the main land, there would 

 not be much danger of troubling the neighbors unless 

 his stock should get crossed with the wild turkeys that 

 are still found in that region. 



Convention Notices. 



The next annual convention of the Colorado State 

 Bee-keepers' Association will be held in the senate 

 chamber, State capitol, Denver, Dec. 7 and 8. Pro- 

 gram later. W. L. Henthorne, Sec. 



The Northern Michigan Bee-keepers' Association 

 will hold its next annual session at Mancelona, 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. 



THE CHICAGO-NORTHWESTERN CONVENTION. 



The annual meeting of the Chicago-Northwestern 

 Bee-keepers' Association will be held in the Briggs 

 House, northeast corner of Fifth Ave. and Randolph 

 St., Chicago, Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 1 and 2. 

 Judging from the letters received, this is going to be 

 the largest and best convention held in America this 

 year. The indications are that there will be more 

 leading bee-keepers present than there were at the 

 National convention at Sioux City in September. This 

 meeting comes at a time when bee-keepers can more 

 easily get away from home for a few days. 



Among those who have written that they expect to 

 be present, or will be repre.'^ented by papers, are the 

 following: Dr. C. C. Miller, Miss Emma Wilson, C. P. 

 Dadant, F. Wilcox, Geo. E. Hilton, Morley Pettit, R. A. 

 Morgan, W. Z. Hutchinson, J. J. Wilder, E. R. Root, 

 N. E. France, M. E. Darby, Mrs. H. K. Beard, and oth- 

 ers. It is expected that there will be, in addition to the 

 usual very helpful question-box discussions, many 

 short papers on subjects that are of deep interest to 

 bee-keepers. This will help to start discussions that 

 are sure to draw out much information that will be 

 invaluable to those present. We hope it may prove to 

 be a regular bee-keepers' rally. There are a great 

 many bee-keepers who like to visit Chicago at least 

 once a year, and this is a good time for them to come. 

 The first session will be at 10 : 30 a.m., Dec. 1. Come, 

 and help make it a large and profitable convention. 

 H. F. MOORE, Sec, Park Ridge, 111. 



GEO. W. YORK, Pres., Chicago, 111. 



Mr.Bee-Man: 



You can save time, 



worry, and money by 



ordering your supplies 



for next season now. 



I have a fnll line of Hives, Supers, Sections, Foundation— 



in fact, every thine yon need in the apiary. If you do not 



have a catalog, send for one to-day. 



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Friend St 



H. H. JEPSON 



Phone Haymatket 1489-1 



Boston, 

 Mass. 



