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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1. 



SPECIAbiNfl 



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We are pleased to be able to offer again to send The 

 Sunday School Times along with Gleanings for 75 cts. 

 extra, and you can take advantage of any other pre- 

 mium offer "you wish at this rate. That is, if you want 

 The Sunday School Times yow can have it at 7.} cts. by 

 sending us your name and this amount before the 

 end of December. 1 he year begins Dec. 10, as the les- 

 son is treated three weeks in advance of the date 

 used. If you have no club in your school, here is a 

 chance to get this excellent paper at club rate. 



orders accumulating. 

 As we go to press we have arrangements almost 

 ready to start our wood-working department again, 

 but have not actually started, and may not do so for 

 several days. We have plenty to do, as orders have 

 been piling up waiting to be run out when we get the 

 wheels turning. One thing after another has tended 

 to delay the completion of everything needed to get 

 started. Prospects for trade next season seem excel- 

 lent, from reports received from agents. We have 

 •quite a large stock of many staple goods made up and 

 packed, yet many orders require .something that has 

 to be made. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



THE FARMER'S HANDY WAGON. 



We have used our low down broad-tired wagon, such 

 as is advertised on page 8*1 of this issue, for one sea- 

 son, and it is a "handy" wagon indeed. In very mud- 

 dy weather it does not work well on our clay soil, but 

 at any other time it is worth all it cofts to make good 

 roads. It has smoothed down our roadways around 

 cur ranch as nicely as a roller made on purpose for 

 road-making; and for smoothing up the highway for 

 bicycle riders, any community could almost afford to 

 pay some farmer for drawing such a wagon around. 

 Then in going across the lots, drawing potatoes, for 

 instance, when the ground is damp and soft, as it has 

 been during the pa.st month or two, the handy wagon 

 is almost a necessity. 



GARDENING UNDER GLASS. 



If your greenhouses, cold-frames, etc., have not yet 

 been started up you should commence at once. Every 

 sash — in fact, every square foot of glass — should be 

 earning some money. With the gla^s alone, without 

 any bottom heat, many things may be grown in our 

 locality. The most important crop under glass will 

 probably be Grand Rapids lettuce. Directions have 

 been given so frequently we need not go over it again. 

 But the ground must be made very rich: and raw sta- 

 ble manure right from the honses, is perhaps better 

 and cheaper than any thing else for all foliage plants. 

 In most localities spinach will bring as much per 

 pound as lettuce It is never subject to disease, that I 

 know of, and you can grow a crop without any bot- 

 tom heat at all. It will, however, grow faster, and 

 make nicer plants, if you have a little heat of some 

 kind — stable manure, heat from a flue, hot-water 

 pipes, or .steam-pipes. But do not get spinach too hot. 

 The same may be said of eariy bunch onions grown 

 under glass. The Extra Early American Pearl we 

 consider the best onion for this purpose. Where you 

 do not have any heat, use the winter or Egyptian 

 onion-.sets. Early-frame radish is al.so a crop that 

 finds ready sale in most localities any time during the 

 winter. 



Water cress is one of the easiest plants to grow, and 

 it can be mixed right in with lettuce at the same 

 price per pound. Early beets want a little more heat. 

 They too can be grown without bottom heat, if you 

 have some kind of protection to put over the gla.ss 

 sashes during the very coldest weather. A good deal 

 depends upon banking up the sides of the bed, and 

 over on to the edge of the bed with coarse manure, 

 sawdust, or something of that sort. Corn salad is also 

 a very easy plant to grow under sashes or in a green- 



house. Rhubarb and asparagus can be forced at any 

 time after you have had one good freeze; and you do 

 not need any glass at all for growing nice pieplant. 

 Just take up the big roots after one good freeze, and 

 put them in any kind of cellar. They do not need any 

 light at all; in fact, you will get nicer stalks for pies 

 where they are grown entirely in the dark. 



It is pretty early yet to start any kind of vegetable- 

 plants, unless >ou want a few tomatoes to try your 

 hand at growing them under gla.ss later on. For 

 growing tomatoes, however, you must have heat 

 enough so the temperature will never get below the 

 freezing-point. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



I bought your A B C of Strawberry Culture last win- 

 ter, and now have 12 rows. 30 ft. each, of as pretty and 

 healthy-looking strawberries as one would care to 

 look at— very promising. W. M. Anderson. 



St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 5. 



The queen came to hand all right. She is the kind 

 of queen that makes one glad to see. I am glad that 

 some one can raise fine large queens that look at least 

 as though they would prove to be extra good ones. 



Morrill, Minn., Sept. 16. A. T. McKibben. 



The be.st imported Italian queen arrived O. K. 

 Thanks for same. She is a nice one. I am well 

 pleated with her. When I want the be.st of any thing 

 I always send to The A. I. Root Co., and 1 always get it. 



Lometa, Tex., Oct. 13. L. B. Smiph. 



Mr. Root.—l hand you herewith SLOG, for which 

 please extend my subscription to Gleanings for one 

 year from expiration of present sub.scription, and 

 don't you dare to miss a single copy unless I write you 

 I can't pay you, and then I would not be very angry if 

 you were to continue to send it. We — that is, the bee- 

 man of the house, and by far our better half and self — 

 read your paper with greater satisfaction than almost 

 any other publication we take, unless it might be The 

 }'ou/hs' Companion, and I doubt which we would stop 

 first. S. L. Payne. 



Westfall, Oregon, Nov. 15. 



My good friend, I feel greatly complimented by be- 

 ing placed side by side with the Voulhs' Companion, 

 and we will take great ;)leasure in marking your 

 name on our subscription- list, " Not to be stopped un- 

 til we have orders to do so." 



a kind word and a valuable fact. 



A. I. Root: — I wonder if you have any idea of the 

 number of silent friends you have. I am one of them. 

 I got the idea, when I .saw you, that you had in a mea- 

 sure retired from very active participation in business; 

 but you are so much in evidence that I wonder how 

 you find time to accomplish all you do. 



Referring to your letter from Yellowstone Park, in 

 Gleanings of Oct. 15, I was in Boi.se, Idaho, last 

 spring, and found a novel system of heating in vogue 

 that appeared to be a great success. It was exactly 

 what you suggest— the carrying of hot spring water 

 through pipes exactly as we carry our drinking-water 

 from the mountains. The charges were reasonable, 

 and the service superb. The amount of heat is easily 

 regulated. It is constant, day and night, summer and 

 winter. It is a delightful heat. There is no trouble 

 with burned air— no dust, no smoke, no expense for 

 furnaces, stoves, fuel, and attendance. 



If you wish to learn more about the matter you can 

 undoubtedly get what you want by addressing the 

 .secretary of the Chamber of Commerce or Board of 

 Immigration, at Boise. Buell Lamberson. 



Portland, Ore., Oct. 24. 



PEOPLE WHO wabble; AND SOME KIND WORDS ALSO. 



i^^r. A. I. Root— Dear Brother.— I know it is pre- 

 sumption, but I hope it will not hurt you (as there is 

 no person living who is acquainted with both of us at 

 the -same time), and it does me a " heap" of good to 

 call you brother, and to feel that, in the peculiar bent 

 of mind, we surely are very much alike, and differ 

 from the commonality in that we get our lessons and 

 draw our illustrations from the peculiar parts of 

 things. It .seems as if I can feel a sort of congeniality 

 when I read our Home Talks, and it does me good. 

 It begets more love for the ways of right; it helps my 



