1911 



GLEANINGS EST BEE CULTURE 



23 



Special Notices 



By Our Business Manager 



SECOND-HAITD FOUNDATION-MILLS. 



No. 0117. 2x10 round-cell medium-brood mill in 

 good condition. Price S14.00. 



No. 0121, 2H X 10-inch heavy hex. brood mill. An 

 old-style Dunham machine without cam adjust- 

 ment: in rather poor condition. Price 88.00. 



No. 0126. 2)4x10 hexagonal light-brood mill in good 

 condition. Price 815.00. 



No. 0129, 2x10 round cell medium-brood mill, old- 

 style frame, in good condition. Price 814.00. 



No. 0132, 2x10 round cell Pelham mill. This is 

 nearly new, but It does not make a natural-shaped 

 cell. Price S9.00. 



No. 0133, 2x10 round-cell medium-brood Dunham 

 mill in pooi condition. Price 88.00. 



No. 0135. 2 X 10 round-cell medium-brood mill in 

 old-style frame, fair condition. Price S'12.00. 



No. 013". 2x10 round-cell medium-brood mill, old 

 style, poor condition. Price $10.00. 



No. 0138. 214 X 6 hexagonal extra thin-super mill, 

 in very good shape. Price 814.00. 



No. 0139. 2^x6 hexagonal thin-super mill, in very 

 good condition. Price S14.00. 



No. 0140, 2%x6 hexagonal thin-super mill, In very 

 good condition. Price SH.oo. 



No. 0141. 2^x6 hexagonal extra thin-super mill, in 

 extra good condition. Price S15.00. 



No. 0142, 2^x6 hexagonal thin-super mill, in fair 

 condition. Price 812.00. 



No. 0144, 2J4xl0 hexagonal medium-brood mill, in 

 fair condition. Price 815.00. 



No 0145, 254x10 hexagonal light-brood mill, in fair 

 condition. Price 815.00. 



No. 014fi. 254x10 hexagonal medium-brood mill, in 

 very good shape. Price 817.00. 



No. 0147. 2%x6 hexagonal thin-super mill, in extra 

 good condition. Price 815.00. 



CANADIAN BEE-KEEPERS 



E. Grainger & Co., Deer Park, Toronto, announce to 

 Canadian bee-keepers that they have a reasonably 

 full line of Root bee-supplies on hand for shipment 

 from Toronto. Large shipments will be made direct 

 from the factory, and in many cases a considerable 

 saving may be effected by placing orders with us. 



See What Our Customers Say 



North Toronto, March 1, 1911. 

 E. Grainger & Co., Toronto. 



Dear Sirs:— The goods we recRlved from you, manufactured 

 by The A I. Root Co., are most satisfactory. We find the 

 frames fit beautifully, In fact, all the woodwork Is so perfect 

 and BO clean and nice that we would not think of using any 

 other make now. They are well worth the extra they cost. 



A. W. O. 



E. Grainger & Co., Toronto. Connaught, Mar. 7, 1911. 



Dear Sirs:— Have received shipment of my order to-day. 

 Every thing is in perfect order. Am very well pleased with 

 the goods. D. R. 



SEND ALL ORDERS TO 



E. Grainger & Co., Deer Park, Toronto, Ont. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



YOUR SEED CORN— tOOK OCT FOR IT. 



As I have mentioned elsewhere, the seed corn all 

 over the North seems to be unusually slow in germ- 

 inating power. If you are obliged to buy seed corn, 

 purchase it in the ear il possible, and then test 

 every ear. Even in the best of seed corn there will 

 be occasionally an ear that will not germinate at 

 all: and the corn from one single ear of this kind, 

 getting into your field, will take several dollars 

 right out of your pocket. The boys and girls can 

 do the testing, and will, no doubt, like the fun of it. 

 I am rejoiced to know that our schools are taking 

 this matter up. It is not only a saving In dollars 



and cents, but it Is starting children in wisdom's 

 ways while they are young, and easily enlisted and 

 impressed. 



THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ITALIAN QUEEN-BEE. 



