SPECIAL NOTICES 



Bv Our Business Manager 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



A. I. ROOT 



BIG SAVING demonstrated; U. S. GOVERNMENT 



MAKES SIGNIFICANT TESTS OF TOOL-GRINDING 



ING MACHINES. 



The United States Government has recently been 

 making some very interesting and instructive tests 

 of various tool-grinding machines, and the result is 

 an official recommendation to its various forestry 

 and improvement camp supervisors throughout the 

 country. 



The machine found best adapted for the sharp- 

 ening of Uncle Sam's tools had a grinding capacity 

 per hour of five double-bitted axes, medium dull or 

 as newly purchased. This work required the labor 

 of only one man. In comparison it took two men 

 five hours to grind five similar axes on a good cr- 

 dinarv grindstone of 28 inches diameter. Figuring 

 the cost of labor at $2.50 a day, the expense of 

 putting an ax in first-class shape with the machine 

 was 6'/4 cents, as against 62 ^/^ cents with the 

 grindstone. This is equivalent to a saving of $22.50 

 in one day's steady run. 



EXTRACTED HONEY. 



We have secured some of the finest extracted hon- 

 ey this season, and can ship promptly at the follow- 

 ing special prices: 



White Clover, the standard honey of the East. 

 In case lots of two five-gallon cans, 120 lbs. at ten 

 cents per pound; in five-case lots at 9% cts., and 

 in ten-case lots at 9 cts. Or we can furnish it in 

 one-gallon screw-top cans at $1.60 per gallon in 

 one-gallon lots, or $1.50 per gallon in ten-gallon 

 lots. 



Sweet Clover, very fine, at the same price for 

 all quantities named as the white clover. 



Alfalfa, preferred by many, and a little cheap- 

 er. Case lots at 9% cts.; five cases at 9 cts.; ten 

 cases at 8% cts.; in one-gallon cans at $1.50; ten 

 cans at $1.40. 



Amber, from the fall flowers of different local- 

 ities, 8% cts. per pound in case lots; 8 cts. in five- 

 case lots, and 7% cts. in ten-case lots. In one-gal- 

 lon cans, $1.30 per gallon; $1.20 per gallon in ten- 

 gallon lots. 



If you are interested in buying twenty cases or 

 more "of one kind or assorted, write us for special 

 prices. 



At this season of the year nearly all of the honey 

 is candied. If you want it in the liquid state, please 

 mention this when ordering. 



sweet-clovee seed. 



Judging from our experience in securing a supply 

 of sweet-clover seed, and the reports we get from 

 others who handle this seed, there is going to be a 

 big shortage of seed to supply the demand for the 

 coming season. The interest in this clover as a soil- 

 restorer continues to grow and increase with a cor- 

 responding increase in the demand for seed. The 

 weather was so wet and unfavorable during the 

 time that seed is saved that we are not receiving 

 one-fourth the amount we had reason to expect on 

 our contracts three months ago. In putting the un- 

 hulled seed through the clover-huller the shrinkage 

 in weight has been greater than it was last year. 

 Taking these facts into account we are not in a 

 position to make as low prices on seed as we had 

 hoped to make. 



We now have a good supply of new seed, all of 

 which has so far come to us with the hulls on. We 

 have put it through a clover huller, and recleaned 

 it so that we can offer it, both hulled and unhulled, 

 as follows : 



PRICE list of sweet-clover seed. 



Hulled white biennial (Melilotus alba), 1 lb., 24c; 

 10 lbs., $2.20; 25 lbs., $5.25; 100 lbs., $20.00. 



Unhulled white ditto, 1 lb., 17c; 10 lbs., $1.50; 

 25 lbs., $3.50; 100 lbs., $13.00. 



Hulled yellow biennial (Melilotus officinalis), 1 

 lb., 28c; 10 lbs., $2.60; 25 lbs., $6.25; 100 lbs., 

 $24.00. 



