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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 15 



BEESWAX MARKET. 



As spring approaches, the niaiket price of beeswax 

 is somewhat firmer, and we will offer, until further no- 

 tice, 29 cts. cash, 31 in trade, for average wax delivered 

 here. 



BUSINESS BOOMING. 



Although we have shipped at least twelve more car- 

 loads to our dealers ihan we had done up to the same 

 dale last year, yet we are more than twenty-five cars 

 behind on carload orders. From reports received we 

 find the tiade of several of middle-western dealers 

 has more than doubled over their trade a year ago. 



FAULTLESS SPRAYER. 



We have sold a good many hundred of these spray- 

 ers in the past few years. They are used for a variety 

 of purposes such as sprayine potato-vines and other 

 plants; for ins ct pests, sprayinsr of cows and horses 

 with kerosene, to keep off the flies, etc. Desiring to 

 close out what stock we have on hand we offer them 

 at the following special cut prices. All tin. 27 cts. 

 each; $3 00 per dozen Tin and galv iron .So cts. each; 

 f4.00 per dozen. All brass, 5.5 cts. each; $6 00 per dozen. 



EXTRACTED HONEY. 



We keep on hand a large stock of extracted honey 

 from different sources, and are prepared to supply at 

 the prices shown below. The following flavors are 

 usually in stock. 



PACKAGES. 



By far the largest part of our honey comes put up in 

 the (0 lb. square tin cans, two cans in a case. We 

 also get some in kegs and barrels We agree to 

 furnish it only in such package s as we happen to have. 

 Unless \ ou find price quoted for different packages, it 

 is understood that we furnish only in 5gallon and 1- 

 gallon cans. 



PRICES. — F. O. B. MEDINA, CHICAGO, OR PHILADELPHIA 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



A SCATHING INDICTMENT— GAMBLING IN THE HOME. 



When I copied the above tract in our i'sue for Feb I 

 I failed to .say that it came from Mr. S F Eastman, 

 Uniontown. Pa., a miss'omry in the employ of the 

 American Sunday-school Union. He will be glad to 

 furnish at a very low price as many of the tracts as you 

 may care to use, 



SHALLOTS — THE BEST-KEEPING POTATO ONIONS 

 KNOWN. 



We have two or three bushels left of this desirab'.e 

 early onion that we can furnish at 20 cents a quart 

 postpaid. The shallot is superior to all other onions, 

 because it can be kept almost anywhere without 

 sprouting. In fact, they have been kept hard and firm 



clear through the summer, ready for planting the sec- 

 ond year. If you have had trouble with sprouted on- 

 ions in the spring you had better try some shallots. 

 Plant them j:ist as soon as the frost is out of the 

 ground— the sooner the better. 



THE NORTHERN MICHIGAN BEE KEEPERS' ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



We hope our fr^erds in Northern Michigan will 

 make a good turnout to the convention in Traverse 

 City. March 30. 31. We have not only quite a lot of en- 

 thusiastic and successful bee-keepers in that region, 

 but soiTie of the most expert fruit g'owers and potato- 

 growers found anywhere in the world. Besides, 

 Traverse Citv is a very neat and pretty town of about 

 10 000 inhabitants. If you have never been there it 

 mav be worth while to vi-it a town where there is no 

 coal smoke to make every thing sooty and black. Aft- 

 er the convention I expect to spend a week or more 

 at the ca'^in in the woods making maple sugar and 

 looking after our peach-trees, etc. 



THAT WONDERFUL FARM OF 15 ACRES NEAR PHILA- 

 DELPHIA. 



We have now on hand about half a doz^n excellent 

 articles describing this wonderful farm, and almost as 

 many more clippings from the leading agricultural 

 papers in regard to it. The U S. Department of Agri- 

 cul'ure has got hold of it and they expect to put out a 

 bulletin. In fact, so much has been said about it that 

 the proprietor (Rev. J D Detrick of Flourtown, one 

 mile fiom city limits) has asked the government to 

 pay him a salarv fo- stopping his work to receive visit- 

 ors, answer questions, and makirg his place a gener 

 al thoroughfare for the whole United Slates. Per- 

 haps we shall not be able to use all the articles on the 

 subject; btit I confess I feel a little bit proud of the 

 wav in which the readers of Gleanings keep us post- 

 ed on what is going on in the world. Many thanks to 

 you all, dear friends. 



Kind Words from our Customers. 



I should be lost now to have Gleanings stop coming 

 twice a month. Please put me down as a li^e subscrib- 

 er ; wnd when Uncle Amos or any of the Gleanings 

 family come east, or to visit their Roton branch, my 

 good wife and I shall be much pleased to entertain 

 them at our home. F. M. Taintor. 



Shelburne, Mass. 



[Thanks for your kind invitation, friend T. W? 

 have a book to put down these invitati->ns to call ; and 

 when we (ravel on the automobile or in any other -^ ay, 

 if time will permit ve propose to call on our friends, 

 and get acquainted ; so if you want your name on rur 

 book, do not be backward a'lout saying so — A. I. R.] 



A SACRED and SOLEMN RFSPONSIBILITY. 



Just when I think I begin to understand A. I. Root 

 he .says something I do not believe ; but before long he 

 has tiie thinking the same way he does I hope he 

 may live long to cheer the readers of Gleanin<;s with 

 his Home talks. J T. 1,ewis. 



Erie. Col. 



[Friend 1,.. I thank you for your kind words; but if 

 there are many like you it almost makes me tremble 

 with the responsibility that rests on my shoulders ; 

 and come to think of it. this same responsibility rests 

 on every teacher and everv editor, more esperially the 

 editors of our hnme periodicals. It illustrates how 

 exceedingly careful we sho!ild be, we who have the 

 confidence of a large class of people, that we make no 

 mi'-take and do not go wrong. My daily praver is 

 that God may keep me from teaching error. I pre- 

 sume that you here a'lude to scientific matters, weath- 

 er-prophets, Flec^Topoise. etc. Now. in order that I 

 may keep well posted in these matters a grot part of 

 my time is sper't in consulting the leading scientific 

 periodicals of the age. I am studying haid to keep 

 posted and up to the times, in all departments of sci- 

 ence as well as of agric ilture and all rural indui-tries. 

 When matters come up before me wh^re I need help, 

 our Ohio Experiment S'ation (and others) are always 

 glad to give me aid The Department of Ag'iculture 

 at Wa.shington has often helped me ; the Weather Bu- 

 reau is quite frequentlv consulted and last but not 

 least. Prof. W ilev, the United States Chemist, has oft- 

 en read nij' articles on scientific matters, and has ex- 

 pressed a willingness to help me teach o'tkodo.v sci- 

 ence. In matters of health the ablest physicians of 

 our land frequently give me advice in regard to what I 

 write.— A. I. R.] 



