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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15 



Our readers are requested to notice the change of 

 street address of our San Antonio Branch Office This 

 has lately been moved to 1322 South Flores St., where 

 larger and more convenient rooms have been secured. 



The attention of our readers is called to the adver- 

 tisement of The Frisbee Honey Co., offering a select 

 list of books at a very low late. They have submitted 

 titles of a number of these to us, and we recommend 

 that our book-buying friends get a list of the books 

 they offer. 



RUBBER STAMPS. 



We have installed in our printing department a new 

 rubber-stamp vulcanizer so that we are better equip- 

 ped for turning out stamps than before. We are also 

 prepared to furnish labels and special printing 

 promptly. Send for job-printing and rubber-stamp 

 catalog. 



BEESWAX PLENTIFUL. 



Beeswax seems more plentiful this season, and we 

 are paying now 26 rents cash, 28 cents in trade, for 

 average wax delivered here or at our branch offices. 

 Our trade in foundation has not been as heavy the 

 past few months as it was a year ago, owing to winter 

 losses, and we have, as a consequence, a more plenti- 

 ful supply on hand. 



ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY. 



By July 1st we had all < arload orders filled, and had 

 begun to accumulate stock. While we have delayed 

 small orders only a few da3-s, with a few exceptions, 

 all through the season, we are now shipping by first 

 train. Our branches and agencies are alsj well sup- 

 plied with goods. Those wanting quick service can 

 get it. If in need of at y thing, send on your orders. 



BUSHEL BOXES. 



The season is at haid when bushel 

 boxes are n e ed for handling pola- 

 loe'- and (ilher farm crop.s 1 he ac- 

 conipanv ingcat shows our all slatted 

 box which has been used for years, 

 and is a most popular box. It is 16 

 iuches long by IS54 wide and 12% 

 deep, inside measure, holding a heap- 

 ed bushtl v-fhen level full. One box 

 mav be nested inside of two when 

 empty, so they can be handled in bunches of three. 

 As packeil, there are 14 in a bunch — 2 nailed up and 

 trie other 12 in flat, with nails included. We usually 

 make them with oak con'er-po.sts ; and, so made, the 

 price is SI, HO per crate of 14. We have quite a s'ock on 

 hand, packed ready for shipment, of all basswood 

 slats, no oak cornel's. We offer these, to close them 

 out. at $1.75 per crate; teu-crate lots. 5 per cent dis- 

 count. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



-•ADVANCE IN PRICE OF J.\P.^XESE BUCK\VHE.-\T. 



Instead of prices in our seed catalog, Japanese buck- 

 wheat will be. for the rest of the season. Si 50 per 

 bushel. In fact, we can hardly get it so as to furnish 

 it at this price. It seems siiange that the bee-keepers 

 of our land can not grow enough Japane.se buckwiieat 

 so as 10 have it furnished for less than the above 

 price. This is now the second season there has been 

 a scarcity and the price away up. 



DIETRICH'S FIFTEEN-ACRE FARM; A GOVERNMENT 



BULLETIN. 



I am rejoiced to see that Uncle Samuel has given us 

 a bulletin entitled " A Model Farm." It is a reprint 



from the " Yearbook of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture " for 1903 For obvious reasons, Mr. Dietrich's 

 name and locality are omitted ; but it is a good de- 

 scr ption of his work, with six fine photo-engravings. 

 I should like to give the whole bulletin in Gle.^nings; 

 but inasmuch as any one interested can have it free by 

 sending to the Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, I make only some brief extracts from the 

 conclusion 



We have given the account of a pioneer farmer, starting 

 in with no experience, but going to work In a methodical 

 manner to learn what he could from the experience of oth- 

 ers, making a careful study of surrounding coaditions, and 

 adjusting himself to those conditions. This farmer, by ap- 

 plying scientific principles and business methods, has blaz- 

 ed a path into a region of great possibilities. The mo.st im- 

 portant lesson to be learned from his achievements is that, 

 by applying such methods, it is possible to cause land to 

 jiel'l twice or three times as much as the present average 

 from what are considered good methods. 



Can this experience be duplicated on other farms? The 

 answer to this question depends on the soil, and the man 

 who has the management of it. It can not be done by the 

 man who is not a student. Few men, indeed, could develop 

 unaided a system such as that described : but there are 

 many who can do it now that the methods by which it has 

 been accomplished are common knowledge. 



The most important single feature of this farm, aside 

 from the remarkably systematic way in which it is conduct- 

 ed, is the manner of handling the manure. The fact that 

 the stock are all stabled the year round makes it possible to 

 save all the manure, both liquid and solid, and to apply it 

 to the land. Again, the fact that it is applied daily, as pro- 

 duced, insures that any leaching by rains shall carry the 

 leached materials into the soil, where it is wanted. How 

 much plant food is lost from fermentation after the manure 

 is spread on the fields is not known. But the remarkable 

 yields of every portion of this farm would seem to indicate 

 that this method of handling manure is highly satisfactory. 



THAT CELEBRATED FIFTEEN-ACRE FARM — A COR- 

 RECTION. 



Editor Gleanings : — See page 124 of June. 1904, issue 

 oi Country Life in America for an advertisement of 

 Dietrich's 15-acres, in which he offers the same for sale 

 at 816,000. It is not at all probable he sold it at $7-5.000 

 recentlv as stated on page 560 of Gleanings, when 

 he offers it in Country Life for $16,000. 



E. P. ROBINSON. 



Sidney, O., June 9. 



I am glad to see this correction, for it seemed to me 

 that $75,000 was a fearful price. The clipping sent me 

 did not contain any thing to show what paper it was 

 taken from; and as a general thing I hesitate about 

 printing any clipping unless I know the name of the 

 paper giving currency to it. 



FAKE MEDICINES TO BE TAKEN IN HAND BY THE POST' 

 OFFICE DEPARTMENT. 



We understand that the Postoffice Department has 

 already commenced, not only ruling out of the mails 

 adveitiseraents of medicines that do not and can not 

 do what they claim, but newspapers and other periodi- 

 cals that accept advertising of this class. May God 

 be praised for this righteous start in the wav of de- 

 fending the credulous and ignorant class The Hart- 

 ford, Ct., Times, remarks in regard to the above: 



The consternal ion and wrath of that portion of the com- 

 munity which makes its living by preyiug on its fellow-citi- 

 zens through such frauds will be in proportion to the actual 

 service rendered to the rest of the people of the country. 



Convention Notice. 



The annu il session of the National Bee keepers' As- 

 sociation for 1904 will be held in September at St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



Sept. 27 and 28 will b'^ devoted to Association work 

 and its interests. 



September 29, national day. We expect many prom- 

 inent foreign bee keepers to be present on this day. 



September 30 inspectors' day. Twenty bee-inspect- 

 ors from the United S ates and Canada are counted 

 on to introduce and di.scu^s thedisea>es of bees etc. 



Mr. N. K. France will exhibit, in the convention 

 hall, a large mao of the United States. Canada, Cuba, 

 and Eurt pe. Each State and country will have a 

 shelf attached to the map with a one-pound sample of 

 each kind of honey ijroduci d. Many other exhibits 

 of special interest will be shown 



We expect to see the largest gathering of bee-keep- 

 ers ever held in this country. A more detailed pro- 

 gram will appear later. 



Geo. W. Brodbeck, Sec. 