The above is the title of a very pretty book by T. 

 Chalmers Potter. The author of the book supposes 

 that a queen bee born in .Sunny Italy is able to give 

 us the hLstory of her life and of her being sent by 

 mail over here to America. Of course the book is 

 poetical, and the writer draws on his imagination 

 In several places to supply the " missing links." As 

 a rule his statements are scientifically correct — that 

 is, so far as we have explored the natural history of 

 the honey-bee. I notice only one place where I 

 would take exception. On page 62 he says the queen 

 commenced laying within four or five hours after 

 her meeting the drone. I would have put it two or 

 three days. But Ernest reminds me that, as a queen 

 often makes two or more trips, the author of the 

 book caught sight of her when she was coming from 

 the hive for the last time, and, finding eggs in four 

 or five hours, he took it for granted that it was as 

 the book states. 



This book is very Interesting, and the suggestions 

 thrown in in regard to the life-history of the honey- 

 bee and other insects are quite entertaining. It is 

 very nicely bound, and can be mailed from this of- 

 fice for 75 cents. 



"the BUSINESS HEN." 



The above is the title of a new edition of a book 

 by our old and tried friends of the Rural New-York- 

 er: and in the whole round of poultry-books that 

 are now being sent out almost daily I do not know 

 of any safer counselor than this new book, "The 

 Business Hen." While it considers almost every 

 thing that has lately been coming out in regard to 

 the care of poultry, it seems to have rare tact in 

 separating the wheat from the chaff. As an illu.s- 

 tration, I thought I had got on to a plan for secur- 

 ing more pullets than roosters; but during the past 

 winter I have been much disappointed to find it 

 did not work so well as heretofore. Here Is what 

 the new book says in regard to the matter: 



CONTROLLING SEX. 



No one, so far as the writer knows, has yet solved the myg- 

 tery of controlling the sex In breedine poultry. Many theo- 

 ries have befn advanced, the chief of which is the one that 

 the shape of the pgg may be used as an indication of the sex. 

 For instance, long eggs will be more likely to produce cock- 

 erels, and round one^ pullets. The claim that mating young 

 males and old hens will result In produ Ing more pullets, and 

 that old males mated to puU'-ts will produce more cockerels, 

 has been tried repeatedly without eetiblishing the claim. It 

 has been claimed that the season of fatching influ-nccsor 

 determlnps the sex. the general belief being that the early 

 hatches appear to contain a larger proportion of pu'Iets than 

 do the late hatches. All these and other theories of sex con- 

 trol have abundant verification in specific Instances where 

 thev have proved true, but in as many other instances the re- 

 verse has been true. 



i do not find any price mentioned for this excel- 

 lent poultry-book: but my Impression is that it is 

 sent free to every one who sends 81.00 for the Rural 

 Neu-Yorker. You want the book any way, especial- 

 ly If you have been striving to separate truth from 

 error in regard to the many things that come up 

 with chickens. 



REMEDIES FOR AND PREVENTIVES AGAINST MOS- 

 QUITOES (also SOME FING ABOUT CITRONELLA). 



The above is the title of a fifteen-page pamphlet. 

 Farmers' Bulletin No. 414, from the Bureau of En- 

 tomology, Washington, D. C. I had to smile when, 

 on the very first page, I saw that " oil of citronella " 

 was mentioned as one of the best remedies -that is, 

 for driving them away. Now. do not imagine from 

 my talk that I found mosquitoes worse in Florida 

 than in some other places. Neither mosquitoes 

 nor gnats ever troubled me there half as much as 

 In Northern Michigan at certain times. By the 

 way. Is any thing more exasperating than to have 

 mosquitoes or gnats get In their work when your 

 hand and head and brain are all occupied with 

 something that can not be dropped?. Suppose, for 

 Instance, you are trying to fix an automobile, with 

 hands covered with black grease, so you can not 

 touch a mosquito, and then have her, at just the 

 critical moment, come around with her character- 

 istic "z-z-z-z"? It has sometimes seemed to me as if 



