MAY 15. 1913 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



By Our Business Manager 



second-hand cans. 

 We have for sale a carload or more of second-hand 

 60-lb. cans, which we can supply 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. A bargain to use for honey used 

 ill the baking trade. 



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 1/2 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 your order while the seed is available. 



LECTURES ON BEEKEEPING. 



We have arranged to continiie the lectures on our 

 roof at 10 Vine St., Philadelpliia, 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 

 beekeepers, the scientitic side of the transformation 

 of nectar, the formation of wax, with some instruc- 

 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 yel- 

 low, and hope to be in positon to report from ex- 

 perience as to the merits of this vai'iety as compared 

 with the white. 



Price in lots of | 1 lb. 10 lb. 25 lb. 

 Melilotus alba, biennial..! 

 White sv.eet clover, hulled! 32 $3.00 $7.25 

 unhulled 22 2.00 4.75 

 Melilotus officinalis, bien'al 

 Yellow sweet clover, hulled 28 2.60 6.25 



unhulled 21 1.90 4.50 



.\nnuul yellow, hulled. ... | 14 1.20 2.75 

 Samples mailed free on request. 



100 lb. 



$28.00 

 18.00 



24.00 

 17.00 

 10.00 



.SWEET CLOVER AND ALFALFA MIXED. 



We have just received a shipment of seed from 

 California, which we bought for hulled white sweet 

 clover. The U. S. government seed expert pro- 

 nounces it 28 per cent white sweet clover and about 

 72 per cent alfalfa, with a few weed seeds in it. We 

 offer it for 20 cts. per lb.; $1.80 for 10 lbs.; $16.80 

 per 100 lbs., bags included. We shall be pleased to 

 submit samples if interested. 



SECOND-HAND FOUNDATION M1LI;S. 



We have to offer the following list of foundation 

 !na( hines which have been used, but are in fair 

 condition. In many cases they will answer as well 

 as a new machine where you have only a moderate 

 output. Send for samples of any mill in the list 

 which may interest you. 



JSTo. 0121, 2i/4xl6-inch heavy hexagonal brood 

 mill. An old-style Dunham machine without cam 

 adjustment; in rather poor condition. Price $8.00. 



No. 0139, 2 1/2x6 hexagonal thin-super mill, in 

 very good condition. Price $14.00. 



No. 0140, 2^/^x6 hexagonal thin-super mill, in 

 very good condition. Price $14.00. 



No. 0142, 21/^x6 hexagonal thin-super mill, in fair 

 shape. Price $10.00. 



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No. 0153, 2V&x6 hexagonal thin-super mill, in 

 \ cry good condition. Price $14.00. 



No. 0154, 2%x6 hexagonal thin-super mill, in 

 very good condition. Price $14.00. 



No. 0156, 2V2X6 extra-thin-super mill, fair. Price 

 $10.00. 



No. 0157, 2^/^x6 thin-super mill, in good condi- 

 tion. Price $12.00. 



No. 0160, 2^/^x0 hexagonal thin-super mill, in 

 good condition. Price $12.00. 



No. 0165, 2^/^x6 hexagonal extra-thin-super mill, 

 in fair condition. Price $11.00. 



No. 0166, 2^/4x6 hexagonal thin-super mill in ex- 

 tra good condition. Price $14.00. 



No. 0167, 21/^x6 hexagonal extra-thini-super mill 

 in fair condition. Price $11.00. 



No. 0176, 21/4x6 extra-thin-super mill in fair con- 

 dition. Price $12.00. 



No. 0180, 2i/ix6 hexagonal thin-super mill, in fair 

 condition. Price $10.00. 



No. 0182, 21/^x6 hexagonal thin-super mill, very 

 good condition. Price $20.00. 



No. 0183, 21/^x6 hexagonal thin-super mill, very 

 good condition. Price $14.00. 



No. 187, 2x10 round-cell medium-brood mill, 

 old-style frame, in good condition. Price $14.00. 



No. 0188, 2 xlO round-cell medium-brood mill, in 

 good condition. Price $14.00. 



No. 0191, 2 xlO round-cell Pelham mill in good 

 condition for this kind of mill. The bases of the 

 cells are not natural shape, but the walls are reg- 

 ular. Price $7.00. Sample mailed free if interested. 



No. 0204, 2x10 round cell medium brood mill, 

 very good. Price $15.00. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



A. I. ROOT 



SPRAVINQ AND SPRAYING MACHINERY, ETC. 

 I am just reminded that in my write-ups of the 

 big crops of celery and tomatoes that are grown 

 down near my Florida home I neglected to mention 

 the importance of spraying. Once in a while some- 

 body comes down from the North and undertakes 

 to grow celery as it is generally done up here, pay- 

 ing little or no attention to proper spraying at the 

 proper time, and when his crop all of a sudden goes 

 to pieces from blight or something of that sort he 

 goes back on Florida. Every truck-grower provides 

 himself with a good apparatus — or at least the suc- 

 cessful ones do — and the matter is attended to 

 promptly. If I am correct about it, neighbor Rood 

 sprays even his strawberries — of course before the 

 fruit is formed. I confess I am not very well posted 

 about recent developments in spraying here in the 

 North ; but I believe that first-class apples that sell 

 at gilt-edged prices are out of the question unless the 

 spraying is attended to at the proper time and in 

 file proper manner. You may recall that, when I 

 made a visit to that big fruit-orchard in New Jersey, 

 belonging to the Repp Bros., they challenged me to 

 find a wormy apple in their hundr-ed acres or more. 

 I thought that surely some of the apples on the 

 ground would show wormy cores, and I examined 

 such apples in different places, but I did not find a 

 worrny one. The good prices they get for their fruit 

 is with the understanding that they never sell a 

 wormy apple. The experiment stations of the differ- 

 ent States are sending out bulletins; and the De- 

 partment of Agriculture at Washington also fur- 

 nishes information free of charge. Our advertisers, 

 The E. C. Brown Co., Rochester, N. Y., also fur- 

 nish a free book on spraying. You had better get 

 it and become posted if you are not already. 



Inclosed find $3.00 for ABC and X Y Z of Bee 

 Culture, and pay for Gleanings for the next year. 

 Don't ever stop it, as I think a lot of Gleanings ; 

 and may God bless Mr. Root. 



Eureka, Cal., April 2. F. R. Baese. 



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