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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15. 



^FAULTLESS SPRAYER. 



The time for fighting potato-bugs is at hand, and 

 you will find nothing equal to the Faultless sprayer 

 for the purpose. Prices for quantities on application. 



WIRE NETTING. 



Two months ago we announced in this department 

 higher prices on wire poulti-y netting. Owing to re- 

 cent decline in nails and other metals in the general 

 market we mark prices down ten per cent on wire net- 

 ting, although there has been no change in the cost 

 to us as yet. See description and price list on another 

 page. We will furnish netting from our own stock 

 here, while it la.sts, at an extra discount of 5 per cent. 

 We still have most of the 3-inch mesh No. IS netting, 

 mentioned in March 15th issue. This makes an excel- 

 lent trellis for peas and beans and other vines, and is 

 very cheap at the prices offered ; viz., 18 rolls of 18-in. 

 at 11.20 per roll ; 6 rolls of 24-in. at $1.60 per roll. 



SPECIAI. FOUR-FRAME AUTOMATIC REVERSING EX- 

 TRACTORS. 



During the past year we have acquired the Bayliss 

 patent for an automatic reversing honey-extractor 

 w^hich has been manufactured for the last ten years 

 by the Goold, Shapley & Muir Co., of Brautford, Can- 

 ada. W^e have not thought best yet to undertake the 

 manufacture of these machines for this country, but 

 we have in stock three machine-; suited for four I,, 

 frames. Two of these were in stock at Chicago some 

 time, and I believe were in the exhibit of the G., S. & 

 M. Co. at the World's Fair. The other machine was 

 .sent to us as a sample when we we' e considering the 

 purchase of the patent. We offer these machines for 

 sale at $15.00 each, and shall be pleased to hear from 

 any who are intereste J, and who desire further par- 

 ticulars. The cans are made of heavy tin plate, and 

 the inside iron work is tinned also. The reels are 

 not as strongly built, and the comb-pocliets are not as 

 well braced, as our regular Cowan extractors; but 

 similar machines are doing excellent service for many 

 bee-keepers in Canada. 



POST-CHECK MONEY. 



In the January 15th issue of Gleanings I calif d at- 

 tention in this department to a proposed form of cur- 

 rency called " po-st-check " money, briefly describing 

 it and calling attention to a few of the advantages 

 that would be derived from its use. A bill was intro- 

 duced, March 16, 1900, in both houses of Congress, un- 

 der the title, " A bill to prevent robbing the mail, to 

 provide a safer and easier method of sending monej' 

 by mail, and to increase the postal revenues." 



We are constantly annojed by losses of small 

 amounts remitted to us in the mail t)y present methods. 

 Very often during the warm summer weather we re- 

 ceive postage stamps all stuck fast to the letter ac- 

 companying, or to each other, and it is about all they 

 are worth to soak them off, regum, and use them. If 

 you could appreciate one-tenth as much as we do the 

 great convenience and saving this po.st-check money 

 would secure to the great mass of the people who have 

 to transact some of their business by mail yo" would 

 sit down at once and write a letter to your United 

 States Senators, urging the importance of pas.sing at 

 an early date Senate bill No. 3643. And jou will write 

 another letter to the Representative from your dis- 

 trict in Congress, urging his support of House bill No. 

 9632, the " Post-check " bill. In order that you may 

 become more familiar with the bill and the post-check 

 monej' it proposes to provide, the great convenience 

 it will furnish the mass of the people, send a stamp 

 to C. W. Post, Battle Creek, Mich., with request f(5r 

 pamphlet on post-check money; ask for several if 

 you can place them in the hands of those who will be 

 Interested and would be likely to urge the passage of 

 the bill by a personal letter to your Representatives in 

 Congress. Do not put this off, but write at once. Re- 

 member that the interests of the exprei-s companies 

 in the fees from their money-order business may in- 

 du':e them to work in opposition to the bill, and the 

 active support of the people is required, not only to 

 offset this opposition, but to bring such a pressure 

 upon your Representatives as will make them feel that 



the people are back of this measure, and desire its en- 

 actment into law. It may also assist the cause to 

 write to Postmaster-General Smith and to the Secretary 

 of the Treasury, layman J. Gage, requesting them to 

 use their influence in support of the post-check bill 

 now before Congre.ss. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



CRIMSON CLOVER — ADVANCE IN PRICE. 



