JULY 1, 3912 



By Our Business MANAaER 



BIKN-NIAL YELLOW-SWEKTCLOVKB SEED. 



At tins writing we are sold out of MelUotus offi- 

 cinalis, or biennial yellow-sweet-clover seed, and 

 are vex-y desirous of getting into communication 

 with any of our readers who grow this kind of 

 sweet clover and can arrange to save the seed. We 

 are prepared to contract for several tons of seed of 

 the right kind, either hulled or unhulled. Send us 

 sample of the seed or the blooming clover if not yet 

 ripe. 



BUCKWHEAT SEED. 



We still have some silverhull buckwheat seed to 

 offer; biit at the rate orders have been coming, U 

 will not last long ; and so far not one of our read- 

 ers having a surplus of seed to sell has reported. 

 We can get it of a dealer in Chicago, but the price 

 will be 20 cts. iier bushel higher than what we are 

 asking for present stock; $1.40 per bushel; 2 busii- 

 els, $2.50. If you have any surphis seed, do uu'. 

 fail to let us know at once how much and what 

 you ask for it, and mail a sample. 



SIMMONS SWARM CONTROLLER. 



We have arranged with Dr. L. A. Simmons, of 

 Florida, to supply his swarm-controlling device, 

 which has been described in these columns. The 

 price of the swarm-controller, nailed up ready for 

 use, is 50c each; $4.50 for 10. Can be sent by mail 

 for 25 cts. extra for postage. We have not tested 

 the device on our own hives, and can not say from 

 e.xperience liow it works, but to those who wish to 

 try it we are ready to supply it as above. 



HONEY-BAGS AT BARGAIN PRICE. 



We have in stock about two thousand each of one 

 and two pound honey-bags without any printing 

 which we offer at a very low price to close out. The 

 one-pound bag is 5x5, and we will sell the lot for 

 $3.00 per 1000, or $5.00 for the lot of a little over 

 2000. The 2-pound are 5x71/2 at $4.00 per 1000, 

 or $7.00 for the lot of about 2000. 



In our regular honey-bags printed in two colors 

 without name and address we can supply the follow- 

 ing sizes at the special prices named while stock 



1 lb., 3%x5%, at $4.75 per 1000. 



2 lb., 5x7 '/4, at $G.00 per 1000. 

 SVa lb., 6x91/2, at $8.00 per 1000. 



10 lb., 10x101/2, at $11.50 per 1000. 



We are sold oiit of the 5-lb. size, and have in stock 

 at this writing 14,000 of 1 lb., 10,000 of 2 lb., 

 2000 of 31/^ lb., and 8000 of 10 lb. Name and ad- 

 dress will be added for $1.00 per 1000« extra for 

 first 1000; 50c for each additional 1000 taken at 

 the same time. 



)[P®©Dgll 



A. I. Root 



I'URITY BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, BY PROP. T. W. 

 SHANNON. 



In our June 1st issue I gave Professor Shan- 

 non's address as Fredericktown, Mo. I am glad 

 that there is now a publishing company at 211 

 West Walnut St., Louisville, Ky., which issues a 

 fine list of up-to-date books on social purity. For 

 particulars address the T. W. Shannon Publish- 

 ing Co., as above. 



BANKRUl'T SALE OF THE PROPERTY OB PROPERTIES 

 OF THE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO., ST. LOUIS. 



I have in my hands a good-sized pamphlet of to- 

 ward 100 pages describing the different "properties" 

 of the Lewis Publishing Co., that are now to be sold 

 at auction. You can get full particulars by writing 

 to J. E. Conant & Co., auctioneers, Lowell, Mass. 

 The pamphlet says on the front cover that this prop- 

 erty represents " a tremendous expenditure of money 

 in a very few years." Quite a few of the readers 



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of Gleanings know considerable about this "tre- 

 mendous expenditure," some of them having sent 

 Lewis as much as $1000, to my knowledge; and 

 yet whenever in our back numbers I have thought 

 best to utter q, warning or protest, quite a lot of 

 people accused me of injustice to an honest man. 

