JULY 15, 1913 



INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS 



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 

 vou with the best. Satisfaction guaranteed. 



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



HELP WANTED 



Wanted. — Assistant in apiaries. Preferably handy 

 with machinery. State age, experience, and wages, 

 first letter. F. B. Cavanagh, Hebron, Ind. 



Wanted. — A young man to learn bee business. 

 State age and experience in first letter, with refer- 

 ence. One from the South preferred. 



H. H. Arnold, Trindad, Cuba. 



BEEKEEPERS' DIRECTORY 



If you need queens by return mail, send to 

 J. W. K. Shaw & Co., Loreauville, Iberia Parish, La. 



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. 



QUBENS.^ — 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, nuclei, 

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

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

 ed on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 without a 

 single loss. For prices, send for circular. 



Quiein-the-queen-breeder, Bellevue, Ohio. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



A. I. ROOT 



POULTRY MUSTARD VERSUS MUSTARD BRAN FOR 

 CHICKENS. 



A year ago we made mention of mustard bran 

 for chickens, costing only about a fourth as much 

 as ground mustard; but since then we have been 

 assured by the R. T. French Co., manufacturers of 

 mustard, that real mustard bran is of little or no 

 value for chickens. Corning made mention of it in 

 his liook because he got hold of some bran that was 

 imperfectly cleaned, containing enough mustard to 

 make it of some value. Since then I have seen a 

 letter from Corning saying they had changed from 

 mustard bran to the groiind mustard prepared for 

 poultry by the French Co. This poultry mustard is 

 the same thing as the mustard of commerce, except 

 that they do not go to the expense of getting out 

 every particle of the bran, which would make it 

 much more expensive. This explanation is made so 

 that our friends may not make a mistake in pur- 

 chasing the brari, which, I am told, is sometimes 

 sold as low as 1 ct. per lb. 



17 



I asked the question whether our Ohio boys should 

 be instructed in growing tobacco by our Ohio Ex- 

 periment Station. Director Thorne replied that, 

 while he agreed with me in the main, so long as so 

 many of our public men continue to use tobacco it 

 would be a hard matter to stop it. But so far as 

 I know, no tobacco experiments have ever been 

 made at our station at Wooster. It is true, however, 

 that a branch station in the southern part of the 

 State has been making a test, and has sent out a 

 bulletin in regard to growing tobacco. 



Well, what brings this matter before me just now 

 is this: The editor of our Medina Gazette has to my 

 knowledge recently turned down a tobacco advertise- 

 ment that would have given him $530 for the space 

 occupied. I suppose there are more editors who are 

 doing much the same thing — more than, perhaps, any- 

 body knows about. May God in his infinite love and 

 mercy give them their just reward. It may look 

 pretty hard, many times, to lose so much money 

 when it is sadly needed to keep up the finances. 

 But let these good brothers remember the promise, 

 " Be not weary in well doing, for in due time we 

 shall reap if we faint not." 



TOBACCO ADVERTISEMENTS, ETC. 



While we are urging and insisting that our daily 

 papers in the great cities shall cut out advertising 

 of any intoxicating drinks, it may be undertaking 

 a little too much, all at once, to attempt in a like 

 manner to say that tobacco advertisements shall be 

 regarded in much the same light. About a year ago 



THE ONLY CORN MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD. 



CORN. 



The above is the title of a beautiful magazine, 

 published by the Corn Publishing Co., Waterloo, la. 

 It is not only beautiful but useful. My impression 

 is that each of the two numbers. May and June, that 

 have been submitted to me, are worth a dollar, as 

 that is the price of the magazine for a year. If you 

 whose eyes meet these pages do not know what is 

 being done in growing corn in these latter days, you 

 ought to know. If you raise only a little piece of 

 sweet corn in your garden, you ought to have this 

 magazine ; and if you grow an acre of field corn you 

 certainly ought to have Corn. And if growing corn 

 is your business, the magazine may be worth a 

 hundred dollars to you. I suppose all the world 

 knows what the boys of our land are doing in the 

 way of growing corn. 



Among the beautiful pictures in this corn maga- 

 zine IS one of the corn boys — a great lot of them. 

 One of them has actually grown 135 bushels on a 

 single acre, and this magazine tells how he did it. 

 If a boy can do' it, why can not you? Don't you 

 think that we old gray-headed chaps ought to be 

 ashamed of ourselves if, with all our past experience 

 and observation, we are not able to do as well as a 

 l;oy sixteen years old, for that is what this boy, 

 Arthur Hoese, did in Central Minnesota. 



Now, do not imagine that the girls are ruled out. 

 The women of our land are fast demonstrating that 

 they can do almost any thing that a man can do, 

 and " then some." In a like manner we are begin- 

 ning to comprehend that a girl in her teens, when 

 she is well woke up, can give her mother some les- 

 sons that her mother never dreamed of. May God 

 be praised, not only for our boys and girls, but for 

 what the boys and girls are just now accomplishing. 

 These corn-growing boys are not the kind of boys 

 who pay out their nickels for beer, and I do not 

 believe they waste many nickels at the soda-foun- 

 tains either. God speed them. 



THE " SOLOMON'S ISLANDS GOURD," OB SO-CALLED 

 " GUADO BEAN." 



For a year or two back I have seen mention made 

 of the " Solomon's Islands gourd " in tropical peri- 

 odicals; but the claims made for it were so extrava- 

 ganj I passed it by as a fraud, and I can only re- 

 member that the claims made for it were that it is 

 a sort of bean or gourd, or something half way be- 

 tween a bean-pod and a gourd. And this vegetable, 

 or whatever you call it, will sometimes gi-ow six 

 feet long— that is, the fruit itself is six feet long, 

 and that they average about a yard in length. They 

 are good for food, and half a bean-pod or less will 

 make a meal for a " whole family." I threw the 

 paper aside, and so I recollect only a very few claims 

 that were made for this fruit. But the matter was 

 revived when I received a letter from one of our 

 friends down in Texas that reads as follows: 



I am inclosing you a clipping from a San Antonio 

 paper ; and as you are always interested in new 

 things I want you to read about this great Austral- 

 ian vegetable. I am sending for eight seeds to-day, 

 and thought of you and your write-up in Glean- 

 ings of the dasheen and other vegetables. 



Laredo, Texas, April 4. Henry BobchkeS. 



