Aug. IS. 1911 



2. General manager's report. 



3. Secretary's report. 



4. Shall the National be one separate association, 

 or an aggregation of smaller ones? 



5. The new constitution and by-laws. 



6. Publication of annual convention report; is 

 any change desirable ? 



7. National Association bulletins; what have they 

 accomplished? 



8. Nomination of officers. 



Miscellaneous session begins at 1:30 p.m., Aug. 31, 

 and is subdivided into the following topics: 



1. Mating-stations conducted by the government; 

 would they be practical ? 



2. Uncapplng-melters; are they being used exten- 

 sively ? 



3. Steam-heated uncapping-knives; are they prac- 

 tical ? 



4. Uncapping-machines: are they a success ? 



5. Adulteration of honey: to what extent is it 

 practiced? What can be done to stop it? 



6. Uniform shipping-cases; if adopted, what size 

 should they be ? Why ? 



7. Question-box. 



Cooperation session begins at 7 p.m., Aug. 31, and 

 is subdivided into the following topics: 



1. What the Colorado Honey-producers' Associa- 

 tion is doing. 



2. Cooperative efforts in California. 



3. The Michigan plan, or what the Michigan Asso- 

 ciation is doing. 



4. What can the National do along cooperative 

 lines? 



5. Obstacles to be met in cooperative efforts, and 

 how to overcome them. 



6. Question-box. 



You will notice that in the above program the 

 names of those to take part are not given. There 

 is a two-fold object in this. First, we want the per- 

 sons who are to lead in the handling of the topics 

 to be present. Second, we want every member to 

 come prepared to take part in the discu.sslons, as 

 we want this to be a convention of live members, 

 and not have the majority sit still while a few do 

 the talking. Remember, you may be called on to 

 take part. 



In conclusion let me say that there will be some 

 competent person there to handle each one of the 

 above subjects. Prominent bee-keepers from all 

 over the country will be there, and these topics will 

 be assigned to some of them before the session 

 starts. But it is expected that every member will 

 plan to take part. E. B. Tyrrell, Sec. 



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mous crops: but it teaches us a useful lesson in re- 

 gard to thoroituh preiHindion o/ ilie soil for growing 

 any crop, even a little garden in your back yard. 



By A. I. Root 



"C.\MPING .\ND W0ODCR.\rT." 



Our friends may remember that I gave this book 

 an extended notice in our issue for Nov. 15, last 

 year, and, as a conseciuence, it has had quite an ex- 

 tended sale; and I am glad of it, because it gives 

 the best description of insect pests, especially chig- 

 gers, redbugs, etc., of the South, of any thing we 

 ever got hold of. The price of the book is SI. 50; but 

 we have an arrangement so we can furnish it club- 

 bed with ({LEANINGS for SI. 75. If you are already 

 paid up on Gleanings for one year or more we will 

 mail the book to you for an even 75 cts. That is ' 

 half price, as you will notice. We make this low 

 rate because we have quite a few books yet in stock. 



"large hay CROPS." 



The above is the title of a 52-page pamphlet sent 

 out by G. M. Clark, of Iligganum, Ct. Friend Clark 

 made quite a sensation in the agricultural world a 

 few years ago by his wonderful crops of hay, most- 

 ly timothy, from one acre of ground. I was so 

 much taken up with it that I put in one meadow 

 according to his directions, and for years it has giv- 

 en us ti-emendous yields of timothy, although we 

 did not comply with all his instructions. Briefly, 

 he has been enabled to get, on an average, nine tons 

 of hay per acre for a period of eleven years. The 

 present price of hay has just brought the matter to 

 mind; but what called my attention to it now is 

 that, in preparing the soil before seeding, he goes 

 over it thirty-two times! I think it will pay every 

 farmer who grows an acre or more of hay to have 

 this little pamphlet. Of course, it is an advertise- 

 ment of the tools that he uses in getting these enor- 



terry's book on potato-growing. 



