1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



891 



fully forty miles. Then I rode over ten miles 

 more back to Traverse City, making fifty miles 

 between daylight and dark ; and I could have 

 easily ridden twenty miles more had I not 

 spent so much time in investigation. As I 

 stood on a pretty fair sized hill that enabled 

 me to look across at Old Mission, and along 

 the shore over the whole pathway I had travel- 

 ed during the day, it seemed again as if it 

 were almost incredible that a man by his un- 

 aided strength could traverse all that territory 

 in one short day. 



I had planned some more work on my farm 

 for the next day, and, indeed, I did not feel 

 one bit sore or lame or fatigued. On the con- 

 trary, I felt more like swinging the ax again 

 than doing any thing else ; but a drizzling rain 

 and lowering clouds made me think that the 

 November storms were at hand, and I feared, 

 too, I was wanted at home ; so I reluctantly 

 started back for my home in Ohio. But when 

 the sun came out after an hour or two, I felt 

 blue and disappointed all day to think I could 

 not have had just one more day's outing on 

 "that farm in the woods." 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



BASSWOODS FOR FALL PLANTING. 



Our j'oung basswoods have been making a beautiful 

 growth during the late fall weather. We have ju.st 

 had our first killing frost this 10th of November, and 

 the leaves are now beginning to drop, indicating it is 

 time for fall transplanting. We shall be glad to fill 

 orders at the following prices : 



One foot and under, each .5c ; 10, 80c ; 100, S2.00. The 

 above by mail, each 8c ; 10, 3.5c ; 100, $2.2.5. One to five 

 feet, 10c ; 10, 75c ; 100, $o 00. 



In regard to which is better, fall or ?pring planting, 

 I am unable to say. We have had scarcely a failure 

 in putting out basswoods either way. Trees of the 

 above sizes are usually sent by mail or expre.'s. In 

 large quantities they can be sent safely by freight, es- 

 pecially if they go south where the ground is not lia- 

 ble to freeze up taefore they can be planted. 



mail it for SI. 25, or we will send it clubbed with 

 Gleanings one year for |2.00. It contains 364 pages, 

 lot of pictures, and is neatly bound in cloth. It is 

 published by the O. Judd Co. 



SOILING CROPS AND THE SILO. 



The above is the title of another excellent book by 

 Thomas Shaw. lyike his other books, open it any- 

 ■where, and any one who is interested in almost any 

 branch of farming will find the book so intere.sting 

 that he is loath to lay it down. I consider Prof. Shaw 

 as one of the soundest and clearest thinkers we have 

 at the present time on agriculture. While he has en- 

 thusiasm, one is impressed all along with his exceed- 

 ing fairness and honesty. As an illustration : Most 

 of the books on the silo are written by those who are 

 strong in its defense. They unconsciously present 

 the desirable features, but not so much the undesira- 

 ble ones. Now, this may be all right in a measure ; 

 but Prof. Shaw stems just as anxious to tell us of the 

 obstacles in the way as of the advantage to be gained. 

 The book is not only for those who farm on a large 

 scale, but for the average day laborer who has a cow 

 and a garden. Shall he hire his cow driven off to pas- 

 ture, or shall he grow crops for her and keep her in a 

 comfortable stable? By the latter plan he can get a 

 much larger amount of milk, and perhaps get more 

 money from his cow. And then he is on the high- 

 way to "high-pressure gardening," because soiling 

 crops is emphatically gardening up to the highest 

 notch. 



Friend Shaw is great in the fight against weeds ; 

 and by the soiling plan every weed may be driven 

 from your premises without ever touching them with 

 a hoe. Every one interested in the growing of crops, 

 it .seems to me, should read this book, even if he does 

 not practice siloing or the use of a silo, because the 

 book touches on every page so many vital points on 

 this whole matter of growing crops profitably. The 

 price of the book is S1.50 V'ostpaid ; and I am .so anx- 

 ious to see our friends benefited by it that we will 



SEED POTATOES. 



Namk. 



Varieties are in order as 

 regards time of matur- 

 ing; earliest first, next 

 earliest second.and so on. 



Red Bliss Tri 11 mpii... 

 White Bliss Ti iumpli 



Early Olaio — 



Early Trumbull 



Boyee 



Early Vermont 



New Queen 



Lee's Fayorite 



Freeman 



T\venti(th Century .. 



State of Maine 



Maule's Commercial.. 



Carman No 3 



Sir Walter Raleigh... 



New Russet 



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» 3 00 

 3 00 

 3 00 

 3 50 

 3 00 

 2 50 

 2 50 



2 50 



3 00 

 3 50 



2 50 



3 00 

 2 50 

 2 50 

 2 .50 

 2 50 



Seconds of any of the above will be (while they last) 

 half the price of firsts, with the understanding that 

 the seconds contain not only the small potatoes but 

 those that are scabby, prongy, or cut in digging. The 

 scabby ones are good for seed if treated in the usual 

 way with corrosive sublimate, but they are a little 

 more trouble. 



SEED POTATOES AS PREMIUMS. 



Anyone sending SI. 00 for Gleanings, and asking 

 for no other premium, may have 25 cents' worth of 

 potatoes. And anj' one who is a subscriber, and who 

 sends us fl 00 and one new name may have 50 cents' 

 worth of potatoes; but if the potatoes are wanted by 

 mail the subscriber must pay postage. Please notice 

 we give potatoes as premiums, but we can not afford 

 to give postage stamps. A descriptive sheet of the 

 above varieties will be mailed on application. 



CONVENTION NOTICE. 



MICHIGAN STATE BEE-KEEPERS' CONVENTION. 



This convention will be held at Traverse City, Dec. 

 2(3 and 27, commencing at 2 o'clock on the 26th. No 

 preventing providence, A. I. R. expects to be on hand 

 during the whole convention, especially as this is 

 right in the field where he has been writing up his 

 Notes of Travel. President Hilton writes as follows 

 in reply to my suggestion of being present at the con- 

 vention; 



I oan not tell how pleased I am that you are to be with us at 

 our State bee-lieeyjei s' n eetiug. 1 hsye been much inteiested 

 in your talks about Leelanau County That county beinp in 

 my congressional di.'-trict I shall feel you are more than ever 

 " my neighbor ' when you move to your summer home. 



The twelfth annual meeting of the Minnesota Bee- 

 keepers' Associction will be held in Plymouth Church, 

 Cor. Eighth ,St. and Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis, Minn., 

 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Dec. 5, 13, and 7, 

 1900. An excellent program is prepared, and a good 

 time promised. The Horticultural Society meets at 

 the same time and place. Purchase railroad tickets to 

 their society, taking a certificate for amount paid, 

 and, if 100 certificates are secured, a reduction to one- 

 third fare for the return trip can be had. 



Dr. L,. D. IvEON.ARD, Sec, 

 Syndicate Block, Minneapolis, Minn. 



J. P. West, Pres., Hastings, Minn. 



India relief fund. 



S. P. Hain, Plutnmers I<anding, Ky S 25 



C.M.Littleton, " " 2.5 



I,. Tinsley " " 2.5 



Mrs. N. G. Sikes, " ' 25 



J. Butcher, " " 2.5 



Mr. A. Sorrell, " " 25 



Mrs. A. Sorrell, " " 25 



J. A. Rogers, " " 1 00 



1^. Rogers, " •' 50 



Friend, " " 50 



R. Carpenter, Wallingford, Ky 25 



Helen Montgomery, Canaseraga, N. Y 2 00 



I^. C. Stewart, " •' 2 00 



