MAY 15, 1913 



Famous Dumaresq Buttercups and stock. Send 

 eggs to England, Cuba, Canada, and California, 

 with good reports and safety. My matings are nne 

 this year. Pens headed by " Dewey," blue-ribbon 

 winner — first pen at Rochester ; this year Toronto, 

 second, and Palermo, second, all blue-ribbon vnn 

 ners. Testimonials of pullets laying in 124 days. 

 Eggs for hatching. Send for circular. 



MR.S. J. S. DrMARESQ. 



Cato's Hall, Kt. 5, Easton, Maryland. 

 Vice-president American Buttercup Club. 



INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS 



True Fawn and White Indian Runner ducks 

 Handsome and hardy, and the l)est of layers. I c;in 

 start you with the best. Fags, $1.00 per 11. 



H. 0. Lee, Box 254, Brooksville, Ky. 



Indian Runner duck eggs, 13 "for $1.00. Fawn 

 and white, whit€-egg strain. Also Mammoth Black 

 Bronze turkey eggs, 25 cts. per egg. 

 Sarah Widrig, Rt. 29, Burt, Niagara Co., N. Y. 



Pure Spencer Strain WTiite Indian Runner Ducks. 

 Wonderful layers of large pure-white eggs. Write 

 for prices O'f stock and eggs. 



Breeze Hill Poultry Farm, 



A. R. Williams, Prop., Rt. 4 Winchester, Ind. 



Do vou want eggs from the original Fawn and 

 White Indian Runner ducks? Send $1.25, and 15 

 pure-white eggs ^vill be delivered to you in perfect 

 hatching condition, by prepaid parcel post. S. C. B. 

 I. Reds eggs the same price. 



Rob't Bird, Pinckneyville, 111. 



Pure-white I. R. ducks, foundation stock direct 

 from Spencer flock, California. Grandest strain on 

 earth. Lay large, pure-white eggs. American stand- 

 ard Fawn and White I. R. ducks. Grand breeding 

 stock for sale. Write me your wants. I will start 

 you with the best. Satisfaction guaranteed. 



C. O. Yost, Box D, Rt. 4, Winchester, Ind. 



BEEKEEPERS' DIRECTORY 



Nutmeg Italian queens, leather color, after June 

 1. $1.00. A. W. Yates, Hartford, Conn. 



Well-bred bees and queens. Hives and supplies. 

 J. H. M. Cook, 70 Cortlandt St., New York. 



Improved golden-yellow Italian queens for 1913: 

 beautiful, hustling, gentle workers. Send for price 

 list. E. E. Lawrence, Doniphan, Mo. 



Queens. — Improved red-clover Italians, bred for 

 business; June 1 to Nov. 15, untested queens, 75 

 cts.; select, $1.00; tested, $1.25 each. Safe arrival 

 and satisfaction guaranteed. 



H. C. Clemons, Boyd, Ky. 



Quirin's famous improved Italian queens, niiclei. 

 colonies, and bees by the pound, ready in May. Our 

 stock is norihein-bred and hardy; five yards winter- 

 er on summer stands in 1908 "and 1909 without a 

 single loss. For prices, send for circular. 



QuiRiN the-Qusen-breeder, Bellevue, Ohio. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



By Cue Business Manager 



SECOXD-H.\XD CANS. 



We have a call for a carload of second-hand 60- 

 Ib. cans, which we recently offered, but we have some 

 over a car, and can still supplv a few hundred cases 

 at $3.50 for 10; $7.50 for 25, or $25.00 per 100. 

 There are two cans to a case. They have screw caps, 

 are free from rust inside, and boxes are repaired 

 where needed, and in good condition. 



19 



BUCKWHEAT SEED. 



We have a good stock of choice buckwheat for 

 seed, both silverhull and Japanese. The season for 

 sowing is rapidly approaching. Our price for seed, 

 while present supply lasts, is 40 cts. per peck ; 75 

 cts. for \^ bushel; $1.25 per bushel; $2.25 for two 

 bushels, bag included in each case. If you plan to 

 sow any, and are not provided with seed, you had 

 better send vour order while the seed is available. 



LECTURES ON BEEKEEPING. 



We have ai-ranged to continue the iectures on our 

 roof at 10 Vine St., Philadelphia, on Tuesdays and 

 Fridays from 11 to 12 o'clock, during May and 

 June. Tuesdays will be devoted to instructions for 

 beginners, handling bees, taking swarms, preparing 

 for the honey-flow, etc. Fridays will be for advanced 

 beekeepei's, the scientific side of the transformation 

 of nectar, the formation of wax, with some instrtic 

 tions as to the bacteriological side of foul brood, its 

 contagion etc. Kindly note that the hour is 11 to 12, 

 on both Tuesday and Friday. 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 



We are now provided with a limited quantity of 

 white-sweet-clover seed, both hulled and unhulled, 

 which we offer, subject to previous sale, at the 

 prices given in table below. We still have a fair 

 supply of the yellow, both hulled and unhulled. We 

 are sowing four acres of ground with the biennial 

 yellow, and hope to be in position to report from 

 experience as to the merits of this variety as com- 

 pared with the white. 



Enclosed please find $1.00, for which send me 

 Gleanings for another year. I wouldn't miss a 

 copy for any thing. In oiie of your recent numbers 

 I read where a man in this State did not want a 

 " journal devoted to how one man thought the world 

 ought to be run;" but I think it is devoted to the 

 way the " majority of people want it to be run." 

 I welcome your paper every two weeks, and am in- 

 terested in the Home department. 



Worcester, Mass. George H. Hosmer. 



A KIND VPORD FROM FAR-OFF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



[We let the writer of the following story tell it in 

 his own quaint phraseology. — A. I. R.] 



Jlfr. A. I. Root: — This is first my letter to you. 

 I am trying to Avrite English. I am a foreigner. 



I find" we shall read what is good, and never shall 

 we say in this world we have not time to read, and 

 especially when we come to be of old age. 



In your writing in Gleanings you are very se- 

 vere on big able-bodied man abegging. 



I been thinking what will replace you in your 

 journal in your good Home talk when you be here 

 no more, or when you come to die. In my own 

 hearth you been always to me as model man. When 

 young you first make a start by working for your 

 daily bread ; and now in your old age it is right for 

 every man when he come to old age to be sure to 

 belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. 



I am now sure for Christ. I feel glad I find the 

 Lord our God is with us ; and he is too holy to be 

 with sinners. 



I am trying now every day to live righteous be- 

 fore him. 



I am a reader of your journal, and can not write 

 good English. I learn a little writing from reading, 

 and reading I learn by myself. I keep bees now to 

 make money, and I like bees much, I must say, for 

 pleasure. 



Elwine, B. C, Canada, Nov. 13. H. Kacee. 