In 1885 T. B. Terry gave an address to our Medina 

 people on the subject of growing potatoes. 1 was 

 astonished at the story he had to tell: and I pre- 

 dicted then and there that Mr. Terry was destined 

 to be soon known, not only throughout Ohi(j but 

 throughout the whole United States. As the years 

 have passed, my prediction has become verified, 

 and 1 feel not a little gratified to know that once in 

 my life at least I recognized genius when I came 

 across it. I interviewed Mr. Terry, and told him 

 he would have to put his talk into book form. He 

 did so. and the book went all over the world, and 

 was even translated into several foreign languages. 

 In eight years the edition was exhausted, and a new 

 one was called for; and in 1901 a tliird edition was 

 called for; and now, after a lapse of ten years, I 

 have been exceedingly busy during the past few 

 days in going ever it carefully and preparing It for 

 a. fourth edition of 10,000 copies. And while I have 

 that experience in my mind, let me tell you it will 

 pay almost every man, woman, and child to read 

 Terry's i^oiato-hook. no matter whether you ever 

 did or ever will grow any potatoes or not. If you 

 have had Terry's recent book, " How to Get Well 

 and Live Long," you will know that he is a student 

 of nature, and a delver after God's gifts and God's 

 secrets; and this potato-book, on every page, shows 

 his remarkable gift. He is a philosopher of modern 

 date; and his love for God's gifts, as well as his 

 love for his fellow-men, shines out on every page. 

 Another thing, this book was written in the prime 

 of his life. It was written with the enthusiasm, en- 

 ergy, and strength of youthful manhood. His stud- 

 ies of potatoes, it occurs to me. paved the way in 

 his explorations in his later work in regard to how 

 we should live and keep our health. The new book 

 will probably be ready soon after this meets your 

 eye. 



Let me digress a little. A lot of the friends of hu- 

 manity are now at work teaching our children to 

 love agriculture. Friend Philo has discovered and 

 explained how every family, almost without excep- 

 tion, can keep half a dozen chickens. It has proven 

 to be a success all over our land. Well, potatoes 

 are almost one of the necessaries of life as well as 

 eggs. .\nd it just now occurs to me, while potatoes 

 are more than S^.OO a bushel <70 cts. a peck). * that 

 every family could have a little potato-patch as 

 well as a little poultry-house, and make another 

 short cut from "producer to consumer,"' In the 

 back yard, even If you have only a few square feet 

 of ground. The poultry-droi)pings will make the 

 very best fertilizer in the world to grow some early 

 potatoes when the prices are away up, as they al- 

 ways are In .luly. When potatoes get down to '30 

 or 40 cts. a bushel (Instead of 50 to 75 cts. a peck), aft- 

 er your early potatoes are dug. turn the chickens 

 In and let them work It up well and fertilize it for 

 your potato crop next year. Meanwhile get the 

 potato-book and get the children interested In 

 growing potatoes, just as they are already interest- 

 ed in growing chickens. .\nd. b.v the way, if you 

 will excuse me for this little digression, ^f rs. Root 

 and I decided last evening to visit a neighbor who 

 has 450 White I^eghorn hens all in one pen not 

 moi-e than 40 feet square. It is a basement under a 

 large barn. These laying hens are kept In this lay- 

 ing room winter and summer. He told me the feed 

 for that whole flock cost only about ?1.50 a day 

 while the eggs are sold right along for froui ■S5.00 to 

 87.00 a day. and this in July. Now, at the very out- 

 set I decided there was some skilled and educated 

 genius back of my good friend Blakeslee, who is 

 about my age; and he confessed that It was his 

 daughter' s project. She is a bright educated wo- 

 man, and before she went into this enterprise she 

 posted herself clear up to date; and when she had 

 gotten the whole thing in working order she turned 

 it over to her father and mother, and is now on a 

 tour In Europe. This poultry-ranch is conducted 

 on what is called the "Corning" system; but it Il- 

 lustrates the result of giving our children a taste In 

 their childhood fcr rural pursuits, and giving them 

 the advantages of an up-to-date ayrieultural educa- 

 tion. 



* Besides the blgr price, the potatoes at 70 cts. a peck are 

 sunburned and green, and more or less wilted, and not to be 

 compared with the "home grrown." 



