1911 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



35 



Special Notices 



By Our Business manager 



SYRUP-CANS. 



We can supply those who make maple syrup with 

 their cans at good prices. Write, stating number re- 

 quired, and size, and we will quote you. We have 

 K, /^, and 1 gallon square cans; also 5-gallon cans, 

 one or two in a box if you use that size. 



EARLY-ORDER DISCOUNT. 



The early-order discount for cash orders during 

 the next four weeks, or before March first, is 2 per 

 cent. This will go quite a way toward paying the 

 freight on your order. You ought to know pretty 

 well by this time what you will need for your bees 

 this spring. Take time by the forelock, and be pre- 

 pared In time. Order now and make up the goods 

 while you have time during the winter months. 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 



Insure a crop of honey by seeding all waste places 

 in sweet clover, giving the bees something to work 

 on for weeks and months. If you have no waste 

 places you can make it pay to seed some of your 

 cultivated ground. One or two seasons in sweet 

 clover will do .\ our run-down field more good than 

 summer fallow, as there is nothing better for intro- 

 ducing nitrogen to the soil. See adv't in another 

 column for price of seed. It should be sown in ear- 

 ly spring for a good stand. 



TOBACCO DUST. 



Those who grow early vegetables under glass, es- 

 pecially lettuce, can not well get along without to- 

 bacco dust to sprinkle over the beds. This acts not 

 only as an insecticide to kill the plant-lice, but is an 

 excellent fertilizer as well. We have in stock a 

 supply of two kinds — fine tobacco dust. Sets, per 

 lb.; 10 lbs.. 20cts.; 100 lbs., 81.25; 200 lbs., 82.00; coarse 

 tobacco siftings, 6 cts. per lb.; 10 lbs., 50 cts.; 100 

 lbs., $4.00. The latter variety is all from the leaves, 

 and is much stronger than the fine dust, which 

 comes largely from ground-up stems. 



HOT-BED SASH. 



This is the time of year when those who grow ear- 

 ly vegetables are planning for hot-beds and cold- 

 frames for protecting the young plants from the 

 frost. If in need of hot-bed sash, remember we 

 make them in large quantities. We are making up 

 a carload for a seed dealer in Columbus, O. Our 

 sash are made of cypress, the most durable wood for 

 outside exposure subject to dampness or weather. 

 They are 3 ft. 4 in. by 6 ft. for four rows of 8-inch 

 glass, and are usually shipped in flat or K. D. Price 

 90 cts. each; 5 for S4.25, or ten or more at 80 cts. each; 

 8 by 10 glass for same at $3.00 a box of 90 lights; 3 

 boxes fit up 10 sash. 



MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP. 



In order not to disappoint many of our old cus- 

 tomers, as we did last season, we have decided to 

 commence booking orders for maple sugar and 

 syrup in advance of the season at these prices: 



1 one-gallon can 11.25 per gal. 



1 case 6 one-gallon cans 1.15 " 



1 case 10 one-gallon cans 1.10 " " 



1 lb. best sugar 15 



10 to 25 lbs 14 



25 to 50 lbs 13 



50 to 100 lbs 12 



The present outlook for a good run of syrup is not 

 now very encouraging, owing to the very open 

 weather here in Northern Ohio for the past few 

 weeks. We have contracted with several of the 

 best producers in Medina County, and we can give 

 you some fine goods if the weather is favorable. 



Send us 25 per cent of the value of your order 

 now, and we will notify you when we are ready to 

 ship, then you can send the balance. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



THE "farm JOURNAL" POULTRY-BOOKS. 