I suppose this is good news for those who have seed 

 for sale, or who are growing seed ; but it may not be 

 so good for those who wish to buy At the present 

 time we can not get anv crimson-clover seed so as to 

 sell it for less than 15.50 per bushel ; half bushel, «3.00; 

 peck, $1.75 ; 1 lb., 10 cts.; by mail, 10 cts. per lb. extra. 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED NOT TO BE HAD IN THE MAR- 

 KET. 



Is it not a little funny that there is a large demand 

 for sweet-clover seed just now, and none to be had, 

 even among the large seedsmen, while it is only a little 

 while since some of the brethren made such a clamor 

 because we would not admit It was a noxious weed? 

 The idea that acy one of the, clovers should be classed 

 with pernicious weeds sounds almost like a joke. 



ONION SEED FOR GROWING SETS, AT A BARGAIN. 



We have on hand 20 lbs. of Yellow Danvers, and 

 about 30 lbs. of large Red Wethersfield seed, which 

 sold a month ago at SI. 00 per lb. This seed is just 

 what j-ou want for growing sets, and it may be .'•own 

 for sets any time from now until July 1 — probably the 

 .sooner the better. While it lasts we will make a spe- 

 cial price of (iO cts per lb. for the Yellow Danvers, and 

 only 50 cents for the Red Wethersfield. All that is nec- 

 essary to grow sets is to sow the seed so thickly in 

 drills that they will not have room to make latge 

 onions. The ground should be rather poorer, also, 

 and the seed is usually sown later, as I have men- 

 tioned. 



MANUM'S ENORMOUS POTATO, AND OTHER POTATOES 

 FOR SEED. 



We have just purchased quite a lot of the Enormous, 

 grown bj' the Ohio Experiment Station, at a pnce so 

 low we cati offer a whole bushel (worth $1.25 in table 

 in last issue) as a premium for one new subscriber. A 

 large number of the different experiment stations in 

 different States have placed this potato almost at the 

 head for yield, quality, endurance against scab, blight, 

 and every thing else. We think these are a bargain. 

 We have also quite a lot of seconds (our own growing) 

 and will send a bushel for every dollar sent for Glean- 

 ings. This potato is a desirable one for late planting, 

 for the reason that it keeps later in the season without 

 sprouting than almost any other. 



We can still furnish a barrel of potatoes as a pre- 

 mium for every new name of the following : Monroe 

 Seedling, Mills' Prize, Carman No. 1, and Poor Man's 

 Friend. Of course, these are all seconds. We have a 

 good stock on hand, in good order, of firsts as fol- 

 lows : Sir Walter Raleigh, Carman No. 1, the New 

 Russet (almost if not quite scab-proof), and Craig. 

 The latter potato, at present writing, is as fine an eat- 

 ing potato as we have in our whole assortment, not 

 even excepting the Freeman. It is one of the kind 

 that is really better for eating in the spring than ei- 

 ther in the fall or winter. We have small lots of po- 

 tatoes of almost every thing in our list ; and we will 

 give 50 cents' worth to everybody who sends a dollar 

 for Gleanings— past, present, or future, and a dollar's 

 worth to everybody who sends us a new name as be- 

 fore explained. All of our potatoes are in better or- 

 der than we have ever had before at this season of the 

 year. As we go to press, crimson clover is just com- 

 ing into bloom, so we shall soon commence planting 

 our own crop. When potatoes are cheap we find it 

 profitable to put a good-sized one, or a large piece of 

 one, iu every hill. Some years ago, when potatoes 

 were verj' low, we planted as many as 30 bushels to 

 the acre, and secured a crop of over -100 bushels to the 

 acre. Of course, every thing was in tiptop shape in 

 every way we could make it so. 



Finally, for every dollar sent us for potatoes you 

 may have Gleanings for six months, free of charge. 



Sharpless Cream Separators— Profitable Dairying. 



