1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



997 



Kind Words from our Customers. 



What you have to say about the automobiles is right 

 if evei-y one would look at it with a Christian spirit as 

 you do; and yet I can not help speaking in favor of the 

 yarm Journal too. We liave taken it for 15 years or 

 more, and think a Rreat deal of it, because it will not 

 advertise liquor, tobacco, cig-ars, playing-cards, quack 

 medicines, and a great many other things. Its pages 

 are clean, and I am not afraid to let the children read 

 any thing in it, something 1 can not say about all pa- 

 pers, especially a number of Sunday papers. 



Mrs. G. H. Beckett. 



Ridgeway, Wis., Sept. 26. 



OBJECTIONABLE ADVERTISING, ETC. 



I hasten to write my approval of the stand you take 

 against tobacco and indecent and intemperate adver- 

 tisements. As to advertisements, I may say that I 

 would blush to have my gentlemen friends look at or 

 read some of them in our Michigan Christian Advocate, 

 although in other i-espects the paper is first-class. You 

 ask for periodicals that are taking a stand against to- 

 bacco. I would call your attention to The Boys' World. 

 published by the David C. Cook Pub. Co.. through which 

 the National Anti-cigarette League is trying to reach the 

 youth of America. In our family we have only two 

 "smokers," and they are bee-smokers from Medina. 



Alice F. Briggs. 



Harrisville, Mich., June 23. 



WHISKY medicines; a kind word from BRITISH 

 COLUMBIA IN REGARD TO THE MATTER. 



Dear Mr. Root:—! have just read your letter in 

 Gleanings regarding patent-medicine fakes; and if you 

 were here I would shake your hand "till your suspender 

 busts." I am glad to see the stand you are taking on 

 that terrible evil (patent medicines). I honestly believe 

 it is doing more harm to our country than the liquor 

 curse, and I am glad to find that my ideal of manhood, 

 Bernard McFadden, of Phy.sical Culture, has a grand 

 old ally in Mr. Root. Keep it up, and God bless you for 

 it. It might be as well to suggest through your paper 

 that all people having any dealings with the public 

 papers should put in a strong footnote condemning their 

 action in receiving these misleading advertisements. I 

 do that myself, and count up all the advertisements that 

 I consider not fit for the press, and sometimes in a big 

 paper it is enormous. In one paper I counted 71 adver- 

 tisements and locals, and I gave the editor fits, but so 

 far without results ; but keep pegging away and we 

 shall clear the press just like clearing our garden of 

 weeds. I write you this to let you know that out here 

 in British Columbia you have our hearty support. Then 

 next to that, help Bernard McFadden in his crusade 

 against the murder of unborn children, so much prac- 

 ticed at the present day, especially by our so-called up- 

 per class. Now may God bless you and help you in your 

 work for purity and love. Geo. Schofield. 



Vancouver, B. C. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



SWEET clover— REDUCTION IN PRICE. 



Until further orders we will make the following low 

 prices: 100 lbs. or over, 6 cts. per lb.; 10 lbs. or over, 

 8 cts. per lb.; 1 lb., 10 cts. By mail, 1 lb., 20 cts. Yellow 

 sweet clover, 5 cts. per lb. more than the above. We are 

 not sure it is any better, but it is earlier, and at present 

 it is scarcer. We do not recommend the hulled clover 

 of either kind. I believe the general testimony is that 

 it grows best with the hulls on; and as the hulls adhere 

 very closely, it is expensive to remove them. 



THE GRAND TRAVERSE REGION OF NORTHERN MICHI- 

 GAN IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER. 



There is no other season of the year when I enjoy a 

 trip so much on Grand Traver.se Bay as during the fall 

 months, especially late in the fall. After frost has 

 killed evei-y thing all through Central Michigan, and 

 oftentimes through Ohio as well, on the hills skirting 

 Grand Traverse Bay every thing will be green and grow- 

 ing. Indian summer is always especially inviting for 

 outdoor trips; but the Indian summer of the locality I 

 am speaking of seems to eclip.se any thing nature has 

 to offer anywhere else. The Wheeling & Lake Erie 



Railway Company makes a special excursion rate for 

 Oct. 19; and as this goes over the Pere Marquette line, 

 1 presume they will do the same. Mrs. Root and I ex- 

 pect to visit our cabin in the woods about that. time. 