I have before made mention of the beautiful 

 books the Farm Journal has been giving us each 

 year on poultry and other subjects. Well, this past 

 year they have sent out at least three books, so 

 bright and attractive (even on tlie outside) that I 

 uttered an exclamation of surprise when I first 

 took them from their wrappei's. On looking them 

 over on the inside 1 was even more pleased. The 

 Farm Journal seems to have a peculiarly happy 

 faculty for getting out little books for premiums, 

 hitting subjects that particularly interest rural 

 people, and, above all, getting at the matter in 

 such a way as to catch and hold the attention of 

 the reader. I will not need to take space to de- 

 scribe the two new poultry-books, for one of them is 

 described on the front cover of our Dec. 15th issue, 

 and the other on the last cover of Jan. 1st, and I do 

 not consider the claims made for them extravagant 

 either. 



The third book sent out this year is entitled 

 "Shall I Farm? " and the price marked is 25 cents: 

 but the beautiful little book, if read and studied as 

 it should be by every one contemplating "back to 

 the soil," might easily be worth $:5.00. Here are 

 a few brief extracts from a single page. The follow- 

 ing sentence alone, if read and ' followed," might 

 save our northern people thousands if not a million 

 dollars: 



CONSULT FIVE FARMERS. 

 Before signing a contract to buy a farm, talk with at least 

 live nelgbborlng farmers and get their opinion. 



Almost daily I get letters from those who have 

 made payments on land liere in Florida while a 

 thousand miles away, solely because of something 

 they saw in a printed circular or read in some fam- 

 ily paper that advertises any thing it gets pay for. 

 Here is some more wise advice following right aft- 

 er the above: 



Also get some practical farmer friend, if you have one, to go 

 over the farm with you. examining the soil, the subsoil, the 

 drainage, the condition of the barns and other buildings. 



And here is just one more clipping from the same 

 page: 



Those who are tempted to buy distant tracts of land on the 

 installment plan fhonld read thio bit of experience contribut- 

 ed by a man who lives at Milton, Pa. : " I purchaeed a ten-acre 

 plot of Cuban land of a company extensively advertlfed in 

 American publications. I completed payments on this land 

 Dec- mber 1, last. The contract of tale states tnat a rieed will 

 be delivered upon surrender of all receipts and contrjcts. Six 

 months have already elapsed, and no deed in sight; and I am 

 unable to get either the detd or the return of the amount 

 paid. Each time tliat I write them relative to tbe same they 

 come baili at me with some Himsy pretext or other. I hav^ 

 threatened to sue them, and to expose them to the Federal 

 authorities and to the public generally, but all to no avail." 



Now, I should be glad to stop right here: but can- 

 dor compels me to add that one of the poultry- 

 books describes the plant of W. R. Curtiss & Co., of 

 Ransomville, N. Y., the same firm I have "written 

 up" at least twice in the past year or so. This is 

 the firm that charged a dollar for a book of only 12 

 very small and miserably printed pages (besides 

 the advertising). See p. 471, July 15, last year. If 

 they really have the " largest general poultry enter- 

 prise in the world," one can not help thinking they 

 got some of their capital to build it up in some oth- 

 er ways than selling honest goods. Notwithstand- 

 ing, the description of this great plant contains 

 many helpful hints. I suppose most of you know 

 you can get these valuable little books without ex- 

 pending even the trifling sum of 25 cts. by subscrib- 

 ing for the very helpful monthly Farm Journal; and 

 almost everybody wants this any way, because it is 

 so bright and clean to have in the family, and costs 

 so little. 



Gentlemen:— Your circular letter of the 12th Inst, 

 received, and in replying to same will say that the 

 best evidence I can give that Gleanings is satisfac- 

 tory to me is that I do not think I have missed a 

 single co])y in over twenty years. In many issues 

 I find articles from practical bee-men that alone 

 are worth the year's subscription. Besides the in- 

 formation obtained in bee culture, "Our Homes," 

 by A. I. Root, is worth many times the price paid 

 for Gleanings. May he live long to fight the whis- 

 ky traffic. His writings are an inspiration to any 

 man loving truth, but hard on the evil doer. Keep 

 on sending the old reliable Gleanings. 



Webster, Iowa. M. D. Johnson. 