Unhulled yellow ditto, 1 lb., 21c; 10 lbs., $1.90; 

 25 lbs., $4.50; 100 lbs., $17.00. 



Hulled yellow annual (Melilotvs Indica) 1 lb., 

 14c; 10 lbs.. $1.20; 25 lbs., $2.75; 100 lbs., $10.00. 

 Samples mailed free on request. 



who, where, and when. 

 Our readers will notice or have noticed, per- 

 liaps, that almost every communication that fiiids 

 a place in Gleanings' gives the date as well as 

 name and address ; and I am sorry to say that a 

 great part of our agricultural papers do not seem 

 to recognize the importance of dates. Every little 

 while somebody wi-ites in regard to late planting- 

 for certain grains or vegetables. He often adds, 

 "The seed should be put in now without any de- 

 lay." Now, what does that mean when you can 

 not tell whether the editor had the letter on his 

 desk a month or two or not? Somebody in a poul- 

 try journal says he finds no diflficulty at all in 

 liatcliing in September or October; but there is no 

 hint in the communication as to where he lives. 

 How much does it amount to ? Again, a communi- 

 cation refers to something that has happened; but 

 as soon as the event was recorded in the papers, 

 something else has occurred that puts quite a dif- 

 ferent aspect on the matter. If the friend who 

 wrote had dated his letter the reader could at once 

 decide whether he knew of the final outcome ; and 

 I might enumerate ever so many other reasons why 

 every one who reads thoughtfully has a right to 

 know who is talking, where he lives, and just 

 when he made this statement. Am I not right 

 about it? 



a newspaper that loves righteousness and 



hates iniquity; also something about 



the initiative and referendum. 



Mr. Root : — Would you approve of a newspaper 

 that did not announce divorces, rich weddings, 

 rich folks' parties, murders, joy rides, colored- 

 supplement jokes, beauty recipes, novels, etc. ? I 

 think I will send you one, with the request that 

 you look it over and let us hear in Gleanings 

 "what you think of it. 



I think you will approve of the advertisement 

 regulations "on page 7, July 17. You might hunt 

 for a cigarette or liquor advertisement or patent 

 medicine, etc. Does not this paper make you won- 

 der if you are awake? Yet it already has about 

 75,000 circulation. I refer to the Los Angeles 

 Mrmicipal News, published by the city for the citi- 

 zens. I send you two copies. 



My brother George was one of the active work- 

 ers in securing and (later) one of the attorneys 

 in defending the initiative and referendum in Cali- 

 fornia. A year ago he succeeded, by use of the 

 now granted initiative and referendum, in petition- 

 ing for a law providing a municipal newspaper, 

 telling the citizens about their city's business. At 

 the election last fall his proposal on the ballot 

 was one of the laws favorably voted on. He was 

 called the father of the municipal newspaper, and 

 was made the head of the commission. The two 

 copies I mail you show what it is like. I think 

 they will interest you. 



i wish you would give the initiative and refer- 

 endum some boosts in Gleanings. We common 

 folks can get many good things done if we can 

 only get hold of our ballot-boxes and have some 

 say about affairs. As it is now, the machine 

 manipulators run every thing. All the people get 

 is just enough charitable gifts grudgingly allowed 

 us by our rulers to bribe us to vote their machine 

 election ticket. Sometimes we get a really im- 

 portant thing because our rulers fall out among 

 themselves and offer a high price for votes. But 

 since we ought not to have to serve the bosses, why 

 not get the initiatitve and referendum, and our- 

 selves vote to ourselves the things we ought to 

 have ? They do this in many States already, and 

 I see Ohio is to do the same soon. It is particu- 

 ly as a temperance man that I am interested in 

 getting the initiative and referendum. It is our 

 only hope in Indiana for advanced temperance 

 action. Three parties, including the Prohibition, 

 endorsed it this year in Indiana. 



Greencastle, Ind., Aug. 19. Dave S. Dunlop. 



Our friends will see by the date that 

 the above was sent before our Ohio elec- 

 tion of September 3, and he is now prob- 