BASSWOOD-TREES FOR HONEY. 



Now is the time to put out your basswoods. The tree 

 is very hardy, and easy to grow, and with just ordinary 

 care I believe they can be made to giow in any pai-t of 

 the United States, north, east, south, or west, although 

 ground a little damp seems to suit them better. Some 

 of the finest trees are found growing by the banks of 

 streams where the roots can go over and dip into the 

 water. If the basswood, or linden, is not the best 

 honey-plant in the world it is one of the best; and at 

 the present time it is almost the only wood in the world 

 that furnishes the beautiful white smooth sections. So 

 you can afl^ord to plant them for the timber as well as 

 for bees. In fact, you get both. They will begin to 

 blossom when three or four years old. or, say, when five 

 to ten feet high; and they are then loaded with bloom 

 every season, almost, just about the time white clover 

 is closing. We have a nice lot in our own nui-sery right 

 adjoining the factory, .so we can send them by return 

 mail or express. Pj-ices are as follows: 



1 10 100 



One foot and under - - - .05 ..30 $2.00 

 The above by mail - - - - .08 .35 $2.25 



One to five feet - - - - .10 .75 $5.00 



Those one foot and under can be sent conveniently by 

 mail. The larger ones should go by express. Please 

 notice we send trees only as above not all of one size. It 

 would spoil our assortment, and, besides, it would pre- 

 vent us from digging a row right along so as to use the 

 ground for something else. 



Convention Notice. 



A meeting to organize a Geoi'gia State Bee-keepers' 

 Association will be held at Macon, Ga., Oct. 21,Iat 10 

 A. M.. in hall at 20'^ Cotton Avenue. 



J. J. Wilder. Cordele, Ga. 



The Illinois State Bee-keepers' Association will hold 

 its 14th annual session in Springfield, Nov. 15, 16. Ex- 

 cursion rates will be given on all roads in the State. .We 

 shall have a good program. J. A. Stone, 



Springfield, 111. Secretary. 



The Southwest Texas Bee-keepers' Association meets 

 in San Antonio, Texas, Thursday and Friday, October 

 27 and 28. This will be a rousing and important meet- 

 ing, and all bee-keepers are cordially invited to attend. 

 For program and place of meeting, address 



H. H. Hyde, President, 

 129 N. FloresSt., San Antonio, Tex. 



The Connecticut Bee-keepers' Association will hold its 

 fall meeting in the capitol at Hartford, room 50, Novem- 

 ber 10, at 10:30 a.m. The question-box will be open to 

 all. All bee-keepers are invited to attend with their 

 friends, bringing questions they would like discussed. 

 Bring a sample of this year's honey crop or some apiari- 

 an fixture you would like to show. E. E. Smith, 



Watertown, Ct. Secretary. 



We wonder if our readers have noticed the very low 

 price of books advertised by the Frisbee Honey Co., on 

 page 965. They would no doubt make good Christmas 

 presents. A postal cai-d will bring you a list of the 

 titles of these books. 



It is very pleasing to us to hear from any of our ad- 

 vertisers', to the effect that Gleanings in Bee Culture 

 is a valuable paper for them to use. Just lately we re- 

 ceived a renewal from the Plymouth Rock Squab Co., 

 289 Atlantic Ave., Boston. Mass., for another year's ad- 

 vertising, in which they speak in high terms of Glean- 

 ings as an advertising medium for them. It occurs to 

 us that one reason why it pays them so well is because 

 of their close attention to business and their interest in 

 their customers. We suggest that our readers send to 

 them for their free book, "How to Make Money with 

 Squabs," as they undoubtedly have a good proposition 

 in this industry. 



