1898 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



189 



The fish thought so, for they made more rack- 

 et than a lot of hungry cows in a barnyard. 

 They would jump clear out of the water, and 

 snap their jaws with a tremendous " clap." 



" Oh ! " said I, " 3'ou have got one big dead 

 fish down there. Do many of them die in 

 here ? ' ' 



When the guard said he was only taking a 

 nap, I thought he was joking; but he got a 

 stick, and said, "You just watch now. If he 

 hasn't got done with his nap he will come back 

 and lie down in the same place and finish it." 



Now, boys, when he poked him a little he 

 was as lively as any fish in the lot; but pretty 

 soon he came back to his favorite spot, turned 

 over on his side, folded his hands (" fins "), 

 shut his eyes, and was a dead fish again. 

 From your teacher, 



A. I. Root. 



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^..ClAb^NOT.ICES Bv 



Our customers will help us considerably, and facili- 

 tate the handling of their orders, if they will use our 

 order-sheets. If you are out of order-sheets and our 

 addressed envelopes, just send a postal card request 

 for more. 



THE EMERY GRINDER AND SECTION-CLEANER. 



We can furnish the emery grinder ; hown elsewhere 

 for only SI. 50, or with sand-wtiee! and one-half dozen 

 sheets of sandpaper for S;2.2.5. While we don't guar- 

 antee that as a section-cleaner it will be a complete 

 success, yet at the price asked there will be no great 

 loss, for it is certainly a success as an emery grinder, 

 for thousands and thousands of them have been sold. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP. 



We have already received a small lot of new sugar, 

 and within a week shall probably have plenty of both 

 sugar and syrup. We can furnish new syrup, first 

 run, at S.')c per gal.; 10-gal. lots at ISOc; larger quan- 

 tities quoted on application. New sugar, il, S, and 7c 

 respectively, for first, second, and third grades; 'ic 

 per lb. less in lots of 50 lbs. or more 



BUSINESS AT THIS DATE. 



Orders are not abating any in number and size, and 

 there seems little prospect of our disposing of the 

 accumulation of orders and taking care of new ones 

 without redoubling our efforts. We begin this week 

 to run our wood-working shop 22 hours of the 24 

 with a double turn of men; and by adding to the pres- 

 ent large force of those who are packing and shipping 

 the goods we hope by the end of this month to be in 

 better shape to take care of orders promptly. If our 

 friends will have patience we will do our be.st to serve 

 you. 



CARLOAD SHIPMENTS. 



During the past month we have shipped eleven full 

 carloads of bee-keepers' supplies, besides several of 

 boxes. One car, the second for the season, went to D. 

 M. Edwards, Uvalde, Tex.; one to Jno. Nebel & Son, 

 High Hill, Mo., and one to Vickery Bros., Evansville, 

 Ind. One car has gone to each of the branch houses 

 at Chicago, Philadelphia, and Syracuse. N. Y.; one to 

 M. H. Hunt, Bell Branch, Mich., and the second car 

 to Walter S. Ponder, Indianapolis. Two carloads were 

 made up of shipments for Australia and New Zealand, 

 and one car of shipments for Jamaica, Cuba, and 

 other We.st Indian and European ports. As we go to 

 press we are loading the fir.st car for Geo. E. Hilton, 

 Fremont, Mich., to be followed by one for O. P. Hyde 

 & Son, Hutto, Texas. Orders are in for five more cars 

 for export as well as for ten or twelve cars for different 

 points in this country. Most of our less than carload 

 orders are filled within a week or less after we receive 

 them. In a few cases, when something special or odd- 

 sized is called for it is delayed a little longer. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



YELLOW ONION-SETS. 



On account of the scarcity, and advance in price, we 

 can not furnish them at the prices given in our list 

 after this date. The best present price is 20 cts. a 

 quart; $1.00 a peck; S^J.oO per bushel, and this price is 

 subject to change without notice. We still have plenty 

 of Prizetaker, White Multiplier, American Pearl, and 

 Silverskin, at the same price given above for onion- 

 sets. 



TOP ONION-SETS. 



So many of the friends have wanted just a few of 

 the top onion-sets described on page 151 that we have 

 decided to offer them, just a few for trial, postpaid for 

 5 cts. a dozen. The great point in their favor, so far as 

 my experience goes, is that they are the be.st-keeping 

 onion, both onions and sets, of any thing I have ever 

 got hold of before. 



A NEW ONION, BURPEE'S GIBRALTAR. 



Our friends will remember that I described this 

 onion last October, on my visit to friends Greiner and 

 Weckesser. There was a perfect stand of great beau- 

 tiful onions, all exactly alike. While in size they may 

 not have been much larger than anything I have ever 

 seen before, the seed inu.st have been an extra strain. 

 I have just purchased from Burpee a limited quantity 

 of .seed which I believe will produce the .same onion. 

 For the present season the supply of seed is so limited 

 it can be sold only at 10 cts. a packe' , or 2o cts. an 

 ounce, postpaid by' mail. I think it will pay every 

 one who has a garden to give it at least a trial. Bur- 

 pee has fixed the price at 10 cts. per packet; so if you 

 want 5 cents' worth only, two of you will have to club 

 together. 



HOME AG.\IN. 



Here I am, friends, once more, this last day of Feb- 

 ruary, on hand ready to serve you. In our next I shall 

 have' somt thing more to say about high-pressure gar- 

 dening in the island of Bernuida; and you want tO' 

 have at lea.st a peck of Triumph potatoes, either white 

 or red, ready to plant at the proper time. The Tri- 

 umph is almo.st tlie only potato used in Bermuda. It 

 is gratifying to know that thev indorse my opinion, to 

 the effect that the Triumph is the be.st extra-early po- 

 tato before the world. Of course, the Triiimph is the 

 same thing as what we call the White Bliss, only it is 

 red instead of white. And you want to have some 

 good onion-plants ready to try their method of trans- 

 planting. In fact, they have' been transplanting all 

 their onions for the past hundred years, and yet liere 

 in America we have been calling it the " ne-a.< onion 

 culture." The onion, above all others they have .set- 

 tled down to, is the Bermuda onion .seed, grown espe- 

 cially for them on Teneriffe Island. As the seed has 

 been scarce this sea.son I was unable to gtt even a 

 pinch of the genuine Teneriffe .seed. Well, I think I 

 can find some among our New York or Philadelphia 

 seedsmen. In Bermuda this season they paid as much 

 as .f4.00 a pound for it. I expect to be a'ble to oft'er the 

 genuine Teneriffe for about 'i^'i or 30 cts. an ounce. As 

 it ought to be planted now, or at least some time this 

 month (under glass) I will be prepared to fill orders 

 about the time'thev reach us. The Bermuda system 

 of heavy cropping will be all right for America where 

 gronndis high-priced, say in the vicinity of towns and 

 large cities, and where vou want to make every inch 

 of ground count. During the past year, $10,000 worth 

 of .stuff was sold from only six acres, so a man on 

 board the steamer told me. What do you think of 

 that for " high pressure " ? 



MUST THERE BE WAR? 



The sermon of our good pa.stor, given in our issue 

 for Jan. 15th, on "The Gospel of Arliitration," came, 

 it seeins, at a mo.st opportune moment. L,ittle did he 

 or I dream at the time just how .soon such a sermon 

 would be greatly needed. 



MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD. 



The Outlook says, ".The death of no other woman in 

 the whole world, with possibly one exception, could 

 have produced .so widespread and profound a sorrow 

 as was produced by the death of Miss Frances E. Wil- 

 lard." Now, who is that other woman, do you sup- 

 pose? Queen Victoria. 



