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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Apr. 15. 



Kind Words From Our Customers. 



The new drawn comb foundation is grand. I hope 

 it may become practicable. C. F. Pujlsifer. 



Dryad, Wash. 



I wish to express my sincere thanks for the cour- 

 teous, honorable, and kmd treatment which I have 

 always had at your hands. Ohas. B. Wilson. 



Norfolii, Va., Feb. 5. 



I have taken Gleanings since '88, and it grows 

 better every year. Don't forget footnotes and 

 1. Give the swindlers Jtssy; every 



Notes of Trave 

 thing good in it 

 Trumansburg, N. Y 



L. D. Hopkins 



FROM A PROFESSOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NE- 

 BRASKA. 



I have received the watch which I ordered from 

 you recently, and find it all right. I am well pleased 

 with it, and could recommend your firm to my 

 friends. Lawrence Bkuner. 



Lincoln, Neb. 



A bee-keeper 77 YEARS OLD, AND A BICYCLE-RIDER. 



1 am now in my 77th year and do not expect to 

 keep bees any more. 1 shake A. L R.'s hand, and 

 bid him farewell Tell him that 1, too, ride the 

 bicycle daily, and hope he will be able to do so when 

 he is 77 years old. Joseph Sinton. 



Henrietta Court, Pasadena, Cal 



those honey-jumbles— a suggestion. 

 Please have your folks try putting a teacup of 

 granulated sugar and one cup of water in making 

 the honey-jumbles, instead of the molasses and a 

 small quantity of water, as in the recipe. We pre- 

 fer the sugar, but perhaps it may be because we did 

 noi have the right kind of molasses. 



Mrs. 8. H. Collins. 



TREATING SCABBY SEED POTATOES WITH CORRO- 

 SIVE SUBLIMATE. 



Friend Boot:— My seed potatoes last year were 

 very scabby. You advised me to treat with corro- 

 sive sublimate, which I did, and the potatoes were 

 perfectly free of the disease. G. M. Whitford. 



Arlington, Neb., Apr. 1, 1897. 



[Pull directions for treating scabby seed potatoes 

 will be found on tlie last page of our new seed cat- 

 alog.] ________^ 



MORE ABOUT THE CRANDALL CURRANT. 



I bought two Crandall currant-bushes some years 

 ago; pliinted apart about 50 yards. They bloomed 

 abundantly every spring, but gave only a few ber- 

 ries. I saw in some catalog that they appear to be 

 male and female. Last spring 1 dug one of them 

 up and planted it by the side of the other. Last 

 summer you ought to have been here to see my 

 bushes loaded with those big black Crandall cur- 

 rants. John Slaubaugh. 



ANOTHER report FROM THE LOGAN BERRY. 



The last Gleanings asked for information about 

 the Logan berry. It is a cross between the black- 

 berry and raspberry, and has the color of the rasp- 

 berry, but is sour and tasteless. A nurseryman 

 near Watsonville plowed up ten acres of them. 

 They were no good. A neighbor did the same to a 

 smaller patch. The berries look fine in a slide, and 

 they have sold as high as ninety cents, but the de- 

 mand Is light. Tlie originator is Judge Logan, and 

 I believe he lives at Santa Cruz. 



Aromas, Cal., Mch. 26. Elsie L. Torrey. 



The ABC came all O. K. and I am very much 

 pleased with it. It is very much improved since I 

 ordered my last one. 



I can not understand why any one should say that 

 sweet clover is not good for stock. I have not very 

 much of it, but what I cut and fed green was eaten 

 up very greedily, after becoming used to it, just 

 the same as alfalfa. In fact, stock must become 

 used to any new thing. I turned tliree calves out 

 this morning on blue grass. One of them is six 

 months old, and I have not seen them take a bite of 

 grass yet. They were turned out five hours ago. 



All the complaint I have heard about sweet clover is 

 that it is a bad weed; but as it dies every two years, 

 and conies from seed. I do not see how that can be 

 very bad. J. T. Van Patten. 



Linn, Kan. 



Porter Honey-House Bee-Escape. 



Have you seen it '( Just the thing to put on the 

 doors or windows of your bee-rooms. Indispensa- 

 ble, you'll say, after you have tried It. 



Price bv mail, 35 cents. 



Cowan and Novice 

 Extractors. 



These are the best. We are 

 prepared to furnish on short 

 notice, from any of our several 

 branches, Z, 4, and 6 frame Cow- 

 ans, and 3-frame' Novices. 



If you want the genuine, see 

 that they bear our name. 



A 36-page catalog sent free on 

 application. 



THE A. I. ROOT CO., Medina, Ohio. 



FOR SALE. Three -frame 

 nuclei on Langstroth frame, 

 $3.25; two-frame, $1.85, with 

 queen. 

 W. H. STANLEY, Dixon, Lee Co.. III. 



NUCLEI 



"^^^^^t, ^2f from ten-pound Pekin Ducks 

 J^VjrVjri9 for sale; $1.00 per 12. 



TILLIE INGLES, Mulberry Grove, III. 



Bees for Sale. 



In 8-frame Dovetailed liives, queens from import- 

 ed mothers. Price $4.00 to $5.00 per colony. 



EDW. SMITH. Carpenter, ill. 



npESTED QUEENS, ^t^^r^-^^^ 



I tested, 75c. per return mail. I have had 30 

 years' experience witli bees. 

 DANIEL WURTH, Falmouth, Rush Co., Ind. 



For Sale.== Bees and Queens. 



Queens, $1.00. Bees by the pound, $l.tK). Nuclei, 

 two frames, with (jueen, $2.50; one Iranie, $2.00 



Also liarred and wiiite P. Rocks. Silver Laced 

 Wyaiidottes. Eggs for sitting, at *l.(i(l for 15. 



MRS. A. A. SinPSON, Swarts, Greene Co., Pa. 



Large ;| 

 Book t 

 Free! JS 



To every new subscriber who 

 sends us $1.00 we will send him 

 our journal, Qleaninics in Bee 

 Culture, one year, and the book 

 by A. I. Root, containing 190 

 pages, the size of this, entitled 

 What to Do, and How to be 

 Happy while Doing it, postpaid. 

 Tlie regular price of this work 

 Is .50 cents. If you prefer, the 

 jouinal may be sent to a 

 friend, and you can keep the 

 book for j'ourself. 



THE A. I. ROOT CO., 

 Medina. O. 



