1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Barr ; so I think we may consider it settled 

 that coal tar is all right. Below is the clipping: 



Coal tar was very effectual, only a few borers suc- 

 ceeding in getting started in trees brushed with it, 

 and it did no injury to the trees. The following prov- 

 ed sure death to the trees: Paris gr< en mixed with 

 glue, raupenleim (German caterpillar lime), and den- 

 drolene. 



Our Roll of Honor. 



DIGGING POTATOES BY MACHINERY DURING 

 A WET TIME. 

 They say misery loves company. I felt a 

 little ashamed to think we could not dig our 

 potatoes with a modern high-priced digger, 

 during the past fall. We clip the following 

 from a recent number of the Ohio Farmer ; 



But you can not dig clayey land when it is too wet 

 to crumble and rattle through the elevator. We could 

 use ours scarcely at all this year — about two hours of 

 a single day — the rest of the time for five weeks it was 

 too wet, and we dug with forks. But neither plow 

 nor cheap digger would work. 



Prof. Chamberlain uses a Hoover digger, if 

 I am not mistaken. Well, I do not wonder it 

 would not work. But ours were all dug with 

 one of the cheap shovel-plow diggers notwith- 

 standing. I find, however, we have more cut 

 potatoes than usual. 



WARNING AGAINST FRAUDULENT TREE- 

 PEDDLERS. 



The above is the heading of a newspaper 

 bulletin from the Ohio Experiment Station. 

 They say that our adjoining county of Wayne 

 is infested with fruit tree swindlers who are 

 charging five times the ordinary value for 

 peach-trees. The swindlers claim these trees 

 are proof against the yellows. The people 

 at our experiment station caution the people 

 of Ohio to beware of any man representing he 

 has something new and wonderful that our 

 regular nurserymen and expert fruit-growers 

 know nothing about. The bulletin well says, 

 " There are no horticultural secrets." It says 

 further : 



Those who wish to get trees of any meritorious vari- 

 ety can procure them of any reliable nurseryman, at 

 a fraction of the price asked by peddlers. No one 

 need pay more than ten cents each for the best vari- 

 eties of peach trees. Some new and untried sorts are 

 held at higher prices, but no well informed peach- 

 grower would plant any except old sorts that are 

 known to be good, and the-e are very cheap. 



WHAT SHALL WE EAT? 

 We copy the following from a government 

 bulletin printed in Washington, D. C, in 

 regard to food and health. 



The cost of a diet may be lessened by consuming 

 less fruit, cheaper cuts of meat, and fewer kinds of 

 vegetables. Fruits add comparatively little to the food 

 value of a diet, and the cheaper cuts of meat are as 

 nutritious as the more expensive cuts. While vege- 

 table foods are apparently essential to a well-regulated 

 diet, no marked advantage is due to a grrat variety of 

 vegetables. Wheat flour in the form of bread, etc., is 

 one of the most nutritious and cheapest foods. 



Please find inclosed subscription to Gleanings for 

 another year. I think it a most valuable journal for 

 the bee-keeper. Without it I might "keep" bees, but 

 I certainly could not woik them to advantage. 



J. M. Mitchell. 



Glenhope Farm, Queensland, Nov. 11. 



I have been reading Gleanings since 1877. 

 Hogestown, Pa., Jan. 3. P. P. Forney. 



I have been a continuous subscriber from the time 

 Gleanings w s printed by windmill power. 

 Fishkill, N. Y., Dec. 23. E. H. Sherwood. 



I have read Gleanings since it was "Novice's wind- 

 mill print," but can not say now whether I commenc- 

 ed with the first or second volume. 



Canajoharie, N. Y .Jan. 5. Julius Hoffman. 



I have taken Gleanings ever since the second vol- 

 ume was issued, and I don't think I have missed a 

 number. H C. Gilson. 



Burr Oak, Mich., Dec. 31. 



I commenced taking Gleanings when it had only 

 two leaves, and have now 20 years' volumes. Others 

 come and go, but Gleanings stays. It is instructive 

 and elevating, and to me it has been a great financial 

 success. M. Isbell. 



Norwich, N. Y., Dec. 21. 



I believe I have taken Gleanings from the first 

 number, with the exception that I subsciibed the first 

 year for the quarterly, and did not subscribe for the 

 monthly until the next year. I must have had, dur- 

 ing this time, a number of hundred dollars' deal with 

 you, which has been satisfactory in almost every re- 

 sp<ct. J. I. Parent. 



Birchton, N. Y., Dec. 19. 



I think I have taken Gleanings that long, but can 

 not say for certain; but I was taking it before the cen- 

 tennial, in 1876. I recollect the piece you wrote about 

 asking the old deaf lady to make you some starch so 

 you could show how to make foundation at the cen- 

 tennial. I have no data to tell, but was a subscriber 

 when you printed it by wind power. I have never 

 missed a copy since. Robt. Quinn. 



Shellsburg, la., Dec. 20. 



I claim to be one of those who have taken Glean- 

 ings ftom the first. I did not commence with the 

 first number, but I sent and got all the bick numbers, 

 and have that first small number jet when it was 

 staited quarterly. Gleanings has alwa\s been a 

 great helpto me. not only in bee culture, but in almost 

 every thing else ; and wife and children have been 

 benefited by it too. Ila Michener. 



Low Banks, Ont , Can., Jan. 2. 



Friend A. I. Root: — I commenced in the bee-business 

 in the spring of 1870. and have taken Gleanings con- 

 tinuously since its first number. I believe I have 

 every number up to date, as I bind them in book form 

 by volumes. Its constant improvement is a crtdit, 

 not only to the present editor, but to the father who 

 trained hirn to do the woik so well. Happy New 

 Year. Wm Muth-Rasmussen. 



Independence, Cal., Dec. 27. 



1 have taken Gleanings nearly all the time since it 

 was published, and have the back numbers laid by 

 now. I have been a continual subscriber to the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal . and have nearly every number since 

 it was started, 1861. The way I became acquainted 

 with Mr. Root was by his writings in the American 

 Bee Journal. I built the first extractor, and shipped 

 the first extracted honey from this county. I have 

 been in the business tince 1800. I wish you a happy 

 New Year. D. H. Coggshall. 



West Groton, N. Y., Jan. 1. 



My Dear Mr. Root. — I do not want a prize, but I 

 want to let you know that I have taken Gleanings 

 from the very first number, and that all the volumes 

 except the last two are bound. 1 followed Novice's 

 writings in the A mericah Bee Journal before Glean- 

 ings was started and have with pleasure watched the 

 gradual progress made, ano the high moral tone 

 adopted by Gleanings, and hope it may long live to 

 carry on the same w^rk, foi the benefit of bee keepers. 



Wishing you a happy new year and long life and 

 happiness, Yours truly, 



Ljomis, Cal., Jan. 9. Thos Wm Cowan. 



As well as I remember, about 22 or 23 years ago I 

 went down into Mason Co. to attend a Sunday-school 

 convention, and stopped with a Mr. Bea> d There I 

 saw a honey-extractor for the first time, and for the 

 first time I saw Gleanings. Mr. Beard very kindly 

 gave me a copy of Gleanings when he saw how much 



