OCTOBER 1, 1912 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



By Oue Business :Manaqee 



SIX-PERCENT EARLY-ORDER DISCOUNT. 



The early-order discount for cash orders re- 

 ceived during the month of October for goods for 

 next season's use is 6 per cent. Quite a number 

 have taken advantage of the extreme discount 

 available during the past month, and have sent in 

 good-sized orders. We expect to hear from a 

 larger number during October. 



EDISON PHONOGRAPH. 



We have taken in exchange for a comb-founda- 

 tion mill an Edison phonograph in excellent con- 

 dition, of a style which sells new for $30.00. 

 There go with it twenty records and two large 

 concert horns. The records sell regularly at 50 

 cts. each, and the horns at $3.00 to $5.00 each. 

 Two or three of the records are slightly damaged. 

 \t e offer the lot for $20 cash, which is less than 

 half the value of new apparatus. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



A. I. ROOT 



Mr. Root : — While you are exposing these Florida 

 land swindlers, how about the thousands of farmers 

 that were swindled in sending for their seed corn 

 last spring? I think we need grain inspectors to 

 test all seeds handled by seed firms, and stop this 

 shipping out worthless seed. 



Tuscola, 111. John Hunt. 



Friend H., I do not know about the 

 seed-corn swindles you allude to; but I do 

 know that our experiment stations recom- 

 mend that every farmer should grow and 

 save his own seed corn. Corn gets "home- 

 sick" when taken to a new ' localit3\ 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING (?) 



Two readers of Gleanings have clipped 

 out the following- advertisement, and sent 

 it to me, asking' my opinion of it : 



"ELLIS POTATO SYSTEM." HOW TO GET 300 TO 400 



BUSHELS OF POTATOES TO THE ACRE. 



You ought to be ashamed to grow less. It can 

 be accomplished by the "Ellis Potato System." 

 This is not a book, but special information that 

 will enable you to grow 300 bushels or more on 

 your fields by following our instructions. This 

 system covers all points of potato-growing, from 

 seed to digging. Seven hundred bushels an acre 

 under this system is common. Don't be an 85- 

 bushel man when you can get 300 bushels with nc 

 more work or expense, simply knowing how. When 

 you consider that all the way from 600 to 1300 

 bushels an acre have been produced by this system 

 you may well decide to see what you can do. You 

 now have the chance — it's all in knowing how. 

 Send $3.00 today for the "Elhs Potato System." 

 Don't wait — start now for next year. Address 

 "Ellis System," 1532 Mars Ave., Lakewood, Ohio. 



I agi'ee with the above in so far as to 

 its "being a shame" to grow only 85 bush- 

 els of potatoes to the acre; and I do think 

 there should be no great trouble in get- 

 ting 300 — that is, if you have a man equal 

 to the task; but when it comes to 600 

 bushels, or more than twice as much, while 

 it is possible it is not jDrobable that the 

 average farmer could get any such result. 

 I sent the three dollars promptly, and re- 



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ceived in reply a lot of questions which I 

 am to answer. Then Mr. Ellis is to give 

 me personal instructions, something on the 

 plan of the "corresi3ondenee schools." He 

 replied that it would take up something 

 like three weeks to go over my situation 

 carefully, and give me practical advice. So 

 far as I have been able to learn, he fur- 

 nishes no sort of book or treatise in regard 

 to potato-growing in general; and I would 

 ask our friends to wait before investing, 

 until I see what I am to get for my three 

 dollars. In his reply he says he is well 

 aware that Terry and I are authors of the 

 A B C of Potato Culture. 



OUR DUCKS, AND SOME OTHER THINGS DOWN IN OUR 

 FLORIDA HOME. 



Mr. Root: — Since I wrote, the old duck (one of 

 those vou brought from Ohio) died, June 30. She 

 had not acted right for ten days, but laid up to 

 the fourth day before she died. Since that the 

 other old one disappeared during the night. She 

 was very thin, and had not laid for some time. 

 About a month ago one of the young ducks, after 

 refusing to eat for several days, disappeared also. 

 xVn alligator killed one of mine, about three months 

 old, two weeks ago; but he will get no more, 

 as I caught him in a wolftrap a few days after. 

 There are now twenty ducks and seven drakes. 

 I think four drakes are enough. There are four 

 nearly all white, and I think they are the best 

 to keep. 



We have been having rather warm weather 

 lately, and not much heavy rain, which favors the 

 egg crop. In July they laid about 12 a day; in 

 August, 15; and so far this month, 17. The eggs, 

 most of them, are nearly full size now. I feed 

 them five quarts of corn at 5:30 P. M., which they 

 consume in about two minutes, and then sit down 

 as if about tired out after their hard day's work. 

 The next morning they rush to meet me, with a 

 noise that is almost deafening. The eggs are not 

 as salable as hens' eggs, especially the tinted ones. 

 I notice that the white ducks lay the white eggs. 

 I think it will be well to set only light eggs, so 

 as to get rid of the tinted ones, which, I think, 

 would overcome the whole difficulty. 



Bradentown, Fla., Sept. 3. C. A. MORGAN. 



P. S. — The moccasin that was such a terror to 

 the ducks was carried down by the flood to the 

 corner of my lot, near the bridge, and Herbert 

 killed him. He was the largest I ever saw. The 

 new bridge is finished, but not the approaches. 



Later. — We have had another downpour, so I 

 have kept the ducks in since the 7th. That means 

 more corn and fewer eggs. I got nine to-day. I 

 shall be able to let them out in a few days. Egga 

 are 30 cents now, and will be dearer in a few 

 weeks. Roads are in a terrible condition. 



C. A. Morgan. 



Honey Reports continued from page 5. 



Cincinnati. — The demand for both extracted 

 and comb honey is not up to expectations by far 

 for this time of the year. Big buyers refuse to 

 pay the prices we must ask, and we fear that 

 it will be a case of a small business or lovver 

 prices ; and owing to the high prices we have paid, 

 it will be impossible for us to lower our price. 

 We are selling strictly fancy comb honey at 14 

 to 16%, according to the quantity and quality 

 purchased; amber comb honey is not wanted at 

 any price. What little is sold of fancy extracted 

 honey in 60-lb. cans, we are getting 8 to 10 for 

 it, while amber honey in barrels we are selling 

 at 5% to 7, according to the grade and quantity 

 purchased. There is plenty of beeswax, and the 

 prices are much easier than they have been for 

 some time. We are paying 28 delivered here for 

 choice bright yellow beeswax. 



Cincinnati, Sept. 18. The Fred W. Muth Co. 