 It takes quite a stretch of the imagination to grant 

 ttiat such a man was ever honest; and, even if so, 

 he was certainly unworthy of confidence while he 

 was continually launching out in this, that, and the 

 other "Tom Fool" speculation. He actually receiv- 

 ed millions of money from hard-working people, and 

 yet his own National Daily itself, withou.t any thing 

 else, condemns the man in his operations, almo.st 

 from its initial number. 



HOMESEEKERS' REDUCED ROUND TRIP TO FLORIDA, 

 FROM JULl' 2 TO DEC. 1, INCLUSIVE. 



The Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. just gives 

 notice that, commencing July 2, they will make the 

 low round trip from Cincinnati, 0., Cairo, 111., 

 Evansville, Ind., and Louisville, Owensboro, Hen- 

 derson, Maysville, and Paducah, Ky., to stations in 

 southern Florida, at the low rate of $25.00. The 

 limit of the trip is 25 days. As there have been so 

 many questions asked in regard to Florida, ^ylla: it 

 is like in the summer time, etc., the above will give 

 all an opportunity to see for themselves without a 

 great outlay of money. 



The dates of sale are as follows: July 2, IG; Au- 

 gust 6, 20; September 3, 17; October 1, 15; Novem- 

 ber 5, 19. 



I am planning now to take the trip myself in 

 October. I want to go down and start garilenir.g 

 and some other things before Mrs. Ro )t and I take 

 our final departure after voting, here in November. 

 Perhaps I should explain that the rates are .luicvj a 

 little cheaper for points in the northern i-art of 

 Florida. Full particulars can be had on application 

 to J. A. Pride, Industrial Agent of Seaboar i Air 

 Line, Norfolk, Va. 



LIME FOR SVvEET CLOVER MORE ABOUT IT; FROM 



THE DIRECTOR OF OUR OHIO EXPERIMENT 

 STATION. 



Our experiments indicate that an application of a 

 (on of burnt lime, or two tons of ground limestone, 

 is entirely sufficient for a first application on this 

 soil, and that subsequent applications may be re- 

 duced in quantity, although they should be repeated 

 every four or five years. The object of the larger 

 applications which you saw specified on the stakes 

 was simply to determine whether a better effect 

 would be produced by such applications. We are 

 giving this matter of quantity and frequency of ap- 

 plication a more extended test at Strongsville, on a 

 part of the farm that I did not take you to on the 

 day of the meeting there, as it was some distan<'e 

 away, and did not seem at the time to add mate- 

 rially to what I showed you, as it has been running 

 for only a few years, and has not had time tO' pro- 

 duce its full effect. W^e are using in that test one 

 ton every three years, two tons every six years, three 

 tons every nine years, etc., in order to determine the 

 best quantity and the best period for application. 

 In handling cheap material like ground limestone 

 it is sometimes more economical to put on a large 

 quantity in one application than to repeat the ap- 

 plications of smaller quantities. 



Our Bulletin 159, which I send you, gives the 

 outline of our first experiment, and the results for 

 the first few years. Circular 120, which I also 

 send, contains a report on the later experiments 

 started here. No report has yet been made of the 

 work at Strongsville. I am now engaged in trying 

 to get it into shape for publication. 



C. E. Thornb, Director. 



Wooster, O., June 24. 



THE "EARLY .TOE" APPLE. 



In one of the last fall magazines A. I. Root 

 spoke of the Early Joe apple, of which he and i'is 

 family were so fond, and how he could not find any 

 in nursery stock. We have a tree of that name, 

 apples answering that description, which we and all 

 boys, both large and small, in the neighborhood 

 think is the finest and most delicious of all early 

 apples. I never supposed that was tlic correct name 

 until I read the article. 



Mrs. Lillian Crawford. 



Binghamton, N. Y., Apiil 1. 



